🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🫂 What is the most important relationship in your life? Every moment of our life is shaped by relationship, especially the one we have with ourselves. "You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself." — Albert Camus Dear Reader We are constantly in relationship. We’re in relationship with our past, our future, the present moment, ourselves, our family and friends, our hopes and...
14 days ago • 5 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🫂 Learning to go from overwhelm to OK When we return to ourselves through mindfulness and meditation, we rediscover a quiet OKness that was there all along. From this place, life feels less like something to fix and more like something we can meet with steadiness, clarity and ease. “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl Rogers Dear Reader By far the most common human experience today is some variation of...
21 days ago • 6 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter ⚡Don't waste it! There is a quiet voice inside us that knows what we need and what really matters. We don’t have to earn it or search for it — only learn how to listen. “At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” — Lao Tzu Dear Reader Right here, right now, is the only real place your life exists. We can fantasise about the future or reminisce about the past, but these are illusions. There is no...
28 days ago • 4 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🫂 What happens when we stop leaving ourselves behind? There is a part of each of us that longs to be met, seen and held. Not by someone extraordinary, but by ourselves. Mindfulness is an invitation to remember how to do this. “When we turn toward our experience with curiosity and kindness, we begin to discover the vastness of our own heart.” — A H Almaass Dear Reader We arrive in this world entirely dependent on those around us; most often our biological...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter ❤️🩹 Healing through patience, presence and space We often forget that healing is built into us—not something we need to chase or control. Mindfulness helps us return to our natural state of balance, allowing body, mind and heart to realign with ease. “To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.” — Stephen Levine Dear Reader Our body naturally heals. If we scrape our knee, over time the blood stops, the pain fades, the skin...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter ⛓️💥 Your in-built capacity for depth, freedom and presence Through mindfulness practice we discover a quality of presence that holds, transforms, and frees. What in your life is calling you, when all the noise is silenced, the meetings adjourned, the lists laid aside, and the wild iris blooms by itself in the dark forest, what still pulls on your soul? ~ Rumi Dear Reader We all know as mindfulness practitioners, that we are wired to be on the lookout for...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🪞 Your Relationship with Meditation Reflects Your Relationship with Your Life So often we treat meditation—and our life—as something to “get right,” as though peace depends on achieving the perfect state. But real freedom arises when we allow ourselves and our life to be exactly as they are. “The real meditation practice is life itself … The real meditation practice never stops … The real meditation is how you live your life moment to moment.” — Jon...
2 months ago • 3 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 👑 When life becomes majestic again Beneath the busyness of thought and the struggles of daily life lies something we often forget: the sheer wonder of being alive. Mindfulness helps us return to this truth, not as an idea but as a direct experience of joy, intimacy and awe. “People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Dear...
3 months ago • 4 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🕊️ How Loss Reveals Freedom Everything changes and passes. When we are courageous enough to recognise this, it can be scary at first. But with mindfulness, compassion and patience we then discover a surprising freedom—the freedom to live with fresh eyes, to love more deeply, and to rest in the only certainty we ever have: this moment. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell Dear...
3 months ago • 3 min read