Category Archive: action

To Succeed, Learn to Fail

Most people, when they decide to try meditation, assume it’ll be easy. And the books and spruikers and ads for meditation and mindfulness classes certainly make meditation seem easy. After all, how hard… Continue reading

Building Awareness To Change Habits

Everything we are, and everything we do, arises from a habit.All our skills and abilities, our cravings and addictions, whether good or bad, as well as our physical form, our emotional profile and… Continue reading

How Do I ‘Watch My Thoughts’?

Hi Roger, I’m hoping you can help me with a confusing thing that happens when I meditate. I go to a local meditation group and the teacher told us to watch our thoughts… Continue reading

The Meditation Audio Course is Back

A few years ago, (well, almost a decade ago – golly how time flies), after I closed Practical Meditation & Counselling and began travelling (again), I recorded the entire course as a series… Continue reading

Knowing Yourself

Throughout a life, we accumulate habits. Some work for us, other’s don’t. And the key to a good life is being able to nurture those habits that work for us, and weed out… Continue reading

Just Do It

One day, I received an email from a woman asking if we could meet. She said she was eager to discuss Buddhist lore and exchange ideas. And it became clear in subsequent emails,… Continue reading

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