Be Mindful Fife

10/05/2026

27/04/2026

Restoring Wholeness: Awareness as the Solid Ground for Compassionate Somatic Practice

Date: Saturday 20 June 2026
Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm
Venue: Dunfermline Wholeness Centre
Address: Music Hall Lane, Dunfermline KY12 7LW

In this Day of Practice, I invite you to connect with, cultivate, and rest in awareness.

For Saki Santorelli decades of mindfulness teaching in medical clinics revealed something remarkable. He observed, there is a witnessing presence within us — an awareness that remains intact even when everything built around it has fallen apart. Illness, loss, and the shattering of life as we know it cannot touch it.

As we begin to understand that awareness is one of the few constants in life, it can become the foundation for restoring our sense of wholeness or stability — whatever is happening. The day will begin by cultivating this awareness, learning to recognise ‘where the light gets in’, and meeting what we find with a compassionate, felt sense.


Cost: £40.00
Concessions: £20.00 — two places reserved for those who are unpaid or experiencing financial difficulty
What to bring: a yoga mat, blanket, cushion, notebook, pen, and curiosity
Places: Limited to 12 — book early to avoid disappointment
Email: bill@bemindfulfife.co.uk

18/04/2026

This is how your triggers reflect your pain..

09/04/2026

"She let go.
Without a thought or a word,
she let go.
She let go of the fear.
She let go of the judgments.
She let go of the confluence of
opinions swarming around her
head.
She let go of the committee
of indecision within her.
She let go of all the 'right' reasons.
Wholly and completely, without
hesitation or worry, she just let go.
- No one was around when it
happened.
There was no applause or congratulations.
No one noticed a thing.
Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just
let go.
There was no effort.
There was no struggle.
It wasn't good and it wasn't bad.
It was what it was, and it is just that.
In the space of letting go, she let
it all be.
A light breeze blew through her.
And the sun and the
moon shone forevermore.."

~ Jennifer Eckert Bernau

07/04/2026

It’s Easter Monday, as I write this, and I am just home from a wedding in the gorgeous countryside of Devon, England. This was the first time that I have been away from home at Easter time and I wa…

07/04/2026

Every creative person is a duality or a synthesis of contradictory qualities.
On the one side he is a human being with a personal life, while on the other he is an impersonal creative process.
As a human being he may be sound or morbid, and his personal psychology can and should be explained in personal terms.
But he can be understood as an artist only in terms of his creative achievement.
We should make a great mistake if we reduced the mode of life of an English gentleman, or a Prussian officer, or a cardinal, to personal factors.
The gentleman, the officer, and the high ecclesiastic function as impersonal officials, and each role has its own objective psychology.
Although the artist is the exact opposite of an official, there is nevertheless a secret analogy between them in so far as a specifically artistic psychology is more collective than personal in character.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him.
As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is “man” in a higher sense—he is “collective man,” a vehicle and moulder of the unconscious psychic life of mankind.
That is his office, and it is sometimes so heavy a burden that he is fated to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.
As K. G. Carus says:
“Strange are the ways by which genius is announced, for what distinguishes so supremely endowed a being is that, for all the freedom of his life and the clarity of his thought, he is everywhere hemmed round and prevailed upon by the Unconscious, the mysterious god within him; so that ideas flow to him—he knows not whence; he is driven to work and to create—he knows not to what end; and is mastered by an impulse for constant growth and development he knows not whither.” ~Carl Jung, CW 15, Para 157
https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog/2021/06/06/creative-8/

07/04/2026

My friend and colleague, Douglas has 15 years of working in father inclusion across three organisations Fathers Network Scotland, Home-Start Scotland and Circle.

The short paper published here examines the systemic barriers to father inclusion in family services across Scotland and proposes a trauma-informed, restorative framework for supporting fathers and families.

Drawing on policy developments including The Promise and Whole Family Wellbeing funding, he argues that father inclusion is essential to social justice and family wellbeing.

The paper explores how historical trauma, cultural barriers, and institutional biases have marginalized fathers in service provision, and presents evidence-based principles for creating father-inclusive services that benefit all family members and contribute to addressing child poverty and intergenerational trauma.

By Douglas Guest (Contact: douglas_guest@yahoo.co.uk) Summary This paper is my personal reflection of 15 years of working in father inclusion across three organisations Fathers Network Scotland, Home-Start Scotland and Circle. It examines the systemic barriers to father inclusion in family services....

31/03/2026

“Living itself is an art – in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man. Its object is not this or that specialized performance, but the performance of living, the process of developing into that which one is potentially. In the art of living, man is both the artist and the object of his art; he is the sculptor and the marble; the physician and the patient” Erich Fromm (1947) Man For Himself, p. 17.

30/03/2026

28/03/2026

Mindfulness in the boxing gym for young men - it's already happening.
Positive motives and intentions.
Postive role models.
Positive mindsets.
Knocking out the hating; the shaming and the misogyny.
Coming to Scotland soon https://www.bodyandmind.training/community
https://vimeo.com/1112266496?fl=pl&fe=vl

BAM! Started as a fusion of non-contact boxing and mindfulness which was awarded the national Innovations in Mindfulness Award 2022 and is delivered in the elite sports world and to disadvantaged communities. It’s evolved to use non contact boxing and a range of physical exercise combined with sim...