Meditation Room

02/03/2026

In the dark we grow!
Thanks to Dalene Joubert for this reminder.

25/02/2026

Not only cancer, but all illnesses are helped by allowing the body to rest and relax. Your body has two basic, mutually exclusive states - rest and digest or fight/freeze/flee. When you really relax, you allow it to perform its little miracles - repairing, renewing, and regenerating!

MEDITATING TWICE A DAY CAN REDUCE SPREAD OF CANCER, SCIENTISTS SAY

Patients with cancer who meditate each morning and evening could reduce the chance of it spreading, scientists say.

Twice daily attempts to reduce stress could help prevent cancer cells becoming more robust, harder to treat and more likely to spread, a study has found. Levels of cortisol, a chemical produced when a person is stressed, fluctuate naturally throughout the day. However, in cancer patients they often remain persistently high.

Researchers have found that cancer cells exposed to cortisol behave differently. As a result, they say that patients should reduce stress “as much as they can”. The research found that cortisol permanently increased the “stemness” of cancer cells - a measure of how adaptable they are to change. Data also showed that cortisol made cancer cells better able to spread to different tissues and survive treatment with some chemotherapy drugs.

Meditation significantly lowers cortisol, by calming the nervous system, reducing amygdala activity, and improving the body’s stress response. Studies show that consistent, long-term practice can lead to a 25% reduction in cortisol levels, with benefits seen across various types, including mindfulness, Transcendental Meditation, and Buddhist techniques.

Dr Kimberly Bussey, a cancer specialist at Midwestern University in the USA, who worked on the research, said: “There are arguments to be made for starting and ending the day with practices that reduce stress and promote quality sleep.

“In the morning, those practices can support a resilient mental state that helps us manage daily stress better. At night, those same types of practices can help us relax and facilitate getting quality sleep.”

(The research was presented at an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Phoenix, Arizona.)

24/02/2026

Every act of care expands your capacity to become who you were meant to be...

24/02/2026

Next week there's a lunar eclipse - the Earth will lay between the sun and the full moon creating a shadow that could turn it red!
I'll be playing the gongs in Hilperton if you'd like to come along...

18/02/2026

All creation emerges from a single tree of life - Kabbalah.

15/02/2026

In 'A Book For A Change' I try to describe some of my meditative experiences. It's incredibly difficult. There simply are not words (at least not in my vocabulary) that can adequately convey such a sublime, expansive state. Meditation Room participants have said the same.
Over two thousand years ago Lao Tzu wrote "The Tao that can be described is not the Tao"
Nothing new then! 😀

02/02/2026

Healing energies …

02/02/2026

Imbolc Blessings!

Midway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, seeds start to stir in the dark. Breaking through their old skins, they produce tender stems of new growth beneath the surface.

We’ve a full moon in the heavens, and the expansive Jupiter has been her near neighbour in the skies above. That’s some powerful energy beaming our way!

Take a moment. Settle down into your body and centre yourself. Breathe. Just breathe.

29/01/2026

In the face of adversity out there, we've been spreading some love, peace and gratitude vibes in Meditation Room this week 😊

The most powerful thing...

24/01/2026

Each molecule in the universe has a unique frequency, and the language it uses to speak to the world is a resonating wave.
In effect, a chemical is not needed to produce an effect in the body, just the right signal (which can be recorded and sent over the internet!)
Good for healing, but also makes you consider just what electro-magnetic frequencies are surrounding you right now???