Self-awareness

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The Importance of Stillness in a Busy World

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The Importance of Stillness in a Busy World

When was the last time you recall being still in your life? The last time you had a moment to yourself where you could pause without rushing into the next task or place you needed to be?

It's all too easy to get caught in rushing from one activity to another, juggling responsibilities, meetings, and social commitments. Stillness on the other hand is stepping outside of our usual 'doing' to tap into a greater awareness about ourselves. More than just a lack of activity, stillness is the deliberate and conscious decision to pause from all the doing in order to allow ourselves a moment to reflect and reconnect to ourselves. Put another way, stillness invites us to stop and check if we are going in the right direction.

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10 questions to reflect on for the year end

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10 questions to reflect on for the year end

As the year draws to an end, it’s a natural moment in time to pause and reflect on where we’ve been in the last 12 months and where we hope to move towards in the next. Whether this year felt long or short to you, here are 10 questions to reflect on as we wind down the last week of the year.

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The mind-body connection: The wisdom of your body

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The mind-body connection: The wisdom of your body

Our skin crawls when we are disgusted and our heart feels like it is about to burst when we are full of joy. We are left breathless in the face of beauty and our stomach drops when we receive a fright or shock. These expressions are not a coincidence. What do they tell us about about the link between our mind and our bodies?

Food for thought: The relationship we have with food

Food for thought: The relationship we have with food

Many of us have a complicated relationship with food. Most of us have at some point been on a form of diet and for many more of us, the relationship we have with our bodies is a constant struggle between dissatisfaction, ignoring it, and paying a lot of (self-conscious and/or self-critical) attention to it. What might patterns of overeating or restrictive diets be reflecting about our emotional health?