When a toddler becomes tired and low on energy it starts to whine and throw tantrums, all the normal things it usually takes in its stride suddenly seeming insurmountable problems which become very upsetting. If the child were to have a nap or to eat something, then generally it feels refreshed, re-invigorated and happy again, … Continue reading Energy
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Awakening
A small child walks into a hardware store with his parents. He doesn’t register the screws and nuts or any of the other materials he has no prior knowledge of, but does see the display of brightly coloured buckets and spades and is instantly drawn there. The father, who has been working on a DIY … Continue reading Awakening
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If, when talking about a painting, someone were to mention the terms movement, tone, rhythm or texture, our imagination would be taken to a very different place than if we read these same words when reading something related to physics. If they were used for describing a piece of music, they would mean something different … Continue reading Switch
Labels
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." * Names help us to make sense of the world. Humankind has bestowed names for things as far back as history tracks and for the majority, this desire to label things, to give a unique identity, to categorize and organise, has offered some way of … Continue reading Labels
Zen musings 