Look around you

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.”

—Jane Goodall

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There's a thought

There’s a thought… and there’s another one… - this is how my meditations often go. As well as the “There’s rather a lot of thoughts in a row and I was completely lost in it, believing it”.

Are you taking your thoughts to be true?

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Throw away the shoulds

Stop shoulding yourself in the foot 😃

“Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.” ― Margaret Atwood

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How to cut broccoli

Now, this is rather a strange topic and one I hadn't expected to be writing about. Perhaps how to spell broccoli would be more likely, as I keep using a double L but it would be quite a short post! Anyway, it turns out that broccoli is a rather good teacher.

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Fighting what is

Do you ever feel like you are carrying a weight around? Or like you are holding everything together? For me, it feels like overwhelming tiredness and when I look at it I realise I'm tired of fighting how I feel. Once I let myself feel tired I often feel more awake — I've let go of fighting what is.

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Ways of Looking

I love driving, and most of all I love to put some music on in the car and sing whilst I'm driving. It makes for wonderful journeys. A lot of my music is now mantra music and I find singing these induces lovely states whilst I practise mindful driving. This week I drove to Southampton for a day of sailing with fellow JLP coaches. It was a wonderful day, but the driving part was fascinating.... 

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