“Mindfulness helps me to be more aware of what is happening around me and in my own mind so that I have more control on the choices I make with how I react...
“Ultimately Mindfulness is paying attention so it is instrumental in being aware of your own mental and emotional patterns so that you can transform them".
Interview with Selena Betton - Integral Coach, Psychometric...
Essentially, mindfulness means to be present, and in the moment. It is important that we remind ourselves of this simple fact. All too often we can lose the true essence of mindfulness by over-complicating...
This is the interview of Ela Amarie with Slow o lution. Slow⋅o⋅lution is a platform raising awareness of how stressful lifestyle affects our health and wellbeing and our mission is to create a...
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A Brave and Startling Truth
We, this people, on a small and lonely planet
Traveling through casual space
Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns
To a destination where all signs tell us
It is...
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The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice-
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend...
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Cookie Thief
A woman was waiting at the airport one night,
With several long hours before her flight.
She hunted for a book in the airport shop,
Bought a bag of cookies and found a...
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Hokusai Says
Hokusai says look carefully.
He says pay attention, notice.
He says keep looking, stay curious.
He says there is no end to seeing.
He says look forward to getting old.
He says keep changing,
you just get...
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Letter to a Young Poet
We have no reason to harbour any mistrust against our world,
for it is not against us.
If it has terrors, they are our terrors.
If it has abysses, these...
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Two Kinds of Intelligence
There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,
as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts
from books and from what the teacher says,
collecting information from the traditional sciences
as...