From the category archives:

Opening

The Nourishment Barometer

Since I’ve been doing yoga most days and writing some (thanks to Bindu’s great project) I’ve actually been feeling something I’ve not felt in a long time. Nourished. The past decade or so I have worked for myself for 8 or 9 years out of the past 15. Four or five of those have been [...]

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My experience of opening

Seeing as I expect to learn some stuff about opening in my Year of Opening, I thought it might be useful to benchmark my experience of opening and see if and how it changes over time. (If you’re freaked out by woo-woo, move along, please). In the past couple of days, I’ve moved opening up [...]

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My Year of Opening

I’ve written about Opening before as an essential part of navigating conflict. I’m looking for a bit of focus in my life on my blog. So, in the shadow of Julie and Julia, etcetereteretera, I’m entering a year. A year of Opening. It’s not a year of calm Last night I wrote this: *** My [...]

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There are a lot of people in here

This week I was in a situation where a Person I Care About was in pain. (Been working out how I can be a) transparent and b) protect the privacy of the people around me  and Person I Care About seems to work. I’ve seen that movie where the person does stand-up and the content [...]

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Navigating conflict

I’m a big one for over-riding principles. I think it helps to have a framework to put things into. Whilst reading and noticing what happens for me during conflict, plus what works when dealing with emotions in my meditation practice, I think that the thing that makes the most difference is opening. I’m even going [...]

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