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Skillful Mind Learn and Teach Meditation. Awaken the mind. Our vision is a qualified meditation teacher in every town and suburb in the world

We would love to see everyone learn the art of mental stillness. Only then can the world be truly at peace.

A misconception I hear: that experienced meditators feel calm all the time.Not quite true. What changes with practice is...
30/08/2026

A misconception I hear: that experienced meditators feel calm all the time.

Not quite true. What changes with practice isn't the weather in your mind — it's how quickly you notice it's stormy, and how much less you get thrown around by it. Calm isn't the baseline. Recovery speed is.

This morning — Sunday Meditation. 9am ACST, online, free, all welcome.skillfulmind.net/zoom
29/08/2026

This morning — Sunday Meditation. 9am ACST, online, free, all welcome.

skillfulmind.net/zoom

Feeling calmer lately isn't the same as being more grounded. Most of us mix the two up.Real growth means the ground unde...
28/08/2026

Feeling calmer lately isn't the same as being more grounded. Most of us mix the two up.

Real growth means the ground under you is actually solid, not that you had one good sit on the cushion last month.

I built something to show you the difference. It's called the Awakening Map. 17 quick taps, about 2 minutes, free. You answer some simple statements about yourself, and it shows you which parts of your inner life are genuinely grounded, which are shaky, and which you've been avoiding without realising it.

There's a difference between a wall and a door. A wall is something you're holding shut on purpose. You know it's there, you just don't want to look. A door is something you haven't found yet. The map shows you both, plus your growing edge — the one thing most worth working on next.

You'll get your own personalised report by email.

Take the free 2-minute quiz: skillfulmind.com.au/awakening-map/

Common myth: meditation means stopping your thoughts.It doesn't, and chasing that is a good way to get frustrated and qu...
28/08/2026

Common myth: meditation means stopping your thoughts.

It doesn't, and chasing that is a good way to get frustrated and quit. Thoughts arise on their own, unscheduled, mostly out of your control. What you're training is your relationship to them — noticing one has come up instead of getting swept along in it.

A quiet mind is sometimes a side effect. It's never the entry requirement.

Meditation tomorrow morning.Online. Free. 9am ACST.All welcome — and the last one I'll personally be on for a couple of ...
28/08/2026

Meditation tomorrow morning.

Online. Free. 9am ACST.

All welcome — and the last one I'll personally be on for a couple of weeks. The link and the group still run as usual.

skillfulmind.net/zoom

Equanimity doesn't mean not caring. It means caring without the story running underneath about how things absolutely hav...
21/08/2026

Equanimity doesn't mean not caring. It means caring without the story running underneath about how things absolutely have to turn out.

Easiest place to practise it — something small and mildly annoying today. Traffic, a slow reply, a plan that changes at the last minute. Notice the moment your mind starts insisting it should be different, and just let that insistence go slack for a second.

That's the whole practice, over and over, in tiny doses.

If you've never come along to Sunday Meditation, this is a good week to start.It's free, it's online, it's 9am ACST, and...
18/08/2026

If you've never come along to Sunday Meditation, this is a good week to start.

It's free, it's online, it's 9am ACST, and there's no pressure to have any experience. Some weeks it's five of us, some weeks it's twenty five — either way it's steady, guided, and a genuinely good way to build the habit.

skillfulmind.net/zoom

Most people think meditation is about clearing the mind. It isn't — it's closer to training a muscle.Every time your att...
16/08/2026

Most people think meditation is about clearing the mind. It isn't — it's closer to training a muscle.

Every time your attention wanders and you notice and bring it back, that's not failure, that's the actual exercise. The bicep curl of meditation. You don't get a flat mind by wishing for it; you get steadier attention by doing the return, over and over, thousands of times.

If your mind wandered fifty times in your last sit, you didn't have a bad sit. You did fifty reps.

I am continuing to find ways in which to use AI to help me get my message out. Not in an automated way, but with more au...
16/08/2026

I am continuing to find ways in which to use AI to help me get my message out. Not in an automated way, but with more authenticity. It would be so easy to just automate everything away so I can see the real risk there.

But the time AI save can also be of benefit to help me think deeper and be more thoughtful about what I post.

I hope you are all receiving the benefit and I would be curious for those of you running your own wellness practice if you are finding the same as me. Let me know below.

This morning — Sunday Meditation, and I'll be back on it myself for the first time in a few weeks.9am ACST, online, free...
15/08/2026

This morning — Sunday Meditation, and I'll be back on it myself for the first time in a few weeks.

9am ACST, online, free, all welcome. Huge thanks to everyone who kept it running while I was away.

skillfulmind.net/zoom

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