Mindful Blog

You can’t change your subconscious mind by thinking. We try! Will power is great. Perseverance is great. Wanting is great. Trying is great. Positive thinking is great. But these are all methods of trying to have control. Trying to avoid the uncomfortable stuff. TRYING...

Fear can be positive, yet we want none of it.Fear can protect us, yet we would sooner not have it.Fear can be excitement, yet we view it as negative.Take the fear with you, let it have its place, not to stop you, but to keep you on your toes.Take the fear with you,...

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...