Master Your Mind
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Clarity is Your Authority

True success and lasting purpose don't come from working harder—they come from a mind that is clear, focused, and aligned. Your mental well-being is the foundation of your achievement. When you prioritize the health of your mind, you stop surviving the day and start mastering it.

Whether you are looking to improve your performance, find your inner wisdom, or simply live with more intention, I provide the roadmap to help you move from chronic stress to high-level clarity all while approaching life with a little love and kindness,

Mindfulness and Insight Meditation is the greatest gift you can ever give yourself.

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The Be Mad About You Way ...

We passionately connect individuals to their own source of fearlessness
and authentic purpose, transforming human-created division into
profound, heart-centred interconnectedness.
We motivate radical self-acceptance to unleash the wisdom within. This creates a resting state of being fully present, which leads to ultimate motivation and zest for this life here right now allowing every individual to achieve their dreams.

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We teach Mindfulness and Insight Meditation

We offer all the tools for you to gain immense calm and clarity and become the architect of your own life.

MINDFULNESS

Scattered to Centred

In a world designed to keep you distracted, mindfulness is your foundation. We provide the tools to ground your nervous system, reclaim your focus, and find a steady center—no matter how fast life is moving.

INSIGHT MEDITATION

Clouded to Clarity

Insight meditation allows you to look under the hood of your own consciousness—deconstructing thought patterns, revealing your truth, and cultivating a profound clarity that lasts a lifetime.

MANIFEST

Dreamer to Doer

Align your deepest values with your daily actions, turning your internal insights into tangible life shifts. It’s not just about wishing—it’s about becoming the conscious architect of your future.

REMOVE REACTIVITY

Triggered to Tranquil

Most of life is spent in "reaction mode"—responding to stress, communications, and pressure before we’ve even had a second to think. We teach you how to find the "gap" between the stimulus and your response.

SELF MASTERY

Auto Pilot to Pilot

Stop living on "default settings." Break the cycle of reactive habits and external demands. Move from passive autopilot to conscious authority, making every choice with quiet confidence and intentional power.

CLARITY

Blind Habits to Purpose

Awareness notices the thought; Wisdom understands the source. By deconstructing the mental loops that keep you stuck, you develop the profound insight needed to turn every challenge into a deliberate step toward growth.

Last Nights Foundations of Meditation in collaboration with @sowayoga our divine group discovered what it means to come out of the Attic of our home (our body) and finally come down to a sense of total Embodiment.

We discovered what it means to truly inhabit our bodies with the direct experience of NOW - the present moment.

Our bodies don’t live in the future and don’t hang out in the past, our bodies don’t make lists or judge ourselves or others. All of that stuff takes you out of the present moment and forces you to live in your mind. Argh.

The body, our home - the perfect refuge to watch the weather float by.

#embodiment #meditation #mindfulness #bemadaboutyou #learntomeditate

The Body. 👀👅👄��🦷🧠👣👃👂🦶👤🦵🫀

#learntofeel #meditation #quote #bodilysensations #home

Last night in our @___bemadaboutyou___ // @sowayoga collaboration Foundations of Meditation Class we discussed what happens with the ‘Unnoticed Mind.’

The mind in itself is designed to think. That’s its job. Think. Think. Think.

When we are deep in concentration that’s what it does - but when it is not directed with concentration by you, it reverts to its own Default Mode - still thinking, but drawing on whatever reference point it can find.

Unfortunately depending on our frame of mind in the moment, it can very easily ‘default’ to ‘Unworthy Thoughts’.

When this happens our mind takes control and we forget to be mindful and the mind, the cheeky little thing’ goes into hyper thought activity.

Because the mind works in association, if left unchecked these Unworthy Thoughts can become a fast train to extreme negativity and fear ….. ahhhh … and what happens?

Negative and Unworthy Mind swirls take control, clouding and darkening everything in the path of our own reality.

But don’t sweat 😓. The moment you realise is the moment you can return to a concentrated focus on your breath and break the cycle.

The more you are mindful of the Unworthy thoughts, the more you step in and take back the control is the moment you build a bigger foundation for your practise of stopping the thought and creating calm and space.

You are not your thoughts - you are the equanimous awareness beneath it all.

Want to find out how meditation can quiet your mind and power your life?

Join in for our next online course, or DM me for a private session.

