THE BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT
Remember the best Christmas present ever? Our yuletide holidays are often a time when we reminisce about years gone by – the people we shared it with, gifts given and received, things that happened...
Category: Mindfulness
WHEN PLANS GO AWRY
You know that blissful moment before your best-laid plans go awry? That was me having a lie-in this week on the last day of my holiday! I heard my phone ring, but didn’t get...
THE MAGIC OF MINDFULNESS
Have you ever driven your usual route to work when you were actually going somewhere else that day? We, as ‘normal’ human beings, have sixty to eighty thousand thoughts a day! Can you imagine...
WHAT IF THINGS HAD BEEN DIFFERENT?
Have you ever wondered just what you could have been if you’d really let yourself go for it, or if only the opportunity had presented itself? Did you have a hankering to be an...
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...
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...