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What Happens When We Pause

What happens when we pause, or surrender to an opportunity to pause when it’s presented to us? Pausing is so good for us but it also takes courage and patience. A pause allows us to tune into our heart, and listen carefully to what it is telling us. A pause can provide clarity but is also an act of self-kindness – slowing things down and allowing ourselves to be. As…

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14 years to become an overnight success Bronnie Ware

14 Years to Become an Overnight Success

(12 minutes reading time) They say it takes ten years. Yes, ten years of effort and commitment until such an event happens that you’re considered an overnight success. For me it took fourteen. Those years began with me getting up well before sunrise and driving to markets to sell my nature photos, with accompanying inspirational quotes I’d written. This was before the Internet arrived. So, you took your work to…

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Tara Branch Interview

Belonging Through Compassion

Bronnie shares a heart-opening conversation with Tara Brach PhD. Subjects covered include: Finding peace in amongst political gatherings How a longing for self-acceptance blended with a call to wake the world to consciousness Tara’s fascination with the interaction of psychology and spiritual practice to heal How it is our heart’s deep longing to be free that calls us to learn how to quieten our mind The sacred art of pausing…

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The Role of Kindness in Survival

I enjoyed an inspiring and fascinating conversation with Dr David Hamilton and am delighted to share it with you here. The conversation includes: How surrendering into an impulse took him from lab research to the author’s path. Linking science and mathematics with spirituality The big leap we are currently in globally The role of the placebo effect and its relation to every day life How we’re genetically wired for kindness…

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Surrendering into the Uncertainty

During this time of Covid-19 it can be challenging to navigate life, when you don’t know where you stand from one day to the next. This video is to support you in that, not just during this global shift but through any uncertainty life may deliver you. You cannot always control what comes your way. But you always have a choice in how you respond. To learn more about the…

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The Story of Five Regrets

Please make yourself a cuppa, put your feet up and listen to an inspiring tale! While it is the story of the journey 5 Regrets from the very beginning to where it is now, it is also an important reminder of how important trusting in each step is for your own life. It is a half hour investment of your time. Your heart and dreams deserve that. Life hears your…

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Mindfulness with Technology

In a world where every fabric of our lives can be represented, advised, misinformed, or enticed by technology, it takes courage to live from grounded, self-influenced decisions and actions instead. Technology is a fabulous tool. It can also be a destructive one. It connects you to worlds you may have never known of otherwise while disconnecting you from your own guidance and real-life relationships. Choosing to view the usefulness of…

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Five Ways to Create a Miracle

At some point in everyone’s life, there comes a time when a miracle would come in handy. Everyone is stretched beyond his or her comfort zone. Every person is offered lessons to break free from his or her conditioned beliefs. Life wants you to stop wasting your energy and creating unnecessary suffering for yourself by trying to control how things should turn out. Life has better things in store for…

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Books I Love

A common email we’ve received at my office over the years is for book recommendations. So it has been my pleasure to collate this list for you. You may notice there is no book mentioned on meditation. The technique I have practiced for many years can only be taught in person. Please visit the Vipassana Meditation global website for more information. We have all walked different paths and see life…

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Five Things I Have Learned Since Five Regrets

It is now five years since my book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, was published internationally. So with a theme of five, here are five things I’ve learned since Five Regrets: five things I have lived by and that I share with you in detail in my newest memoir, Bloom. 1. Courage is the greatest tool for bringing our dreams into reality. When I wrote my memoir The Top Five Regrets of the…

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