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“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life but by realizing who you are at the deepest level” Eckhart Tolle
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The self we are trying to fix doesn't exist.
This post is for all you self-help addicts out there…. This sort of quote used to confuse the hell out of me! And yet some years later...
Lindsey Elliott
Sep 10, 20192 min read
What if, what you think isn't personal?
I’m going to say something potentially controversial, but also potentially liberating. What if what you think, the thoughts that pass...
Lindsey Elliott
Sep 9, 20192 min read
What if, the more thinking we have about something, the more we'll struggle?
I am sure you are like me, and have areas of your life that seem to flow easily. Yet there are others where you struggle to make changes....
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 26, 20193 min read
Urgent thinking
You know the kind of thinking I am talking about….it whirls around, and around in your head, and demands that you do something about this...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 26, 20192 min read
Feeling overwhelmed
My son and I were doing some colouring together recently (me in my adult colouring book, and he in his). When I opened the page I...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 26, 20192 min read
Is the robot mind running your life?
We can think of our robot mind as the flavour of thinking that tells us we ‘need/should/must’ do anything. It would have us believe we...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 26, 20192 min read
Our experience of the same thing changes all the time
One of the things my coaching clients sometimes struggle to fully accept at first, is the inside-out nature of how our experience is...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 26, 20192 min read
What if self-evaluation is the source of your unhappiness?
I have to fess up. I am a recovering self-evaluation/self-help addict. Over time I have had a series of insights that has led me to see...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 26, 20192 min read
The self-correcting mechanism of the mind
On a day to day basis there is really very little we have to do to keep our bodies running. We have to eat, drink, move, and sleep but...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 26, 20192 min read
Expectations and disappointment
It is completely OK to be disappointed. It is completely OK to have expectations about life, others, your circumstances. And it is really...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 26, 20192 min read
What the weather can teach us about the nature of experience
It was raining here this morning in Brighton, and I was thrilled to have another opportunity to See that our experience of life works...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 26, 20192 min read
A helpful metaphor
I hope you find this a helpful metaphor which points to how the human experience and emotions work. A cup can hold so many things. It can...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 26, 20192 min read
Are you listening to the brass band or the flute?
Our habitual, repetitive, egoic or personal thinking is mostly pretty loud in our heads and is able to grab our attention easily. Rather...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 25, 20191 min read
Thought and feeling are one power
What if your feelings are a reflection of your thinking or consciousness? Rather than a reflection of what is going on in your life? Our...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 25, 20192 min read
We live in separate realities
Our thinking about life, not life itself, is what creates our experience of things we encounter in the outside world. Yesterday I was on...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 25, 20192 min read
Train of thought
We can view our thoughts and thinking as like a train pulling into the station. We may have a certain thought, let’s say “I’m not good...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 25, 20192 min read
In a low mood? This blog will help.
I’m sure most of us have been to a circus or fairground, and stood before the curved mirrors that distort your image. Some look quite...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 25, 20192 min read
You are not your thoughts.
If we believe that what we think about ourselves is true, then it becomes easy to believe we are broken in some way, damaged by life or...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 25, 20192 min read
Resilience is built in
Imagine if you will that you are holding a cork under the water by the side of a lake. If you let go of the cork, its natural trajectory...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 25, 20192 min read
Thoughts are the guests in the house of our mind.
"Thoughts are the guests in our mind but we don't have to sit down and have a cup of tea with them!" In a coaching session this morning...
Lindsey Elliott
Jul 25, 20192 min read
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