by Evan Dwan | Jun 9, 2017 | News |
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” – Mary Shelley When it comes to change, always think small. We have a tendency to view change as something that requires a dramatic overhaul in our lives. Whether it is starting a diet, changing...
by Evan Dwan | May 18, 2017 | News |
Decisions are destiny. They may be small or large but either way the choices we make, make us. Our life, our self, is the result of all the decisions we have made and the actions we have taken. If our choices decide our fate, we are well-advised to choose well. The...
by Evan Dwan | May 4, 2017 | News |
Throughout life we form beliefs about how we are and the way the world works, which, even if they are negative, give us a degree of safety and security that there is a predictability and order to things. We are often attached to negative beliefs about ourselves...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 21, 2017 | News |
When we encounter stress and difficulty in our lives we have a natural tendency to turn away from it. However, this attempt to push the unpleasant away can compound our suffering and makes things worse. Mindfulness practice teaches us to go against the grain of our...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 7, 2017 | News |
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live...
by Evan Dwan | Mar 24, 2017 | News |
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” – Marcel Proust As human beings we are programmed to habituate. We become familiar with things we once wondered at, and start to take them for granted. This is a...
