Christmas is fast approaching – it is impossible to deny it now, despite my best attempts. What are your senses telling you as you go through this week? I absolutely love Christmas, but generally like to keep it to December. MB has been told that his favourite enormous Santa mug can be reintroduced to the…
Which rest need are you missing?
What is your body telling you this week? What is it trying to point out to you that you need in terms of rest? Where are you depleted? And what can you see about which rest need are you missing? My current musings are working my way through the Seven types of rest that we…
Beauty out of brokenness
I love sea glass. To me, it is treasure waiting to be discovered, every piece telling a story of a lost bottle or ink well or glass reflector from times gone by. Sea glass can be around in our oceans for decades, and it intrigues me to think of who handled it first and in…
An inspiration to stop and look
It is amazing what you notice when you really stop and look. Often we chunter through life at full pelt without really stopping to notice what is around us – in our homes, in our communities, in our families, in our relationships, even in our own bodies. But when we choose to stop and look,…
Gratitude practice: filling your jar of good things.
Spring is very definitely sprung, and here in Glasgow we have actually enjoyed some warm and sunny days. Hanging washing up on the line outside is one of those small but most precious pleasures that is mindful in the doing and fills me with such smug satisfaction. Wandering around where we live we see folk…
The importance of curiosity in unlearning
What are you noticing about your patterns of thinking and behaving? How well are those patterns serving you this week? And are there models and patterns in there that you need to un-learn? My recent musings were around the idea of unlearning, and what it means to let go of past ways of thinking and…
Simplicity in having fun
Feeling a bit scunnered this week. And speaking to several folk over the last few days, I am not alone. There is a communal sense of feeling a bit flat, quite down, emotionally deflated with the lack, the loss, the loneliness of ongoing restrictions. And even though many of us are busier than ever, perhaps…
Creativity as a response to lockdown
As restrictions around lockdown begin to gradually ease, there is a lot of discussion around essential services. I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago, reflecting on Abram Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and the importance of meeting our physiological and safety needs first. What is interesting about Maslow is his emphasis on creativity as…
DC world Observations: Time to reflect
We are now a few weeks into this strange and surreal DC world (During Corona as opposed to that now distant BC, Before Corona world). To what extent have you given yourself time to reflect? The first and most important question that many of us had to answer urgently was: What are the immediate practical…
Specific acts of appreciation
I wrote the first draft of this post last week, in anticipation of having a very busy three weeks. All that has changed. Like most of us, I have had work, community, social, school, and university information events cancelled. And I find myself with unexpected time in an environment where things are changing rapidly. However,…