For a lot of us, making a change is an enormous step, a kind that needs a lot of preparations, dealing with countless fears and being willing to be open up to new options. But there comes a time when you just know you have had enough, you are ready to embark on a transformation to better yourself and your life.
How can we know that we are there, that we are ready for a positive change? Here are 5 signs that will tell you:
I’ve come across an interesting story on the Facebook page of Mindful Schools. I’d like to bring here the story as it was told on Facebook:
We live in an interesting time, sort of a paradox. On the one hand, there is a significant “awakening” – mindfulness is being practised by more and more people, the word ‘therapy’ has released itself from all shame and it is highly accepted and recommended. On the other hand, technology allows us the alleged privilege of keeping ourselves occupied all day long, keep ourselves off everything we feel uncomfortable with. It is so easy nowadays to keep ourselves numb.
Anyone who works in the internet business knows that the Gods-of-SEO demand that you’d put new content on a daily basis – the more the better. Well, I believe I’ve managed to make those Gods extremely angry, as it’s been a while since I’ve last posted on the blog. I guess I’ll have to see what will happen, that’s what living-on-the-edge is all about, right?
One of the never-ending discussions I have with my Rebirthing Breathwork teachers and fellow colleagues is about whether or not a session should be conducted with a specific agenda. I say it shouldn’t and to be honest – on that specific topic, I hold a minority opinion.
In a powerful TED Talk, Brené Brown talks about ‘The Power of Vulnerability’. She explains how vulnerability is the source of joy, love, creativity, sense of belonging and so forth. Furthermore, she indicates that authenticity is part of being vulnerable.
One of the most common questions I get is about the practical part of Rebirthing Breathwork – how is it being done? What is actually happening. This is a wider question than it looks like, since the scope is pretty much endless.
One of the buzzwords in the so-called spiritual practising today is ‘abundance’. The desire to have enough, not to worry about how you are going to feed yourself, put a roof over your head (and your family’s) and generally – live your life with the ability to have what you want, is well addressed in this word – abundance.
A friend of mine, a colleague – a therapist himself, put up a post on Facebook, saying that he has a “collection” of outrageous comments from clients, people in his surroundings, on what a therapist “supposed” to be, behave or say. In other words, the fact that he is a therapist, with a much spiritual inclination, brought some people to expect him to be enlightened, and to act, think and behave as if he is a saint.
One of the most common difficulties I come across with when talking to people about body-mind connection, is to fully understand just how much our state of mind affects our well being. It is not about how stress can make our blood pressure shoot to the sky (it is indeed true), rather it is our approach, interpretation of our lives that affects our physicality the most.