Find Your Middle Ground

Category: Self Discovery

  • * Inspiration – change and clouds

    “It is the nature of the world of form that nothing stays fixed for very long – and so it starts to fall apart again. Forms dissolve; new forms arise. Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.” Eckhart Tolle Whether your world is falling apart or bursting open .. or…

  • * Haiku – authentic being

    ~ Find your Middle Ground Touch the deepest part of you Authentic being ~ “Don’t shrink.  Don’t puff up.  Stand in your sacred ground.” ~ Brené Brown   If you are new to this site, welcome! To find out more about finding your middle ground, please click here.

  • * Resistance Wake Up Call

    In Carl Jung’s wise words “What we resist persists.” Noticing where we have resistance is a powerful practice. I keep thinking about how I want things to be a certain way, yet it’s out of my control. And rather than letting it go and letting it be, I find my thoughts still hanging on to…

  • * Brilliant Minds Are Not Enough

    Even brilliant minds recognize  that they alone cannot relieve their own distress. “Man is never helped in his suffering by what he thinks for himself, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than his own. It is this which lifts him out of his distress.” ~ Carl Jung “No problem can be solved from the…

  • Haiku – new year

    ~ May this year abound with loving light and lightness from your Middle Ground ~ Thank you for being on this journey with me. With gratitude and love Val 💕

  • * Inspiration – Everything Comes To Us

    “Everything comes to us that belongs to us, if we create the capacity to receive it.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore * Do you have the capacity to receive what is ready to be given? * What is it that belongs to us that we do not have? These are powerful questions to ask as we look…

  • * Greeting Card Words

    “We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we’re willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change.” ~ Bréne Brown This made me pause. There are so…

  • * Haiku – when the chips are down

    ~ When the chips are down be grateful for your journey and take a deep breath ~ Nothing has gone wrong Its time to change perspective Find your Middle Ground ~ If you are new to this website, welcome! To find out more about finding your middle ground please click on this link to the main page.

  • * Haiku – inner gem

    ~ Take time to explore the gem-like layers within.  Find your Middle Ground ~ If you are new to this site – welcome! I hope you enjoy your experience here. To find out more about finding your middle ground, please click here.

  • * Are you doing yoga or is yoga doing you?

    Yoga Doing Y0u Let postures flow, movement as natural as moonrise, being without doing. Go right to the edge, to the spark within each breath, and inquire into the awareness that underlies the stretch. Release the small me clamoring to be seen, and experience the emptiness beneath, the boundaries expanse of freedom. This leap outside…

  • * W.A.I.T. ?

    I love to work with people on becoming better communicators. The key, of course, is to learn to really listen – becoming engaged listeners and tuning into the other person, rather than letting our own thoughts take us away from the moment and distract us. But before we even get to this step, there is one…

  • * Tao Wisdom ☯ – fire and stillness

      Movement is necessary to overcome the cold, But when excessive movement threatens to set the world aflame, Cool stillness will bring things back to order.*   Wise words for the ever changing weather outside and within us all.   * Braun Jr., John; Tzu, Lao; von Bargen, Julian; Warkentin, David (2012-12-02). Tao Te Ching…