Failing;
is not falling down,
it is staying down.
(anon)Don’t let this breed hate (tarley)I want this to stop (anon)One solution : evolution (anon)The quotes above were written on the boarded up windows of the Debenhams in Clapham Junction, (London) after the rioting and looting of the last few weeks. Most of the messages were of love, but some were also of anger and hate. It saddened me to watch the young people (our children) destroy and pillage their own community. But through these events, we were awakened to the desperation and hopelessness that some of these young people feel. Out of these tragic events, a sense of community was born, whereby people came together in love and support to clean up their towns.

Much has changed in me since my last post. I have reflected on a lot of things in my life and taken steps to change those things that are no longer helpful to me. As a result of this; relationships have been strengthened, other relationships have fallen to the side and naturally gone their own way. My work has expanded into new areas, my health, fitness and motivation has improved and most importantly I have gained perspective, set some goals and become inspired to work on my positivity. Whilst doing all this I have travelled to two countries and been inspired to be better in lots of different ways. The following poem is about faith and being able to let go of those things that no longer serve your purpose. Remember that when something leaves your life, something else always moves into that space!

Let it Be  Read more...

There comes a time in life where everything starts to feel very comfortable; work is good, relationships are built, one has become adept at managing every aspect of their life. And we are happy with the constancy of it all. But! There is always a ‘but’. This ‘but’ comes before a nagging sense of frustration or dissatisfaction that one is not excelling in life, and has become accustomed to compromise. If our life suddenly brings forth some challenge, we are distracted by this for a while and forget these nagging feelings of frustration until everything is once again in a place of peace. Then those feelings once more appear.

 ‘Without fear, then courage doesn’t exist.’Change can be difficult, because the unknown is scary! And some of us would rather stay in a negative and draining life situation (a job we don’t like, an injury that prevents us living life fully etc) rather than allow and action new opportunities that present themselves, to bring colour and regeneration into our lives. And those new opportunities are always there waiting in the wings, if only we would open our eyes to them! But change represents a personal growth in ourselves; which in turn has an indirect effect on those around us. We can become masters or experts in resisting change, creating imaginative and intricate justifications within ourselves, that can become as powerful as to make us ill or fatigued.

‘to fear or not to fear’

‘Kent Davidsson’ explores the concept of fear in some detail in his articles published on the net. He considers how society encourages us to heavily judge, ignore or deny our fears and this in turn creates more fear. Where there is fear, there is no love! This is an interesting concept, for if light and darkness cannot co-exist in the same energy space of an individual’s emotional body, neither can fear and love. The dark, dense energy space of fear blocks our loving potential and the only way through it, is to get into that space fully (as uncomfortable as that might be!) and embrace our fear. Like a loving parent who loves unconditionally and non-judgementally; by doing this we are coming from a place of self acceptance.

‘that is the paradox of fear. It negates love, yet will persist until it is loved’  Read more...

I arrived home from work the other week to find a dead field mouse on my living room floor. It was a perfectly, beautiful sandy coloured mouse with dark grey eyes. I immediately felt a sense of overwhelming sadness and reverence, that it had died at the cruel, but natural nature of my pet cats. My cats were very proud of their success and positively strutted around the appartment for a week afterwards! (they are indoor cats and only had the opportunity to kill flies and the occasional spider previously.) Anyway, I felt disgusted that they had obviously tortured the poor creature to death and have included ‘Thomas’ poem below, which captures the essence of how a little girl felt upon the death of a bird.

Snow  Read more...

Metamorphosis is a miraculous process, whereby an insect or animal transforms from one form to another i.e. caterpillar to a butterfly. Derived from the Greek language, it’s definition directly translates to, ‘change form’. In terms of human life, it can mean the process by which one changes their attitudes, beliefs or behaviour.

‘The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep…’

Erich Fromm   Read more...

‘How frail the human heart must be – a mirrored pool of thought’

Sylvia Plath  Read more...

I never used to understand what meditation was all about. Whilst sitting there in an upright posture, I would be thinking how uncomfortable I was, how cold the wall was, how long I had been sitting there (usually not long at all!) and I would get a desperate urge to scratch or move an ankle or a leg. And that’s before you even consider how noisy and irritating the thoughts are. Fast forward three or four years and now I am finally beginning to scratch the surface! I’m not a consistent practitioner of meditation and truthfully only do about ten minutes every couple of days, but what I experience now is completely different to when I first began. Thoughts or mind chatter is definitely quieter and I get a pleasant feeling of connectedness. It is inspiring to note the changes after some period of time and I would recommend meditation for de-stressing, calming the mind or balancing the body after a hectic day. But I appreciate that for a beginner, they have to overcome their own personal resistance and limitation, to a discipline that slowly helps the mind, body and spirit to blossom, align and re-connect.

In Meditation  Read more...