Stillness in the Storms
This is a podcast for anyone going through something hard. No quick fixes. No everything happens for a reason. No advice from a man who has never had a bad week. I am Steven Webb. In 1991, aged 18, I dived into a swimming pool in Truro and broke my neck. I have been paralysed from the chest down ever since. That is not the hard part of the story. It took another twenty two years, a bankruptcy, a spell homeless and a dark night at forty before I found anything that actually helped. What helped was Zen. Not the serene kind...
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- StandardSummaries onlyOverwhelmed by the News: Caring Without Drowning
Published Oct 4, 2026
How do you care about what's happening in the world without it dragging you under? Practice first, news second. Then do one small thing and put it down.Support me with a coffee and join my Weekly Calm every Sunday: stevenwebb.ukThe night I broke my neck, I only had to get through the next breath. My family were stood in the corridor with nothing to do, not knowing if I'd see the morning. That's the harder seat, and now we're all sat in it, every day, on a phone. Our hearts were built for a villa
- StandardSummaries onlyWe're All Terrible Meditators: The Art of Doing Nothing on Purpose
Published Sep 20, 2026
Are you bad at meditating? So is everyone. The mind wanders because that is its job. Meditation is not quieting it, it is noticing you have gone and coming back.Support me with a coffee and join my Weekly Calm every Sunday: stevenwebb.ukWhen I started, I thought meditation was sit down, be quiet, no thoughts, pure bliss. It lasted about 30 seconds. Then a teacher gave me the only instruction that ever worked: just sit and do nothing. His version had four letters. Your body knows how to breathe a
- StandardSummaries onlyWhat Will I Miss? My Story for World Suicide Prevention Day
Published Sep 10, 2026
What would you miss? This episode is about suicide, my granddad's and my own, and the one question that kept me here. If you need help right now, the numbers are just below.If you need help right nowUK and Ireland: Samaritans, call 116 123. Free, any hour, any day.UK only, if you cannot talk: text SHOUT to 85258. Free, 24 hours.US: call or text 988.Australia: Lifeline, 13 11 14.I was 12 when my granddad went missing from the farm. The next morning Andy woke me and said they had found him. At 18
- StandardSummaries onlyGates, Not Thorns: Are Your Boundaries a Prison?
Published Sep 6, 2026
Support Steven's work. Treat him to a coffee stevenwebb.ukAre your boundaries keeping you safe, or keeping you stuck? I have never liked the word. This week a reader called Katherine gave me a better one: gates, not thorns.I have carers in my life 24 hours a day, so I could not build walls even if I wanted to. I had to grow the strength to let the world in instead, and that is where I stand on boundaries. A red line between two people is healthy. It is an agreement, not a wall. A rulebook the wh
- StandardSummaries onlyThere Is No Steven in Here: What I Learned at the Bottom of a Swimming Pool
Published Aug 22, 2026
Who are you, really, behind all the roles? Sit properly with that question and no answer comes. That is the answer.Open me up and there is no Steven in there. In deep sleep there is no Steven either. We wake up and we come online and we boot the roles: dad, councillor, host, meditator. Each one needs a different set of skills, and you can only run one at a time. So who is watching the breath when you meditate? Ask whether you are aware of your left toe and you were not, and then you were. In tha
- StandardSummaries onlyIf This Were My Last Podcast
Published Aug 11, 2026
If this were my last podcast, what would I want to leave you with? Let everything happen to you. No feeling is final.That is Rilke, and it is where this one started. No script, just a cup of coffee. You cannot change the present moment. You cannot grow your hair, lose weight, get younger or stop the rain in this second, and yet we spend enormous energy arguing with what has already arrived. Imagine a rainbow with only two colours in it. That is a life lived in a narrow band of feeling. Watching
- StandardSummaries onlyHappily Never After
Published Aug 2, 2026
