Now I am getting excited. Just off a call with Sarah McLean, my teacher and Director of McLean Meditation Institute .. and .. I’M GOING TO WISOM 2.0! “Wisdom 2.0 is a conference tackling one of the biggest challenges of today’s age. Connect through technology, but do so in a way that supports a person’s […]
Meditation & Creativity
Great article received today from Artshub: “How meditation helped my creative practice: 8 artists share tips”. Wonderful to read about the different experiences with meditation, and the impact on personal creativity, from eight very different Australian artists. Including David Jones, professional percussionist who teaches meditation at the Brahma Kumaris Meditation centre in Fitzroy, who I have […]
Focus On: Miranda Harwood
The Focus On series is all about sharing the diversity of meditation journeys and experiences. An opportunity to come together and share stories, practices, and insights .. to listen and learn from each other. Meditation and mindfulness training within the corporate sector worldwide has grown rapidly in recent years, primarily seen as a way to […]
A Mindful 5 minutes
There is great power in attending to one breath, one moment .. with pure joy and contentment Taking just 5 minutes to PAUSE and be MINDFUL in the MOMENT can be life-changing. As a meditation teacher, I think I have heard nearly every excuse possible as to why people cannot meditate… “I think too much”, […]
Meditation to Ease Stress
An excellent TEDEd video crossed my path this morning .. with a very clear and insightful understanding of Stress and showing how chronic stress can affect brain size, its structure, and how it functions, right down to the level of your genes. Just before Christmas, an article in The Financial Review espoused the benefits of […]
Quiet Mind In The Media
Exciting to find Quiet Mind At Work quoted in The Age newspaper this week in the article “A Beginner’s Guide To Meditation”. It was some time ago that I spoke with the journalist Amy Molloy about the growing interest in meditation across the corporate world. Many well-known organisations across the globe are bringing meditation to […]
Meditation In The Corporate Environment
Two studies released this month which focus specifically on meditation in the corporate environment: #1 Creative Thinking The outcome of a study by cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and fellow researchers at Leiden University, published 19 April in the open-access journal ‘Frontiers in Cognition’, found certain meditation techniques can promote heightened creative thinking. The study investigated […]