Helping our children to deal with their emotions is a vital part of parenting. Emotions are not necessarily a bad thing, but we as parents can get upset if we see anger or sadness or frustration expressed in our children. We believe that part of our job is to shelter them from negative emotions and experiences, and help them to live happy lives. While this is a noble pursuit, it is not necessarily of benefit to them.

We all come into this life knowing that we will experience a range…

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They say hindsight is twenty twenty vision. We often looked back on episodes of pain or struggle and wished we hadn't worried so much. Once the situation has resolved, looking back we can see how we let ourselves become embroiled in the situation, often fighting it or simply getting lost in stress and worry. We promise that next time it will be different, but every situation brings it’s own challenges. Before we know it, it seems too late to take evasive action as we have let…

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We live in a world where the majority of us need to slow down and to take time to do less. To be less busy and not filling time with doing, but simply being. This concept is at odds with what society has been teaching us for years, that we need to do more, achieve more, be more. Eastern cultures however have long known the benefit of being, without the need to constantly be doing. The practice of mindfulness and meditation is being embraced evermore in the western world however, and finally…

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We all experience a range of emotions on a daily basis. Increasingly however, spiritually minded people tend to shun painful emotions, believing that they should be beyond such feelings and living in a state of bliss! Of course it is possible to live in greater states of peace and harmony but resisting painful emotions as they arise is not the way to achieve peace. As we know, whatever we resist persists.



Painful emotions are simply an indicator of disharmony and pleasurable emotions… Continue

We've all been there – feeling exhausted and can't wait to get into bed after a long and stressful day. Finally, we lay our head down and instead of drifting off into a restful sleep; we lie awake consumed with thoughts from the day, to-do lists and planning for the coming day. It seems as if the head isn't going to allow the weary body the rest it deserves. There's nothing to do but hope for sleep to eventually come, or is there?



What if there was in…

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