The Runners
Are you passionate enough to help someone else?
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Springing into action
Is Spring wonderful? For me, everything seems to come alive. There is energy in the air.
I have discarded my cloak of sloth for my energy mantle. I am already to go. Dreams and ideas must now become concrete. It means writing a plan of action to realise my ideas that are connected to my purpose. I had already spent a long time visualising them, dreaming about them; now it is time for action.
I find it so exciting. Whatever I thought I could not accomplish in the heart of winter, now becomes a certainty in the light of spring.
Wonderful! It’s in the air and I am just flowing with the going.
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Making the Right Choices to Strengthen your Resilience.
The present crisis within the government’s drug advisory department reminds me of a lecture many years ago whilst studying for a masters degree in social research methods and statistics.
The guest speaker was a senior researcher of the then government. He appeared to be a rather sanguine, phlegmatic man. As he spoke, I felt the frustration and anger he didn’t seem to feel when describing how, when his thorough, all-encompassing research was not deemed congruent with government decisions or choices or aspirations, and shelved.
It took many more of life’s knocks before I realised that he had access to a variety of choices.
1. He could have remained angry and very frustrated in his job.
2. He could have left and found another job.
3. He could have decided that he was doing his best and that it was not that his research was flawed, but that the decision makers had decided to [yet again] shelve his thorough research.
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What is ordinary?
A few months ago someone said to me she was just an ‘ordinary’ woman. Puzzled, I asked her to explain.
“Well, I grew up on a council estate and come from a broken home.” As she is one of UK’s top coaches, I didn’t think that was ordinary at all.
So I started researching the meaning people give to this word.
Another friend also thinks she is ordinary: she comes from a very privileged background and yet the restrictions she paces on herself drives her to semi-permanent depression.
Am I ordinary? I’m neither white nor black. Growing up in the apartheid years of South Africa, I never had all the privileges of the whites, neither the severe oppressions of the blacks.
In this context, I associate ‘ordinary’ with “mediocre’.
According to Clinton Swaine, mediocrity is a sin.
I’m through puzzling about ‘ordinary’: I am an unique and precious being, just like all of us!
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Friday’s Hero
There are heroes in peace and war. Their actions and responses depend on the ‘game’ they need to play.
Today the BBC highlights the hero in 24 year old Craig Lundberg’s new actions he is taking now in response to his injuries.
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At war with yourself?
Many of us are constantly fighting our demons, wrestling with issues, putting on a brave face whilst carrying around shed loads of problems.
How light is your baggage?
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Helping others.
On Sunday evening, as the church bell tolls for 7.30pm I see a young man reaching the 21 mile mark for the London marathon. His sweaty vest, emblazoned with ‘help for heroes’ is matted against his lean body. He is tired. Exhausted. Yet, I see an individual whose whole being is completely focussed on his commitment to his vision of completeling his race.
Sunday evening traffic roars past him. He brings his crutches forward again and again, his amputeed right leg swinging to his rhythm. Close behind him a friend pushes a wheelchair. Because, that’s what mates are for, isn’t it?
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Self healing tip for the new year
Welcome to the new year. May it be filled with decisions taken and acted upon until it becomes a self-healing habit. This day, this month, this life time’s tip – BREATHE. That’s all. When we are overwhelmed with life, we tend to hold our breath. BREATHE. Slow deep breaths. In and out until you are calm again. Until you feel strong again. Until you can face the world again. Fill the world with your breath, your life. Well done!
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Helping yourself to heal
Self healing has many facets. One way to enhance self healing is by surrounding yourself with likeminded people. Friends, colleagues and family, however well meaning, attach their own perceptions and judgements onto your personal issue. Their kind and caring advice comes from their perceptions, not your gut feelings. Listen to your heart, not your mind.
Taking responsibility for your life = retaining your own power and discarding the robe of victimhood. Learn to visualise exactly what you want by seeing it, feeling it, hearing it, even tasting it as already so. Practice daily. Often. Learn affirmations. Say it over and over again. Believe it. Believe in yourself.
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Discovery Of Self
There is a candle burning on my desk. It reminds me of the light, the energy, the dream we have within ourselves. Oftentimes, it is so deeply shoved down and buried by societal demands, by what we should or should not do, by conformity, that we quite forget we have this dream, this energy, this light.
Occasionally, we hear, see and feel something happening to others, and it stirs within us a vague feeling of ‘knowing’, a yearning, only to be bedded down out of sight and feeling again. Throughout our lives, this ‘something’ continues its gentle tapping to awaken us, until one day, through serendipitous ways, some of us heed this ‘tapping’ and decide to bring that dream, that energy, that light to the forefront of our lives. And so begins a different journey.
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