50 Journaling Prompts for Gratitude

Cultivate more Gratitude through Creativity

  50 Journaling Prompts on Gratitude Gratitude is an often overlooked emotion, even though it has the potential to be incredibly powerful. Expressing gratitude can have both psychological and physical benefits, and it can even help you to become more connected to the world around you. In this blog post, I have included at least … Read more

Learning From Struggles

Learning From Struggles Exercise

Struggles are a necessary part of the journey What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.  I have always had a real disliked for that saying.  It used to make me want to say, F*** O**! It seems to condone people going through horrific traumas and terrible times, because hey, you’ll be a better person at … Read more

Why We Should Turn and Face our Fears

Space to Breathe

Whilst eating breakfast most days I listen to either TED or Dharma Seed talks.  It’s a great way to start the day. Far better than watching mindless morning television or the radio, full of negative news, endless trivia on celebrities and irritating adverts. The Dharma Seed meditation teachers often read poetry to enhance and bring … Read more

How to Write for Self-Discovery

Writing for Self-Discovery How to write for the soul? Below is a twenty minutes timed free-flow writing exercise I found in an old journal from August 2012.     I believe we can gain so much from writing when we let it flow naturally, with no agenda, expectations or pressures.  Very rarely do people allow … Read more

A Poem About Letting Go

Let it Go Let go of the ways you thought life would unfold; the holding of plans or dreams or expectations — Let it go. Save your strength to swim with the tide. The choice to fight what is here before you now will only result in struggle, fear, and desperate attempts to flee from … Read more

Three Simple Ways we can Manage our Thoughts

Sometime you have to stop thinking so much and go where the heart wants to go

Three simple ways we can manage our thoughts Would you like to learn how to manage your thoughts?  Instead of perhaps your thoughts managing and controlling you?  A tiny little thought seems so insignificant but the truth is, our thoughts have real power. What we think, we become.   But where to begin?  Below is the … Read more

What You Resist, Persists

Trust Yourself and your dreams

What You Resist, Persists I stumbled upon this poem whilst listening to a Dharma Seed Talk from James Baraz recorded at Spirit Rock Meditation Centre in America. There is no controlling life, I love that line!  There is no controlling life, but don’t we still try? Have you ever heard “what you resist, persists?”   This poem … Read more

Managing our Thoughts…. not Easy

transformational power of slowing down

How to manage your thoughts – is it just simple thinking? Simple thinking is not easy.  Isn’t that the paradox of simplicity?  Something that should be simple is actually rather difficult. We so easily get caught up in our constant stream of thoughts.  One tiny thought has the power to spiral out of control don’t … Read more