evolution +

Shhhh....secret womens business

2012-08-03T08:48:00.001+10:00

It's not often I come across a blog article that I just want to reprint in its entirety, but this is one.

Sensible advice you wish you'd known when you were 20.

Unsolicited advice for women!

Check it out girls.

(And a good read for the blokes too...)

The getting of Winter Wisdom

2012-06-19T10:06:00.002+10:00

Brew me a cup for a winter's night. 

For the wind howls loud and the furies fight; 

Spice it with love and stir it with care, 

And I'll toast our bright eyes, 

my sweetheart fair. 

~Minna Thomas Antrim

As winter howls and fights outside I can feel my attention turning to my interior spaces. I don’t love Winter. I need to work very hard to find its benefit. Summer just rushes at me like a fluffy puppy, all bouncy and easy to love. But Winter grows on me slowly. Like a mould that turns the cheese to blue. It all seems a bit unsavoury in the beginning, but when its work is done Winter blooms with a pungency that Summer just can’t match.

Winter requires me to go below the surface and ask the deeper questions I guess. Wisdom seems more accessible. Quick fixes are out….conscious, considered choices made over a warm brew with an old friend are in. I had just such a conversation with my old friend Rita Young last week. I’ve know Rita for 20 years, but over a cup of tea I asked her how she came to this work in the first place. And her answers took me to a deeper understanding of my own choices. Beautiful.

Here's the conversation in full for those of you who enjoy the getting of wisdom:

Jo: "So as a woman whose life revolves deeply around consciousness and making a positive impact in the world…. and its clearly not a whim for you…

Rita: (laughs) No it's not a whim..

Jo: …. how did that sensibility in you grow? Was there a moment of awakening? Did you learn that way of being from your parents?

Rita: I think because there was considerable trauma in my parent’s life, they tried not to pass it on to the next generation. They withheld emotionally from themselves. Not with us, with us they were very protective and loving. But with themselves.…I think they decided that they couldn’t bear it. They couldn’t bear any more pain. And I don’t blame them for that. I think they made very wise and noble choices. But I guess I recognised that I wanted to be fully awake as a result of that. No withhold.

Jo: And that set you on the path?

Rita: Well yes – but it was a long and winding path! I remember a time when I was at University and deeply unhappy. I learnt a Mindfulness technique way back then that woke me up to the realisation that I could heal myself in ways that my parents simply couldn’t…

Jo: That’s a powerful realisation – that we have outgrown our parents in some way.

Rita: Yes. (pauses and thinks….) They tried so hard to keep me away from pain….but of course as Rumi says “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” I try not to turn away from the wound. Wound to my ego, hurt feelings…that’s where I practise resilience…..

Jo: I read an article recently that criticised Mindfulness Training because it runs the risk of encouraging participants to suppress valid emotions. Have you seen people use the technique as a way to control valid emotions?

Rita: Hmmm…. I think Mindfulness is actually the opposite of suppression. It’s about riding the waves of all the available sensations, emotions, stories…. it’s about resting back into awareness of all of it, the good and the bad. Because everything changes moment to moment. We think that we will be stuck in an emotion or thought or a painful feeling but impermanence takes care of that!

The Dalai Lama said pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. He told the story of the 2 arrows. Have you heard the story of the 2 arrows?

Jo: I don’t think so….

Rita: You can get hit by the first arrow. And it’s painful. That’s life, its full of barbs and things that can pierce the skin. But the second arrow? That’s the suffering that is optional. That’s the part where you moan and wail and make meaning that may not be useful “ Why me?.... “ Why did this happen to me?!” or “They are really out to get me.” Or “ I’m so vulnerable.” That part is optional. So we learn to let that pass without pushing that second arrow deep into our psyche. The first arrow is inevitable. The second arrow isn’t.

Jo: So I’m sitting here now wondering whether this practice is better for people who have something fresh or current to work with – some wound, or stress, or grief. Is that accurate?

Rita: Yes and No. (smiles) Knowing that you have some stress or anxiety or sadness to work with is a great place to start. But don’t wait til you get there before you start to train. Mindfulness is a practice… a training practice. We train and keep coming back to the moment, over and over again, because as Jon Kabat–Zinn says – better to sew your parachute before you need it to jump out of a plane.

Or a long time before – even better.”

And she finished with one of those big smiles that manages to get inside you and make the stressed places relax just a little bit. Clearly a woman who practises what she preaches.

Rita has been a Somatic Psychotherapist in private practice for 18 years. She teaches the MBSR Mindfulness program kicking off on Thursday July 19th.

Click here for more information http://www.keepevolving.com.au/mbsr.html

Or just come along and meet her in person at the free intro night on Thursday June 21st. http://tastymindfulness.eventbrite.com/?ebtv=C

Happy evolving everyone - even in the slower, deeper interior spaces that Winter invites!

Falling in Love with your life!

2012-05-07T14:56:00.000+10:00

Do you remember what it was like to fall in love?

It’s some of the best times in a person’s life.

You can’t wait until the next time you are with your loved one
You can spend hours on the phone talking about almost anything
You experience a new vitality and you have heaps of energy
You find your new loved one endlessly fascinating – how they do things differently from you, their history, their aspirations, and their quirky habits are all sources of wonderment
Inhibitions melt away
Life becomes engaging, fun and a great adventure
Your normal preponderance to judge, criticize and complain see to have evaporated into thin air and there is a new sense of tolerance and acceptance that previously had not existed at all
Life is full of optimism and new possibilities
You are open to things that previously we would have pulled away from
In short, life is good and you are happy

So how come life is so good when you’re falling in love, and less so the rest of the time? What is it that makes the difference?

The key is in your heart, or to put it more precisely, the key is that you are willing to engage in life with your heart open.

Our Reactive Self, the collection of beliefs, assumptions and attitudes we have developed over time as to who we are and how the world is, tends to be based in our head. Whereas the Creative Self, our authentic self, is based more in the Heart.

The Heart is a fascinating organ – so much more than a pump. It is where who we really are resides. It is the source of our courage, our passion for life, our love, caring and compassion… indeed all those things that we suddenly can access so richly when our hearts open when we fall in love.

