Meditation Room

26/11/2025

As I say in Meditation Room most weeks - we are part of, and held safe and secure in, the energy matrix we call the Universe!

Quantum science is showing that the universe may be very different from what we imagine. There are no actual particles at the smallest levels. Instead, everything originates from toroidal fields or patterns of energy vibrating in complex ways. What we call matter is not solid; it is energy organized into stable forms. Even your body is a toroidal field of energy, spinning and flowing continuously.

These toroidal fields move in loops, sending energy out and drawing it back in, creating the illusion of solidity. This explains why matter seems stable while remaining fundamentally dynamic. The atoms in your body, the air you breathe, and even the objects around you are all made of coalesced energy patterns. These energy structures interact with each other in subtle and invisible ways.

Because your body is also an energetic toroidal field, you are constantly connected to everything around you. Thoughts, emotions, and intention can influence how energy flows through your field and can resonate with the fields of other objects or beings. This gives new meaning to the idea that everything in the universe is interconnected.

Understanding reality as energy rather than matter helps scientists explore new possibilities. It may improve quantum computing, energy systems, and even our understanding of consciousness. It reveals a universe alive with vibration, resonance, and dynamic relationships.

For humans, this perspective is both humbling and empowering. You are not just a solid body; you are an energetic presence within a vast, connected field. The universe is more alive, flexible, and interactive than we can see, and every atom in your body is part of this energetic web.

22/11/2025

Gratitude meditation anyone?

STUDY SHOWS GRATITUDE REWIRES YOUR BRAIN AND LITERALLY CHANGES HOW YOUR GENES BEHAVE

Gratitude isn’t just good manners - it is good medicine for your brain.

Neuroscience research shows that practicing gratitude activates the medial prefrontal cortex, a brain region tied to emotion regulation, reward processing, and moral judgment.

Functional MRI scans reveal that even brief moments of gratitude can light up this area, potentially enhancing empathy and decision-making. But the effects go beyond the brain. Gratitude is also associated with increased dopamine - the “feel good” neurotransmitter - and may influence serotonin levels, which help regulate mood and social behaviour.

Even more intriguing is emerging evidence that gratitude may affect gene expression through epigenetics. This means it could alter how genes related to inflammation and immunity are expressed, without changing the underlying DNA.

For example, optimistic individuals, who often practice gratitude, have been found to show reduced expression of pro-inflammatory genes. Gratitude is also linked to lower levels of cortisol, the body’s main stress hormone. Over time, those who consistently engage in gratitude practices, such as meditation, may see lasting benefits in stress regulation and overall health.

A small daily habit could be rewiring your body from the inside out.

(The research is published in the journal Scientific Reports.)

15/11/2025

We are One!

In the strange and fascinating world of quantum physics, there exists a phenomenon so mysterious that even Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance.” It’s known as quantum entanglement, and it links particles together in a way that defies space, time, and all known laws of communication.

When two particles become entangled, they share a quantum state—meaning what happens to one instantly affects the other, no matter how far apart they are. You could separate them by galaxies, and still, a change in one would mirror in the other immediately. No signal travels between them, and no measurable delay occurs. It’s as if the universe itself bends to keep them connected.

Scientists have confirmed this effect through countless experiments, proving that reality operates on levels far beyond what our senses can grasp. Quantum entanglement isn’t just a theoretical wonder; it’s now being used to shape future technologies—from unbreakable quantum encryption to faster-than-light communication research and revolutionary computing systems.

What’s truly astonishing is the implication: everything in the universe might once have been entangled during the Big Bang, suggesting that distant corners of space could still be subtly linked through hidden quantum threads.

Entanglement challenges our understanding of distance, time, and individuality. It reminds us that separation might only be an illusion—and that the universe, at its deepest level, moves as one.

15/11/2025

Recycling at its best!

You are not just made of flesh and bone, you are made of cosmic history. Every atom in your body is billions of years old, forged in the heart of ancient stars and scattered across the universe before finding their way into you.

