My son just recently got interested in mountaineering and was looking through some of my old photographs of when I climbed South America’s highest mountain. I hadn’t thought about that trip to Aconcagua in a long time. We talked for a while about technical mountaineering, but what really threw him was when I said, “have I ever told you about the day a ghost saved my life?” The Day a Ghost Saved My Life Table Of Contents A Deserted Basecamp An Unexpected Visitor Digging Out Too Many Errors Seeing Faces Everywhere A Hasty Retreat Today is NOT a good day to die Meeting the Ghost that Save ..read more

In this tutorial, I’m going to teach you the easiest way to learn mindfulness and incorporate it into every aspect of your life. Don’t make the mistake of trying to run before you can walk. Learn the skills in an isolated environment first and then take it on the road. Easiest Way to Learn Mindfulness – Don’t Run….Just Walk Table Of Contents The Easiest Way to Learn Mindfulness Mindfulness in a Nutshell Take Baby Steps to Learn Mindfulness 1 – Start by taking control of your environment 2 – Isolate your awareness 3 – Choose your sense 4 – The devil is in the details 5 – Don’t be in a hurry ..read more

Join Mat as he takes you on a journey through your mind and why it causes so much drama these days. This is a deep dive into the power of mindfulness. Regain your control by taking yourself out of your mind and back into your body where it belongs. Mindfulness Deep Dive – All you need to know about mindfulness Table Of Contents Mindfulness Deep Dive – Everything you need to know about mindfulness Why is my mind noisy? Doesn’t seem like a problem? Problem solving – our minds are good at that right? The solution – Mindfulness The Devil is in the Details How does it differ from Meditation? Bes ..read more

In this article, I discuss how you can beat cancer with unconditional love. It’s so easy to practice but will transform your body chemistry into such a healthy state that the cancer doesn’t stand a chance. How to Beat Cancer with Unconditional Love Table Of Contents How to Beat Cancer with Unconditional Love What is Unconditional Love? How Can Unconditional Love Beat Cancer? How to Practice Unconditional Love to Beat Cancer Healing your Whole Body not Just the Cancer Unconditional Love isn’t Working My Cancer is Gone Now What? Summary – Use Unconditional Love to Beat Cancer How to Beat ..read more

In this article, I’m going to teach you how to practice unconditional love and how to incorporate unconditional love into your everyday life. Surprisingly Simple, Unbelievably Powerful Unconditional Love is surprisingly easy to learn, but incorporating it into your everyday life as a natural, instinctive part of your being takes a little more time to master. But don’t worry, the steps are easy and each single step you take towards a “happier you” is worth every ounce of effort. Unconditional Love is a state of being where you replace judgment and comparison of your environment and circumstan ..read more

It’s nothing new, but many people experience stress during the holiday season. It should be a time of great joy and happiness. We have parties to go to. We spend time with friends, eat wonderful food and give gifts to the ones we love. Houses are decorated in beautiful colors and festooned with lights. But despite all that, many people get overwhelmed, stressed, anxious and depressed. Why are the holiday’s so stressful? Well, it seems that there’s just a whole lot more of the stuff that causes stress throughout the rest of the year. More deadlines. More shopping. More traffic. More people in ..read more

Mindfulness and meditation are often misunderstood. This mindless ramble by The Gregarious Hermit will teach you how to be happy anywhere no matter what you’re doing. Even if it differs from what you’d rather be doing. So here’s an interesting and unusual trip around a run down industrial park to demonstrate how the mind makes up stories about your current situation that simply aren’t true. Once the penny drops how mindfulness really works, you will be able to finally let go of the story. Find true inner peace. And be happy with where you are and what you’re doing, even if that differs from w ..read more

Hi everyone. Just checking in with this latest post. I’ve been taking a little break after recently completing my 365 days of “Daily Minute – Mindfulness Videos”. Whilst I really enjoyed making the videos, they did take quite a lot of time to put together. Often 20 minutes to an hour each day, not including getting out and filming. So, I am not going to be sticking to such a rigid schedule going forward. But I will be posting more focused content full of tips and tricks to help you with mindfulness and meditation. I want you to achieve a silent mind and experience true happiness, so hopefully ..read more

I love the basic premise of that statement. I also love that it seems to have become more mainstream whether you’re a seeker or not. Having an “attitude of gratitude” is the same as seeing the glass as being half full. Optimistic. Looking at what you have and not what you don’t. But the deeper meaning of the attitude and why it works so well, is that saying thank you for something stops the mind from complaining. So for example. If I was hiking and I stepped in a puddle that soaked my boots and socks. My mind would usually want to tell me how awful that was. How it would be nicer if I had warm ..read more

Have you ever wondered why Gurus and Spiritual teachers change their name? It might not be why you think. It isn’t used as a distinguished title, so that their followers will worship the ground they walk on. It’s not used to put them on a pedestal and is not an egoic status symbol to be revered. In a nutshell, it’s so that whenever somebody addresses them, they are instantly reminded what they are. Notice I said, WHAT they are, not WHO they are. For example. My name is Mat, short for Mathew. Whenever anybody calls me, “hey Mat”, I know they’re referring to me, but that’s about all. The name do ..read more