Cultivating Inner Peace in disturbing days of Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Hello Friend
The world is in turmoil as I write this and we are all rightly engaged in trying to understand and stay up to date with the awfulness unfolding as Russia invades Ukraine. We want to understand the backstory, to make sense of the international response, to find ways to send our support to all impacted – in Ukraine, in Russia, and all around the world.Then we try to get our heads around all the uncertainty of what next and when?

It is right that we are disturbed, that we engage and work to figure out how we can each, individually be responsive. Yet as I wondered how to write something this week I wanted to share how I needed so much to unplug and come home to my own inner peace first.
I wanted to share two ways that help me to do that with you in case you too are looking for a little equilibrium in the midst of turmoil and uncertainty, and these might help.

From Thich Nhat Hanh
“By the way we live our daily life, we contribute to peace or to war. It is mindfulness that can tell me that I am going in the direction of war, and it is the energy of mindfulness that can help me to make a turn and to go in the direction of peace.”

Mountain Meditation – great way for me to reconnect with my own steady heart in times of trouble:
https://youtu.be/QO1lhKeiU2s

Till next time wishing you deep inner peace from which to navigate a steady path through the changes in our world.

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Dee Hennessy

Senior Facilitator, Mindful Mindset Coach, and Supervisor As a young woman, working in frontline, management, and later as a consultant to the not for profit sector I was the original ‘teflon coated’ ‘resilient’, ‘ever ready‘ professional, passionate about my work, and maybe a tad hard on myself as I strived to be perfect. My burnout came out of nowhere and it cost me dearly. Since my recovery my lifelong passion has been to ensure that no one I work with burns out on my watch. Something that I like to remind myself and others is that ‘we are humans not machines’. For years I worked in four different ways as a Spiritual Companion, a Wisdom Supervisor, a Mindfulness Teacher and a Wellness Facilitator – each offering the wonderful but often depleted individual a different pathway away from burnout and towards a life of success, meaning, purpose and happiness. In recent years I have distilled my experience of supervising, coaching and facilitation into cutting edge, bite size trainings. I have brought my 20 plus years of experience to this because we need to address the current challenges of stress and burnout. Never before has it been so important to build resilience , wellbeing and mindful leadership as in this always ‘on’ digital age where we sometimes live our lives over stretched, over busy and out of touch with ourselves. Blossom, Wisdom Supervision and Wisdom’s Garden are each a specially curated safe space to do this important work.