Mags Bell

Mags Bell is the founder and director of Creating Powerful Results speaking and coaching practice and has been coaching for over 20 years. She’s seen by many as an expert in her field. Her clients have included Chief Executives and Directors of private and public organisations. Her book gives insights into coaching and the benefits that you can achieve through being coached or using coaching as a leadership tool.

The Last Full Day of Vipassana Course…The Last Morning of Silence!

2nd February 2018

I awoke to the gong at 4am as always and realised this was the last full day of the Vipassana course…the last morning of silence. Wow, where did that time go! Today would be different from all other days on this course as today we get to break the vow…Read More

Snake Encounter Of The Penultimate Kind

6th December 2017

As I entered the 9th day, the penultimate day Vipassana Meditation…in actual fact it was the penultimate to the end of the offical course but as the 10th day of the course ends late in the evening we have another day before we leave…I was feeling very balanced and I…Read More

The Marvels of Impermanence and Balance

28th October 2017

At lunch on day six, after the learnings of the morning session on aversion and craving causing misery and suffering and the ignorance of the mind to reaction, impermanence and balance; I took a walk to the pond. Having looked in that pond for a number of days now, I…Read More

Daily Routine and Excruciating Pain

13th October 2017

By day six, I was well into the routine of our 10hr meditation day, observing excruciating pain and other sensations, rest periods and dining. I made a point of getting up as soon as the 4am deep sounding bell went…feeling very grateful to the old student who got up earlier…Read More

The Teaching of Vipassana – Awareness, Observation and Equanimity

4th October 2017

Day four was the day we started learning the Vipassana meditation technique. Seeing things as they really are. This means learning the awareness of how the senses meet the mind and matter (body). Observing the changes that are happening in our bodies, nano second after nano second. Learning how to…Read More

The Power In Detaching Our Emotion From Our Mind.

27th September 2017

As I had expected; the silent part was the easy part of this 10 day silent Vipassana meditation course…even for someone who speaks for a living! As everyone had taken the vow of Noble Silence, there is a respect for self and others, you are also asked not to signal,…Read More

What Happens To A Speaker On A 10 Day Silent Meditation Course?

19th September 2017

So there I was in the sub-tropical hinterland of the Sunshine Coast in Australia at a wee town called Pomona. I had arrived about two hours early for my 10 days Silent Vipassana Meditation Course.