These reflections on the complexities and challenges of being Human started out as brief memo's to self and carried on by the winds of my own inpiration to become 'reflections'.  I follow my feel-felt sense in the winds of my own inspiration. They are not neccessarily tidy or well thought out but do get into some pithy and interesting areas of how to meet the dilemmas and ambiguities of being Human.                                                                                     Healing and Creativity Course April and Sept 2022 go to https://bit.ly/FocusingHealingCreativity

Reflections on the complexities of Being Human

Praise and Blame are a natural Human experience in life.  How do you cope and come through the more extreme experiences of criticism, blaming, labelling and judging that are levelled at you? Here's an informal ramble exploring my experience using the principles of Mindfulness, Focusing and NVC.
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Reflections on How do You cope with Extreme Criticism ? Self in Presence and Creative Response

Become the flower, become available through Beauty and attract all you need in a natural and organic way.
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When the Flower Opens the Bee Comes Invitation

Rest in your Still Centre Focusing Attunement

Rest in Your Still CENTRE For Equanimity In Movement Focusing Attunement

Tired of being relentlessly stuck?  Overwhelmed and despairing about the stories and feelings you can't get out of?  Listen to this for inspiration ....... go to  Healing and Creativity Course to learn skills in deep freedom https://www.tickettailor.com/events/focusing

How does change REALLY happen? Find relief from STUCK Fear Anxiety Sadness Anger Hurt etc

The Body is invited to reclaim it's own sovereign nature of Being, from its own perspective.  A rich journey of resourcing and resilience creating safety and creatively meeting challenges and learning to rest deeply in the storm as well as meeting your needs for safety, balance and wellbeing whatever the conditions.
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Deep Cool Waters Of Healing The Sovereign Nature of the Body Reclaims itself Meditation

What invites deep and resonant change in our seemingly embedded beliefs and emotional patternings?
What brings us together in a way that information, politics, views and ideas can often just leave us feeling empty?
What invites the fresh edge and forward flow to run through the veins in our body where freedom is a visceral experience not something to be chased?

Exploring the nature of depth transformation and emergent community

How can you engender a safe and fertile learning and community space through Presence in the teaching context? How can moving from a purely didactic information led teaching style into a more relational and interactive approach through Presence bring deep meaning and significance?  What does a 'mutual availability' mean when entering into deeper resonance with others? How can entertaining the what we 'don't know we don't know' offer space for mystery and significance to perfume us personally and as a collective in the teaching context?

Presence enriched teaching for deep connection, relationship, learning  and community

What are the mechanisms that make us prey to anxiety, and how can mindfulness help to offer resilience and wellbeing? This is an informal reflection on the nature of Mindfulness and how it can help us to reclaim our lives into a whole sense of Being that is satisfying and rewarding.

Mindfulness & Climate Anxiety introduction,  reflection and meditation.

Living can often be overwhelming and bewildering with inner and outer complexity leading to anxiety and a sense of threat.  
How do we invite a bigger and more grounded sense of our selves?  What shifts in awareness can bring safety and deep healing? How do we welcome parts of us that are stuck and scared so they can come into their flow and a new freshness of living can emerge? How could you relate to your inner baby elephant?!!

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Who Am I in a world of complexity and ambiguity?  Safety Healing & Wholeness Restored

Responding to news and our experience of Climate change and destruction can be distressing and overwhelming.  There are many ways to personally respond to the ongoing news on the climate, many of which can leave us paralysed, fearful and disconnected.  I invite responses based on our humanity and a natural ability to be resilient and creative leaving us with more choice and wellbeing.

Climate Anxiety Disconnection & Overwhelm Response CADOR Plus Approaches To Empowerment

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”   Rainer Maria Rilke

Meet frightened, anxious, angry etc parts of yourself tenderly with kindness and care.  

All inner critics and emotional patterns have a positive intention.  How are they permitted to let themselves go into a new fresh edge and shift into their newness. Every part within us has its own healing mechanism, all we need to do is offer relationship on the basis of ‘letting be the way it wants to be’ rather than reject or attack so they can morph into their fresh edge and wellness.