Unfortunately, as we go through life it’s quite normal for our Heart to get wounded along the way, and if we are not careful we will close down access to our heart in self-protection – a wise thing to do when we are around people who may take advantage of an open heart. However, it’s all too easy to keep that door to our hearts locked shut in self-preservation and the cost is missing out on a life full of heart-felt adventures, warmth and connection.

The great challenge therefore as we continue our lives back into our Creative Self is to learn how to rest back into our hearts, develop a strong and resilient relationship with our heart, so it can still protect itself when it needs to, but so it can also openly embrace life fully when the threats are not present.

That’s what the purpose of The Compassionate Heart Workshop is all about. Learning how to reconnect back to the Heart, how to drop back into its warm embrace and to rediscover that when we do, judgement drops away, right/wrong dynamics drop away, acceptance re-asserts itself and all of a sudden we have fallen in love with Life again.

So, if you're looking for a bit more Heart in your Life, wanting to learn more about accessing the heart, meditating with the Heart, letting go of the past, and you're up for falling in love all over again, come and join us on The Compassionate Heart workshop. Your Heart will never forget it.

The Compassionate Heart Workshop is a Workshop for those wanting more Heart in their lives. It is facilitated by StJohn and Alexia Miall and being held in Sydney starting on Friday 18^th May. For more information and registrations, click here.

Some Reflections on Taking a Stand

2012-04-03T10:39:00.001+10:00

About a year ago I had that niggling feeling in my gut – you know the one (maybe it’s a voice in your head) – that was telling me that it was time for another spiritual growth spurt, time to answer look at my life and were it was heading (or not heading as it were the case).

I knew that this next growth spurt would be a little scary, sometimes confronting, a step out of my comfort zone and life changing. How big the growth spurt would be, and whether I got the answers I was searching for I wasn’t sure, but I trusted that both St John and Jo would create a safe and loving environment in the “Take a Stand” (TAS) course for these learnings to occur and life changes to take place.

Little did I know a year ago how far I would come or how big those learnings would be…

Throughout TAS lessons were delivered with heart, humour and allowed a light to shine on issues to be resolved. And of course, there was the occasional ‘penny dropping’ moments. Ones that, on the outside are seemingly obvious and easy to “get”, but they were the ones that made the biggest impact. They dropped in cascading fashion (kind of like the tears of relief that flowed) and lead to a life-changing “Taking a Stand” on Sunday. A stand that had ripple effects into all aspects of my life, and a year later, continues to ripple.

Throughout the course and the Café weeks that followed, the service team that held the space, my fellow course travellers, St John and Jo were all there to congratulate, affirm and point out the good (when I didn’t see it), and support and provide feedback when things looked like they weren’t travelling so well.

The Café provided invaluable space to share my winnings, reflect on not winnings and remind myself when things got lonely and tough that there were others travelling the road of growth and having their challenges, and that I wasn’t in this on my own.

What’s happened since I “Took a Stand”?

Well, the biggest thing is that I like myself.

From that, I had the courage to set my career on a path that I am passionate about. During my coaching session with St John 9 months ago I set an intention to be massaging full time by Easter, seeing 20 clients a week, and guess what – 2 weeks before Easter I was brave and started massaging full time*. I’m not at 20 clients a week yet, BUT I’m half way there with consistently rising client numbers and I’m confident (and re-set the number of client intention) that I’ll be seeing 20 clients a week consistently by EOFY 2012.

Not every question I walked into TaS was answered then and there, but the answers came in unexpected ways.

Jo and St John have created an amazingly wonderful, fantastic, beautiful (I could go on) course that will, if you are wrestling with challenges and are looking for answers or solutions, provide an environment to explore these and to grow into the best version of you.

Kati Koreneff

* What Kati didn't mention was she was caught in an income trap - She couldn't see how she could afford to give up her current job and survive while she built up her massage business. It's a common problem for therapists and other practitioners who want to set up business for themselves. However, having set herself her goal, all sorts of events, all seemingly too unlikely and unexpected, conspired to support her in making the transition without too much financial anxiety. Once again this is testament to the strategy of keeping your eye on the goal and not on the reasons why you can't have it can make all the difference. Bravo Kati!

The next Take a Stand program starts on Wednesday 11th April. Click here for details

You know when you are coming from your Creative when...

2012-03-27T11:12:00.000+11:00

You realise it's time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change or for someone else to speak up. You suddenly realise that it is you who has the missing opinion, information or viewpoint that is required.
You stop complaining and blaming other people for the things they did to you. You stop judging and pointing fingers and you begin to accept people as they are. You recognise their shortcomings and human frailties and support them in doing the best that they can with the skills and resources at their disposal.
You learn to look at relationships as they really are and not as you would have them be. You stop trying to control people, situations and outcomes.
You awaken to the fact that you are not perfect and that not everyone will always love, appreciate or approve of everything you say or do... and that's OK.
You learn that people don't always say what they mean or mean what they say. So you learn to question rather than assume… and in the process a sense of safety and security is born of self-reliance.
You learn to admit when you are wrong and to build bridges instead of walls.
You learn that you don't know everything, it's not your job to save the world and that you can't teach a pig to sing. You learn the importance of setting boundaries and learning to say NO. You learn that the only cross to bear is the one you choose to carry and that martyrs get burned at the stake.
You also stop working so hard at putting your feelings aside, smoothing things over and ignoring your needs. You learn that feelings of anxiety, frustration and resentment are perfectly OK as long as they are well managed. Sometimes they are the motivation for pushing back appropriately, managing client expectations responsibly or requiring more from direct reports.
You learn the only thing you must truly fear is the greatest robber baron of all: FEAR itself. You learn to step right into and through your fears because you know that whatever happens you can handle it and to give in to fear is to give away the right to exhibit leadership on your own terms.
You learn that principles such as honesty and integrity are not the outdated ideals of a by-gone era but the mortar that holds together the foundation upon which you must build a team, an organization, a life.
You realise that being at work is the most astonishing opportunity to grow your capacities and skills. It gives you the opportunity to grow a mighty oak from a tiny acorn.
And so work becomes far more interesting and engaging. There are still times when you feel anxious, frustrated or stressed. But you also notice that these feelings pale into insignificance when placed alongside your achievements and outcomes. You enjoy growing your own skills, but even more so the skills of others. Passing on your wisdom becomes primary and vital to your vocation. You love the experience of authoring your own destiny. You see daily that your efforts and unique contributions make a difference which leaves you feeling personally fulfilled and professionally satisfied.