Love you all ❤️❤️❤️ Swipe ➡️ for clarity …

#meditation #youaretheawareness #noticethemind #mindfulness #vipassāna

Breathing in, Breathing out ...

Over time regular practise of attention only on the breath creates a haven for our minds.

Have you ever noticed your thoughts running away with you? Have you noticed who the main character is in your thoughts - it you - of course it's you.

Calming the mind, settles the thoughts, settling the thought, over time helps to dis-identify from everything we cling to.

Why? In this calm and serene state where mind thoughts are no longer front and centre, we are able to witness up close and personal the impermanence of all that is.

As we see that 'this too shall pass', we begin to understand, experientially - due to the impermanent nature of reality, there is no point in clinging to this or that as I or mine.

Clinging to I or mind is where the mind takes control and decision begins ...

#meditation #insightmeditation #learntomeditate #understandthemind #clarity

Oh goodness me, we spend our lives either deliberately trying to escape the moment of leaving the moment because of our own delusion.

We don't realise when the sneaky mind has stepped in and taken control.

We spend our time in this beautiful life on auto-pilot.

But what if we stripped everything back?

What if we came home to the truth of the moment?

What if you took the control back and taught yourself to be mindful when unwholesome thoughts take over and start writing a novel of unnecessary thoughts in your mind?

Would you feel lighter? Would you see more clearly? Would you approach life differently? Would you 'be here now' in this present moment - each present moment.

When we stop and still we find we are not the weather patterns, always shifting and changing - no no no - we are simply the sky ...

Limitless and unbound.

#awareness #meditation #mindfulness #mindfulnessandmeditation #beherenow

It’s very very true. Each moment is different.

There are the hidden jewels of mirrors unto ourselves, jewels of lessons, of awakening, joy, rapture, awareness.

The most blessed jewel we can find in each moment is that it never lasts more than a moment.

This is the eternal truth of change.

And, if the truth of change is with us in each and every moment, is it necessary to cling to this or that? Is it necessary to hold tight in our bodies to passing moments - be them joyous or be them unpleasant - the eternal truth of change is always inhabiting each moment … we must remember to be mindful of this and simply witness the passing.

Witness the jewels, witness the passing - you are guaranteed to experience life with a joy that surpasses anything in this worldly realm - I will meet you there 🙏🏻

#awareness #meditation #ruthdenison #mindfulness #learntomeditate

Session Two of our Foundations of Meditation Course focussed on The Body.

Let me ask you a question…

How often do you stop and check in with where your body is at in the present moment?

Checking in with your body is like a no doctor diagnosis.

Best thing about checking in with your body is, if it’s out of balance, you can come back to your breath for a quick realignment.

In the session we practised walking meditation, a body scan and some fun connective exercises.

#meditation #mindfulness #bodyscan #learntomeditate #comehometothebody

This lovely saying can be used as an intention at the beginning of your daily meditation, it can be used to encompass your life's meditation practise and best of all it can be used as an intention for life.

It's a great reminder and can bring. you into a state of humility when the ego grabs the reins.

What I like about this Tibetan saying is it is simple and not over stated - a perfect reminder for equanimity in life.

#meditation #dailypractise #intentionsetting #Tibetansaying #mindfulness

Delighted and grateful for everyone who showed up for themselves today at 7:45am @sowayoga for our Drop-In Meditation class for the month of March.

Beautiful people, delicious vibes, creating a shining energy … may the guided breath mediated allow you to know ‘the magic of the return’ and may you build foundations of inner calm.

See you all next Sunday - DROP IN visitor’s welcome 😁

This poem, Breathe by Becky Hensley was a reading before our Meditation today @sowayoga

We forget don’t we, how much clarity we gain from simply stopping and focussing on the breath?

Ah, our beautiful breath that’s always there as our constant anchor. It settles us back into
‘Rest and Digest’ away from the wind, the clouds, the storm the chaos.

When the mind settles, so do the thoughts.
When in deep Samadhi (concentration) thought are wispy, ungraspable.

When the mind is stilled the chaos passes by like a storm cloud, in never finds somewhere to land.

What a beautiful gift is clarity for the mind.
Thank you to the gorgeous souls who joined our Sunday class - what a magical energy to start the day with - LOVE 🧡

#learntomeditate #stillthemind #mindfullness #poetry #meditate

About last night …

In Collaboration with @sowayoga we kicked off our Foundations of Mediation 4 Week Course.

This session focussed on the breath as an anchor.

