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John returns after his ‘forced retreat’
John is back at Well-Aware-Ness in North Sydney and looking forward to resuming weekly meditation groups and seeing friends and colleagues soon.
Lots of stories and experiences to share .....
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Be present to Life just now …..
Life is not simply about getting what we want, but knowing how to experience and appreciate fully what it is we have, especially having Life and Being Alive!
John B
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Shared messages during challenging times ……
John has received many messages from friends sharing their experiences during times of sickness, injury, adversity.
We are sharing some of these wonderful stories .....
Dear John
How blessed are we that you share these wonderful lessons from life with us.
What you say completely resonates with me and my own experience with breast cancer ...
the forced retreat from life as I had known it, the need for gentleness to oneself and acceptance of love and care from others.
It certainly sounds like...
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I very much appreciate a Mind-Body approach to health and healing.
Dear Friends
Thank you so much for your messages of best wishes and regards.
So much of what I talk about and teach – both with clients and the Meditation Groups, comes from my own personal experience.
This is certainly the case when talking about wise ways of working with health issues or illness. I often speak about life offering a sometimes unexpected enforced ‘retreat’.
On this retreat – we get to be the healer, healing from within. This attitude or ‘Right View’...
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Please note John has a forced – Mindful rest – due to a broken ankle
John has had a fall in the garden and broken his ankle.
After some surgery, he has been told to rest and not weight bear for 3 weeks.
Weekly meditation groups will continue with Stephen Mayers, but John won't be seeing clients until 23rd June.
For anything urgent please email on info@wellawareness.com.au
We wish John a speedy recovery and a Mindful rest.
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Stress consumes so much of our precious Time & Energy …..
Stress consumes so much of our precious Time & Energy.
If we could stress less - we would have more time and energy for our life.
If we could live more Mindfully into our life - just here, just now; rather than wanting for our life which is past or wishing or worrying about our life in the future -
we would then Love into our Life - FULLY!
John B
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Reflections on the passage and process of time passing ……
Reflections on the passage and process of time passing.
And yet in reality - time is both subjective and relative - only a concept held in the mind.
For when is it never not now? The timeless present - the eternal moment?
In Realising Reality, we realise what we are, beyond, identification with past or future and all things time based.
The eternal JUST NOW - no beginning and no end!
Freedom - Peace.
John B
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Facebook – how does it make you feel?
With progress comes change, choice and challenge. Here the challenge is to adopt or develop new methods and modes of being, to live with such changes.
A colleague this week emailed me some information about current Psychological research on the use of Facebook.
The research indicates that the use of Facebook is related to depression - through people comparing themselves with others.
I reflected that Buddha offers some Psychological medicine for this in pointing out the importance of MUDITA - 'Joy With...
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Gratefulness – How being grateful can help you to be happy
From my own experience, life can be challenging and disappointing at times but if we are relating and interfacing from the mind set and heart set of Gratefulness – Appreciative Joy, it can make all the difference between feeling disheartened and feeling heartful.
Gratefulness is that healing balm for the pains of progress and allowing our positive potentials to be fulfilled.
Just a simple saying like – ‘what experience have I had today to be grateful for’ – can be a...
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Interview with John Barter – All Things Meditation
Interview transcript: Jen Ng from the University of Technology, Sydney, with
Buddhist psychologist and Mindfulness Meditation teacher from Well-Aware-Ness,
John Barter
Dated: April 2015
How does Buddhist psychology differ and contribute to western psychology?
There is a growing movement from the spiritual and sacred to the secular within
contemporary western culture. This is something that has occurred for some time and
more specifically and more recently with regards to meditation. There is a movement
from what has been the specific domain of the monastery, especially Buddhist
monasteries, into...
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