A few words from one of our Meditation Leaders

A few words from one of our Meditation Leaders

This week one of our wonderful SkillfulMIND Leaders has taken the time to write a short piece for us on how she has been coping with COVID19 and the isolation it has brought. Joanna Mason is from the North East of the United Kingdom and has been continuing to run...
MINUTE MEDITATIONS

MINUTE MEDITATIONS

  Body Sway Meditation Coming to your senses – Hearing Coming to your senses – Feeling Coming to your senses – Sight   To get the true benefits of meditation, it’s not enough to just treat it as a 10 or 15 minute escape from the world every...
Demons and Dragons

Demons and Dragons

  The following story is one of my favorite parables. It’s about a famous Tibetan meditator who lived many hundreds of years ago. He was called Milarepa. Milarepa spent three months every year meditating in a cave in the Himalayan mountains. He was sent up there...
3 FACTORS OF SUCCESS

3 FACTORS OF SUCCESS

  Are you feeling a sense of discontentment? Many people spend far too much time living without a sense of direction, without knowing where they want their lives to go. It has taken me some time to get myself, and SkillfulMIND to where we are today, but through...
A meditation on Universal Love

A meditation on Universal Love

    Before we begin the meditation, we must consider and resolve two things. The first is, what is the definition of love? Every person has a different answer to this, but for the purposes of this meditation, we will consider love to be the state where we...
SPINNING THE SPINE MEDITATION

SPINNING THE SPINE MEDITATION

  The following meditation known as Spinning the Spine is from John Gabriel’s book, The Gabriel Method. It is a very effective technique to pacify the nervous system and combat stress instantaneously. All you need for this meditation is one minute of your time....