Do you remember what it was like to fall in love? It’s one of the best times in a person’s life. You can’t wait until the next time you are with your loved one You can spend hours on the phone talking about almost anything You experience a new vitality and you have heaps of [...]
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Falling in Love with your life!
Posted in Alexia Miall, Compassion, Inspiration, StJohn Miall, tagged Alexia Miall, Fall in love, StJohn Miall, The Compassionate Heart on May 9, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Carpe Diem – Seize the Day
Posted in Alexia Miall, Consciousness, Meditation, Quest for Life, StJohn Miall, tagged Alexia Miall, Quest for Life programs, St John Miall, Take a Stand for Life program on February 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Every so often, (and especially after we have encountered some life-changing experiences, whether they be illness, job-change, relationship disruptions and the like) it becomes valuable to take some time out to assess what it is that’s important and where you are headed with your life. Having done that the next thing is to take a [...]
Take a Stand for Life – 12-16 March 2012
Posted in Alexia Miall, Compassion, Inspiration, Margie Braunstein, StJohn Miall, tagged Alexia Miall, Margie Braunstein, Quest for Life programs, StJohn Miall, Take a Stand on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As the next Take a Stand for Life program approaches, I am reminded of last year’s program on which I was privileged to participate and support as the counsellor. As counsellor, I shared many sacred and beautiful moments with people who came to my room to privately share precious parts of their lives. People were [...]
6 Common questions about the ‘Meditate for Life’ Program
Posted in Alexia Miall, Meditation, StJohn Miall, tagged Alexia Miall, Anxiety, Brain, Chanting, Consciousness, Meditate for Life, Meditation, Mind, Neuroscience, Pain, StJohn Miall on May 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
People have been asking us what actually happens on the ‘Meditate for Life’ program? So, in response, here are the answers to the most common questions: Who’s it for? It’s for anyone who is interested in learning to meditate or who has learned in the past and would like to kick-start their practice again. How [...]
Creating Oneself
Posted in Consciousness, StJohn Miall, tagged Creating, Reacting, St John Miall, Take a Stand on April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This writing, from the Positive Thoughts blog, describes well what it means to move from a Reactive perspective to a Creative one… something that not many adults achieve. This shift, from Reactive to Creative is central to the Take a Stand for Life Program at Quest for Life which is starting on September 19, 2011. We are [...]
Exploring Our 8 Senses
Posted in Meditation, StJohn Miall, tagged 5 Senses, Connection, intuition, Meditation, StJohn Miall on April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When I ask people “how many senses do you have?” the normal response is 5: Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight and Hearing. True. But these 5 are only part of the story. These 5 are our external senses. External in that they help us sense what is going on out there in the world. However, what [...]
LOL! Does Technology make for Shallow Thinking?
Posted in Book review, Quest for Life, StJohn Miall, tagged LOL, Meditation, Quest for Life, Shallow thinking, StJohn Miall, technology on February 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
When I was younger, LOL! meant “Lots of Love.” Now it means “Laugh out Loud.” The change happened sometime during that period where I was frantically trying to catch up with the X’ers and Y’s, who were leading the charge into this high tech social media age we now live in. Why it happened, I [...]
Meditate on a Flower
Posted in Alexia Miall, Inspiration, Meditation, Quest for Life, StJohn Miall, tagged Alexia Miall, Beauty. StJohn Miall, Flowers, Madonna Gauding, Meditation on October 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Flowers are exquisitely beautiful and a potent source of inspiration Meditating on a flower can elevate your spirits and soothe your soul. Now that we are in springtime, there are many beautiful flowers in bloom. A single rose, an iris, a lily a bottlebrush – all bring to mind a fantastic, almost shocking beauty. They [...]
Meditate for Life
Posted in Alexia Miall, Meditation, StJohn Miall, tagged Alexia Miall, Meditate for Life, Meditation, Quest for Life, StJohn Miall on October 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This great video compiled by StJohn Miall shares the results of a recent 8 week meditation course conducted by the Quest for Life Foundation, in Sydney. You may be surprised at the results! The next Meditate for Life Course starts on the 1st November. For more details and to register click here. We look forward [...]
Posted in Meditation, Quest for Life, StJohn Miall, tagged Meditate for Life, Meditation, Quest for Life, StJohn Miall on September 13, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Here’s an interesting News Release that came out recently…. Some of us need regular amounts of coffee or other chemical enhancers to make us cognitively sharper. A newly published study suggests perhaps a brief bit of meditation would prepare us just as well. While past research using neuroimaging technology has shown that meditation techniques can [...]
