Patternicity
I’ve been working on the course that I’m giving this week in London – It’s about “poisoned patterns of the mind” and it seems to have...
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Alistair Appleton
- Nov 8, 2011
- 4 min
Thoughts are a Planet. The Body is the Sun. Occupy your Being. Join the revolution.
George Monbiot makes an interesting statement in this morning’s Guardian. He points out that there is a myth: that the people at the top...
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Alistair Appleton
- Oct 18, 2011
- 2 min
Compassionate Spaces in the body, in the air, in the Other
The course upon Holy Island was truly wonderful this year. It was a great group. There was palpable energy flowing around the Peace Hall,...
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Alistair Appleton
- Oct 4, 2011
- 2 min
Getting mindfulness off the cushion and into … well, the bedroom, for example
I’m very excited about the workshops coming up this autumn – they’re all pushing mindfulness in different directions. There’s...
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Alistair Appleton
- Sep 26, 2011
- 2 min
Transformational breathing, transforming, and transition
I (Alistair) went to an amazing workshop this weekend with Alan Dolan. Alan is a fellow workshop leader at the Special Yoga Centre. Or at...
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Alistair Appleton
- Aug 2, 2011
- 2 min
Forcible Thereness
Back filming for Escape to the Country and enjoying the other headspace that being outside of London and away from psychotherapy books...
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Alistair Appleton
- Jun 11, 2011
- 3 min
Clarifying mindfulness
Had a wonderful retreat in the cold, perpetual daylight of Iceland. The lovely Reykjavik sangha organized a fantastic 35-person retreat...
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Alistair Appleton
- Feb 5, 2011
- 4 min
Fame: To grow as a tree grows. Presently.
I had the most wonderful afternoon on Friday talking to the young men and women of St. James schools – two independent, sibling schools,...
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Alistair Appleton
- Jan 28, 2011
- 3 min
Energywork and Meditation
My therapy work has got me interested in the field of trauma and energy psychology. Working with trauma – highly painful,...
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Alistair Appleton
- Nov 16, 2010
- 3 min
The knotty issue of focus
It comes up again and again in our classes, so I thought it might be worth jotting down a few thoughts… When we are mediating should we...
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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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Alistair Appleton
- Sep 17, 2010
- 2 min
I am de-militarizing my mind
I am de-militarizing my mind, taking down the barbed-wire strand by strand. There is or was barely a surface unmined but gently I am...
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Alistair Appleton
- Jul 4, 2010
- 2 min
mindfulness apace (archived)
I’ve been increasingly absorbed by Mindfulness. The concept comes up a lot in the Buddhist tradition. It’s one of the 8 paths the Buddha...
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Alistair Appleton
- Jul 4, 2010
- 2 min
End of Blame (Archived)
it’s interesting how much of my blogging impetus has moved over here. Perhaps a change of career foregrounds what was just a side-show...
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