-
Role models In music
An exploration of the influence of role models in music. What aspects are we influenced by? How susceptible are we to these influences?
-
Gentle Breath Meditation® in daily life
"With over 20 years of meditation under my belt, I was nothing short of amazed ...." Read testimonials from people who have included these techniques into their daily life and are experiencing profound and lasting benefits.
-
What is the Gentle Breath Meditation®?
The Gentle Breath Meditation® can be done anywhere and is simple to introduce into the rhythm of daily life as a point of re-connecting, restoring inner harmony and as a balance for the external pressures of life.
-
The perfectionism monster
The common depiction of a woman is someone who can meet the wants and needs of everyone around her with perfection. But do such superwomen actually exist – or are we missing a key part of what makes up the whole woman?
-
Loving work til the end
Is retirement actually good for our body? What if work was the best medicine for our body til the end?
-
Watching sport
Is watching sport harmless and ‘just a bit of fun’? Or is something more harming going on?
-
The state of our health
Worldwide, people tend to rely on medical systems and science to explain and treat illness and disease. But what’s our part at the individual level?
-
Mental health and the medicine of love
Mental ill health continues to be a global issue despite all the resources invested in prevention and treatment. What else is going on when good intentions and so much effort is directed to this area, but still the problems continue?
-
Work – Do we consider it a burden or a joy?
Many of us have a precarious relationship with work where we want the financial rewards and accolades, but still can’t wait to escape and seek relief in whatever way we can. What are we missing?
-
How harmless is our practice as a mental health professional?
As a mental health professional we have a responsibility to ensure that in our practice we do no harm to our clients. But what does this mean beyond the obvious basics?
-
Work this way – a sense of entitlement
Work is supposed to offer meaning and gratification – you’re entitled to it.
-
You can hide but you can’t run
What do we have to learn from the ‘hikikomori’ of Japan? Could they be showing us that we have taken the current model of life too far?
-
The tender man – a woman’s observations
Women claim to want a sensitive and tender man, but do we?
-
Flow, cycles and rituals at work
The symptoms of exhaustion, lethargy or the simple and very common feeling of discontentment are a normalised phenomenon in our work-places. But does it really have to be this way?
-
Breaking the cycle of workplace bullying and harassment
No one likes to be bullied or harassed, yet this is exactly what most of us will experience or witness at some stage of our working lives. What difference can we make?
-
Targets at work – crushing, cruising or not relevant?
At work, targets have become the standard that business and its people work to. Have targets reduced us to nothing more than numbers in the workplace?
-
Mission statements and other works of fiction
What is a mission statement? Does it really mean anything?
-
Who said it was the normal to retire?
What is the impact of retirement on our body? And on society?
-
Jenny James – ‘She’ album review
She is an album that connects us to our beingness – it is richly endowed with truth and deeply evolving for the listener, delivered with the lightness of one who has walked the path to her own innermost.
-
Dating – It’s not about getting a partner
Are we missing out on the experience that dating offers by focussing on getting a partner as if it is the trophy, the end result of dating? What if there was so much more on offer if we allowed ourselves to not be looking at a ‘final destination’?