Shake Off Stress – Releasing Trauma From Your Body With TRE (Trauma Releasing...
I’ve read that over the last 14 months there has been a significant increase in stress and mental health related emotional difficulties. I met a friend last night who said he had struggled during the...
View ArticleWhat Is Home?
As I continue to look for a permeant home after moving into a short term stay it raised the question for me a few days ago of what does home mean to me? I was leading a meditation in a zoom group and...
View ArticleBeing Your Authentic Self As A Gay Man
I’ve been re-reading The Velvet Rage recently. It’s a very powerful read. In it Alan Downs talks of how as a child we learnt to hide a part of ourselves that society or family told us was unacceptable....
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A Celebration of Men who have Loved Men – Gay History
Last Monday at the Gay/Bi/Trans men’s meditation group I led a meditation where we visualised standing in a sacred circle. Each person then invited people to stand on the edge of that circle – first...
View ArticleLoving Yourself As A Whole By Embracing The Shadow
Healing Dysfunctional Patterns By Meeting Your Shadow Here in the Northern hemisphere we recently passed the Winter solstice and the light is now returning. Our world is one where there is this...
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How To Stop Suffering – The 8 Worldly Winds
I’ve been talking with a friend who is on a course looking at a teaching of the Buddha’s called the ‘8 Worldly Winds’ and it gave me the thought for today’s essay. Buddhism loves lists! But this is a...
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The 8 World Winds – Finding Peace Within Life’s Vicissitudes
Last week I introduced the 8 worldly winds as a topic. These are also referred to as the 8 vicissitudes, which refers to the experience of an alteration between opposite states. The ‘winds’ therefore...
View ArticleHow To Succeed In Your New Year Resolutions
How is your New Year progressing? There’s such a pressure to start the New Year with a sense of resolve and new initiatives it can be easy to then feel like a failure when these resolves come to...
View ArticleThe Importance Of Community For Gay Men’s Well Being
One day a disciple of the Buddha approached him and said, “Lord, I think that half of the Holy Life is spiritual friendship…” the Buddha replied: “That’s not so; say not so, Ananda. It is not half of...
View ArticleHow To Meet The War In Ukraine With Compassion
As I hear the news coming out of Ukraine my heart aches. Seeing a county fall over the precipice of war and into the chaos this creates is so painful. The Buddha recognised that in this world there...
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