Finding it hard to focus lately? Noticing you’re a little more highly strung than usual or possibly gaining weight and experiencing low energy reserves? The solution needn’t be a visit to the doctor, at least, not until you’ve tried this: the fourth in the series of practices that can help you live your best life …
Seven Ways to change your life: Part Four – PranayamaRead More »
Know this! Our brains are programmed from birth to store information, through repetitive behaviour and receiving. Most often this begins before we are qualified to make any sense of it. This is the stage when we trust others to make sense of it for us. Often it is not true. This information we absorb, distill, …
Seven Ways to change your life: Part Three – MeditationRead More »
The biggest lesson I’ve learned in my life is that I’m not always right. (Hmm That was hard – It still is.) My life began to change when I started listening to different perspectives and allowing myself to venture down rabbit holes of intrigue and mystery. I learned more about myself, why I …
Seven Ways to change your life: Part Two – MindfulnessRead More »
Calling all high-achievers, perfectionists, crazy busy and I haven’t got time for that kind of sh*t, type of people! I like to call these my super-seven, they are the primary activities that literally help you change your life – I know this because I used to be you! I’m no Zen Buddhist and will never …
You’ve met up with some old friends from varsity. It’s been years since you saw most of them, you had a great evening, yet, you’re feeling crushed. In fact, there are so many emotions running through your mind (and body) that you don’t know which one to deal with first. You’re feeling resentful and its …
Superpowers are no longer exclusive to comic book heroes and villians. We all have access to a superpower and, in some cases, many. Yet, as in the movies, discovering this superpower usually requires something jarring, disturbing or life threatening to occur for us to recognise and activate it.. So, what is a Superpower? From …
We’ve lived our lives with the age-old additive: Knowledge is Power. But what if Awareness was the true Power? Don’t you find that the proverbial firecracker-start to a year, with all its plans and goals to chase, can end up clouding what’s really important, exhausting us before the end of January? New Year’s resolutions simply …
My Vipassana retreat in the beautiful mountains of Worcester in the Western Cape brought with it challenges, but along with these, came many gifts. One of which was what is known as the Noble Silence ,in Buddhist tradition defined as “where one does not speak if one does not need to”. I’ve never really given …
Last Sunday I returned from a 10-day Vipassana Meditation retreat in Worcester. I was hesitant about going – putting it mildly. I knew the retreat was to learn a form of meditation called Vipassana*, but little else – other than being encouraged by acquaintances braver than me, who’d gone before. The experience promised the “magic” …
‘Remember what Peace there may be in Silence’ – DesiderataRead More »
“We must be committed to harmony between man and nature. All things that grow live in harmony and benefit from the nourishment of nature. Mother Nature has nourished us and we must treat nature as our root. Respect it, protect it, and follow its laws.” – Xi Jinping, President of China This past week …
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