What if the thing you keep chasing is the exact reason you cannot catch it? There is no happily ever after, and that is good news.Picture the ox with a carrot on a stick fixed above its own head. Every step forward moves the carrot forward. That is happiness as most of us run it. And it is not a design fault, it is evolutionary genius, because if you settled the moment you got something you would never go further. The man who loses everything is miserable on day one and fine two years later. Hap
- StandardSummaries onlyPart of You Doesn't Want the Pain to Stop: Here's Why
Published Jul 26, 2026
Why does part of you not want the pain to stop? Pain is inevitable. Suffering is the second arrow, and you fire that one.The first arrow lands and it hurts. Then we load the bow ourselves. Every replay in your head, every post, every phone call to a friend, is another arrow into the same wound. And here is the uncomfortable bit. The suffering loop feeds us, because it makes us the hero of our own story. Nobody wants to hear about the good day and the view over the ocean. Everybody leans in for t
- StandardSummaries onlyWhat Your Anger Is Really Saying
Published Jun 28, 2026
What is your anger actually saying? My teacher Jun Po told me he has never known an angry person who did not care.Sit with that one. Anger is the bodyguard. It steps in to put something right, to stop it happening again, to defend what matters. Throw the hammer away and you have thrown away an emotion that evolution spent a very long time building. A child is furious about a red T-shirt when they wanted green, and to them the world just ended. When you are in a life where things go wrong fast, t
- StandardSummaries onlyThe Mind That Will Not Be Quiet
Published Jun 18, 2026
Why does your mind pick 3am? You have thirty to forty thoughts a minute and you asked for none of them. The mistake is deciding the goal is a blank, silent mind.Set that as the target and the trains keep coming and you feel like you are failing at it. You are not. Here is the whole thing in one sentence. You are not the thought, you are the one listening to it. Because if you can hear it, you cannot only be it. There is a tiny space between the thought and the reaction, usually too small to noti
- StandardSummaries onlyGiving Space: Love Without Taking Over
Published Jun 7, 2026
Giving SpaceWhat is the hardest kind of love? Giving somebody space. Not walking away, not going cold, not pretending you do not care. Space that still says I am here.We argue with family most because we are trying to prove we have changed. See me, I am here. Real space is not silent punishment and it is not neglect. Before you step in, ask honestly whether you are helping them or reducing your own discomfort. Have you listened long enough, or are you just ready with the answer?One thing to try: Before you
- StandardSummaries onlyThe First 30 Seconds: Why Every Feeling Is a Gift
Published May 31, 2026
Where does a feeling actually come from, and what happens in the first thirty seconds of it?The amygdala flags something before you know it. A second or two later the adrenaline is in, the heart is up, the blood is heading for the big muscles. That is not your body malfunctioning. That is your body being brilliant. Picture a campfire and somebody says, what was that. You want the person who feels the fear. Every feeling has a healthy end and an unhealthy end of the same stick, and we keep trying
- StandardSummaries onlyWaking Up to Body Betrayal: How to Find Peace in the Pain
Published May 17, 2026
Is your body letting you down, or have you been sold that story? Mine is not the enemy. It has always told me exactly what it needed, and I did not always listen.Every morning is like this for me at the moment, so I do feel it. But we have been handed a story where the body is the opposition. It is not. It is the mind, the body, the toes, the fingers, the knees, all in it together. We ignore the soldiers doing the work, then get angry the moment anything goes wrong. Thank you for being my compan
- StandardSummaries only"I'm Fine": When It's Armour, When It's Honest, and How to Tell
Published May 3, 2026
When you say I'm fine, is it armour or is it honest? Both, depending on the day. And sometimes fine is genuinely the right answer, because not every conversation is one you want.Every carer, every encounter, however small. I take notice about one time in twenty. There is nothing wrong with the armour. My nan had a way of dealing with people who came in moaning. And there is the master whose final teaching came years later, once the student was ready to hear it. Try a different answer once and se
