There is power in knowing yourself. I’m not talking about how well you like your steak cooked or what your favourite sport is. I am talking about the subtleties of your emotions. Knowing those things that trigger you and send you downward. Those things that eat away at you slowly. I’m talking about knowing your …
You never really know what someone else is thinking. Not really. Sure, you can almost figure it out with some people, you can read them like a book as the saying goes. Deep down though, despite seeming obvious, their mind will be somewhere else, having an existential crisis or figuring out how to fix the …
If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad compny John-Paul Satre Most of us have a special place where we feel safe. A place where we like to go to shut out the world and be alone. Whether it is at your favourite lookout or beach, alone in your room, hidden in your …
There is a great lookout in Australia at a place known as Sublime Point. From the safe spaces at the edge of towering sandstone cliffs, you can look down from on high at a town called Thirroul, nestled on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. It was from this lookout that I had an epiphany …
Many famous and clever people have had something to say about kindness. Kindness is an inspiring and noble ideal to aim for, no matter your circumstances. None other than Plato himself, said “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” Plato was a clever bloke. Mark Twain, that great American writer said …
I have learnt to appreciate small things. Depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) take so much joy from life. Important things that once gave you great comfort and pleasure, seem meaningless when you are in the grip of the maelstrom. The effort and struggle it takes to reach those major moments seems fraught with …
What do you do when you realise that you aren’t who you thought you were? How do you move on when you can no longer do what you set out to do? How do you correct your ‘vision’ when circumstances conspire to change you? Persistence of vision describes the optical illusion where an image remains …
Home is both a physical and an ethereal thing. You can get on a train and ‘go home’. A handy person can even ‘build a home’. A home is something you can touch. Finding a home or feeling at home, is an altogether different thing. You tend to feel at home when you are safe …
Life isn’t always about what we see in front of our eyes. Sometimes life is about what we can’t see. When you are down, you can’t always see what is obvious to everyone else. It is not easy to make better decisions when we are affected by our own emotions. Sometimes our subjectivity colours what …
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Preface As the title suggests, this is a narrative about mindfulness. In it I have tried to creatively reduce the long process of learning meditation and mindfulness down into one post. The point is to explain about acceptance, being in the moment, focussing on your breath and your senses. All various issues you learn about …
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