That which we fail to notice we cannot change. “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself… .” ~ e. e. cummings Thinking can connect you to others through commonality and shared reality ... but, when a touch-starved nervous system reaches …
Trust the Breaking
Kahlil Gibran said that the pain you feel is the breaking of the shell of your understanding. Just as the seed has to destroy itself to ultimately become the baobab, the bud has to burst its membrane to become the flower. What holds true for the seed, the bud, the flower and the fruit is …
The Magic of Holistic Intuition
I don’t believe in methods. They lend themselves to prescriptive formulas that override each unique individual’s drive to heal their distinct injury, wound, trauma, addiction, illness or dis-ease … yes, we all have these lurking in the shadows of our beings waiting to be brought into the light as the gifts we bring to the …
Multipotentialite
Multipotentiality is in my nature and that means I am always looking for different and more intricate ways to access life and learning, which I perceive as one big cosmic map of travelled paths and uncharted landscapes. At some stage of formal schooling I lost who I was and stayed lost, wandering in the dark …
You are what you think
What I have experienced through a decade of Vipassana meditation and learned through its application to and interface with almost everything I navigate in life is that where your attention goes your energy flows. This means that whatever you focus your energy on, that is what will manifest in your life … Fighting against what …
PRESENT Traumatic Stress Disorder
#PTSD currently is more PRESENT Traumatic Stress Disorder but even though it is anchored in past events and how they have been stored in your somatic nervous system and the cells of your body. We are navigating a collective trauma that encompasses all of our individual traumas and this is being compounded by polarisation over …
Integration through Observation
There is a lot of self-development talk around the notion of self love. But many people react to this with resistance, confusion or even fear. “What does that even mean?” they will ask. “I don’t even know what that is!” they lament. You can’t self-medicate with something you can’t identify or define … if you …
The Fabric of the Body
If you imagine the human body as an interwoven web of threads into an intricate fabric, you may be able to get an image of what it would look like if any part of this fabric is twisted or stretched. What you may then understand is that one part effects the whole ... and the …
This is the Circle of Zen
At the beginning of every journey it is easy to seemingly know everything... but it is only when you’re experiencing the territory that you begin to see how much there still is to learn. When you get back to the beginning, the path hasn’t changed because of you but you have changed because of the …
Find the Pause
‘In between the stimulus and the response there is a space and in that space is our power and our freedom.’ ~ Viktor Frankl Habits cut us off from ourselves because we tend to use them to escape ourselves so – as with breaking any habitual behaviour – pause as you move towards it and, …
WELL WORTH BEING 