I’ve previously talked about how to get your Shoulders, Arms and Upper Body Posture right (tip #20) and also how to get your Lower Back Posture right (Tip #29). In this video I walk through the different sitting styles and the different positions you can have your legs if sitting on the floor, stool or a chair. I also show …
Someone in meditation group asked about this so I thought I’d outline how to sit properly. Getting our lower back into the right posture can really effect our ability to sit comfortably for long periods of time. The are three main reasons for getting your lower back into the right position. One is that it …
Last night I stumbled upon this video of a Dharma teacher in the US called Noah Levine. While his body bears the marks of a troubled life and youth, you can see the transformation meditation practice has had on his life. This is not always so obvious when we meet people who appear so monk or “Buddha-like”, …
We all grow up learning labels and names before we can even remember and while we all believe our experience of life is our own we rarely, if ever, stop to evaluate “What is this experience of life as it is?” This is a really important thing to contemplate and to come to know and experience. What is life …
In the video Examining Consciousness and the Human Experience Part 1 I talked about how our senses keep us trapped in this small sense of self, and I outlined a practice of examining your experiences and senses to develop a greater understanding of life. In this video I go into more detail about this process of …
In life we believe our senses are real, and believe everything we interact with is real, and in this way our senses and the consciousness becomes like a prison. We remained constrained and trapped in this belief in the realness of the sense of self that the sense consciousnesses create. Then within this prison we …
Stretching like this before you start meditation can help get your upper body into a great posture While people often talk about how to sit in meditation and how to have your legs and what to do with your spine, my years of meditation have taught me that how you keep your shoulders and arms can …
On the weekend I was at my best mates 40th birthday and he said he liked the video I did the other day so I thought I’d experiment a bit more with the video medium and do a video blog about the sense of self and this internal inclination we all have to be liked …
I’ve made two videos and added them onto my How To Meditate page. One is an introduction to what meditation is about and the other a brief instruction on how to actually sit meditation. In total combined they both go for about 10 minutes.
