Category Archives: Newsletter
Why did this happen?
When life pushes us over, we have the chance and choice to pause and ponder and maybe even to rest and reflect.
We may consider -
How did this happen?
Why did this happen?
Are there any deeper reasons why life might have brought this about?
What do I need to learn from this?
What would i like to learn and change from this?
Hopefully, in being pushed over, we arise with a new perspective, a new position, a new way of engaging our self into...
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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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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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Qi Gong at Well-Aware-Ness with Patrice Thomas Sunday 31st May
Join us in May for our monthly
GENTLE EXERCISE (Qi Gong) and MEDITATION CLASS –
A wonderful way to restore and replenish for the coming week
with Patrice Thomas
Patrice with Sifu Wing Cheung
When: Sunday 31st May 2015
Time: 4pm
Where: 14 Ridge St, North Sydney
Cost: $20.00 (teens 14 & up can come with parent/s free of charge)
Email: patrice@mindfulconnections.com.au to register
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John’s Easter Message
Easter is a time of spiritual reflection, not just a holiday to eat chocolates!
Easter, a time traditionally for renewal and rebirth as in the Pagan Festival of Fertility - Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre) was the Great Mother Goddess from which Easter originates - hence the symbols of eggs and rabbits!! Many of you will be taking a break over the Easter holiday period. Enjoy this special time of the year.
Easter also marks the start of the cooler months when finding...
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Friendship is both a life support and a support for life.
John's Message .......
FRIENDSHIP is both a life support and a support for life.
To find a friend to share with, care with, learn with, love with and even live with - is a blessing indeed.
And if such a friend encourages us - and inspires us to Realise Reality and live from Dhamma - Truth - such a friendship is very precious.
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John’s Message
Do you ever wonder why you’re not getting what you want?
Trying to gain or attain calm, wisdom or enlightenment is no more possible than trying to gain or attain your head or feet.
Calm clarity; insightful wisdom and spiritual enlightenment are our fundamental nature.
The more we stress and struggle, strain to attain, the more we move away from what we already always are – Real Peace & Perfect Freedom.
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