Jean-Paul Sartre concisely articulated the experience we probably all have at some point: hell is other people. Is there anyone who hasn’t felt the free fall of grief, the thud of rejection, the tension of conflict, the loneliness of indifference, the bristling of...
An ape remembers a tool they need to retrieve an inaccessible reward and heads off in search of it. A cave man sketches a hunt scene on the stone wall, allowing for the transportation of his learning to another, long after the hunt itself is over. A scientist designs...
No one else can say something in the way that you say it. No one else has your mannerisms, your stance, your accent, your vocabulary, your way of being present. No one else looks like you. No one else has your way of looking at people. No one else can move or be...
In October and November, we are looking at expression and authenticity in a course called VOICE. It is designed to get to grips with all aspects of communication that don’t sit well with us. Why do we lie, pretend, hold ourselves back, stay silent, talk too much, get...
Everything changes as the mind settles into reality. At the same time, nothing changes. Of course - you wouldn’t expect this to be any other way by now surely? Let’s look at them both. On the one hand, of course it does. Everything changes. The whole programme running...
The human mind is a miraculous super power capable of extraordinary feats of imagination and creation. Awesome. What’s not to love about that…? Well, these powerful mental constructs, in the form of memories, fears, projections, anxieties, shame, insecurities and...
[extract from SANE, getting real with reality] Who we are is not limited to this body and mind. In fact, the body and mind is an experience of perception, in the infinite field of awareness that we really are. With this understanding, the idea of an objective self...
The four stages of learning can be applied to any skill, task or competence. You might be familiar with them: Unconscious incompetence - we don’t know that we don’t know Conscious incompetence - we know that we don’t know Conscious competence - we work at what we...
Creative prowess, towering intellect, the link with suffering and what to do about it…? Pythagorus, Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Isaac Newton, Judy Garland, Robert Schumann, Lord Byron, Michelangelo, Winston...
It’s a well worn expression and attributed to pretty much every sage in the quotations book… ‘Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting our enemy to die.’ Dr Gabor Maté in his book, ‘When the Body Says No’ takes it a stage further with research showing again...