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Fullness of Mind Retreat APRIL 23

Playlist

4 Videos

Learning and Intelligence

17;39

Ego and Attachment

11:22

Identity an Suffering

11:43

Ego's Tricks and Games

11;24

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You are going? no-where, you’ve already arrived.

This moment is all that exists. The future is nothing more than a rubbish guess, it’s just a projection of your mind, and it exists no-where other than in your head. You are not ever going anywhere, because there is no-where to go.  There is only now. You have already arrived!

You are always arriving, you are always arriving in this present moment. Mindfulness is about celebrating your arrival and fully experiencing the present moment as intensely as you can. It’s about realising that this moment is the most precious thing there is and aligning with the eternal now. It’s never about going anywhere.

Who are you becoming? No-one. You already are. There is no-one to become.

You can not be any more than who you are in this moment. How is that possible? Realise now that in this moment you are already enough, you are not broken, there is nothing wrong with who you are right now. You are complete and whole and perfect as you are in this moment, there are many wonderful  expressions of you yet to be discovered, but it can only happen now, an in trith you are are only really uncovering what is already here, you are already in this moment a perfect expression of consciousness.

How can you be more than this?

This is this is paradox of mindfulness, if there’s no-where to go, then there is nothing to do. If you are not becoming someone then there is nothing to do. And if you arn’t broken then you don’t need to be fixed. There’s nothing to do.

Mindfulness is simply about deepening your experience of where you already are , and a fuller more profound experience of who you already are.

Confused? Excellent!

Enjoy The video

adrian

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All I will say is that when we came out of the meditation on Sunday morning I could not believe what I saw. 30 faces looking back at me and not a thought between them. Fully awake fully alive, but silent inside, holding an intense state of mindfulness and at least half of them thought that they were complete beginners only the day before.

I don’t know what’s happening,  but it seems that all our hard work is bearing fruit.  These weekends are transforming people’s lives,  take a look at the Facebook comments, and we can’t begin to describe how enriching that is for us.

We’ve got only 2 more retreats this summer and they are booking up fast. If you haven’t already booked your place go for it, you’ll never look back

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It’s easy to use words like family without much care for the meaning, but it really does feel like family to me. I could call them friends but that’s not enough to adequately explain what is going on, because there’s something more here, a common connection a shared understanding an a real sense of belonging. Mindfulness gives you a glimpse of who you are beyond the “little me” and you begin to discover connected nature of reality, and your role in the manifesting of it. A sense of belonging to something more than yourself as an individual, being part of something important and valuable.

Like any family we have our differences and there are ups and downs but we are supported by the love of the family and we genuinely care for and help each other. Love and compassion are a natural by-product of mindfulness, so it’s not something you have to work hard at, it’s simply a natural expression of the practice.

The unconditioned warmth of a mindful family, that doesn’t judge, label or make you different is a rare experience and in this environment real healing and growth happens. It’s a safe place to open up, a safe place to be open to new ideas and experiences and to possibilities beyond understanding, and also a safe place to look within, and explore the vast universe within that we are generally too busy or too distracted to acknowledge.

It’s scary to look at first, the shadow will make you want to run and hide again, but with great delight I witnessed each of our new guests find the courage, and with the support of the family, take the light of mindful awareness into the shadow and realise there is nothing to fear other than their own glory. Isn’t that right Tania, Gary, Sean, Christine, David, Andy Leslie and all you other brave adventurers. How you all shine.

About half of our guests have been involved in our work before, they’ve been on retreat or one of our classes so they know what to expect, and they still come back! It’s always lovely to see familiar faces, and talking to you all quickly revealed how you’ve grown in mindfulness. My ego doesn’t like it (so that must be good), because your mindfulness is deepening far quicker than mine did and I’m seeing people make the kind of progress in a few months that it tool me years to achieve. And it’s not as though you’ve had an easy time of it either. Some of our guest have faced real challenges and potentially devastating life events and it struck me how with each life challenge you faced, you’ve become more centered and aware. There’s no going back now. The tougher it gets the more mindful you become.

