5 Books That Will Help You Create Happiness, Peace and Pizazz At Home This Season.
5 Books That Will Help You Create Happiness, Peace and Pizazz At Home This Season. I keep poetry books on the kitchen table and they really do make such a lovely addition. A poem works well as both an aperitif and...
Living In ‘Uptime and Downtime’
Psychology Uptime is when you’re alert and focused outwardly on people, the environment, sounds, sights & smells. There are many situations where being in uptime is helpful, for example when you have to go to a...
Wellspring: The New Mindfulness Podcast + Interview Series from Emma Mills London
Wellspring: The New Mindfulness Podcast from Emma Mills London Welcome to Wellspring! A new and exciting approach to health, happiness and creativity. In this interview series, we’ll meet and learn from some...
Can you live a spiritual and material life?
Can you live a spiritual and material life? An analysis of Jane Hirshfield’s poem ‘Tree’ Each time you revisit a poem, perhaps over several years, you view it with different eyes and find fresh...
”T’is distance lends enchantment to the view’?
‘T’is distance lends enchantment to the view’ Thomas Campbell, 1799 I recently came across a gorgeous and very long poem by Thomas Campbell. The first several lines made me think of the way...
Refresh Your Hearts Pallete
Wouldn’t it be amazing if before each meeting at work, or just between interactions, there were a way to cleanse your hearts palette? You know, in the same way you might cleanse your taste buds with a sorbet...
Beauty Spotting with Almodovar
Beauty Spotting with Almodovar I LOVE European cinema. It’s interesting, unpredictable and a real sensory delight. In particular I adore the movies of Spanish Director Pedro Almodovar. In his films the colours are...
5 Minute Magic: Bored of the same old same old?
5 Minute Magic: Bored of the same old same old? Here’s a little note on learning to see with fresh eyes. If we look to the brain function research we see that familiar and unfamiliar items are processed by...
Notes on embracing the unknown from D. H. Lawrence
Notes on embracing the unknown from D. H. Lawrence Uncertainty is part of life. Part of the mystery of existence. Yet for many of us, not knowing can be uncomfortable and we yearn to be certain. I really enjoyed...