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Light in the darkness

After the shortest day our hemisphere will move towards the sun for yet another six months. But if we could, we’d surely influence the tilting motion of our planet. This blog post is about our convulsive and ineffective way of controlling, and the relaxation we experience when that form of control is let go.

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On the Nature of Life

The older we become, the more we seem to resist change in all its facets. In this article we discuss common factors sustaining that resistance, and how a genuine sense of wonder at the ever changing nature of life, harbours the possibility of experiencing true joy.

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Do we fight, flee, freeze or fawn?

Of our four defense mechanisms against both physical and emotional threat (fight, flee, freeze, fawn – or pleasing behavior), most people have learned to rely on just one or two of them. Having access to all four provides balance because of one’s confidence that any threatening situation can be acted upon adequately. And that in turn increases the pleasure of life!

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