How to stop your mind.

Can you feel the stillness inside you?If you stop thinking just for a moment, can you feel the stillness? Maybe you wonder how to stop thinking. Maybe you are trying to work out how to stop – but that is using your thinking, isn’t it?Maybe you think that if you could...

Caring for yourself.

Caring for yourself.This is not simple. Not as simple as having a massage now and then. Not as simple as having time to read a book. Not as simple as having a holiday. There seem to be so many facets involved. There is caring for the body: thinking about the food we...

What are your thinking patterns?

What sort of pattern does your thinking take?For me, the first trigger to thinking could be noticing a sound, a word, something visual, a sensation in my body or even a thought. Then there is an automatic, speed of lightening movement to ongoing thinking. This...

Essential questions

Sometimes essential questions arise. What is my purpose? What is life about? These often arise in times of pain or crisis. Life can keep us busy – jobs, family, obligations, groups, expectations, people to look after.BUT, when one or some or all of these...

Fear can limit one’s life

Did you ever read that book “Feel the fear and do it anyway”? I did. I owned it for years but didn’t reread it. Nice idea. Nice concept but it just seemed so hard to feel fear and still do the thing that I thought was causing the fear. I’m the sort of person who feels...