Our body’s ego and physical, mental and emotional needs can be tricky bastards. It’s like being an alcoholic or drug addict, when we’re not being mindful we revert to type. With mindfulness training we can gain insight into our faults and indoctrinations, identify them and change our behaviour to become a wiser person, but we need to be permanently vigilant or we regress.

It’s like swimming upstream, if we stop swimming, we go backwards. The Buddha said that once we’ve built a house it’s important to keep the roof in good repair. The ego is a very powerful narcotic.

I’ve watched many students improve with training on all levels, body, mind and emotional intelligence and as soon as they get lazy or distracted it’s like when the alcoholic takes that ‘one drink’. The ego will then play every dirty trick in the book to keep them in a state of apathy or distraction and our society constantly feeds it. We have to keep an internal locus of power or we are lost.

And there is always a plethora of fake gurus to make them think that they’re still on the path…..