“Everybody’s behaviour makes sense to them or they wouldn’t do it. This means the crucial task of understanding someone else involves trying to understand their perspective.
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Being a person is an interesting, challenging and confusing experience. We are constantly changing, finding our feet and sometimes losing that footing.
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This is an article by two of my heroes…. .
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The power of “R U OK (ANY) Day "Safety is not the absence of threat. Safety is the presence of connection.
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There has been great excitement in recent years about the brain's ability to transform itself through activity - that is through how we use our minds and bodies.
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"A predicament. . . . is an inextricable, irreversible and complex situeation for which there are no solutions, just measures for adapting to it.
“One of the mighty illusions that is constructed in the dailyness of life in our culture is that all pain is a negation of worthiness, that the real chosen people,…
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Building resilience In response to difficult experience, it is natural for us to shut down on feeling emotions and on experiences in life.
Recognising addiction and our relationship with TIME What are we doing with our lives? This has a lot to do with our relationship with time.
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Don’t get stuck on concentration….
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Intention is really important in mindfulness practice. Jon Kabat-Zinn is known for changing his mind about how this works.
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Do you ever have wytai? It is a noun (articulated in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows): a feature of modern society that suddenly strikes you as absurd and grotesque—from zoos and milk-drinking…
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Here, for now. There's a revolution that needs to happen and it sits inside each one of us.
In my own little patch, I am living in a split reality.
Mental health – and how to generate it - is not just a personal problem as it is often characterised, but is deeply effected by cultural, social and economic forces.
For many years I was not keen on offering the MBSR program via the internet, as it seemed like it would take away from the individual exploration and intimacy that…
Shenanigans is such a great word. It is a noun that means: mischief, trouble, pranks, high-jinks, tomfoolery. Mindfulness is everywhere.
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I am on an island at the moment. How good is that?! It is Facing Island - a tiny island off Gladstone in Queensland.
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I love this rendering of the power of longing.
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I love this short piece by Jon Kabat-Zinn called “Listening is an act of love”.
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