Just watched this video deconstructing the meaning behind the ‘Soul’ movie. Beauty and happiness, had to be found in the normal everyday moments. Yes, pursue your goals, but don’t forget to live in the ever present now. Check it out! https://youtu.be/iPcGgAVZ70c?si=lrYlYk06Qpw0QlI8

In the lead up to our 30-Day meditation challenge, I am adding more sessions to the classroom In the core meditation colleciton I have added a new page called mindfulness meditation, there you will find 4 new tracks for you to explore (guided sessions and a talk). Check it out and as always ask any questions that come up!

I saw this image and it really got me thinking. I’m a massive advocate of the idea of try everything first. Before you do something you can’t take back, try everything first. Try everything first. That advice has save my life multiple times. And the more I share it, the more lives it saves. But this image has prompted something new, what is the equivalent of ‘try everything first’ when it comes to thriving. When it comes to choosing to live a life that is worth living, to become self actualised, to follow our dreams, to do what we were put here to do. Let me know what advice you could give someone to prompt this sort of emotional response.

I just spent a couple of hours today with my eldest crafting a guided meditation for him (and kids like him) to act as a daily session that will both help them calm and regulate, as well as give them tools to do so on their own. He helped with the wording, structure, pacing, volume mixing, and imagery, making it 'perfect'! If you have a kid (or are just after a quick and simple 5 minute calming session), you can play the session below, or click into the classroom and find it in the 'fundamental practices' course. My boy is pretty happy with his work, so if you have any feedback, feel free to respond to this email and I will pass it on :)

This is an old video, but quite literally I think about it at lest once a week. As a social experiment, a photographer took a picture of subjects, and then told them she was taking pictures of things she found beautiful. The transformation is incredible. In the video you witness them all light up. It makes me realise just how powerful words really are, both in manifesting our own reality, but also how they impact others. This video inspired me to write a poem. I wanted to highlight the power of words in crafting the future: "by complementing the future she crafted the present her words revealing a truth others couldn’t yet see not for lack of trying but because she hadn’t yet spoken the truth was merely a dream waiting for her to birth it into reality now here, its eternal nature is manifest the future, now present, informs the past and thus her words were true before she ever spoke them" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW8BDgLpZkI&t=141s