The Reward is the Journey

I was delighted to be asked to prepare and deliver a 'taster' of mindfulness at a recent Family Forum hosted by the charity Missing People. If we can deeply understand the power of the mind;  how we can both injure and benefit this world, we see how practice is not a luxury, but an imperative.   It returns us to ourselves, to our sanity, to our true capacity. Geoffrey Shugen Arnold I have yet to attend an event organised by Missing People from which I depart feeling anything other than very deeply moved.  Being in the presence of those left behind when a loved one has disappeared is a difficult pleasure.   It is difficult in that it challenges me from the inside out.  Despite having been heavily involved in the development of the work the organisation does with families of missing persons in recent years, I have yet to develop any immunity from the shock that reverberates somewhere deep within me, as I contemplate what it means to f...