Everyday Mindfulness

Hi Jon Sorry, it sounds like you think that I'm knocking meditation. (I tracked someone from the UK accessing my website yesterday and it seems that whoever (you) may have taken yourself to an area that wouldn't have help you much. I think that you typed the wrong URL in to the address bar.) So are ...

My name is Brendan Lloyd. I'm a psychologist in Private Practice in a town on the most Easterly point of Australia, Byron Bay. In this post I get around to asking for feedback on an article. I provide the link at the bottom of this post. I've been interested in Buddhism since my 20s which is a time-...

This group is sponsored by a site called Everyday Mindfulness. I was attracted to the group because of the name. But I find that what is written here seems more like a Buddhist support group to support Buddhist meditation. So it might seem that I'm argumentative and negative. From where I am, I am a...

I am confident that anyone can use Mindfulness skills to resolve anxiety (perceived threat). And I am confident that anyone can practise the skills of Mindfulness through meditation. So it is the skills not the meditation that resolves the anxiety. What is more, the skill can be developed without me...

I'm going to be the party pooper here. Personally I would not recommend meditation as a means of resolving anxiety. It's a bit like using makeup to treat skin cancer. If we're talking purely about the feeling of anxiety then we are talking about the noticeable presence of adrenaline. Perhaps you'd f...

This is one of my favorite topics. Thoughts or head-chatter? It's probably of more use to understand what thinking or head-chatter do, rather than trying to figure out where they came from. I see this as the difference between the WHY question and the HOW question. So the question is 'how does it fu...