Understanding Forgiveness - Part 5
Pardon Wrong Doers This Weeks Video Come on! As if loving your enemies, blessing those who curse you, and doing good to those who hate...
Russell Sturgess
- May 31
- 5 min
Understanding Forgiveness - Part 4
Judge Not This Weeks Video “Judge not, that ye be not judged.”(1) The word judge as a verb arose from words that typically meant “to form...
Russell Sturgess
- May 3
- 5 min
Understanding Forgiveness - Part 3
Turn the Other Cheek This Weeks Video The very first of the situations proposed in the Sermon on the Mount for not resisting evil was...
Russell Sturgess
- Apr 1
- 5 min
Understanding Forgiveness - Part 2
Bless Those Who Curse You This Weeks Video …and do good to them that hate you! This is the loving approach to life that was taught in the...
Russell Sturgess
- Mar 1
- 5 min
Understanding Forgiveness - Part 1
Love Your Enemies This Weeks Video There is a saying that declares, “What you resist persists”. A resistive consciousness gives...
Russell Sturgess
- Feb 1
- 4 min
Understanding Forgiveness - Introduction
If peace is your priority, then forgiveness will be your only function. This Weeks Video I know this may seem too simple, but the key to...
Russell Sturgess
- Dec 2, 2021
- 5 min
Understanding Mindfulness - Part 8
Mindfulness and the Covid Freedom Rallies: Civil Resistance Approached with a Love Consciousness This Weeks Video Tomorrow I am going to...
Russell Sturgess
- Nov 1, 2021
- 5 min
Understanding Mindfulness - Part 7
Mindfulness and Homemaking: Approaching Homemaking in a Holistic and Mindful Way This Weeks Video You have heard the old adage,...
Russell Sturgess
- Oct 5, 2021
- 5 min
Understanding Mindfulness - Part 6
Mindfulness and Ageing: How to Mindfully Engage Getting Old This Weeks Video A book entitled Trionfi was written by Petrarch, an Italian...
Russell Sturgess
- Sep 1, 2021
- 5 min
Understanding Mindfulness - Part 5
Mindfulness and the Environment: Developing a Conscious Relationship with Mother Nature This Weeks Video You might recall that the EAP...
Russell Sturgess
- Jun 18, 2021
- 7 min
Understanding Mindfulness - Part 4
Mindfulness and Sexuality: How Our Level of Awareness Impacts on Sexual Intimacy This Weeks Video Mindfulness as it relates to sexuality,...
Russell Sturgess
- May 11, 2021
- 5 min
Understanding Mindfulness - Part 3
Mindfulness and Parenting: How Natural Justice and Mindfulness Interplay This Weeks Video One of my earliest recollections of becoming...
Russell Sturgess
- Apr 7, 2021
- 5 min
Understanding Mindfulness - Part 2
Mindfulness and Food: Breaking Free From Your Habitual Behaviour with Food This Weeks Video It’s obvious that the apostle Paul wasn’t...
Russell Sturgess
- Mar 8, 2021
- 7 min
Understanding Mindfulness - Part 1
Mindfulness and Relationship: How to Replace Angst With Love Through Being Mindful This Weeks Video Mindfulness is remembering in each...
Russell Sturgess
- Feb 2, 2021
- 3 min
Understanding Mindfulness - Introduction
The Practical Application of Mindfulness in "Real-Life" This Weeks Video During 2021 I will be doing a series of blogs on the practical...
Russell Sturgess
- Sep 29, 2020
- 4 min
Eight Principles of Love - Part 8
Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted For Righteousness Sake As far back as Saint Augustine it was said that this Beatitude was an add-on....
Russell Sturgess
- Sep 11, 2020
- 4 min
Eight Principles of Love - Part 7
Blessed Are The Peacemakers The origin of the word peacemaker meant ‘to bring about reconciliation’. In a broader context, reconciliation...
Russell Sturgess
- Aug 5, 2020
- 4 min
Eight Principles of Love - Part 6
Blessed Are The Pure In Heart The state of the heart was a fundamental focus of early religions. This was evidenced in the placement of...
Russell Sturgess
- Jul 2, 2020
- 4 min
Eight Principles of Love - Part 5
Blessed Are The Merciful The thirteenth-century etymology of the word mercy meant having “a disposition to forgive or show compassion.”...
Russell Sturgess
- Jun 2, 2020
- 5 min
Eight Principles of Love - Part 4
Blessed Are Those Who Hunger And Thirst After Righteousness The fourth Beatitude says, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after...
Russell Sturgess
- May 7, 2020
- 4 min
Eight Principles of Love - Part 3
Blessed Are The Meek When people hear the word meekness, they immediately think of weakness. Given the origin of the word, it’s easy to...
Russell Sturgess
- Apr 1, 2020
- 5 min
Eight Principles of Love - Part 2
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn Mourning is the external manifestation of grief, which is the primary experience that accompanies most forms...
Russell Sturgess
- Mar 5, 2020
- 4 min
Eight Principles of Love - Part 1
Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit The first Beatitude found in the Sermon on the Mount reads, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is...
Russell Sturgess
- Feb 11, 2020
- 4 min
Eight Principles of Love - Introduction
The Underpinning Philosophy of EAP Just over 2000 years ago, a new theology emerged, which could best be described as a theology of love...
Russell Sturgess
- Jan 10, 2020
- 4 min
Creating Sustainable Change - Part 7
Step 6: Look for Opportunities to SERVE (BE KIND) The rationale for including service has been explained in Step 5. Along with gratitude,...
