10 reasons why you are so special

June 5, 2010

One thing that constantly fascinates me is our ability to be unaware and oblivious of great wonderful things in front of our eyes on a day to day basis. Sometimes we are so consumed by mundane problems and current affairs that we filter out a lot of information around us. This makes us lose sight [...]

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Let your Body Talk – Accessing the Inner Wisdom of your Body

May 29, 2010

Most of us, myself included, grew up with the notion of our bodies as  bio-physical machines that no matter how astoundingly beautiful,intricate and complex, they are in the end merely physiological.Nothing more, nothing less. I had this general assumption challenged when I read Eugene T. Gendlin’s book called ‘Focusing’ a couple of years ago. Gendlin [...]

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5 Things I am Changing as I Grow Older and Wiser

May 9, 2010

At 36 years of age I am considered to be relatively young…at least by all those belonging to higher age groups than mine. Being in your mid-thirties is a curious thing. It’s like being in a passage way, a midway stage that does not belong anywhere in particular. You haven’t yet reached that maturation peak [...]

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Can I Trust my Instincts?

April 19, 2010

This is a question that I often hear when people are in doubt, confused or lacking enough confidence in external information to arrive at a sound judgment. I am however not at all pleased to use the term ‘instincts’ in the title, or anywhere else for that matter. The word ‘instinct’ generally means having a [...]

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How To Meditate Better Than Your Guru: The Feedback Solution

April 11, 2010

This is a guest post by Carol of Straightlinemeditation.com Better than your Guru? Seriously, take your time to read the following method designed to help you break one of the biggest barriers of meditation: the mind’s uncontrollable wandering. For those who have tried meditation or practice it regularly know this problem very well. You might [...]

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Don’t Think Money – Think Life

March 23, 2010

We all think about money some time or another don’t we? When a mail-blitz of bills hit our mailbox or our financial planner software shows us that we are going to scrape it very, very thin till next paycheck, we sit back, take a deep breath and get carried away by an inundation of worrisome [...]

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7 Ways to be Kind to Yourself

March 15, 2010

Kindness is synonymous with giving and being open and emphatic to others around us. This is of course true. Yet being kind does not stop at being kind to others but we should consider more often the possibility, or rather the necessity, of being also kind to ourselves. This may sound a little bit selfish, [...]

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Shifting Sands: Dealing with Impermanence

March 8, 2010

A Philosopher of ancient Greece before the time of Socrates, named Heraclitus, used to profess that everything in the Universe is in constant flux and that nothing remains the same. “You cannot step in the same river twice” Heraclitus used to say. This is because all the observable world and even the imperceptible one is [...]

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You Only Live Many Times – Part 1

February 28, 2010

I might be breaking away from the crowd and from the common chatter of all things wordly but today I don’t care. I feel like writing about one of my long-held spiritual beliefs. If you are a loyal reader of this blog but not in the vein of a deep and non-mundane subject then I [...]

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