It’s a very tasty and smelly time of year. And generally that makes me very happy. What are some of the tastes and smells of Christmas in your house? Our moods are affected most by what we take in through our senses. What we see, hear, smell, taste, and how we experience touch, can affect…
Enjoying Christmas with all our senses
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…
The Importance of Being Present in a Digital Age
When was the last time you bumped into someone on the pavement because you were both walking along looking at your phones? The need to raise the importance of being present in a digital age is such a 21st century phenomenon. But it IS important because it is another oft-cited deathbed regret: I wish I…
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,…
Still practicing gratitude with your jar?
It has suddenly become very autumnal. All around us the trees are turning, the evenings suddenly are dark early. Hat-boot-jumper season has returned. And inevitably, the shops are not only full of Hallowe-en stuff but also Christmas stuff. [Random side note – one popular budget supermarket that we frequent is selling Christmas puds with a…
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…
The jar of good things
How are you starting the new year? In this house, we are adopting the idea I shared on social media between Christmas and New Year. We have started the year with a Jar of Good Things. I love this idea, and given by the response from your lovely selves, many of you do too. There…