“Longing is the core of the mystery.
Longing itself brings the cure.
The only rule is,
Suffer the pain.”
Rumi
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MindRest in January planted seeds of new beginnings as we set intentions for this year. Of course, quite naturally, now the impulse is to start working towards our goals. But I invite you to try something different instead - to follow Nature’s rhythm and simply make space for new growth to begin in the Spring. Discover the element of Space in the February offering.
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This is a long overdue newsletter to introduce a new name and a new chapter to this unfolding. After two beautiful years as The Seed., in which I learnt so much about the ups and downs of a solo project, time has come to say goodbye to it with gratitude and love. Let me introduce MindRest - and with that, an expanded yet simplified offering, as I add therapy to the ways in which we meet.
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The more we deepen our capacity to meet the perceived darkness within, the more we discover that it has innate wisdom, that it speaks its own language, that it has been calling for our attention sometimes for years. Discover the January offerings, therapy & more.
“We are all meant to be mothers of God”. This post is about the beauty and mysticism of Christmas and the possibility of embodying the Mother of God within each and every one of us, regardless of our story, our gender or our beliefs.
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As the days are getting shorter and we are quickly approaching the Winter Solstice, the darkness outside is a reminder of the deeper and (what we consider) “darker” realms within us. As modern day Christmas madness exemplifies it well, we tend to avoid this darkness at all cost. But in this avoidance, we often miss its healing beauty and mystery. The next mont of MindRest is all about embracing the darkness rather than avoiding it.
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Last Sunday, at MindRest, we looked closely at what keeps us away from fulfilment - not just fulfilment of our particular intention, but fulfilment in life altogether. For most of us, it is clear that it isn’t just circumstances - it is mostly our conditioned beliefs. At this point of the journey, different programs (including mine in the past) , tend to offer different techniques of letting go of what doesn’t serve us. If you have tried this for long enough, you will know that however much you shake it, burn it on sheets of paper and remove it out of your consciousness, it doesn’t work. Here is why. Here is also a different, more loving possibility.
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Last Sunday, at MindRest, we set our intention for the remaining weeks of this year - an intention of the Heart, not the mind. In this post, I share what I’ve learnt about how to set a powerful intention and how to let the Heart lead. For someone quite academically minded, it has been a life-changing discovery for me. For those of you who feel skeptical and resistant towards such practices, I want to clarify from the onset that there is little spiritual about this, despite appearances.
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As we are slowly settling into another lockdown, it is an opportunity to turn inwards, slow down and reframe it as a retreat. It doesn’t have to be beautiful, grandiose and life-changing. It can also be subtle, loving and quiet. I sit in this one and invite you in.
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A story of Grace holding my skeptical hand throughout life, slowly leading me to uncover that there is nothing outside of Grace.
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JOY, mysterious and unexpected,
You arrive out of the blue
When my heart is unprotected
And I'm not in search of you.
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“We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge.” John Naisbitt. Painfully true, but it seems to me that we are even more starved for space and time to hear our own inner wisdom.
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As the wheel of the seasons rolls towards the winter, the darkness outside is calling us to meet to the ‘darkness within’. Yet this meeting is avoided at any cost and some strategies are more subtle than others.
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Our voice reflects the imbalances of our physical, emotional and mental bodies. It also holds the key to restoring the balance.
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The river needs to take the risk
of entering the ocean
because only then will fear disappear.
Discover the joy of the present moment through the practice of mindfulness.
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Why you can never ‘succeed’ at the Law of Attraction…or fail at it.
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You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.
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When someone speaks of the Truth, we may not hear it with our ears, but something in us still recognises it. It is to that Inner Teacher that I bow most deeply today.
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It seems that all of us have different addictions that carry us through our days. We quickly judge some of these addictions as “bad”, others as “good”, creating a polarity that doesn’t really exist. This polarity keeps us away from seeing that all of them have one thing in common - they are a failed and innocent attempt to get happiness somewhere outside of ourselves.
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