by SaraSwati Shakti | Nov 15, 2022 | Career, Development, Purpose, Wellbeing, Wisdom
Cultivating joy is a process of happiness in development and actualisation. When I discuss with clients how to cultivate joy, I will sometimes ask them what gave them joy in childhood, and whether they can replay it, for a renewed affect, in adulthood. I rediscovered...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Jun 2, 2022 | Leadership, Poetry, Wellbeing, Wisdom
There is a wonderful blessing from the Navajo called the Pollen Path. Also known as the Beauty Way. I liken it to the the process, and the ending of a journey. Where you are now emerging into a new world that is becoming. Where you can spread your wings into new...
by SaraSwati Shakti | May 5, 2022 | Coaching, Leadership, Personal Development, Spirituality, Wellbeing
The first time I watched the talk below I was running my consulting business, Connecting Hearts and Minds. It became a great teaching tool for combining the worlds of feeling and function. Or as I call it, spirit (of heart) and structure (of business), in the focus of...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Apr 11, 2022 | art, Leadership, Poetry, Spirituality, Wellbeing
To me, Easter is a most sacred time of year. The feast of the Christian ceremony, symbolically, of death and rebirth, is incredibly powerful, in the energy of the holy days it encapsulates. Even nature seems to slow to a stillness, and a reverence of harmony, that is...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Mar 25, 2022 | Change, Development, Psychotherapy, Wellbeing
Many years ago I was asked how I reconcile a combination of positive psychology and Jungian depth psychology as part of the preferences of modalities I enjoy using. I found this a curious question as it suggested that I could only operate in one camp, or another. Yet,...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Mar 2, 2022 | Leadership, Self Care, Self-Leadership, Wellbeing
There is no doubt that the picture stories from various events and conflicts that are being witnessed locally and globally are distressing. Creating the rupture of trigger points around survival, and security, and broken heartedness, that are creating significant...