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Why it is OK to Experience Suffering, and How to Find Freedom

By Nicole Barton | Aug 9, 2019

“Suffering is not holding you; you are holding suffering” ~ Buddha Someone challenged me the other day in a way that I didn’t expect. They asked me if I ‘suffered.’ At first I ...

Why You Should Care For and Love Yourself – with Valentte

By Nicole Barton | Jul 29, 2019

"All we need to be is who we are right now, holding ourselves in self-love." ~ Nicole Barton I've been through some really tough times recently, and the more tough life has felt, the ...

How Reconnecting to Yourself in Nature Can Help You Surrender to This Moment

By Nicole Barton | May 30, 2019

If there’s a place to go to reconnect to who you really are, it’s the Pods at Wootton Park in Warwickshire. As I sit here in one of their gorgeous treetop pod houses, surrounded ...

How Everyday Miracles Unfold When We Let Go and See Our True Freedom

By Nicole Barton | May 16, 2019

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.” ~ Thich Nhat Hahn For so long I’ve tried to be in control. I’ve tried to make sure that my life ...

Top Tips on How to Cope When the World Seems Tough

By Nicole Barton | Apr 16, 2019

We all go through it, from time to time, when we experience bad luck after bad luck, mixed with what always seems like just more awful stuff. It often happens when you’re in the ...

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Beau-tea-ful Rose Tea Stole My Heart

by Nicole Barton
January 14, 2019

Features, Lifestyle

I was recently gifted a beautiful set of products by a company called Yandra Tea. I often…

Stepping Curiously into Perceived Pain: How to Show Up

by Nicole Barton
August 8, 2018

Emotional Health, Letting Go, Lifestyle, Resilience, Spirituality, Thought, Wisdom & Insight

It is often in our discomfort where we learn the most. Not embedded in it, as…

Trust Your Heart: Having Time Feature

by Nicole Barton
August 7, 2018

Emotional Health, Features, Letting Go, Lifestyle, Spirituality, Wisdom & Insight

The beautiful team over at HavingTime.com invited me to share an impactful story on their wonderful digital story…

Your Healthy Living Magazine Feature

by Nicole Barton
July 1, 2018

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We are excited to share our latest tips, featured in Your Healthy Living Magazine. We were asked…

Celebrating Why I Love Yoga – on International Yoga Day

by Nicole Barton
June 21, 2018

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As I write this, I am reminiscing about the yoga class I was in just earlier…

The Art of Letting Go: Why There is Nothing To Do

by Nicole Barton
June 20, 2018

Connection, Letting Go, Lifestyle, Three Principles, Wisdom & Insight

I breathe out, this morning, as I walk into change. In this moment, it feels messy,…

Using Essential Oils from a Place of Wisdom – Intuitive Aromatherapy

by Nicole Barton
June 9, 2018

Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Three Principles

“No one can give away wisdom. A teacher can only lead you to it via words,…

How to Help Your Anxiety in an Instant

by Nicole Barton
May 24, 2018

Connection, Lifestyle, Three Principles

Firstly, let me introduce why I’ve posted this, by sharing this video I created with you……

How To: Make Aromatherapy Pulse Point Rollettes – a Base Formula Vlog!

by Nicole Barton
March 26, 2018

Features, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, News

We’ve recently been filming some Vlogs for Base Formula about ‘How To’ use essential oils. This month’s…

How To: Develop Your Wellbeing Website

by Nicole Barton
March 1, 2018

Lifestyle

This is a little different from the usual wellbeing advice I usually give on my blog, but…

How To: Make Easy, Healthy Valentine’s Treats

by Nicole Barton
February 12, 2018

Lifestyle

That time of year has come – you either love it or you hate it: it’s Valentine’s…

Reiki tutorial: What, When, Why & How?

by Nicole Barton
January 15, 2018

Lifestyle

Looking for a Reiki Tutorial? You’ve found it… We love Reiki! In fact, we teach it, and…

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💌 We aren't who we think

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Today has been filled with gorgeous messages from people taking part in the challenge. I'm seeing how many of us have busy minds, and that just by stopping for even 5 minutes we are beginning to just notice that we can reconnect to the wisdom just underneath our thinking.

