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Mar 15, 2020
4 min

The long and winding road.

My wife asked me to host her mindfulness group last week, as she was away on a course in Edinburgh. I was pleased to do so, and I was del...

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Dec 15, 2019
1 min

Visit to a labyrinth in Angus, Scotland

Check out our latest video, where we visit the labyrinth at Burn House, Angus. In this short video we discuss some of the history and mea...

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Nov 30, 2019
1 min

2019 Meditation Road Trip

During the summer Steve and Graham took a road trip around the west coast of Scotland; travelling in Graham’s campervan and stopping wh...

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Jun 27, 2019
4 min

How to tame our thoughts and emotions

We all experience having thoughts and the feelings or ‘emotions’ that these thoughts produce in our bodies. Sometimes they are pleasant t...

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Jun 22, 2019
2 min

How to embrace uncertainty

As those of you who follow the Solution Focused Living Facebook page will know, we’ve just come back from a Mindfulness Road Trip around ...

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May 30, 2019
3 min

People are amazing!

I posted something on Facebook a couple of weeks ago about the Australian Nurse Kirsty Boden who went to help people injured during the L...

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May 14, 2019
3 min

Are the Joneses living in your iPhone?

The term ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ refers to the human condition of keeping up with our neighbours through conspicuous consumption or...

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May 9, 2019
3 min

Did Winston Churchill really want to kill my Granda?

Many years ago, when my son was at primary school, we were sitting round the table after dinner, and he was telling the rest of the famil...

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May 3, 2019
1 min

A Day of Mindfulness Training and Practice

Book Now Time & Location 01 June 2019, 10:00 – 15:00 Giffordtown Village Hall, Giffordtown, Cupar KY15 7UP, UK About the class If you are...

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Apr 30, 2019
3 min

Mindfulness and the Art of Exam Preparation.

As a retired academic, I know that for many students this can be one of the most stressful times of the academic year; desperately trying...

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Apr 19, 2019
3 min

How to help people recover from mental illness

The question of ‘how can mental health workers incorporate the principles of recovery based care into everyday practice?’ is one that has...

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Apr 10, 2019
3 min

How to slow down and make more time

The pace of life feels like it is accelerating at a phenomenal rate with seemingly endless demands on our time. People complaining of inc...

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Apr 2, 2019
4 min

Is your clinician making you sicker than you need be?

Most people have heard about the placebo effect whereby a person feels a beneficial reduction in illness symptoms when given a fake drug ...

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Mar 27, 2019
3 min

Whose Problem Is It Anyway?

I was writing the other day about the relationship between problems and solutions, and it set me off thinking more about problems themsel...

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Mar 24, 2019
2 min

How a solution focused approach can help people make the right decisions

We are all faced with choices from the moment we wake. These can be simple like what will we have for breakfast to highly complex decisio...

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Mar 21, 2019
3 min

Problems and Solutions: not two sides of the same coin

One of the most amazing moments in my life was when I found out that a solution is not simply the absence of a problem. Prior to that I h...

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Mar 16, 2019
3 min

Why do people find meditation so difficult?

I have been teaching people how to meditate for over a decade and it strikes me how many of them give up because they feel they are not a...

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Oct 20, 2018
2 min

Should we pursue happiness or accept responsibility to be fulfilled?

There is a fairly dominant narrative in the West that the pursuit of happiness is our right and the ultimate goal of a fulfilling life. I...

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Oct 20, 2018
3 min

Is self esteem all it’s cracked up to be?

For decades we have been told in the media and by psychologists that high self esteem can be the panacea for everything from reducing anx...

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Oct 15, 2018
3 min

How adverts make us stressed to sell us stuff

Living in the modern world we are exposed to an avalanche of ads from the moment we get out of bed until we fall asleep at night. Everyth...

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