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Wishing you gentle beginnings to the New Year 🙏

"To begin this year anew, we can reflect on these simple questions:

· What have I done during the year?
· Have I been able to produce feelings of joy and happiness during my days?
· Have I been able to take care of the painful feelings during the year?
· Have I been able to handle them, to calm them down, so that I will not be a source of suffering for myself and for other people?

With mindfulness, we can produce a feeling of joy whenever we want, because we are a practitioner. We can produce these feelings for ourselves, and everyone we love. Have we done that this year?

We can learn how to calm down painful feelings, and even transform them into compassion, friendship and forgiveness. Pain and pleasure are all organic, like love and hate. If we do not know how to handle love, it can turn into hate or anger. If we know how to handle hate and anger, we can turn it back into understanding and love. If we do not know how to handle painful emotions, we are going to repeat that in the new year, and the new year will not be very new.

The value of the year depends on the value of acting, of our way of life. With mindfulness, we can improve the quality of our life, of our days, our months, our years."

Excerpt from Thich Nhat Hanh’s talk

In our day to day lives, we often show courage without realizing it.

However, it is only when we are afraid that courage becomes a question.

Courage is amazing because it can tap into the heart of fear, taking that frightened energy and turning it towards initiative, creativity, action and hope.

When courage comes alive, imprisoning walls become frontiers of new possibility, difficulty becomes invitation and the heart comes into a new rhythm of trust and sureness.

There are secret sources of courage inside every human heart; yet courage needs to be awakened in us.

Courage is the spark that can become the flame of hope, lighting new and exciting pathways in what seemed to be dead, dark landscapes 🙏

JOHN O'DONOHUE

May you be blessed
May you find courage
May courage find you

Too often people try to change their lives by using the will as a kind of hammer to beat their life into proper shape. The intellect identifies the goal of the program, and the will accordingly forces the life into that shape. This way of approaching the sacredness of one's own presence is externalist and violent. It brings you falsely outside yourself and you can spend years lost in the wildernesses of your own mechanical, spiritual programs. You can perish in a famine of your own making.

If you work with a different rhythm, you will come easily and naturally home to yourself. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more importantly, it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his book, Anam Cara

“If there is light in the soul,
there will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
there will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
there will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
there will be peace in the world”

Like the quiet power & resilience of a pearl - To every mother, daughter, grandmother, aunt & friend. Thank you for lighting the souls of future generations 🌿

💛 Blessed Womens Day to you 💛

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Mindfulness Class (6yr - 8yr) & Mindfulness for Parents Course. Slots available for 2021. Sessions for 2020 are full. Kindly pm to enquire

There are no great things,
only small things with great love

Mother Theresa

We are in the middle of uncharted times. There are certainly moments when we feel the need to talk about the unfairness of it all but there is also great wisdom in easing into situations that we cannot change.

If you want to change something. It will be more effective from your centered, loving self than from an angry or frightened self.

Just like a tree... the weather is not always perfect but each ring represents a small or big hurdle experienced in time. Each time the tree continues to grow. Steady and strong.

It is not about how perfect things need to be. It is about how you approach the hurdle.

Like a camera lens. Allow yourself to Zoom out from the story in the mind. How you experience a situation will change. And loosen it’s grip on what is causing the tension, allowing the situation to evolve.

Wishing you a supportive day ahead