Author: Michael Neill
Are You Willing to Be Wrong?
The Story of Me
When Humanity and Divinity Collide
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The ‘X’ Factor in Predicting the Future
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…
A Whole New Way of Thinking About Mindfulness
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…
Why Understanding leads to Meditation more often than Meditation leads to Understanding
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…
Owning Your Self
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Where Confidence Comes From
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…
The Secret of What Matters Most
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…