A Guiding Hand
A Guiding Hand is a collection of cards with words, phrases, and images inspired by the Northern Lights. It emerged from a decade-long Arctic Circle pilgrimage, where the creator observed and photographed the Aurora Borealis. The cards aim to provide insight and guidance for personal and professional challenges in today's world. The accompanying blog further explores the cards' meanings, offering practical advice for positive psychology practitioners. The author draws one card weekly and writes a blog post inspired by it, holding the readers and themselves in mind, with the intent to offer a guiding hand amid modern crises and challenges.
A Guiding Hand
Trying Less, Discovering More By Andrew Machon
This piece explores the notion of effort and striving, questioning whether having and wanting are essential to betterment. The author suggests that our compulsion to strive and continually seek more may be due to an underlying belief of "not enough" and that what we seek outwardly may only be found inwardly. By practicing the "art of not," we can let go of striving and discover a new spaciousness, leading us closer to our true source of motivation and guidance. In surrendering an effortful existence, we may discover a source of effortless excellence.