How do we create our experience and how in each moment can we free or imprison ourselves? Why does life seem such a struggle?

We will learn how a deep morning meditation can help us to start the day right, to look at things with more clarity, compassion and with new eyes, and to convert daily life challenges from problems to opportunities for transformation.

Do we feel that our meditation practice is limited and does not really change our lives? Here we can learn to deepen our practice, reduce the inner noise of the troubled mind, discover inner peace, as well as develop our capacities of trust, steadiness and resilience.

How can we surf the waves of change rather than be submerged by them? How do we perform a restart?

As soon as we start to explore who or what we are, a new landscape is revealed, rich with insights: ‘Who is in charge of my life?

How do we develop qualities such as calm, energy, authenticity, generosity, equanimity, and a loving heart?

We tend to get swept away in a busy restless world. How can we slow down? Inner quiet is always available, a calm centre from where we cope with changing circumstances. It is the ground and foundation of mindfulness and all meditative practices.

Mindfulness is being aware, attentive, and alert to what is really happening, instead of being distracted, switching off, or running on automatic. It is also kind and caring. It is central to spiritual practice and the third of The Five Powers.

We can do a restart, but it may need a bit of effort. Sometimes the eagle needs to flap its wings, and sometimes it simply glides effortlessly through the heavens. ‘Not too tight, not too loose’ is a key to meditation and inner change.

At a time of conflict and uncertainty, can we rise above anxiety, concern and the sense of helplessness, and develop trust, steadiness and resilience? As the first of The Five Powers, trust and faith are essential attitudes with which we meet life.

What would help us to dance with the music of wild life? A deep listening to what our inner voices are telling us. Wisdom is the extraordinary in the heart of the ordinary, the fruit of inner development and the fifth of The Five Powers.