Secrets of a smile

June 15, 2024

A smile holds many powers. One of them is that when we smile, there is a direct link to the brain, and it releases endorphins that make us feel happy. We feel happy so we smile more, and the brain releases more endorphins – a circle of happiness. A smile...

Regaining power and freedom

May 4, 2024

All over the world, many are prevented, for one reason or another, from reaching their full potential and realising their own inner power. They may not have financial power or political power, or their gender may be an obstacle to living their life to the full. All of this kind...

Faith in action for climate justice

January 6, 2024

The Loss and Damage Fund established at COP27 was a fund, given and not loaned, to provide financial assistance to those nations most vulnerable and impacted by the effects of climate change. While this is undeniably a moral imperative, there are still, post COP28, many aspects that need to be...

Making a difference

September 2, 2023

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito!” Dalai Lama Despite all the evidence on the news to the contrary, there are many sincere and good people, all over the world, trying very hard to make a difference, and succeeding in many...

Setting healthy boundaries

May 5, 2023

Ancient wisdom talks of the importance of staying within set boundaries to keep us safe. In the story of Rama and Sita, a line was drawn around her and she was warned not to step over the line or there would be serious and dangerous consequences. However, she did step...

Strengthening willpower

October 22, 2022

“Every day I ask myself: Who am I? Who do I belong to? What do I have to do now?” - Dadi Janki Willpower is based on knowledge with understanding, conscience, determination, trust and faith. In a world that seems to be going in a direction completely opposite to the...

How to keep a cool head

June 25, 2022

The India-born author and poet Rudyard Kipling famously described emotional stability in his poem If: A Father’s Advice to His Son. The poem begins: ‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs - and blaming it on you.’ The poem contains much timeless wisdom, but...

UNLEASH YOUR TRUE POTENTIAL THROUGH THE POWER OF CLARITY

April 30, 2022

When we are caught up in a dilemma, we tend to do one of three things. Either we sit and stew about it or we jump into action, without thinking at all or worst of all, we sit frozen in indecision. What is needed to reduce the anxiety and confusion...

It starts from the heart

June 26, 2021

When the impetus to follow a spiritual path arises, it arises first in the heart. It begins with a kind of awakening inside, something stirs inside from the heart. If those feelings never arose, then we would never make any further changes in our lives. Once that feeling emerges, once...

Aligning the head and the heart for inner harmony

December 5, 2020

When we find our inner harmony — when the head and the heart work together — we develop a quiet, sustaining energy that keeps us stable no matter what happens. The past few months may well have felt like a roller coaster, with external ups and downs mirrored by inner,...