Andrew Field Coaching & Psychotherapy

14/10/2025

The truth

"Working class people around the world have no innate desire to go to war with each other. They have to be conned into it by the sociopaths who will profit from it."
— John Lennon
🕊 Peace is natural. War is sold.

23/09/2025

Leaders
How can we be get the leaders that we, our children and their children in particular deserve?
It feels like there’s a crisis in leadership all over the planet at present.
Individualistic, egotistical and insecure men are playing pathetic point-scoring playground mentality games with power and others’ lives.
Toxic masculinity predominates.
Greed, contempt and dishonesty are the values driving these men to the top.
How can we break this cycle?
A wise man 2,600 years ago recognised that human suffering is created by greed, hatred and ignorance. He taught that the values of the awakened human heart and mind are love, compassion, joy and peace. Another man who died for his beliefs 2,000 years ago taught that love and compassion for others were the most important human values and that service and self-sacrifice led to ultimate happiness.
1,400 years ago another wise teacher emphasised generosity, tolerance and hospitality as keys to wisdom.
We have seen many others who have shown us the path of peace, integrity, respect and honesty.
Martin Luther King jr. said “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
So how do we apply this to our assessment of potential leaders?
First and foremost I believe we must look at values in public life before we look at where anyone lies on the political spectrum.
Firstly is there greed?
Are they feathering their own nest or behaving like a pig with its snout in a trough? It’s all too common.
Then is there hatred?
Do they single some out for disdain and contemptuous treatment? Do they look for scapegoats to blame for problems?
And do they routinely use attacking language and vitriol?
Are they dishonest?
The distortion of truth or use of downright untruth to sow ignorance and division is a sure sign of trouble.
Is there corruption?
If so they are not worthy leaders. Corruption should be highlighted in its every detail.
Our leaders should not be getting away with it.
If they tick all of the above boxes surely alarm bells should ring loud?
We should be very sure to make every effort to reject them as leaders.
Values are everything.
We need people of integrity and honesty as leaders - people who understand that human happiness springs from peace, tolerance and compassion, from respect for fundamental human rights for all, and from an abundance mentality full of possibility - not from a poverty mentality, driven by fear-mongering and the scapegoating of easy targets to wrongly blame for our challenges.
The conversation about values in public life must be reignited and courageous people come forward under a banner of peace, love, tolerance and compassion for us to have a chance of getting the leaders we deserve.

26/08/2025

I believe that for humanity to survive and evolve men need to be open to the feminine principles of loving kindness, compassion for all beings, and peace.
This applies to all men, not just our leaders, but also the man in the street, in the car, the pub and the workplace.
Mothers can train their sons and teachers can educate their boys in this wisdom.
Partners and spouses can learn and practice this together, and men can help each other too.

Through those principles we can evolve by means of patience, generosity, gentle discipline, courage and peaceful wisdom.
This way we can evolve by working together towards being the best versions of ourselves.
Human masculinity can be liberated positively in all of us and we can become warriors for peace.
Too many people have died and are dying today because our feminine and masculine are out of balance. We are consequently spiralling out of control.
We all feel it and many of us feel powerless and confused regarding what to do about it.
But we can all do something and things can change through the timeless alchemy of the masculine and feminine principles working together in us all, no matter what race, creed, colour, gender, place, class or family we come from.
We need peace in order to find happiness and the love and care that exists in all of our hearts.
Then we can look forward to a healthy and happy future.
Peace can reign

19/08/2025

DSM-1 106 diagnoses.
DSM-5 297 diagnoses.
Is that progress or should we be enquiring into whether the APA (American Pharmacists Association) is operating in the interests of humanity?
Or maybe some profit motive is operating?

11/12/2024

RELATIONSHIP

Something in us ripens
with every turn of the planet,
every trip around the sun,
and with each twirl of the spiral galaxy.
Here we dance with every trivial irreconcilable difference,
and each time we meet the differences,
together in hope, no matter how slender and tenuous,
something in us ripens.

07/12/2024

“The moon mirrored in a dewdrop” by Dogen

To what shall
I compare this life of ours?
Even before I can say
it is like a lightning flash or a dewdrop,
it is no more.

15/11/2024

Hatred never ceases by hatred,
But by love alone is healed.
This is the ancient and eternal law.

Siddhartha Gautama
(c563 - 483 BC. aka Buddha Shakyamuni)

13/11/2024

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Dated 20 Oct 2024

13/11/2024

In the still of the morning

In the still of the morning the first kiss of consciousness,
first embrace of a renewed love affair, a new day.
Venus, morning star, basks in her glory,
birdsong heralds her arrival, mighty goddess sun, giver of all life and love.
Her first rays warm my eyelids caressing my soul.
Dearest one don’t fall out of love today,
don’t forget this spacious bliss.
Don’t make yourself small, contracted with worry over small things.
Keep your heart big.
Breathe deeply of the divine nutritious atmosphere.
Smile and greet the new day.
Smile and greet each new moment.
Awake and step into peace, joy and limitless love.

12/11/2024

NOW.
In this moment
I am a dream conjured from the mind of a mystery.
Some call this God
so it goes.
This moment, there is mist on a lake,
the scent of jasmine,
the song of a wren,
a kingfisher’s flash,
there, then not.
I collapse, helpless before this splendour.
I revive slowly in peace,
slow enough to notice that
every moment offers itself to awakening, into this magnificent dream.
How I long to dwell there in every moment,
woven with your God,
with immeasurable love.
But there’s no rush,
don’t hurry beloved:
the meeting is not in the diary, the destination is not determined.
Take it moment by beautiful moment,
the vaulted chambers of the loving heart beckon.
Allow silence to lead you there.

12/11/2024

Atisha’s radical teachings for difficult times.
Atisha (Atīśa) c. 982–1054 was a Buddhist religious leader and master.

1. Explore the nature of timeless awareness.
2. Don’t be swayed by outer circumstances.
3. Consider all phenomena to be dreams.
4. Don’t brood over the faults of others.
5. Be grateful to everyone.
6. At all times simply rely on a joyful mind.
7. Don’t expect a standing ovation.

If that all makes sense to you it’s a pretty good place to start.

11/11/2024

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour A Robin Red breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage A Dove house filld with Doves & Pigeons Shudders Hell thr' all its regions A dog starvd at his Masters Gate…