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 […]
Perhaps you are like me, having grown up with the idea that “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me”. It was a handy retort when dealing with schoolyard bullies and of course, it is true that words can’t hurt us physically. However, words do have a long-lasting emotional impact,
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Happy Hallowe’en! I hope you’ve been enjoying the fun and trick-or-treating, fun traditions that have emerged from much older, sacred practices. For the Celts of old, this time of year was a sacred time, marking the end of the harvest and the start of the coldest half of the year. For many, Samhain*, meaning “Summer’s
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In the mid-1800s, in Concord Massachusetts, USA there were a group of people who came together at the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson to talk and discuss and ask big questions. It was a period of time that became known as “the flowering of enlightenment” in the United States and the people involved were huge
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When I first started working in my last organization, I struggled with knowing when and how decisions were made. For perhaps a year, I asked pretty much everyone and anyone I met, ‘how do you know when a decision is a decision around here?’ I was stuck in indecision. Eventually someone took pity on me
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Most of us have patterns for responding to disappointment in our lives. Maybe you tend to panic or isolate or get crazy busy trying to “fix it”? Maybe you talk about it to everyone and anyone, trying to get a handle on it and identify the ‘best’ way forward, not realizing you’re actually fueling the
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When to 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦! When was the last time you felt completely relaxed with the way you are? Are you worried that you’re not good enough or should be different? More successful, clever, richer, happier? In these times of social media polishing the self image of everyone on
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Today’s blog is about creating flow in your life. One of the best ways we can do that is through an activity called circulation, which involves two activities: giving and receiving. I’m willing to bet that you know all about giving already! I recognise the giving capacity in my clients and most people I interact
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Morning Prayer May I have the courage today To live the life that I would love To postpone my dream no longer But do at last what I came here for And waste my heart on fear no more John O’Donoghue A client recently shared this beautiful poem/prayer of John O’Donoghue’s. To me it is
