I am the cause of most of my suffering. Me. Not the past trauma, not the lingering mental health issues, not the state of the world, not my bank account, and not the health of my body. But me, or more specifically, my response to all those things. I have learnt that suffering is the difference between expectations and reality – and that your happiness is proportional to how much you accept that fact.
Let me explain…
Read MoreWhat would happen if you were to make a practice of habitually injecting positivity into the darkest moment of your day? What if you believed and acted as if a moment of darkness is the opportunity for light?
What if instead of turning to scrolling social media, picking up the bottle, or doing any number of other less than ideal coping strategies, you instead reframed your thinking and actions towards your own long term good?
I believe in informed enthusiastic consent in all things - If you and everyone involved are not saying ‘fuck yes’ to an idea, event, or action it’s a ‘hell no’…
Read MoreI have had tremendous success recently transcending trauma and healing complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems and wanted to share a deep unlock that I experienced today.
Below is a poem called ‘dear little part of me’ - it expresses the end point of an internal dialogue that I had with a young protective part of me…
Read MoreThis free shadow work journal PDF will help you discover your truth and become whole. Inside you will find a comprehensive guide to shadow work journaling alongside a colleciton of activities and prompts.
Read MoreThis free from surviving to thriving PDF will outline seven life principles to turn your life around.
It will help reframe your thinking, giving you guiding principles that will enable you to make and maintain positive changes in your life. Changes that will help you move from surviving to passionately thriving.
Read MoreThis box breathing pdf will provide you with an easy-to-follow guide to calm the nervous system and relax the mind. It can be used as a lead into a meditation session or as a sleep aid before bed.
It works by activating the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), the parts responsible for relaxation, recovery, sleep and digestion, by slowing down the breath - The mind will interpret the slowing down of the breath as a sign of safety. This occurs even when you actively and purposefully slow your breath down, as in the case of box breathing…
Read MoreThis is a five-minute box (square) breathing guided meditation with Zachary Phillips.
Use this practice in response to stressful events, to calm down after exercise, as a lead into a meditation session, and as a sleep aid.
By slowing down and controlling the breath - breathing in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4.
The practice triggers the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting anxiety relief, relaxation, and performance enhancement.
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Read MoreEvery moment is an opportunity for freedom.
Mindfulness meditation gives us the tools to, at any moment, detach and take a different course of action. All we need to do is take one mindful breath.
This talk will discuss the possibility of freedom in every moment and give you some ideas on how to attain that freedom throughout the day.
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Read MoreFeel safe with this guided meditation.
It will help you to reduce the severity and duration of panic attacks, as well as ground you when anxious or fearful.
It begins with the calming of the breath, followed by a present state awareness grounding activity, and finishing with a progressive body relaxation into a brief positive and calming priming for you to take into the rest of your day.
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Read MoreIn this talk, we discuss how the difference between expectation and reality is often the source of significant discontent.
Life trains us to search for ideals: the perfect partner, job, life, outcome. Unfortunately this almost never arises and even if it did, it would be fleeting. Thus there is a real potential for ongoing and almost contentious self-inflicted suffering.
Thankfully, happiness is closer than you think. By embracing mindfulness we can begin to see and address the impact of our expectations.
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Read MoreThe enlightened person stubs their toe once, the untrained person stubs it twice…the first time on the rock, then again when they ruminate about stubbing their toe.
When we apply our mindful attention to pain, we see that it is merely another sensation to observe.
Whether it is physical or emotional, 'pain' presents itself through a collection of sensations, each of which can be observed, and investigated.
If we observe the sensations and feelings that arise when our expectations are not met, we may find that our suffering reduces or is entirely eliminated.
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Read MoreNot all approaches to study are equal, and not all work for everyone. It is possible to go through our entire schooling careers wasting our time with ineffective methods of study. Students find themselves struggling to retain information because they are using approaches that are not suited to their subjects, nor their personal preferences, capabilities, and learning styles.
In this 10-day course, you will learn how to maximize your study time and exam performance. You will learn the principles of learning and how to apply them, as well as how to establish a study routine that you can stick to. You will be given in-depth instructions and case studies that highlight a multitude of different approaches and encouraged to experiment to find what works for you.
This course will supercharge your ability to learn, giving you the tools, tips, and tricks necessary to not only make the content stick to your brain but also to make you understand it on a deep level. If you want to enhance your ability to study, if you want to do well on your end-of-year exams, or if you simply want to know how to learn more effectively, this is the course for you.
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Read MoreThis course is designed to assist you in developing a daily meditation routine.
Over the next 30 days, you will embark on a gradual journey into the world of mindfulness meditation. Each session will commence with a brief lesson, followed by a guided meditation practice that builds upon the previous day's teachings, finishing with a discussion of the content, connecting it to the principles of mindfulness and habit building in general.
By the end of the month, you will have not only ingrained a constructive habit but also acquired the foundational skills of mindfulness meditation—an invaluable tool capable of enhancing your life significantly.
Lets meditate!
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Read MoreRecorded live at the Langwarrin flora and fauna reserve, this meditation will guide you towards integration of the mind, body and soul.
Inviting your to identify parts of the body that are holding tension and inviting them to be heard, felt, understood, and perhaps released.
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Read MoreTrue happiness in life comes from acceptance; embracing reality for what it is, both the good and the bad.
This isn't to say we shouldn't take action to better ourselves, we should. But we should also learn to live with things as they are. This way we will be capable of appreciating the joys we have already attained.
Without acceptance, we cannot live in the present. Rather we ruminate on the past, or fret about the future; neither state is conducive to ongoing happiness.
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Read MoreBy practicing mindfulness we are growing our ability to detach.
We will be less likely to fall into the trap of thoughts, less likely to identify with them and be far less impacted by them.
In this session, I break down how we use our mindfulness practice to learn detachment. It ends with a three-minute silent practice.
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Read MoreThis short, guided session will give you immediate calm. The mind and body are interconnected.
Calm the body and the mind will follow.
Join me for 10 calm and relaxing breaths and give yourself the power to take on the rest of your day!
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Read MoreWe have a tendency to judge our worst moments against the highlight reels of others.
We see all of our flaws, hear all the doubts, and live through the darkness, yet we compare ourselves to the external projections of others.
We fear failure, yet this fear ironically causes our performance to drop.
This talk will show you that it's only through acceptance and action that we can hope to push through our fears and take the actions necessary for success.
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Read MoreConsider the following: if you were to gradually replace all of the parts of your body until nothing ‘original' remained, can you still claim to be you?
This talk breaks down the philosophical thought experiment 'The Ship of Theseus' and relates its implications back to cell division and the nature of the mind over time.
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