Adapted from The Awakening by Sonny Carroll

The Purpose of our Take a Stand program is to teach people the skills involved in coming from the Creative. For details, visit our website: www.keepevolving.com.au or download a brochure.

2012-02-10T12:05:00.000+11:00

Stumbled across this exquisite poem by David Wagoner today.

It's a funny thing... this notion of being lost – it is a rare and precious ability. It makes you pay attention and re-set your evolutionary sails.

Must get lost more often.

Lost

Stand still.

The trees ahead and bushes beside you

Are not lost.

Wherever you are is called Here,

And you must treat it as a powerful stranger.

Must ask permission to know it and be known.

The forest breathes. Listen.

It answers, I have made this place around you

If you leave it you may come back again,

saying Here.

No two trees are the same to Raven.

No two branches are the same to Wren.

If what a tree or bush does is lost on you,

You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows

Where you are.

You must let it find you.

- David Wagoner

2011-11-25T15:28:00.001+11:00

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

And here's my quick list:

I am thankful for all my courseroom buddies over the years. For everyone who has joined me in the quest for wisdom, compassion and authentic power. I am thankful that there is a group of people out there who are bonded in the truest sense of the word because of those experiences. Who want what is best for each other. Who can be present with each other in tough times and vulnerable times. And who have a plethora of stories to tell about tissues and issues in various courses that will evoke smiles and chortles and the odd unstoppable belly laugh. May we cherish those experiences forever.

I am thankful for my work. It is challenging and brain-befuddling and emotionally unbinding – but I really wouldn’t choose any other way to make a living. Even on those days when I’m quite sure that working in a pickle factory seems like a much more sensible choice.

I am thankful for my family. Obviously.

I am thankful for a nice glass of wine at about 5pm on a day that’s not going the way I want it to. I am thankful for cornchips….that add just the right amount of chippiness to the glass of wine…rendering all things quite bearable again.

Hmmm…so many things in that category actually. Cups of tea. Chocolate icecream cakes with chocolate freckles between the layers and fresh choc dipped strawberries on the top. Good Movies. Good Books. Etc : )

And lastly..I am thankful for Thanksgiving. What a genius idea, to devote one entire day to the notion of generosity.

Happy Thanksgiving to all the evolutionary Warriors out there. Big cheers!

There's a Crack in Everything...

2011-09-24T11:52:00.000+10:00

I have been deeply touched by a video from one of Leonard Cohen's concerts.

The song, 'Anthem', is one of my favourite songs of all time for it's hope and it's recognition and acceptance that we are all flawed in one way or another.

"There's a crack in everything,

That's how the light get's in."

What really got to me however, and brought tears to my eyes, was the dignity, humbleness and deep, deep respect that he shows towards his band as he introduces and thanks each of them in turn at the end of the song.

This depth of respect is so rare in modern life.

It's now on my list of things to continue to work with.

Unfortunately, YouTube won't let us embed this video, however click here to view it.

Enjoy...

Wishful thinking?

2011-09-09T11:01:00.000+10:00

My good friend Robert Prinable mentioned in his recent blog posting "Knowledge kills Magic!"

http://www.vitallyme.com/blog/

Got me thinking.

I've always loved the idea of magic. Loved the idea that there is something quite evolved about crossing the threshold between the actual and the possible. When we wish upon a star we step back into a world that exists separately to the daily grind. Suddenly there is this tiny shaft of light that pierces the day-to-day continuum and reminds us that we are more than just a blob of matter trudging off to work everyday. We're also this glorious shining pool of energy that transcends our skin and can quite literally touch the Divine.

I think I've spent my life looking for those places where the veil between the day-to-day and the Divine was at its thinnest. There are places where the membrane is stretched tight....and if you know how to push against it (oh so gently) then you tumble into this other world where anything is possible. Where everything is utterly OK right now. You are in the right place at the right time and you stop being anxious about the future or regretful about the past.

Magic.

When I was little it was all about wishing. Throw a coin into a pool of water and make a wish as you hear the satisfying 'plink' noise the coin makes when it pierces the membrane between air and water.

When I started personal growth work it was those moments in a course-room when I was allowed to cry and cry til I had cried enough....and sank into that lovely healing space knowing that the team around me would be there to pick up the tissues.

I noticed it when I gave birth to my two (darling, delicious, divine) children. The veil between life and death was at its tightest at that moment and the experience was so vivid that I can feel a wash of the sacred even as I picture it.

But Robert Prinable's right. As we grow we find it more challenging to pierce that veil. Because grownups don't make wishes. They make plans. Because the astonishing things we accomplish with our left brains (science, technology, bridges, roads...) (...the aquaduct!) rise above us in monolithic proportions.

And I do value what my intellect and my capacity to plan has done for me. I feed my children, I pay my mortgage, I build courses and plan curriculums with my knowledge. And I have built a tangible, measurable body of work where others have spent a lot of time wishing and not quite enough time getting off their butts and making stuff happen.

So I think I'm up for another upping of the ante on this one. I have upped the ante before...and no doubt I will again...but for now I make this wish:

I wish for more magic. I wish for more experiences of piercing the veil, and more capacity to notice it happening. And I promise to continue to plan and strategise so that I can keep creating places where others can do the same.

Amen : )

Useful Meditation Apps

2011-08-12T12:17:00.005+10:00

There are some wonderful Apps now available to support you in your meditation practice. here's a few that I like:

Insight Timer

Available for I-Pad, I-Phone and Android

This is a wonderful App from Spotlight Six Software for those who like to keep track of your Meditations. If you are a therapist, masseur or some other healer, it's also a really nice way to time your sessions and gently let your client know that the session is coming to an end.

It has some lovely bells to start and finish your meditation in the gentlest of ways, and you can set the length of your meditation for whatever period you like. You can even set interval bells for meditations that have different phases to them or just as a mindfulness reminder to bring you back into the present if you have a tendency to wander off in your meditation.

