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Creating Inner Coherence - Reflections on Life

What do we REALLY do with this thing we get to call our life?

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Aug 05, 2025
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Hello friend,

I wanted to write today about a few things that I hope will bring insight and reflection, and a dose of inspiration, and settling inside oneself.

Something I have been long focussed on in internal cohesion. Coherence is the quality that takes place when there is a unified whole. Flow states, a deep sense of trust, and a body and mind, brain and soul that are aligned and connected. Peace comes from this place. And through my studies of neuroscience, psychotherapy, somatics and spirituality, I am often fascinated how they are treated in isolation and not interwoven together.

The thinking mind is a powerful beast, and can dominate the whole system if let to run wild. Our personality structures often dominate, are misunderstood and instead of being integrated are often siloed and isolated into parts we want to cut away and exhile. We are often in a constant fight with our own minds, overwhelmed and agitated. Add in that most people are just continually filling up from the outs…

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