Note to reader: this article makes reference to trauma and difficult experiences. Always contact your healthcare team if you’re worried about your well-being. When we invest energy in living spiritually and we do this with self-awareness and compassionate self-reflection, this can be a meaningful pathway to spiritual intelligence (SQ). Doing our own shadow work isContinue reading “What is Spiritual Bypassing?”
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Mindfulness for Better Sleep (Includes Example Guided Meditation)
How are you sleeping? If you’re someone who finds yourself awake in the middle of the night, you’re not alone. In my book Answers In The Dark, I highlight that, certainly in the West, we are a Sleepless Society. If you’ve not been sleeping well, you might find you get every cough and cold that’s goingContinue reading “Mindfulness for Better Sleep (Includes Example Guided Meditation)”
Mantras and Affirmations: How they’re different and when they can help
You will often see the use of affirmations promoted as a popular way of encouraging people to be nicer about themselves or to help them succeed in a particular area of their life. But are they always right for people, and are mantras another way? Affirmations In this context, an affirmation is often a positiveContinue reading “Mantras and Affirmations: How they’re different and when they can help”
Spiritual Intelligence and Why It Matters
You have probably heard of the Intelligence Quotient, or IQ, and more recently, on the back of work from psychologists like Daniel Goleman, an expansion of this in to discussions around Emotional Intelligence (EQ). What you may not know, is that the purpose of the Intelligence Quotient may have been misrepresented (and even exploited) overContinue reading “Spiritual Intelligence and Why It Matters”