Month: November 2020

An Intimate Life. A Practical Guide to Relating. THREE: Relationships

November 27, 2020 / Clive Austin

Connection is a deep root that taps the source from which well being is drawn.

Connection to oneself – having a healthy relationship with our experience of life – is essential in this. Also, we do not live in isolation either. For all but the hermits among us, we live in relationship to other people. Dislocation from others when not chosen can lead to much sadness, and even distress.

An Intimate Life. A Practical Guide to Relating. TWO: The World.

November 22, 2020 / Clive Austin

How we relate, to ourselves, to the world, and to the people and creatures we share it with, informs how we adapt to life.

The better able we are to adapt to life, the better quality of life we generally end up having. Challenges are met, obstacles are overcome, and opportunities get recognised and taken.

The more our basic needs are met the more we can go about actualising our potential. Remembering that ‘actualising your potential’ could cover anything from creating a business empire, to building a house, to raising a family, to just sitting peacefully in an ancient forest.

An Intimate Life. A Practical Guide to Relating. ONE: An Introduction

November 20, 2020 / Clive Austin

Our ability to adapt to life is shaped by how well we can relate to it.

How intimate we are with our experience of life the better able we are to make choices that will serve us.

This series of articles contains practical invitations to explore life in potentially more intimate ways.

Your Life Purpose and How to Access it

November 15, 2020 / Clive Austin

The purpose of your life is no less than the purpose of life itself, and the purpose of life itself, is to live.
Your quality of life is determined by how well you can live according to your own uniqueness.

Contained within you is a range of potential. This potential is genomic – in so far as it is held as codes within your genes.

How do you unlock it?

A Brief Guide to Survival and Prosperity in the 21st Century

November 11, 2020 / Clive Austin

Deep down, at the foundation of cultures, along with some of the ideologies lurking behind the myriad of gestures and artefacts they contain, you can find the principles that drive life.

Arguably, the strongest of them all is the instinct to survive and reproduce.

We all know that there is more to life than our basic instincts, but how we make sense of them, in the context of the societies we inhabit, plays a huge part in both our survival and our prosperity.