The connection between mindfulness meditation and life purpose might not be apparent, but when it comes to aligning our career with our authentic passions and desires, we need the tools of mindfulness both to get started and see us through the process.

I teamed up with Grace for a chat on Instagram Live.

Grace and I discussed our career journeys, how to become more aware of what’s going on in our emotions and thoughts, and how to use this knowledge to find a career we love.

• My online MIND mindfulness coaching
• Grace's article on how mindfulness empowers us

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Often we see personal development as a sea of people disagreeing and giving advice that seems to be completely disconnected or even contradictory.

But it doesn't have to be that way! I show you that all of personal development is really arranged in a series of layers that address different levels of our wellbeing.

These are not so much stepping stones as repeating themes, each of which builds on the last. At any given time, we tend to focus our efforts to improve ourselves and our lives on one of these levels.

Today we’ll look at four such levels and how to use this framework to help you self-transform.

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I've had some pretty traumatic moments as a member of various spiritual communities, and it's inspired me to share my experiences and expose the dark side of spiritual communities.

I hope to shine a light on these issues so that we can clean up spiritual communities. Budding meditators or yogis can spot these toxic aspects in advance, the perpetrators can realise what they've done wrong and grow as a result, and all of us can reflect on what spirituality actually is and why communities function as they do.

• Rinzai And Soto Zen Meditation: Zazen Fundamentals

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Often we talk about Spiral Dynamics from an external point of view, as though observing it in the world and those around us. But here I want to turn the tables – how are our personal lives actually impacted by living at Spiral Dynamics Stage Yellow?

I reached out to experts in the field and Spiral Dynamics enthusiasts to tell me their stories, and they shared some excellent insights with me.

In this video, we’re going to unpack Spiral Dynamics Stage Yellow – from the inside.

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Today we’re going to look at the good and the bad of Spiral Dynamics Stage Green in our personal lives.

This is a super practical video packed with insights from my own life, my engagement with the Spiral Dynamics community, and my observations of the successes and failures of friends at this stage.

My intention is to help you skillfully embody Stage Green – incorporating the healthy and constructive and sidestepping the unhealthy and destructive.

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The 8 stages of human development in career. What are they? And how do we embody the highest ones, transforming ourselves and our career lives to the benefit of all?

– What Are The Stages of Human Development?

Levels of complexity, a series of operating systems, each including the prior one but improving on it in crucial ways.

– What Do They Mean For Our Career?

The higher the levels we embody in our career, the more selfless we are, and the greater the impact our work has on the world.

– What Can We Do To Advance?

Integrate earlier levels, encourage later ones to take root, scrutinise career and ask how we can make it more expansive and loving.

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"All of this is God."

In this episode I speak with my partner and best friend, Inés Isern, about spirituality, God, spiritual awakening, and her amazing sacred gardens.

And yes, we talk candidly about our experiences of spirituality, how it has developed, and how it currently impacts our life.

Inés tells us what inspires her to create her unique spaces and how she makes the spiritual manifest in her work.

• Example of Inés' contemplative gardens
• Learn more about Inés + contact her

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Let’s look have a comprehensive look at James Fowler’s 7 Stages of Faith Development, which describe how we satisfy our basic need for meaning in ever more elaborate ways as we grow and mature.

Learning what James Fowler about the stages of faith discovered can seriously alter how you view yourself, others and human culture.

One of James Fowler’s greatest contributions was to show us that faith is not necessarily religious. In the broadest sense, it is the guiding set of ideas, values and beliefs that drives our lives.

James Fowler was also adamant that faith is a process, one which unfolds through seven potential stages.

• Accompanying article on James Fowler's Stages of Faith

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If you want to master skills and reach high levels in your pursuits, you'd do very well to apply the 10,000-hour rule ASAP.

What is the 10,000-hour rule? How can we use it to master skills and get really damn good? And what are some the common pitfalls involved with this way of looking at excellence?

We cover all these questions in this episode.

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It's time to debunk these four damaging meditation myths once and for all.

These aren't just cute little cultural myths that have no real impact on meditators – they will stop you dead in your tracks as you attempt to build a daily meditation practice.

In fact, they will prevent you reaching deep territory with this practice, leaving you stuck and frustrated, believing that you simply aren't up to it.

Let's bust these four meditation myths.

• My mindfulness meditation classes in Sussex, UK