How Money is a Mirror of your Inner Balance
It was a cold, grey winter afternoon. In Europe we were obsessed with the cost of heating because the prices for gas
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How I Stopped Listening to Negative Self-Talk
How I Stopped Listening to Negative Self-Talk In certain ways, everything was perfect; the searing red of my dress, the click of
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Navigating Change
If humans are plants, then mindfulness is phototropism, (the ongoing process of growing towards the light). Yet unlike plants, moving towards the
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Mindful Money Coaching – Journeying into the Depths
It wasn’t until I talked to Karen did I realize that I was not acknowledging a fundamental issue regarding money. An initial exploration needed to happen…and that was asking myself, ‘What is my relationship with money?’
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Are You Up for a Challenge?
How can we keep things fresh, awake, when our working days or lives look much the same, week in, week out? Or when we find that even with regular practice, we don’t seem to be going anywhere?
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How will this support my mindfulness practice?
Until I learned to ask the question, “how will this support my mindfulness practice” in everything I do, I had a really frustrating time. In fact, I had two patterns that drove me crazy.
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So tell me what you want, what you really, really want!
When I start a meditation retreat these days, I know it takes me quite a while to calm the system down from living and working with technology. In those first few days, the levels of nervousness and agitation are much more than 16 years ago. It’s because I’m on the computer and on social media much more now.
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When the S*#! Hits the Fan, What Colour is Your Raincoat?
When the S*#! Hits the Fan, What Colour is Your Raincoat? The blow-up had been building for some time. It just needed
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How Our Stories F@*! With Us
Many of us are living and working in different ways, and yet something hasn’t changed: we’re still prone to our internal dialogues about what’s going on around us, and within us.
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What Does it Mean to Be in a Good State, Anyway?
If our first responsibility is our own state, before we go fixing others’, then what does it mean to be in a good state?
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So That Happened – Now What?
How different do your days look recently? Even without the backdrop of a global pandemic, it’s an uneasy feeling to suddenly have
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What I Never Asked My Dad – And Why it Matters Now
I don’t have full recall of that evening, and yet obviously either I didn’t ask, or he didn’t give much of an answer. So, something in me doesn’t expect much of an answer, doesn’t expect to get to the bottom of things. It might be family or cultural conditioning, of course, and yet the why is no longer relevant.
As a spiritual warrior, having seen the pattern, the idea is to see what happens when we consciously try to do something different.
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How I Stopped Being a Workaholic (and Realized Why I Started)
When you’re caught in a spiral of overworking, you might want to have a good look at how this started and whether it’s really working for you.
Interrupting such strong patterns takes courage.
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Learning To Speak Up for Myself
Partly from seeing the different effects of these experiments, I’ve noticed how powerful words can be when we’re in conversations.
Now, I try to be more skillful and flexible when talking with other people.
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I Don’t Have Time to Be Compassionate
I admitted that I find myself walking through the school halls, head down, hoping no one will talk to me – not because I don’t like them, but because I’m thinking “If I talk to them I won’t get to what I need to do to start my day”.
When I’m in this mode, I’m not being kind to myself and I don’t notice what others need, whether it’s just a smile or a few minutes of my time.
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Why You Should Zen-Up Your Space
There’s another benefit to a well-honoured space: it brings out all of our hidden fidgets, shining a light on our inability to sit still. When there’s clutter, anxiousness can hide under the auspices of needing to clean and tidy and organize.
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Don’t you smell that, too? – I think we need to talk.
One thing that can happen when you think there’s an unacknowledged stink in the room is that doubt can creep in. Nobody else is mentioning it, after all! Although I want to say something, I’m questioning whether it’s just my reaction and maybe there’s nothing going on at all.
I have a way of dealing with this.
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Ignite My Spiritual Life? Really?
Lately, you’ve been hearing from us about our online course and Five Principles, and we have a question for you: Do our
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