Tag: mindfulness
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How Five-Minute Coaching Creates Space for Real Transformation
I am learning a deceptively simple coaching approach that asks less of the coach and more of the person’s own inner knowing. The questions are clean, the language is theirs, and sometimes that is enough to open an entirely different doorway.
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How Mingmen Warmth Helps Anxiety, Safety and Restful Sleep
Mingmen, known as the Gate of Life, offers a gentle way to invite the nervous system into safety. Through warmth, breath and lower-back awareness, this simple bedtime practice can help the body drift toward rest
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To Hear Another
The most underrated life skill is listening, which involves more than just hearing words; it requires a deep receptiveness to another’s emotional and experiential reality. True listening fosters connection, promotes understanding, and can transform relationships by addressing underlying feelings and vulnerabilities. It may not resolve conflicts, but it recognises the complexity of human experience.
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Atomic Pulse
During a Vipassana retreat, the author experienced a profound moment of connection with existence. Through deep awareness of breath and sensation, they felt a transformation of their perception, sensing their body as energy rather than a fixed form. This experience, characterized by heat, light, and vibration, provided a glimpse into true aliveness.
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Intuition and the Noise of the Mind
Sometimes we know before we understand why. Intuition can arrive before language, only to disappear beneath analysis, fear and the mind’s demand for certainty. Quiet reflection may facilitate clearer awareness, allowing intuition and reasoning to complement each other for deeper insight.
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The Love We Breathe
The author reflects on motherhood as a transformative relationship that imparts profound self-knowledge. It emphasizes the joy and grief of watching children grow, the complexities of love, and the importance of letting go. Ultimately, the journey reveals that true love nurtures growth and connection, even in separation.
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Breathing With the Universe: On Change, Healing and Belonging
The concept of the universe as a long breath suggests a rhythm of expansion and return, mirroring our own breathing. This movement reflects life’s cycles and connections, reminding us of our temporary existence and interconnectedness.
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Beyond ‘I Know How You Feel’: Empathy and the Mystery of Another
Empathy embodies the complex interplay of understanding and individuality in human connections. While we can resonate with others’ experiences, we can never fully inhabit their inner worlds…