Author: Michael Neill

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One of the things I love about the work that I do is that when we catch our first glimpse of the thought-created nature of our personal reality, the adventure has just begun. It’s like spending your life stumbling around in a cave and then being handed a lantern. Depending on the degree of illumination, you can see anywhere from a few inches…

Mindfulness, as defined by Wikipedia, is “the intentional, accepting and non-judgmental focus of one’s attention on the emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment”. But for me, mindfulness can be understood at a couple of different levels. At one level of understanding, as described above, mindfulness is simply the opposite of unconsciousness. We can…

I was watching a Syd Banks video once  and he said something to the effect that “if you take a room full of meditators and a room full of people learning the principles, the room full of people learning the principles would “go higher”. I remember thinking that a) that was a pretty funny thing to say and…

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This weekend, I gave a talk on bringing out the best in yourself and others at The Best You exhibition in London. After the talk, one of the participants asked me if I had always been a confident speaker or if it was something which had developed over time. In reflecting on my answer, I realized that…

Back in my early personal development days, I spent many hours with pen and journal in hand trying to create ‘values hierarchies’ – lists of things that mattered to me in the order that they mattered. My lists would vary from year to year, but would inevitably look something like this: Happiness Learning Love Fun…