Category: Lifestyle
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Christmas Tips: 12 Ways You Can Survive The Festive Season – Pt 1
Christmas is indisputably brilliant. It’s the only time where you are officially mandated by your family, peers and possibly even the government to indulge yourself to such an illogical extent that if you did it at any other time of year, people would be legitimately worried about you. But like every party that lasts for…
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The Hero\’s Journey & Its Link To Meditation
We had a really interesting group med the other night and it was evident that the majority of folks in attendance want to get to a place of peace and fulfillment double quick! This inspired me to enliven the phenomena of the hero’s journey, which in true mythical fashion, feels worthy of a retelling… Find…
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What Makes City Living So Stressful?
When thinking of nice ways to spend an afternoon, lying in a MRI scanner and solving difficult maths problems while people tut, sarcastically comment and roll their eyes at your responses isn’t at the top of anyone’s list. Dreamed up as a way to ensure that whoever was experiencing it felt pressured and unhappy, this…
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Defeating Student Stress with Meditation (and Money!)
At Will Williams Meditation, one of our main goals is to help people deal with the demands of everyday life. The hectic pace of life and strains of the modern world can be very stressful, at times leaving people feeling as if they are unable to cope. For young people these everyday challenges can…
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Success – what does it mean to you?
I’m constantly intrigued by the amount of people who think stress is necessary for success. One day I’ll write a blog, or maybe even a book (to add to my list!) about how and why stress isn’t just unnecessary, but quite often counter-productive to the achievement of the greatest outcomes. However, for this month’s post,…
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Knowledge Eliminates Fear
We have just returned from our spring retreat and it was an incredibly memorable experience! By the end of the weekend we were getting stuck into some pretty profound knowledge and experiences and it seems many of the participants felt they were peering through the looking glass and realising that there is more to what…
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We, the People
It was Election Day yesterday. Naturally I’m loathe to get involved in choosing between parties, that would be way too controversial! I’m more interested in the observation that everyone seems to be 100% on board with the idea of a democracy without ever really questioning it. Admittedly, it seems to make sense on the surface.…
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The Unbeatable Dynamism of Being
Here we are in the glories of India, taking a break after what has been a ridiculously busy year. It feels like we’ve rolled all our weekends into one extended break and our bodies are singing in thanks. This brings us nicely to the subject of dynamic rest. At least one of our newsletters has…
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To dream, or not to dream, that is the question
I was at a talk recently and the subject of dreams popped up. Dreams as in our personal goals, our aspirations, our future hopes. This was followed by some lively discussion about the validity of identifying our dreams and the natural inclination to wish to follow them. On the one hand was the encouragement for…
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Of diamonds and spinach … our journey to enlightenment
We will begin at the end, and that is with enlightenment and yet, that is also the beginning, because from the Beeja perspective, that is what we are driven to search for (often unwittingly) in our lives, hence our continual, and often dissatisfying pursuit of sustained happiness. We are constantly chasing rainbows when in actual…