Wild Meditations – New Year 2017 – 18
Wild Meditations – Wilderness Meditation Retreats “The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul.”
Enneagram Guide to the Hero’s Journey
Transformational Questions for Guiding a Heroic Journey
Mindfulness Meditation – How to do it and why
Do you find yourself getting caught up in a stressful state of mind that makes it hard to enjoy your family, friends and other simple joys of life––a beautiful sunrise, cool winter air on your face, the taste of good food, your child’s recount of their day, the warmth and tenderness of a hug? Do […]
Evolve or Perish?
Although humans have become the most proficient species at fighting and fleeing, that is not what has been the main thrust of what has propelled us to dominate the landscape. Human evolution has been driven by our ability to respond creatively and cooperatively to challenges, as well as our ability to envision a better future and devising the means to achieve it. If we evaluate our reptilian predecessors who dominated our planet, we find that they were very good at the four Fs — fighting, fleeing, feeding and procreating, but had little ability to learn how to creatively and cooperatively relate to their world. Tyrannosaurus Rex — the creature at the top of the food chain — was the pinnacle of brutish reptilian power.
Meditations on Unconditional Happiness by Rick Hanson, author of Buddha’s Brain
Rick Hanson, PhD interviewed by Eric Lyleson Four Levels of Consciousness that Meditation Can Help us Realise Nowness, Wholeness, All-ness and Oneness The Neuroscience of Spiritual Practice In this cutting edge interview psychologist and neuroscientist Rick Hanson discusses what he is currently exploring in his own spiritual practice. He describes how each of us can […]
WILD MEDITATIONS – A Weekend of Deep Immersion in Wild Nature
A journey into the hidden beauty of the Blue Mountains where we will explore: clarifying your intentions for the upcoming year meditation practices that will open you to a deeper connection with your own wild nature cultivating the loving patience needed to hear the whispers of your heart’s calling the power of slowing down enough […]
The Enneagram, Core Truths and Transformational Conversations
Essential Wholeness recognises the Enneagram as a symbol of a whole person. Each of the types as they awaken tends to be in tune with a particular core truth of what it is to be more fully human. Generally at the heart of any transformational conversation comes an experiential realisation that helps us have a practical understanding of something along the lines of these core truths.
Essential Wholeness Meditation and Psychotherapy
Essential Wholeness Meditation An Integration of Psychology and Spirituality (excerpt from Essential Wholeness by Eric Lyleson) Essential Wholeness Meditation and Psychotherapy has evolved out of forty years of practicing meditation and psychotherapy. It recognises that different people and traditions hold different pieces of the puzzle and when we can bring them all together we get a more complete […]
Your Personality Type and Essential Qualities
New Insights into Enneagram Personality Types –
Your personality is shaped by your relationship with the essential qualities of peace, consciousness, compassion, strength, forgiveness, space, acceptance, joy and will.
Questioning Beliefs – Phase SIX of Enneagram of Change
Questioning Beliefs “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer Beliefs are not things, so much as they are mental constructions that maintain their form through the action of believing. The more useful a belief appears to be, the more […]