by Annette Burrell | Dec 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by Annette Burrell | Dec 11, 2021 | 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 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by Annette Burrell | Dec 4, 2021 | 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 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by Annette Burrell | Nov 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
