Category: Psychology
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Walking Between Worlds
Cover art by John Anster Fitzgerald “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Jung One foot on a goat, one foot on a well. There’s an ongoing negotiation in my life between being here, and being somewhere else. There’s…
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Coping With Seasonal Depression and Anxiety
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Depression is something that has likely touched all of us. Often the holidays or the few months after the holidays are an extra challenging time for us all…
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Science and Meditation
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” Amit Ray Meditation is nothing more than an organised and deliberate form of thinking. If you change the way you think, you have the scope to change your behaviour and your emotional experiences. This is the understanding that…
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Tangible Benefits of Spending Time in Nature For Ourselves and Our Children
“If I must be rooted, plant my feet in rich soil, let my womanly flesh harden to bark, and let my limbs, robust in sleeves of evergreen, keep reaching for the sun.” Jane Elle Glasser My true relationship with nature started as a child making mud pies and potions in the pouring rain at my…
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Finding the Good
“Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.” David Suzuki There are days when my sense of all that is wrong in the world overwhelms me. From the small, everyday cruelties through to the epic injustices,…