What is the Spider in Your Life?
I was having a really good phone conversation with a friend last week when suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a big spider run across the floor and under the chair on the opposite side of the room. I could feel my whole body tense and for the next few days…
Fruit
There is no picture with this entry. You are invited to imagine it for yourself. It is night. No sleep, as the pain makes me move constantly. Around 4 I start paying attention to the feeling of “I”. I have found that this is one of the things that sometimes helps reducing or eliminating the…
Blazing Your Own Trail…
The plan this morning was to run some intervals on the track… Anadi came with me – he was going to stretch while I ran – but we arrived to the buzz and activity of ‘something going on’… Young boys and girls were collecting race numbers, and an exciting and anticipatory energy was all around… I…
How I Contribute for Zero Waste Week
Well, I suppose really I should not be contributing to Zero Waste Week, if you get my meaning! Have you heard of the challenge? Environmental waste management is a big deal in the Green household, because my husband is a Chartered Waste Manager. Therefore, he scrutinizes every item that we use, he monitors the products…
Bereavement and Loss – Part 1 of 7
The issue of Bereavement and Loss comes up in my practice on a fairly regular basis and so I decided to polish up this article that I wrote a while ago and re-present it as a series of blog posts. In Part 1, I will look at bereavement in regards to the animals that share…
Woman is the Possibility of a World Unseen
The secondhand of the clock moves slowly here in the lowlands of Oakland, California. Everything is an effort: walking around the block, determined to walk again; going swimming at the YMCA; shopping; cooking. When I go to the YMCA, I watch another woman who’s there every time, grabbing onto the low wall, painfully taking baby…
Juggling Living in the Now and our Businesses
Does anyone else find this quite a tightrope walk? It can be quite mind boggling! The Past, Future but rarely Present The business world at large demands projections, business plans, analysis of data and constant checking of figures – which area of our business should we concentrate on next, which country should we try to…
Caterpillars in a Hurry
Caterpillars crawling on top of each other Going in the same direction In a hurry As much as caterpillars can be in a hurry We don’t know where they are going And we don’t know Who will appear when they are gone We could know everything If we zoomed out and left the game Of…
Rockpools on Brancaster Beach
Last month, my family and I enjoyed a holiday in North Norfolk. We stayed in the beautiful, picturesque town of Wells-Next-The-Sea, and enjoyed walks along the seafront, days on the beach, and explored all sorts of hidden places and local nature reserves. There is something about the beach, and the sea, that brings peace. I…
To Start at the Beginning…
My writing desk on the balcony looks down on a little square by the sea in Almuñecar, it is more lively than when we were last here in February; colourful stalls starting to appear… Joyous, vibrant, strips of cloth, skirts, pantalones, a mass, a tumble of possibility. I am happy at the moment to be…
Positive Thinking – is it Always a Good Thing? Part 4 of 4
In my work I pay close attention to people’s beliefs and their self-talk. Often the beliefs were created around a trauma they experienced at some point in their life. This is a natural survival instinct, where the mind tries to make sense of what happened and to help us to avoid similar painful situations in…
I Am Not Alone
There are times when no amount of wanting, willing, or determination will bring us to that place we wish to go. The past lives in every cell of our body—whether from this lifetime or another—until we are able to hear, feel, be with what is trying to speak its voice through us so that we may,…