We discussed why we meditate and the benefits gained. We discussed why the breath is used so commonly as an anchor. We connected physical activity to our anchor - so we develop ‘the magic of the return’. And of course, as a group, we meditated.

Oh yes, we also shared stories and laughed out loud and sat in silence.

What a beautiful bunch of souls ❤️❤️❤️

Special mention to @agarn72 for allowing me to put you on the spot and talk about what you have recieved from meditation with your regular practice - love 🥰

Gratitude to everyone 🙏🏻

Sadhu 💚🖤

#meditation #foundationsofmeditation #mindfulness #learnmeditation #community

@kwpisme72take2

Meditate, practise mindfulness - it really is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

See with clarity.
Operate from a non-reactive state.
Build your pre-frontal cortex.
Activate your calm.
Gain wisdom.
Observe your thoughts - you are not your thoughts.

#meditation #mindfulness #innercalm #personalrefuge #theonlypersonwhocanchangeyourselfisyou

Our breath, our friend,
here with us
from beginning to end.

Our breath is our constant - how well do you know your breath? How often do you return to slow deep breathing throughout the day?

Slow deep focussed breathing has the ability to remove us from a reactive fight or flight state and return us to a place of calm ... see you there.

#mindfulness #breath #meditation #learntomeditate #restanddigest

The Ego’s Last Stand

Are you wondering why a meditation teacher is posting images of a head being crushed?

It’s not as dark, or as worrisome, as you might think. In fact, for a practitioner, this is actually a sign of massive progress.

I call this “The Ego’s Last Stand.”

When you enter a deep state of Samādhi (concentration), the ego-mind begins to realise it’s losing the steering wheel.

The mind—that cheeky little thing—thrives on control. It’s what keeps you on autopilot; it’s the architect of the “Dream State” that prevents you from seeing reality with total clarity.

When the mind realises it’s losing its grip, it often panics. It throws “Shock Images”—gore, fear, or skulls—specifically designed to startle your nervous system back into a defensive, “solid” state.

The Mind: “Get your butt back here! Look at this scary thing! Stay in the dream where I’m in charge!”

The Observer (you) “Hey Mind, I see your little party trick. I’m simply observing this visual without reaction. You can go now—your shock tactics didn’t work.”

By observing these “Nimittas” or mental images without emotion, you starve the ego of its fuel. You see the image for what it truly is: just another “Mind Object” passing through the stillness.

This is the moment of transmutation. This is how we move from the Dream State to the Clarity State. This is how we literally rewire our brains to stay centred when the world (or our own minds) gets loud.

If you’re ready to take back the controls and move toward a life of purpose and awareness, check the links in my bio. There are many paths back to the Clarity you deserve.

#TheObserver #DharmaInsight #EgoDeath #MeditationTeacher #MindfulnessPractice

Why do I meditate?

As you all may know, meditation has many, many benefits. I practise Insight Meditation. It allows thoughts to soften and in that space of mind undistracted, wisdom arises.

That’s when we have the opportunity to see things as they really are’.

Clarity prevails - you relationship with life becomes more fluid as you don’t feel the need to ‘hold on’ so tight.

I’d love to hear some of the insight meditation has given you.

#meditaion #insightmeditation #lightness #being #leanintolove

If you are after a better relationship with life, with love, with clarity of mind ….

See you there - link in BIO

@sowayoga

I don’t drink Coca Cola (sorry Coke lovers) but I do appreciate the words above which I stumbled upon today after my meditation.

At its core - this is what mindfulness and meditation does, and as the text says - chanting too.

Clearing away the weeds, the disillusion, the distractedness, the judgement (ahh in every direction is judgement), the weeds of the mind … with a mental broom, all is cleared away in the quiet moments of being completely present with mindfulness and meditation.

#zenmasterseungsahn #lionsroar #dhamma #mindfulness #meditation

Why doesn’t buddha vacuum in corners?
😂😂🤦🏻‍♀️😂😂

#meditation #mindfulness #emotionalattachment #clinging #buddhateachings

The more I meditate and practise mindfulness the more I understand how I used to live on ‘auto-pilot’ and allow my thought to navigate my emotions, my body, my life.

So grateful for my practise today as it has allowed me to see the thoughts very clearly as they arise and I am able to clearly call them out for what they are. Thoughts such as those that story tell their way into a perceived future, unworthy reflection, self judgment, judgement of others, clinging, fear … I now see them as they arise, label them and send them in their merry way.

