by Centred Meditation | May 25, 2021 | About Meditation, Centred Thought of the Week, Meditation Myths
We often hear people say that they’ve heard (or experienced) that meditation is hard. That it requires lots of time and effort to get good at it, and that only once you are good at it, does it gets easier and you begin to reap the rewards. That because...
by Centred Meditation | Nov 18, 2019 | About Meditation, Centred Thought of the Week, Meditation Myths
We often hear people say that they’ve heard (or experienced) that meditation is hard. That it requires lots of time and effort to get good at it, and that only once you are good at it, does it gets easier and you begin to reap the rewards. That because...
by Centred Meditation | Oct 18, 2015 | About Meditation, Meditation Myths
Here’s the cold hard truth…YOU really need to mediate. In fact, we all do. The reason is simple: we are stressed. Are we really that stressed? The Australian Psychological Society Survey on Stress and Wellbeing in 2014 discovered that one in four...
by Centred Meditation | Sep 22, 2015 | About Meditation, Meditation Myths
Meditation is not the same as watching TV. During meditation, a particular physiological response is triggered in the body known as the relaxation response, a term coined by Dr Herbert Benson. The relaxation response is the process of de-escalating the stress response...
by Centred Meditation | Sep 11, 2015 | About Meditation, Meditation Myths
We need to get something straight here. There is no such thing as a ‘good’ or a ‘bad’ meditator. Thoughts are a very normal part of meditation. Research has shown that forty-seven percent of the time, we are thinking about something other than...
by Centred Meditation | Aug 31, 2015 | About Meditation, Meditation Myths
The aim of meditation is not, and we repeat, not to think of nothing. Put simply, thinking of nothing just isn’t possible. The very act of thinking implies that your brain is actively engaged in cognitive processes, and nothing implies no thing is happening at...
Thanks to the Sydney lockdown, I’m participating in a centred meditation retreat ‘at home’. This is almost the end of day 1 and I’m loving it! The comms have been great, the master classes incredibly informative and the meditation sessions were restorative and grounding. But above all of those positives, even through Zoom, I can feel the care and loving vibe from my fellow participants, we are connected, albeit virtually… magical 🙏✨ 
