In this next part of our honeymoon we venture into India and find some valuable experiences with friends and family. Coming into the Christmas period and being present in India holds some interesting themes. Given I proposed to Monique on xmas eve eleven years ago, and we spent our first honeymoon in India at that..
– The Darkside of the Honeymoon In this next part of our honeymoon we venture into Kathmandu. Staying with the theme of ‘love and other catastrophes’ we journey from the tsunami affected area of Thailand to the recent earthquake affected area of Nepal. It was while dancing in a club in Kathmandu, listening to a..
On the 26th December 2004 following a night receiving the most loving and honouring marriage proposal, I was on the road with Dave to the Woodford festival when we turned on the radio and began to hear of the numbers in droves of deaths from the Tsunami. I had never felt so blessed or such..
“In the evolution of contemporary man a raw instinctual value has been lost…at a deep level the root cause is a disconnection between man and Mother Earth!”
“First we need to realise the loss of Self. Then we need to act to reclaim it. This is the act of Selffulness. Realisation comes from inspiration, which is the most powerful motivation for change. To be inspired is alchemy, a process whereby a catalyst activates and awakens that which is dormant and turns it..
This article explores the value of vulnerability and how this can be an agent for change.
As children, when our basic needs of love and connectedness are met there is great beauty and innocence in play. There is a pure outlet of energy that is unhampered by societal stigmas and rules. With loving guidance and boundaries from a child’s parents or guardians in conjunction with the child’s own developmental leaps and..
In the mechanics of ‘nature’ it is co-operation that allows a process of working or acting together for the common/mutual benefit, as opposed to working in competition for selfish benefit. There is complete harmony in cooperation. The alternative to cooperation, in terms of disharmony of relating, is a relationship that suffers from ‘co-dependency’. We firstly..
In the interactions with our partners we tend to form relationship dynamics that we repeatedly return to in the face of similar circumstances. These relationship dynamics gets reinforced with each situation that connects the last, forming a network of potential triggers for this to be played out. We begin to build an accumulation of these..
In some instances to find the courage to address core issues and come into our power, we need to go through rites of passage, … a coming of age. In the book “Iron John”, by Robert Bly, the central character is a young boy who goes out in to the dark swamp and comes across..