The subject of choice making is a challenging one because done well it requires us to step into accountability and responsibility for our choices. This can be emotionally challenging in situations where we may be feeling the onslaught of hurt, injustice, outrage, impotence, frustration and so on leaving us perhaps feeling like a victim. A...
What or who do you trust in? What does the word ‘trust’ even mean to you? Typically people speak about things like consistency, reliability, competence, depth of relationship with something or someone and certainly any academic review of trust highlights all of these things. Reflecting on our trust in life itself may find us deeply...
There’s a world of difference between ‘being with’ and ‘being there’. In the latter we can show up physically without being fully present. Our mind (attention), emotions, spirit may be somewhere else entirely. Being with means we’re immersed wholly in each moment. Our visible and invisible aspects are aligned, fully connected to our environment –...
As we recoil in horror at events in Ukraine, we are also reminded of the heart to heart to heart to heart connection of our common humanity. An unbreakable chain that connects and nourishes and offers the greatest hope for our world and its future. On display in the tragedy, and called into dedicated service,...
I read recently that Purpose, real purpose is about ‘living our life upstairs’. I liked this way of expressing a sense of purpose because in a simple analogy we can see that in order to connect with true purpose and meaning we have to move; we have to be prepared leave the familiar day to...
Many will be familiar with the idea (or fact) that ‘energy follows thought’. This idea has been given new scientific weight in recent decades with Einstein’s theory of relativity in which the mass itself has been proven to consist of energy and it’s not just a case of kinetic energy or motion. If we examine...
Are we on the right track? How do we know when the choice/decision we’ve made is the right one? And who for…is it serving us or something bigger? The state of our world is asking that every day we seek to make choices that add positively to its spiritual fabric. Adding light to the thought...
We are experiencing a lot of buffeting in these times…buffeting which can disturb our inner equilibrium which in turn can affect how we show up in the world….our Presence. Maintaining an inner and higher point of focus can help us guard against this buffeting as we dis-identify from the outer effects (things breaking, technology playing...
Most of us have a very form-based relationship with beauty associating it with the outer aspects that we can see. It might be colour, it might be sound, it might be shapes…and we classify it through the lenses of nature, art and music and even the physical human body. The time is fast approaching when...
Optimism in the face of the many challenges we see in the world around us can be in short supply. Even the more minor inconveniences we encounter in our daily lives can add to the sense of overwhelm. So, we must look beyond the deluge of negative headlines and the distressing behaviours, practices and happenings...