Lifeflow news and articles
Here are a selection of articles about Lifeflow events or courses, plus essays about meditation and how it can be applied in everyday life.
Entering the Stream
This beautifully evocative phrase comes from the Buddhist tradition, and we had it in mind when we named the Lifeflow Meditation Centre, for it describes the experience of being in the flow – those wonderfully smooth, effortless times when our bodies and minds are in complete harmony. These are those magic moments of childhood when we were totally in touch with the world around us... Read full article
The Body Electric
The infinite nature of our minds dwells in the finite nature of our bodies and the incredible bliss we are capable of feeling is the marriage between these two – the interface where the spacious openness of our awareness touches the finite form of our body... Read full article
Me and my shadow
One of the greatest discoveries of Western psychology is that of the unconscious and the shadow side of our personality. Freud and Jung were pioneers of the new discipline of psychology and they explored and mapped the world of our individual identity. When it comes to understanding how our identity is built, the unconscious, and how they relate to each other, our own culture has no equal... Read full article
Meditating on food
What a wonderfully rich and sensuous experience cooking and eating food is. Meditating on food is a very direct way of keeping in touch with your senses and your body. It’s quite surprising to notice how little attention we pay to what we eat once it gets into our mouths.... Read full article
 Book review: The Brain that Changes Itself
In this easy-to-read, inspiring and moving book, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge provides striking evidence of the mind’s ability to change its own structure and function; that is, evidence supporting the ‘neuroplasticity’ of the mind... Read full article
Love - open and luminous
What is love? When we talk about ‘love’ we are often thinking of special people, pets, places, even foods (ice cream!) in our lives that we are particularly fond of. Within the meditation tradition, the essence of love is being open to everything; being receptive to everything in yourself and the world... Read full article
 Lifeflow's new City Studio - coming soon
After many years of looking, Lifeflow has finally found a new permanent home in the city. This will allow us to have more consulting rooms, a proper admin office, and eventually a second teaching studio. Renovations are currently underway...Read full article
Meditation Guides the way. . .
In April 2009, fifteen people completed meditation Guides training with Lifeflow, learning skills to introduce this effective tool into their work. The Guides came from a variety of professions including community nursing, physiotherapy, special education, teaching, psychiatric nursing and natural health therapy. Read about the experiences of two Guides graduates, Janine and Marelle... Read full article
 Waves on the ocean
Many people have the impression that meditation should be a completely thought-free zone. Perhaps they read somewhere that this is what it should be like, or they were taught this, but in either case they were done a disservice... Read full article
Open and aware – our femine side
Do you remember times as a child when you were watching something, or just listening, completely absorbed, and were quite happy to be still? You were meditating – it is something we could all do naturally and easily as children; we just didn’t know what we were doing... Read full article
 Keeping life fresh – informal meditations
Informal meditations ensure that you stay in touch with your senses and don’t get lost in your thoughts. You approach everything as though it were the first time because, in actual fact, it is. Many things we do in our lives become so repetitive that we don’t even notice them any more – this means we spend an awful lot of our lives in a semi-hypnotic trance... Read full article
 Meditation migrates South!
Meditation practice is expanding throughout Southern Adelaide following a Lifeflow Guides course delivered to health practitioners (on behalf of Southern Adelaide Health Services). The majority of the 16 attendees, from social work, psychology... Read full article
Balancing mind and body – the monkey and the elephant
Every time you meditate you bring yourself to your natural state of balance – physically, emotionally and mentally. It’s simple to learn and easy to do. It’s also a very blissful thing to do... Read full article
Life in Balance - balance at work
Balance is about working efficiently (and skillful laziness!).
One of the many benefits of Lifeflow® Meditation is learning how to use time more efficiently. This doesn’t mean always being busy, but rather learning to be more skillful... Read full article
 Lifeflow Brainwave - meditation and EEG
This succesful collaborative study between The Lifeflow Meditation
Centre apnd a researcher at Flinders Medical Centre produced some unique
results when measuring EEG activity through different levels of meditation... Read full article
 Garry
Duncan Retrospective
Opening speech by Dr Graham Williams: Garry Duncan, a Lifeflow Honourary Life Member shares a common vision
of educating our society of the importance of our natural environment
and of our place in it... Read full article
 Maier Dining Hall constructed at
Tara Hills Retreat Centre
New dining room / kitchen / library at Tara Hills Retreat
Centre. The new building has been designed to provide a focal point for the
centre and will provide wonderful views of the surrounding area and
excellent facilities for Tara Hills retreats... Read full article
 Ross Edwards' fifth symphony based on Lifeflow visualisations.
Australian composer, Ross Edwards, has based his latest symphony,
THE PROMISED LAND, on Lifeflow visualisations which were originally
derived from the Tibetan tradition and adapted for our contemporary
life in Australia... Read full article
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