***** Positive Thinking, Happy Living

People associate meditation with calm, peace and tranquillity. What we don't, however, associate it with is
pain. The spiritual wisdom gained through meditation is, nevertheless, all about pain - deep emotional pain. Not removing it but truly feeling it. Sound scary? Well, the truth is that there is no human on Earth who has lived a life free of suffering. This is so universal a fact that the Buddha virtually crafted it into a definition of existence; "life is suffering".

I have worked in the field of mental health for over a decade now, and in this time, I have seen all manner of
mental health problems and difficulties strike all manner of people. In fact, none of us are free from occasional
psychological hang ups - whether it's someone pressing our buttons or a sudden bout of anxiety or despair in a situation we would normally be able to handle with relative ease.