I learnt the other day that the Tibetan word for meditation is “familiarisation”. And I thought, “how perfect!”. You see, when you meditate the overwhelming response is to be thinking you need to get rid of your thoughts. The idea is that when the thoughts are gone, meditation begins. This is not so.
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The greatest athlete the world has ever seen? No, not me, but thanks all the same. I was talking about Michael Phelps. Michael Phelps, if you don’t know, is a swimmer. Actually, that’s a bit like saying Lionel Messi is a football player. Phelps is THE swimmer. He’s won more medals than any other Olympic
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It seems like everywhere I turn at the moment someone is getting a cancer diagnosis. Two people on this email list in the last week alone have written and told me they have come back from the doctor with bad news. It’s something that’s in my world a lot. My mother in law to be,
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With the nieces and nephews about the house over the weekend there was much talk of super heroes. And then there’s the new Batman versus Superman film. We love super powers. If you had a super power, what would it be? In my study of humanity, the super power that just about everyone ALREADY possesses
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You ever wonder if there is more to life than what you are living? Do you ever think, “you know, my life is great, I have so much and I enjoy a big chunk of what I do, but there feels like there is just something missing?” I did, constantly. I pushed my way past
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So Easter – almost done and dusted. I’m almost recovered from man flu. The nieces and nephews have almost finished eating all their chocolate and almost finished destroying the house. It’s all good, actually. I really like having them around. Perhaps it’s time to get some? I know the fiancee is keen. How hard can
We’ve got a house full of kids for the Easter weekend. The fiancee’s cousin’s family are up. Easter bunny egg hunt has just been completed, and what fun that was. Seeing life through a little person’s eyes is a great thing. What I loved most was seeing their little faces all lit up at finding
I’m still sick. On the couch, feet up, lemon and honey at hand. Actually, I’m well on the road to recovery, but I’ve decided to take another day just to really kick this cold into touch. I’ve done my restorative and healing Ascension meditation all morning so I thought a quick little email couldn’t hurt.
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I think my trip to Ikea I told you all about yesterday must have taxed me to the limit of my endurance. I woke this morning with a sore throat. Now I don’t like being sick, but what can you do? Moan and whine a bit? Man flu can do that to a man. But
I went to Ikea for the first time yesterday. Somehow I have avoided it for so long, but what a joy it was! Like a kid in a sweet shop I “helped” my fiancee design a kitchen, picking bench tops and doors and handles and soft closures and colours and textures and oh, I do
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