Have you heard of free writing? It’s when you let your hand do the work and your mind relax. In theory, it lets your subconscious rinse its thoughts without your internal editor taking control. There’s an artist, Julia Cameron, who recommends using this technique first thing every morning to help build your creativity and clear [...]
When a seemingly great job started to turn sour earlier this year, I found myself in a state of constant stress. I knew I was struggling - the dread of going to work, the tightness in my chest, butterflies in my stomach but I didn’t realise just how chronic my stress had become. It wasn’t [...]
So Apple have just brought out a phone where you stare at the screen and it recognised your face and then opens up a world of everything. Social media, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat the list goes on, places where we don’t really know anyone and nobody knows us. It opens games, emails, business, spreadsheets, maps, holiday [...]
Life begins and ends with the breath, and every breath we take can have a positive or negative impact on our bodies depending on how it is performed. The average person breathes 25,900 times a day, which correlates to 12-16 breaths per minute. Though one of my teachers, Paul Chek, who is an internationally-renowned expert [...]
Talking is healthy. Talking about difficult, sensitive topics can help us unpick and work through complex issues. In light of the Harvey Weinstein revelation, a conversation about sexual abuse is now happening far and wide. Opening Pandora's box can be a positive thing, many people have felt compelled to express their experiences, many perpetrators are [...]
Have you ever felt capable of anything at a given moment in your life? Ever experienced a clarity in your resolve that you thought was never humanly possible? If your answer to any of these questions is “yes”, then you probably lived through a Flow experience. According to Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the concept of [...]
Last week I wrote about trying to meditate every day with my boyfriend (it didn’t go well!). This week I want to share with you my experience of attending a 10-day silence meditation retreat in Yangon, Myanmar. For many, the scary part of that sentence is: SILENT. And by silent, I mean no talking, no [...]
