Mental Moments

Inertia can be the result of making too many decisions at once and feeling overwhelmed. It can also be the fallout from a promise we want to keep yet are unwilling to act on in the here and now. Most often it is a build up of fear and hesitation that we know we are [...] […]

Any question we pose to the I Ching may have our own energy and projection on it. Answers received may be interpreted to please us. Even though it is beneficial to trust the answer given to just ‘be there’ it is easy to get carried away with our own wishful thinking and formulate assumptions about [...] […]

There is a trend at the moment – an enticing one – that calls to us each time we hear or read the words ‘life purpose’. A life purpose movement of consciousness is taking place with mind trainers and life coaches helping people discover their true calling. The promise seems to be focused on helping [...] […]

Living with restraint can be the result of feeling safe and comfortable with conformity. It can be a habit we adopt when we don’t want to rock the boat and disappoint another person by outshining them. We may hold back some of our abilities and tone ourselves down in order to appear humble or make [...] […]

The I Ching often expresses itself in an intangible way as it works with the subtle and unformed nature of life. When something is tangible you can touch it and define it. There is an actual form or substance to it. An intangible is something we are unable to name – a vague perception in [...] […]

Do you have trouble knowing what your part is in a given action and what part belongs to someone else? When we cross over into the energy field of another’s responsibility and start to do their thinking for them, we are blurring the lines between our own patch and theirs. […]

When you want everything to be perfect you lose your sense of joy and fulfilment. In planning a successful project it is helpful to use big picture thinking. This gives an overview of the project to be mastered and the steps along the way to its accomplishment. Using the visionary gift you can picture yourself [...] […]

During the month of February one of my closest friends passed away. In what was to become a memorable gathering of relatives and fellow journeymen, I was called to take part in a ‘Farewell to Zina’ – a final celebration of her life. […]

Responsibility is a combination of a choice and its consequence. If we are prepared to make a decision then we must be equally prepared to accept its outcome and wherever it takes us from there. The minute we begin to blame another person for our circumstances or state of mind we have somehow given up our responsibility. […]

Perceptions and projections of our own ambition sometimes make the walls of our world seem solid. Life may give us the appearance there is another world ‘out there’ which we seem unable to access. […]