How you can forgive Yourself and Other People

““The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections One of the biggest issues we have, at work, in our social interactions and personal lives, it the ability to forgive and move on. Too often, people bring up issues and commentary about people […]

Mindfulness and the stress of business

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” ― Steve Jobs If you work in a business, at some point you are going to have to sit in front of your colleagues and present an update on […]

Being v’s Doing? The choice is yours

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”― Narcotics Anonymous As human beings, we spend all of our existence doing instead of being. We should in effect be called Human Doings. From the moment we get up in the morning to the moment when we close our eyes and […]

We have all the time in the world, after all is it our world

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr. We spend so much of our lives rushing from moment to moment, always complaining that […]

The Paradox of our Time, a poem by Bob Moorhead

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but […]

Mindfulness – Benefits and Positive outcomes for you and me

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Even though the academic research on mindfulness meditation isn’t as robust as, say, nutrition or exercise, there is a reason why it’s been around for literally thousands of […]

The Theatre of the Mind, hallucinations and Mindful Presence

“How the theater of the mind could be generated by the machinery of the brain” – Charles Bonnet (1720-1793) A couple of articles I have read recently have resonated with both memories of my grandmother and also my current mindfulness practice. The theatre of the mind quote at the start of this article comes from […]

Mindfulness is being verses doing

“Question for today.. How do you let go of outcomes without giving up on hope?” A very dear friend posed this question on Facebook. She is going through some significant life challenges at the moment and was asking for positive responses from her friendship group. My response was to try to describe my own approach […]