CHANGING THE PATTERNS
I was just preparing to start the day’s training course when the school’s deputy head teacher telephoned. A feeling of dread came over me – what were they complaining about this time? My stepson...
Author: nicola
INEXTRICABLY BOUND – WHAT YOU DO MAKES AN IMPACT
I was standing in the dark on the deck of an ancient tall ship, a small one, but a tall one nevertheless. I had been at sea for about two months, working my passage...
TODAY IS A GIFT. LOVE YOUR PRESENT
It never ceases to amuse me that we forget just what a miracle life is. Consider, if you will, that some sticky white stuff mixes in the dark with a bunch of cells called...
LEARNING TO WINDSURF – A MIND/BODY EXPERIENCE
A few years ago I took a holiday at one of those personal development centres on a beautiful Greek island. You know the ones – you can take a whole load of classes from...
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES – WHAT IF THIS IS HEAVEN?
I’ve read some reports recently of near death experiences, and it reminded me of my own back in the pounding surf near Tulum in Mexico all those years ago. I was barely thigh deep...
GIVE WHAT YOU THINK IS MISSING IN THE WORLD
Every morning I switch on my laptop and I get inspiring messages from my friend, Kath Temple, loving messages from Mastin Kipp, heartening messages from Bridget Clapham, provoking messages from Alex Sinclair, thoughtful messages...
MINDFULNESS, MEDITATION AND THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK
I’d travelled all day into the wilderness of Queensland, to a little town named Dingo, and an hour more, deep into the Naomi Cattle Station, where I was due to stay overnight on a...
GOING ALL IN
I was talking with someone just the other day. He was an entrepreneur with several lucrative businesses, and a succession of companies that he’d started and sold on for millions. He was just about...