Faced with a world wide web of instant communication Truth and Honesty have never been more important than they are today - and they have never been more under threat.In the a last few years we have all been introduced to the awful term "Fake N

Awareness of Our Amazing Existence

Aug 15th, 2020 14m 33s

Do you find it difficult to remain reasonably conscious of your life in the present moment? Somehow it is as if we are existing in the present but dissatisfied with the present, looking to be somewhere else, anywhere else, somewhere better. Wha

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 9th, 2020 11m 8s

Sunday 9th August 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the bombing in 1945 of the Japanese city of Nagasaki. This was three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. The destructive power of today's nuclear weapons is far greater than the power of eith

Dropping the Burden

Aug 1st, 2020 8m 51s

In this episode of the Life of Mindfulness podcast Tony Brady reflects on the baggage and burdens which we all carry. This baggage is mental as well as physical. We do well to examine these burdens and make a decision to live a happier life b

Life as a Train Journey

Jul 19th, 2020 14m

In week 10 (erroneously referred to as week 11 in the recording) of the Life of Mindfulness Podcast Tony Brady compares life to a train journey. We get on the train, meet our family. We have no thoughts as to the destination. It is a miracle th

Patience in a Time of Anxiety

Jul 11th, 2020 17m 46s

We live in a world of constant change. We are not easy with that concept.If you are anything like most of us you must be feeling a little troubled and maybe even a little frustrated. This is not how things used to be. Queues, face-masks, saniti

We can make a difference

Jul 1st, 2020 12m 33s

In week 8 of the Life of Mindfulness Podcast Tony Brady talks about how each of us can make a difference. We each have an area of interest, an area of capacity and an area of opportunity. Where these three areas overlap we can use our energy t

A call for LGBT Solidarity, Diversity, Inclusion

Jun 27th, 2020 17m 44s

This Sunday June 28th is the anniversary of the raid on the Stonewall Inn and the riots that followed in New York in 1969These events gave rise to the modern Gay Pride movement which is celebrated at this time each year It is a time when we are

Not Just Another New Day

Jun 20th, 2020 14m 28s

In Episode 6 of the Life of Mindfulness Podcast Tony Brady takes a look at what we do when we come to that 10 minutes that we have promised ourselves, that moment of rest and reflection first thing in the morning, First of all we must stop to n

Coming into the Present Moment

Jun 12th, 2020 12m 41s

In week 5 of the Life of Mindfulness podcast from www.lifeofmindfulness.com Tony Brady examines what we do when we sit for 10 minutes in the morning When we stop to think of it we realise how much of our lives is spent not in the present moment

Responding to the death of George Floyd

Jun 4th, 2020 24m 24s

We look on with horror at what happened to George Floyd on the 25th May 2020 and we am reminded of all the people who have suffered ill treatment at the hands of others on account of prejudice of all kinds.Especially awful is the ill treatment

Making Time for Mindfulness

May 29th, 2020 12m 21s

You may have thought - "I’ve read about mindfulness and the stated benefits of mindfulness but I don't have time for meditation, how can I fit any more into an already full agenda?" But, as you will see in this episode, mindfulness is not like

Mindfulness lessons in Rudyard Kipling's poem"If"

May 23rd, 2020 17m 36s

In this episode Tony examines the famous poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling and finds that it contains much food for thought in support of a mindful way of life. Welcome to Episode 2 of the Life of Mindfulness podcast Taken as a whole this poem repr

Welcome to the Life of Mindfulness Podcast

May 17th, 2020 15m 16s

We all wake up with an equal amount of time every day. We all begin the day with the promise of the same numbers of hours minutes and seconds as everyone else.But when we go to bed at night we don’t all find that we have put the time of our day

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