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At the end of last year, I had made a switch. Or more accurately a switch had been made for me. Instead of being an author who created meditations to augment his books, I became a full blown meditation creator and...
A Year for Stepping Up
Before embarking on another year, it pays dividends to reflect on the year just gone. For me, 2016 was one amazing year and an example of how any formal goal setting can actually hamper our progress. So-called "SMART...
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Three Wise Men [2016]
It's traditional around this time of year for Three Wise Men to come from the East bearing gifts. This year on the Zone Show podcast is no different, apart from two of them hailing from the West, namely Mitch Horowitz...
Getting the Whole World Meditating
In Autumn 2015, my meditations got discovered by the Insight Timer app, and its marvelous community of worldwide meditators. I discovered that people seemed to really like them....
Meditation : Your Ally in Transition
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Master Charles Cannon on the Zone Show recently after reading his book, Living an Awakened Life. I highly recommend the book and you can listen to the podcast here. Around 26m30s...
Five Ways to Access the Astral World of Doctor Strange
I had the great pleasure of seeing Dr Strange this weekend - the 3D version highly recommended. There's a great scene where The Ancient One, sublimely played by Tilda Swinton, pushes the astral component of a sceptical...
A Map of the Heart
Line 1 : Meditations These 10 meditations accompany my new book, The Authority Guide to Practical Mindfulness. Travel time is just 100 minutes stopping at each 'station' for 10 minutes over 10 days. Buy the book and ride...
Meditation is Better Than Cookies
After listening to one of my sample meditations on the free Insight Timer app, Dr Ashley Curiel got in touch. She read my new book and listened to the 10 companion meditations for 10 days. Here's what she had to say...
The Cascade of Creativity
The difference between people who have success with their ideas and people who just have brilliant ideas is their ability and propensity for getting things done. Some people are naturals at making things happen and...
Minds of Manifestation
You may have come across the idea of creating a vision board which pictorially represents and encapsulates your dreams. They are reasonably effective tools for delivery of our goals. When it comes to manifestation, if...
Applications of the Pineal Ray
Just as for our heart, each of our chakra points has a ray associated with it. These rays are bi-directional so they receive and transmit. They can be directed anywhere in time and space and focused, softened or...
Applications of the Heart Ray
Several hundred thousands of years ago, humankind went through a magical stage in their evolution. They got 'The Word' and became self-aware. The acquisition of self-awareness may have been gradual, or overnight, as such...
Cataracts of the Third Eye
Earlier this week, as I shook the hand of the eye surgeon, Mr Simon Horgan, after having the second of two cataracts removed, I said, “No more eyes to do then". As soon as I said this, I realised that we all possess a...
Just a Month
There's something intriguing happening to time that I feel I should share with you. Time as we know it is a'changin' and the speed of its passage becoming controllable by our state of consciousness. While many people...
Streams of Thought
Albert Einstein was renowned for his thought experiments. The whole Theory of Relativity came from him musing whimsically about what it would be like to ride on a beam of light. Now neuroscientists are not totally sure...
May on the Zone Show
This month on the podcast has been amazing with another eclectic set of guests, now taking the show to 120,000 listeners. If you've been a guest or listener, I would be ever so grateful for your help. You can listen to...
Living in the Loving Zone
It's said that when you love the work you do, with people you love to be with, then you will never work as such again. I am blessed with this kind of life and while out walking my dogs this morning, it 'came to me' that...
Mindblowing Indecision
Do you ever get the feeling you don’t know if you are coming or going some days? Perhaps you feel you are continually at a fork in the road, not knowing whether to turn left or right. You may simply be suffering from...
April on the Zone Show
After reaching the 100,000 listeners milestone last month, the podcast has subtly morphed from being a 'nice-thing-to-do' to being a business. I have realised the 'business-in-hand' is to take a proactive role in...
Five Reasons to Start Living Heart-fully
We humans have an amazing, special and magical ability that we often take for granted. We can think. From quite an early age, most people gain the ability to talk to themselves, and each other. As a result, from when we...
Awakening with Heart
There was a time when our ancestors walked the planet who were very like us physically, yet they had not developed fully what we take for granted these days. They did not possess our magical ability to be self-aware....
Who’s ‘Watching’ Over You ?
watch [verb] : to observe, to keep a look out, to view watch [noun] : a timepiece, a chronometer (worn on the wrist or carried in a pocket) From when we are born until we leave the planet, time is superimposed upon us...
Switching to EMT
Extended Me Time - EMT People of the world work to all sorts of different times standards. For some of the year, the UK is on GMT, at other times it shifts by an hour to BST. I interview guests for the Zone Show podcast...
Your Best Year Yet
As we embark on a new orbit of the Sun, it not only pays dividends to make plans for the next year ahead but also to reflect on what unfolded in the year just gone. That was 2015 For me, 2015 was a year of generation...
Three Wise Men [2015]
For quite some time this year, I had only female guests on the Zone Show. I was starting to think that the intelligent male of the species we call 'homo sapiens' had left the planet. In the same way buses have the habit...
