As we step into a new week, we’re taking a moment to look into the week ahead and be intentional about how we want to show up, how we want to create this week. Our teacher for the week is The Dalai Lama, and he reminds us that we can choose where we get our … Continue reading Creating in fear means we are in constant resistance to life. Turn it around!
While we have a guided meditation every day of the week, on Sundays the meditation is just quiet. Just you sitting with your own silence, and knowing that all of us are sitting in our own silence along with you. "It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet … Continue reading You ARE the voice of wisdom.
A message from today's meditation: In our fast-paced, noise-filled world, it's easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of thoughts, worries, and distractions. We often find ourselves rushing from one task to the next, our minds racing ahead, and our bodies feeling stressed and fatigued. Yet, within these fleeting moments there is a path … Continue reading Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all.
I want you to really hear this... I want you to remember this... You are worthy! You are deserving! You are whole! And... You are not separate from any of this. Just like a wave is something that the entire ocean is doing, you are an expression of the entire Universe. The Universe IS you. … Continue reading Practice sharing the fullness of your being.
Today's journey is SUPER practical, and also really simple. How good is your brain at concentrating? At keeping focus? And is this an ability that you can develop? "The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment." - Jon Kabat-Zinn This doesn't mean that we shouldn't make ourselves … Continue reading It’s the process of paying attention, that changes the brain significantly.
Letting go... or hearing the words, "just let it go" is one of those disservices we do to ourselves and others while we're trying to be really well meaning. It feels like the right thing to say, but we all have our own moments of struggling with our own personal example of not being able … Continue reading Just let it go…
On being present... Some of Jon Kabat-Zinn's most well known work is on the theme of being present, as illustrated by the very fitting title of one of his books, "Wherever you go, there you are." Today's meditation journey approaches being present from two perspectives: What do we gain from being present with our outer … Continue reading Become available to what this moment makes available to you.
With the week ahead of you, how do you want to show up to the challenges that this week brings? While some of the challenges we face come towards us from the outside, we all experience internal obstacles from time to time too. Looking at the week ahead, you might have an idea of the … Continue reading Meet every moment with full awareness.
A silent meditation for today......... You don't need to stop all of your thinking, but you can slip into a space that is deeper than the thinking and simply be the observer of the thinking... In this place you will find that you're unattached - this doesn't mean that you are separate from everything, but … Continue reading You ARE the universe experiencing itself.
My mind is racing! Is this an experience that you are familiar with? When we have a really busy mind, the worst thing we can do is add more thinking. Anxiety and stress is associated with racing thoughts, which is a high and fast brainwave state. In this mind space we often struggle to think … Continue reading My mind is racing!
We don't talk about rising into love, but falling... We "fall" into love because it requires a surrender. Love asks of us to let go of the need to control, the need to force an outcome. Love is not something we need to search for to find, it is the truth of who we are, … Continue reading To experience love, you’ll have to fall…
Right here, right where you are right now, is where you hold the power... Right now is the only place where you can spend your energy productively, not in some future moment. If your happiness is always around some distant corner in the future, guess what... you're never going to catch up to it! If … Continue reading The Eternal Now: Your Ultimate Destination
We live in a world of taking action! Of getting things done! And of course, we don't get closer to any destination without the action of taking steps forward. But we can also see how easy it is to run around like a headless chicken, taking steps that lead nowhere, not making any progress at … Continue reading When you swim, you don’t grab a hold of the water…
A bit of brain science for you today. Does your mind sometimes go "off task?” And when it does, do you struggle to get your mind back on track and stay focused? Today’s first thought by Alan Watts mentions that the whole secret to life is the ability to remain on task, and also to … Continue reading Does your mind sometimes go “off task?”
It's Monday! We're at the start of a new week, let's see what this week has in store for us... Our teacher for this week is Alan Watts. He was an English writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience. He wrote more … Continue reading You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Even if you play it wrong… just play!
