Run, Breathe, Live Green
So much information There’s so much information out there. We see studies telling us how meditation affects our brain, how sleeping next to one we love also changes our brainwaves, how yoga reduces our blood pressure…. And what does all […]
An irrevocable shift An irrevocable shift has occurred, and now that the wheels are in motion on the train, there will be no stopping it. One by one, we have shifted into the understanding of our interconnectedness – both within […]
The body is a messenger The body is a messenger. Our body tells us exactly what is and isn’t going well! (You may have noticed – especially if you’re a runner!) It often uses pain as its means for delivering […]
How’s your motivation? Are you still feeling fresh as a spring chicken, or are you starting to flag..? Is the long haul from the summer to the winter break now starting to take its toll? Or maybe that’s just me?! […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]