In recent years, there has been

1. An explosion in contemplative sciences. Mindfulness is just one of these.
2. Considerable research resulting in substantial scientific evidence that mindfulness is efficacious.
3. Proven evidence that Mindfulness can significantly reduce symptoms of stress, anxiety and other nervous disorders.

In the "Intensive Care Medicine Journal: Survey of GPs in the UK" we read that:

1. 72% of GPs think it would be helpful for their patients with mental health problems to learn mindfulness meditation skills.
2. 66% of GPs would support a public information campaign to promote Mindfulness Meditation.
3. 64% of GPs would like to receive training Mindfulness skills.

Interest in Mindfulness and Meditation is growing steadily worldwide, especially from people seeking answers in this current global age of clashing ideologies, fanatical strife and senseless violence and warfare. 

Why is this interest growing so quickly?

Perhaps it is because more and more people now realize that being truly mindful involves compassion, tolerance and moderation and provides a clear path for spiritual and personal development. Further, it has no room for blind faith or unthinking worship.

Our approach  encourages questions and Investigations into the nature of spirituality, mindfulness and wholesome living, requiring us to take full responsibility for all of our actions.

Mindfulness can be learned, understood and experienced, with immediate results.

Thich Nhat Hanh says that you can be a Christian and still follow the teachings on Mindfulness taught by Buddha over 2500 years ago. 

Lastly, Buddhist teaching on Mindfulness, Concentration and living a life having learned to live with our human weaknesses, is very much in harmony with modern science.

Meditation alone does not bring lasting happiness. 

We seek to foster a deeper, spiritual life as well.

About Our Free Courses in Mindfulness

Like you, I have a strong desire to be at peace with myself and seek ways to bring this quality to my life.  Like me, you probably find that peace is quite evasive as there are many demands on our time and everything moves at such a rapid pace. Our time is filled with work, family life and children, social activities, the internet, and we are diverted by our smart phones, television, social life and travel. In this context,  it is very easy to allow our emotions, our anxieties, worries and feelings, to overwhelm us. We spend most of our days in our thoughts and our mind’s constant chatter is ceaseless in occupying our attention. Not only that but we attach all sorts of stories to our negative feelings so that our imagination embellishes the narrative we create to the point where we make ourselves ill.

Thoughts have an energy of their own and we are so busy with our lives that we disregard the ways in which the body manifests these feelings. We seek medical help because we develop a variety of symptoms such as a skin complaints (like eczema, psoriasis or urticaria), or we endure ceaseless headaches, develop aches and pains, get ulcers in the duodenum or stomach or feel permanently exhausted. We seek medical help from a pharmacy or GP to have the symptoms of our condition treated. We are prescribed pills and potions but, as the underlying cause is not addressed, nothing changes.

Mindfulness helps us to examine the causes of our malaise and do something about it. The practice of Mindfulness brings about a lasting solution to the causes of our condition, our suffering, and brings to us an inner calm and stillness.

In my experience, I find that most people either do not know about mindfulness and how it works or they they are reluctant to attend a course because they feel it is going to be either too academic or too woo-woo: full of vague ideas and woolly thinking.

The techniques that we teach in Blue Lotus will give you a very practical way of becoming centred and grounded. You must want to help yourselves (Intention) and then you must follow the steps to put things right (Action). This requires training and coaching and that is what we provide.

Through this course you will be able to recognise and identify the causes of your mental unease and learn to be able to observe the detrimental effect they are having on you. You will discover that worrying is simply expending energy before there is an actual event. The imagined event is always a fiction. We have made it up.

There is nothing wrong with having an imagination: without it the wheel would never had been invented, man would not have walked on the moon and we would not have been able to live as comfortably as we do in this modern age. The imagination is dangerous only when it is used to develop self-destructive feelings which are common to the human condition at this time.

You can register for an 8 week course right now by going to the drop down list and selecting the course you're interested in attending.

You'll find an Application Form on the page.