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Getting Out of the Way by Dr Simon Whitesman
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” Abraham Maslow A few years ago on a meditation retreat, the teacher recounted a delightful story of their young son, whose grandparents had given him a toy truck, which he drove around…
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The person and presence of the leader
by Simon Whitesman MBChB PhD We are the ones we’ve been waiting for In haunting, poetic and prophetic words, an unnamed Hopi Elder urges us to “not look outside ourselves for the leader”1. They invite us into an essential encounter with ourselves and how we choose to positively impact the world we inhabit, with a…
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Expand your Awareness, Expand your Reality
There are many ways to expand awareness and the thing I want to foreground today is BELIEFS. Why they are significant lies in the fact that they are mostly unconscious and yet they shape our lives, effectively re-creating the same reality again and again. Beliefs refer to a subtle yet powerful and mostly invisible thought…
