Often I come across friends\’ and coaching clients\’ personal stories and statements that repeat in their minds and mouths — creating a restrictive personality construct that traps them in a cycle of recreating the very thing they want to escape. I do it too. It\’s pretty typical human behaviour really. Here are some of my […]
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This beautiful illusion is such a fascinating contradiction. We exist as everything from the place of nothingness. We own everything and keep nothing. We are all love and joy experiencing the depths of depravity and darkness. I can marvel at the infinite complexity from a place of pure simplicity. It is both a single leaf
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I\’ve been relatively minimalist for a while now, but after selling and giving away 99% of my remaining “stuff”, I feel so incredibly liberated and realise how VERY little we really need and how VERY little all that stuff contributes to happiness — quite the contrary in many cases! “The paradox of course, is that
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Paul\’s Story: “I knew I was not well. I had to take a break to catch my breath every 10 steps or so. I felt the pressure on my chest every morning…. …I started not wanting to wake up because I knew what was next… …I was scared about what was going to happen to
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[An excerpt from the book, Buoyant] Have you ever had that feeling of just wanting to explode from the inside out—to break out of a feeling or situation? I used to get it all the time. Mostly it would feel like a ROAR from within…. the Great Lion of my heart wanting to break out of
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I don\’t mean to sound insensitive, but morning depression may not be what it seems. We wake up feeling groggy, tired and heavy, with a reluctance to get up and a general lack-lustre feeling. Oftentimes, these symptoms are mistaken for depression but may be something else entirely. However, it\’s very difficult for a depressed person
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Today I met Jesus at the ferry terminal, sitting down with an orange juice… He said “do you know who I am?” — but not in an egoic or condescending way, just in a kind of curious tone. He talked about the Divine (calling it “dad”) and spoke in fluent scripture like it was his
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[An excerpt from the book, Buoyant] I have consciously chosen to live a minimalist life because, after separating with my partner of 10 years some time ago, I realised that I had fallen into the trap of attachment and that there was very little “stuff” that I actually needed or even wanted. This was another great
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[An excerpt from the book, Buoyant] In his cellular biology lab, one of my favourite research scientists—Dr. Bruce Lipton—uncovered the mysterious fact that individual muscle cells actually react and change based on their perception of their environment, and that the “real” environment was far less influential on outcomes. Further research led him to discover that
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With allowance and awareness, the feeling of “nothing is working” and “I don\’t understand why nothing is working” can easily become “This is the OPENING for the exact creation of experience I\’ve been longing for”. How would that feel to look on every aspect of emptiness, confusion, brokenness, disarray and lack, and simply see it
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