'Working with Ben was insightful and powerful. He lead me on a deep and engaging enquiry of my value system which took me to deep meditative places and new levels of awareness. I'm looking forward to working with him in the future.'

Tom, Music Industry Entrepreneur                         *                         'This is professional coaching, but from someone who genuinely cares. Ben helped me to discover my core life values which support me both personally and professionally. I highly recommend Ben's coaching - it is insightful and ultimately life enhancing.'

Isabella, Editor                         *                         'Ben has a wide range of skills, knowledge and experience in the world of healing and therapy. Combined with his calm and empathetic persona he has the ability to touch and help a wide variety of people, which I have been lucky enough to experience and benefit from firsthand.'

Oliver, Entrepreneur and Public Speaker

 

 

Meditation

 

No matter what your circumstances are, my intention is to help you experience the extraordinary power of meditation in your life.

 

Meditative awareness itself is nothing more than mental and physical congruence - an experience of being absolutely 'present in the moment'. My teaching approach enables people to experience the qualities of inner peace and stillness in everything that they do. Taking inspiration from the world of Osho, Ramana Maharshi and Vipassana Meditation, I have taken the purest eastern teachings and adapted them for the western mind, with real success for a wide variety of clients.

 

My message is that meditative awareness can be experienced every minute of every day, regardless of the tasks you are immersed in.

 

In my own life I have experienced the classic corporate lifestyle, before moving on to absorb many different spiritual and meditative teachings. It is a privilege to be in possession of the skills needed to teach westerners a meditative path that works for them, helping people move closer towards an experience of genuine peace of mind, and on towards meditative awareness in both life and business.

 

The central conjecture of all of my practice is to enable people to experience life in the Working Mind as opposed to the Thinking Mind. When absorbed in this 'present state', in the here and now, we see that our happiness, peace and freedom as human beings is genuinely independent of our circumstances, no matter what those circumstances might be. True meditation is applicable in all aspects of daily life, as nothing more than the unification of thought with action. In the working mind, when we are eating our meal, we are simply eating our meal - not eating our meal and drafting an email in our heads or analysing the day ahead! Likewise, when we are making a presentation, we are presenting, not presenting and judging the colour of our client's tie, or gauging their reaction to our statements. Don't take this the wrong way - when life calls us to multi task, the working mind will multi task. In fact, with regular practice it is doubly dextrous and flexible, dealing with whatever life throws our way with expanded attentiveness and concentration.

 

It is space that give us the freedom to relax into meditation. Yet modern life allows for very little space: our homes are crowded, our environment cloying, our cities bulging, the air we breathe a cocktail of toxins and chemicals. But most of all, our minds are void of space - congested with voices, thoughts, agendas and ruminations on the past and the future. The modern mind is in a state of almost constant vexation, so much so that we have come to accept this as the norm.

 

Yet when we inquire into the endless train of deliberation, between each new thought we will find a space or a gap - small at first - in fact almost imperceptible. Meditation is about increasing the length of that space so that we can eventually experience the space as the norm, and the thought as the exception, as opposed to the constant stream of contemplation. The space is what is known as peace of mind, the Now: True meditation, applicable in the face of anything life throws at us.

 

The one thing you can always change, every minute of every day, is your own mind                        *                     'Jump! And the net will appear' - Lao Tzu                 *                Changing thoughts changes behaviour, which changes your actions and transforms your results                    *                  Your thoughts dictate your existence. Recreate and sustain positive thought and you recreate your life                 *                     Realise it - YOU are the source of your happiness, not your possessions or circumstances                *               When you look hard enough, you will see that the moment alone, is always enough                 *                It's a funny thing about human beings. We judge ourselves by our intentions, and others by their actions                 *                 Forget about 'Who am I?' It's a trick question that'll drive you crazy. Just remain focussed on the ever present reality 'I Am.'                *                Young souls get angry at others, old souls get angry at themselves, wise souls turn the page                 *               All human beings are searchers, and we are all searching for the same thing - happiness                 *                When people reconnect with their true nature, the common goal is always the same: we only want one thing - peace of mind