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Podcast from meditation teacher Alistair Appleton on dharma, psychotherapy, neuroscience and more. Info at www.mind-springs.org
Following one of the live sessions, Alistair talks about the experience of dissociation. This is a natural function of our minds, but it can...
An excerpt from the Holy Island Retreat October 2022. Alistair is talking about the theory of Buddha nature, that we are already enlightened...
This is an excerpt from the Holy island Retreat in October 2023 which was focusing on the wisdom aspect of compassion. Alistair sketches out...
Discussing with Mindsprings member, Dameon, about the issue of other people's anxiety. Our anxiety work often - rightly- focuses on getting...
Following a meditation exploring self-love, we were talking about the nuttiness of hating your experience. After all, it's the only one we'r...
The negative news industry. Responding to a student’s comment on the distractions of the news media, Alistair speaks about the nature of new...
Jane asked: "Is awareness the same as consciousness? And how do you deal with someone with a lot of shame or someone with no shame, like Don...
In this podcast, Alistair, (after being interrupted by Ben the dog 😀) discusses distractions with the Mindsprings students. He says tension...
Alistair talks about the three things that dance the waltz of Samsara - Delusion, Wanting & Hatred .
From a Mindsprings meditation Zoom class discussion. Buddhists take aim at the fixed nature of our sense of selves. They believe suffering i...
Alistair discusses lasting happiness following a question from Jane, a Mindsprings student. We have to look in the right place for bliss. Bl...
Are you a worrier? In this Podcast recorded from a Mindsprings meditation class, Alistair busts the myths around worrying.
Alistair discusses toxic relationships and how to empower yourself to change things. Do you have any difficult relationships in your life?
We're not made up of one coherent self, Alistair explains, but rather there are different parts of us at play or at war. When our internal m...
Alistair discusses Maitri with his students. Maitri meditation is kindness and compassion for ourselves and others. He says it starts with r...
Alistair remembers his mother saying 'People who ask don't get.' Yet, he says, in Tibetan traditions asking for blessings is an act of devot...
Alistair talks about Internal Family Systems. The different parts inside us, identified by therapist Richard C Schwartz. We all have parts p...
How do you react when someone hurts you? In this recorded teaching, Alistair says it's not ok to be a punchbag. A healthier way is to acknow...
It's easy to be compassionate with yourself when you're feeling OK but we are often very mean to ourselves. In this recorded teaching, Alist...
We don't meditate to become good meditators. We meditate to become kind human beings. In this recorded lesson, Alistair discusses steadying...
From a recorded lesson: Alistair discusses thoughts and thinking with students. It is not thoughts that make us unhappy. Thoughts come and g...
In answer to a students question, Alistair discusses thoughts and feelings. Instead of being bulldozed by our thoughts, we can learn to danc...
Alistair discusses suffering in a teaching session. We are conditioned to believe that we should be suffering but when you remove 'me' you e...
In this lively recorded teaching Alistair discusses how we can stay in love with our mind and be happy in the here and now.
In this Podcast, Alistair discusses Jaak Panksepp's Wheel of emotions. Emotions, which pre-date thoughts aren't bad or wrong but all animals...
In this podcast Alistair discusses Selfing V Being. It's a bit like salt, a little bit for flavour but too much is bad and it spoils everyth...
Alistair discusses the Lojong slogans - Don't talk about injured limbs, translates as don't focus on other peoples wounds and defects. Don't...
Yoga V Buddhism: In this recorded teaching, Alistair speculates that the emphasis in Yoga is on improving oneself, but Buddha would call thi...
Was Freud right - is it all about sex? From the Live Sessions in February 2021. Tamsyn mentioned her dislike of reading Freud during her the...
Recorded teaching from the Mindsprings mediation school: Thoughts, feelings and unexamined beliefs become visible, during the practice of th...
Having an ego is part of being human. Our sense of ourselves, our reality, rests on activity in certain parts of the brain. But identifying...
It's not the experience that's the problem, we can't control that. It's the stance we have towards the experience that generates the sufferi...
Recorded teaching from Alistair: Many of us live our lives inside a well-oiled cocoon and run on autopilot like zombies. Others find the coc...
In this podcast, Alistair considers religion. Different faith traditions have different names for awakened energy but everyone plugs into th...
Shame is the fear of ostracization and it is one of the key practises to work with in Therapy. In this Podcast, Alistair concludes that sham...
Life hurts! A recorded teaching from Alistair on the inescapable suffering of being alive. The first hurt being getting sick, particularly r...
In this teaching, Alistair shows students an exercise to demonstrate there is no fixed self. We are not just our skin, hair or bones. By put...
Our sacredness is occluded from us because of the world we live in. Cultural forces conspire to make us needy and greedy. Bigger than our ra...
We think our bodies are one fixed thing and should be perfectly balanced. Still, when we start to live in our energy body we see that we are...
The way we look after ourselves is important but it is easy to get into a state of poverty mentality when we are ill. By embracing a time fo...
Where is your sense of self within your body? Where is the core of your awareness? In the west, we often think we're situated behind our eye...
There is more to us than just our thoughts. In this podcast episode, Alistair discusses our notions of our higher self. How we can forget ou...
In the final part of Alistair's 2020 Cardiff talk he explores the 'endpoint' of purification. What is the space that we would experience fre...
Part three of the 2020 Cardiff talk sees Alistair move into the world of therapy and how this intersects with the concept of 'emptiness'. Ca...
In the second part of the Cardiff 2020 talk on purification, Alistair explores how this concept functions in Tibetan Buddhist practice.
This is the first part of Alistair's March 2020 Talk at the Cardiff Buddhist Centre on Cowbridge Road. The talk was on the subject of 'purif...
We can use the breath like a tiny, powerful spotlight into our inner experience. In this excerpt from the Spa Road weekend course on IFS in...
Alistair gives a very clear and insightful definition of maitri or love to the self. In an excerpt from the Spa Road Weekend in September 20...
From the October 2019 annual Mindsprings retreat for more advanced practitioners, this podcast is an exploration of why we end up spending s...
Excerpted from the October Holy Island Retreat in 2019, this is an inspired exploration of why we practice. What's the point of maitri, of u...