Hi Everyone 👋 When the unravelling begins, it rarely feels spiritual. It feels like chaos. My dearest friends, if there is one truth I have learned from sitting with thousands of exhausted souls, it is this.... Your exhaustion is not a failure; it is a signal. It is the alarm bell of your soul demanding that you stop running. But when we stop, the noise of the mind often becomes deafening. The anxiety spikes. The old stories scream for attention. This is the fire. In Daoism, we don't extinguish the fire of our pain; we sit beside it. We become the hearth, not the arsonist. The ego wants to fix the fire, smother it, or run from it. But the deeper wisdom of your heart knows that this fire is merely burning away the debris of the past. If you fight it, you get burned. If you sit with it, it warms you and illuminates the path forward. 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 Here is a lifeline for when the fire feels too hot. It is simple, but deeply potent. I have used this with clients who feel completely paralysed by their heaviness.... 1. Find the anchor: Place one hand on your heart and one on your belly. Feel the weight of your bones on the chair or floor. Do not try to change your breathing; just notice it. 2. Name the sensation: Instead of saying "I am anxious" or "I am broken", say "There is tightness in my chest" or "There is a knot in my stomach." This tiny shift separates your eternal awareness from the temporary weather of your emotions. 3. Breathe toward it: On your inhale, imagine breathing loving-kindness directly into the tightness. Not to kill it, but to hold it. On your exhale, imagine breathing out spaciousness—letting the knot have room to exist without needing to be solved. This is not about fixing yourself by the end of the day. This is about making peace with the fact that you are still here, still breathing, and still holding space for yourself. When we stop running from the fire, it loses its power to consume us. It becomes the very light by which we see our next step.

Hi everyone 👋 On my morning mindfulness, meditation walk with YoYo🐶 this morning, we contemplated on Giving Thanks for all I have in my life 🙏🏻 Please follow the link to my YouTube channel and subscribe as it’s free and where I share many recordings, films, trainings etc https://youtu.be/KaaC3FJ8zUE?is=SEzPSYbxvnQ94V9H

Hi Everyone 👋 We have walked through the fire. We have released the vows. We have rewritten the stories. We have practised receiving. And now, I want to ask you the question that changes everything.... 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁? Not what you think you should want. Not what you were told to want. Not what would impress your family or your friends or your followers. What do you really want, down in the deepest chamber of your heart, beneath all the shoulds and the oughts and the fears? For so many of us, we have never asked ourselves this question. We have been so busy surviving, so busy meeting expectations, so busy trying to be what everyone else needs us to be, that we have lost touch with our own deepest desire. And here is the paradox..... until you know what you truly want, you cannot truly give. Because when you are disconnected from your own desire, you are disconnected from your own life force. You are running on obligation, not inspiration. You are giving from emptiness, not fullness. And the world does not need more hollow giving; it needs more radiant, full-hearted, alive giving. 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲.... 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 Take your journal. Sit quietly. Breathe deeply. And ask yourself: What do I really want? Let the first answers arise, the superficial ones, the safe ones. "I want more money." "I want more free time." "I want to be loved." Write them down. Get them out. And then, go deeper. Ask again. "What would that give me?" Keep going. Follow the thread all the way down until you hit the bedrock—the feeling beneath the desire. Usually, it is something like: - Peace. - Freedom. - Joy. - Belonging. - Worthiness. And when you touch that bedrock, you realise something profound.... you already have access to that feeling. It is not in the future. It is within you, right now. You do not need more money to feel worthy. You do not need more love to feel loved. You do not need more success to feel at peace. You just need to allow yourself to feel what is already there.

Hi Everyone 👋 There is a teaching in the Daoist tradition that has always moved me deeply.... the river does not give its water to the sea; it flows into the sea, and in doing so, it becomes the sea. You have been taught to give. You have been taught to serve. You have been taught that your value lies in what you offer others. And all of that is beautiful. But here is the question I want to ask you today.... When was the last time you truly received? Not grudgingly. Not with guilt. Not with the silent belief that you are not worthy of receiving. But fully, openly, and with gratitude? So many of us are brilliant at giving and utterly broken at receiving. We give our time, our energy, our love, our attention, and when someone offers something back to us, we deflect, we minimise, we say "Oh no, I couldn't" or "I don't need anything" or "I'm fine." But you are not fine. You are exhausted. You are running on empty. And you are holding yourself back from the very support that could fill you up. 𝗦𝗼, 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲.... 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Sit quietly. Place your hands on your heart. Breathe deeply. Now, imagine that you are standing under a waterfall of golden light. This light is pure love, pure abundance, pure support. It is flowing from the universe, from the Divine, from all the beings who have ever cared for you. Imagine this light pouring over you, through the crown of your head, down through your body, washing away the tension, the fatigue, the fear. Now, instead of pushing it away, open your palms and receive. Say these words aloud: "I am worthy of receiving." "I am open to support." "I do not have to do this alone." "I am loved, and I am allowed to feel that love." Stay here for a few minutes. Let the light fill you. Let yourself be held. And when you are ready, ask yourself... What am I holding back from receiving? Is it help? Is it love? Is it support? Is it a gift? And then, make a decision to receive it. If you are struggling with this, if receiving feels impossible, then I want you to know...

Our relationship with the Cosmos/One Heart matures over time when we give it attention. Befriending the Whole can be a first step on the journey. (Don't friendships begin with attention and spending time together?) Albert Einstein may have had it right when he was the most important question is "Do you believe the universe is friendly?" I'd be interested to know if in your heart of heart you just know the cosmos is benevolent or biased in our favor.