This is my invitation to you to perhaps remove the noise and clutter from the thoughts in your mind and start living right here right now and even kick that auto-pilot to the curb.

#mindfulness #meditation #stopthethoughts #youareworthy❤️ #loveyourself

Ha! It sounds so simple doesn’t it?

Our minds are cheeky - they get in a thought loop and tell us the stories we may or may not need to hear (generally the latter). Then what happens, we when get caught in the train ride of our mind - we start believing what our minds are telling us.

Try this - next time you are in a thought loop, pause, step back and away from the thought, ask yourself, is it real? Is it solid? Can I touch it? How much of my emotion am in injecting in to this thought?

The ask yourself - what would happen if I simple allowed the thought to pass like a summer rain shower in the tropics?

Take a breath in, exhale like you are blowing through a straw - continue your day.

Love you all 😁

#mindfulness #mindfulmoments #meditation #pause #youarenotyourthoughts

‘Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day. But first we must brighten our own through quiet.’

Richelle E Goodrich

Morning sunrise swim vibes is always full of friends, laughter, present moment experience and pure joy knowing ‘this is life’.

What are you doing to remind yourself today?

#meditation #mindfulness #presentmomentawareness #beherenow awareness

‘Quiet the Mind, Power the life.’

Join us.

👆🏻link in bio.

#meditation #learntomeditate #purpose #mindfulness #bodyscan

Ahhhh dammit we get caught in our thoughts so darn easily. So much so we think our thoughts are solid and REAL!

We let emotions stop us in our tracks - like kapow 💥💥💥 - baby, I’m here - and we allow them to overstay their welcome.

We say YES 🙌 to habit patterns even though we know they don’t serve us …

Argh! I say STOP 🛑 right here, right now - let’s pause.

Go outside and look up at the sky … notice how if it is cloudy, the clouds are passing, if it is windy or rainy, these shall pass too, if it is clear … ahhh clear sky enjoy the now.

It’s good to remember our thoughts are like clouds, our emotions are like stormy weather, our habit patterns have the ability to shift and change. Transience is a law in nature - everything that arrives shall pass.

Behind all of these things though - is the sky - that wide open expanse behind it all. It’s just there, unperturbed - witnessing everything as it passes.

You are the sky - You are the sky - You are the sky 💚🖤

#meditation #zen #quote #mindfulness #buddha

This proverb always brings a smile to my face …

Meditation has changed the way I view the world and my relationship with myself and others.

Meditation has helped me to embody tranquility which can easily be shared with the rest of the world.

Of course … if you still think being busy actually matters … then yes you should meditate for an hour.

#vipassāna #insightmeditation #meditation #zenproverb #presentmomentawareness

Meditation is the greatest gift you can give yourself 💚🖤

Join us:

In Person at @sowayoga for 4 weeks of Foundations of Meditation

OR

Online (In Person) for a 6 Week In Depth Introduction to Insight Meditation

Are you ready to grab the learn the tools which will change your life?

Check the links in bio 👆🏻💚🖤🙏🏻

#meditation #learntomeditate #meditationforbeginners #mindfulness #insightmeditation

Sampapalāpa – What is it, and why does it make us so heavy?

It sounds like a fun, tropical cocktail, but Sampapalāpa is the Buddhist term for idle chatter—all that talk that doesn't serve a purpose, doesn't build connection, doesn't bring value.

Think: repetitive complaints, pointless gossip, or simply filling every quiet moment with noise.

The Weight of Unnecessary Words!

In our meditations, we strive for that feeling of being "less solid," of dissolving into a spacious peace. But when we constantly engage in Sampapalāpa, we inadvertently create a density, a heaviness around ourselves. Each unnecessary word takes up mental and emotional space, making it harder for genuine peace to settle.

Reducing this idle talk isn't about isolating yourself; it's about reclaiming your inner space. It's about cultivating a lightness of being, allowing your mind to rest in spaciousness, and preserving the serene peace you discover in stillness.

When your words become intentional, your whole being feels lighter and more aligned with that golden inner light.

I have an intention - reduce my inner and outer Sampapalāpa. What's your?

#Mindfulness #Sampapalāpa #InnerPeace #LightnessOfBeing #IntentionalLiving #ReclaimYourSpace

A message from the rain - You don’t have to hold on so tightly. Life is a constant flow of arriving and departing.

Allow the ripples to pass, there is peace in the movement.

