BREATH OF WINTER
Snow! At last, it finally feels like winter. When I woke up Sunday morning there was this muffled, muted feeling to the world. Living so close to a road, you notice when the sound...
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Change your mind
Last night, I sat in the garden contemplating what I had learned from the presentations at a neuro-science conference this weekend. Lots of fascinating (for me) information about the functioning of brains and how...
LET IT BE – EXPERIENCE YOUR EMOTION
Yesterday, I suddenly found myself in tears for absolutely no reason I could think of at all. Nothing had triggered it – I was busy doing some mundane task, not thinking about anything in...
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...
PURPOSE – I’M LIVING ON PURPOSE, ARE YOU?
Recently I have been questioning my purpose in life. What am I here for? Why do I bother? Sometimes the pain is bad, work is slow, someone lets me down again, and the rain...
The Physiological Effects of Mindful Meditation in an Emergency
Spending time with a loved one in an accident and emergency room is a hairy experience. He was suffering from chest pains that wouldn’t go away, and I was there for support. While we...
CAN YOU LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER?
Everyone wants to be happy, like it’s an end goal, a permanent state. But is it? Can you live happily ever after? Or is it the case that everything changes? The Science of Happiness...
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...
Ever Do Something You Don’t Want To?
Do you ever do something you don’t want to do? You’ve been asked to do something for someone else, but you just don’t feel like going? Today was one of those occasions for me....
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...