Month: December 2021

Clive Austin & Clive Creative finding a path to resolving conflict through understanding

How Can Recognising Fear and Desire Change Your Life?

December 20, 2021 / Clive Austin

Wherever there is persecution, war, intolerance, or injustice, it is invariably a consequence of an identification, or an over identification with difference, and moreover, what that difference represents.

In other words there is a separation. One person or group against another.

In this sense, the greatest danger we seem to pose to life – as people or to life in a broader sense – appears to be the result of a sense of being different to, and by extension, separate to.

This position is perhaps best encapsulated by the idea of ‘them and us.’

What are the Practical Steps to Loving Yourself?

December 6, 2021 / Clive Austin

This quote by Anias Nin got me thinking.

‘My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws, and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.’

The question I am confronted with fairly often by clients in response to statements about self love is “How?”

Growing Up with Creativity and Spirit

December 1, 2021 / Clive Austin

There is a small park in the town where I live.

The grass area is maintained by the council and the boarders are gardened by volunteers.

In its own way it is a bit of an oasis. Children run free from the prospect of treading in dog faeces as there are no dog allowed. There is a sandpit and a wooden play structure that would pass as a tiny home in some communities, trees, shade, grass and an extensive garden of herbs and berries.