Posts tagged with 'personal'
Kidney donation: what are the risks?
19th October 2016
I recently wrote a blog post "Kidney donation: why it's well worth considering". I commented that most blog posts on this website are primarily written for fellow health professionals & others interested in an evidence-based approach to stress, health & wellbeing. However this sequence of posts about kidney donation are …
Kidney donation: why it's well worth considering
14th October 2016
Note: I actually had the kidney operation in December 2016 but, when initiatlly writing this blog, the hospital asked me to change the dates so it was less likely that the recipient would be able to identify me 'by mistake'. Since I and the dear man who received the kidney …
The building up specific strengths exercise: a personal & practical exploration
22nd August 2016
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man" Polonius in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" I have been writing a series of blog posts about character strengths - most recently "Twelve practical suggestions for exploring our character …
Personal ‘retreat’: eighth reflection – making life intentions & the last day here
28th February 2016
I wrote yesterday of my three wishes for this ten day “retreat” in Hampshire … a “being/doing” shift, an exploration of awareness (& it seems also our sense of self), and a chance to get perspective on my life. For the first week I focused especially on the first two …
Personal ‘retreat’: seventh reflection – life tide returning
27th February 2016
I didn’t write a reflection in the blog yesterday (although I did the day before). I said when I came down here for this ten day retreat at the Krishnamurti Study Centre, that I was aware of three intentions … three hopes. One was to “move the slider across” from …
Personal ‘retreat’: sixth reflection – let's lose our heads & come to our senses
25th February 2016
I have already written a series of posts about this stay down at the Krishnamurti Study Centre in Hampshire - see for example the first one "Setting the scene" or the most recent (before this one) "Being, flow & 'pure driving'". Yesterday I took an ‘idle & blessed’ day. This …
Personal ‘retreat’: fifth reflection – being, flow & ‘pure driving’
24th February 2016
Yesterday I wrote a post on "Our sense of self". Today the theme is more “Being & doing”. My life at home is very busy. I welcome this … and have made it happen … with work I love … living richly … but full of “doing”. On this fourth …
Personal ‘retreat’: fourth reflection – our sense of self
23rd February 2016
I wrote a post yesterday on "Quietening down ... and do we need time to change". Now it's the fourth morning … I have some sense of my inner world rearranging itself, like shifting icebergs. That description overplays what feels to be going on … but changes there certainly are, …
Personal ‘retreat’: third reflection – quietening down ... and do we need time to change?
22nd February 2016
I've already written a couple of blog posts during my "retreat" at this Study Centre - "Setting the scene" and "Settling & questioning". Now it's the start of the third day … yesterday was a strange mix of tastes. Out on a couple of walks … for over three hours …
Personal ‘retreat’: second reflection – settling & questioning
21st February 2016
I wrote a post yesterday about arriving here at the Krishnamurti Study Centre. Now it's early on the second morning – how was the first full day? It was fine. I wrote, thought, read, went on a two-hour walk (boots repeatedly clogging with the Hampshire clay), practised yoga, meditated, and …