Of course it doesn't always feel so easy to see the wisdom. Especially when we have so much thinking going on. And it can be so tempting to try and change that, to try and shift our mindset, or push our thoughts away. But that's not the purpose of what I'm trying to share here. We don't need self-help, we need self-rediscovery.
You see we don't need to 'fix, change or do' anything, because there's nothing to do. The more efforting we pile on, the more full our heads become. This was something I noticed along my own journey through illness, in which I constantly tried to fix myself, only to realise that if the wisdom is within, we can't be broken in the first place.

All we really need to do is pause, and get quiet enough to deeply listen to it; to the whispers of our intuition. This is something we might get a glimpse of, as we begin to dive inwards.

Are you noticing this during the 5 minutes a day of the #DoNothing challenge?

Why not nestle down somewhere you love, and just notice? You have all you need. 💜

#wisdom #nothingtodo #lifementor #worldmentalhealth
#justsaying #quiet #peace #truth #transformationaltruth #transformation #love #wisewords #notice

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INBUILT WISDOM - DAY 3 - #DoNothing CHALLENGE

When I began to stop and get quiet more often I noticed so much more. The less I worried about how anxious I was, the easier it moved through. I began to see that there was actually nothing TO do and that 'doing' was causing me more trouble. We aren't broken. Life is living us, regardless of any efforting we do, and we are always being returned to being psychologically ok by an innate wisdom that is inbuilt - just as inbuilt as our lungs which know how to breathe without us trying to fix them. As I began to stop the self-help, and instead got quiet I saw there was nothing to fix.
So, in your 5 minutes today, what do you notice? If you want some guidance for reflection, why not try our Day 3 Self-Rediscovery Reflections:
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- Can you notice life being lived in the noises around you?
- Can you see an innate intelligence behind life?
- We don’t tell our lungs how to breathe, and we don’t tell our hearts to beat, so why do we try and tell our minds to be psychologically okay, when it is inbuilt?

There’s nothing to do – it’s all being done for us! Share your views using the #DoNothing hashtag, in a post or stories!

Much love, 💜

#selfdiscoverynotselfhelp #selfdiscovery #selfrediscovery #doless #nothingtodo #wisdom #itsallwithin #truth #connection #love #selfcare #justsaying

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Just a little reminder for tonight about the 7 Day #DoNothing challenge for #worldmentalhealthday!

We are on Day 2, look for the post in my grid for self-rediscovery prompts and share you experience of your 5 minutes of doing nothing using the hashtag #DoNothing!

Looking forward how you've been enjoying it so far! I'm loving all the feedback from those who have already had their 5 minutes of reconnecting to inner wisdom. We've had amazing support from @soulandspiritmag and @kindredspiritmagazine too, which is wonderful to give visibility to this purposeful message. Thank you.

Enjoy loves! 💜
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#wisdom #truth #truthseeker #mentor #lifementor #selfcare #selfrediscovery #discover #selflove

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DAY 2 - #DoNothing CHALLENGE – NOTICING

How are you finding 'doing nothing'? When I first came across the fact that what we think it isn't necessarily true, my mind got busy trying to work it all out. But I soon settled into a quiet space as I began to see that my thoughts had no meaning - even the ones that said I needed to schedule time for getting quiet or doing some other self-help tool! Getting quiet kind of happened as a natural result of seeing this, once I began to see that who I was was so much more than my thoughts; that I was always tapped into my wisdom, always connected, underneath the thinking that I wasn't. So, today is all about 'noticing.' What does it feel like to get quiet?

Here’s another prompt for today’s 5 minutes if you want them - or just enjoy some space and see what shows up!

Day 2 Self-Rediscovery Reflections
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- How does getting quiet feel for you?
- Are you resistant? Does it feel spacious?
- Can you get a sense for hearing your own wisdom? Who are we beyond our thoughts?

Share your thoughts using the #DoNothing hashtag - let me know how you've got on with Day 2 for #worldmentalhealthday

Much love,

Nicole 💜

#selfrediscovery #selfdiscoverynotselfhelp #staycurious #mentalhealth #worldmentalhealth #truth #transformationaltruth #wisdom #itsallwithin #justsaying

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