A simple and painless cure for negative thoughts. Go outside and look at the sky.

Don't worry about how other people see you. You know how far you’ve fallen and how high you’ve climbed.

"Today is Mine." This old song by Jerry Reed says it all. What I do with what happens is my will made visible.

Aldous Huxley: "Learn to do everything lightly . . . Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them."

The Dalai Lama said: Once a year go someplace you’ve never been before. So I climb a tree.

Curiosity and wonder. "If we can free ourselves from our robot-like habits of predictability, repetition and function, we begin to walk differently on the earth." John O'Donohue.

We learn the most when we’re falling. We learn about ourselves. We learn what love is. We’re outside our comfort zone and we’re forced to change.

A message from the sea. I’d forgotten that the sea was so salty. So fresh. So clear. So buoyant. So playful. So joyous a place to be.

Encouragement. Brighten someone's day with encouragement, in the form of praise or appreciation.

Beauty dwells at the heart of life. (John O’Donohue) Everyone is beautiful in their own way. Everything is beautiful in its own way.

We are like the lotus We grow best in mud - the mud of our human experiences.

"The Hanged Man" of Tarot. Learning curves, career plateaux, breakdowns and breakthroughs. These are all common stopovers, temporary spaces where acceptance, patience, tolerance and taking deep, relaxed breaths can make a world of difference to how you feel.

Go for a leisurely walk. Adopt the patient pace of nature. Have your senses put in order. Be soothed and healed.

How to bless someone. Gather yourself together. Be calm. Start off the blessing by saying: May you . . . Choose your words carefully. Make each word count. Mean what you say.

Let go. Let old things fall away, don't cling to form and temporary identity.. "It’s helpful to realise that you are essentially an invisible entity . . . there is that which is beyond the mind and the emotions." (Eckhart Tolle)

A formula to ensure you have lots of surprises in 2026: Pay attention, so you notice the surprise. Spend time in total wonder so the surprise lasts longer than just a few seconds. Feel and express gratitude.

Each year is a pilgrimage of spiritual transformation. One step, one moment, at a time.

Space is an amazing, silent quality. The space that separates us also causes us to be attracted to each another. There is a desire to reach across to touch one another.

Old, stale, repetitive thoughts, beliefs and emotions hide the incredible magnificence of the moment I'm experiencing from me.

Three short, sweet, simple three-word mantras to say when life gets difficult. Who am I? Let it be. All is well.