#insightmeditation #mindfulness #bemadaboutyou #impermanance #riseandfall

Mindfulness teamed together with Insight Meditation are beautiful tools to utilise when coming back to your true nature and ‘seeing things as they really are’.

Mindfulness keeps us in the present moment without us attaching to things like judgement, desires, spiralling thought patterns.

Practising Insight Meditation allows us to become stronger at concentration (which we need more and more in this fast paced world) and from there hang out in a state where we can begin to ask questions of the nature of reality which will allow us to experience the reality without any attachment’s and instead experience from a place of clear knowing.

This will the lead to living an authentic life filled with joy and purpose.

That’s what we teach at Be Mad About You. Come check us out so you too can reshape the way you think and perceive the world to allow you to live a life of joy and purpose too.

#insightmeditation #vipassana #mindfulness #bemadaboutyou #wisdom

Ah yes, here is the gorgeous Niti and myself.
I met Niti at @sowayoga where the amazingly open hearted community builder @emily_beale_yogi said on day ‘yeah Gal, come teach meditation at Sowa, and so I did and it was full of laughs and fun and of course silence and wisdom.’

Niti, like myself is an avid meditator, we both practise Vipassana (Insight Meditation) which allows one to find the stillness, be the stillness, gain the wisdom, which allows one to enter the great unfolding journey back to an unconditioned and in the present moment life.

I have said it so many times and I will keep saying it. Vipassana has been the greatest gift I have ever given myself.

Regular practise allows one to change the relationship they have with self, I speak much more kindly to myself now, I do see myself and others around me as authenticity beautiful too. My judgement of self and others have lost their harsh edges, I understand (because I go there regularly) that underneath it all is a place of stillness and my equanimity allows me to stay grounded even as the world swirls around me. Ah, there are so many benefits.

Niti and I practised together at the beach last night, allowing the breeze to caress our face and intermingle with our finger before it flowed on ….. that’s the nature of reality …. everything flows on. When one understands this at an experiential level, we realise there is no need to cling to anything at all and we then reside in the present moment and enjoy the bliss that is ….

Sowa Studios and Be Mad About You (that’s me ☺️) are joining forces again for another course in March.

It’s called The Great Untangle - Stop Believing Your Thoughts and Start Living your Life.

It promises to be authentic, alive, filled with divine community, meditations of course - yes for any level of practise, even if you have not meditated before and tools so you too can continue your practise and live a bursting with joy life.

Reach out now by DM to be out in the list and you will be first to have the details.

Love you All and have a divine and Beautiful Day ❤️❤️❤️ @kwpisme72take2

Imagine for a moment being undisturbed by anything that happens around you.

You don’t get frazzled when something goes wrong.
You don’t get upset when you do something wrong.
You don’t hold fast to dear opinions - gosh they are not even solid.
You don’t cling to perceived pain.
You get caught in the rain on the way to an event and that’s okay.
You don’t knee jerk your reactions.

You stay balanced in the midst of turmoil.

You remain equanimous.

You see everything as transient and passing through. You understand experientially - this too shall pass.

Nothing is permanent - you know this. So why waste our energy our lives clinging to anything that will invariably change - why not just live, here and now, in this moment?

Balance (equanimity) allows you to achieve this.

Insight Meditation gives you the tools.

Be Mad About You has short course coming up to get you on the way.

DM me if you would like to know more.

Ahhh … it’s a beautiful freedom ✨✨✨

#meditation #equanimity #vipassana #freeomfromthemind #buddhasteachings

🏝️🌴🐢🐠💌
Whenever I travel to a new country after a long stint of work, I find it takes time to settle into the folds of the new future, the new people, and the energy.
Not so with Rarotonga.
The locals here-the islanders-are truly chill. And I am not just saying that to be "chill" myself; they actually are. I have been pondering why this is since the day we arrived and were welcomed from every direction with "Kia Orang"-a genuine, warm-hearted hello that means we wish you well.
Beyond the fact that everything here moves on Island time, which removes the need for immediacy, the Rarotongan's don't seem to embrace the worldly news. Imagine how much less agitation that leaves space for in your life. Less agitation, less opinion, and less thought about opinion leaves more space for the ocean. It equates to sitting in the fish-drenched water for hours on end. We can allow that to be bliss right there.

