Run, Breathe, Live Green
As the festive period rapidly approaches, one question I’ve been asking myself in the run-up to the holidays is ‘how consciously am I consuming?’… This question clearly has two, related, but separate strands – one is about the material goods […]
There’s been a theme this season, and it’s been called ‘giving yourself permission’. It’s come up in three different spaces, but the thread has been the same – sometimes we actively have to ‘let ourselves off the hook, and give […]
Green has been on my mind for a good long while… It’s such a potent colour; and it has such beneficial ramifications for us…. It’s healing; everything about green is healing. Take the plants from the outside and give them […]
As awareness increases of the critical state of our ‘civilisation’s’ abuse of the earth’s resources, and how we’re living our lives within it and on it, huge swathes of collective effort are unfolding. The plastic effort. Animal welfare. And these […]
“If I’ve got a big decision to make, I respond by saying ‘give myself 24 hours to think about it.’” A sound idea I was once told. There’s a balance isn’t there, between action: ‘stop procrastinating, and get. it. done.!’, […]
The old model of medicine says, you’re in pain? Here, take some pills. Got a sore knee? Let’s take a scan. Then off you go for surgery. Feeling sad? Let’s drug you up. Can’t sleep? Let’s knock you out. Running […]
I have an adage which I use variously. Actually it’s a little mind-trick, and it’s called ‘everything is temporary’. That physical ail – it’s temporary; it’ll ease, it’ll resolve, it’ll pass. That bad mood – it’s temporary; it’ll blow over, […]
Where are you breathing? Where are you breathing…? Take a moment and check out where your breath resides. It’s not a facetious question either, by the way. Maybe your chest rises and falls? Maybe your ribs lift up and sink […]
Stress. Stress disconnects us from ourselves. Grey, detached and unrecognisable It takes a normally effervescent, smiley, fun person & sucks their life force out of them. Quite literally too – as the breath shallows to a barely re-energising, apathetic exchange […]
I’ve been talking about surfing a lot recently. More talking than actually doing though, to be honest…sorry if that disappoints! I’ve been talking about the powerful connection with nature at its most raw…in that moment when you catch a wave. […]