Stilla Meditation

Our mind is a wonderful thing. It can plan for the future, set goals and plan how to reach them. It can create abstractions and read the weave of correlations. It makes us aware of risk and danger and much much more. However, when it comes to our mental health, we tend to rely too much on our mind. We seem to believe that we can think us out of any emotional difficulty. “If I only find the true re...

Stop Just stop Let it be And let whatever is, wash over You are not going anywhere You are already here

Here is a lovely poem by Jeff Foster on the principle of embracing what is here. At the heart of every addiction is the attempt to run away from ourselves. To flee our sorrow, self-doubt, anxiety, shame, fear, guilt, loneliness. To be somewhere other than where we are. To be out of the Now. Meditation, true meditation, courageously dismantles the core addiction, the addiction to 'somewhere else',...

I’m back again after vacation so today there will be Tuesday meditation as usual. I’m looking forward to seeing you 🙏

Recently I’ve listened a lot to Sam Harris, the author of Waking Up and the creator of the Waking Up meditation app - which I really recommend btw. I enjoy his precise pointing and his uncompromising perspective on what the actual benefits of understanding your consciousness are. Let me paraphrase him. Saying that you should meditate to deal with stress and lower your cortisol levels is like sayin...

Hello dear 🌼 Imagine you are Super Mario. You live in the Mushroom Kingdom, you spend your days trying to rescuing princess Peach from Bowser and hang around with your tall and skinny brother. One day, Toad, your little mushroom friend, who’s taken an interest in the nature of reality comes to you and says, “Hey Mario, this is just a game and all of this is taken place on a TV screen.” Mario is l...

you are already here there is nowhere to go wherever you look there you are

Today we dive into the emptiness and silence of awareness!

You carry images of who you think you should be in your mind. We all do. You are aware of some of them, others are held in the shadows. Some of the images you agree with, others will shock you when you become aware of them. You are constantly trying to live up to those images by pushing yourself, trying to satisfy the critical voice in your head by doing the right thing, according to the images. I...

The inner voice of the critic, the pusher and the perfectionist are not there to make us happy. That is not their job. They are there to keep us protected from some imagined disaster. So if we follow these voices it will not lead to the happiness that we imagine, it will lead to stress and effort. A better way is to ask, what do I enjoy in life? And let that be your guide.

For you, this group can be - A break during the busy workday - A chance to reset the mind and body - A space to slow down - A way to gain more clarity around ongoing questions and challenges - A chance to try out different forms of meditation

There is no audience to perform for, there is no approval, no admiration to attain, there is no role worth playing, there is no one to convince. Let it go.

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” - Confucius

What lies in front of you are potential pasts. Which one will you actualize? Man’s search for meaning - Viktor Frankl I love this picture of having all my potential pasts in front of me. It helps me see how many possibilities there actually are and quite often it highlights that the path I’m about to take is not what I want to look back on. Viktor Frankl was a Jewish psychiatrist that survived Aus...

Today I want to share a micro practise with you. A micro practise is an exercise you can do in a matter of seconds that helps you reconnect with the present moment. Last week I invited you to take three slow and deep breaths. Great micro practise! This week I invite you too look around the room and name five things that you enjoy looking at.

Stop. Take three slow and deep breath. It takes around 30-50 seconds. Do it now. It’s quite nice, isn’t it?

You are an inconceivably tiny fraction of the great cosmos. Your life here is a mere blink in the timeline of reality. To put if frankly, you do not matter. As such, there is nothing you are supposed to do. You are not bound to any contract to fulfil some destiny or some way to be. You are not amounting to anything. You are heading the same way all of us are heading, and what happens after that we...

We do not 'come into' this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. - Alan Watts You are part of this world You belong here You are infinitely interconnected with everything

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other...

The most important thing is not what happens, but how you relate to what happens and your capacity to choice your response. This is freedom.

Release your shoulders, drop that jaw, eyebrows soften, open heart, say it loudly, “Jag är bra” eeey macarena

Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present. - Bil Keane Why is it a gift? The present moment, the hear and now, is the only place that can hold beauty, laughter, happiness, love, compassion, fulfilment and connection. They can never be felt in the past or in the future, only here and now. By practising again and again “waking up” from our t...

Mindfulness has been linked to several health benefits! Stress reduction Mindfulness techniques can help individuals manage stress by fostering present-moment awareness and non-judgmental acceptance of thoughts and feelings. Improved mental health Regular mindfulness practice has been associated with reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders. It can enhance emotional regula...

Work-life balance is an important part of our mental health and mindfulness can be a helpful skill to improve it. How? Recognise signs of burnout Mindfulness practices help individuals become more aware of their thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations. This heightened awareness allows them to recognise signs of stress, burnout, or imbalance in their lives, enabling them to take proactive steps t...

Mindfulness is a useful tool for improving emotional regulation. Mindfulness practices help individuals become more aware of their thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and impulses in the present moment. This heightened self-awareness allows individuals to recognize their emotions as they arise, without judgment or reaction. Rather than trying to suppress or avoid difficult emotions, mindfulness...