Tag: knowing
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Inspired by Nature
Nature as a Mentor Nature is so cool! Want an energy boost? Watch this awe-filling video in which Janine Benyus reminds us of life’s inspiring wonders and how much we could learn from Nature. Biomimicry aspires to emulate nature’s designs and processes to create a healthier, more sustainable planet. This is not a new concept Read more
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Moving
Whirlpool The only way out is in Move in Only when you realise there is nowhere to go Nowhere to move on It is all there is You realise perhaps you didn’t need to do it alone You could have shared it The beauty of the shared experience It is all there is What moves Read more
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Eureka!
I just had a Eureka moment realising Useful Me is not Me. This is very exciting. What a relief. I am so grateful the process of writing is helping me think through and is bringing gaps in my understanding to my attention. I recently discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS) as non-pathologising, evidence-based method to better Read more
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What is wrong with you?
A kid walking down the street This morning, I was walking down the street when a scene stopped me in motion, grabbed my stomach and travelled me back in time. Here’s the situation. A kid is about to cross the road at upcoming traffic when a woman, let’s assume his mum, pulls his arm in Read more
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I feel therefore I am
Dear Love, what will you have me know about who I am? You were literally brought up in the school of ‘I think, therefore I am’. It makes sense that you consider that way of thinking as a sort of norm, a sort of safe pillar you can count on. It’s much harder for you Read more
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The starting point
Getting there I know this is just a figure of speech But so much of the language we speak shapes the way we think, and vice versa That it makes me wonder Where are we trying to get to? To a place where we feel comfortable with the now? One day we open our eyes Read more
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The Illusion of Control
The way we speak Everything under control? Now, let me tell you that the ‘control-freak’ part of me would love to tell you that: Yes, absolutely, I’ve got everything under control. But that would just be an intellectually lazy lie. The more I think about this fairly common question, used rather often in everyday life, Read more
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Trees
Here’s a twist! Curly spine Are you misaligned You feel stuck So is your lower back Since you won’t listen in Your body will scream in pain What is the message you refuse to hear What language will speak to you For its call not be in vain One second soothing The other burning The Read more
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The way we look
Look at you! As unique and personal As our human experiences Gateways through our souls His blue and bright Clear as water crystals Beauty appears at a simple glance Hers brown and muddy Textured as dark cocoa Complexity and bittersweetness entangle Each out of them ordinary Exploded sparks extraordinary Blue making brown better Brown making Read more
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When it starts when it ends
Infinity It’s like it’s not the same part of me that’s feeling that’s writing I don’t know if that makes grammatical sense but in my language it makes sense The question is whether ‘I’ might be able to read myself Will you ever be able to read yourself? It’s the moment when all is and Read more