The online compassion course – FREE!

To celebrate the return of this online course, following a break for maintenence and updates – if you go there now, its FREE!

Visit the Online Compassion Course!

Thank you for visiting this blog. Please note that, for now all my attention is on in-house bespoke versions of The Compassion Course, and that consequently updates for this blog and www.thecompassioncourse.com are rare!

However, an online version of The Compassion Course, can be found at www.theonlinecompassioncourse.com. This is an 8 week online course, inspired by the interest in the original course.

After taking a look around the posts here, why not then take a look at the online version? Go there NOW! (Module One is FREE!)

Psychological therapy 32 times more cost effective at increasing happiness than money

ScienceDaily (21 Nov 2009) –

Psychological therapy could be 32 times more cost effective at making you happy than simply obtaining more money, according to a new study.

The research has obvious implications for large compensation awards in law courts but also has wider implications for general public health.

Read about it here.

Read about The Compassion Course here – and sign up to reserve your place. Early bird discount available!

Bobby McFerrin – Ave Maria (or Oi there Maria!)

Another fun video from Bobby .. !

If you like this, check out his CD ‘Paper Music’!

 

The Guest House

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness
comes as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still,
treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Rumi
(1207 – 1274)

This version by Coleman Barks, from The Essential Rumi.

leaf 4

last of the series (for now)!

Think Different

leaf 3

and more ..

And you and I

My all time favourite band, since the age of 13 or so, is ‘Yes’ – one of the most successful prog rock bands of all time. Had I not spent so much time in school lessons perfecting the Yes logo and ‘learning’ the lyrics, I might have got better exam results, and my life may well have gone in a very different (thought not necessarily better direction) – I’m certainly not complaining!

.. and in just a few weeks time I’ll be seeing them perform at The Hammersmith Odeon, London.

As you can see, they’re getting on a bit now, and two of the original members Jon Anderson (vocals) and Rick Wakeman (keyboards) can’t make it due to health reasons. hardly surprising given that they’ve been on the road for 40 years odd now! (more info at http://www.yesworld.com/)

They’re music is original, intricate, timeless, and with amazing lyrics which really resonate – even if they don’t always make much conventional sense (‘I listened hard but could not see, life tempo change out and inside me’)!

This track is from their ‘Close to the Edge’ album. Played live here in Montreux, 2003. Not nearly as good as the studio version/on headphones, but still great. I first saw them play this in Oxford,in 1975 – brilliant!

 

 

leaf 2

and another ..