In most meditation tradition, bodily awareness forms the basis of meditation. Why is the body so important? First let’s ask ourselves what happens when we loose contact with our bodies. It is said in buddhist psychology that the body is always present in the moment, it’s just the mind that distracts us all the time, [...]
Of all these years of meditation, contemplation and now training others, the most important thing I have learned thusfar is to listen to yourself. No one knows better in which direction you oughta take your life than you yourself. We all have our own spiritual DNA, which we have to devote ourselves to eventually, no [...]
Mindfulness in itself is not the solution to all our problems, in fact mindfulness practice doesn’t even do that much if our behaviour doesn’t synchronize with the insight we gain from it. To give an example; we might discover during a body scan that we are really tired and have gone beyond our physical limits [...]
The body always wants to show us the middlepath, nothing else. The body is the middlepath.
Maybe you have been practising meditation for over 20 years, maybe you have just started or maybe you have never ever meditated at all. Nonetheless, we all go about life with a certain quality of mindfulness. Some people have a natural quality of mindfulness in them, characterized by compassion, kindness and humor. Other people might [...]
The things is; we always know what to do. No matter how deep we find ourselves in a pile of suffering, we always have this inner-compass which gives us clear information about how to work with life. The hard part is that we have to learn how to listen. Every cell of our body is [...]