Your calcium was once part of collapsing suns. Your oxygen danced through galaxies. The iron in your blood was born in a supernova. These particles are not new. They’ve existed for eons, passed from stars to planets to plants to people—you’re simply their latest arrangement.

In truth, nothing in your body is “yours” alone. The atoms that make your heart beat today may have belonged to a dinosaur, a tree, or even a drop of prehistoric ocean. You are built from recycled stardust, shaped by time, space, and life itself.

This isn’t just poetic—it’s scientific. Atomic particles are endlessly reused across the cosmos. Life borrows, recycles, and rearranges matter in infinite patterns. You are not a separate creation but a temporary constellation of ancient elements, woven into form for a fleeting moment.

And when your time here ends, those atoms will move on into the soil, the air, perhaps even into another life. You don’t just live in the universe. You are the universe, assembled in human form.

You are ancient. You are borrowed. You are part of everything.

14/11/2025

Perhaps we notice more in deep meditation...

04/11/2025

Isn't it a miracle that you woke up today?
That you opened your eyes?
That you have eyes to open?
That you breathed all night without any conscious effort at all?
Even that there is another day today?
Miracles abound when you stop taking life for granted and notice with a sense of wonder and gratitude.

03/11/2025

03/11/2025

How's your inner lunar clock?
There's a full moon on November 5th...

HUMANS HAVE AN INTERNAL LUNAR CLOCK - BUT LIGHT POLLUTION IS DISRUPTING IT

Most animals, including humans, carry an internal lunar clock, tuned to the 29.5-day rhythm of the Moon. It guides sleep, reproduction and migration of many species. But in the age of artificial light, that ancient signal is fading - washed out by the glow of cities, screens and satellites.

Plenty of research suggests the lunar cycle influences human sleep. A 2021 study found that in Toba Indigenous communities in Argentina, people went to bed 30-80 minutes later and slept 20-90 minutes less in the three-to-five nights before the full Moon.

Similar, though weaker, patterns appeared among more than 400 Seattle students in the same study, even amid the city’s heavy light pollution. This suggests that electric light may dampen but not erase this lunar effect.

The researchers found that sleep patterns varied not only with the full Moon phase, but also with the new- and half-Moon phases. This 15-day rhythm may reflect the influence of the Moon’s changing gravitational pull, which peaks twice each month, during both the full and new Moons, when Sun, Earth and Moon align. Such gravitational cycles could subtly affect biological rhythms alongside light-related cues.

Laboratory studies have supported these findings. In a 2013 experiment, during the full Moon phase participants took about five minutes longer to fall asleep, slept 20 minutes less, and secreted less melatonin (a hormone that helps regulate the sleep-wake cycle). They also showed a 30% reduction in EEG slow-wave brain activity - an indicator of deep sleep.

Perhaps the most striking evidence of a lunar rhythm in humans comes from a study just published analysing long-term menstrual records of 176 women across Europe and the US.

Before around 2010 - when LED lighting and smartphone use became widespread - many women’s menstrual cycles tended to begin around the full Moon or new Moon phases. Afterwards, that synchrony largely vanished, persisting only in January, when the Moon-Sun-Earth gravitational effects are strongest.

Losing the slow, monthly cue of moonlight may mean that our internal clocks now run in a flatter temporal landscape, with fewer natural fluctuations to anchor them. Previous psychological research has found that disconnection from nature can warp our sense of time.

The lunar clock still ticks within us - faint but measurable. It shapes tides, sleep and the rhythms of countless species. Yet as the night sky brightens, we risk losing not only the stars, but the quiet cadence that once linked life on Earth to the turning of the Moon.

31/10/2025

Meditation Room every Tuesday evening at 7.30pm in Hilperton BA14 7RL, and every Monday online - join from anywhere in the world!
Or try meditating with the sound of the gongs - fortnightly in Hilperton from 7th January 2026.

29/10/2025

Next gong sound bath meditation is at the Wiltshire Music Centre on 12 November, 7-8pm