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Structure and discipline. What?
So, as many of you will know, both of my children are at school this year for the very first time. I had big plans and expectations (damn you expectations!) as to how this year would look, mostly along...
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Why aren’t I enlightened yet?
So, the good news. I’m on day 10 of a 40 day meditation commitment. The bad news? I’ve just figured out that meditation does not make me a nicer person. Up until today, I was under the illusion that a...
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The wisdom of snails and other things…
The magical world of snails captured by photographer Vyacheslav Mischenko Day 13 of my dawn meditation practice. A 15 minute guided meditation (my brain was all excited and jumping around – sometimes...
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Perfection and 40 days of meditation.
So, I’ve just completed 40 days of meditation…41 days if you count today, because once you’ve been meditating for 40 days, you don’t really want to stop :) I’ll be honest, it was a struggle. Not the...
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You know you’re struggling when…
Look, what can I say? Some days are harder than others. Mostly not because there is anything in that day to make it harder, but just because I’m not in the right head space. I started to get a feeling...
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Weekly Inspiration #40
Those of you who are regular readers of this blog will know that for the last couple of weeks I have been a little testy. I’ve been trying to figure it out, with varying levels of success. And sure,...
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Balance and Burnout
Over the past few months I have been having this dream: I have something precious in my mouth – beads, gems, jewels, pearls. I wake up in a terrible fright, because I have accidentally swallowed them,...
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Out in the elements – an ode to Winter Solstice
I am doing a 30 day meditation series with a focus on creativity. Today, day 11, after the meditation, I was asked to do an exercise where I ‘flash’ the visualisation, which means taking 30 seconds to...
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Looking after your (mental) health
Mental health is a tricky subject for some reason. We tend to think about mental health in terms of illness rather than something that is an intrinsic part of our humanness, in the same way that our...
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The art of re-fuelling
For the best part of a decade I’ve been practicing peeling. My. Fingers. Off. Of. Life. Before that was three decades of resolutely and relentlessly applying my will to life, wrestling with and...
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