Everything has an opposite. Just like the Yin and Yang, there is winter and summer, day and night, anima and animus, good and bad, love and hate, male and female, child and adult, and the list goes on… We are physical and we are spiritual. We are light and we are dark, which means that Read More
To read the first piece of this two-part blog series on breaking down the complexity of emotions and the human brain, click here. Let’s now look at the seat of our unconscious mind – the reptilian brain. Here is where the mind and body work together. It’s automatic, it’s a habit, it’s a memory and Read More
Emotions. We all have them, and we all react and respond with them. The question is … for how long? If you hang on to your emotions for a long period of time, they become your identity. Yes, your identity. Something that you give yourself. A lot of it has to do with your values, Read More
“When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.” — Oscar Wilde This quote really emphasises where our point of focus, our fixation and our attention reside. Did you know that we are bombarded by 2 million bits of information per second via our 5 senses? It’s astonishing that we can actually Read More
Nelson Mandala said courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The words took me back to a time when one of my late teachers once said that we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment and cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. If you are a human being, Read More