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Sounds a bit like an oxymoron! I struggle to be at peace when the world around me is so uncertain, so tumultuous and so unpredictable. I find myself challenged by my feelings and thoughts and the relentless pace of change within me and without. When things get bumpy and I don’t know what’s going to happen, I am tempted to go down the rabbit hole … feeling scared and uncertain and frustrated and powerless.

I cried the other day. Not for any particular reason other than I felt sad … so I took a deep breath and let the tears flow. It was uncomfortable and not easy at first … I kept breathing and reminding myself “this is a feeling, let it move” and as I allowed myself to feel the feelings, to allow the energy-in-motion, emotion, to move through me, I felt the tears on my face and the ache in my heart.

I first heard this after a particularly powerful personal development seminar I attended in 1983. I didn’t get it. I just thought it was bad grammar! Since then I have had numerous experiences that have shown me time and time again what it means … to me. And nothing I have ever experienced comes close to last weekend.

This year started with a bang for me … a big unexpected medical event that saw me admitted to hospital not once but twice for a total of 4 surgeries over 14 days. It was shocking and amazing and very, very challenging in many ways. What I experienced was a roller coaster of feelings … both emotional and sensory yet all the while I KNEW I was ok.

Communication …. a simple word which literally means to share. Add a few distinctions and things start to get interesting in terms of meaning and understanding and how we share what we share.

That’s right … you heard … I am giving up this Christmas … Well actually I am choosing to give up right now and right now and right now. What I mean is giving up old, automatic reactions, beliefs and subsequent behaviours that are no longer fit for purpose in 2020 and beyond.

That’s right … you heard … I am giving up this Christmas … Well actually I am choosing to give up right now and right now and right now. What I mean is giving up old, automatic reactions, beliefs and subsequent behaviours that are no longer fit for purpose in 2020 and beyond.

If our soul’s life is immortal, then what is the rush? We are here to learn/remember. And if we don’t learn in this ‘physical’ lifetime, then we have the next, and the next and the next.

It has been said that expectation is simply a prescription for disappointment and never has this been so apparent as now. This global pandemic has upended much in the world as we knew it … and when the first wave hit us here in Australia, we went into lock-down quickly, and for the most part, people complied with the advice from health officials and our government.

You haven’t heard from me in a while because every time I sit down to write something … everything changes and I find myself experiencing a deep knowing that now is not the time to attach to doing anything in particular. What I mean by that is that we are in a time of...