BREAKING A HABIT, MAKING A HABIT
COURSE INTRODUCTION
This series looks at habits – how they are formed and how to help ourselves towards better ways of living. We experiment with seeing more of what we don’t notice, and how this helps with habits.
Feel free to read the words and try out the invitations, or use the audio and video guided practices. You can print off the tick chart pdf and complete it, to help keep track of what you are finding useful.
Use as much or as little feels helpful.
Inspirational Poem
John O’Donohue: For a new beginning
In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.
For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.
It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.
Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.
Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life’s desire.
Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.
From ‘To Bless the Space Between Us’ (US) / Benedictus (Europe)
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