Magazine - The Art of Healing.

Thanks to Leisa (Art Therapist) for this recommendation.

http://theartofhealing.com.au/

Mindfulness Resources

http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/resources/minipax.cfm?mini_ID=21 

Thanks Mary (Psychosocial Occupational Therapist) for this useful link.

Wisdom

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
                                                                                                                                      -Plato

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

- Walter Lippmann

It is no longer enough to be smart -- all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.

- Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

- Martin Fischer

A Native American Proverb

Native American culture tells the story of a father who explains his struggle between good and evil by telling his son that he has two wolves fighting inside his heart – a good wolf and a bad wolf. The son asks which of the wolves will win the battle. The father replies, whichever one I feed.

How Lovely it is to do nothing... and then rest (Spanish Proverb)

Meditation C.D's

Dragging Feet: motivation to be in touch with passion and creativity
Boulder Shoulders: gain a sense of balance and receptivity
Clenched Fists: etablish a sense of peace and harmony
Fuzzy Head: become clear and focussed.
Stomach Knots: get in touch with your personal power.
Aching Heart: to soothe and heal.

Eat Pray Love

As described in my very first blog entry I am now able to 'collate' all of the great resources I find. When I read 'Eat Pray Love' two summers ago I jotted down some reflections in the middle of a notebook. Ellen needed a note book recently and gave the reflections to me.

Quotes from Elizabeth Gilbert that struck me:

'Meditation is both the anchor and the wings...'

'There is a difference between meditation and prayer...though both seek communion with the divine,
prayer is the act of talking with God
meditation is the act of listening' Page 138

'Bel far niente' translated as 'The Beauty of Doing Nothing.' (Love this one)

'God dwells within you...as you.' Page 201

OM/ NA/MAH/ SHI/VA/YA...said as a mantra (I honour the divinity which resides within me.) Page 126.

Antevasin: 'one who lives at the border'.
You can still live on the shimmering line between your old thinking and your new understanding, always in a state of learning. (a border that is always moving) Page 214.

Love this image