peace Archives - Alison Wem https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/tag/peace/ Helping people to live their best life; calmness - harmony - wisdom Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:57:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.yoursoulfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-ysf-course-icon-small.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 peace Archives - Alison Wem https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/tag/peace/ 32 32 101304046 Feeling jaded?: Mother Nature can assist https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/feeling-jaded-mother-nature-can-assist/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:05:12 +0000 https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/?p=12911 So often we are so busy with our lives – work, partners, family and friends that we forget to do something for ourselves. I am as guilty of this as anyone else. Since I stepped out of corporate life, Your Soul Family has been with me on holidays, festivals and Read more

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]]> 12911 Secrets of understanding yourself https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/secrets-of-understanding-yourself/ Sat, 07 Jan 2023 11:38:33 +0000 https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/?p=24325 From my earliest years I happily chatted to someone inside of me not knowing who they were. Knowing no difference, I assumed everybody else did too. Many children do the same until they are seven when the practice seems to fade. I was a sickly child and spent much of Read more

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]]> 24325 Silence: does it help calm our brains and give well-being? https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/silence-does-it-help-calm-our-brains-and-give-well-being/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:02:01 +0000 https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/?p=23798 Many people do not value silence. I have found it to be comforting, nourishing and cosy. The noisy world is drowning out our creativity and our inner connection. Noise effects our brains causing elevated levels of stress hormones even when we are sleeping. When I was a busy, working Mum Read more

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]]> 23798 City dwellers: Do you need to find some peace? https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/city-dwellers-do-you-need-to-find-some-peace/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 18:31:56 +0000 https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/?p=23695 I live in the city of London. I would describe myself as a country girl wilting in the city. In a city we have smaller homes which are often close together. Each day I take myself for a walk to find peace and to re-connect with my soul. Getting closer Read more

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]]> 23695 How are we coping with so many people dying of Covid-19? https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/how-are-we-coping-with-so-many-people-dying-of-covid-19/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:42:28 +0000 https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/?p=23679 Grieving for a loss or trying to support someone who has lost a loved one? All of us experience grief at some point in our lives.  When we experience it for the first time it can come as quite a shock.  It is often not talked about so it is Read more

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]]> 23679 Rumi’s Reflections: Alison Wem’s Journal – Day 2 https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/rumis-reflections-alison-wems-journal-day-2/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:37:04 +0000 https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/?p=23644 Let silence take you to the core of life Jalal al-Din Rumi When I sit in silence, I go within and have the opportunity to traverse my inner landscape. Sometimes I just sit there and absorb the love and peace. Sometimes I actively engage with Spirit to re-discover wisdom. Have Read more

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]]> 23644 Do you look at your life with hope or dispair? https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/do-you-look-at-your-life-with-hope-or-dispair/ Sun, 03 Mar 2019 19:32:17 +0000 https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/?p=10160 Listen to Alison Wem’s discussion on the role despair and hope can play in your life. It is often during the most difficult times in our lives that we learn the most about our selves and how we interact with others. Hope is a very powerful emotion. Alison discusses her Read more

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]]> 10160 Is the World becoming a better or worse place to be? https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/is-the-world-becoming-a-better-or-worse-place-to-be/ Fri, 07 Dec 2018 15:37:57 +0000 https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/?p=5980 Views on this topic are probably as numerous as there are people. Periodically I pick up a newspaper and look at the headlines as a barometer on prevailing attitudes.  I did this last weekend with London’s Evening Standard. On the downside were headings relating to lies, accusations and tensions: Fake Read more

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]]> 5980 Brexit: why is there so much anger? https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/brexit-why-is-there-so-much-anger/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 03:33:35 +0000 https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/?p=5653   On the evening that news was breaking of Mrs May, UK Prime Minister, agreeing to a draft Brexit deal, I was driving to see friends who live a 1.5 hour drive away. I listened to Mrs May’s speech outside Downing street and the immediate reaction on the journey out. Read more

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]]> 5653 Remembrance Sunday: what is the value of remembering the past? https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/remembrance-sunday-what-is-the-value-of-remembering-the-past/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:00:59 +0000 https://www.yoursoulfamily.com/?p=5591 On Remembrance Sunday 2018 in the Tower of London around 10,000 candles were lit in the dry moat to remember those who fell in World War 1. The event started with smoke drifting as in the battle fields of France. A single flame was carried from the Tower. The flame Read more

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