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Healing the wounds: my encounter with an Angophora tree

Healing the wounds: my encounter with an Angophora tree

When I do my own NatureConnect I tend to just walk slowly without much of a plan. I know that I have a suite of activities up my sleeve I can choose from when the right moment arises. Given the challenge of quietening my busy mind, often filled with anxieties,...

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Nourishing your journey to Wholeness: some reflections

Nourishing your journey to Wholeness: some reflections

My journey towards wholeness, like everyone else’s on this meandering, scrubby track, is a ‘work-in-progress’. In my dark moments I fall into self-judgment and feel like a Swiss cheddar cheese, filled with the gutted holes of negativity that I have sought...

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Coping with the bad news about Climate Emergency

Coping with the bad news about Climate Emergency

On the 28 May I attended a conference organised by the Uniting Church in North Parramatta around the psychological effects of the threat of the Climate Emergency (CE). It was an innovative, positive gathering of like-minded people concerned about our future and...

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Living the [mindful] moment of Love

Living the [mindful] moment of Love

I was reading the thoughts of an American Sufi mystic and writer Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee in his article in the Parabola journal, Living the Moment of Love. He speaks about practicing spirituality in this time of the “Great Forgetting”, the times of global environmental...

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Lessons in vulnerability & openness

Lessons in vulnerability & openness

During the final stage of a recent solo NatureConnect session in an intimate forest enclosed gully, I met a thick, gnarly old eucalypt quietly beckoning me. In my meditative state I was drawn to the gaping crevasse spreading up the trunk, my intrigue pouring into the...

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How does mindfulness cultivate a consciousness of connection?

How does mindfulness cultivate a consciousness of connection?

Mindfulness has been used in various contexts – spiritual, psychological and therapeutic - to refer to a contemplative technique of taking a non-judgmental approach to observing the flow of experience within each moment. As well as technique, it can be used to...

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