Mindful Blog

Vigilance + discipline = responsibility for self. This formula has come up for me recently. Vigilance is not an effortful process but a relaxed being aware of the times you leave the core of your being. For me, it’s noticing when I leave the quiet emptiness that is...

What is it? Do you have it? Ever? Often? All the time? The word is used increasingly these days. It has become a BIG thing. Like Depression, a big thing. Scary thing – like so many things in this world today. Actually, I feel cross about the use of this word. It seems...

Restrictions Sometimes circumstances can be wonderful for a while and then over time they feel restricting. It’s interesting how our perception can change.For example, the partner that I was with a couple of years ago, is someone who loves to do things to help people....

How is your life going? Are you happy?You know, there is a difference between feeling happy and being happy.Feeling happy is that lovely feeling we get at times. Feels light and bubbly and free. Maybe when you bought a new dress, or a new car, or had a swim in...

It’s easy, or relatively easy, to accept life in this moment when things are going okay. When one is feeling happy. When one is not being triggered by lack of money or lack of good health or lack of friends, or lack of a relationship, or lack of………………………………………..Or the...

How are things for you at this time between Christmas and the New Year?Do you have a strong feeling about it being the end of the year? Some people do. Maybe because there is a ritual and tradition that has meaning and divides up life into years. Maybe it really is...

How well do you know you? What do you have to know to know yourself? Is it about how good you are at doing things? Or what knowledge you have? Or what makes you angry? Or knowing how you react to authority? Or knowing you don’t like a certain type of person? Or...

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.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 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...