Why Should I Meditate?

Meditation and Mindfulness learning stillness while in full flight

One in five of Australians are taking anti-depressant medication, others are drinking too much alcohol, and others are just stressed out. Which might lead us to ask…

Compassion

Self- Compassion

Mindfulness and compassion lead us to greater awareness of the nature of our suffering. We can become aware of aches and tensions on the body, disturbing, anxious thoughts, relating to painful events of the past or feared events of the future, that distract us from experiencing the fullness of the present moment. Meditation techniques serve as a vehicle to carry us through these difficulties on the path to experiencing our wholeness. Through the practice of meditation we can redirect the energy invested in automatic coping mechanisms into self-supporting processes of learning, evolution and resting in our essential wholeness.

New Ideas Arise out of the Deep Ecology of our True Nature

Every really new idea looks crazy at first. Alfred North Whitehead Ideas are the seminal cognitions of the objects of our perception; essentially, untried concepts. All creativity begins with the possibility of something new being conceived. New ideas that are inspiring lead to the birth of new hypotheses, beliefs, values, capabilities, behaviors and ideals of […]

The Enneagram and the Lazy Approach to Enlightenment

Be lazy like a mountain by Eric Lyleson, author of Essential Wholeness, Integral Psychotherapy, Spiritual Awakening and the Enneagram Understanding the Enneagram of Essential Wholeness will not help us achieve awakening or enlightenment. Instead it will helps us see how we unconsciously unenlighten ourselves through the maintenance of our ego fixations that obscure our enlightened […]

Enneagram – Personality, Resistance to Change and Realising Potential

Trans-theoretical model of change

The Enneagram commonly known as a system of nine personality types, can be used as a nine- phase model of living Systems, including humans evolve and grow. It shows we evolve from one level of homeostasis to a higher and more complex level of organisation and homeostasis. NINE represents homeostasis and the process moves around […]

Wild Mediations – Dark Canyons

wlderness meditation retreat

This is one of the most beautiful canyons in Australia, but unlike some canyons it is accessible to most people. There will be time to really open to the beauty and the majesty of this place.  You will be left with a sense of awe and gratitude for the blessings Nature can bestow on us.