HARMONY DAY

HARMONY DAY

Today is Harmony Day and in fact marks 20 years of Harmony Day Celebrations.  This year will be the first time that Harmony Day will be celebrated over a full week. So what is Harmony Day all about? It is a time to celebrate Australian multiculturalism and the...
NLP VS BUDDISM

NLP VS BUDDISM

In the last newsletter I wrote about NLP. If you didn’t read it – then you can do so here. This week, I am taking up the interesting challenge of comparing NLP to the other philosophy that I like so much – Buddhism. You see, as I described last week, NLP starts...
BENEFITS OF YOGA

BENEFITS OF YOGA

At the physical level, yoga and its cleansing practices have proven to be extremely effective for improving general health. For example, yoga is extremely effective in: Increasing Flexibility – yoga has positions that act upon the various joints of the body including...
MEDITATION VS MINDFULNESS

MEDITATION VS MINDFULNESS

Mindfulness and meditation – are they the same thing? or are they different?  If I were to make up my own definition it would go something like this: “Mindfulness is the magical quality of mind you develop when you practice the technique of...
PHYSICAL VS MENTAL SUFFERING

PHYSICAL VS MENTAL SUFFERING

Welcome to this the second video in my series of teaching on  “Learn Meditation” Following on from last week we start to look at unhappiness (or suffering) by gradually breaking it down. The first distinction is to consider physical suffering (like pain)...