The Genesis of Parts
Alistair talks about Internal Family Systems. The different parts inside us, identified by therapist Richard C Schwartz. We all have parts playing out an internal role, some are vulnerable, whereas ot...
11 Aug 20219min
On being a punchbag
How do you react when someone hurts you? In this recorded teaching, Alistair says it's not ok to be a punchbag. A healthier way is to acknowledge our pain and then try to understand where it is coming...
20 Juli 20215min
Being OK with the not OK
It's easy to be compassionate with yourself when you're feeling OK but we are often very mean to ourselves. In this recorded teaching, Alistair says the essence of self-compassion is being OK with wha...
6 Juli 20216min
Oiling the Cogs with Love
We don't meditate to become good meditators. We meditate to become kind human beings. In this recorded lesson, Alistair discusses steadying the mind and the benefits of different mediation teachings.
22 Juni 20218min
Thoughts ride the Windhorse
From a recorded lesson: Alistair discusses thoughts and thinking with students. It is not thoughts that make us unhappy. Thoughts come and go but it is unconscious thinking, ego thoughts that cause su...
31 Maj 20218min
Bulldozed by thoughts
In answer to a students question, Alistair discusses thoughts and feelings. Instead of being bulldozed by our thoughts, we can learn to dance with them. Gentle familiarisation of the inner landscape i...
18 Maj 20216min
Addiction to suffering
Alistair discusses suffering in a teaching session. We are conditioned to believe that we should be suffering but when you remove 'me' you end the struggle.
11 Maj 20216min
The Emperor's old mind
In this lively recorded teaching Alistair discusses how we can stay in love with our mind and be happy in the here and now.
30 Apr 20216min
