by Annette Burrell | Mar 9, 2022 | Mental Health, Uncategorized
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...
by Annette Burrell | Dec 11, 2021 | Mental Health, Uncategorized
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...
by Annette Burrell | Dec 4, 2021 | Mental Health, Uncategorized
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...
by Annette Burrell | Nov 6, 2021 | Mental Health, Uncategorized
An adventure into this moment.This moment, not the next and not the last but right here, right now. Not talking about it but being.So if I accept and are willing to be right here right now, in this moment, what might happen? Do I know? And, if I don’t know, then it...
by Annette Burrell | Sep 16, 2021 | Mental Health, Uncategorized
Recently I saw the movie “Penguin Bloom”. Maybe you have seen it. Maybe you also had tears running down your cheeks.One of the children blames himself for his mum becoming a paraplegic. And the film shows how he then interprets the way his mother looks at him, the...
by GMB-Admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Mental Health, Uncategorized
It’s a bit like spam in your brain. Tries to entice you to move away from your purpose. Away from the truth. Away from stillness and silence. Doubt is thoughts that question and analyse and compare and judge. And these skills on their own or together, are useful at...
