by David McRae | Oct 8, 2016 | Meditation
OVER THE LAST five or more years we have seen an endless stream of media stories (if you read those media) on the power of mindfulness and meditation to change conditions in our brain and body and heal illness. Some of the reporting is exaggerated and does not...
by David McRae | Aug 31, 2016 | Meditation
Stress and stress-related health complications are possibly the biggest public health concerns we have across our communities today. They certainly are if you include anxiety disorders and depression under the broad umbrella of ‘stress-related’. Over the...
by David McRae | Oct 15, 2015 | Meditation
Economies and government coffers are groaning under the load of escalating medical and healthcare expenditure. Some medical authorities claim that many of the thousands of Australia’s medicare funded procedures are useless and even harmful. The health minister...
by David McRae | Mar 16, 2015 | Meditation
“Do you know what you are doing?” It’s a common enough question in just about all fields of endeavour. It can be an insulting question and other times a helpful one. When it comes to embarking upon meditation practice do we know what we are doing?...
by David McRae | Jan 6, 2015 | Meditation
Regarding learning meditation, on the front page of this website I have written: “In the end it is YOU finding YOUR way. The teaching supports you in exploring, trying things, and ultimately trusting your experience.” Putting it in a different way one...
by David McRae | Nov 14, 2014 | Meditation
Stillness is often named and described as a key feature of meditation; physical and mental stillness. In a previous blog essay titled ‘What is Meditation’ I described meditation as “just sitting … Just sit, and then sit some more for a...
by David McRae | Nov 5, 2014 | Meditation
Taking a walk is a great thing to do for so many reasons. It can be good exercise, particularly for those not suited to more vigourous exercise. For me I often find it great ‘thinking time’. Walking can include the enjoyment of being out in a natural...
by David McRae | Oct 23, 2014 | Meditation
Gough Whitlam has died; he was a towering figure in the Aussie landscape of my very young adult years. I am sure many people of around my age, young at the time of Gough Whitlam’s prime ministership, will be having all kinds of reflections on his impact upon...
by David McRae | Oct 17, 2014 | Meditation
Stress appears to be one of the epidemics of our age. Okay, I know it is not Ebola or AIDS but it does cause a huge amount of suffering, ill-health and loss of ability to function and be productive. It has appeared on the cover of Time magazine and is prominent in...
by David McRae | Oct 9, 2014 | Meditation
In classes I do spend a little time (very little) outlining “what is meditation”. And likewise, this wonderfully overused term, “mindfulness”. And the subject comes up when I am asked excellent questions like: “when I get really absorbed...
