Meditation is a practice in which you use a technique to achieve a mentally clear, and emotionally calm and stable state.
We recently watched the Barbie movie (I know, a bit late to the party). It really wasn’t what we expected. Yes, the main character is blonde and beautiful and loves the colour pink. She lives in her perfect home, with her perfect friends and boyfriend, Ken, in her perfect world, Barbie Land. But the film […]
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Today marks the start of the Lunar New Year. In a similar way to western astrology, the lunar calendar is based around 12 zodiac signs. But each year in the lunar calendar is assigned a zodiac animal – rather than a constellation (or star sign) which is related to your birth month. 2025 is the
I’m a member of a few different meditation and mindfulness social media groups, or I follow their pages. One is focused around meditation humour and sometimes the memes posted are hilarious. But a couple of posts recently really made me stop and think. The first posed this idea: Delete one thing from Earth that you
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Another wet, miserable and grey day… with more rain forecast for this week. It’s been going on for a few days now. When I was waiting to go in for surgery last week, the anaesthetist and I watched the lightning show as yet another storm rolled through. It was all very dramatic and quite the
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It’s interesting isn’t it… well, maybe more frustrating… how the mind decides to be most active when you least want, or need it to be? I’m having some surgery tomorrow, so I’ve been trying to ensure a good sleep routine in preparation. I need my body up to speed, fully charged and ready to heal.
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I intended to watch the United States election coverage today, but quickly felt myself becoming overwhelmed by it. It doesn’t really make a huge difference to us here in Australia (I hope), but it was wall to wall coverage everywhere. I started to do something else – but quickly became overwhelmed by that too! Suddenly
This year has featured quite a lot of star gazing. When I told my regular meditation group that for our 25th wedding anniversary we were going to look at telescopes, I thought they’d think us a bit odd. But as one lady pointed out what could be more romantic than looking at the stars? She
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I get regular mindfulness messages, reminders and emails. One this week though really made me think. It asked the question: Are you taking better care of your phone than your mind? The answer, for most of us, is probably yes. We charge our phones on a daily basis – topping it up so it’s ready
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In just a few days time my husband and I will celebrate 25 years of marriage. Twenty-five years! We met, married and moved to Australia in the last century. That sounds odd to write. Nothing was ‘on demand’. There were no smart phones, we had dial up internet on our home computer, and Lego was
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It’s 27 years since I moved to Australia. I became a citizen in January 2000. But only today do I disccover that it’s Australian Citizenship Day! Apparently 17 September is celebrated every year with citizenship ceremonies, affirmation ceremonies and other events around the country. To be fair, it only began, or was established in 2001
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