Beauty in Boredom
Meditation practice has become something quite normal in todays rhythm and language. Many of us have a regular practice or know someone...
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Ben Stopford
- Oct 26, 2023
- 3 min
A Great British Stag Do
A phenomenon of the mid 19th century marking the last moments of a man's bachelor years. Back then, Stag Do’s were single-sex events of...
Ben Stopford
- Feb 1, 2023
- 4 min
Our Deepest Values
Dear Reader, Despite a background awareness and innate knowing that money can’t buy happiness, it still tends to dominate our systems of...
Ben Stopford
- Sep 27, 2022
- 3 min
The NHS through a Permaculture Lens
Dear Reader, During a workshop I ran over the weekend we were discussing the application of permaculture beyond (and integrated with)...
Ben Stopford
- Nov 9, 2021
- 6 min
Many Shades of Green
Dear Reader, If you want a pick-me-up, go straight to the sixth paragraph! Or… Perhaps now more than ever, conversations about the state...
Ben Stopford
- May 17, 2021
- 7 min
The Self in Systems Thinking
Many of us have come to see the world as a series of separate objects and ourselves as individual entities that terminate at our skin....
Ben Stopford
- Nov 3, 2020
- 5 min
Thoughts on Trump and COVID-19
“Authentic hope is not a distraction from reality, it is the premonition of a possibility.” Charles Eisenstein Dear Reader, With another...
Ben Stopford
- Apr 8, 2020
- 3 min
Do Not Seek
Dear Reader, I believe there are two keys to unlocking mindfulness. Here we shall focus on what is perhaps the best understood: the...
Ben Stopford
- May 8, 2019
- 5 min
Lost in the Moment
Dear Reader, When we lose ourselves in the music, what is the self that we have lost? This post discusses the possibility that our...
Ben Stopford
- Apr 3, 2019
- 9 min
A Truth of Violence
Dear Reader, I think we would agree that the word violent could legitimately be used to describe the events of factory farms, but it...
Ben Stopford
- Nov 13, 2018
- 4 min
Guilt Free Challenge
Dear Reader, Read mindfully and try not to judge, my intention is not to tell anyone that these methods demonstrate the best way to live...
Ben Stopford
- Nov 12, 2018
- 4 min
The Sad Soul and Unconscious Guilt
Dear Reader, There is a revolution of sadness sweeping across the human planet, in the developed world, books about achieving happiness...
Ben Stopford
- Nov 10, 2018
- 5 min
Connecting to what is Real: Non-Attachment and the Fragmented Self
Dear Reader, Over the last years we have got to the point where our attachment to such a multitude of items and ideas has reached what I...
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