Awakening mentoring in London

[Quicksilver]

I thought I could make progress in my own in this field, but with a busy life, trying to cram some meditating in the train while commuting won't take me far. 

So I'm wondering whether anyone here can point me towards people, coaches or groups which can aid in this quest in London, UK. 

Also, how can I tell if a coach or mentor is the real deal? 

 

Thanks, 

[flowboy]

Signing up for a group won't magically give you the time to practice meditation.

Instead, look at your busy life. Anything you can sacrifice there?

[Michael569]

Headspace, the phone app is a pretty decent thing to get you started especially if you struggle with meditation. Also, there is a a lot of really good Life Coaches around here. Find someone you can resonate with to help you polish your busy schedule and help implement some productive habits. It is necessary to remove any activities and habits that do not serve your spiritual growth and sometimes it may mean making radical changes in career.....happened the same for me and many people in here. 

Like @flowboy said the real growth comes when done alone, in the solitude of your bathroom or bedroom or on a retreat. A busy life is an ultimate excuse that people in this city use but when I looked closely at my own once "extremely busy" schedule I realized there was a shitload of time I was wasting unconsciously, lot of unconscious media browsing, netflix, partying, restaurant eating, wasted hours in gym of walking on treadmil (gym is amazing but one can waste hours doing unproductive stuff here), reading crappy books about manipulation, time travel, vampires and warrior knights, idle socialising (friday night getting shitfaced with friends or just catching up for beer twice a week), talking with people for hours about completely useless topics like TV series and so on...

 

 

[flowboy]

1 hour ago, Michael569 said:

Headspace, the phone app is a pretty decent thing to get you started especially if you struggle with meditation. Also, there is a a lot of really good Life Coaches around here. Find someone you can resonate with to help you polish your busy schedule and help implement some productive habits. It is necessary to remove any activities and habits that do not serve your spiritual growth and sometimes it may mean making radical changes in career.....happened the same for me and many people in here. 

Like @flowboy said the real growth comes when done alone, in the solitude of your bathroom or bedroom or on a retreat. A busy life is an ultimate excuse that people in this city use but when I looked closely at my own once "extremely busy" schedule I realized there was a shitload of time I was wasting unconsciously, lot of unconscious media browsing, netflix, partying, restaurant eating, wasted hours in gym of walking on treadmil (gym is amazing but one can waste hours doing unproductive stuff here), reading crappy books about manipulation, time travel, vampires and warrior knights, idle socialising (friday night getting shitfaced with friends or just catching up for beer twice a week), talking with people for hours about completely useless topics like TV series and so on...

 

 

Such great examples of things to sacrifice! Pretty confronting to read, too ;P

 

@Quicksilver If you are like me, this will probably trigger you and you will hate it, but you might come back to it in six months and realize that it had some truth to it:

 

[Quicksilver]

There is clearly lots to trim from everyone's life, especially when doing this kind of work, I agree. 

But having a small baby, a demanding job and a long commute also eat up a lot of my time. 

I hear you about the life coach, I'd be keen on getting one but I've seen loads of frauds and bs vendors which has put me off for now. Any advice on where to start looking for better ones? 

Thanks