It feels wrong to give direction by asking people ‘not’ to do something. You don’t throw a ball to a child and say ‘don’t drop it’, you say ‘catch it’. There are no posters saying “don’t be ordinary”, they say “Shoot For The Stars”. Nike’s slogan wouldn’t work as well if it said “Just Don’t Not Do It”. Yet I state half the foundational building blocks of meditation as non-something. Nevertheless, there are a some precedents where ‘nots’ are considered useful. Hinduism uses the practice of ‘neti neti’, meaning ‘not this, and not that’. This is considered the only way

Meditation is often thought of as a relaxation exercise. That’s great, it is. If that's all you want, you're in the right place. Meditate - it'll make you feel better. But may I suggest it also has the potential to transform your experience of life in a far more powerful way than just feeling less stressed. Concentration or Focus? Meditating on the breath is sometimes categorized as a concentration exercise. I think its should be categorized as a focus exercise. This may seem a tad semantic, but although it is true that this meditation improves concentration I am far more

Today I have a good meditation practice. All I mean by that is that I meditate daily. But I’ve been meditating on and off for over thirty years, and most of that was pretty dreadful. I have made so many mistakes that when I think about it I’m embarrassed to call myself a teacher of meditation. People assume because I’m the one at the front of the class that I must have it all worked out, but I haven’t. In fact I am aware that I’ve thought before that I knew something about meditation and when I look back I