Another great feature is the bells will ring, even if your phone is set to ‘silent’ so you don’t have to worry about any irritating phone calls whilst you are using the app during your meditation.

But it is so much more than just a meditation timer.

Quite often I will have wonderfully creative ideas during Meditation, that if not captured either after or even during the meditation, can drift back off into the ether never to be recovered. Insight Timer has that covered as it has a journal attached that you can use to capture any insights, ideas or revelations immediately after your meditation.

It also keeps a record of when and for how long you have meditated which can also be a useful thing. It’s quite interesting to be able to note the correlations of what’s happening in your life generally against the regularity of your meditation practice. For me, things always seem to be working better when I’m meditating regularly.

The graphics are very smart, navigation is easy and intuitive, and there are quite a lot of extras you can do like choose your own picture to have on the screen while you are meditating.

I give this App 5 stars.

Relaxing Sounds of Nature

Whilst not formally a ‘Meditation’ App this is a great App fpor those who like to be ‘meditated,’ using the latest technology.

There’s a heaps of these ‘relaxation’ apps available, most of which have sounds of birdsong, crickets, rain on a tin roof, waves etc, but Relaxing sounds of Nature is pretty sophisticated in that it allows you to:

Mix 70 beautiful nature sounds (including 2 sets of Aussie birdsong) with 96 other relaxations sounds and music, including bells, windchimes, chanting, zen flutes etc.
All sounds have their own individual volume controls, so you can make up mixes just the way you want.
Save mixes that you particularly like.
Set a timer, or have it fade out as an aid to gently falling to sleep at night, or even use it as an alarm clock for a soothing start to the day.
There’s even some nice lullaby tunes for using with kids that are reluctant to fall asleep.
Included are brain-wave entrainment tones for Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta, if you are wanting to explore and develop different brain-wave states.
Can be played whilst using other apps
You can even mix the sounds of nature with tracks form your own iTunes library!

Free for the lite version, but only .99c full the full version - great value for money.

Five stars for this one too.

Just on this theme of Nature Sounds, below is an interesting TED Talk by Julian Treasure on Sound Health, which includes a section on healthy things to listen to that support good hearing and good health.

If you have some favourite apps that support your personal evolution, then please let us know... we're always on the lookout for good ones to share with people.
Thanks
StJohn

Permission to be Big

2011-07-28T10:26:00.001+10:00

the world was made to be free in.

Give up all other worlds

except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet

confinement of your aloneness to learn

anything or anyone that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.

David Whyte, poet

“Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you”

What a statement!

I love David Whyte. He makes me think. And feel. And feel what I’m thinking about… and think about what I’m feeling. Genius.

What this snippet does for me is send me into a lovely scatter of thoughts and feelings. Even watching myself have that response to his ideas is fascinating – like a pianist suddenly moving from Beethoven to Jazz. All of a sudden my nicely organised worldview gets shaken up…and I have to improvise instead of falling back on what I know to be true.

I find myself interpreting that line as permission to cut free all experiences and friendships that don’t really serve me.

Then I wonder about the lack of compassion that seems to imply. What? – am I to discard all old friends that I have grown bigger than? Seems a bit heartless.

Then I settle back into the notion that sometimes the recognition that I am bigger (more evolved) than someone or something is enough. Sometimes I actually need to take ownership of all the work I’ve done these past 20 years and recognize that others haven’t had the opportunities, the education, the loving support of wise teachers that I have had. It's easy to forget that for me. (Rampant Narcissism of course – the rest of the world should have the same worldview, skills and capability I have apparently.)

But they don’t.

And its good to remind myself that being bigger is sometimes enough. And when it’s not – when the small mean spiritedness and egoic bullshit of others is actually diminishing me…its OK to move away.

Sometimes I even do it gracefully.

Onward and upward,

Here at Keep Evolving we have adopted David Whyte as our Poet Laureate. Well worth exploring if you’ve not experienced his astonishing talent.

http://www.davidwhyte.com

Women who Workshop

2011-06-29T16:04:00.000+10:00

Stumbled across this delicious poem today. You may find the heroine of the piece strangely familiar...

Women Who Workshop
A scarf from India
A top that's Loose around the Middle
Very, very, very Sensible Shoes
And an Unceasingly Kind expression
(The uniform of individuality).

You, the Bright-Eyed.
You, the Generous volunteer.
You, still working out That Stuff with your dad.
In hotel ballrooms and
Church basements and
Yoga studios and
Campgrounds and
Korean spas and
Montana ranches, Bahamian Beaches and the
Herbalist's office

You are becoming.
It's so becoming.
You, becoming.

And you've learned to
Bring a sweater and a
Thermos of hot water and
Lots of extra tissues.

You have stood in a circle
You have lain prostrate
Your bookshelf groans with
Helping Insightful Books and
Your Journals burst with line
After line
Documenting

Your becoming.
You're becoming.
You are becoming.

Sensual
Intellectual
Hard-headed
Tender-hearted
(so tender-hearted)
With your Full-Moon Necklace and your
Chakra-Balancing Necklace and the
Beautiful Gold Ring that you
Hand-forged in that Post-Divorce Workshop
Out of the engagement ring from your First Marriage and the
Wedding band from your Second
Now you marry only yourself.

Standing before your Altar
You promise to
Love
Honor and
Cherish
Yourself
From this day forward.

You recognize that some might call it an
Indulgence
To spend time and money on
The Issues That Challenge You.
But those people can screw off (compassionately)
Because the Rush of
Self-realization when you finally put That Betrayal behind you
The poem you wrote about your daughter that
Still makes you cry

(And OK, fine - that delirious eight-day affair with that Yoga Guy -
Sweet Heaven he was gorgeous - and so bendy - )

Cannot be matched by anything that can be
Found inside your own condo.

You have found freedom.
You have healed your Inner Child and
Embraced your Inner Queen.
You are even developing a side-long glance
Relationship with the word "Crone."
You are curious - becoming - laughing - becoming - stretching -
Because as the wise woman said If You Stop Stretching You Die - sharing -
Because that's what Heaven's Children do -

Rejoicing in your growing awareness that no Workshop Intensive
In the world is better than your own becoming
Coming to be.

