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Trusting Your Own Way: The Secret Paths of the Forest

May 4, 2021 / Clive Austin

Growing up, Sunday afternoons meant walks.

We followed many paths, many different paths on many different Sunday afternoons over the years.

With enough regularity to make it memorable my father would veer off into the undergrowth at seemingly random points on the walk, weaving through bushes and brambles, crossing rivers balancing like tightrope walkers on the fallen trunks of tree, or cutting a path of his own when things got tangled. All the time, respectfully aware that everywhere is somethings home.

The Hidden Forces That Influence Your Life

May 3, 2021 / Clive Austin

The term archetype crops up a fair bit. It is a term that has found its way into common speech over the last 50 years and originates with the the Swiss Analytical Psychologist, Carl Jung who described it, mostly, as a functioning as a self portrait of an instinct. (CW8 Para 277) Further to this, he stated that they are in continuous dramatic flux (Man and His Symbols p.20) and that this flux is a dynamic process that maps over the environments we inhabit as persistently themed images – each of which is inseparable from the narratives they both operate in, and contain.

The Edge of Life and Living Well

May 2, 2021 / Clive Austin

On Grief:

In time the sea calms,
but the waves still come.
The cliffs behind, rise up and decay into the foam.

Of all the this and thats
that we may be we are nothing much without love.

Standing so close to the shore my feet are soaked.
I wouldn’t have it any other way.

© 2017 Clive Austin

When Your Psyche Heal Itself

May 1, 2021 / Clive Austin

Not everyone needs therapy, although I know plenty of people who have benefitted from gaining a more comprehensive understanding of the principles that are at play behind promoting and maintaining their own emotional and mental well being.

Some people benefit greatly from 1 to 1 therapy.

What prevents people form seeking therapy? For some it can feel like a weakness to seek help, so they struggle on, doing everything they can to try and fix the issue for themselves. For others it can be a question of efficacy and cost.

The Value of Trust in a Lifetime of Relating

April 30, 2021 / Clive Austin

Relating is a holistic process.

Whenever we relate to anything it never occurs in isolation; be it to other people, to the environments we inhabit, or to ourselves. The context of each overlaps to inform the other, because in truth, it is all one thing: Life.

In light of this, how we relate in one area will also connect to how we relate in others.

Truth or Compromise? Lessons in Relating

April 28, 2021 / Clive Austin

A lot has been said about relationship and compromise, that in order for a long term relationship to last that it requires compromise.

The question is, is compromise really necessary or healthy in a relationship of any sort? Certainly, in order to adapt there will be a need for balancing of needs, but how much is it healthy to compromise the truth that one is? If all parties are seekers of truth, both their own and the truth of the relationship, then where ever that leads, then surely, even if it is not always the most comfortable, perhaps it is the most right.

Finding Your Authentic Centre and Living a Balanced Life

April 26, 2021 / Clive Austin

It’s highly likely you have heard it all before, people touting systems and formulas as cure all’s to life’s ills and misfortune. Laws of attraction and resonance and reciprocation. How to collapse the quantum wave function and manifest your hearts desires. Candle magic for love. Chaos sigil magic for sex. Inner alchemy breath work to reconfigure your essence. Inner Child work to heal your past. Spiritual Endurance to strengthen you in the moment. Mindfulness to stay in the moment. Online marketing to cultivate passive income steams to bolster your path to financial independence. Pyramid schemes, affiliate marketing, drop shipping.

I could go on, but I trust the point is made.

Life: How to Live Simply & Well

April 25, 2021 / Clive Austin

There is a beauty to keeping things simple.

A Simple Formula for Living Your Best Life

April 24, 2021 / Clive Austin

Life has a tendency to live itself when left alone. If there were any simple formula for living your best life I would say it is that. Relax into the experience of being you as best you can and trust that things will work out once you learn to trust yourself.

Of course, for some people that might be all they need to hear.

For others, they will be asking, “O.k. How?”

A Brief Video Introduction to Jaak Pankcepp’s Seven Emotional Systems

April 23, 2021 / Clive Austin

His advice was, “Sell the telly and buy a tent.”

That was in the days when television was a thing, when it was an elaborate glass tube in a box. There was something magical about it back then, it was like a living thing that needed to warm up when you turned it on. Where back then a fourth terrestrial channel felt like a cultural shift that was beckoning a new millennia, in this age of mobile devices you can make your own shows from practically anywhere. As for content, it would take you ten years working 8 hours a day to watch all of the videos that get posted up to YouTube in a single hour.