New Year’s Day feels like you’re an actor, waiting for the show to start. You’ve learned your lines, you know what you have to do… you’re excited! But for now, you just have to wait. So do you stay there, thinking about what’s to come, getting increasingly impatient or anxious, eroding the confidence you had… Continue reading New Year’s Day
There are many misconceptions about what acceptance is or is like. Some people believe it’s about feeling good about things - consciously projecting loving feelings onto what normally troubles them, which feels good if you can stomach it but is hardly guaranteed to turn you into a cosmic ball of love-energy. Others see it as… Continue reading Acceptance: The Zen Superpower
Ever since Paul McKenna's 'I Can Make You Confident' dictated that as step ONE I should say hello to a stranger, I have known that advice needs to be customised to be useful. As far as that anxious teen was concerned, talking to strangers was the end game, not some casual intro. I can't help… Continue reading The Importance of Customising Advice
Why Zen: Zen is a remarkable thing - Not really a religion, more a tool that certain religious folk happen to be a fan of; A belief system that encourages skepticism, independence and self-care; A serious yet welcomingly light-hearted perspective on life... Zen is something that we can all benefit from. In the same way… Continue reading Why “Zen-ish”
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