© 2011 Samantha Bennett
www.TheOrganizedArtistCompany.com

God bless us all, we women who workshop! May we become and become and become...

Jo

Nurse reveals the top 5 regrets people make on their deathbed

2011-06-21T15:47:00.001+10:00

I recently read this blog by Bronnie Ware (who worked for years nursing the dying). It saddened me deeply, and I wondered if more people read it, then perhaps they would take some action so that they didn't experience the same regrets when they were dying. I hope so.

1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people have had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made.

It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way. From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it.

2. I wish I didn't work so hard.

This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Women also spoke of this regret. But as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.

By simplifying your lifestyle and making conscious choices along the way, it is possible to not need the income that you think you do. And by creating more space in your life, you become happier and more open to new opportunities, ones more suited to your new lifestyle.

3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.

Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.

We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly,in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life. Either way, you win.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

Often they would not truly realise the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved.Everyone misses their friends when they are dying.
It is common for anyone in a busy lifestyle to let friendships slip.But when you are faced with your approaching death, the physical details of life fall away. People do want to get their financial affairs in order if possible. But it is not money or status that holds the true importance for them. They want to get things in order more for the benefit of those they love. Usually though, they are too ill and weary to ever manage this task. It is all comes down to love and relationships in the end. That is all that remains in the final weeks, love and relationships.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called 'comfort' of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content. When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have sillyness in their life again.
When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again, long before you are dying.

I first read this in the Observer August 2010 but have since found a link to the post on her website: http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html

One of the reasons why we run the programs we do at Keep Evolving is so people can start to take action now, so they don't have these regrets when they die.

The Next Evolving Self Program (which is all about learning how to do these 5 things) starts on July 6 in Sydney. To find out more, go to:

http://www.keepevolving.com.au/evolvingself.html

Seize the day!

StJohn

It's Just a Step...

2011-06-08T21:38:00.001+10:00

The shift from Reactive to Creative is one of the most important evolutionary steps a person can take in their life. And yet it's just a series of steps really.

What do I mean by Reactive and Creative?

By Reactive I am referring to our need to take things ‘out there’ as our reference point in life and respond accordingly. So if we are a complying sort of person, if someone barks “Jump!” we ask “how high?” and then we jump. Similarly, if we have a rebellious streak in us and someone barks “Jump!”, we are likely to say something along the lines of “Get lost. No one tells me to jump anywhere!”.

These responses look very different, but what they do have in common, is that they are both reacting to an external stimulus.

On our programs we identify three main flavours in which we can play out literally hundreds of Reactive responses. These are Controlling (I’ll take charge, thank you), Complying (I’ll do whatever you want, as long as you’ll like me and approve of me), and Protecting (I’ll use my superior intellect to prove that I’m better or smarter than you and thereby keep you and the feelings of involvement at a safe distance).

All of these Reactive ways of being in the world have their own underlying fears that keeps them firmly in place as we go through life, whether it be a fear of being out of control or powerless, or a fear of being rejected and unaccepted, or maybe a fear of being seen as stupid and not good enough.

To operate from the Creative in your life, means that you have the ability to assess what is the most appropriate and beneficial thing to be doing in any situation, and you have the capacity to make that choice, even if you feel it might take you out of control or you might not be liked by others involved. Where the reactive response is an outside-in response, the creative is inside-out. Ultimately comine from the Creative means you are in charge of your life, you are willing to take responsibility for your responses and you are creative source for your life. Autonomy and authenticity are the rewards.

Now the distinctions between Reactive and Creative ways of operating in the world are not that difficult for people to grasp. Indeed we cover it in an hour or so on the first evening of ‘The Evolving Self’ program. Understanding it is not the problem. It’s learning how to ‘do’ it, or perhaps to be more accurate, how to ‘be’ it, that takes a bit more learning.

The challenge is not only how to change the habits of a lifetime, and we all know how difficult it is to give up the habits we have identified as not being useful any more, but we have to develop some new skills, some new perspectives on life and have guidance while we first put them into place.

And that’s what we do on ‘The Evolving Self’. Equip you for the journey as you master your reactivity and let your creativity emerge. On the program we do this by developing three inter-related sets of lifeskills.

Spine.
By Spine we are talking about courage, strength and persistence. The courage to step ot of old comfortable patterns to try new approaches and to confront situations where you know that you really need to set some boundaries and say ’no’ occasionally. The courage, strength and persistence to stick with it, to do the things that previously got tossed in the ‘too hard’ basket, to have the difficult conversations that you have been avoiding and to go the extra mile when you feel like giving up.

Heart.
Heart is developing the caring, compassion and empathy to interact with others in ways that build, confirm and heal relationships through care and respect. To be able to do this, we need to work very closely with our own self-care, self-compassion and self-kindness. As we learn to treat ourselves with care and respect, to not push ourselves too hard and to tame our own self-critic, we become more understanding, caring and compassionate towards others. We also learn how to develop the skills to say the difficult things in a way that they are not heard as criticism or judgement.

Wisdom.
Part of being wise is knowing when to fight for something you feel is important and when to let go. Developing this wisdom is a key part of the journey, and is best achieved through allocating time each day to withdraw from the coal-face for a while to reflect on your life, your needs, your values and your strategies. Managing your stress levels is key. It is almost impossible to come from the Creative place inside when you are anxious, cranky, irritable, over-tired and under pressure. So, on the program we learn how to calm. We also learn about how to manage our brain and thinking patterns in ways that will support the shift from Reactive to Creative.

There is so much more to evolving out of the Reactive and into the Creative than just understanding a few concepts… the team behind ‘The Evolving Self’ have between them spent well over 100 years exploring, learning, experimenting, studying and practicing the reactive/creative steps and we’ve pulled the best of what we have learned together into this program.

On the workshop we teach specific skills designed to develop Spine, Heart and Wisdom and then guide and coach during the following twelve-week on-line community coaching program whilst these skills are honed and further developed.

Judging by the response we’ve had from the participants of the first program, it’s working well.

