Conscious presence, whole-body-mindedness and the fallacy of the observer

Do you find your mind being either ahead of or trailing behind the physical body; being in the anticipated future or in the already lived past? Enter movement and conscious presence…

Checking out – are we sowing the seeds of our own dementia?

Is dementia where we check out so much that we cannot check back in again? Doug shares how he found his way back to vitality and a clear mind.

Connection to self through conscious presence

For our May 2015 audio of the month we are treating you to two audios on Conscious Presence because connecting to ourselves and our body is so essential for our health and well-being.

Developing Conscious Presence Gentle Breath Meditation®

Shakespeare’s King Lear: King Liar and the tyranny of ‘elsewhere conscious presence’

Shakespeare’s King Lear exposes the extent of our society’s daily brutality, to which most of us have elected to turn a blind eye. And he honours the presence in those few who consistently live the truth we all know but have largely abandoned. Why do we do it?

Meditation, mindfulness, conscious presence – are these really the answers to a better life?

Can we continue to live the way we do and expect techniques and meditations to make us feel better and give us the life we have always dreamt of?

Mindfulness: the good and the bad

Mindfulness is the new buzzword and technique for health and wellbeing but is it really as good as the reports say? Is there more to our quality of life than being able to control and focus our mind?

The true test of science is how it faces the unknown

Science has so much to offer humanity, but seems limited by how it reacts to what is doesn’t know.

Why we bring conscious presence to the eyes in Esoteric Yoga

The eye area may be just a small part of our body, but when you consider how much of life is seen, clocked, received or projected from our eyes they have a massive impact on how and what we experience as our day to day lives. Explore with this experiential video…

Autopilot: The case of the wandering mind

Every day we are repeating tasks and activities we have done many times before. How much of our day is spent on ‘autopilot’? Is there a price we pay for not being present with ourselves?

All the fuss over a hat

It sounds like the start of a joke, but it could well be the reason for much of the unrest in the world

My choice to slow down at work: Pure gold

Can slowing down at work actually make you more productive? This true story shares a very different experience of the results of slowing down.

Returning to our body – The wonder, beauty and science of our body

How often do we consider if we are with or even ‘in’ our body? Discover the unlimited awareness we can tap into when we connect to our body and the quality of our movements.

Let food be thy medicine – outdated quote or ageless wisdom?

How powerful are our food choices in influencing the health of our bodies?

Mindfulness: it’s not the holy grail of awareness

Mindfulness – without the consideration of quality of energy – at best manages the state that we are already in, and at worst supports the ability to do many things that are in fact totally harmful to the body we are walking around in?

Using the Gentle Breath Meditation® to develop conscious presence

With the Gentle Breath Meditation® it is possible to develop a deeper connection to and understanding of our body and how we live, whilst asking our mind and body to be together in the process.

Natalie Benhayon, the queen of many things

Have you ever felt trapped in the tension of time? Understanding how we can live with cycles and rhythms in our daily life can be a game changer.

Walking with conscious presence

When we are present with our movements, we are developing a connection with ourselves that supports our state of being such that mental and emotional states such as anxiousness, stress or depression cannot so easily take hold.

How do you know what is right for your body?

This article outlines simple steps to make the connection between what and how we eat and how our bodies feel afterwards, so we can start to eat what is right for our bodies.

Stillness: a return to being

Stillness is our natural state of being, yet have we fallen for the idea that we are not enough and need to be ‘more’?