How to find inner peace
We live in a hectic world, full of distractions and busyness. And for most of us, bar giving it all up and moving to a monastery, this isn’t going to change any time soon. How, then, do we find this allusive inner peace? I’m reminded of a Daoist poem, part of which goes, ‘all movement comes from stillness, and will return to stillness, imagine a stillness as vast as the universe’. This idea of finding the still point behind all movement is one of the fundamentals of Chinese D
How to throw things away
According to Chinese medicine, autumn is the perfect time to spring clean. By getting rid of everything we no longer need, we give ourselves space to recuperate over winter – enabling the slow coalescence of our strength in preparation for spring’s rocketing growth. Letting go in autumn is vital to our success in spring. Autumn is the time to let go of physical, mental and emotional waste. Wonderfully, the connectedness of all things means that we don’t have to approach these
