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Podcast Interview with Valeria Teles – Fit for Joy
Valeria Teles interviews Mike Jenkins — the author of “The Gift of the Present: How to Experience More Peace, Joy and Happiness Through Present Moment Awareness.” The practice of present moment awareness take us directly INTO the raw experience of life in this...
I Meet the Space, the Space Meets Me
I Meet the Space, the Space Meets Me An interesting thing happened last night at my first offering of Guided Meditation and Present Moment Awareness Practice at Wagtail Coffee & Yoga in Chichester. No one turned up. Well... correction I turned up. And so, as...
Life Happening
I wake. Drink water. Make tea. Check messages. Drink tea. Empty dishwasher, load washing machine. Make eggs. Reply to messages. Shower, dress, tidy room. Sit at computer. Begin work. Thoughts and feelings happen like that too. Just one appearing after another....
The World Needs an Awakened Heart
There are many reasons why we may personally want to return to an inner and outer state of peace, power, tranquility, creativity, joy, happiness and wholeness. Every human arrives here with pain and no one is immune from suffering, old age and death. So, we all have...
Being Present in all States
Present Moment Awareness is not ONLY about reaching states of calm and bliss and contentment. Often, spending short amounts of time in Present Moment Awareness can provide us with the motivation to take inspired action and to embrace positive transformation.
Begin Again
On any given day, at any given moment, we can begin again. We can clear away the cups and plates from yesterday, straighten up our desk, take a deep breath and begin again. Sometimes, it takes immense courage. About 6 years ago, I was not in such a good place. A...
Free to Be Your True Self
I was always wary of any teachings that promised a return to 'your true self'. Mainly because this much sought after being seemed always to be presented as some kind of pristine version of myself that just didn't ring...well... true! Words such as limitless, pure,...
Only The Dimension of Spirit Will Quench Your Thirst for Truth
At some point in our lives, for some of us, the thirst for truth arises. At first, this existential longing can be quite unsettling. In my own life, I recall feeling a constant sense of dissatisfaction and a deep yearning in my gut that simply would not ease, no...
The Healing Power of Present Moment Awareness
The Healing Power of Present Moment Awareness Mike gives a recorded talk on Present Moment Awareness and the healing power and wisdom it can provide for us.
Present Moment Awareness
Exploring the healing power that is already awake in the wisdom, clarity and unconditional openness of Present Moment Awareness. Turn Toward the Open Space of This Moment and Awaken to Witness Consciousness These days, Mindfulness is one of those buzz words that we...
The Dark Night of the Soul: A Journey from Absence to Presence
So very happy to see my friend Fiona Robertson has written a new book: The Dark Night of the Soul: A Journey from Absence to Presence. Fiona and I met via my blog (which at the time was called Nothing Saying This) and eventually met in Leicester when I spoke about my...
The Joy of No Purpose
I used to feel dreadful if I felt what I was doing had no real purpose. I would avoid meaningless tasks and activities, choosing instead to fill my mind with theories of philosophy or art or politics. I wanted to be intellectually stimulated and to feel that what I...
How Does Awakening Change Everyday Experiences?
How Does Your Insight and Experience of Awakening Make a Difference When Challenges Come? For some of us, there are still things to achieve and work towards in our everyday incarnation. In our relative lives, in our work and relationships, many of us still have things...
What Is Your True Self Anyway?
I was always wary of any teachings that promised a return to 'your true self'. Mainly because this much sought after being seemed always to be presented as some kind of pristine version of myself that just didn't ring...well... true! Words such as limitless, pure,...
Returning to Your True Self
This week I decided to re-name my website, changing the name from Nothing Saying This to Heart of Presence. Seven years ago, I began writing about awakening experiences on this blog and titled it 'Nothing Saying This'. To me at the time, nothing was not merely an...
The Embrace of Yourself
Whenever I invest in a self image that is not wholly true, I suffer. What is wholly true, embraces the absolute and relative realms of our directly experienced reality. It may be relatively true that I feel fear and doubt at times but those feelings are not ultimately...
Home in the Heart of Presence
I have just written and recorded a guided meditation called 'Home in the Heart of Presence'. This meditation can be used to help you make contact with the timeless dimension of presence already within you. By becoming more and more familiar with this dimension, you...
Awakening Is Not a Magic Pill
For so long I imagined and dreamed that waking up would be like taking a magic pill. I dreamed that depression and anxiety and other mental and emotional difficulties would just vanish into thin air. When I was really honest with myself, like so much of my desperate...
Be and Be Free
When it feels like the world is closing in around your head and the pressure feels unbearable, take a moment to just stop. Stop and notice the silence. Stop and notice the space. Stop and notice that there is something here that is not pressured, something here that...
The Eternal Discovery
Extract from Fragments of Being - by Mike Jenkins Purchase Fragments of Being This is the eternal discovery. Discovering that being is being all that arises is this living realisation. It’ so easy to settle and get comfortable with understanding or clarity, to make a...
The Embrace that Transforms
Extract from Chapter One of my new book. Like so many spiritual seekers, I was hoping to win the spiritual lottery and finally wake up an enlightened being. I imagined this would fix me and my life and bring all sorts of wonderful prizes. I dreamed that I would never...
Egocentric Living and the End of Suffering
After months of prevarication, I have finally started to write my next book! Here is an extract from an early chapter. Egocentric Living and the End of Suffering After about 5 years of working as a professional actor, with some promising but ultimately false starts, I...
The End of Longing
For most of my adult life, I lived with the constant sensation that somehow, something very important was missing. I lived with an almost permanent niggling feeling of lack. This sensation took various forms and led me to look for various fixes... from smoking,...
In The Stillness of the Heart
Here, in the stillness of the heart it ultimately matters not what storms rage around. Indeed, all the storms of feeling, emotion, sensation and thought eventually come to rest in and know the stillness of the heart. It is the final winner, this stillness. It has the...