Every week I go to a school where the girls are introduced to meditation and are given mentoring help with this practice through their school life. You can imagine just what the level of activity is like when all the bustle of a school is going on round you and your student. There is the rest of the school singing a really catchy tune and going up and down the scales, there are feet passing by and there is simply the energy of over 500 people in one building, all of whom are brimming with life.
This week my student and I were considering just how difficult it is to keep the attention steady whilst all this stuff is going on around you and we came to a view that if you just let the activity be what it is, it might be easier than trying to stop the ear from following the sounds and the inner singer from trying to join in with the music. And it makes a difference, it really does. There I was, meditating and happy with the sounds going on and I found that I didn't need to project my ear out through the space to catch them. To be able to see what the mind is doing through meditation is really what we now term mindfulness.
On November 20th, Richard Burnett a teacher at Tonbridge School who co founded the Mindfulness in Schools programme will be speaking at an event at St Martin-in-the-Fields. The subject is Meditation, it's tradition, practice and relevance today. The other speakers will be talking about the tradition and practice and he will be talking about it's relevance to young people today. The event is called just this day and there is room for you to come too! See the details and register on the just this day website
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