Resting is different to relaxing.
When someone asks me to relax, I immediately think of doing something, like slowing my breathing or letting go of tight muscles. Even thinking about doing these things is doing something with my brain!
Resting, on the other hand, is doing nothing. Absolutely nothing. No thinking. No moving. No tensing. No conscious relaxing. Continue reading »
It’s difficult to find stillness in our busy, media-filled lives.
So easy to be diverted from one task to another, or escape into the worlds of the internet, or recycled thinking. For our minds to be occupied 24/7.
But stillness brings ease and wellbeing not found in all that activity. Continue reading »
My left knee had been sporadically painful for a few weeks, and I realized I’d once again irritated it by doing something wrong while practising Tai Chi, but I wasn’t sure quite what.
Fortunately for me, Tai Chi yielded the answer not only to the source of the pain, but also to an unexpectedly rapid recovery. Continue reading »
This poem was inspired through a blend of experiences.
First, four days spent deepening my experience of the 3 Principles in London and Glasgow.
Then, the Celtic Blessing ‘Deep Peace’ that has hummed away in my head throughout the intervening week. … Continue reading »
You’ve not been able to look over your shoulder for a while because your neck complains.
Periodically you spend time trying to figure it all out; what you did to initiate the pain, which part of your body is actually causing the pain, and what can you do to fix it?
Very understandable in our left brain culture with its focus on thinking and cause and effect! Continue reading »
When my mouth eventually unfroze following some dental work, I was shocked to discover the underside of my tongue had quite a long nick, and was very sore, making both eating and talking quite difficult.
I immediately felt anger towards my dentist. Continue reading »
Charles contacted me because he suffers from migraines, typically losing a day and a half a month out of his life as his neck locks up, and his vision goes awry.
During our Skype session his perspective changed, and he found himself identifying changes he could make to decrease the stress in his life. Continue reading »
How would you like to experience Christmas this year?
Would you like to feel more ease and joy, and less stress and worry?
If you’d like more ease and joy, an ‘inside-out’ approach may be just the ticket! Continue reading »
Does your mind get overactive at times? Stressing you out?
What if you could simply ‘get’ an awareness that would allow your mind to naturally quieten?
Here’s the awareness that’s helped me. Continue reading »