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New Year resolutions are about changing and improving my-self, about creating another, a better version of my-self. But do I really know who I am. How much of this “I” is a posture, a programme that has been created to make me functional in the society and culture I live in. This posture is only

As usual at this time of the year, we are all full of plans, goals and dreams about what the coming year will bring.  I meet a lot of people who feel as if they’re adrift in the world.  They work hard, but they don’t seem to get anywhere worthwhile. A key reason that they feel

Meditation is about being present. It sounds very simple. But there is a part of me which doesn’t like what is in the present. The critical/thinking mind is never satisfied with what’s here. It wants: more, better, different; it always has a wish of improving, changing and going to what was in the past or

IAM left wondering why I feel so targeted and unwelcome in a particular Environment, so as usual I retreat and take some quiet me-time to feel into this feeling. The feeling goes very deep but I can’t seem to grasp anything and instead of becoming one with the feeling I choose to go against all my knowingness and

The plethora of holiday ads offering tempting summer deals can’t compete with birthdays and New Years topping up my tan in winter sunspots, a ticket to tranquillity… Gunjur Beach, Gunjur, Gambia Djembe drumming at the Pacific’s edge, deserted during my month-long stay with a friend, one week in a 4-star beach hotel then eco-huts, soul

Word “meditation” is sometimes replaced by “sitting”. A posture one takes to meditate is really not so important, but obviously the easiest and most comfortable one is sitting. So instead of saying I meditate one can say I sit.   When I meet my friends for a chat I usually meet them at a cup

First published in International Coaching News – 12th Edition http://www.international-coaching-news.net/ICNOnlineMagazine     As most Life Coaches know, when a client says, “I don’t really know what I want in life…I just want to be happy”, we can feel stumped.  Traditional Life Coaching can only, by its very nature, help someone reach a clearly definable and measureable

I have a dream. But there was a time in my life when I didn’t allow myself to dream; it was too silly, unpractical and above all completely unrealistic. But now I know that a dream has nothing to do with reality. A dream is not about fulfilling it; it is about having it. So

Women feature in only 26% of online news and tweets, according to the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) in its latest analysis of 114 countries. It finds women are LESS visible today as story subjects and reporters than in their 2010 report, with its ongoing aim to extinguish media sexism by 2020. Those who know