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 the 8 week course right now by going to the drop down list and selscting the course you're interested in attending.

You'll find an Application Form on the page.