Tag Archives: meditation

Saluting the Sun #1: Standing Prayer and Mountain

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Aidan

Tadasana 1 and Tadasana 2: Urdhva Baddha Hastasana            “People do not pay attention to the correct method of standing,”1 says BKS Iyengar in his comments on this basic, initial pose, from which everything else emanates. May … Continue reading →

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Seeing the beauty #2

Posted on September 8, 2015 by Aidan

“Giving your complete attention,” I said in Seeing the beauty #1. Observe. Let’s mine that idea a little, because its influence and impact spread out into all areas of the process of balancing the Ecology of the Soul. Observation is … Continue reading →

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Seeing the beauty #1

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Aidan

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius  Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka  The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor … Continue reading →

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Spiritual / Physical / Conscient

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Aidan

Spiritual/physical; matter is energy and You are energy. Yoga allows you to experience the flow of energy in your body; it opens your physical ‘channels’ up to that universal force. Chinese medicine and a host of other Eastern schools of … Continue reading →

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Dispassion & Detachment

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Aidan

8 August 2015: The manuscript for the book is done, copy edited and waiting only for final versions of the illustrations done by my long time friend, accomplished musician and all round good egg @Michael_Munday. It goes back to the … Continue reading →

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Past, presence, balance

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Aidan

‘If your mind carries a heavy burden of past,’ says Eckhart Tolle, ‘you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.’ … Continue reading →

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Phew, nearly left me mind behind there

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Aidan

It’s a quote from a lone stoner, tripping on something very long and strong, that we picked up hitchhiking after a gig many years ago. We giggled then; we giggle now. The Mind as an oft-misunderstood faculty comes in for … Continue reading →

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Video 4 – Light, lighter, enlightened

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Aidan

Hi, Aidan Walker signing in with a Power Seed for today’s ‘Magic Minute’ of meditation. The video is longer than a minute – nearer two – but the idea will pack into a powerful 60 seconds – and repeats on … Continue reading →

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Video 3 – The Seven Powers of the Soul

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Aidan

Hi, Aidan Walker signing in with a Power Seed for your ‘Magic Minute’ of meditation. This one is about the Seven Powers of the Soul’s eco-system. Plant the thought (or thoughts), let it take root, grow and flourish in your … Continue reading →

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Video 2: Balance – A Magic Minute

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Aidan

Hello, Aidan Walker signing in with another Power Seed for your ‘Magic Minute’ of meditation… for you to plant in the consciousness of your Soul… the soil of your consciousness, to create a beautiful garden. This one is called ‘Balance’. … Continue reading →

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Silence in the throat

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Aidan

Vishuddha, the fifth chakra, is located in the throat. It governs self-expression, independence, fluency of thought, hearing and speaking – communication, in other words. Which is why in the Ecology of the Soul, the power of communication rests here. Meditation … Continue reading →

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A Balance of Powers is Freedom Fulfilled

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Aidan

The earth’s ecology is a balance of organic and inorganic, living and inert elements. Of matter (which is itself energy, as we have all learnt from Mr Einstein) and living things, which are energy embedded in matter. But we are … Continue reading →

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How does a pinpoint create so much light?

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Aidan

How does a pinpoint create so much light? You’re subsumed, enveloped, overwhelmed, inundated, engulfed, absorbed, obliterated, swallowed up… in a voluptuous ocean of bliss – of your own making. Not even of your making, because this is You. This is … Continue reading →

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Dark to Light: The Mouse Hole of Your Mind

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Aidan

Heard the one about the mouse hole? No, not a joke but a tried and tested method of quieting the mind. Eckhart Tolle mentions it in (I think) The Power of Now. As you sit in meditation and settle yourself down, … Continue reading →

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The Chakra Christmas Tree

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Aidan

Who knows where it comes from or where it leads. In this case it’s not rocket science to answer the first question: it comes from the ancient wisdom of the Chakras, which I touch on here and there on the … Continue reading →

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Sitting on a ring of fire

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Aidan

In the late 18th / early 19th centuries – the time of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe – there was a phrase used by English gentlemen to describe another’s qualities of solidity, reliability, dependability, common sense, determination, stamina and – above … Continue reading →

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Video 1: Peace, Power and a Balanced Ecology of the Soul

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Aidan

Peace, Power & Balance – The Ecology of the Soul First in a collection of short videos. Subsequent ones will be shorter! Enjoy. Here’s the script: The Ecology of the Soul – the Balance of Peace and Power Hi I’m Aidan … Continue reading →

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Shopping in the spiritual supermarket #2

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Aidan

As I said yesterday, there’s a host of miraculous Mind-Body-Spirit techniques and solutions on offer out there, routes to increased power, peace of mind, freedom from disorder and anxiety, and even – and especially – to quantum increases in wealth. Money, … Continue reading →

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Magic Minute #5: Nature is cruel love

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Aidan

So we’re looking at the two sorts of energy, both of which, when all the bits and bobs, surface accoutrements, distractions and detours, are stripped away, are best understood as Love, because they are life, and if life isn’t love … Continue reading →

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Magic Minute #2: Insight

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Aidan

Almost every word in the English language – or any language for that matter – can be a trigger for a meditation. Thinking about the process by which we can get people to start exploring what’s going on inside their … Continue reading →

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Magic Minute #1

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Aidan

OK, everything in this category will take you a minute or so to read, maybe 67 seconds or even 73, but not much longer than that. The point being that the Ecology of the Soul proposes a minute’s meditation, simply because … Continue reading →

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The Blackboard Blog #6: Is desire undesirable?

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Aidan

More than one image this morning, the Blackboard being a space where there is more than one idea to follow. Hope you don’t mind the sort of random household feel, deep spiritual Power Seeds (yeah, right) mixed in with notes … Continue reading →

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60 Seconds of Solitude

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Aidan

Bit different from One Hundred Years. But in a way that 60 seconds, the Magic Minute we’re talking about here, is considerably longer than 100 years, so much longer in fact that it qualifies as infinity, the endless journey into … Continue reading →

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Hold your peace. Say your piece

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Aidan

You know where that comes from, right? The ‘speak now or forever hold your peace’ thing? The tense moment in a movie wedding where the bride is standing at the altar with the wrong guy and the hero comes in … Continue reading →

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Peace of mind – a piece of my mind

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Aidan

This is a ‘today I have been thinking about…’ post. Much of the thinking around the Ecology of the Soul comes from deconstructing words, really digging into language, figuring out why we say the things we do and how they reflect … Continue reading →

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