The recent mega million-dollar drama surrounding FIFA and its president Sepp Blatter has taught us an invaluable lesson: how greed and power are like thieves in the night that steal our sensibility, kindness and humanity, leaving us doing everything we can, whether legal or illegal, to get more. It’s amazing to witness the damage greed […]
How Your Mind Affects Your Body
We are at last beginning to show that there is an intimate and dynamic relationship between what is going on with our feelings and thoughts, and what happens in the body. A Time Magazine special showed that happiness, hopefulness, optimism and contentment, “Appear to reduce the risk or limit the severity of cardiovascular disease, pulmonary […]
What’s The Big Fuss About Mindfulness?
Arianna Huffington does it, Anderson Cooper does it, Madonna does it, Congressman Tim Ryan does it, it’s taught in hospitals, schools, and to servicemen suffering from PTSD. But how could just sitting there watching your breath possibly have any real effect? Especially when it can appear to be boring or your thoughts just go round […]
Mindful Awareness – Where Would We Be Without It?
Life changes in a split second. Deb got up at 6:30am, went to the bathroom, and on the way back into the bedroom she tripped and fell. “I broke my ankle in three places. There followed an ambulance, hospital, and then two months in rehab: everything had changed. I had broken my strong leg, while […]
What We All Need Now
We have endlessly tried to bring peace to the world, creating organizations like the UN and NATO, we’ve had treaties and summits, and scores of meetings and programs, but still there are so many conflicts. Beliefs and egos battle, greed for power dominates over humanity, while ingrained hatred divides one against another. It’s a […]
Turning Fear Into Fearlessness
What is it that can make us shake, can make the strongest man kneel or make a tiger back off? Why is it so debilitating whether the fear is real or imaginary? Fear has many faces, many disguises. There’s fear that is a natural response to physical danger, but there’s also self-created fear, such as […]
Making Friends With Meditation
Meditation: a well-used yet so often misunderstood word. Yes, it is simple: just calm the mind and be still, breathe, pay attention and be present. But it’s not always so easy! The mind is notoriously resistant to being quiet, and as soon as we want to be still it seems to do everything it can […]
The Greatest Enemy Is Fear, Not War
There’s too much fear and fighting going on in the world, between ISIS, Ebola, violent assaults and rape. We may feel completely powerless, unable to help, but perhaps the greatest thing we can do is to make friends with our own fear rather than blaming others. We will always blame and condemn those we feel […]
PEACE is not what you THINK
Some time ago when Deb went to run a bath she found a spider in the tub. At that moment she was presented with a choice: flush the spider down the drain or take the time to get it out (bearing in mind that Deb is not very fond of spiders!). She also realized that whichever […]
Finding Your Peace Means One Less Person Is Suffering
There sure is a lot of anger and fear flying around at the moment, literally so with airplanes being shot down and missiles arcing through the sky. It may seem like it’s all happening a long way away but anger and fear are insidious: they creep into our unconscious and begin eating away at our […]
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