Setting intentions

If you’re anything like me, you might be finding world pretty sad and scary right now.  There’s an endless cycle of difficult, distressing news, exacerbated of course by a 24 hour news cycle, along with apps and social media pumping out endless fear alerts (my tip - ditch the apps and any app alerts!). And of course, here in the UK we’re in the midst of a very gloomy January.  I can’t tell you the last time I saw [...]

Here we are again. January. The cold, dark belly of winter. And yet everywhere around us there's this frantic energy demanding we reinvent ourselves, smash goals, and become entirely new people. No wonder so many New Year resolutions crash and burn before the month is out. The Problem with January It’s a drum I beat regularly - January is probably the worst time to launch ourselves into ambitious new regimes. In Chinese Medicine, winter is the season [...]

Choosing hope; choosing happy One of my inspiring clients said "I choose happy" yesterday.  She is going to actively work on releasing past hurts and sadness, to move towards happiness.I love this.  We often think of happy, fulfilled, content, hopeful, even relaxed as states that will just happen to us if we can just fix something, or if something will stop. We are passive in the process (other than focusing on the problems, or our own shortcomings)But the reality is that we can be active in [...]

In Chinese Medicine, winter is the season of the Water element.   Key themes include stillness, reflection, wisdom, determination, and paring back to the essences. It's the perfect time for setting intentions; to look deep within, and tune into an internal wisdom; to take stock of where you are and where you're heading, what your heart desires, what's true to you. BTW if you want to know more about the energy of winter and how to find this time of year [...]