Why Compassion Makes My World Beautiful
A Little Compassion Conundrum For You…A 15-year-old middle-class white girl has been groomed by a cult. She has left her family, seemingly willingly to join these people. This particular cult is known for violent rituals and sexual abuse. At age 19 she manages to escape and tries to reintegrate into society, she returns having...
Mindful Attitudes; Trust
Here’s a big one for you this week. Trust. It’s one of the 7 attitudinal foundations of mindfulness and something I believe should be cultivated whether you practice mindfulness or not. The big question here or the big misunderstanding here is do we need to cultivate trust in other people or trust in ourselves. Well...
How To Smash Your New Year’s Resolution’s
A New Year brings resolutions. Resolutions bring guilt and stress. We all want to make this next year our best yet. Perhaps you want to give up smoking, maybe lose some weight, join a gym etc…The problem with resolutions is they end up being empty promises and you end up feeling disappointed with yourself for not following...
Why you are overthinking
Ever wondered why we overthink? We over think because when we are in ego-mode or ‘doing’ mode which is the planning part of our mind, we need to think. The problem is that we don’t shift gears when we should. Ideally, ‘doing’ mode would be for planning only and we would shift into ‘being’...
Why Mindful Relationships Are Better
I think back to someone I once knew, and his parents were a good example of non-mindful relationships. The parents had been divorced for many years and one of them had remarried but they were still (after around 20 years) out to get each other. These were people in there mid to late 50’s. Surely they should know better right?...