State of Mind and our Understanding of the World
The greatest misconception that exists in society today is the commonly-held belief that the world is happening to us.
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Author: Susan Andrewes
An end to chronic stress
When I work with clients – typically leaders in positions of responsibility, or people working to effect change – what strikes me over and over again is the degree to which stress and overwhelm have become normalised in our culture. The collective experience of stress and burnout has become so ingrained that, when taken to the extreme, it almost becomes a badge of honour, a perceived sign of our importance and value in the world or in the workplace. This worldview does untold damage, and yet we can see it play out every day, not just on an individual...
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Stopping the Outrage
There’s a video circulating on Facebook at the moment in which Waleed Aly from #TheProjectTV invites us to react with forgiveness instead of outrage to the atrocities we have witnessed recently in the world. The video is good, and broadens our minds as to the power we have to react differently to violence and crime. Yet it also speaks to an innocent but pervasive misunderstanding about the way in which we, as humans, universally experience life. What if we could begin to see that the experience of fear in itself is not a given, no matter the circumstances? What...
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