To have a sense of Inner Peace means different things to different people. How do we come to have a sense of Inner Peace? Is it given to us? Is it earned? Is it achieved by always being good? Is it by being the eternal volunteer? Is it not stressing about our lives? I sense [...]
Archive for May, 2010
INNER PEACE
Posted in Alexia Miall, Inspiration, tagged Alexia Miall, Depression, Inner Peace, Inspiration, Life, Love on May 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The brain can grow!
Posted in Margie Braunstein, Meditation, tagged Anxiety, Brain, Depression, Dr Sara Lazar, Happiness, Harvard medical School, Margie Braunstein, Meditation, memory, Neuroscience on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hi all you beautiful people… Just back from the ‘Happiness and its Causes’ conference. Apart from Petrea who was an inspiration as always, one of my favourite speakers was a lovely scientist from Harvard Medical School who has done lots of research to show that the brain can actually grow in size! I have read [...]
Favourite Videos
Posted in Inspiration, StJohn Miall, tagged Change the World, Girl Effect, Inspiration, Poverty, StJohn Miall on May 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Every so often I’m going to post a video in this blog. These will be videos that Have touched my heart Have made me laugh Have reminded me we live in an dazzling world full of the most amazing things and people Are full of wisdom Are well crafted Stop me in my tracks Have [...]
Attitude
Posted in Bernadette Arena, tagged Attitude, Bernadette Arena, Wisdom, Wise man on May 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Can attitude affect our experience? Many studies prove it can. A wise man once said “most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be…” And the Buddha said “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world…” Here’s a [...]
PEACE
Posted in Alexia Miall, tagged Alexia Miall, Peace, Poem, poetry on May 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Earlier this year I heard about the University for Peace (The U.N. Mandated Graduate School of Peace and Conflict Studies), and this was like a childhood dream come true. The University celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year (began 1980) and I found myself feeling this is such a positive initiative for Humanity and our Planet. [...]
Living in the Question
Posted in Inspiration, Michelle Richmond, tagged Awareness, Certainty, Change, Facilitator, Living, Michelle Richmond, Question on May 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
At the last minute I was gifted 2 tickets to one of my favorite writers and speakers, I had a previous commitment early that morning to drop a young friend to one of the outer suburbs and make sure she was safe and where she was meant to be. At the last minute the plan [...]
What’s Important
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes we get so busy we lose sight of what’s important. Here’s a little reminder – hope you enjoy it. All the best, StJohn Miall St John was the Managing Director of a personal development and lifeskills training company in Victoria for 6 years offering a variety of courses to both the general public and [...]
Introduction to Attitudinal Healing
Posted in Quest for Life, Wendie Batho, tagged Attitudinal Healing, Fear, Forgiveness, Healing, Love, Peace, Quest for Life, Wendie Batho on May 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“Attitudinal Healing is based on the principle that it is not other people or situations that cause us distress. Rather, it is our own thoughts and attitudes that are responsible for our distress, and the actions we take as a result of those thoughts and attitudes can hurt us.” (website www.ahinternational.org ) Healing can happen [...]
Think positive?
Posted in Bernadette Arena, tagged Bernadette Arena, breathing, feelings, health, Quest for Life, yoga, yoga nidra on May 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Persistent negative mind states serve neither us or others. The active re-living and re-telling that we often do obscures clear and skilful resolution. We contract around the feeling, get fixated on it and merge our identity with it. Then we not only have the ‘bad’ thought, but we beat ourselves up because we’re having bad [...]
