Category: Spiritual

  • The Luxury Trap

    The Luxury Trap

    For most of human history, we spent our days hunting and gathering food, wherever we could find them. If a particular area was lacking in nutrient rich supplies, or if it was being made use of by another band whom we didn’t want to war with, then we would simply wander somewhere else and make…

  • Christmas Advice: 12 Ways You Can Survive The Festive Season – Pt 3

    Christmas Advice: 12 Ways You Can Survive The Festive Season – Pt 3

    Ninth Day of Christmas- Concentration We all know how important it is to beat that particularly successful family member (let’s face it, it’s usually Dad) in board games. They sailed through to victory in Risk, Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit throughout your entire childhood and this needs to be avenged. You can achieve this through top-notch…

  • 12 Tips For Surviving Christmas [Part Two]

    12 Tips For Surviving Christmas [Part Two]

    Fifth Day of Christmas – Sleep Christmas is too exciting for sleep! And you have to practice to stay up and see Santa. Sure, you may be thirty two years old, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get caught up in the spirit of the thing. Except, if you think about it, you do have…

  • The Hero\’s Journey & Its Link To Meditation

    The Hero\’s Journey & Its Link To Meditation

    We had a really interesting group med the other night and it was evident that the majority of folks in attendance want to get to a place of peace and fulfillment double quick! This inspired me to enliven the phenomena of the hero’s journey, which in true mythical fashion, feels worthy of a retelling… Find…

  • Why Does It Always Rain On Me

    Why Does It Always Rain On Me

    We had an interesting experience a couple of weekends ago when organising an outdoor video shoot. It was going really well until the heavens opened and poured copious amounts of water all over our set. Even at the height of summer it’s an occupational hazard in the land of Blighty of course, but so ironic…

  • Soft Shoe Shufflers

    Soft Shoe Shufflers

    It was Jess’s birthday on Monday and we had a lovely end to the evening listening to tunes and chilling out. Jess put on George Harrison, one of her favs, and cranked it up for, My Sweet Lord and Wah Wah, before finishing with the track Beware of Darkness. This Georgie classic contains the line,…

  • Love II

    Love II

    Last month we wrote a post on love and how we may develop our capacity for feeling it and giving it. But what is this nebulous thing we call love? And is there just one type of love or are there many, like different colours of the spectrum? Find an upcoming course It seems that…

  • Love

    Love

    Love: the most captivating, most enchanting and most compelling force on earth. Everything we do centres on our hunger to give love and receive it. Our activities may be shrouded by a more obvious motive force, but the underlying is always the seeking of love. Love of self and love of others. Find an upcoming…

  • To dream, or not to dream, that is the question

    To dream, or not to dream, that is the question

    I was at a talk recently and the subject of dreams popped up. Dreams as in our personal goals, our aspirations, our future hopes. This was followed by some lively discussion about the validity of identifying our dreams and the natural inclination to wish to follow them. On the one hand was the encouragement for…

  • Of diamonds and spinach … our journey to enlightenment

    Of diamonds and spinach … our journey to enlightenment

    We will begin at the end, and that is with enlightenment and yet, that is also the beginning, because from the Beeja perspective, that is what we are driven to search for (often unwittingly) in our lives, hence our continual, and often dissatisfying pursuit of sustained happiness. We are constantly chasing rainbows when in actual…