Recently I told a Group the story of how Trudi and I came to sell up and move to Chatsworth to establish Heartland. We first went for a long forest walk and talked about maybe making the move and selling our beautiful valley which was surrounded on all sides by forest and was accessible only … Read more
True Forgiveness arises out of acceptance. Often in the western world forgiveness is expressed as a form of pseudo-compassionate judgement: “I forgive you for what you did”. Yet is this true forgiveness? Most often it’s more of a probationary sentence that actually implies: I am aware of what you did but I am willing to … Read more
Why strive to be something you already are? Why not simply allow it to unfold? Does a young daffodil strive to bring forth its golden trumpet? Does spring strive to bring forward summer? Does the seed act like the tree it once will be? Does a tadpole strive to jump like a frog or a … Read more
Our negativity is an addiction. Addictions take many forms from being addicted to alcohol, cigarettes, drugs and gambling to being addicted to sex, celibacy, money, poverty, love, hate and everything in between. Addiction is a habit we don’t seem to be able to find the energy to break. Habits are a form of ownership and … Read more
We sabotage ourselves because deep within we’re afraid of disgracing ourselves. This fear we express as two seemingly opposed dysfunctions – sometimes as fear of failure and at other times as fear of success. Most of us utilise both forms of fear to handle different situations in our lives. But in truth, they’re both the … Read more
You don’t actually die – although it certainly looks that way! Your physical body starts to decompose because the energy body that gives it life – commonly called the etheric body withdraws its sustenance. With its life-energy withdrawn, the physical body starts to quickly dissipate and return to the constituent states from which it was … Read more
Of course. In fact, no major religion denies the continuation of life after death. They simply differ in the ‘small print’ of where and how this happens. The Jews of 2,000 years ago acknowledged multiple lives: as noted in the Bible, they asked was Jesus not Elijah, Jeremiah or one of the other prophets? The … Read more
To stay more awake, simply stay more observant. Allow the centre of yourself to change from exclusively being the Doer to also being the Observer of the Doer and your doings. So often we undertake chores and activities and only later remember what we did. Many find they can drive from place to place and … Read more
Consciousness is the state of awaked-ness. Most of us imagine we’re awake most of the day, but in fact we’re really in a heightened state of sleep, the level of sleep at which we can still carry out a varied range of ordinary yet automatic processes. These range from getting up and going to the … Read more
Finding on-going happiness seems, for many of us, an almost impossible task. We end up settling for a grey and far less satisfying state of ‘okay-ness’ interspersed with brief periods of joy, harmony and momentary fulfilments side by side with uncomfortable feelings of personal impotence, general dissatisfaction and sometimes even victim-hood. Our experiences tend to … Read more