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...
There are two games taking place. In the first game, the surface game, let's call it 'Drama', all the twists and turns of the game, all the other characters and events that provide such tension and excitement for the character only serve to make the character more...
An enormous liberation occurs the moment it is realised that reality is not an objective truth. That it changes in appearance, meaning, association, import with the perceiver. This is huge. Because up until that point it was believed that the world was exactly how it...
Today we begin our month long on-line course 'STRESS, getting real with challenge'. The challenge for me is how to do justice to such a multi-layered, enormous topic in 30 days. Because understanding stress isn't as simple as telling ourselves 'it's just my thinking'....
‘Spiritual bypass’ is perhaps the biggest risk as we explore what is true about ourselves and about the world. It is a term coined by John Welwood, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist and refers to the ‘tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or...
In his book, ‘The Body Says No’, Gabor Maté writes in great detail of the indisputable link between stress and a wide variety of diseases. He demonstrates how stresses, often imposed on the developing psyche in childhood, continue to play out in patterns of behaviour...
Shakespeare, Byron, Baudelaire could search the furthest corners of language and still not find the poetry to convey who you are. Nothing can come close to describing you. No words, no music, no painting, no sculpture can bring you to life. All falls short. You are...
When it seems impossible to be free because the system is stacked against us? In those moments, we experience a them and us. There are victims and villains. We feel trapped and stuck. It looks impossible that anything can change. Hopeless and despairing are not our...
“I just want some ice on my wrist so I look better when I dance Have you lookin' at it, put you in a trance I just want a Rollie Rollie Rollie…’ We seem to be listening to this song a lot, Finn and I, in the car on the way to school. (For those of you who, like me,...
"It's a Slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body." - Khalil Gibran I came across this great quote the other day, and I wanted to share it with you. In just 17 words, it shows the imprisonment the mind creates and the freedom available when...