- StandardSummaries only8 Billion Minds. Why Meditation Doesn't Work for Everyone (And What You Can Do About It)
Published Apr 26, 2026
Why does meditation work for some people and not others? Eight billion minds. You can only write the book from the altitude you are actually standing at.My chair broke and I could not do anything. That is a lifeline gone, and a friend had to come and push me out to the van. In the weeks after I read a hundred and twenty year old book by James Allen saying you are not your thoughts. Sometimes I need to think something through and I will go into a story deliberately. Other times there are gaps bet
- StandardSummaries onlyDemystifying Meditation: What You Need to Know
Published Apr 18, 2026
Demystifying MeditationDoes meditation actually help in real life, off the cushion? That is the only place it counts. In the car, in the queue, and the second before you snap at somebody.You cannot switch off a taste you dislike, so expecting to switch off a thought is the wrong ask. You choose which train to drive rather than stopping the trains. Little and often beats forty minutes on a Saturday. You do not need a lotus position, though a straight back helps. Three deep breaths connect the mind and the body and that
- StandardSummaries onlyThe Dignity of Being Tired: Give Yourself a Break
Published Apr 11, 2026
Why is it so hard to say I am tired? Tiredness is not a weakness. It is your body telling you something honest, and ignoring it was never a strategy.When I was Mayor of Truro there were days I had nothing left at all. I cannot feel anything from the chest down and I have autonomic dysreflexia, so my body signals things differently to yours. I took a couple of days and genuinely stopped. That beats soldiering on and taking three days over a one day job, every time.One thing to try: Sit and ask on
- StandardSummaries onlyWhat Rises When You Stop Pushing
Published Apr 5, 2026
What rises when you finally stop pushing? Something usually does, and it is rarely the thing you were forcing.Easter, and all this talk of new life can land as pressure when you are still in the ground. Not all trees bloom at the same time. Drive down any road and most daffodils are out and one on the end is only just arriving, and nobody thinks that one has failed. The tide does not come in cleanly either. It goes out, readjusts, comes back slightly further. There is a Scandinavian proverb that
- StandardSummaries onlyFinding Inner Peace: Do You Need to Be a Buddhist?
Published Mar 29, 2026
Finding Inner PeaceDo you need to be a Buddhist to find inner peace? I am not one, and I do not think you need to be either.I am recording this three days after an operation and on painkillers, so bear with me. I collected the statues and the pictures and the apps and books I never read. What I was after was for the calm to rub off. But the practices do not need the beliefs. Meditation, awareness, compassion for yourself and for others, sitting with what is rather than fighting it. None of that asks you to believe
- StandardSummaries only"Is This All There Is?" Answering the Quiet Question in Your Heart
Published Mar 15, 2026
Is this all there is? If that question keeps visiting you, it is not a fault. It might be the most important one you have asked.I was young, flat on my back, with four TV channels I could see in a little mirror and nothing else to do but think. Two questions arrived and they have never fully left. Life looks fine from outside, so you feel guilty for asking, and you tell yourself you are being ungrateful. Carl Jung said the first half of life builds the ego and your place in the world, and the se
- StandardSummaries onlyWhen Letting Go Feels Impossible, Try This Instead
Published Mar 6, 2026
What if letting go is the wrong instruction? Every time somebody says it, your mind grips the thing tighter.In 1992 I sat with a manual wheelchair I could barely move, triceps paralysed, hands paralysed, and I spent days trying to prove I was not disabled. The moment I accepted it, everything changed. Telling your body to forget something it built to protect you is a losing argument. It is quicksand. The more you struggle the deeper you go. So swap the word. Acceptance is not passive. It is the
- StandardSummaries onlyWho Are You When No One Needs Anything?
