Bank Your Experience, Trust Your Inner Knowing
When you’re presented with options as to what course of action to follow, you can check facts, visible clues, or even use a system of advantages and disadvantages to make a logical choice. But...
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CHOOSE TO BE THE STAR IN YOUR OWN LIFE
Recently, a client complained that she felt like a bit-part player in her life. Everything great, she said, happened to her friends, but she felt life never delivered what she wanted. Life is something...
Does meditation make you a better person?
Does meditation make you a better person? A kind person posted a newspaper article through my door this week. The headline shouted in the negative: “Study finds meditating will not make you a better...
Having a bad day? Get yourself out of a wobble
Today, I had a wobble! That’s what I call it when I wake up and feel a bit rubbish – it’s going to be a bad day! I lay in bed a while and...
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...
Virtuous Circles of Attention, Thinking and Feeling
Have you ever considered how entwined our attention, thoughts and feelings are? It can be like self-determining vicious or virtuous circles. Let me give you an example of what I mean. At the weekend,...
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...
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...
YOU GET WHAT YOU SETTLE FOR
I love that line from the movie Thelma and Louise, where Louise, a pragmatic kind of woman, utters her philosophy of life in one phrase: “You get what you settle for.” Back in the...
FEAR AND STRESS – FUD AND FOMO
There seems to be a lot of fear about. Recently, I’ve learned two new terms: FUD meaning Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt; and FOMO meaning Fear Of Missing Out. It seems as if our lives...