Category: Beeja News
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Happy New Year from Beeja
Hello Gang, I hope you’re all feeling fine and dandy now that Spring is truly kicking in and that your Vedic Meditation practice is going great. Its funny how our external circumstances can affect our mood so much! All of a sudden, things feel more positive than they did when we deep in the winter…
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The Wisdom Of Sound Leadership
Hello Groovers, How well you are doing with mindful meditation? I had another post lined up for you today, but in light of the fact that Hijo de Putin has set the cat amongst the pigeons with his pronouncements, I thought it would be best to try and offer some perspective so we can all…
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Meditation In Schools: The MIS Initiative
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” Socrates In February 2019, we were privileged enough to bring the transformative practice of meditation to children at Islington’s New North Academy. As part of an initiative to support and protect the mental health of children, who are under increasing pressure in the…
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How To Prevent The Winter Blues While You\’re At Work
At this time of year, we can all find ourselves a little bogged down in the winter blues. Waking up and travelling in the dark, niggly seasonal illnesses and the fact that Spring still feels very far away can make dragging ourselves out of bed to get to work feel like the last thing we…
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Does Meditation Help With Stress & How Effective Is it?
In many ways, it seems churlish to argue that life isn’t now is more comfortable, convenient and prosperous than it has ever has been. While our ancestors spent their days grubbing up roots for a mud-and-onion stew, getting tormented by Vikings or diligently developing scurvy, we get to sit around eating pizzas and watching Poldark.…
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Healthy January: How To Have A Happy & Mindful New Year
As a culture, we put a lot of stock into the idea of self-denial and transformation in January. Whether it’s work mornings over the Christmas period spent feeling nauseous after one too many sherbets the evening before, or our diets reaching Peak Chocolate, there comes a moment when we think “blimey, this really must stop”.…
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Beeja\’s Meditation Highlights of 2019
Happy New Year everyone! We’ve got a very exciting year ahead of us at Will Williams Meditation, but before all that, we think it’s the right time to pause, reflect and look back over 2019. For many of us, the New Year is a psychologically powerful time. We are irresistibly drawn to the concepts of…
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The Most Stressful Things About Christmas (And How Meditation Can Help!)
As it does every year, December has raced past in a most inconsiderate manner. All those preparatory days have gone, and Christmas is waiting excitedly round the corner to rugby tackle us into a world of festive joviality and endless cheese boards. It goes without saying that Christmas is wonderful, but these last few days…
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Calming Christmas Gift List for Meditation and Wellbeing
To paraphrase the eternal words of Slade, IT’S (nearly) CHRISTMAS! Christmas is an excellent time of year, where everyone gets to sing about reindeers and indulge themselves in the manner of a slightly less restrained version of George IV. But unfortunately, drinking cream for breakfast and raucous carolling aren’t the whole story. We have…
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Getting Back to Basics: Simple Self Care for Tough Times
It’s been wonderful to see, over the last few years, just how much self-care has become part of the conversation – in the media and beyond. For many of us, embracing the concept of self-care has been a vital part of tangible improvements in our lives, as we are better able to manage everything from…