Russell Sturgess
- Dec 3, 2019
- 4 min
Creating Sustainable Change - Part 6
Step 5: Celebrate and Express GRATITUDE as the Changes Occur The brain has a network of nerves called neurons, dynamic electrical wiring...
Russell Sturgess
- Nov 8, 2019
- 5 min
Creating Sustainable Change - Part 5
Step 4: How to SUSTAIN the Changes In Step 3 of this series I looked at how to integrate change into your life. In this step, I am going...
Russell Sturgess
- Oct 2, 2019
- 4 min
Creating Sustainable Change - Part 4
Step 3: Consider Ways to INTEGRATE it into My Life So far, you have established that better serving thoughts, feelings, and actions, as...
Russell Sturgess
- Sep 4, 2019
- 4 min
Creating Sustainable Change - Part 3
Step 2: LEARN More About the Pros and Cons In ignorance, most people aren’t aware of any better serving alternatives for how they live...
Russell Sturgess
- Aug 10, 2019
- 4 min
Creating Sustainable Change - Part 2
Step 1: Be Clear About What You VALUE How you interact with life emotionally, mentally and physically is determined by what you value!...
Russell Sturgess
- Jun 6, 2019
- 4 min
Creating Sustainable Change - Part 1
A Six Step Strategy One of the most challenging aspects of change management is sustainability, being able to have changes be permanent....
Russell Sturgess
- May 2, 2019
- 4 min
Transformation Happens Like a Ripple Across a Pond
The 5 Principles of EAP Principle 5 – Transformation Happens Like a Ripple Across a Pond Almost every morning I sit on my balcony which...
Russell Sturgess
- Apr 2, 2019
- 4 min
When Something Is Authentically Observed, It Changes
The 5 Principles of EAP Principle 4 – When Something Is Authentically Observed, It Changes Observation is when we can see what is....
Russell Sturgess
- Mar 6, 2019
- 4 min
Healing is Listening
The 5 Principles of EAP Principle 3 – Healing is Listening Edith is a female character in the play The New England Tragedies, written in...
Russell Sturgess
- Feb 6, 2019
- 5 min
You Can't Change What You Can't See
The 5 Principles of EAP Principle 2 – You Can't Change What You Can't See The word confess originally meant to acknowledge. This process...
Russell Sturgess
- Jan 14, 2019
- 5 min
Your Body is a Symbol of Consciousness
The 5 Principles of EAP Principle 1 – Your Body is a Symbol of Consciousness Being conscious means to be mindful. At EAP mindfulness is...
Russell Sturgess
- Dec 5, 2018
- 4 min
Needs vs Desires
When Self-Transcendence is Your Primary Value Everyone has personal resources at their disposal that can be spent in any way they choose....
Russell Sturgess
- Nov 9, 2018
- 4 min
How to Remember to Be Mindful - Part 2
Using the 5 Senses The Western tradition behind mindfulness asks you to consider in each moment that there is a more self-honouring,...
Russell Sturgess
- Oct 4, 2018
- 5 min
How to Remember to Be Mindful - Part 1
S I L O - A Four Step Strategy When I was trying to get on top of my weight issue, typical of many people I regularly tried dieting,...
Russell Sturgess
- Sep 17, 2018
- 4 min
Mindfulness in Business - Part 5
Why You Do What You Do When mindfulness becomes your default way of living life, you naturally become more caring and benevolent (kind),...
Russell Sturgess
- Aug 14, 2018
- 4 min
Mindfulness in Business - Part 4
Mindful Leadership Michael Bunting in his book The Mindful Leader wrote,”The equation is simple: Highly engaged organisations are more...
Russell Sturgess
- Jul 10, 2018
- 4 min
Mindfulness in Business - Part 3
Improving Productivity Let’s talk about improved productivity being a benefit of mindfulness in business. Take a moment to think about...
Russell Sturgess
- Jun 8, 2018
- 4 min
Mindfulness in Business - Part 2
Increasing Self Worth In part one of Mindfulness in Business I listed several significant benefits to business, if principals, management...
Russell Sturgess
- May 2, 2018
- 4 min
Mindfulness in Business - Part 1
The Benefits of Mindfulness in the Workplace I recently delivered a one hour presentation on Mindfulness in Business to a local group of...
Russell Sturgess
- Apr 4, 2018
- 4 min
You Can Teach An Old Dog New Tricks
5 Steps for Change Recent research in the neurological sciences has revealed the capacity for the brain to maintain a neuro-plastic...
Russell Sturgess
- Feb 15, 2018
- 3 min
Revealing Your Purpose
Engaging your Role with Benevolence When you are choosing to live life mindfully, which is remembering that you have a choice to live...
Russell Sturgess
- Jan 17, 2018
- 4 min
Mindful Living - Part 6
What Life Looks Like When Lived Mindfully In the previous blog in this series I talked about the two elements to living mindfully;...
Russell Sturgess
- Dec 13, 2017
- 4 min
Mindful Living - Part 5
When Self-Love Becomes the Path of Least Resistance You’ve created your self-loving alternative (SLA) vision for your life and you are...
Russell Sturgess
- Nov 22, 2017
- 4 min
Mindful Living - Part 4
The Importance of Developing Strategies In the last blog we looked at the idea of creating self-loving alternatives (SLAs). Once again,...
Russell Sturgess
- Oct 25, 2017
- 4 min
Mindful Living - Part 3
Establishing the New Neural Pathway Mindful Living Continued… You have increased your NEAT activity these last few months and on...