Programming Update

Formal sitting meditation can be a great way to cultivate the skillset of mindfulness. However bridging the gap between sitting on a cushion and applying mindfulness to real everyday activities can be challenging. In today's exploration, we'll play with bringing mindfulness into the everyday in a practical way.

Happy (belated) New Year! When it comes to New Year's resolutions, sometimes it may be difficult to stick with these resolutions, no matter how much we want them to become reality. In this episode, we will explore a different way of intention setting that utilises the power of visualization and imagination. Hope this serves you in some way.

The holiday season brings joy, generosity, kindness, and love. Yet spending time with family could also bring up conflicts. In today’s exploration, we’ll look at the roots of conflicts and compassion, as well as how the practice of compassion could help us navigate and transform challenging relationships.

Programming Note

In January, I’ll be releasing episodes every month instead of every two weeks. Reason being I’m working on a number of exciting projects in the upcoming year. I’ll keep you all posted :)

Happiness seems to be a concept that's central to many people's life quests. In today's exploration, we'll look at the meanings behind joy and happiness, the power of gratitude, as well as practices of cultivating joy and happiness from within.

Family dynamics can be complex and challenging. Yet familial relationships can also reveal the most unfiltered parts of ourselves. While these relationship hold mirrors up to us, they can help us recognise these often unruly parts of ourselves, and in turn help us decide how we would like to be. Join me this week to explore these complex yet fertile relationships, gaining insights into ourselves, and how we relate with others.

Dear listeners, I'm currently traveling for family reasons. Due to my very hectic travel schedule in the past week and half, there will be no new episode this week. Hopefully I'll see you next week for a new exploration!

Embodiment plays a vital role in mindfulness practice, as the body holds records of past traumas, as well as emotional and physical patterns. If left unaddressed and unbroken, these patterns will continue to self-perpetuate. 

In our fast-paced world, finding a quiet moment to connect with the body can be challenging. Personally, I've discovered that movement can serve as a bridge between building that connection between body and mind. 

This week, I’d like to invite you to join me as we explore the connection between body and mind through the practice of mindful movement.

“The human mind can create conflicts, and it can also create peace. To find peace in the world, we have to find peace in ourselves.” 
– Jack Kornfield

Perhaps it may feel difficult to feel peace in a world that seems to be full of suffering and darkness. Or perhaps it may seem an indulgent to find our own inner peace when the outer world’s sufferings seem so present and intense. However in times like this, each one of our own inner peace is especially important to cultivate and share. Just like how fire cannot be put out by more fire, suffering cannot be eased by more suffering. There would be no peace out there if there’s no peace in here. We can each make huge differences in our own lives and other around us by cultivating our own inner peace and sharing that quality with others.

Peace is not an absence of change or recognizing life’s difficulties, it is not be confused with withdraw or indifference to life. We’ve been talking quite a bit about the spaciousness this practice cultivates. Peace can be seen as a quality of this inner spaciousness. Peace is being ok with witnessing whatever arises within and without, gently allowing with compassion, and flowing through life with ease.

This week's exploration is on finding freedom through forgiveness. We've all felt the stings of betrayal, and the resulting anger, hurt, blame. Forgiveness is a powerful practice that is capable of releasing us from that hurt, pain, anger, blame, and from the story of suffering we carry surrounding these emotions and experiences.

Though powerful, it can also be a delicate topic to approach. If forgiveness feels just impossible, it could be a signal showing us we have wounds to attend to surrounding the circumstances of hurt and blame.

With time, practice, and kindness, forgiveness can grant us profound freedom, yet it's also important to remember to be kind to ourselves on the journey of forgiveness.

Emotions are always present, whether we notice them or not. If we habitually avoid or hold onto them, they can easily spiral into suffering. In this episode, we will explore how to be present with difficult, positive, and subtle emotions. In addition to the foundational understanding of emotions, we will also examine the five foundational hindrances to clarity of being and how to approach them as gateways to insight and learning.