Are You Trying Too Hard?

There is a fine line between effort, which is crucial to achieve health-related or any other goal, and trying TOO hard, which in many cases, has the opposite effect.  In other words, to heal from disease, effort verses “letting go” must be balanced.  As phrased in the spiritual jargon: there must be room for “the…

Wild Wisdom Whisperings

As I was sitting in the woods by our house the other day, enjoying the stillness, I began to notice that even in the relative quiet of this space, there’s lots of activity going on: birds singing, bees buzzing, squirrels scampering and insects crawling around in the leaf litter at my feet. It got me…

Keeping Your Balance

Balance can be such a fragile thing, can’t it? Even when we think we’re pretty solid and stable, it can take a fairly ‘small’ thing to unsettle us, knock our confidence and sense of security, and leave us questioning where we are, what we’re doing and where we’re going. On the morning of 20 November…

Coping with Shouty People and Scary Stuff on the Internet

Everywhere we look at the moment seems to be chaotic.  The news and internet are full of shocking and frightening stories and even switching on to Social Media sites can be not as uplifting as hoped. I used to enjoy browsing through Facebook seeing what people were up to and reading positive and uplifting stories,…

Spirituality with Equality at its Heart

How come the right often do so much better at ‘spiritual’ inspiration’?  In France they have Joan of Arc, in Greece ‘The Golden Dawn.’ Isn’t it time that the left developed a spirituality of its own. Many progressives are  often passionately atheist or on the liberal wings of essentially patriarchal religions. The distinction between organised…