Welcome to the practice of silence... Take a moment out of your day and come and sit with us in a circle of silence. You don't have to complete the whole meditation, just come and sit with us for as long as it feels useful to you... "Solitude is for me a fount of healing … Continue reading The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
I want to start today’s message with this thought - “Whatever you water will grow…” … take a moment to let the thought marinade in your mind for a bit, and then we’ll get back to this thought in a moment. In the meantime, let’s get into Carl Jung’s message for us today. "We don't … Continue reading I will CHOOSE where to pour my water.
A message from today's meditation: In a world increasingly polarized by division and conflict, where the lines between "us" and "them" seem to deepen daily, the act of loving unconditionally becomes an act of radical defiance. Carl Jung's exploration of love reveals its elusive and mysterious nature. He acknowledges the futility of attempting to define … Continue reading Double down on love in a world that insists on dividing people into “us vs them”.
For a moment let’s talk about “self-sabotage”. The nature of my work requires regular conversations about this topic which I think is an unfortunate label. The term self-sabotage means that a person is deliberately getting in their own way. That there is a part of their personality that doesn’t want them to be successful, and … Continue reading On self-sabotage.
To be human is to find ourselves entangled in the intricate web of human interaction, navigating a landscape of emotions and reactions. In some of these interactions, we may feel triggered, frustrated, or even angry. However, these very moments can be transformed into opportunities for profound self-discovery. Every human around us, is a catalyst for … Continue reading Let EVERYONE be your teacher.
There is wisdom within you. We are never disconnected from the eternal presence of our soul, but it sure can feel that way. It is the loud volume of our fears that drowns out the whisper of wisdom in our soul. When we heal what has been hurt within us our fears become less loud, … Continue reading The wisdom of your soul, is the essence of who you truly are.
It's Monday! Welcome to the new week! Our teacher this week is Carl Jung who made a lasting impact on the science of the mind as the father of “analytical psychology” during the first half of the 20th century. He understood though that in the pursuit of creating a clear science of human consciousness, it … Continue reading What moves you?
Are you stuck in what you know? It may sound like a weird question but Iyanla Vanzant shines some light on the reason behind this question - "If you don't have a vision, then you're going to be stuck in what you know. And what you know is limited to the things that you've already … Continue reading Are you stuck in what you know?
Today's thought from Iyanla Vanzant is my very favourite piece of her wisdom. Her message is about being in that space where I know that the old doesn’t serve me any longer, but I don’t quite have the clarity of what the next steps look like… "You must be ready in mind, in body, and … Continue reading The in-between spaces.
Either everything is of God, or nothing is of God. It can't be true that only certain things were made by God and not others, and this means that YOU... you are a part of God... and this makes you worthy. You are worthy and deserving just because you breathe, and your heart beats. We … Continue reading You ARE consciousness itself, manifested in form.
Don't run, stay. Don't turn away, BE here. Our need to run is an old inner message that's trying to find safety, but it's going to run forever until the wiser part of you makes the firm decision that, "we will run no more". "You can't do anything as long as you are afraid of … Continue reading Don’t run, stay.
Today's meditation is "The Serenity Prayer" which I love for its wisdom of how to try and live our lives within the balancing act of when to accept and surrender, and also when to take action and create change. Our teacher for the week is Iyanla Vanzant, and here’s how she speaks to this age … Continue reading Today I decide that I am going to live out loud!
No-one can do for you what you can do for you. No-one can hold a space for your hurt, like you can do for you. No-one can sit with your fear, like you can do for you. No-one can make you whole, like your own acceptance does for you. Yet these tend to be the … Continue reading You are SO much stronger than you’ve ever known!
Welcome to a brand new week in which to create at your very highest potential! Every day is a blank canvas, a new opportunity to paint your life with the colours of your dreams. As we embark on this new week, let's take to heart the inspiring words of our teacher for the week, Iyanla … Continue reading Every day is your day if you claim it.
"You don't just have the potential to create, you are always creating." - Jack Canfield We are always creating! We were created to create and therefore we create by default, but we're not always creating at our highest potential. What is it that prevents us from creating at our highest potential? What prevents us from … Continue reading What is holding you back?
