Have You Become Anti-Social?
Over the past six months I have looked at my ‘Six Steps to Serenity’ and this month we arrive at Step 6 ‘Socialising’. For the past 10 months I have been mainly at home, and I quite like it. I have become anti-social. However I do recognise that connection is...
How You Can Bring More Stillness into Your Day
Stillness The Art of Being Still is something that modern life seems to have squeezed out of us. In the words of the poem ‘Leisure’ published in 1911 by W.H. Davies: 'What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and...
Are You Self Medicating?
In his book ‘Why We Sleep’, Matthew Walker also talks about caffeine, because it affects our sleep. He says, ‘The consumption of caffeine represents one of the longest and largest unsupervised drug studies ever conducted on the human race, perhaps rivaled only by...
Ten Tips For A Better Night’s Sleep
Sleep should not be a luxury. Why You Need Sleep Sleep is essential for better stress management and getting enough sleep (between six and eight hours each night) can help to reduce your stress levels. Your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing depend on you...
Self Care isn’t Selfish
Self- Care is something we hear about all the time now, but it isn’t just about massages and chocolate cake. It’s about putting your health and wellbeing first so that you have the time and energy to do all the things you want to do and need to do in your everyday...
Could You Have a Barrier to Embracing Self Care?
Self Care is all very well, but what if you don’t feel safe? In 1943 Abraham Maslow published a paper in Psychological Review entitled ‘A Theory of Human Motivation’. It set out how humans function and grow through having basic needs met in their lives. He...
Why Should You Value Calmness?
Would you like to bring more peace, calmness and balance into your life? The life of an average Western woman has changed so much in the past 40 years and most of it for the better. But do you ever feel that your new freedom came at a cost? The cost of being busy all...
Serenity is my Speciality
This morning I just caught the tail end of ‘Thought for the Day’ on Radio 4’s Today programme. A bishop was talking about serenity in the NHS in light of the health service’s 70th anniversary. I heard him say that ‘serenity was a rare word that needed to be revived’....
Let Go to Get in Flow
'Let Go to Get in Flow' has been this month's topic at our Damsels in Success meetings across the country and it has proved to be a very powerful motif. Now Spring is here in the Northern Hemisphere many of us think about decluttering/Spring cleaning and getting rid...
Do Not Worry…..Just for Today: using the Reiki Precepts in daily life
I've been quiet for a while as I have just moved to South Shields in Tyneside. It's an amazing place at the edge of the land and sea where the world comes and goes past my window. I walk round the corner to a long sandy beach where I can watch the birds and the sea to...
