Interludes
3: An interlude: walking into walls
Stand in front of a wall, at least two metres away from it. Close your eyes. Walk forwards until you touch the wall. Repeat Sometimes the best exercises are those that seem to have absolutely no...
read article6: Aloha!
This fascinating exercise comes my study at Frankie Briers' Wise Fool School. Each week of the course, he invited us to take on a practice and see what emerged from it. This particular week's exercise...
read article7: Aloha revisited
Enter the room, aloha. Leave the room, aloha. I usually have a quiet hour each day before anyone else gets up, if you ignore the fogginess of getting out of bed that walks with me as I fumble my way...
read article14: Taking my own medicine
There's a wee power struggle going on at the moment. Our youngest daughter, who is a brilliant story-teller, has been given the task of writing a short story. She doesn't do short. We've been trying...
read article15: The first conversation
We had recently moved out of London in order to bring up very young children. I still had a two-hour commute to work each day. I was constantly at the behest of the clock and permanently exhausted. My...
read article18: The quality of your desire
Summary We do or we don't want things (actual things, or relationships, or ideas). We desire them, or we avoid them or we fear them. Any which way, we are in a relationship with the thing as we see...
read article19: The ideas room
I'm tired. My list of writing ideas has been emptied out. So I sit at my desk, awaiting inspiration. It's an interesting process – it feels as if possibilities are getting edited out just before they...
read article20: Different voices of head, heart & hara
Summary The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Even so, it helps to locate and listen to the different voices within. Our different parts are intelligent in different ways and, by listening...
read article21: In the beginning was the Word ...
Summary Learn to speak from the whole of you by talking to each part in turn. Take one word Play along. Take a single word – yes or no . Go stand in front of a wall, say it out loud. In order to feel...
read article22: Writing the three centres ...
Summary Another way into hearing your whole self speak is to write from each part in turn. I wanted to write about writing from your whole self today, but something's come up. My eldest daughter has...
read article23: Practising to show up
The first step in speaking your truth is just showing up. And that - when dealing with swirling thoughts in your head - can be a whole challenge of its own. I’ve lost count of the number of times that...
read article24: Spinning the ropes
I've a new hobby, though it's strange to call it that. It's just something I do most days. I spin a rope. It's about the thickness of my thumb, with a couple of knots I've tied at the ends as handles,...
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