Intensity, intensity, intensity
"Oh my God, you're just so intense!" "You're too full on!" "Enough already, can't you tone it down?!" "Take it easy, you'll give yourself a heart attack!" Recognise this?…
Sensitive insensitive
Have you ever noticed how it's very often the most insensitive people who are the most sensitive? How they can be insensitive to others feelings but are really sensitive themselves?…
Using your emotional and intuitive guidance systems
Our deepest, highest self is who we are at our fullest, most magnificent, most energetic and fulfilled. And it's the job of our emotional and intuitive guidance systems to keep…
Intelligence and love
For a long time, I saw my mind as an obstacle. An obstacle that got between me and friends. It hurt. Maybe it began when, in efforts to console and…
Genius mind… hellish emotions
We all know someone - it might even be us - who's super-bright, knows all sorts of stuff, is fast to process information and create new solutions - in short,…
Making resolutions that stick
It's New Year resolutions time again... time to put on the thinking cap and figure out how you want to approach the 2015. But you know how most resolutions fall…
8 ways to integrate your intelligences
You're familiar with the idea of integrating all your different aspects, whether you call them body, mind, and soul, or head, heart and intuition, or any other combination. But do…
Intelligent but… demotivated
There was a knock at my door. It was revision season for first-year exams, and I was at my desk leafing through my notes and worked examples. I opened the…
Intelligent but anxious: finding freedom from anxiety
You're intelligent, but anxious. You have a quick mind, a lively mind. An agile mind that jumps and leaps between connections, creates new ideas, executes them and pirouettes in dazzling…
The intuition experience
A couple of weeks ago, I asked one of my academic and openly skeptical/critical friends to play devil's advocate with me. It's a dangerous game, and one that I thoroughly…