The power to change the world
Have you ever believed that life is unfair? That the system in which you live and work is failing you in some way? And that there is nothing you can do to change it...
Author: nicola
Gratitude
I remember lying in my grandmother’s bed at night when we visited. I was four or five years old and my Nana used to sing to me and tell me to count my blessings...
LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE
I was feeling rather horrible the other day. The pain in my hip was so bad I couldn’t even get out to walk the dog, it seemed there was nothing but scare-mongering and hatred...
MAKING MISTAKES
I’ve made plenty of mistakes in my life, things I wish I’d never said or done: like running down a hill into a bog at a gymkhana when I was eleven. Oh, the embarrassment...
Why change isn’t so simple until it is!
Have you ever wondered why, when you go on holiday, it’s so easy to have a good time? You laugh, have fun, everything seems so easy and so simple. The answer to this question...
Happiness, Satisfaction and Self-Esteem
Human beings are hard wired to seek pleasure and avoid pain, so everything you do, every behaviour pattern you’ve ever acquired, is based on that underlying premise. When you think about everything you’d like...
A CHANGE IS AS GOOD AS A REST
Two evenings a week I run a Meditation Room – space where people can come and be guided through a meditation to make them relax and feel good. This week, one of my participants...
CARRY ON REGARDLESS
You know what it’s like when you are trying to make some kind of personal change for the better, I’m currently working on thinking more positively, and it just doesn’t seem to work. I...
MEDITATION AND THOUGHTS
I was listening to an expert talking about the myths of meditation – the first being that you clear all thoughts from your mind. Duh! We have 60-80,000 thoughts a day. Jeez, no wonder...
THE WAY TO FEEL LOVED STARTS WITH LOVING YOURSELF
I was talking with someone the other day when out of the blue they admitted that they have never really felt loved. They had been in relationships, one of them for some years, but...