Whole (excerpt from REAL, getting real with being yourself) When we look for love or try to inspire it in others, we play all sorts of games. We might try to become what we think someone wants. We might play hard to get or wear our hearts on our sleeves. We...
I’ve recently started practicing Bikram yoga (try it if you haven’t already - quite something!) and one of the phrases that my teacher often says is ‘Breathe. Align. Deepen.’ Breathe - focus on the breath, this brings everything into this moment, a deep immersion in...
At first, everything is an adventure. There is so much to explore and see and listen to and do and make and learn and take apart and experience. You reach and crawl and pull yourself up and toddle, investigating your world, awed by the miracles of light and sound and...
(Excerpt from EASE, getting real with work) Ready for it? The lottery started in the UK in 1994 and my sister suggested that our family should have a syndicate. Every Saturday we sat in the living room seeing if our numbers would come up. My 93-year-old grandmother...
When we’re driving along my son loves to play with the zoom in and out function on the sat nav. Moving all the way out - street, town, country, continent until the blue and green world appears in space. And then all the way back - world, continent, country, town,...
Our new small group programme ‘RESET 2022, this time it’s personal’ which begins 1 May to 30 Sept 2022 is based on the ethos that the areas in life where we experience the greatest difficulty is where our greatest capacity and purpose will be found. This blog post...
I was on a non-duality retreat and the teacher began by standing up and saying “There is no point in your being here……It doesn’t matter if you come to any of the talks. There is nothing whatsoever to be gained. You might as well be outside in the gardens or in your...
Two quotes can help us sum up what we are looking at here. The first is from Bill Bryson’s exceptional book ‘The Body, a guide for occupants’ in which he quotes the expert in trauma surgery, Ben Ollivere: ‘Killing yourself is actually difficult. We are designed not to...
Christmas - a wonderful time of gifts galore. All the things we’ve secretly always wanted, all there ready for us. Sometimes even things we didn’t even realise we wanted - but there they are, delivered in the perfect package to us personally. The thing is these gifts...
Really there should be a warning on all conversations about the self and reality. Because as more is seen about what we really are something ENORMOUS changes. What changes, either in stages or one fell swoop, is the drive to secure the self-identity. ‘Well, that’s...