Inside all of us there is a yearning to make this leap into the Creative. All we need is a little guidance and a great big dollop of encouragement and we’re off. One step at a time.

Follow the link if you feel you're ready to take your next step and want to find out more… the next course starts on July 6.
www.keepevolving.com.au/evolvingself.html

Mr Curly's Reply

2011-04-11T04:30:00.000+10:00

Here is Mr Curly's reply to Vasco Pyjama's letter (posted in this blog on April 7 as "The Writings of Michael Leunig")

Dear Vasco,

In response to your question “What is worth doing and what is worth having?” I would like to say simply this. It is worth doing nothing and having a rest; inspite of all the difficulty it may cause, you must rest Vasco – otherwise you will become RESTLESS!

I believe the world is sick with exhaustion and dying of restlessness. While it is true that periods of weariness help the spirit to grow, the prolonged, ongoing state of fatigue to which our world seems to be rapidly adapting is ultimately soul destroying as well as earth destroying. The ecology of evil flourishes and love cannot take rest in this sad situation. Tiredness is one of our strongest, most noble and instructive feelings. It is an important aspect of our CONSCIENCE and must be heeded or else we will not survive. When you are tired you must have that feeling and you must act upon it sensibly – you must rest like the trees and the animals do.

Yet tiredness has become a matter of shame! This is a dangerous development. Tiredness has become the most suppressed feeling in the world. Everywhere we see people overcoming their exhaustion and pushing on with intensity – cultivating the great mass mania which all around is making life so hard and ugly – so cruel and meaningless – so utterly graceless – and being congratulated for overcoming it and pushing it deep down inside themselves as if it were a virtue to do this. And of course Vasco, you know what happens when such strong and natural feelings are denied – they turn into the most powerful and bitter poisons with dreadful consequences and then wonder why we are so unhappy.

So I gently urge you Vasco, do as we do in Curly Flat – learn to curl up and rest – feel your noble tiredness – learn about it and make a generous place for it in your life and enjoyment wil lsurely follow. I repeat: it’s worth doing nothing and having a good rest.

Yours sleepily,

Mr Curly xxx

Validation

2011-04-08T20:54:00.000+10:00

It's been around for a while, but this video is a classic. Please make the time to watch it all....

The Writings of Michael Leunig

2011-04-07T10:11:00.001+10:00

Whenever I am feeling like I am losing connection with the deeper, spiritual, divine part of life I turn to Michael Leunig, one of Australia's living treasures. Leunig is well known for his whimsical and insightful cartoons, but perhaps slightly less well known for his writing.

Over the months to come I will share some of what I think are his most inspired writings for your contemplation.

The first is from "The Curly Pyjama Letters". These letters are a small fragment of the vast correspondence known to have taken place between lone voyager Vasco Pyjama and his friend and mentor Mr Curly of Curly Flat.

It is generally accepted, that Mr Curly still lives somewhere by the shores of Lake Lacuna near Curly Flat where, amongst other pursuits, he is actively and passionately absorbed in matters of horticulture, birdwatching, music and winemaking. His wines from the Curly Flat vineyard are legendary for the gentleness, cheerfulness and lyricism of their intoxication. Domestic contentment and ease with the natural world appear to be Mr Curly’s major attributes or achievements – but not at the expense of an expressive and spirited personal style.

Vasco Pyjama probably started his life in Curly Flat, where the great friendship began, but his searching and restless nature has compelled him into his great voyage of discovery – the circumnavigation of his own world. In the company of his direction-finding duck (a sort of living compass which, according to Vasco, ‘always points towards new joys’), he has left his home and wandered far and wide into his uncharted world, risking, finding, enjoying and observing much. He is clearly the more troubled and vulnerable of the two; more easily shaken and bruised; more prone to self-doubt, disillusionment or spiritual intoxication – and perhaps possessed of a lonelier, more ecstatic vision.

Here is a letter from Vasco, clearly disturbed by the current state of the world, to his friend Mr Curly;

Dear Mr Curly,
I hope you are well. I’m still wandering far and wide, looking at the world, and now I realise and sort of accept that I am observing and am part of a world which is dying. This is certainly a sad understanding and seems to imply that life is not worth living but, strangely, that is not how I feel. The vital question now seems to be- shall our dear old earth die badly or well? This matters, I think, and seems to be worth working with and struggling with: how do we attend the dying earth? It seems peculiar to be grieving about a death which has not yet occurred and very confusing to mourn ahead of time but this seems a wise and proper thing to learn about because there will be no possibility of a requiem after the event; no fine words or music, and no tears – all those things which can help make sense of death and sweeten it. Perhaps, little by little, we can start doing this already: perhaps a cheerful vase of daffodils can also be, sometimes, a small wreath. We need to be careful however – and gentle too because what bothers me most is the feelings of the innocent children. Their hearts are not ready for such burdens. So how do we proceed with them? How do we be with them? I must say that when I am amongst them I can only feel that all shall be well and I accept this happiness as a simple pleasure, but when they depart I grow troubled and sad.

How we have wallowed too deeply in the history of man’s inhumanity to man – the endless stories of “who did what to whom” and how little we have known or cared or understood about man’s cruel persecution of nature, the animals and the earth. Already the holocaust is well in motion and, as with the approaches of all those other great tragedies and holocausts – even when the writing is on the wall – we act as if the worst is not going to happen. In the light odf this, Curly, I ask you as I ask myself each morning, “WHAT IS WORTH DOING AND WHAT IS WORTH HAVING?”
These are big questions and I am curious about your answers. I look forward to hearing from you.

For the time being I have my faith and I am doing what I can.
Your cheerfully and entirely seriously

Vasco Pyjama xxx

We will publish Mr Curly's reply in due course.

In the meantime, it would be a worthy thing to contemplate the questions Vasco poses: “WHAT IS WORTH DOING AND WHAT IS WORTH HAVING?”

And if you feel sufficiently moved, why not share your thoughts and feelings in the comments section below.

StJohn

Creating Oneself

2011-03-29T08:17:00.000+11:00

This writing, from the Positive Thoughts blog, describes well what it means to move from a Reactive perspective to a Creative one... something that not many adults achieve... This shift, from Reactive to Creative is central to The Evolving Self program starting on April 27, where we explore what it means, but more importantly, we explore and practice the skills on how to do it.

