Easy ways to learn meditation – within nature
So, what is meditation? Many people have an incomplete picture of what meditation is, can be, or may have tried or given up – personally, I know I have been caught in most of those scenarios over the years! A common misconception of meditation is that it is about...
Finding a Pathway to Compassion and Understanding
How do we know when we are ‘in’ our hearts? Before starting a Reiki or sound healing, we might ask you to try to quieten the mind and drop into your heart, but what does that mean, how does it feel and why is it important to practise spending time there? To...
Ikigai
Japanese people, especially those who live in Okinawa, seem to enjoy longer, happier and disease-free lives than those in the West. This has now been attributed to a concept referred to as “Ikigai,” which translates to “the reason for being/waking...
The Gift of Hope
I’ve been thinking a lot about the word ‘hope’ recently and the power hope has to keep us optimistic or just keep going in difficult times. The opposite of hope, ‘hopeless’, has its own darker power and is synonymous with words like despair, despondency and wretched....