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This week in focus
on Reading for Pleasure
It is interesting to (perhaps obviously) note that reading for simple and pure pleasure increases empathy, emotional self-regulation, critical thinking, and general wellbeing. Something that is all too quickly being forsaken, for many, by the more instant gratification of 30 second video snippets from apps ranging from Instagram to TikTok to FB and other ‘social’ platform reels.
Of course, when especially researching, we are able to find the details or insights for which we are searching with video content - which has a much greater ‘feel’ of similarity to full human interaction than reading provides… yet where the latter diminishes (usually) creative interpretation, imagination and focus, reading not only provides for these, as well as engages inspiration and the capacity for intuition.
Reading for simple pleasure… not for assessment, neither to treat it as ‘work’, but simply for the unadulterated joy of flowing into the insights, the tapestry, the narrative that humanity has long nurtured and cherished as, in so many ways, the foundation of cultural development.
The text read need not be an easy one…. it is more a case of simply caressing the surface of the story of shared insight and understanding, and allowing such to ignite one’s one inner journeys of discovery.
For various reasons, I was recently serendipitously revisiting Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull… I could not locate my two copies, and thus bought another (which I have since gifted). The simple depth and joy of the narrative, the imaginative metaphor of freedom as experienced and expressed, brings to light not only the importance of truth and freedom (two concepts ever so closely connected), as well as flow and love (two other concepts also ever so closely linked) - and I may as well here mention the narrative’s deep inner wisdom (closely connected to that of light).
I was again reminded, writing the above, of the incredible insights presented by both Rudolf Steiner and by Peter Deunov. The latter says that:
The ability to concentrate thought depends upon breathing, the more deeply a person breathes, the more easily they are able to concentrate.
At the same time, concentration also depends on the number of ideas occupying the mind, if a person holds too many ideas at once, they become scattered.
One should keep a single central idea in mind, around which all other ideas may gather.
To carry a sacred idea within does not mean thinking about it all day long.
It is enough to dwell on it for two minutes for that idea to begin to take shape and, in time, bear fruit.
That moment will become one of those never forgotten.
The beauty of the simple reading for pleasure includes that both thought and what Goethe calls precise imagination are engaged in a manner that, of its own accord, develops concentration - concentration that, similarly to the concentrated fire of a seed, develops to unveil the fullness that is to take place and grow of its own accord.
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Spiritual Formation
Personal Development has traditionally focussed on spiritual formation. In the manner that I work, I include practices inclusive of imagery and meditation. If you are interested in finding out more, please be in contact.
Following an initial consultation, deepening work requires commitment for a once-a-month meeting for either 6 or 12 months (renewable if desired).
Wednesday evening
Meditation
Balingup - Balingup Yoga Studio
opposite Tinderbox on Brockman Street
Wednesdays 6 pm - 7:30 pm
Term 3 2026 - dates to be confirmed (8 weeks)
Home schooling 12-17 y.o.
Text: Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull
9:30 – 11:30 BOOK – Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull
12:30 – 2:30 ART – focussed on Labyrinths
Please obtain a copy of the book.
You will also need, for the art, a drawing book (ideally A4 or larger).
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