Sometimes you come across something so powerful that you know part of your purpose is simply to share it more widely. Today, as I prepare to go on retreat next week, I was planning my blog and kept coming back to this fabulous poem: ‘Someone’ by Mary Standing Otter, shared recently with me by the equally wonderful …
Recently I was listening to a short meditation from the wonderful Peter Harper, aka The Drunken Monk. Peter shared with us a short koan that he invited us all to work with in 2023. Koans, as explained in a previous blog, are short riddles or puzzles that Zen Buddhists use during meditation to help them …
This blog builds on our recent theme of receiving the good in our lives. Have you been conducting a receiving experiment as outlined in the last blog: Receiving the Good and Creating Flow? I’d love to hear of your experiences. Today, I’m going to share with you a technique based on the work of Henk …
I hope you‘ve been enjoying the fine weather and getting out more in nature, what with both the gorgeous weather we’ve been having in Ireland and now the confirmed streeeeetch in the evenings since the clocks went forward. One of the most popular blogs I’ve ever written was the Wisdom Walk. In it, you’re invited …
I recently concluded a career development programme with female academics and researchers and on our last workshop we took some time to celebrate the successes that they were achieving. There was lots to note, small wins and big and we explored how easy it is for any of us to miss all that is going …
This week we celebrated World Gratitude Day on 21 September. Yes, it really is a thing! And I took the opportunity to express my thanks to you for being part of my community. I also shared a use anywhere, anytime 5 Things Gratitude Tool that you can download here if you haven’t already! I encourage …
You all know my views about celebrating wins! Mostly I encourage celebrating the small wins, those micro moves we are making on a daily and weekly basis, that move us in the direction of our vision and the results we most want to achieve in our lives. And every now and again, those micro moves …
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 …
Many of us are largely housebound at the moment, perhaps cooped up with multiple generations all vying for access to limited resources like internet capability, screens and space for some private work or time alone. Others are feeling very isolated, living alone, working remotely and without the typical interactions normally achieved through work and social …
Fireby Judy Brown What 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 build open …