Limitless Mindfulness Meditation.  Something can be constricted, cramped, raw, tender, vulnerable – in and of themselves they are fine, the question is how do we relate to them?  Are we held hostage or are we in relationship with them so they can express themselves fully for being fully received.  We are not trying to force change or fix something, it’s a bit like pouring water onto a seed, its an organically flourishing process which just takes care of itself within the context of Presence. Perhaps you have a place where resting is easy, sunbathing on a beach, a forest perhaps or somewhere else where an exquisite sense of safety makes itself known to you.  Inviting a sense of care and warmth in the body.

Inner Critic Relationship for Self Tenderness Kindness and Care for Raw Vulnerable Meditation

The open and connected dimension of Being.
Something can sense the intimacy of connecting right now. Like the tree is available to all the birds that land on it—available to the sky above, and the clouds that float by, to the rain, to the wind that dances the leaves. That tree is firmly rooted and grounded, just like us in Presence.

The felt sense then runs through the whole of this—it’s life connecting everything up, as it is. And the nexus of the felt sense could be in the heart, tummy, or chest somewhere, or more amorphous. Just sensing what is alive here—how is it living through the sensing?

And maybe, making room for the timelessness in Presence, the infiniteness in Presence, and the life that runs through it!

The felt sensing does not belong to anyone in particular—it just seems to course through us. But that shared sense of the felt sensing—if we just pause right now, and just be quietly available in a very ordinary way, to each other—it’s as if there is a shared felt sensing going on. It does not belong to you or me exclusively. Something in us knows there is a bit more going on here, and it seems to be shared.

So I am inviting your body to sense how it is for it—its living experience in the sharedness. This felt sensing, this field, this matrix, this mutuality, this dance, this correspondence, this unity—it can rest in itself. As it does so, something can just be with it, and notice the quality of it from its own perspective.

We are just playing with the mystery of intimacy, of connection.

Often we are not receptive to this shared quality. And here, we invite permission for availability to come forward—to open the gates, to open the portals to this sharing, into the mutuality of sharing that creates its own portal. Resting with this, to sense how it is.

If you like, something in you can open to the portal to all of those around you, to all the sentience beyond—into a felt sensing of all that. Subtle, yes, it can invite itself to know itself more fully from availability in Presence, letting it rest in itself.

And as it does, you might notice the qualities of it—at least a sense of something here. What are the qualities of this sharedness? Perhaps more owned by itself—a sense of sharedness. What’s this like, this shared element? What’s it like in itself, even?

My sense of all this, from a felt sense perspective, is that this—the shared intimate felt sense—brings true wellbeing and healing, and is a portal into the mystery itself that knows its own truth, whatever that means!

And you could say that there is a lot of rest and peace in this sharedness, this mutuality, this mystery. There’s a lot of rest—something can rest deeply here—a lot of nourishment. And if I dare push the boat out, it’s almost timeless, infinite, limitless in its own way.

Of course, there will be parts that may shrink or contract. However, this shrinking and contraction can take place in the breadth of it all.

Timelessness and Infiniteness In Presence Focusing Attunement

Finding Oneself 2 by Laurence Freeman OSB
Meditatio Talks Series 2017 D Oct-Dec
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Finding Oneself 2

The Experience of Being Known

Life and front line interactions can be demanding and stressful - often with times of anxiety, fear, overwhelm etc being a result. Here are some ready and available resources to meet needs for Resilience, Deep Rest, Grounding, Presence, Balance, Restoration, Sustainability, Connection, Respite, Ease, Peace, Resources for times of action and inaction. 
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Soothing Meditation for anxiety and fear & other strong emotions

Two Kinds Of Intelligence

Access your STILL POINT and  live from tranquility and calm amidst the chaos and overwhelm of your inner and outer life.

Find & rest in your STILL POINT for tranquility through this Mindfulness Meditation

Presence Deep Rest Meditations and Reflections inspired by Focusing, Mindfulness and Nonviolent communication Embodied Relational Presence training and personal coaching.  https://www.living-presence.co.uk/

Reflections on How do You cope with Extreme Criticism ? Self in Presence and Creative Response

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