Published Feb 26, 2026
Who are you when nobody needs anything from you? One day you are wanted everywhere, and then almost overnight you are not.The role becomes the identity. The one who holds the family together, keeps the plates spinning, gets the three in the morning call. Then it stops. Redundancy, a divorce, the youngest leaving, the year ending. Everyone tells you that you should be grateful, and you are, and gratitude and grief sit side by side quite happily. You cannot pour from a cup that has been empty for
- StandardSummaries onlyApricity and the Calm After the Storm
Published Jan 17, 2026
How do you stay calm through the strongest winds Cornwall has ever had? You watch the news enough to know what is happening, and then you stop watching it.Officially we did not break a hundred, which I am glad about. I check in on the news every four and a half seconds because you never know what is coming next, and that is exactly the habit worth breaking. The world is noisy. My word this year is to simplify, and this podcast is part of that. We are not even in control of where the weight goes
- StandardSummaries onlyForget Resolutions: Why One Word Is All You Need This Year
Published Jan 3, 2026
Forget ResolutionsWhat would your one word for the year be? Forget resolutions. One word does more work than a list you will have abandoned by February.Mine came out of simplifying. Take away what you do not need and it goes right down to the complicated things. If you love something you accept it rather than trying to change it. Embrace the anxiety, because it is the seven year old saying watch out, last time this was rubbish. My word is curiosity. Open, and asking what is happening now.One thing to try: Pick yo
- StandardSummaries onlyWhen Jesus and the Buddha Sit at the Same Table
Published Nov 16, 2025
Do Jesus and the Buddha actually disagree? I do not think they do. You write the book for the audience in front of you, and that explains most of the difference.Most religions come down to something similar underneath. Buddhism differs in asking you to believe in yourself, and that the hard times are not as solid as they look. I am not aware all the time. My depth is nowhere near what people assume. My seven year old self is still there, and now I just have a chat with him and give him a hug.One
- StandardSummaries onlyThe Truth About Inner Peace: 5 Myths Debunked
Published Oct 30, 2025
What does inner peace actually mean? It is what is left when you are not suffering. It is already there, and mostly we just forget it is.I did not need somebody to fix anything. I needed somebody to sit there. Inner peace is always present, the way a drink is already on the table as you get older and realise you can just reach for it. Thoughts arrive as trains and you choose which to board. Happiness is an experience that comes and goes. Peace is the thing underneath that does not.One thing to t
- StandardSummaries onlyIn a Hard World, Your Softest Skills Are Your Strongest Asset
Published Sep 20, 2025
What cards were you actually dealt? I never finished school, I was kicked out of sixth form, and I have never passed an exam beyond GCSEs. You play the hand.You cannot change the cards, only how you play them. The powerful hold hard power, military or influence, and it looks unbeatable from underneath. The good hands are the ones you work for, with time and courage and honesty and self awareness in them. Those are not handed out. Run through the soft skills and count how many you are already hol
- StandardSummaries onlyHow to Be Your Own Loving Parent
Published Sep 5, 2025
Who is parenting you? Most of us need somebody to say put your shoes on and get out of there, and there is nobody doing it, so it has to be us.Short videos are junk food for the brain and I keep thinking the next one will help. What a good parent would say is not get a grip. It is be a bit kinder to yourself in the journal tonight. There will never be one episode that sorts your storms out for good, and I would be lying if I pretended otherwise.One thing to try: Say to yourself what a kind paren
- StandardSummaries onlyEmpathy vs. Compassion: What's the Real Difference?
Published Aug 5, 2025
What is the actual difference between empathy and compassion? Alan Watts called compassion the cosmic wink that says I see you, fellow player. That is the whole of it.Judgement is when we look up and decide she is lazy or he is attention seeking. Then somebody lists everything wrong with their day and we cannot stand it, usually because we do not like seeing our own mirror. When you let compassion in, you let in all your own flaws with it. The heart opens both ways or it does not open.One thing
- StandardSummaries onlyAttachment Isn’t the Enemy. The Struggle to Let Go Is
Published Jul 27, 2025