When children learn that giving is more rewarding than taking; when they learn that they can't control everything, but they are masters of their own souls; when they learn to accept people whose difference they fear, and that pleasure is found in the power in helping others; when they learn that the value of one's life is best measured not by possession acquired, but by wisdom shared, hope inspired, tears wiped, and hearts touched; when they learn that happiness and lasting contentment are not to be found in what a person has, but in what he or she is; when they learn to withhold judgment of people, knowing that everyone is blessed with good and bad qualities; when they learn that every person has been given the gift of a unique self and the purpose of life is to share the very best of that gift with the world. . . . When children learn these ideals, they will no longer be children--they will be blessings to those who know them, and worthy models for all the world's children.

David L. Weatherford

To exist is to change, to change is to mature,
to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Berson

For Details of The Evolving Self Program click here.

Waking Up The Workplace

2011-03-27T10:05:00.001+11:00

Hi

I've just come across a new webinar series called Waking Up the Workplace in which luminaries from the world of personal and organisational evolution are exploring the dynamics of workplace transformation.

This is the sort of work that the Corporate arm of Keep Evolving is really passionate about. http://www.keepevolving.com.au/corporateprograms.html

It looks like it will be a fascinating series, and better still, it's free! To register, see below.
All the best
StJohn

About the Waking up the Workplace series:

Business is one of the most powerful forces in the modern world. And yet work is usually seen as a method solely for making money. Why is business falling short of its potential to create truly global change in the way that we live and work?

What would happen if we saw the business of work, not just as a means for trade and profit, but as a vehicle for realizing our deepest human potentials in a conscious and creative transformation?

This is the question at the heart of the ‘Waking up the Workplace’ series. We invite you to join the conversation and help transform business into an expression of sustainable change in the world.

During the series you can discover answers to the following questions:

How can we design the workplace as a vehicle for transformation?

How can business include our human passions and purpose and yet retain its practical productivity?

What are the most powerful and cutting-edge tools available to transform business?

How can we step into the role of conscious and powerful agents of change?

What is conscious leadership, and how do we use it to transform the way we do business?

What kind of workplace do we need to truly address the problems of the 21^st century?

Participation is free:

We’re so passionate about the series that we’ve made sure that you can participate completely for FREE. All you need is a telephone or internet connection to be able to:

Contribute to the global conversation with world-leading experts
Learn powerful conscious business tools to bring to your own work
Participate in a community of international conscious business practitioners
Help transform the way the world does business!

By registering you’ll get access to:

Free participation in all the weekly live calls (including the opportunity to ask questions)
Free access to downloads of all the calls (forever)
Participation in what we’re expecting to be a fascinating conversation!
The chance to contribute to the community blog and take the conversation even further

Please note: The links in the form above do not work. You can register for the Waking Up the Workplace webinars at http://www.wakinguptheworkplace.com/

StJohn

Save the Shoes!!

2011-03-25T11:49:00.002+11:00

You may have seen this one - its doing the rounds on Facebook (and deservedly so!)

It's the story of a New York Fireman who is conscious enough to watch his own ego in action - even in an act that smacks of ego-transendence. I love his honesty. Love, love, love it. There is nothing more energising and heartening than simply watching someone tell the story of getting beyond ego.

It's magical. It's a call to transcendence. My own ego melts away as I watch and listen to that story.

And how lucky are we that we live in an age where these little nuggets of beauty are dropped into our in-box on a daily basis??

Right - look out - I'm off to find some shoes...

Jo Flynn

Winter of my Content

2011-03-11T14:31:00.000+11:00

‘In the depths of winter I finally realised that deep within me, there lay an invincible summer’ Albert Camus

Who likes winter?

I am not a winter person. I thrive in summer; give me endless days of sunshine, heat and humidity! I was born with tropical blood in my veins! For nearly three years, I have lived in a mountain climate, where you really get to understand what winter is all about (trust me, until you have truly lived through an entire winter where rain, mist and fog and below 10 degree temperatures are common, you have NO idea what winter is all about!). Living in a place where nature is such a force also makes you really understand the changing of the seasons. Watching the leaves first turn orange and then fall from my cherry blossom tree until it is bare, and then waiting for the first buds, first blossoms, reminds me of the impermanence of life.

The changing seasons is a good test for the spiritual warrior; a time to spring or winter clean, shed old skins, change old habits, dream, reassess, plan, rest and move into action. Autumn and winter may be traditionally a time when we hibernate but it’s also an ideal time to actually do the work to reach the goals that we planned at the start of the year. So with that in mind, as the seasons change, I am going to try and make friends with winter. Firstly, to be grateful for the gifts of winter;

Autumn leaves...so beautiful

Winter food...I’m thinking Jamie Oliver stews, homemade soups with crusty bread, roast dinners...yum! Maybe this winter calls for trying at least five new recipes
Doonas, quilts, blankets, rugs...anything to cuddle up under while you have a cuppa. Surely that calls for buying a new one?
Blue sky days..lapping up every last bit of sunshine with long walks in the zingy air
Music...good at any time, but something about putting on a good cd to brighten up a misty day
Warmth...hot showers, central heating or a fire, warm socks
And best of all, every winter holds one special day...my little boy’s birthday! Surely something to celebrate, the best harvest moon I’ve ever had.

Do you like winter? Or are you a summer person? What are your plans/goals this winter?

Joanna Woutersz

Brain Stuff #1

2011-03-04T10:13:00.000+11:00

An occasional series on the brain to test your knowledge and amaze you.

What has the largest brain in comparison to its size?

a) Elephants
b) Dolphins
c) Ants
d) Humans

The ant.

