Cultivating Kindness with Karen

Cultivating Kindness With Karen  According to the calendar, in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the start of Spring. A time of rich rebirth and growth. The Earth and all who live upon her; including people, come alive again with the increasing warmth and sunshine. Hopes, new ideas and dreams flourish bringing inspiration. A time to tap into your powerful and magical self as you take a step back to see the bigger picture and to be filled with creativity...

Cultivating Kindness With Karen  What does abuse mean to you? Do you have a definition or meaning for abuse? For some people they think of abuse in a very narrow or limited way. Many people feel that abuse has never happed to 'me'. Especially if they are not part of the military, a frontline responder or have experienced physical abuse in some manner. Over the years Karen Leslie has changed how she views abuse and believes that it happens in so many different areas of everyday life...

Cultivating Kindness With Karen  How does that sound to you; to never be wrong and to never be right? Most likely you love the idea of never being wrong and are uncomfortable with never being right. Most people will only be ok with half of this questions; never being wrong...

Cultivating Kindness With Karen  What is a distraction? How do we even know if we have any distractions? What if we love our distractions; how could we possibly give them up? Often people love their distractions so much that they do not even see them as a distraction. How could something that gives you so much enjoyment possibly not be good for you? The determining factor if a distraction is good for you, or not, is not how much you love it or how much enjoyment you get from it...

Cultivating Kindness With Karen  Do you have dreams for you? And, I don't mean the dreams you have while sleeping. Allowing yourself the pleasure and experience to dream is vital to our happiness and growth. This was a big surprise for Karen. The concept of dreaming and the idea to actually sit and create a dream for herself was totally foreign to her. Not having a dream, or dreams, caused confusion and depression...

Cultivating Kindness With Karen  When you look at who you will be tomorrow, will you be the same person you are in this moment? Can you even imagine, for a few seconds, that you could be a new or different person? How does that make you feel? For many people it is very uncomfortable to think about changing. To think about what it would be like to show up differently at home, at work, or at school. There is a lot of comfort in knowing what is expected from you and how you are to present yourself...

Cultivating Kindness With Karen  Being curious is not always seen as a positive thing. Many people will have experienced negative comments in their day to day living for just asking questions and being curious to learn, or know, more...

Cultivating Kindness With Karen  Are you open to assistance or help? Or were you raised to be independent and always in control? Is the path you are on set in stone? Sometimes honouring ourselves is questioning our path and how we got on it. One of the biggest disadvantages I see in people is that they are stuck in one lane and not being open to other options...

Cultivating Kindness With Karen  Were you raised to have beliefs? Were you told it was important to have beliefs? Did your family instill in you the long held family beliefs? Beliefs and values often go hand-in-hand. For many people they are a source of pride and identity. A great example of this is in the USA when people say they are Red or Blue based on their beliefs or family. Karen will be exploring how our beliefs shape our world and the choices we make (not in politics)...

Cultivating Kindness With Karen  Do You often have the same thoughts running through your head? Do you find yourself thinking about the same thing over and over; even if whatever it is has passed? What's with that? In this episode of Cultivating Kindness With Karen, Karen will be exploring what keeps this way of thinking in place and how this pattern of thinking has kept her stuck in some very unhealthy thoughts and behaviours...