How presence helps shift unhelpful patterns that create suffering All of us have unhelpful patterns, beliefs or ways of responding to our unconscious emotion that creates suffering in our lives. Sometimes these patterns and beliefs will recreate painful life situations … Continued
The reason we sabotage ourselves is because we have unconscious fear. Any emotion that is unconscious will control our behavior. So there is a lovely opportunity to heal. That is to make our fear conscious(simply by noticing it is there) and treating it with compassionate acceptance. Then we will be able to move through it.
This is a beautiful text about Dadirri from Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann tribal elder, artist and school principle.Mindfulness is exactly this. Our healing requires an ability to listen deeply and patiently to quiet still awareness.
Constant doing, creates disconnection from Self and overwhelm. So many of us are caught in a constant state of doing and we feel overwhelmed and exhausted much of the time. Our bodies are slowly wearing down because we are not … Continued
Mindfulness has wonderful applications to sport. I have two sons that play cricket and it can be a hard school of learning. However everything is an opportunity and cricket is the perfect teacher. Mindfulness Mindfulness is about learning to empty … Continued