Meditation
Three meditation retreats/days are held during the year; Spring, Summer, Autumn. These week-ends/days are held at St Peter’s Grange in Prinknash Abbey and Farncombe House, Broadway.
The techniques of meditation taught are simple, practical and will easily integrate into your lifestyle given the opportunity. The experience gained through my spiritual journey is reflected in the Buddhist meditation & yoga practices and techniques taught on the retreats and quiet days. These practices are taught without any religious connotations and are suitable for anyone.
Because people differ in their personality make-up it is important that the practitioner chooses a method of meditation with which they feel comfortable. Quite simply meditation is learning to discipline the mind to concentrate on one thing at a given time.
Through these practices we come to know the inner self and can begin to live from the centre of Being.
This is a slow and gradual process. We meditate
in order to become more of whom we are, to reconnect with something
of ourselves. In the mystical traditions its main aim is to awaken a
very
subtle level of consciousness in order that we may experience intense
joy or peace.
To really understand meditation it has to be experienced.
Meditation has many benefits, for example:
- Enables one to see through many illusions so perspectives and priorities change
- Slows the aging process
- Lowers pulse rate and reduces stress levels
- Enables one to move from fragmentation to wholeness
- Improves concentration and clarity