Is attachment really the enemy? No. It is the struggling to let go that hurts.I smoked for the best part of thirty years. I am attached to pleasure, to hope, to feeling well. The Western version of this is that you must give everything up, and that is not it. Try pushing a bird off your hand and telling it to go. It leaves and it comes back. My council put a new kitchen in and I hated going in there for weeks, and then I did not. Stop chasing the carrot and it stops running. Just let the hour pa
- StandardSummaries onlyForgiveness Begins When the Heart Breaks Open
Published Jul 6, 2025
How do you forgive somebody who cheated on you? Not by understanding it. Something stopped me asking the questions, and that turned out to be the whole gift.I wanted to know how, and who with, and how long for. I did not ask. It took me a long time to work out that I was not grieving her. I was grieving the life, the freedom, the joys. Name what they did silently, as an object, and do not go down the story with it. Let the pain be there if it comes. Then it has nothing to do with them any more.O
- StandardSummaries onlyOverthinking Is Not Your Fault (But Here's How to Stop)
Published Jun 8, 2025
Whose thoughts are they, actually? Mostly your parents', your grandparents', your teachers'. Overthinking is not your fault, which is the good news and the bad news at once.At 40 I was single, out of money, on benefits, and my chair had broken. I would sleep ninety minutes and wake to thoughts that would not stop, and that went on for weeks. I was a terrible meditator and still am. You cannot turn a negative thought into a positive one by deciding to. You sit in the station and let the trains go
- StandardSummaries onlyThe Truth About Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome
Published Jun 1, 2025
Do anxiety and imposter syndrome ever go away? No. Mine did not. What changed is that I stopped treating them as the problem and started treating them as voices.I sat there thinking people vote for me because they feel sorry for me, or because I am in a wheelchair. Then another voice comes in and says hang on, thank you for putting your nose in, but it was fine last time. That is the argument, and it never fully stops. The hard bit is doing it again and again. Hello, how are you today, like an a
- StandardSummaries onlySelf Acceptance – The Zen Way
Published May 19, 2025
What are you going to complain about once everything is fixed? If you sorted the entire world out tomorrow, what would you do with the rest of the day?Somebody told me what STFU stands for and it was not what I expected. We are handed a blank canvas and immediately want to paint it a colour. On the road I was bored and cold and fed up, and then I started seeing the lines in a leaf, and a car going past making them jump and settle. Two bears, one with a machete and one with donuts. Focus on the r
- StandardSummaries onlyHow Big Is Your Circle? Let's Talk Love and Acceptance
Published Apr 30, 2025
How big is your circle, honestly? Not who you like. Who you would genuinely be there for. And most of us can accept a stranger more easily than our own brother.You move in and out of these levels during a single day. Give me a bad headache and mine shrinks fast. There are good reasons for countries and we are still all human. The strange bit is that the person driving you mad is usually the one closest in. How wide can you make it on a day when you are not feeling generous?One thing to try: Pict
- StandardSummaries onlyFeel Deeply, Suffer Less: The Unexpected Power of Emotion
Published Apr 7, 2025
Can you detach from pain without going numb to everything else? No, and that is the catch. Deny the hard feelings and the good ones go with them.There is the small mind that has problems and the big mind where nothing needs fixing. Trying to deny it all is like keeping a garden and never taking your shoes off. You never find out what the grass feels like. It is not nice watching somebody suffer, and if you have a big heart it is harder. I get lonely because I am wanting something I have not got,
- StandardSummaries onlyHow to Stay Calm in the Face of Anger
Published Mar 29, 2025
Why does a raised voice make you feel sick? Your nervous system is not overreacting. It learned that anger meant danger, and it is still doing its job.I was shouted at as a child, so some of it is that. Some of it is the person triggering something older. I get triggered by my daughter more than almost anybody, because I care and because I expected more. Nobody owns the road, and yet everybody wants to park in front of their own house. Anger is a hammer. It can smash a thing up or build somethin
- StandardSummaries onlyThe Art of Slowing Down: Spiritual Timeouts
Published Mar 10, 2025
Do you need an hour to reset, or would thirty seconds do it?Thich Nhat Hanh said smile, breathe and go slowly. I am hopeless at the going slowly. What I can do is use the small forced pauses. I left the phone at home to go and meet somebody, and I gave them my whole attention for the first time in ages. Alan Watts said muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. You do not have to clear it. You just have to stop stirring for a moment.One thing to try: At the next door handle, stand still fo
