Or five priceless jewels – faith, effort, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom. Mindfulness – do everything with 100% of you attention. This is both simple and incredibly difficult!
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Category: personal reflections
There is a huge amount of discussion at the moment about sugar and addiction and many of know the struggle to say no to a slice of cake, warm sausage roll etc etc but is that actually an addiction? It is our biology to crave S&RCs, in nature these foods do not exists and anything […]
I was asked by friend the other day how I felt about HRT especially in light of the new evidence that it might help to reduce the risk of dementia. Both are mothers died of dementia and we are both very aware of what a terrible disease this is, how hard it is on loved […]
and very good for us. In the 90s i lived in a 1930s flat for 9 years, it was a sweet little flat but 12 flats shared a central column and the sound proofing was designed before the arrival of the amplifier. There was always noise, TVs, radios, stereos and i found it impossible to […]
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Doing Nothing
Reflections on a year of lock-down 2020 has been a crazy year and an excellent opportunity to deeply explore a subject that has fascinated me for years, the ability of humans to do nothing or lack thereof! At various points in my life i have felt that i get too busy and yet fail to […]
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Hobbiting
I am spending my festive season hobbiting. This is not totally abnormal for me but i had planned to go on a solitary retreat in nature, obviously that has not happened! Hobbiting Enjoying the delights of being home, generally alone but possibly with a couple of good friends. A hobbit always has a full pantry […]
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Menopause
It is such an odd thing that us women go through, we have these massive life changing experiences, some such as childbirth are welcome to society and talked about excitedly, others such as menopause or even periods (on a small but repeated and regular scale) are not sociably acceptable. We are supposed to keep on […]