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Learning resilience

A resilient person is someone who can manage uncertainty and recover from adversity well.

Learning to become a resilient person helps to develop your inner strength.  During your life, challenges and crises will inevitably hit you.  We cannot predict when they will come.  Challenges are opportunities to learn life lessons.  Having some resilience through an inner strength helps you to navigate your challenges and to learn from them.

The world is an increasingly uncertain place.  By developing resilience you will have the emotional strength to navigate your way through whatever arrives for you.  You may also have the resilience to help others through their challenges too. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Kind words heal

My mum used to say to me “Good manners cost nothing” and the same applies to kind words.

Kind words unlock even the most steely of hearts.  Kind words convey caring.  Even a person whose heart has been hurt will respond to the compassion found in kind words.

Every kind word spoken is a gift to the receiver but also to you the speaker.

Today look for opportunities to express kind words that are sincere, thoughtful and warm.

By Alison Wem, ago

Living life

Challenges in our Lives

Living life is not always easy.  Many of us have challenges in our lives which we are trying to overcome.  There is often a life lesson to be learnt in the challenges we are presented with, if we can but see it.  This does not make the challenge any easier, but sometimes in knowing the lesson, we feel less of the victim.

When we understand the lesson to be learnt, we do not feel so much of a victim.  Then we approach the challenge in a different way.  This often makes learning the lesson easier. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Families together

In our busy 21st century lives, there is a trend towards families eating their meals from trays watching TV rather than sitting to a table and facing each other.  Likewise teenagers, if allowed, will take their food and eat in their bedrooms.  Eating a meal at a table together as a family strengthens the family bond.  Over the meal conversation will flow backwards and forwards between parents, between parents and children.  By sharing their day’s news, family members are more involved with each others lives.  This gives opportunities to support one another and for parents to guide a child.  Listening to the conversation between parents is another opportunity for children to learn how to behave with another person and to love and support that person.  The simple act of eating a meal together provides many opportunities to learn for all involved. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Soul development

Great article by Richard Barrett on how humans go through various stages of flourishing their soul.

Richard Barrett FRSA. Richard is an author, speaker and internationally recognised thought leader on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the founder and chairman of the Barrett Values Centre. He is also a Fellow of the World Business Academy, Member of the Council of the Centre for Integral Wisdom, Honorary Board Member of the Spirit of Humanity Forum, and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Emotional energy as a colour

In an earlier post we spoke of anger being an energy which some people can feel.  As we develop and increase our conscious awareness, people start to see emotions as colours.

Emotional energy can also express an intention.  The intention can relate to a person, group of people such as a class, a nation or even a planet.

For those with sufficient conscious awareness, the intention can be felt or seen as a colour.  To develop this level of awareness, you repeatedly practice feeling and understanding this energy initially on an individual person.  When this skill has been achieved, it is possible to develop the ability to interpret intentions emanating from a group. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Music and emotions

“Every one of us needs to become more spiritual”

Vladimir Jurowski, Principal Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra

An inspirational and impassioned Russian conductor, Vladimir Jurowski’s latest concert series “Belief and Beyond Belief” with the London Philharmonic Orchestra delivers brilliant music which touches the audiences’ emotions.  In a recent interview with Ian Hewett, Jurowski said he believes;

“Music is so intangible; it is nothing but vibrations.  It points to a realm of extience outside the body, yet it affects our emotions so powerfully.  Nothing brings people together in collective meditation or prayer so well” read more

By Alison Wem, ago