Reconciliation Week being earlier this week plus the heart wrenching death of George Floyd in the USA has triggered, amongst other things, reflection on my childhood. I spent most of my childhood in a small town in the hinterlands of far north Queensland (the rest was spent in Melbourne, quite the contrast). I was aware of many aboriginal and islander people in our local community being unhappy and suffering, but I didn’t really understand why. I remember having to lock my sc

Loving-kindness meditation focuses on developing and generating goodwill, kindness and warmth towards self and others. It is also know as metta (Pali) or maitri (Sanksrit) practice. Along with the many benefits this practice provides such as benefiting wellbeing, improving emotional intelligence and offering relief from illness*, there is now recent research from the University of North Carolina ** which has shown practicing loving-kindness meditation may protect your genes a