Mind, Body & Spirit

collection of stuff covering personal growth, mind, body & spirit

  • Mind, Body & Spirit

    Becoming a Rock of Self-Awareness

    The strangest thing happened when meditating this morning. I felt so so solid… It was like my energy got so huge and so dense that I could not move… My mind went mental, wrestling with this experience that surely can’t be ‘right’… Yet as I rested into it… and began to then journal from it… I realised I was embodying something I’ve been asking for… to know how to be so solidly me that I can not be shaken off…

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    Inner journey of pain

    When you look inside what do you find?  Some days it’s beautiful and you feel elated to be alive.  Other days it’s painful and you want to look away.  Why does the inner landscape change?  Because everything changes. Every moment of every day everything is moving and changing. So if today you’re finding pain or emptiness, stay with it. It’s beautiful in its own right and has something to share with you. Don’t turn away. Sink deeper and as you…

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    Embracing the Feminine in our Yoga Practice

    “It is important to restore the essential balance in the world between the masculine and feminine energies. The bird of humanity cannot fly with one wing” Vivekananda A lot of the world we live in is masculine and this is also reflected in the yoga on offer, which traditionally has a strong masculine slant. There is a growing movement for balance – both internally and in the world around us. Integrating a feminine yoga practice is a way of redressing…

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    The serene power of finding your flow

    Well for starters, NO ONE wants a meaningless, stressful, unsatisfying life. Actually I’ll caveat that – some people rather like to have something to justifiably whinge about… heck we all enjoy it sometimes (if we’re honest ;). But a long haul soiree of this experience sucks arse and probably delivers you somewhere in the vicinity of ‘my life is over’, ‘please God take me now’, ‘why oh why oh WHY MEEEEEEEEEE’. Ultimately it’s  form of discomfort or pain… and as someone…

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    Why has your (very good) business hit a rut?

    This is a classic dilemma.  You have a business or project. The idea is great.  It feels great. You know it should be working. And yet it’s not. Something is stuck.  It’s not moving.  Cue the feeling of swimming against the stream, head banging against the wall and tumbles of hay drifting past as you watch with frustration.

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    how to use body intuition to find answers (that will work)

    Following the tingles may sound daft – but it’s an awesomely simple trick for staying on your path, getting clear, doing what’s right for you, feeling buzzily creative, super inspired AND leads to successful satisfying endeavors. Intrigued? What you’ll need. Some lightness. Errrrr what? Yup  trust me – follow this little step by step plan and see for yourself!

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    How to spot who’s sucking you dry (and who will add something to your life)

     “WHO pulled the wind out my sails?” Right then lovelies, if this phrase resonates read on – cos I’ve got a gem of an exercise that sorts it out. To over simplfy things, there are two categories that your daily interactions fall into: those that energise (whoop whoop!) and those that draaaaaaain If there’s too much drainage life can seriously begin to suck. So let’s sort that out. With a quick and simple to do exercise (always a selling point in my…

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    Why addiction is not always bad for you

    What do you do when you love something and the ‘world’ tells you ‘but you shouldn’t do that – it’s so baaaaad for you’? Do you succomb and say ‘ok, you know best‘. Or do you say ‘wait a second’  – which is a nice, polite and Buddhist bunny mindfullness alternative to the more commonly used ‘f*ck-off’  🙂  – my life, my needs, what’s actually right for me in this situ? In this case I’ll chatting about coffee (but you could add ciggies,…

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    Is there such a thing as a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ decision?

    How on EARTH does one make the right decision? This question opens a giant a bog-mire (if that’s even a word) of self doubt, angst and worry for most people (and yes moi is included 🙂 ) Three clients have spoken about this this week – in very different forms – and they fall into three rather classic categories – which in a flowery round about way can be described like this: