October 20, 2016

Fr. Laurence Freeman OSB with Micheál O'Mathúna. Fr. Laurence shares on Healing, Children, Silence, Meditation, Consciousness & Self-Awareness

1 hour 3 minutes

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This interview was conducted by Micheál O’Mathúna who is a Journalist, Author, Filmmaker, Media Relations Consultant and Radio Show presenter. He also conducts one-to-one coaching, group coaching and delivers transformative workshops in various areas of health and wellbeing. He is also the founder of The Health Zone, which an inspiring, motivational and educational platform to empower people to be healthier, happier, more authentic and realise their true potential in their lives. You can find out more about Micheál O’Mathúna and The Health Zone here.

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Fr. Laurence tells us:

✓ How there is an Important Distinction Between Healing and Caring.

✓ How the Greatest Teachers in our Culture are Children.

✓ How Many People in Today's World Struggle with Silence and Why That is?

✓ How the Process of Meditation is the Opening of the Eye of the Heart.

✓ How a New Kind of Consciousness is Needed in the World Today to Solve the Problems we Have Created.

✓ And How Staying in Touch with Self-Awareness is the Key to Self-Knowledge.

Fr. Laurence Freeman OSB was born in England in 1951 where he was educated by the Benedictines and studied English Literature at New College, Oxford University. Before entering monastic life, he had experience with the United Nations in New York, banking and journalism.

Today Fr Laurence is a Benedictine monk of the Monastery of Christ our Saviour, Turvey, England, a monastery of the Congregation of Monte Oliveto. He is Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation.

In the monastery, his spiritual teacher was John Main. He helped Fr John to establish the first Christian Meditation Centre in London. At the invitation of the Archbishop of Montreal, in 1977, he accompanied John Main to establish a Benedictine community of monks and laypeople dedicated to the practice and teaching of Christian meditation. Fr Laurence studied theology at the Universite de Montreal and at McGill University. He made his solemn monastic profession in 1979 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1980.

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