Watching the ease with which the Rarotongan's approach life makes me wonder how I, too, can assimilate this way of co-existing with nature into my daily life back home. To unfold away from the perceived self and the world, and to step into a state of being without clinging to every piece of the
"world marketplace" being thrown at us.. is this what it means to truly live?

As I watch the tide here, I’m curious:

What would your life look like if you stopped the attachment to the ‘world marketplace’ just for one day? What would be left?

Drop your thoughts below. 👇

#benefitsofmeditation #dipama #rarotonga #insightmeditation #mindfulness

I wrote this back in 2014. I am always amazed when I reread my own writing how it has always been infused with love, compassion and kindness for humanity and all of nature itself. But I am not alone in this …

What it tells me is simple - beneath all of our confusion, delusion, and mind-swirls, there is love without borders and boundaries, the human condition at its heart and soul is love. ❤️ We are love. We are all love ❤️

#poetry #poem #meditation #humanity

It's interesting to observe and contemplate how when we practise, right speech, right action, right thought, things we hold as solid, parts of ourselves we cling to as our own, without even knowing it - naturally begin to fall away.

Mindfulness and Meditation can be compared to a great unfolding. With ardent practise and dedication, we are able to sift away, just like sifting the mud, sand and grit away when panning for gold. We do the same with mindfulness and meditation - we sift to see what is true, the rest can be discarded. Then we are left with only that is pure, undiluted.

It's where we began. The before self. The free without shackles. The light.

The wonderful thing about Mindfulness when we practise regularly, we start to see the right direction. Once we have seen this direction, we understand the benefits to ourselves and others and the way in which we relate to the world.

Once in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking and become lighter with each second.

#mindfulness #meditation #buddha

It’s a question that is worth an ask of yourself in turbulent times.

Right Speech?

Is it true? Is it beneficial? Is it timely? Is it kind? Does it improve on silence?

Right Action

Will your actions harm? Will your actions create a negative outcome? How will your actions affect the karmic flow - positively or negatively?

Right thought.

This is actually more important than people will give credit. How are your thoughts spinning in your mind? Who is in control? If they hold negative connotations- think about how this is affecting your nervous system, think of how your thought will affect your speech and actions. Think of how thoughts can make you heavy in body and mind. Think of how your thought can have a positive or negative flow in effect to the whole world community.

As serious practitioners of meditation the answers to all of the above will arise with ease. And you shall see clearly the value of Right speech, right action and right thought and how all three play out in reality.

If you don’t meditate - you may stay sitting in a work of delusion.

The choice is yours ❤️⭐️❤️ I will love you all the same XXX

Step back and away … remember love ❤️⭐️❤️

I took this photo in the Ashram The Beatles spent much time in at Rishikesh, India.

A place where humility just is. A place where we strip ourselves back to see once again the true connectedness of everything and everyone.

And when we strip everything back only one thing remains - Love. It’s all there is. Nothing else matters.

#thebeatles #love #meditation

In a world where we can choose love - we must ❤️

#chooselove #lovingkindess #buddha

An old Tibetan Monk wisely stated, No Self, No Problem.

Think about that. What are you over identifying with right now?

What are you attaching yourSELF to? What delusion are you convincing yourSELF of? What is your SELF pushing away because you just don’t want to deal with it? How are you holding all of these things in your body?

Try this little trick - sit quietly, calm the mind, meditate. Learn the beautiful art of reclaiming yourself as merely the observer. For when there is no SELF - there is no problem.

I love this message - simple, direct, easy.

We should meditate some time ❤️🙏🏻❤️

My darling dad and I have spent a lifetime discussing everything universe, quantum and Schrödinger’s Cat.

Admittedly over the years his explanation of this topic had difficulty in landing for me conceptually - there was always something just out of grasp.

But then I started my meditation practise which allowed me to understand the true nature of reality.

Recently the topic picked up again after darling dad read about another advancement in quantum. It came back to that damn Schrödinger’s Cat again - is it alive, dead or both?

Dead cat aside, darling dad sent an email with the title and nothing else, ‘the universe does not give you meaning, it gives you the conditions to make it’

Make it what? Make it anything you want.

This very thought came through my meditation this week. The understanding the the emptiness in which we sit (when in Samadhi) is where we create the conditions to manifest our reality and also to understand the way in which we have previously manifested to sit in the reality in which we do right now.

So the question is - you have the conditions - what do you choose to create for your reality ?

Here’s a prompt - start with space.

