by Peter White | Jul 24, 2020
One of the wonderful aspects of becoming immersed in nature, whether that is a more conscious activity such as a NatureConnect session or simply a wander through a forest or along a beach, is its capacity to welcome you into the freedom to be, a quiet fascination of...
by Peter White | Aug 27, 2019
In my walks for connection, my walks for escaping, walks into beauty and splendour, walks with my sons, the most challenging barrier has tended to not be physical but mental. Even when my intent is to become calm and connected, it often takes longer than I expect to...
by Peter White | Aug 10, 2019
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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by Peter White | May 7, 2019
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...
by Peter White | Dec 28, 2018
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...
by Peter White | Dec 19, 2018
It can be difficult to step outside of my day-to-day mindset and see things around me anew, from a different perspective. Creature of habit, I might go for a bush walk intending to be mindful and after twenty minutes still not have shifted my mindset I had at home....
