Have you heard about the 144,000 angels? That isn’t the start to a joke. Apparently, there are 144,000 angels who exist for no other purpose than to help us. They’re ready and waiting. Ready, naked, angelic and waiting. But the deal is we have to ask them directly and then […]
Category: Personal development
Packing Adventures – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
A happy Monday to you. Another short one this week, and the next few in all likelihood, as I pack my life in London into cupboard boxes and move a few inches southward, on a map, that is. I’m setting of on an adventure and you can all come with […]
Let Up, Not Down – Jake Russell
Let Up, Not Down Morning all, I’m writing a very short one today because it’s all I have time for this week and in doing so I notice the urge to give myself a hard time for it. My harsh internal taskmaster is fast to blast me for the easy […]
Everything Is As It Must Be – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
Everything Is As It Must Be – Jake Russell – Cobsalad I’m sitting in the airport in Mallorca heading back to London feeling metaphorically taller from a short and sweet Balearic treat, revitalised, refreshed and excited as I look about at the life around me. Because what I see is […]
Faith and Fear
Faith and Fear Yesterday evening my mum and I went for a walk through the streets of my neighbourhood. It’s become a mini tradition for us every so often over the last couple of months. It’s an opportunity to see one another, catch up, talk about our lives, and to […]
5 Reasons You Should Meditate NOW!
5 Reasons You Should Meditate NOW! Have you been considering meditation, but keep putting it off? If so, you should put your hesitancies behind you, and start meditating. Here are 5 reasons you should meditate today. 1. Reduces stress Stress is something that plagues most adults. If you are one […]
Making The Offering – Jake Russell
Making The Offering Hi, A recurring theme has emerged in the conversations, meetings and musings of my past week. The theme is taking action to either end a destructive pattern or to begin a constructive alternative—which are, after all, two perspectives on the same objective. Whether it’s a pattern of […]
Ideal Isn’t Real – Jake Russell
Hi everyone, I’d like to begin by planting a gigantic kiss of thanks onto each of your cheeks if you responded to my call for help last week, and even onto those that didn’t; come on, have a smooch. The quantity – and warm quality – of responses blasted my […]
A Legacy Of The Barefoot Doctor
Maybe some of you know of “The Barefoot Doctor“? But for those of you who do not, he was, as sadly he passed away January 2020, Stephen Russell, who wrote under the pseudonym The Barefoot Doctor, was a practitioner and teacher of Taoism, its medicine, philosophy, meditation practices and martial […]
8 Ways to Activate Your Mind to Calm Your Brain and Body
You are not your thoughts. No matter what’s going on in your head, there’s a part of you that is separate from it. There is a part of you that is able to step back and observe what your mind is doing. Some people call this observation capability “self-awareness,” “higher self” […]
