PRACTICES | WISDOM
THE CALM REVOLUTION
JOURNAL
When we cultivate self-awareness through contemplative practice & self-inquiry, we can build a solid personal foundation and better integrate our inner & outer lives.
When you start to notice & listen to your heart, body & mind, you become friends with your inner knowing and wisdom. When you do this with a spirit of gentleness & kindness, you encourage a spirit of unwinding & unlearning versus striving & fixing.
Everything is Practice
A recent theme I have noticed is impatience.
A desire for things to be different than they are. A desire for immediate results. A desire for certainty in an uncertain world.
Live a life of meaning and purpose
What would it mean to live a life true to yourself?
Do you feel that your life allows you to be true to who you really are—not who you think you're supposed to be?
What are you striving for?
A conscious leader takes responsibility for themselves and is clear on where they meet or resist their potential. A conscious leader makes time to reflect and realign with what's important.
Leadership as a language of care
The opening line in Always Home, Fanny Singer’s tribute to her mother, the iconic Alice Waters, speaks to how Alice lives her life. Fanny says that Beauty as a Language of Care is a practice that permeates everything Alice touches.
Asking the big, beautiful questions
How often do you create space in your life to ask yourself the big, beautiful questions?
Is the path I'm on still meaningful to me? Am I living the kind of life I want to live? What gives me a sense of meaning and purpose? Is there a balance in my life between Doing and Being? Or am I all Doing, no Being?
We are always letting go
The path of transformation is a process of letting go. Over and over again. Letting go of old stories, old ways of being and outdated ways of thinking.
A guide to mindful walks
You don’t need any special equipment, in fact it’s an opportunity to leave all your gadgets behind. The intention is a simple one - simply go outside and walk for an hour or more.
Learning to sit in the softness of your heart
The problem with living only from the mind is that we start to believe whatever story it’s telling us. Many of these stories aren’t helpful, some are simply not true - and they keep us stuck. Repeating the same patterns, behaviours & habits over and over again.
The gift of solitude.
Time spent alone in quiet contemplation. A quiet space to simply be. This might involve deep thinking, or space to think nothing at all. It might mean taking a quiet walk in nature, amongst trees, listening to the sound of the wind in the leaves or the chatter of birds and the rustle of small creatures amongst the grass.