The lens of belief is a filter through which we see hear and feel. When we use that filter over time we quietly shape a learned pattern. When something falls out of alignment in our day to day life, it's rhythm changes and we feel it. Circumstances change and we immediately feel uncomfortable. We might try to fix those circumstances, numb them or try to hide from their effect - to bypass them to protect ourselves. We might adapt our behaviours or our environment. And we do so according to our...

Why are we always searching for something? Something easier, better, lighter, different? Something we don't appear to have. Inner peace is often imagined as something we must achieve. If we could quiet the mind, resolve our problems, heal our past, or arrange life in the right way, then peace would finally arrive. Have you ever thought this? Are you waiting for something and until then, peace seems just out of reach. For a long time, I believed this too. Peace felt fragile, something easily...

BEAUTY . Abstract art aqua marine background with blues greys and magenta by Mark Ross A beginner’s mind is open to deep truths in life, open hearted and not attached to something in a way that interferes with our destiny. In the Andean shamanic tradition, this is called walking with beauty. Being present in Munay (love) with a tenderness for all living things. As Keats says in An Ode on a Grecian Urn when exoloring beauty and truth: “‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know...