I have named my new venture Kind Living as it hints at the world and community that I want to live in. I want to live among people who are generous at heart, aware, open, and loving, not because they think or believe that this is how they should behave, but because it is a natural expression of who they are.

When I connect with the feeling-tone of belonging, I want to take a deep slow breath in, inviting life into myself … and I see … ripples emanating from my heart in ever expanding circles.

To me, belonging feels equally like an offering and a gift, that grows from tenderness and contentment within my own being. Belonging has its roots in kindness, first to self and then to others. Belonging is spinning a web, whose source originates within my being and whose threads are spun from radical acceptance.

In the West we have learned to revere the mind and its analytical and logical processing power. This attitude is ingrained in our education system and places of work. It has become so much part of the fabric of our being, that it is difficult to see it for what it is – unless we become intimately connected with a culture that has a different value system, like multiple indigenous cultures around the world.

Self-Leadership aims to awaken the inner processes that allow us to perceive the world, not as black-and-white or linear, but as complex, layered and intrinsically connected.