September is the mind’s time. The heart-surge of spring’s enthusiasm is long gone; the body’s summer lazing time is over. Time to get back to work, to the serious business of earning a living, or learning stuff that will help us earn a living. Even though the year is slowing down, our lives tend to speed up. So much to do, and our minds are so, so busy analyzing, selecting, organizing, categorizing, prioritizing all these gotta-get-it-done-before-snow-flies tasks and activ

Many of us think about the things we’d like to acquire and achieve in that untouched year ahead, all sparkling and fresh and full of potential—yet we also know that New Year’s resolutions can be very hard to keep. We want to soar in the next twelve months… but will it happen? So often our intentions and promises to ourselves for the year ahead feel more like weights than wings. Under our surface enthusiasm for making changes, we feel tired, heavy, even a bit resentful. MOR

We make such an enemy of age in our society, don’t we? And since I’ve learned that the sooner I convert my self-created enemies to friends the happier I’ll be, lately I’ve been considering ageing. How can I befriend it? Most of us, as we get “up there” a bit, turn out to be pretty terrified of age and ageing. Can we actually learn to love our personal ageing process instead? But this isn’t what most of us spend our lives doing, is it? It’s certainly not what we’re encour

Sometimes our comfort zone can be a nice, restful haven... and sometimes it can be a dark cave of lethargy and self-imposed limitations. If you're feeling you need to take some steps out into the sunlight, here are some very small changes that can help your body, mind and heart shift gears just enough to bring in the new: new energy, new movement, new ideas, new feelings, new awareness... new life. Choose one or two from each category and see how it feels. Enjoy! For the