Going Outdoors to Enter the Presence
I am entering one of my periodic periods of great doubt. I have these on a fairly regular basis - once every five years, perhaps - and...
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Alistair Appleton
- May 11
- 8 min
Victory Mind II: Sleep Is Not Enough
One of the factors that Johann Hari identifies in his excellent book Stolen Focus is the crippling exhaustion that most humans in the...
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Alistair Appleton
- Jan 9
- 6 min
Sitting Out practice
The January full moon over the Seven Sisters, 2022. WHAT IS SITTING OUT? I’ve been exploring a practice called ‘sitting out’. It’s not a...
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Alistair Appleton
- Jan 21, 2022
- 4 min
Every broken heart is sacred
The final blog in my series of seven from 2013 is perhaps the juiciest of them all. I was all tender from a very intense, heart-breaking...
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Alistair Appleton
- Jan 5, 2022
- 6 min
No more future anymore
This is a rather epic blog about the future and the nature of stress. Looking back from the vantage of 2022, I can see how the eight...
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Alistair Appleton
- Mar 22, 2021
- 5 min
Understanding the weather of emotions: Candace Pert’s “Molecules of Emotion”
that phrases like ‘I’ve got a gut feeling about this’ turn out to be literally correct.
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Alistair Appleton
- Feb 25, 2021
- 5 min
Dynamiting the prison of the present
Karen spoke about feeling trapped in the present. As meditators, we’re always encouraged to stay in the present and “be here now”, but...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 6, 2018
- 3 min
What is somatic meditation?
What does this word somatic mean and how does it relate to meditation? Somatic meditation means ‘of the body’ in contrast to ‘of the...
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Alistair Appleton
- Oct 4, 2010
- 3 min
Kick-Ass Mindfulness
Earlier this year I took up kickboxing. It was in the middle of a very grim and gloomy February when I was struggling with lots of demons...
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