26. February 2020
I would like to share with you a poem I came across years ago. I hope it will resonate with you too. "Here I am. Wondering how to heal my life. Book after book. Payer after Prayer. Affirmation after affirmation. My heart hurts. Nothing seems to make much difference. I must be really messed up. More than most. No music. No radio. No TV. Just me. In silence. I hear something. What is it? Who is it? It's my own voice. Inside my own mind. Now I must be crazy. Oh well, I will listen. Nothing else...
16. January 2020
May 2020 bring you hope! I rather like the number 2020. There is a rhythm and equilibrium to it which somehow makes me hopeful. Twenty...twenty. I recently listened to a mindfulness podcast which shares my optimism. It invites us to envisage 2020 as the beginning of a new decade when more people choose to practice mindfulness and cultivate a “20/20 vision” or clear vision. So often the vision of ourselves, the people and the world around us is distorted by our own beliefs and emotions. When...
25. November 2019
I spent the most part of last week lying on the sofa trying to fight off a virus. I had picked up a flu-like virus from my husband who somehow managed to recover within a couple of days. Initially I wasn’t too put out by it. If anything I saw it as a good excuse to rest and catch up on some of my favourite TV programmes. But the virus seemed to like this chilled atmosphere too and decided to out-stay its welcome! After three days of convalescence and not much improvement, I started to notice...