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| Introduction |
| A Personal Note |
| Questions Answered |
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What is Breathing Space? |
Breathing Space is a short course in meditation. Sitting. Just sitting, that’s all. Simple to learn - you can pick up the technique in minutes - but you can keep doing it for a lifetime and still discover something new each day. | |||||
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Although the practice of meditation involves sitting still, seemingly doing nothing, the application in everyday life is a matter of remembering to flip from one point of view to another. The more you remember to do that, the more you gain a feeling of freedom and relief; but overcoming a lifetime’s habits takes daily practice and effort. It’s not a quick fix for everything in your life.
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Breathing Space is non-religious. |
It’s for people who are curious about how their minds work and how they can reduce stress and anxiety, but who don’t want incence, bells, robes or candles. |
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Meditation techniques have been taught in a religious context for centuries. I have no argument with those rich and generous traditions - indeed most Bspace techniques are Buddhist in origin. I believe, however, that many modern people are missing out on information that could make a difference to their daily lives because of an aversion to religious talk or vague New Age imagery. Bspace gives you the bare essentials - a starting position from which you move in whatever religious or psychological direction you want.
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Breathing Space is an introduction. |
For many people it will be all they ever need to know about meditation. It is not a deep spiritual tradition, a therapy or a comprehensive psychological model. |
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Bspace aims to ‘lighten the load’ - to make your life easier. It doesn’t claim to be an Answer, nor to provide a path to psychological fulfilment or spiritual enlightenment. Some Yoga devotees may look down their noses at the simple teaching going on in local evening classes. Sure, it isn’t a spiritual tradition, but nevertheless thousands of people are becoming a little more supple, feeling a little less pain. Bspace hopes to do the same thing for meditation. If you take Bspace and find you want to delve deeper, there are links and recommendations. |
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