Christmas and New Year Reflections
Christmas day – the day we most want to share with those closest to us, is a celebration of family and friendship when we feel grateful for those in our lives – those who are with us on the day, those elsewhere doing the same and those who have passed on. Magic and love is […]
A Simple & Powerful Way of Enhancing Mindful Living
What are we always doing naturally that is immediately and continually available as a focal point of grounding and expansion of consciousness, providing the link between form and formlessness, doing and being, physical life and beyond death? …… it is our breath. Conscious breathing is the vehicle for various therapies, relaxation techniques, basic and advanced […]
Finding and Enjoying the True Treasure of Life
In the modern era, there is so much commercial noise globally around obtaining things, worldly wealth, and success— on our phones, computers, iPads, and tablets, as well as on TV and wherever we go on the city streets, on public transportation, in shopping malls, in the magazines we read. In our twenty-first century comfort many […]
Connecting to the Power of Life in the Present Moment
Mindfulness Mindfulness, is a buddhist term embraced by western psychology and is now a modernised term for practicing awareness of experience in the present moment or a ‘state of presence’. In the buddhist context it develops self knowledge and wisdom to achieve enlightenment and be free of suffering. In western therapeutic modalities it is used […]
Three Proven Approaches to Spiritual Health and Vitality
Three main branches of yoga defined in the Bhagavad Gita thousands of years ago, before the many diverse styles and branches (and focus on physical asanas) of modern times. They apply universally to any faith or path as the three main aspects of spiritual practice: Alignment with divine love and compassion (bhakti yoga, devotion, worship) […]
Enhancing Beauty, Truth and Goodness in Our Lives
“The concept of truth might possibly be entertained apart from personality, the concept of beauty may exist without personality, but the concept of divine goodness is understandable only in relation to personality. Only a person can love and be loved.” The Urantia Book 1:7.3 Life can be received as a bestowed gift. Can we lay […]
Connection and Unity in True Love, Beauty & Freedom
“The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.1” (Luke 17:20–21) Jesus [standing by a well] answered. “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the […]
Like Waves and Drops of the Ocean
Waves and little drops play their timeless dance, Rolling, bubbling, splashing and spraying, Rising and falling silently or reaching high to crash and tumble, From shoreline the steady timeless rumble or quiet lapping. Coming into form then merging and returning to formlessness, Always an inseparable expression and action of the sea, Seeming to revel […]
Your Guide to Meditation and Conscious Wellbeing
The Twelve Principles of Meditation A peaceful and calm mind, along with a peaceful and calm heart brings a sense of wellbeing, relaxed focus, and increasingly produces a feeling of happiness. Brain wave patterns, happy hormone production accompany many benefits to mind and body. With practice, as the sense of thought and body dissolve […]
Authentic Being, Love and Bliss is Closer than You Think!
Much of spiritual experience seems to be about finding a place within ourselves that is less of our own conscious manufacture, and rather a place within ourselves that is there already when we let go. If there is truly a deeper more authentic inner presence and higher Self, then we all have an intrinsic capacity […]