Every child is like a lit candle trying to burn as brightly as he or she can. Some children shine brightly from the beginning, automatically and at an early age, but others start faint and grow brighter as they grow. Sometimes their flames can be difficult to detect. In a field or meadow flooded with […]
Your Brain Doesn’t Care. Visualise picking up a big, ripe, juicy lemon and feeling its nobby texture. Then imagine picking up a knife and cutting the lemon in half, bringing it up to your face, inhaling its distinct lemon smell and tasting its sharp lemon flavour. Notice as you do this, your mouth puckers and […]
Listen with your heart Listening to another human being with an open heart is a gift of immense value. But, truly listening without distraction or personal agenda, especially to family members, can often be a real challenge. Even when I try to listen fully to my husband, I sometimes fail, and he ends up feeling […]
Learn to model what you want. Caroline Myss, the author of Anatomy of the Spirit, one of my all-time favourite books, once said, “Share your wisdom, not your suffering.” This is one of the most profound pieces of knowledge we can live by. But, it’s not always easy to achieve. Our moods, setbacks, and struggles often lead […]
Making Sense of Our Five Senses The five senses: Visual (sight), auditory (hearing), kinaesthetic (touch), gustatory (taste) and olfactory (smell) — are key to experiencing the world around us because they form the building blocks of how we make meaning in our lives. For this reason, they’re really about opportunity. Because, if we can understand […]
Thoughts, Feelings, Beliefs. We have the ability to create wholeness and love or destruction and chaos. Everything I see, hear, and feel, I expected first in my mind, and then it came into being. We are phenomenal creators, and this ability to imagine gives us tremendous power and responsibility. But, mostly, we are unaware of […]
Your brain is like a computer hard drive: a well-worn simile, but it works nevertheless. As a processing centre, our brains take in information, make assumptions, draw conclusions, and then decide what to do with it all. This is how we stay alive. If what we perceive is physically threatening we take action, e.g. run […]
Click here to listen to Sal Khan on TED Talks Mastering Skills Must Be Our Priority We have a one size fits all education system in New Zealand. Sadly, we’re not alone. Schools in many developed countries push students through a curriculum and a timetable before they’ve mastered the fundamentals of English writing, grammar, and […]
Mindful Literacy You’ve probably been reading and writing for a long time. But do you really love the written word? Do you love to read? Do you long to express yourself in the written form? If you’re like most people, the honest answer to these questions is no. Language in all forms is fundamental to […]
Open Minds Make Everything Possible Do you have a fixed or a growth-based mindset? This is such an important question to ask ourselves because a growth mindset makes everything possible, and without it, we often fail to thrive. Maybe your mindset needs a reboot. Fixed or Growing? What does your internal monologue reveal about your […]
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