Learning To Be Happy

This episode will introduce you to the practice of understanding negative thoughts and feelings by means of concentration and inquiry. When we understand someone else, our negative feelings towards them go away, when we understand ourselves ALL our negative feelings will go away - forever. By doing this correctly you'll experience less and less anger, hurt and disappointment in your life.

Not getting what we wanted can lead to disappointment but it's blaming other people, the situation, or some aspect of ourselves for that, that transforms sadness and disappointment into anger and frustration. In this episode we discuss how to talk ourselves through anger.

In this episode, I discuss the 'pyramid of emotion' or the 'hierarchy of emotion'. This representation of our feelings can help us to explore our thoughts and emotions, in a thoughtful way. It reminds us to look deeper and that self-awareness depends on curiosity and acceptance. We also talk about shame, fear, sadness and anger, and how each of these can lead into the other.

What we really need, to work with negativity, is the realisation that it's there to guide us. To fear our feelings, is to fear ourselves. In truth our painful feelings are there to guide us, to new ways of seeing, more loving ways of being.

In this episode I explain how you can explore negative thoughts and emotions, through feeling and through questioning. Included are some tips on what attitude to have and what to do when it gets overwhelming. These tools can be used in or out of meditation, or to support you in writing your journal, as well as in day to day life.

This episode discusses how we can explore our negative feelings in a deep and meaningful way and the attitude we want to take when approaching ourselves.

In this guided meditation we get to practice the art of 'cultivating positive' feelings. Deepen your appreciation of love, its meaning and power in this simple exercise that with only a few listens you'll be able to do anywhere, anytime!

How can we feel more joy, more love and more confidence? This episode will introduce you to the concept of cultivating positive feelings through correct imagination. By doing this correctly we decrease our attachment (our reliance on people and things to make us happy), and find ourselves becoming the best version of ourselves.

This is a guided meditation. It offers a new way or relating to sound, empowering you to feel capable of meditating anytime, anywhere. You don't need a quiet place to meditate... it's important that we learn how to use what we're aware of, here and now, to make peace with and befriend it.

This episode discusses the most common practice of meditation: single pointed concentration. Again, meditation is less about control and more about understanding. It's absolute cultivating a welcoming and friendly attitude to all that comes and goes from our awareness!