Meditation for the real world
We’re helping people find techniques and practices that work for them. We call this approach ‘Real World Meditation’.
Our Purpose
Advancing education about the practices of meditation and mindfulness, with the goal of advancing health, happiness and self-healing.
Take a breath. Just pause. Put your attention onto that sensation of the air as you breathe, and notice the movement of your body.
Just for a few seconds. It won’t solve all your problems, but you might be amazed at what a difference that tiny meditation can make.
2025 Online
From January 8th 2025 through February 26th we are offering eight weekly classes with daily meditations.
These classes are pitched as an eight week Introduction to Meditation. Starting from first principles the classes will explore a number of different types of meditation with intention of finding the best technique that works for you.
A new offering in Edinburgh
Since 2023 we have offered free and low-cost meditation classes in and around Edinburgh. Hosted by the Eric Liddell Community Centre in Edinburgh and at the Lamp of Lothian Trust’s buildings in Haddington we have run a number of series and will likely be running more in person events later in 2025.
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You Can Do This
READ ARTICLE: You Can Do ThisThere seem to be no end of benefits when you look across the landscape of what meditation is supposed to do.
Relaxation and stress relief are the most common and popular. Some instructors promise improved focus, concentration, clarity, creativity and generally better productivity – the ‘mindful at work’ type of pitch. The more spiritual angles might offer union with the infinite, insight into the ultimate nature of reality, or some kind of transcendent mystical experience. Some offer an improved sex life. Some even suggest you can develop psychic powers.
Some of these things I’ve experienced and I’m open minded about the rest of it.
Yet despite not being psychic, I think I know one thing you believe.
You think you can’t meditate. I mean, not really. You can sort of do it. But you’re not very good at it and you’re mind’s all over the place.
There’s a general piece of advice given to you when you get trained as a corporate trainer or facilitator. It is that you never want to disagree with your participants – it makes them defensive, you can get into a pointless argument that wastes everyone’s time, and it’s almost guaranteed to be a lose-lose outcome.
However – on this point, I am going to disagree with you. In this matter, you are wrong. Sorry about that.
You can meditate. And to the extent that you ‘think’ you can’t … see if you can recognize that for what it is. It’s a thought, a belief. You might feel it strongly because of what you perceive meditation to be and what you’re experiencing, but it’s just a thought. A belief. You’ve had some of those before that you later discovered were incorrect. Can you at least hold out the possibility that this one is incorrect.
If you believe you can’t meditate it’s because you believe meditation is something it’s not. You believe you have to hold your attention perfectly without getting distracted. You don’t. You will get distracted. That’s part of the experience. Then you start again. Rinse and repeat.
See if you can let go of these beliefs that you can’t do this, that it’s difficult, that you’ll get around to it one day. Start right now by letting go of these limiting (and incorrect) beliefs.
Take a breath.
Take another while watching that breath.
Do it again.
See – you can do this.
