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7 Ways To Cultivate Your Mindfulness Practice In 2022

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Whether you are coming to the practice for the first time or an experienced meditator, the fresh energy of the New Year can provide a welcome boost to your mindfulness practice! So if you’re hearing the call of your cushion…

Pandemic Lessons: What Is Important Now, and What Isn’t?

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“I have everything I thought was important and nothing that really is.” – Lily Francone Resilience and wellbeing are things we have had to work hard for these last few years. I think it is fair to say that many…

Tips for Forgiving, Forgetting, and Moving On

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“Forgiving isn’t something you do for someone else. It’s something you do for yourself. It’s saying, ‘You’re not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.’ It’s saying, ‘You don’t get to trap me in the past. I am worthy…

Conscious Business: Changes To Bring From the Pandemic

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“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu Businesses have seen a lot of change…

Obstacles, Obsessions & Enrichment 2021 in Review

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This has been a bit of a confusing year to look back on as it has had so many chapters and quite a number of surprises. My partner Jack and I started the year in lockdown in Highbury Stadium and…

Home-Working: New Problems and Their Solutions

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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals, but rather experiences.” – Shannon L. Alder The past two years have forced us to change in many ways. And indeed, although the pandemic…

Personal Resilience 101

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“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put…

Post-Pandemic Attitudes: Dealing with Conflict

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“Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, it is a symptom of serious problems and of poor communication.” – Harriet B. Braiker…

‘Back-to-Normal’ Anxiety: It’s Not Just You

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“Living with anxiety is like being followed by a voice. It knows all your insecurities and uses them against you. It gets to the point when it’s the loudest voice in the room. The only one you can hear.” –…

The Algorithm is Sick

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I see more clearly than ever that the algorithms that run our social media platforms are sick – they are anxious, depressed, and mentally unstable. More importantly, just as we created them and imbued them with our own immature consciousness,…

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