mindful wisdom

    Today is the day when we need to place our Feng Shui cures for 2012 and help ourselves to create harmony, balance and abundance. Don’t worry if you don’t have yours yet or you are still considering whether to do this or not. There are some simple steps we can all do in preparation. Ideally totally spring clean (I know it’s a bit early but depending on where you live!) your home. One of the most striking things about Feng Shui whether you ‘believe’ in it or not, is that an awful lot of basics are both common…

How To Use Zen Like Perspective To Become Unstuck Whilst Finding New Clarity And Solutions Sometimes we can become stuck in our perspectives and struggle to make any progress in the way we view things on a daily basis. This can include your conversations and attitudes, your circumstances and things that happen and other areas such as your relationships and work life. Do not focus on anything in particular; instead, turn back into yourself slightly, and let your gaze expand and become more and more spacious and expansive.” – Sogyal Rinpoche A simple little exercise you can do is to…

What’s Your Life Purpose? How Do We Know Anyway? Your life purpose can be a huge topic but we are going to look at a couple of key factors to ensure we are on track with it. For some people they were born knowing though not necessarily consciously, so they just go about life driven by this higher purpose so they may not feel the need to sit down with a pen and paper and plan. Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do… within the limits of…

Are You Feeling More Yin Or Yang Today? Yin- Yang can both offer a huge resource to us in our day to day lives and although they form a whole and are part of a cycle it can help us if we can think about which one we are currently presiding in and understand them both collectively as well as some of their associated parts. Depending on your mood, your circumstances and your overall temperament in a given situation it is highly likely that one will prevail over another. It is natural for us to just be ourselves without thinking…

Do We Need To Feel Gratitude All The Time – Times Are Bad Right? (Free Gratitude Builder List PDF) Sometimes do you feel anything but gratitude or indeed grateful at all? If you happen to see the news, hear the radio or see headlines on the internet, it can all seem so much doom and gloom that you feel an instant drop in your energy levels and it can even lead to feelings of despondency and what’s the point attitude. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”-   Cicero It can really be a…

The Balancing Act – When Do You Know You’ve Achieved It? One of the ultimate questions in life is finding, understanding and achieving ‘balance’. Balance of course is a one of those words that conjures up different meanings to almost everyone. One persons blissful balance could be another’s complete nightmare. It is all about your values, perspective and knowing what it is you want to accomplish. If we take balance in it’s most simple terms, then we can look at aspects of life like; ‘Are we happy on a daily basis? Do we feel ‘on track’ and leading the life…