An ant's brain is about 6 per cent of its total body weight - if we were to apply the same percentage to humans, our heads would have to be nearly three times as large, making us all look rather like the Mekon or Morrissey.
An average human brain weighs 1.6 kg ( 3.5 lb) , which is a little over 2 per cent of body weight. An ant's brain weighs approximately 0.3 mg.
Although an ant's brain has only a fraction of the neurons of a human brain, a colony of ants is a super-organism. An average-sized nest of 40,000 ants has about the same number of brain cells as a person. Ants have been around for 130 million years and there are about 10,000 trillion of them at large as we speak. The total mass of ants on the planet is , slightly heavier than the total mass of human beings.
There are about 8,000 known species of ant. Ants account for about 1% of all the insects on earth. The total number of insects in the world has been calculated at one quintillion (or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.)
Ants sleep for only a few minutes a day and can survive for nineteen days under water. A wood ant can manage for twenty-four days without its head. A single ant cannot live alone outside the colony, head on or not.
Ants appear to have photographic memories to help them navigate. They seem to take a series of snapshots of landmarks. Scientists do not understand how ants' tiny brains can store so much information.
Ants are not stronger than people. Though ants can lift many times their own weight, this is only because they are small. The smaller an animal is, the stronger its muscles are in relation to its body mass. If people were the same size as ants, they would be equally strong.

"Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television," LEWIS THOMAS

How is this information useful? I've been thinking that myself.
Let me know what you think...

Source:"The Book of General Ignorance" by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson from the TV Program QI

Community

2011-02-28T12:40:00.000+11:00

‘’People touch our lives if only for a moment and yet we are not the same from that moment on. The time is not important the moment is forever.’’ Fern Bork

Is there anything better than having a cup of tea or glass of wine with old friends who know you so well that you don’t have to try? Where conversation flows quickly and easily beyond the social norms of work/career/weather/blah blah blah to a more restful place where you can simply say how things are for you today...the good, the bad and the ugly and nobody tries to change you or fix you. Or where you can have a good gossip, talk about the kids/sport/home/latest frock that you picked up and it’s ok to simply chat away. Or it’s even ok just to sit in silence. Bliss.

For me, since becoming a mum and moving away from Sydney, one of the things I have missed most is being part of a community, where I have true connection. Over the last two and half years, I have had to start right over again, in a completely new place and make new friends. And I have – there’s nothing like having a baby or young child to get you chatting to complete strangers! In fact, when I visit Sydney these days, I am reminded how much friendlier I have become, simply by living in a much smaller community where people chat to each other and you know your neighbours. But I relish the times I get to catch up with old friends, particularly those who have been part of my personal development and teaching journey. There is something unique about having shared deep experiences with people within a course room that helps you bond at a different level. You may not share the same taste in music, food or politics but you have shared a part of your heart and your life...and that counts so much more.

Attending an open day at my local meditation centre this weekend, I was also reminded of just how peaceful, inspiring and deeply comforting it is to sit in a course room that holds special energy, strong love. We don’t live our lives in course rooms of course (in fact the very best course rooms I have been part of, inspire you to start living the life you want outside the course room), but these sacred spaces so help refuel us for the rest of our busy lives. And there are times when we all need refuelling. More bliss.

Isolation can affect us all, wherever we live, even in these days of social media where people are constantly ‘talking’ (but is anyone listening?). As a mother and teacher, building strong, real communities is incredibly important to me. And that’s why I am excited to be part of the Keep Evolving team...it’s very nice feeling to know that a new candle is being lit in part of the world...bringing new light and a chance to ‘fill’ your cup.

Joanna Woutersz

LOL!

2011-02-20T15:53:00.004+11:00

When I was younger, LOL! meant "Lots of Love."
Now it means "Laugh out Loud."
The change happened sometime during that period where I was frantically trying to catch up with the X'ers and Y's, who were leading the charge into this high tech social media age we now live in.
Why it happened, I have no idea. Surely X'ers and Y's still like to send love to each other, however I find the thought that they might rather laugh at each other rather than love each other slightly disturbing.
That's not all I have found disturbing recently.
In an article recently published in the Sydney Morning Herald, (click here to view) it would appear that a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that the net, (with its constant distractions and interruptions) is turning us into scattered and superficial thinkers.

Nicholas Carr, author of the recently published book The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember was inspired to write the book after he realised that he was losing his own capacity for concentration and contemplation. This is something I've noticed myself. Apparently, when we're constantly distracted and interrupted, as we tend to be when looking at the screens of our computers and mobile phones, our brains can't forge the strong and expansive neural connections that give distinctiveness and depth to our thinking. Our thoughts become disjointed, our memories weak. The Roman philosopher Seneca may have put it best 2000 years ago: ''To be everywhere is to be nowhere.''

This has been further researched in a number of studies on students who use their computers during lectures and have a much lower retention rate than those who don't, and also in multi-taskers, who seem to be absolutely hopeless! German researchers found that web browsers usually spend less than 10 seconds looking at a page. Even people doing academic research online tend to ''bounce'' rapidly between different documents, rarely reading more than a page or two, according to a University College London study. Such mental juggling takes a big toll. In a recent experiment at Stanford University, researchers gave various cognitive tests to 49 people who do a lot of media multitasking and 52 people who multitask much less frequently. The heavy multitaskers performed poorly on all the tests. They were more easily distracted, had less control over their attention, and were much less able to distinguish important information from trivia.

So what to make of all of this?

I think is important to keep up with the latest technologies... there's just too much of great value to be gained from a discerning use of the net. However, we need to do this in a way that doesn't lose touch with our capacity for deeper, more contemplative and reflective introspection carried out without the pressure to find the answer quickly.

20 minutes of Meditation each day will meet this need wonderfully.

In the meantime, we need to carefully monitor the use of the new technology on ourselves, but just as importantly... Live, Love, and Laugh out Loud each day.
So LOL to you all.
StJohn.

P.S. I'd love to hear what you think about all this. Please leave your comments below. Thanks

Welcome

2011-02-16T09:53:00.002+11:00

Hi
Thanks for dropping by.
We've been flat chat getting our Website up and running
(take a look www.keepevolving.com.au and let us know what you think.)
We'll be getting the blog up and running from Monday 21st Feb.
Expect tips, tricks, ideas, questions, latest information, fun, videos, resources, uplifting stories, stories that touch your heart, inspire, motivate and talk to your soul....

You’ll find them all here at the Evolution + Blog.

See you then.

All the best,
StJohn, Jo and the Keep Evolving Team