“Earthly things must be known to be loved;Divine things must be loved to be known.” Blaise Pascal Mindfulness practice is the key to mental stability, emotional balance and a calm, centered, empowered presence. Learning to quiet the mind and noticing what you are noticing begins with choice and is mastered through practice. Thoughts, at the … [Read more...]
Repatterning your way to Personal Freedom
– an Awareness Training Protocol The moment you realize the cause of your suffering is a moment of liberation. That moment of insight is an opening in awareness of an internal pattern that’s kept you stuck and in pain. Personal liberation then, is a process activated by awareness and pattern recognition, followed by a process of … [Read more...]
Awareness is the Greatest Agent of Choice
There are 5 Facets of Mindfulness Non-reactivity to Inner Experience Observing, noticing, attending to feelings, thoughts, sensations, perceptions Acting with awareness Describing/labeling experience with words Non judging of experience "It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The … [Read more...]
Archetypes and You ~ Discover their Power!
Archetypes are symbols of patterns of thought, feeling and behaviour that reflect your relationship with yourself, others and with the world. Archetypes are neither positive nor negative. They are essentially neutral patterns of the psyche. Archetypes can be universal and cultural and can be experienced as a powerful pattern, deep within you, … [Read more...]
Four Powerful Questions for an Empowered Life Journey
Questions are powerful tools for prompting shifts in perspective and deep reflection that create insight and awareness. Questions invite imagination and activate possibilities thinking that is energizing and fun. They encourage creativity and out of the box thinking. Being asked a question or posing one to oneself is like opening a file. It helps … [Read more...]
Transcendence: Key to Transformation
It’s the dramas in life, the story we tell ourselves and each other that get us entangled and stuck. A conflict, whether with yourself or another, is a variation on this theme. It’s an entanglement. Some people, addicted to drama, seek out conflict. It feeds their passion and makes them feel alive and strong. Others like conflict especially if they … [Read more...]
Accept and Then Embrace Your Life. There’s Power There!
Change is all there is….you are continually changing and the context of your life – your family, workplace, home life, community, environment and the world is continually changing. Technological developments have always driven change from the industrial revolution to the great cultural, social and economic change catalyzed by the digital era we are … [Read more...]
6 Ways of Living with Presence
Imagine if … You treated others in the way you would like your dearest friend to treat you…with sensitivity and compassion. You acknowledged yourself and others – really sensed what you felt, were open, sensed how others feel about you. Invited dialogue, engaged them and shared insights and experiences. You were relaxed, authentic and … [Read more...]
Cultivating Leadership Presence
Cultivating presence is a practice of being your authentic best moment to moment, aware and free of the pressures of conflicting, limiting or contradictory beliefs. This practice requires a commitment to compassionate mindfulness which, in turn, aligns vision, values and actions in service to a higher calling. The best effect of fine persons is … [Read more...]
What does it mean to be a woman today?
As I pose this question to myself my mind quiets and I tune into the depth of my being I feel myself connect with the primordial feminine energy within me.... a deep powerful, responsive energy that rests at the core of my being, whose force I feel connecting me to the earth…. Then…rippling upwards through my body as I meditate on … [Read more...]