- StandardSummaries onlyEnlightenment in 2 Minutes: How Micro-Moments Can Transform Your Life
Published Feb 22, 2025
What is enlightenment, really? Waking up to what is true and suffering less for it. Not floating. And for me it started with a hundred and twenty year old book.I had a dream of a life that got ripped away unexpectedly. Then As a Man Thinketh told me I am not my thoughts, and that would not leave me alone. A sound reaches my head and my head interprets it and then tells me what it is. I am not in that loop. Two people never see the same colour, because both brains did the interpreting.One thing t
- StandardSummaries onlyFinding Peace and Stillness in the Current Storms
Published Feb 15, 2025
How do you stay steady when the news will not stop? Six weeks into the year and it is already relentless.I am fifty two, my body is paralysed, my immune system is not what it was, and this cold has taken a hammering out of me. On top of that the headlines keep coming and I keep going back for more. So I have started asking a different question. What if I wake up tomorrow and the kettle does not work, or the heating is gone? Suddenly the tea is a gift. And I have taken the iPad out of the bedroom
- StandardSummaries onlyEmotional Connections: The Moments That Shape Us
Published Feb 7, 2025
Emotional ConnectionsWhat do you actually remember of your life? Not the years. Just the moments.I have done five hundred miles round Cornwall in my electric wheelchair this year, and what I have kept from it is moments. Everything is stored that way. I met a man who told me about being flown to Salisbury at eighteen, and I had been in that same tight space, chewing my knees, and suddenly it was like I had known him all my life. The ones that shaped me most are the rock bottoms. That is why I cry easily now, and I d
- StandardSummaries onlyNavigating Life's Struggles: Acceptance vs. Avoidance
Published Jan 29, 2025
Are you accepting your life, or quietly avoiding it? I wrote this at two in the morning and it caught me out.I teach acceptance. And the one thing I have never accepted is my own disability. That is the elephant in my world. Giving in to an electric wheelchair was one of the hardest days of the early years. I have spent my life dodging labels, dodging pity and dodging the story people hand to somebody like me, and I am not sure whether that is freedom or avoidance. There is no right way. Half a
- StandardSummaries onlyUnveiling the True Self: Beyond Ego and Illusion
Published Jan 8, 2025
Who is the you underneath the you? There is a self below the ego, and the ego is the part doing all the suffering.Ask who Steven is and the false self answers first. Podcast host. Councillor. Meditator. Man in a wheelchair. All of that is memory doing the job it evolved for, remembering where the bear was. Underneath it is something with no desires and no story, and you can find the edge of it right now. Are you aware of your left toe? You were not, and then you were. Now widen that until it is
- StandardSummaries onlyMoments That Matter: A Heartfelt New Year Message
Published Dec 31, 2024
Moments That MatterDo you actually rely on anybody? I cannot put a jumper on without help, and it took me most of my life to stop saying no thanks. You rely on people too.Looking back at a year you do not see a line. You see moments. The lad who chased me down the street with a pound for the bucket. Everybody is climbing the same mountain from a different side, seeing something genuinely true and calling everybody else wrong. Nobody is a hundred percent wrong, and very rarely is anybody a hundred percent right.One
- StandardSummaries onlyNavigating the Holiday Chaos: A Guide to Compassionate Mindfulness
Published Dec 3, 2024
How do you find any peace at Christmas when everybody expects you to be upbeat?There is the noise, the money, the debates round the table, and underneath all of it the fear of losing people. You cannot control the dinner, the presents or your relatives. It is like getting in the sea and expecting the sea to move around you. What changed things for me was sitting back and saying, go on then, let me have it. Then I did not have to do anything with what turned up, my thoughts included. Lower the ex
- StandardSummaries onlyVulnerability: A Pathway to Courage and Wisdom
Published Nov 24, 2024
Is being vulnerable the same as being weak? Asking for help is the most vulnerable thing most of us ever do.I recorded this twice. The first time I talked about everybody else's vulnerability and it was not honest, so I binned it. I need people. When my body goes into dysreflexia I need somebody there, and there is nothing optional about it. But there is a difference between being vulnerable and feeling vulnerable. When you ask, you can ask from fear, or you can ask from courage and wisdom at th
