Exeter Life Coaching

17/03/2025

I'm delivering two online sessions (30 mins) on The Power of Peripheral Vision for The Physical Intelligence Institute on Thursday, March 20. The first one starts at 9:30 AM (UK), with a repeat at 1:30 PM (UK). Peripheral Vision is one of my favorite calming strategies. Find out why and how you can use it. These presentations are free so come along to either of them if you like:

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25/10/2024

Many people still believe that reason and emotion are incompatible. Wrong! Emotion and feeling are indispensable to reasoning. Sadly, our culture is still suffering from the pernicious notion that the mind and body are separate. I call on Albert Einstein and neuroscience to help me demolish this nonsense. I then explain when to trust your gut instincts and how to become more attuned to your intuition.

Should you trust your gut? Posted on October 25, 2024 by admin Albert Einstein certainly did: “I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am” (1929). Neuroscience supports Einstein’s conclusion. Antonio Damasio’s somatic marker hypothesis...

12/09/2024

On 12 September 1994 I gave a presentation that would change my life. My presentation, ‘Sacred Ecology’, led to me doing a PhD. It was subsequently published, and although I've published widely since then, ‘Sacred Ecology’ is more popular than anything else I’ve ever written.

To mark the 30th anniversary, I’ve recorded my original paper. Listen on the Embodied Pathways podcast to find out why this paper is as relevant now as it was decades ago.

Thirty years ago I gave a presentation that would change my life. I was a Pagan environmental activist and had been invited to deliver a talk at an academic conference at Newcastle University. The event, ‘Paganism in Contemporary Britain’, was the...

12/07/2024

The experience of awe boosts well-being and encourages positive feelings towards others. It can help shift your attention away from yourself and helps you to appreciate the wonders of the world around you. Natural environments often trigger awe and with a bit of help, awe can be found almost anywhere. Follow me as I take a short awe walk in a nearby wood.

The experience of awe has been linked to enhanced well-being, life satisfaction, improved mood, prosocial feelings towards others, and a reduction in mental ...

11/07/2024

Albert Einstein: “A human being is a spatially and temporally limited piece of the whole, what we call the ‘Universe’. He experiences himself and his feelings as separate from the rest, an optical illusion of his consciousness”.

Zen Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh: "We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness."

Indigenous leader Shaneihu Yawanawá: "We are not separated from nature, we are nature" and adds, "nowadays we are very disconnected from this consciousness, this awareness".

It's time to wake up from disconnection.

What is embodiment, and how can we deepen our embodied experience? These fundamental questions have fascinated me for decades. I was curious to know what other people thought about them, so I invit…

27/06/2024

"A person is a person through other persons." It's humbling to hear Wakanyi Hoffman explain the African concept of ubuntu. Western culture is slowly rediscovering our interconnectedness, but Africa has always known.

In a 21-Day New Story Challenge, storyteller and author Wakanyi Hoffman offers stirring insights on the African concept of ubuntu ...

13/05/2024

I'm facilitating a Nature Connection workshop in Exeter on Saturday May 18th from 3 pm to 6 pm for £30. Learn simple ways to re-connect with nature that you can use anytime. Costs £30.
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My Devon-based nature connection workshops draw on many years of training, personal research, and practice. I’ve been engaged in nature connection for nearly twenty years and have trained with US and UK practitioners. My work is driven by passion and influenced by timeless indigenous wisdom and cu...

16/04/2024

This is a great sensory exercise to reduce stress, manage anxiety and reconnect with nature.

This simple exercise uses your five main senses to help you centre yourself, reduce stress and anxiety, and deepen your connection with the natural world. On...

12/04/2024

In our daily relationships, we typically offer a mix of positive and negative feedback. You might intuitively think that you can balance a critical comment with a positive stroke or compliment. It would be so simple if that harsh comment you made without thinking could be smoothed over with a positive one! Unfortunately, this is one occasion where -1 and +1 don’t equal 0.

https://exeterlifecoaching.co.uk/2024/04/12/criticise-or-compliment-get-the-right-balance/

29/02/2024

I sometimes invite my coaching clients to do the Big Five personality test. Research suggests it's around twice as accurate as the widely used MBTI test for predicting key life outcomes. If you want coaching based on research, you know where to come ;-)

A popular personality test beats out astrology but trails far behind scientific measure of personal traits

23/02/2024

Does your mind create your reality? Yes; unconscious processes involving the Reticular Activating System and priming mean that we see what we’re looking for.

Shortly before Valentine’s Day, I took a lovely long walk in the woods. As I stepped out, I was playing with the notion of romantic love and how I feel about the natural world: ‘I love …

31/01/2024

I'm delighted to announce that I am now a Certified Physical Intelligence Coach. The body is the pathway to change; coaching with Physical Intelligence gives you the map and a compass to guide you to greater strength, freedom, resilience and endurance.