Mindfulness is becoming how you live and through your practice you are creating a new environment around you. Every mindful interaction changes your experience of the world and the world’s experience of you. Through your mindful compassion, acceptance and non judging you bring peace and healing into the world. No darkness can exist in the light of your awareness and your very being is a catalyst for change. A new world is coming onto existence through you.and so the family grows.

We still have spaces for our next retreat in couple of weeks, dust off your sleeping bag and come and join us. The family is growing.

adrian

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There are many things that stand out for me about the weekend. Marcus’ terrific Qi Gong class, Paul’s crazy yogas in the big bell tent and that mind blowing emotional clearing session on Sunday; but what really stood out for me were those simple, beautiful moments of mindful interaction that happened throughout the weekend. The quiet chats, the dawning awareness and the epiphany moments when the penny drops and suddenly someone sees through their mental confusion. There was a sense of real warmth and acceptance and although lots of guest came on their own, they couldn’t feel alone for long. When you share that space of mindfulness together something magic happens.

One of the most touching moments was when a couple ladies who were laughing and joking together, said to me, that although they had never met before this weekend, they felt like they had known each other forever. As unlikely as it sounds, it is really quite common and I know of many firm and genuine friendships are made on these weekend retreats.

One of the most touching moments was when a couple ladies who were laughing and looking together, said to me, that although they had never met before this weekend it felt like they had known each other forever. As unlikely as it sounds, it is really quite common and I know of many firm and genuine friendships are made on these weekend retreats.

Maybe it’s because there are no egos on our Mindfulness Retreats. From the outset we help our guests to enter a state of mindfulness and we work hard to keep them there, deepening their experience as the programme unfolds during the course of the weekend.

When you greet a person mindfully, it is with pure acceptance. There are no beliefs to make you right and the other wrong, no competition to be “more than”, no inner dialogue to tell you that you “are less than”. There is no judgement to create separateness. When you great someone mindfully and you are free of your mental narrative, you discover that there is no separation between any of us, you have reach through to the person beyond all that mind made stupidity and you connect directly with your common humanity.

Being greeted mindfully is a rare treat, you are being welcomed with absolute acceptance and an unconditional warm embrace of your humanity. A mindful person has cultivated compassion, a deep connection to the others and so highly developed is their empathy that they experience the suffering of others as their own. A mindful person would never consciously hurt another as they would experience the suffering created as their own and with mindful attention to every interaction they conduct themselves with tolerance, acceptance, with love and a sincere regard for the well-being of others. To be greeted mindfully can shift your experience in an instant, conflicts dissolve, perceptions crumble and it is common for our guest to let go and simply be themselves, held safely in a mindful connection.

That’s what The Now Project is really about, to help you live mindfully, to connect with others and bring love, compassion, and healing to the world around us.

The retreats are getting booked up fast, so if you want to be part of this and join us this summer you need to book soon. We still have places on our next retreat on 10 -12^th July. See you there

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Many years before I started practising meditation and before mobile phones and caller ID, I would often sense who was ringing me before I answered the phone. Sometimes someone who I hadn’t seen in years would come to mind and then suddenly just turn up in my life. Mothers tell me that they can sense when their children are in trouble or distress and twins have been shown to frequently to exhibit spooky telepathic connections. As my meditation practice has devolved these things have become more and more common and I am becoming quite comfortable in exploring a greater connected mind. It no longer seems strange to me, I’ve come to kind of expect these things and I’m beginning to discover the profound intelligence that exists in the interconnectivity of the greater mind.

Synchronicity has ceased to be just random coincidence and I’m starting to listen to it, understand the language, I am seeing the connections and I’m flowing with a greater mind. The wonderful thing about the connected mind is that it’s not just me, its collective and collaborative and higher forces are at work. And if we can be silent inside and listen to the space within, we’ll discover a wonderful plan unfolding and by learning the language we can fall into alignment and become a living expression of that plan. Its’ great comfort to discover that we are not alone.

