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Archive for the Sitting still category

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Take a pause: Mindful in May

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

Is it just me, or has life got a bit crazier than usual lately? Somedays I feel like I’m on a roundabout that keeps speeding up, and I’m not quite sure how to slow it down or get off. The beauty of meditation is that it can help us find a little pause in the [...]

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Self-care in the itchy-scratchy place

Sunday, September 18th, 2011

So it turns out I’m in good company. There are quite a few of us hanging out in the itchy-scratchy place. Which means it was worth telling the truth about how I’ve been feeling and it is certainly worth sharing a little bit more of what I’ve been learning. I finished my last post with [...]

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What’s your foundation? The short and the long version.

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Last week I got an email from a friend, someone who I met through my 30 Days of Yoga course and for whom I have a lot of respect. She wrote “In your last email you talked about struggling to believe that you are enough without saving the world and ending suffering. I am really [...]

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The Wisdom of a Broken Heart

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

At the most painful, confusing time of my life – in those months after the killings in Afghanistan that I referred to in my last post – I found the teachings of Pema Chodron who gently encouraged me to relax and lean in towards my own heartbreak, seeing it as a state of presence and [...]

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Experimenting with overwhelm

Friday, June 11th, 2010

I’ve been experimenting lately. I’ve been experimenting with saying yes more often and allowing my life to fill to the brim again. I say ‘again’ because there was a time, before Afghanistan, when my life was full to the brim all the time. By ‘full’ I mean packed rather than abundant, although sometimes they are [...]

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Living the questions

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point [...]

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Spring Cleanse: What are you ready to let go of?

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Well, it hasn’t looked or felt much like spring around here this past week. Earthquakes and tsunami in the Pacific have left hundreds of people dead, thousands homeless and many more devastated. Here in New Zealand a late cold snap has left farmers without any electricity as they struggle to rescue new spring lambs from [...]

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Change the World: Make friends with your Heart

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Rumi Last week I wrote a list of 10 things you probably shouldn't say to a friend who doesn't have children. It was quite an experience. People responded, to [...]

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Cliches

Monday, August 31st, 2009

There are a few phrases that have become so well-used that their meaning seems some days to have been worn thin. But some of them are used so much because they touch on simple yet powerful truths and it is worth pulling them up into the light and really thinking about what they have to [...]

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Conscious activism

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Twee Merrigan (yoga teacher) watches Edo Kahn and Jo Mall (musicians, devotees and music therapists) play and sing with children living in an orphanage in Bali Conscious activism is an idea that I've been playing with for a couple of years now, and here in Wellington I've had the joy of finding some friends and [...]

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