Take a Fresh Look at Meditation from a Nondual Perspective

Mindfulness is a well-known preliminary form of mindtraining; it is flexible, easily taught and learned, and its benefits have been documented by science. However, many more effective meditation practices can be used to train your brain; in most cases, these methods can support increased happiness, wellbeing and success. Follow this link if you’d like to know more about the relationship between mindfulness and traditional meditation.

In today’s fast-paced world, meditation and mindfulness have evolved from spiritual and mind training settings to become mainstream tools for enhancing mental health, promoting happiness, and supporting personal goals. Unfortunately, Western meditation scientists have failed to appreciate the significant differences that exist between different forms of meditation. Despite the publication of 30,000 research papers on meditation and mindfulness, at a cost of at least £5 billion, most mindfulness practices used in clinical settings deliver very modest effects, often no better than placebo. Mindfulness (insight) can reduce heart rate, blood pressure, and skin conductivity, resulting in lower stress levels. But the technique is rarely able to resolve the underlying problems that cause the stress in the first place, challenges such as depression, anxiety, or low self-esteem.    

Despite the considerable investment in mindfulness, hundreds of reliable methods are in regular use today largely in non-clinical settings, some of which can be traced back millennia. Different forms of meditation have been designed to have specific effects, and as you’d expect, stronger forms of meditation can have a more substantial impact on mental health and wellbeing. This concept is well known to traditional meditation practitioners, and there are often restrictions and preconditions linked to who can practice more ’advanced’ forms of meditation. By employing nondual and compassion-based practices, along with mindfulness, we help clients achieve thriving mental states rather than merely coping with the underlying issues.

Dr Stephen Morris is a Master of meditation with over 25 years of experience in research and practice. He has taught hundreds of people how to access the profound psychological benefits of meditation, able to deliver lifelong change. Alongside his mindtraining activity, Stephen has taught meditation to individuals and groups in schools, universities, businesses and other organisations; online and in person.

We rarely teach spiritual meditation practices but rather train people in holistic secular techniques that reflect the values of nondual compassion. Our standard meditation training teaches a three-stage breathing meditation:

Level 1 Recognition and Observation: grounding and understanding the mind.

Level 2 Compassion Practice: training how to generate compassion for self and other.

Level 3 Nondual Compassion: growing and positive transformation.

If you’d like more information about how we use meditation and why, or to book an appointment or join one of our meditation groups, send us a message.