Awareness
3: An interlude: walking into walls
Stand in front of a wall, at least two metres away from it. Close your eyes. Walk forwards until you touch the wall. Repeat Sometimes the best exercises are those that seem to have absolutely no...
read article13: It's all in the anticipation
Breathe a long, slow inhale up the length of your back, feeling it encourage your head higher. Allow a long, slow exhale to stroke down your front, releasing your ribcage, and encouraging a soft...
read article16: Fancy a cuppa?
Before you read this, make yourself a cup of tea (or coffee). Seriously. Now, pick it up and then put it down again. Listen carefully. Pick it up. D'you hear it? A slight sound as you lift it? Put it...
read article17: Look at your hands
Look at your hands awhile. Turn them over and study them, their curves and lines, maybe stretch the fingers open a few times as if receiving a gift and then release them. Look now at one hand, thumb...
read article18: The quality of your desire
Summary We do or we don't want things (actual things, or relationships, or ideas). We desire them, or we avoid them or we fear them. Any which way, we are in a relationship with the thing as we see...
read article19: The ideas room
I'm tired. My list of writing ideas has been emptied out. So I sit at my desk, awaiting inspiration. It's an interesting process – it feels as if possibilities are getting edited out just before they...
read article20: Different voices of head, heart & hara
Summary The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Even so, it helps to locate and listen to the different voices within. Our different parts are intelligent in different ways and, by listening...
read article21: In the beginning was the Word ...
Summary Learn to speak from the whole of you by talking to each part in turn. Take one word Play along. Take a single word – yes or no . Go stand in front of a wall, say it out loud. In order to feel...
read article23: Practising to show up
The first step in speaking your truth is just showing up. And that - when dealing with swirling thoughts in your head - can be a whole challenge of its own. I’ve lost count of the number of times that...
read article24: Spinning the ropes
I've a new hobby, though it's strange to call it that. It's just something I do most days. I spin a rope. It's about the thickness of my thumb, with a couple of knots I've tied at the ends as handles,...
read article28: Silencing
Last week, a meteorite smashed down on a driveway in rural England. The homeowner thought that someone had thrown a lump of coal on their tarmac. Thankfully, the news that day was full of scientists...
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