#manifest #meditation #quantum

Ooh la la - look at all of these beautiful and divine souls ⭐️

I was lucky enough to spend four weeks getting to know each one as their own perfectly gorgeous selves ❤️ and teach a Four Week Introduction to Insight Meditation Course.

We discussed what Inisght Meditation is and where is came from. We learnt about anchoring to our breath, noting thoughts and mind objects, impermanence and Dipa Ma - a divine teacher of Mindfulness and Insight Meditation.

We practised various types of meditations.

We shared stories and laughed a lot.

It was a lovely meditation community which made it good for the soul. Ahhh yes baby cakes!!!

A very big thank you to @sowayoga for helping to bring us all together - you are a delight and inspiration to us all.

Watch this space for the next classes - meditation is the greatest gift you can give yourself 🙏🏻

#meditationcourse #mindulnesscourse #meditation

Imagine, just for one moment the experience of being…

⭐️ free from greed, wanting, craving, over indulging
⭐️free from hatred and recognising any divisions we create start with self
⭐️free from delusion and unnecessary fear that stops us in our tracks and does not allow further passage

This is what mindfulness is.
This is what meditation does.

Both teach us to ‘let go’ of all that does not serve us in a way for our own greater good.

#meditation #mindfulness #lettinggo

Dipa Ma started her life as a householder caring for her husband and children. After two of her children and her husband passed away Dipa Ma fell into a state of deepest grief. So much so when a doctor visited her at her sickly bed he instructed, ‘you are going to die of a broken heart, unless you learn to meditate.’

So Dipa Ma did as the doctor instructed and took herself away to meditate with the technique of Vipassana, Insight Meditation.

Dipa Ma became liberated from her suffering relatively quickly compared to others on the same path.

She began to teach.

Dipa Ma was known for her strict style of teaching. Diligence, ardency, focus, concentrate, meditate whenever you can. Keep going.

Dipa Ma was known for her unwavering, kindness, compassion - she resided in a place of loving kindness.

Over many years Dipa Ma unveiled the true gift meditation is to her thousands upon thousands of students. They too were able to see clearly how to release their human suffering.

Her most important teaching of all … keep going.

#meditation #DipaMa #mindfulness

Ahh yes, so easily we ruminate on what happened and how the outcome could have been better ….. if only.

If only I kept my mouth shut.
If only I said this or that.
If only I did this.
If only I anticipated what would happen.
If only I had been kinder.
If only I had been available.
If only, if only, if only….

This serves as a gentle reminder, the past no longer exists, it’s only existing in your mind and the longer you ‘if only’ the heck out of it, the longer it hangs around and weighs itself in different parts of your body.

Your chest, your gut, your heart, your head.

Be kind to yourself. Hit stop on the replay. You can’t touch these thoughts - so why let them trap you in a spin cycle?

That was yesterday, this moment is now.

Use this moment to stop, be here now and let all the rest go. What a beautiful gift to give yourself. 🎈

#mindfulness #meditation #bekindtoyourself❤️

This quote by Heraclitus has stayed with me throughout my life. I always come back to it with deeper understanding.

Impermanence was on of Buddha’s big teachings. When we experience impermanence (the rising and falling nature of all things in our reality) first hand, we begin to understand there is no reason to hang tight, hold fast, grab at or push away.

Just like the river is constantly flowing and therefore changing, so are we.

We are not the same person we are when we were a child, not the same person as who we were five years ago, not the same person as last week and even not the same person as i. the last moments.

We are, the world is, the people you love are constantly changing.

We are born, we grow, we age, we pass away. Not one of us will escape this. The same applies to every aspect of this natural environment in which we live in. So what good is holding tight to things going to serve us?

The same goes for our thoughts and emotions. Each second, each millisecond, because of the impermanent nature of all things, thoughts come, shape themselves, some don’t even make it that far, then they pass away for the next. And the next. And the next.

But we choose to hold fast to thoughts and the thoughts we hold fast to are often fear based, replaying story re-enactments, things we are so dearly trying to push away.

Thoughts are not solid. Thoughts like everything else in nature will come and go.

Insight Meditation directly shows the experience of impermanence. With practise you too can see very clearly how you may hold fast to this and that. Insight Meditation offers you the wisdom so you can be kind to yourself and let it all go.

#insightmeditation #impermanence #heraclitus

The power of loving kindness is one of the most under-utilised aspect of life.

Loving kindness towards self will change your relationship with yourself and you will begin to view your reality in a deeper, more meaningful and connecting way.

