A friend posted this on Facebook. I was going to share, and comment, but the space there seemed short, for what I wanted to say. Where to start? At first, I thought, yeah! a true friend who is there no matter what, non judging always loving blah blah blah. And then I thought, who’s that […]
Year: 2012
Letting go…
As autumn draws inexorably towards the Long Cold, we, too, draw inwards. Observing the inevitability of change, and loss and dying off, melancholy tugs at our hearts. Autumn is the season of the Lung, whose emotion is grief and sadness and whose element is metal. In Hindu thought, Shiva rules the moribund phase of things…that […]
I choose LiFe! (Dancing from Within)
The only way to get on in this craaaazy world is to adapt. When we resist we harden. Have you ever noticed how many diseases of ageing have to do with hardening? Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), arthrosis (hardening of the joints), spondylitis (in all its delightful forms), bones spurs, bunions, corns and calluses…to be […]
Resisting change
One of the curious things that we come up against time and again in healing work is resistance to change. I say it’s curious because even people who are “formally” on the road of transformation often butt up against an innate resistance to change. This is the dastardly work of the ego, keeping the status […]
Fresh from the garden – the yoga of food.
My partner coaxes wonderful vegetables from the clay-ey mediterranean soil. I have just spent the morning making green juice (using Triestino radicchio now, so a little less bitter), then a curly kale stir fry (with home grown chilli pepper, onion and market-bought ginger and garlic) and finally a lovely creamy pumpkin and ginger soup (the […]
The key that opens the door.
I never give up. I am absolutely dogged in my determination to find the clues to living this Life fully and happily. I became sad, unbearably sad, at about age 15, and have spent the intervening 25 years trying to figure out why and trying to figure out if there exists a permanent, drug-free way […]