It has been brought to my attention that the word ‘mindfulness’ gets thrown around a fair bit when people speak about mental health strategies and in things like spirituality and Buddhism, but it rarely gets a definition or explanation. What is mindfulness? It incorporates lots of different mental and physical techniques with an underlying purpose …
If someone asked, “who are you?” what do you respond with? Most people would answer with their name. But is your name really who you are? Or is it just a word that you identify with when other people call you it? If you are not your name then who are you? This question has …
Think of a time where you had no perception of time, no thoughts of the past or future, fully engrossed in what you were doing at that exact moment or fully aware of what was going on and how you were feeling. Now what if I told you that you could live life predominantly in …
Depression and Demotivation. The last few weeks I’m sure you’ve noticed lack of content. I’ve been suffering depression and demotivation. Feelings of constant exhaustion and emptiness have haunted me the past weeks. I’ve hated everyone and myself. University, relationships and work have stressed me out to the point where I couldn’t take it anymore. If …
I hope to enlighten you to the fact that thoughts are uncontrollable and impermanent, and that this is a good thing. The majority of people are oblivious to the fact that they are prisoners to their own internal white noise. This is their thoughts, and the fact that they think that they are their thoughts. …
Meditation is the practise of the observation of thought. The point of meditation is to sit in silence and become aware. To lose who you are and find what you are. There is no who, who is an illusion. You are a focal point of consciousness that thought flows through, merely a vessel. There are …