JOHN BRADFORD

The impetus for setting up Positivemotion.me came from several online meditation sessions run by myself over five months of 2020 with the involvement of my Friend Elisa who joined in from Italy. These sessions began during the first Covid-19 lockdown period at the end of March and continued with usually four sessions per week until the beginning of September. During these sessions we discovered an interesting correlation between our initial 'Positive emotion' type meditation practice and subsequent creative activities undertaken by us both. The latter included drawing and painting, sculpture and photography, writing either memoirs or poetry and Elisa's Indian Dance practice... I have been practising a variety of meditation forms, mostly from the Buddhist tradition, since 1992 and have been teaching meditation and leading groups since 2004. Several years ago I had the opportunity to lead a short meditation session on TV. This was part of an investigation into the effects of various..