I’d like to tell you about one of the most powerful ‘levers’ for entering the state of supreme personal power, to the extent you can...

If someone you love is treating you badly and it’s breaking your heart, you can fight, you can resist what’s happening, you can get...

Walking along yesterday I was contemplating how you have to dare to have a vision and you have to dare to sustain that vision, especially...

To be able to allow the Tao to show you how, dear reader, to be able to surrender your egocentric mindset enough to hear the guidance...

Recovering from what really was a hefty bout of one-wrong-move-and-you’re-dead illness some years ago, I was and continue to be impelled...

What a balancing act it is. Then again, what isn’t? The Taoist approach to good balancing is not even to concentrate on how well you’re...

Fascinating how the world seems to have glimpsed a view through the veil of the trance and in that glimpse caught up with the tragicomic...

On the topic of using affirmative thinking as a tool for reshaping actual flesh and bones reality, I’m reminded of a time I was scaling a...

Providing what you want to do is within the realms of physical possibility and providing you have the minimal level of requisite...

The trance of the day might mislead you into believing life’s humdrum and adventure only happens to other people, as well as which the...

Because everything in the manifest universe is in motion and flux, the urge to change things is innate to human nature, hence why it’s...

Sometimes the world seems to darken on account of all your cares and woes, your fears and anxieties. But rather than attempt to change...

Identify the negative feeling you’re experiencing within – the fear, the sadness, the grief, the anger, the anguish – and instead of...

There’s a tendency to assume life won’t work out, that hassles will dominate and mess will ensue. However, according to the Taoist view,...

Feelings arise as we go along – many of them uncomfortable. For some reason the art of dealing with feelings was never passed onto us as...

Sometimes life gets strange round the edges, sometimes to the core, as if you’re on a similar but unfamiliar planet or have stepped onto...

Breathing is the most direct lever you have on your state of mind. Stop holding your breath and you free your mind from being stuck in a...

Ruthlessness is an interesting phenomenon. Sometimes it’s essential. Take for example, the samurai warrior in battle – if he isn’t...

Can you actually make a mistake, or was every step of the way, every apparent choice merely part of your inevitable destiny anyway? And...

We’ve grown in a culture that is scared of its own shadow, literally. We find it difficult confronting and accepting the darker side of...