Loving kindness towards self allows you to become that love. Take a moment right now and remind yourself of all of your beautiful qualities.

If you cultivate loving kindness towards yourself, over time you will embody this, it will become your natural state.

Then, you will mirror this gorgeous self out into the world. The loving kindness energy you create will have ripple effects into your family, your work life, the community, the world.

You could say it is actually our moral duty to practise and embody loving kindness towards yourself to help stabilise the whole world with love.

You know that saying, change starts with you. It’s true.

I challenge you today to stop 🛑 every time you speak ill of yourself or even others, come back to yourself with a few long soft breaths. Then remind yourself of all of your divine and loving qualities.

Rest there, create more loving kindness space - allow this to become your natural state and you too will do your part in changing the world for the better.

Love and gratitude to each and everyone of you 🙏🏻🦋🙏🏻

#lovingkindness #meditation #changetheworld

Silence, nada, what’s there? Nothing right?

When I tune into silence in my meditations I am met with the infinitesimal sounds of the vibrations of the universe - that’s today, that has also been this month.

I have noticed, when I take another ‘look’ with my minds eye, at the silence, I experience something new each time.

I am a changed person each time I look, and therefore the my relationship to silence has changed with each fresh experience.

Recently I saw silence / nada as the unmanifest. The time and space before interruption of us in nature. I am the unmanifest, when I trace it all back.

I know this experience, through my Vipassanā / Insight Meditation and Mindfulness practise will deepen this connection each time I sit.

Wisdom and insight comes from practise. We have the easy ability to ‘see things are they really are’, we can ‘touch enlightenment’ we just need to keep going.

❤️🦋❤️
#meditation #stillness #mindfulness

I was at work recently and I realised how I was feeling heavy, which naturally made me tired, which naturally altered my perspective of the world in that moment.

I then remembered my mindfulness practise (because we need to keep reminding ourselves).

I investigated why I was feeling heavy and came to understand I was holding thoughts, emotions and opinions of the silly little goings on of people in my work place. I was creating an inner dialogue of this that and the other. I was holding the energy (or perceived energy) of others.

Well, let me tell you, that was an epiphany!

I closed my eyes and remembered my anchor and concentration point of my breath. I settled on only one the breath which naturally created the space I needed.

I then acknowledged what I was choosing to hold within me and told myself I will feel much lighter if I choose to let these unnecessary thoughts, emotions, stories go … and I did.

The rest of the day I saw the world, workplace, time and space with fresh eyes and a lighter heart.

This was a double win as 1. I was mindful in the moment 2. It showed me first hand how practising mindfulness is reshaping my life.

Today, in the moment, I choose to hold on only to this giant dandelion as it actually brings me so much joy.

What will you choose to let go today?

#mindfulness #meditation #selflove

Awareness.

It’s a word we all know, but how often do we investigate what it actually means?

By tuning into our awareness, we tune into how else experience reality and by doing this we can change our relationship to how we approach life.

Awareness in mindfulness is paramount above everything else. Bringing our complete awareness to the moment. Then investigate further. What’s there? How is it changing? Why is it changing? What are the objects subtleties? What of the contemplated object is solid and fixed? What perception have we added to it? How has our own conditioning shaped it? If we look at the object of our attention from a different angle, how does that change our relationship to it? How do we experience the object, internally, externally and both internally and externally? How does the object filter through our six sense doors? Which sense door is most prominent?

Recently I bought my complete awareness to silence (nada) in my meditation. This is not the first time I have done this. What I noted was, each time I did return my complete awareness to the silence, the silence itself shifted so I was able to understand and experience it more deeply. Silence itself is the unmanifest. But still when I experience silence I experience manifest within it. By noticing this, I raised my level of awareness one tiny dot forward. By raising my awareness I gain a little more clarity as to how I understand everything that is.

Contemplate how you relate to thoughts, mind objects, stories in your mind, experiences you have. Contemplate what you are doing with each. What can be learned of you awareness is raised on each?

#meditation #insightmeditation #awareness

Beautiful Friends, Beautiful Sunrise.

Just like holding onto stories that don’t serve us is a choice, also surrounding yourself with lovely, kind, open hearted people is a choice.

The day is still young - but the choices made have been a gift to self.

Let me ask you, what will you gift yourself today?

Start with a meditation perhaps?

#meditation #insightmeditation #sunrise

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