By Simon Bell Going Let the story sink in. When you are ready, here are the questions for you to consider: Question 1. What is the main meaning of the story? What message or core or essential meaning does the story hold for you? Can you set them free? There may be many meanings which occur to you […]
By Simon Bell Commuting Let the story sink in. When you are ready, here are the questions for you to consider: Question 1. What is the main meaning of the story? What message or core or essential meaning does the story hold for you? Can you set them free? There may be many meanings which occur to you […]
By Simon Bell The Walk Let the story sink in. When you are ready, here are the questions for you to consider: Question 1. What is the main meaning of the story? What message or core or essential meaning does the story hold for you? Can you set them free? There may be many meanings which occur to […]
By Simon Bell THE CHILD The Child Let the story sink in. When you are ready, here are the questions for you to consider: Question 1. What is the main meaning of the story? What message or core or essential meaning does the story hold for you? Can you set them free? There may be many meanings which […]
By Simon Bell The need for Mindful Stories I really hope you have enjoyed reading the Mindful Stories. Maybe you found them challenging too? You may be asking yourself; “What are the stories for and what are they intended to do?” Well, in my experience there are lots of triggers which can lead people to […]
By Simon Bell NEW NORMAL It had been blowing for days on end. The wind had been raging for so long now no one could remember quite when it began. Unusual? Certainly. An emergency? What would an emergency for lengthy periods of wind mean? What would it mean in terms of the reasons for it […]
By Simon Bell Most of the time we are looking for something. From a lost key to a new career. Seeking. I know I am often seeking. To seek: a verb meaning to attempt to find something. Here are some definitions. To start with an example of seeking: “they came to seek shelter from biting […]
By Simon Bell Often there is a discrete moment or point when things change and future events tip over into a new circumstance. Sometimes we can see this coming and sometimes it is a surprise. Here is a story. There is a point to things. A point. Notice the focus on the singular. The four […]
By Simon Bell To look is one thing but to see is another. Do we always see what we are looking for or at? She closed her eyes and looked. In all her years of seeing she had never looked quite like this. This was seeing. The ‘accident’ was now over ten years ago, and […]
By Simon Bell 2. The Quartet In my previous blog I described the primary cycle for your reading of the Mindful Stories – Meaning, Relevance, Value, Insight and Action or MRVIA. In this blog I want to talk about the wider cycle which this cycle of thinking occurs within. MRVIA is intended to be a […]