I spent most of my life mindlessly obsessing about the past and the future. I was consumed by anxiety and tormented by my mind, but completely unaware of the source of my suffering. To escape my pain, I used drugs, resulting in 15 years of chronic heroin addiction. Heroin brought me to the very edge,…
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5 ways Mindfulness can benefit your mental health
A great deal of research exists that demonstrates the positive effects that mindfulness can have on mental health. This article focuses on 5 key ways that mindfulness can benefit your mental health.
Book Review | The Dalai Lama’s Cat by David Michie
This is a novel, a story told by a beautiful Himalayan cat, saved from the slums of New Delhi when she is adopted by the Dalai Lama and lives in his Tibetan sanctuary. The cat, our author, has many names. She is called “The Most Beautiful Creature Who Ever Lived” by Mrs Trinci, his holiness’s…
The Language of our internal world
Having the resources available within us to care for the health and happiness of our minds can be compared to having the ability to skilfully speak and understand a particular type of language. This is the unique and at times complex language of our mind and our internal emotional world. For some people, important aspects…