- StandardSummaries onlyBeyond Mindfulness: Deepening Your Spiritual Insight
Published Nov 13, 2024
Beyond MindfulnessWhat comes after mindfulness? Noticing the leaves is the start, not the finish.I was coming down the hill in my electric wheelchair looking at the leaves, and it struck me that plain awareness is only the doorway. It is simple and it is hard, and it is nearly impossible to explain to somebody who has not felt it. Awareness is not only outward either. What can the body teach me right now. And gratitude goes the same way: thank you kettle is the surface, and underneath it runs all the way out to c
- StandardSummaries onlyEgo vs. Essence: Finding Peace Beyond Your Labels
Published Nov 3, 2024
Who are you without your story? Take away the job, the labels and the roles, and what is left?You were born a blank canvas and other people handed you the colours. Parents, teachers, the lot. Everything you do today comes out of that. I put a photo of myself in an odd hat on Facebook and watched how quickly a label arrives. You have a thousand voices in there and some are braver, wiser or kinder than the one that usually speaks. Drop the story and you are not becoming somebody new. You are just
- StandardSummaries onlyWhy Letting Go is Hard and How to Make it Easier
Published Oct 25, 2024
Why is letting go so hard? Because your mind evolved to hold on. This is about what comes after forgiveness, when there is nothing left to do but put it down.I say things in council meetings and then spend the evening asking myself why I said them. A tree lets a leaf die and fall and puts no weight on it whatsoever. For years we have lived as though a thought demands an action. It does not. If somebody throws a name at you, do not catch it. Start with the small stuff and work up.One thing to try
- StandardSummaries onlyTransforming Your Thoughts: The Truth About Positive and Negative Thinking
Published Oct 22, 2024
Transforming Your ThoughtsIs there really such a thing as a negative thought? By the end of this I do not think you will say yes.Wait for your next thought. You cannot make one. You do not know what it will be. So whose thought is it. Your subconscious has no idea what is positive or negative. A good haul is a positive thought to a burglar. It has no timeline either, no tomorrow, no last week. It hands you what it thinks you need right now. My mind is a twenty four hour committee meeting of about ten thousand voices argu
- StandardSummaries onlyMoments That Matter: A Journey Through Cornwall
Published Oct 13, 2024
Moments That MatterWhat do you take away from 500 miles in a wheelchair? A hundred and forty parishes, three hundred places, thousands of conversations, and one question that stopped me years ago.Four or five hours a day on the road at a snail's pace, and it never once rained where I was. The brain stores the day at the front and moves it to the back overnight, filing emotions with emotions, and it cannot tell whether it was a film or your life. This one also goes back to the day I left home heading for a river, a
- StandardSummaries onlyA Special Update: 500 Miles and a Heavy Heart – Philosophical Musings from the Road
Published Sep 15, 2024
What do you do when a friend dies while you are out raising money in their honour? I was on the road doing 500 miles for the air ambulance when I got the message.He broke his neck a couple of years before I broke mine. Same level, same everything. He wrote a book. He flew planes. An hour after I heard, my ego said carry on and my body said no, and I had that argument the whole way. If you are listening to this you are alive, and that is the celebration. Do not go hunting one life purpose. Ask wh
- StandardSummaries onlyThe Art of Letting Go Without Losing Grip: Mastering Life's Balancing Act
Published Aug 17, 2024
Is letting go of everything actually good advice? No. Hold it too tightly and it is a hot mess. Drop it entirely and nothing happens. The answer sits in the middle.Everybody quotes the song and nobody means it. I am doing 500 miles round Cornwall. Hold that loosely and I will enjoy it. Hold it tightly, with twenty thousand pounds to raise and a set number of miles a day, and I will not. I am not in control of the traffic or the potholes. Other people bring something to the table too, and that is
- StandardSummaries onlyBeyond Happiness: The Importance of Nourishment for a Meaningful Life
Published Aug 3, 2024
Beyond HappinessWhat is the difference between something that makes you happy and something that nourishes you? Fireworks are wonderful. They do not feed you for the week.Even a sip of water is more entertaining than meditation. But meditation gives you wisdom and calm and the ability to see things as they actually are, which the firework does not. Your favourite track is gone twenty minutes later. Enjoy it, but do not ask it to carry the day. I have been taking more time alone lately, by choice, and it is doin