Recently I did a 10-day meditation series with the wonderful Peter Harper, aka The Drunken Monk. The series was based around Zen Koans, short riddles or puzzles that Zen Buddhists use during meditation to help them unravel greater truths about the world and about themselves. The koans can seem a bit paradoxical and in my […]
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Lots has been written about gratitude and how powerful it is as a practice for enhancing our lives and wellbeing. If you’ve been on any of my programmes, you’ll know how much I encourage people to engage with it as a means of building resilience and shifting perspective. I’ve also shared with many of you
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As you know, I’m a great believer in having a vision! You’ve heard me say before that having a vision for what you want to create in your life is the starting point of all successful achievement. So hopefully, this is something you’ve taken on board and you now have a compelling vision that gives
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I just started a new group on my Standing Firm programme. It’s a powerful 4-hour programme delivered over 4 weeks, empowering participants to build skill and support for dealing with uncertainty and challenge. It’s all about creating change and new more empowering approaches to life’s challenges. I’ve also recently delivered some Vison Workshops so I
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Some of you may remember a hike I shared about doing in December 2019. For my level of fitness it was an ambitious hike (4 hours plus up a fairly steep incline) and the ascent being done in darkness! All part of my celebration of the winter solstice that year. I found it challenging and
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Fireby Judy BrownWhat makes a fire burn is the space between the logs,a breathing space.Too much of a good thing, too many logs packed in too tightcan douse the flamesalmost as surely as a pail of water would. So, building fires requires attentionto the spaces in between, as much as to the wood.When we are able to
I’ve always loved the poem ‘Warning’ by Jenny Joseph: When I am an old woman I shall wear purpleWith a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer glovesAnd satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter… I always have a sense that Jenny’s
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It’s that time of year, the days are getting so much shorter, the weather is more inclement and if you’re anything like me the pull to “hibernate” now is strong. And while we humans don’t hibernate the way bears and squirrels do, in times of old we’d have allowed things to slow down markedly at
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I don’t know if it is because of lockdown or whether people always enjoy and respond to blogs that encourage being in nature and learning from the natural world? Either way, the feedback to all my blogs that have had natural themes in recent months has been very positive. So I wanted to give you
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I promised you all a blog on this topic a while back, after an acorn had literally dropped on my head on my own Wisdom Walk a few weeks ago. I’ve been mulling it over since and the essence of what I want to say is captured in this quote… Our ordinary mind always tries
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