In 2001, I became a parent. I was already a Buddhist and a meditator. But I didn’t understand how to integrate meditation into my daily life as a parent.

In both of my previous posts (TEAM CBT and Yan Shou Gong), I’ve mentioned “testing”. Testing is also an extremely important discipline in software engineering.

Since my teens, I have had an interest in the Martial Arts, and practiced Nanbudo for a few years back then.

Time for something of a flurry of backlogged posts. Here goes with the first… I have for some time been aware of the possibility of rapid change within humans.

In Prediction Error Minimisation theory, a key reason for the brain to work hard to avoid a prediction error, is because a prediction error is costly.

After reading about Prediction Error Minimisation in Lisa Feldman Barrett’s How Emotions are Made, I have been finding it explains more and more, and have been using it effectively in a range of therapeutic scenarios.

In February, I wrote about AI and inquiry. I didn’t write about another conversation I had with ChatGPT: Around the same time, I asked it “What is the connection between PEM and emotions.

When we experience something unpleasant, it is common to ask ourselves why this is happening. Many forms of counselling ask this question.

This week I’ve been visiting my parents. I decided to attend a local Kung Fu class (I’ve been learning Kung Fu myself for the last couple of years).

Whilst I have been having great success with the exercises that I referenced in my previous post, there is one context in which this approach does not appear to work.

I have just uploaded some new content to the Odoki Method site. This content details some of the exercises I’ve been using with clients.

My approach to meditation has always had a flavour if inquiry about it. However, discovering Liberation Unleashed (LU) showed me a more concrete and deliberate approach to inquiry.

Over the last decade, I have been exposed to, and benefitted from some substantial, even life changing practices. A natural response to this is to want to share it with others, as many people in my position go on to do.

Before I talk about a few different approaches that can help people approach Fundamental Wellbeing, I want to explore why I am writing this blog.