Many of the people who come on our retreats know that they have been guided, they describe strange coincidences and a sense of being called to meditation and mindfulness. They often tell me that when they came across the website, it spoke to them, that they felt something, an irrational impulse, a connection and an inner knowing. Yes many of our guests have been before, some of them several times, and lots of others arrive on the recommendation of friends but nearly all our guest now come because they are co creating with the flow. They sense without knowing why, that there is something here that they need to be part of

We start our retreats with a little introduction, we go round the room and our guest say their name and what they are hoping to get from the weekend. We still have lots of people saying that they are on retreat to help with stress, manage depression or to deal with emotional and physical pain but when probed further they reveal something else, an inner calling and a heartfelt desire to discover meaning and purpose and to engage more fully with the miracle of existence. It’s why they all come even if the don’t realise that from the outset, they come on retreat to discover themselves and realise that they are part of everything an expression of the greater mind.

When I do the teaching, I get out of the way. Its’ not my teaching, I simply express a teaching which comes from far beyond little old me. I have certain stories or expressions that I often repeat, but in truth I can talk for a couple of hours without even know what I’ve said. The talks come from the space and personally I have very little to do with them. The teaching happens through me, it is not me, it is channelled from the greater mind. We’ve been videoing the talks to put on the website at a later date and watching them back is the first time I even know what I’ve said.

I have tried to exert some control and had intended to tone everything down. I’m conscious that many of our guests are completely new to this and I don’t want to alienate them with too much wild exploration of the formless and the true nature of reality. But the flow wont allow this and watching the talks on video I’m shocked at the profound nature of the teaching coming from my mouth. I’m even more shocked at the reaction of our guests. They just seem to accept it, and look at me like it’s obvious. It’s been ages since someone has stormed out in disgust or been so offended by my message that they shout out their objections. Not one guest has challenged my madness all summer. I tell them that the past and the future do not exist and that they have been living in a dream, that they have been lost in a false consciousness, a world of illusion. I explain that they are in truth perfect expressions of consciousness with the power to create through the field of the greater mind and fulfil their destiny by bringing a new world into existence. No protest, nothing, just rows of nodding smiling faces and a look to say. Yes you’ve turned my perception of the world upside down but “I knew this all along”. Which of they do, of course; they are connecting the greater mind too, and that’s where the teaching came from in the first place.

Thank you everyone who came to our last retreat of the summer. We had another magnificent weekend and you were a joy to work with. It is an absolute privilege to share awareness with you and as I said in my talk at the close of the retreat, I don’t think I’ve ever met a braver bunch of people. Even the most rational material minds were so ready to let go. We had a psychiatrist from the USA a psychologist and a number of left brain rationalists as guests, but the rationality collapsed in the face of the evidence in the moment and one by one they let go of everything they thought they knew and jumped feet first into a courageous exploration of consciousness. To let go and trust the flow takes incredible courage. It requires you to suspend your belief and enter a universe were none of the old rules and certainties exist but if you can If you can be still enough inside and embrace the void you’ll find the greater mind and discover that it is filled with infinite possibility. What an incredible group of people you are. And what a finale for the summer.

I’ve had a fantastic time this summer, I’ve been doing the work I love; well actually I just channelled it, so in truth I did nothing at all, other than having great weekends away with my mates and the most amazing guests. (But don’t tell my wife, she thinks I’ve been working hard). According to the many emails and generous comments, it would appear that our guests had a great time too, and I know many of you are now awakening fast. Now you’ve opened the door and explored what is inside there really is no going back. Yes you’ll likely fall asleep again many times but the momentum of awakening is now with you and you’ll not sleep for long.

We expect to be back at Retreat Farm next summer for the 2015 round of summer of love retreats but in the mean time keep an eye on the website. We are putting together a series of one day winter intensives starting on November and the website will be going through a transformation. The greater mind is at work and we are all working hard to fulfil it’s ambition, stay involved with the project we’d love you to join us in actioning the great minds plan.

Be still

adrian

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