A Synthesis of Time
As we approach the feast of Christmas, very often another temporal milestone gets missed and that's the Winter Solstice. Both dates have their significance and their differences. The 25th December is a man-made date that...
Temporal Alchemy
Quarter 4 : Five Temporal Takeaways This is the last of four sneak previews of what's inside my forthcoming book, Managing Time Mindfully, published on the 11th December 2015 Temporal Takeaway #1: We can become hampered...
Managing Time
Quarter 3 : Five Temporal Takeaways This is the third of four sneak previews of what's inside my forthcoming book, Managing Time Mindfully, published on the 11th December 2015. Temporal Takeaway #1: When we...
Perceptions of Time
Quarter 2 : Five Temporal Takeaways This is the second of four sneak previews of what's inside my forthcoming book, Managing Time Mindfully, being published on the 11th December Temporal Takeaway #1: The idea that the...
First Tickings
Quarter 1 : Five Temporal Takeaways This is the first of four sneak previews of what's inside my forthcoming book, Managing Time Mindfully, being published on the 11th December Temporal Takeaway #1: It is thought that...
7 Practical Benefits of Meditation
Meditation isn't about sitting cross legged in a darkened cave chanting “Ommm”. It is estimated that every minute spent meditating comes back to you several times over ... in a myriad of ways. Here’s seven ways your...
Publishing in Tune with the Moon
Last week while away on what was to be a walking holiday, an unexpected broken leg meant I ended up writing a little more than I planned. The Universe obviously had a different type of ’break' in mind for me. I wrote a...
Reclaim the Magic
Dame Lee Milteer is an internationally known and celebrated entrepreneur, shaman, best selling author, award winning professional speaker, TV personality, and Intuitive Business Mentor. In this enlightening podcast, Lee...
The Rider on the Elephant
Author, actor, motivational speaker and stage hypnotist, James Mapes, shares his wisdom on who and what is really 'driving the bus' in our lives. This podcast includes a 10 minute meditation at the end which should not...
Near Death Experiences
Author and world leading expert on Near-Death Experiences, PMH Atwaters, share her wisdom this process which is more common than is thought. She has died and come back three times so has been there and got the NDE...
The Performance of Poetry
Author and performance poet, Steve Tasane, share his wisdom on the power and potency of words. He treats us too to two performance poems, one on The Zone and one about Saving the Libraries. [smart_track_player...
Unravelling Podcast Law
Attorney and author of the free ebook, Podcast Law, David Lizerbram explains what we should be aware of as podcasters to avoid falling foul of the law. [smart_track_player...
The Spirit Warrior
The Spirit Warrior podcast from Steve Trister is a new channel of enlightened conversations with enlightened thinker, be-ers and do-ers. [smart_track_player...
Making a Living from Writing
Author and speaker, Joanna Penn, shares the secrets of how to follow your bliss and make a living from writing. This is one podcast to tune into if you want to escape the 9 to 5. Audio version : [smart_track_player...
A Happy Medium
Author, broadcaster and radio show host, Barry Eaton, discusses how we can live a fuller life by embracing the 'other side'. He talks about his transition from broadcasting to being a pyschic and medium and shares his...
The Metrics of Consciousness
Richard Barrett, author, a free thinker and the founder and chairman of the Barrett Values Centre explains the value in measuring consciousness. "Values unite and beliefs separate" Topics we explore: The Value of Values...
Literally Literary London
Theatre producer, podcaster and radio host, Nick Hennegan, tells of his journey to the bright lights of the West End from humble beginnings in Birmingham. [smart_track_player...
The Power of the Podcast
I've been podcasting, with my own show, for a year and a half now. While there have been times when I've harboured doubt and wondered if it's worth the time and commitment it takes, more recently I have come to realise...
The How & Why of Mindfulness Meditation
This week's guest on the Zone Show is Zen Master, author and musician, Joseph Emet. Jospeh shares his wisdom, and his meditative songs, on the how and why of mindfulness meditation. Be prepared to be slightly more...
Thriving in Chaotic Times
This week's guest on the Zone Show is the inspirational author and co-founder of New Dimensions Radio, Justine Willis Toms. Justine shares some wisdom her new book, Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World and...
Just One Domino
Domino 1 : New Magic for a New Era At the end of October last year, I booked a Power Date with the magical Lea Woodward to get a helicopter view on what I was doing and where I was going with my business. One of the...
A Trip Around the Cube of Light
I had the great pleasure a month ago to be introduced to a new tool for personal and business transformation called the Cube of Light. My tour guide was Gary Plunkett and I know I can claim to be the first person ever to...
Interviews are Like Buses
Usually these days, I am the one doing the interviewing on The Zone Show podcast. The emergence of my new book, New Magic for a New Era, seems to have created a whole bundle of conversations where the tables are turned...
Quantum Economics is Vital
I was honoured this week to interview one of my heroes and one of the leading thinkers on the planet at the moment, Amit Goswami, on the Zone Show. His latest book, Quantum Economics: Unleashing the Power of an Economics...