NEIL MORBEY
Would you like to learn inner peace?
Neil Morbey is a coach, counsellor and group facilitator for Positively-Mindful.com ; focusing on being a mindful adult in a modern world of triggers, traumas and overwhelm.
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Hi, I'm Neil Morbey. I've been obsessed with rock climbing for 20 years and I worked long hours as a Landscape Architect for 10 years. Throughout all of this I had incredible adventures, but I was avoiding something. Since bullying in secondary school and spinal surgery at seventeen I had been using work and pleasure to distract myself from my underlying emotions, and to avoid my social anxiety and fear of being inadequate and weak.
This all began to change when I tried to meditate. I picked up a basic book, read the instructions and began. As I focused on my bodily sensations I observed frustration, pain, heartache. There was emotion in my body and mind and it was unbearable. Tears streamed down my face and I had to shake on the floor to calm down. I realised then, this was the start of a journey of healing and self-discovery. Over the next few years I trained in many mind-body modalities as a way of trying to understand myself and change the way I think and feel. What I didn't know then is that, rather than change myself, the path of healing lay in accepting myself, exactly as I am, and learning to respond to my judgemental thoughts with kindness and compassion. This changed my relationship to my emotions, my pain and my sense of self. As the relationship became more friendly my body relaxed and healed. I opened up to people and became less serious, less anxious and more calm and compassionate. It remains my life's work. I was lucky enough to meet Mark Dunn on this journey. He taught me powerful philosphies and techniques. We formed a friendship and I began to teach meditation and self-enquiry alongside him. Next I began to focus on RELATIONSHIPS! I could see relationships as a powerful vehicle for self-discovery, but also a way to help us to return to the principles of love and co-regulation. Life is as valid and powerful as qualifications, in my opinion. I am grateful to have been in relationship to people who reflected back at me my own blind spots of resentment, judgement, and disempowerment. Through honest and vulnerable relating I have become more intimate with myself and I am now in connection with a loving partner, family and community, which continues to teach me how to trust in love and communicate authentically. These lessons, along with my counselling training have led me to teach Building Secure Attachments plus mentoring, individual coaching and couples therapy. A Summary of Relevant Life Experience
I value lived experience as much as formal qualifications. My life has given me hard-earned insight into attachment, resilience, intimacy, and self-regulation.
These experiences continue to inform my work. I believe everyone carries meaningful life wisdom, and my role is to help clients recognise and integrate their own experiences with clarity, compassion, and self-respect. 
Learning mindfulness from the real master
Key Life Experince
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A summary of Neil's qualifications:
I've committed to learning and growing continuously and here is a list of the work I've done to date:
If you want to see more check out my TEDx TALK here
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MARK DUNN
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Mark Dunn, PositiveMeditation.com
"Despite an outwardly successful life - a senior position in the music industry, the perfect family, a beautiful house etc - I had always suffered from a seemingly uncontrollable mind. My inner world was very far from perfect. Endless negative thinking caused mood swings and exhaustion and finally led to the break-up of my marriage. Shortly afterwards I reached rock bottom. I could no longer live with the constant churning of my worrying mind and realized that I had to find a new way of being. So I began to search for wisdom and for techniques that could release me from suffering. I left my job in London and, over the next five years, worked with yogis, spiritual masters, mindfulness experts and meditation teachers and studied with the wise and liberated in various places around the world. The more I learned, the more I experienced joy and inner freedom. Through combining the best aspects of the most powerful methods, I found a solution that worked for me. As a result, I started to develop my own practice, which slowly evolved into Positive Meditation, which works in conjunction with Positively-Mindful. Through the application of Positive Meditation I was able to stop myself as I entered into negative thought patterns. This new way of being changed my life dramatically and I began to live in The Now. Over time, I have developed the profound ability to love and accept whatever life throws at me and this has been a great liberation. As my practice evolved, I noticed that friends started coming to me with their own problems and that I was able to help them. I decided to offer Positive Meditation to everyone that wanted to try it. Now, over six years later, thousands have tried the technique and many continue to tell their friends about it. Check out my website: positivemeditation.com |
Mark Dunn, Mindfulness Teacher
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Neil's manner is something that I have never seen in any practitioner before. He created an absolutely trusting, safe and non-judgemental environment where he positively challenged me, he provided me with worthy insights and easy tools to use in my day to day life, and we also had a lot of fun. (Lulu, 1-1 Client, 2015)