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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi
Upon the Altar - healing for a friend
This week’s episode of The Soul Garden includes a guided meditation for someone going through treatment for cancer.
This One’s from the Heart
Navigating loss in midlife is painful and is an invitation to deepen compassion
Life in Ones and Zeros
As Shane MacGowan dies, Jem Finer’s Longplayer creation brings life down to ones and zeros.
Compassion is not for the faint-hearted
how can we be truly compassionate if we have not explored our own responses to the very things we wish we could run away from?
Einstein and Buddha in the Garden
I picture Einstein in the garden seeing forms, patterns, these extraordinary mathematical equations of grace, circles of life and death and life again.
I have travelled a long way to be here now
I realised that I liked this midlife journeying. I felt the years have added depth to my everyday experience. The passage of time had made me even more aware of the importance of being present to each moment.
After the Cyclone - finding resilience in a changing world
It's been a few weeks now since the cyclone Gabrielle devastated the region I live in. This has been a life-changing experience and this episode of The Soul Garden explores how to navigate through events such as this and how we may help create love, resilience and compassion in a changing world.
We are quanta
Quantum physics is that sense of oneness. made into scientific theory. So why is it OK to say one believes in ideas of quantum physics, yet the idea of working with the oneness of energy in Nature as a way of healing, such as the feeling you get in a forest or by the sea has been regarded as somehow woowoo? How did we get so unhitched from the world around us?’
Crow… the language as dementia tightens its grip
What happens as dementia robs those we love of language?
How we care for others in life and at the end of life
Ultimately, with this training we bring death and dying back to its natural place in life and living. We see ourselves as part of Nature and supported by Nature, in life and after death. Students have included hospice nurses, therapists, healers, people caring for loved ones at home, funeral directors and people wishing to enter the growing field of end-of-life doulas and death midwifery.
How the past can help navigate the present
The ancient idea of how the state of our inner world affects the state of the outer world has never been more relevant.
Nurturing our inner and outer worlds
The Archeus philosophy is grounded in connection, transition, transformation and a desire to nurture and support body, beauty, mind and spirit.
Nature is a balm for the soul
Now more than ever, a deepened connection with nature is a balm for the soul. It can help us find perspective. It can give us a new way of looking at things, provide an ancient perspective fully embedded in the rhythms and cycles of life.
Ten Ways to Care
A few days ago, someone asked me what advice I would give to someone who was about to lose someone. Here are ten suggestions I have based on my own experiences of being with people at the end of life.
What a Near Death Experience taught me about Consciousness
This is a gentle exploration into consciousness and letting go.
What is the legacy you wish to leave behind?
This blog is an updated version of a speech I gave to the REBUS club in Havelock north just a couple of months after my father died in 2019. The REBUS group is for retired professionals and I explored with them ideas around what legacy we wish to leave behind.
Ashes to ashes - navigating the death of a pet
How Dying Wishes can be a Guide to Life
How writing a book of guidance for wishes as the end of life draws near, can actually be an inspirational manual for living.
Sacred moments and messengers
A beautiful thing happened on the weekend and I’d love to share it with you because it was just so magical. Sometimes the beauty of mystery appears when we least expect it.
