Sometimes life throws you internal curve balls and if something is not dealt with it simply becomes bigger and bigger until we have no choice but to deal with it. My curve ball is anxiety. Anxiety has been an emotion that has been so familiar to me ever since I was a small child. My mother suffered from it, my father suffered from it, and I guess I did from an…
View Post“There is no external source of our suffering, pain, pleasure and happiness. Our experiences of the good, the bad and the ugly are the creations of our minds.” – Dzogche Ponlop Rinpoche Sometimes I find it easy to be with myself, sometimes I don’t. Sometimes the sunshine, beautiful landscape invigorates me, sometimes it doesn’t. Will there ever become a time when the landscape, the beauty of the day consistently pleases…
View PostI am sitting at this computer to help me understand what I need to know right now about this subject of validation. It is not until I started questioning where I am coming from that this subject keeps coming up for me. When I felt part of the human tribe, an insider, a person who belonged to a group or sector of society, my validation, my reason for being…
View PostIt is quite easy to blame ourselves when somebody else is hurting or stressed, if we view our actions as causing the person pain in some way. There comes a time when we need to release and let go of the responsibility we may have heaped on our shoulders because of something that happened to someone else. It is easy to see how our actions have consequences but often, as humans,…
View PostAs I sat by the river today, it felt a good time to practice the Hawaiian healing technique called Ho’oponopono. From Wiki: Ho’oponopono (ho-o-pono-pono) is an ancient Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness. Similar forgiveness practices were performed on islands throughout the South Pacific, including Samoa, Tahiti and New Zealand I was feeling lack-full in town today and sorrow arose. I walked into a shop and some music was playing.…
View PostThe sacredness of solitude is so often an overlooked experience to be had in life. Society is made to pity the lonely or those who live alone. Later in life single people at dinner parties are pitied by married couples with children. When you hit 30 it’s as if the whole world has gone mad in its desire to have you settled down and married. Especially as a woman. And…
View PostIn my blog ‘The Art Of Letting Go’ and ‘The More You Want Less Changes’ I spoke of embracing what we have and recognising that what we need we have right now. Something that I feel is important for me to know, is how do we, when in the midst of life, release the yearning side of our natures? How do we embrace where we are, acknowledge the wonderful in our daily lives,…
View PostI often wonder how does a writer write for a publisher? How do they go beyond the pressure of writing for an audience and write for themselves again? To have deadlines placed on them, I cannot see how this is an environment that allows creative juices to flow. As I feel like a fledgling writer, I sometimes place the perfectionist pressure on myself also. I Am A Writer In 2007…
View PostThis felt a bittersweet message to receive in a dream last night but when I understood what it meant it made a lot of sense to me. Before bed last night I asked for a Beltane dream. The underlying energy of Beltane is one of reverance for all of life. A time to reach out for what it is you want and a time when everything is possible. So…
View PostEarly this morning I lay in bed and an early life experience flooded back into my mind. It was the day I received my GCSE results from school. I felt a mixture of fear and excitement and opened it with expectations. I was shocked and surprised to discover my results, primarily that of my Art course. Every year leading up to my final year in high school (even in my…
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