It can feel difficult to wholeheartedly celebrate anything at the moment, humans are relational beings, we need each other to thrive, but Covid19, the climate crisis, systematic bias, inequity, are on a growing list of anxiety inducing triggers that all have the potential to make many of our essential life exchanges problematic.
There are many available forms of mindfulness and meditation, each with some variation to help us expand our consciousness and bring a sense of connectedness to our lives. Mindfulness and meditation is a universal practice to help ease mental, emotional and physical stress, the most valuable part is that it is freely available to everybody, suitable to everybody, and for the most part, just requires intention and breath, very little else! Here at The Possibility Project, we facilitate weekly meditation classes and our teachings are based on insight meditation. We take a topic of general interest, that is, a life theme that we might all associate with, we have a shared 'conversation' regarding how our conditioning, beliefs, cultures and customs might play...
Kim was awarded the Catherine McAuley Alumnae Award for 2020, this is part of her acceptance speech. We hope this serves as a reminder that often in the finding of one's purpose, one will naturally lose things too. It’s an honour to be here today and accept the Catherine McAuley Alumnae award, what a privilege to have so many of my wonderful friends from the class of 1985 here too, we had so many laughs over our six years, on the way in I joked with Sister Maria (Lawton) that it was nice to be back and not be in trouble, she quickly quipped it was nice to not have to dob me in! Needless to say I was a...
Finding my voice has been an essential movement of going within, to that voice inside, that voice that we are born with. Our inner voice can be ‘mis-taken’ by parents and siblings, our education, our jobs, our roles, our culture and even by our own unconscious selves. If you have a desire to find and use your true voice, try prayer and meditation. You have nothing more to lose.
