I enjoy being awake in bed between about 5am to 7am, especially during these dark winter days. Several cups of … More
Tag: success
Quickening
It’s happening. Inside definitely expansion and expansion and outside…. I hope, I think I sense…that a critical mass of people … More
Saturday Morning
Blissful spacious love, I surrender into you. I give myself full permission to relax further and further into a backdrop … More
I love, I respect and I like Myself
Breakfast in the park and walk with a friend in the morning, then a deeply restful afternoon yesterday. After that … More
A Wonderful Day
Yesterday was wonderful. First, a long term therapy client made some important little breakthroughs. And he is now a month … More
Congratulations to Me
Lying here in the immense heat of the hottest day on record in the U.K. 28 degrees C or 83F … More
Active Not Passive
Was listening to James Low talking about Dzogchen on and off all night. I fall asleep listening to these talks. … More
Emotions in the Body
I light a little tea candle and place it in front of me as a reminder to feel into the … More
Beautiful Morning
After session with a client yesterday I walked to the allotment with the dog through the little woods. I stayed … More
Business Tasks and Procrastination – Part 1
I had an odd realisation that I want to explore in the name of honesty with myself. It is a … More
Self Doubt, Self Confidence
No headache today and it’s my birthday. Woohoo. Got dinner tonight with 2 friends at their place. Did the usual … More
Privileged Abandonment
I was on a course all day yesterday about the damage done to children who are sent to boarding school. … More
Criticising, company, appreciation….
Slept from 9pm till 6am, and feel well for it. Yesterday morning I took one of the men to work. … More
Actually doing it
Not only reading about it and watching YouTube videos about it….. Being here and now this. very. second. I am … More
This Moment is It
The dog having her tummy tickled and it occurs that this moment is 100% perfection. It is as good as … More
A Day in the Life – Wednesday
Not sure what this recording of daily detail is about here. Other than I feel chatty sometimes and I also … More
A Thank You
Gratitude and appreciation had become such an integrated part of my every day attitude that I stopped having to think … More
Stealing Peace
At times I feel as though I’m ‘stealing’ moments of peace. I don’t trust it fully. It’s like a passing … More
Breaking free of the Social Shackles Continued
I have been exploring how we can be held back by others and motivated to hold ourselves back by our … More
What am I Grateful for about Myself
What am I grateful for about myself? I’m grateful for my appreciation of beauty, my softness, empathy, intelligence, kindness. I … More
A Moment of Grace
I was pondering in a moment of appreciation, that this is a period of relative peace inside. A sense of … More
Short Wise Quote – Gay Hendricks
“I had been resisting reality all my life—resisting facing it, resisting accepting it, resisting feeling it. Whenever I would have … More
Loving Ourselves – a reframing
We don’t have to learn how to love ourselves. We already love ourselves. All we have to do is to … More
Pondering Progress and Success
What does success mean and where does it appear in my life? What do I feel about it? Recently I’ve … More
Sitting with Successes
And after the initial feeling of the win, now sitting less than comfortably. I was going to wait till I’d … More
Sticky thoughts This Morning
The thoughts are random and fearful this morning. Bombarded from many angles of threat and suggestions to be fearful. You … More
Ahh…Soaring, Welcome back
There’s been a fair few days of soaring over the last couple of weeks. I overcame a lifelong fear of … More
Free Strengths Survey from VIA
This is very empowering! After registering and answering some questions you get a list of your top strengths and a … More
Free Online Harvard Course on Happiness
https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being “That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build … More
Trusting Yourself
Quite often a strong inner prompting suggests a course of action that is contrary to the one we have made … More
What if Joy is Scary
What if you’re not used to it and it’s a more than a bit scary. Often it’s unconsciously scary and … More
Celebrating the Good, True and Beautiful
That’s the theme for 2020. A favourite experience is the silence outside on New Year’s morning. No traffic, no sounds … More
Welcoming Joy
I’ve been experiencing stability, relative calmness and waves of happiness recently. Life is going well and I’m experiencing a moment … More
In the Slow Lane
It’s been an almighty adjustment slowing down. I’m listening to what my body wants now, after so many years of … More
Befriending Resistance
I’m used to viewing the resistance to allowing more joy, love, abundance into in my life in a somewhat pejorative … More
Good Facts
I love my dog and she loves me and she is healthy and seems happy and is very well behaved … More
Loving Yourself
Where does the taboo against loving ourselves come from, this belief that it is wrong to have high self esteem? … More
Overcoming my Limits
This is a MAJOR project I’ve been engaged with for some years. Whenever things are going well in my life, … More
Gratitude for the Little Things
Yesterday I left the dogs lead on a park bench. Saturday is a busy day in the park, and so … More
How to be Happy, even if it Scares you.
And this is one big note-to-self here. I feel fear just writing this post. I’m scared of being happy. There, … More
New territory, Dread and Courage
I did my first counselling session with a real client last week! It came naturally and went smoothly. I was … More
On Success
Thought I’d write a list, a sort of check in to the positive things that are happening. I am experiencing … More
Some thoughts on Success and Core Values
I have taken myself from being in receipt of welfare benefits aged 38 to having a thriving business that has … More
Dare to Wish
To wish for myself and intend the very best that life has to offer. I went to a goals course … More
Fulfilment, purpose, belonging, contact, joy, engagement with life
I just started off about to write how lacking I am in these things. Then I realised I actually have … More
Yesterday’s Review
So yesterday brought a new client, a visit to one team, a design of a courtyard garden here, a visit … More
Self Encouragement
I feel a need to do this a lot recently, even though things are definitely improving. I want to remind … More
Had some Good News
Which is that the client agreed to a settlement of £30k not the original £45k she wanted, thank goodness. I’ve … More
Snakes and Ladders!
Another meltdown! So many things going wrong right now in business. Its like a game of snakes and ladders. Mostly … More
What do I want?
I need to write more today, I’ve got stuff to process. Change is on its way, and I need to … More
An Admission to Myself
After all my work on consciously being aware of self sabotage, I had to admit that all this year I … More
Allowing more Happiness in
I have a sense that it's our choice how much happiness we allow in. I have had a love/hate relationship … More
What is Behind my Self Sabotage?
In response to Tiramit’s question in the comments of a previous post, I will have a closer look at this … More
Gratitude as a way of life
I put on my fluffy purple dressing gown and thanked it for being so cosy and always being there when … More
Towards Feeling Safe
A whole weekend lies ahead and I have just about nothing planned, other than enjoying freedom and spending quality time. … More
“There is nothing to practise” Nisargadatta Maharaj
I have been experimenting with not practising anything, no sitting on the mindfulness cushion for half an hour, no trying to get … More
Learning to Value ourselves
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has … More
Self Love Vs Self Sabotage
These two are having a juicy war inside me at the moment. The more I love myself and open to allowing … More
Learning to Rest with it All 