Author Archives: Si

Anything You Ever Wanted, Get It From Yourself

I realised a long time ago the truism that "What annoys me most in others is what annoys me about myself". This is one of the reasons I've come back to live with my folks for a while. I'd got about as far as I easily could peering into my own navel. Much easier to …

January 11, 2012 – 23:49 | By Si | Posted in healing, self-improvement | Comments (2)

Nice Night For a Walk

It's just turned New Year, 2012. Generally for New Year's Eve I prefer to do something contemplative. Meditate on the past year (or years). Feel my way to a better direction for the coming year. Assess and makes choices that will guide me positively forward. With that in mind, around 10pm I took off up a …

January 1, 2012 – 03:04 | By Si | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (8)

Please Board, Mr Sexy Pants

My little bro flew up for a visit the other day. It turned out to be quite an eventful trip. For a start, he managed to wangle a free trip, which is always a bonus. A friend of his was coming up and said she had a spare ticket for whomever asked first. Nice one. They …

December 7, 2011 – 23:01 | By Si | Posted in fun | Comments (5)

How to Clear a Ton of Crap Fast

Remember a while back, I wrote about a more effective version of the Map'n'Tap? Ie, a way to quickly deeply clear everything around any given issue. Well, here's the fastest way I've found if you want to do a whole bunch of maps. Since any mind map should ideally be about a single subject, if you …

December 7, 2011 – 22:22 | By Si | Posted in healing, self-improvement | Comments (2)

The Subtlety of Posture

I've talked about posture before and how strongly our mind & body are connected. How if we're feeling crappy, we can adjust ourselves physically and our mind will follow. We can do this just with our face (in the west, often the most outwardly expressive part of us) or with our entire bodies. What I've …

October 11, 2011 – 13:49 | By Si | Posted in healing, self-improvement | Comments (6)

Why it seems the crap is never ending

When you first start on a growing or healing journey (aka life), everything seems amazing. Gigantic problems fall away with ease, life gets better, people notice the change in you and for a while it seems like all your worries are gone. After a while though you may start to notice, there's always more crap. What's going on? …

October 1, 2011 – 14:00 | By Si | Posted in healing | Comments (5)

Snow!

Today I woke up and there was honest to god, real life snow, just lying everywhere, being all lazy. Even though it's winter, around these parts there hasn't been snow since 1995. So, what better way to spend a Monday morning than to go for a walk up a local hill? (rhetorical question) This hill, unsurprisingly. Mum …

July 25, 2011 – 14:11 | By Si | Posted in fun, life | Comments (10)

A Night Of Bad Dreams

I had a bunch of bad dreams last night. This is very rare for me. Typically these days I might get a single mildly bad dream maybe once or twice a month, if that. But first let me wind back a bit. A few days ago I hung out with a friend of mine. This is someone …

July 17, 2011 – 12:37 | By Si | Posted in healing, life | Comments (2)

Random Thursday Night Adventure

I was sitting at home the other night, minding my own business when a text message flashed in on my intra-planetary communicator: "I'm coming to pick you up. I'll be there at 9:50pm. Pack a toothbrush" Well, okay then. (Secretly? I adore these kind of spontaneous adventures.) On the agenda? Sitting in an outdoor jacuzzi half …

July 16, 2011 – 20:52 | By Si | Posted in fun, life | Comments (10)

Three high states, three lists

There are three super high states of being: Courageousness, Acceptance and Peace. I first talked about them here. These may not be the utterly highest states possible (how much bullshit wankery do we want to get into, really), but they're damn good to aim for. Acceptance is a higher state than Courageousness. Peace is the highest. Courageousness …

July 16, 2011 – 10:14 | By Si | Posted in healing | Comments (0)