The Journey, Sussex, London & Kent

05/10/2023

29/09/2023

As some of you know I work as a Journey Practitioner...along with journalism, writing books etc. I found the Journey Intensive, the powerful entry level Journey workshop, extremely powerful and emotionally liberating - see experiencedtherapist.co.uk I won't go on :), but should you be interested in attending one of these workshops follow the link below.
Full disclosure, if you go via this link I get a small commission. The price is the same as any other way of booking, in fact it may be slightly cheaper. x

https://courses.thejourney.com/the-journey-intensive/?orid=11622&opid=110

On Day 1 of the immersion you will learn the foundational principles of The Journey Method through Brandon’s video teachings and live process work with your Host. You will undergo the first of the two core Journey processes - the Emotional Journey - together with an assigned partner and discover t...

24/08/2023

Wise words from The Man In Black 🖤

24/08/2023

24/07/2023

A must read:

Viktor Frankl, one of the great psychiatrists of the twentieth century, survived the death camps of N**i Germany. His little book, Man’s Search for Meaning, is one of those life-changing books that everyone should read.

Frankl once told the story of a woman who called him in the middle of the night to calmly inform him she was about to commit su***de. Frankl kept her on the phone and talked her through her depression, giving her reason after reason to carry on living. Finally she promised she would not take her life, and she kept her word.

When they later met, Frankl asked which reason had persuaded her to live?

"None of them", she told him.

What then influenced her to go on living, he pressed?

Her answer was simple, it was Frankl’s willingness to listen to her in the middle of the night. A world in which there was someone ready to listen to another's pain seemed to her a world in which it was worthwhile to live.

Often, it is not the brilliant argument that makes the difference. Sometimes the small act of listening is the greatest gift we can give.

15/07/2023

"We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.

We have forgotten what plants and animals still know. We have forgotten how to be - to be still, to be ourselves, to be where life is: Here and Now.

Whenever you bring your attention to anything natural, anything that has come into existence without human intervention, you step out of the prison of conceptualized thinking. To bring your attention to a stone, a tree, or an animal, does not mean to think about it, but simply to perceive it, to hold it in your Awareness. Its essence then transmits itself to you. You can sense how still it is, and in doing so, the same stillness arises within you. You sense how deeply it rests in Being. In realizing this, you too come to a place of rest deep within yourself.

When walking or resting in nature, honor that realm. Be still. Look. Listen. See how every animal and every plant is completely itself. Unlike humans, they have not split themselves in two. They do not live through mental images of themselves, so they do not need to be concerned with trying to protect and enhance those images. The deer is itself. The daffodil is itself.

All things in nature are one with the totality. They haven't removed themselves from the fabric of the whole by claiming a separate existence: "me" and the rest of the universe. The contemplation of nature can free you of that "me", the great troublemaker."

~ Eckhart Tolle
Through Rajesh Arora