Friends, welcome to your personal space of peace and positive thinking, here for you each week.

It’s here to bring you back up on those days when life may be pulling you down, or to simply keep your spirits uplifted, week after week.

Too many of us approach time alone as if it were a frivolous, expendible luxury rather than a creative necessity. Should this be so?

By short changing yourself, the only thing that remains impoverished is your inner life.

“Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone.” The artist knows he must be alone to create, the

writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician to compose; the saint to pray, and women need solitude in order to find the true essence of themselves.

To maintain inner harmony it is essential to ransom at least an hours worth of solitude, open time, with no obligations except towards your inner world and what is going on in there.

Solitude is necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive. I have discovered that the surest way to hear the soft strains of harmony is in silence.

Those of us who don’t spend regular time alone to rest and recoup are likely to suffer from what psychologists call ‘privacy deprivation syndrome’ Sounds familiar? Sounds grim?

Deliberately seek solitude, and still the soul, or better still try feeding the soul, and watch life rush back, richer, fuller and more vivid than before.

We may all come back to enjoy another life—but until you know for sure, don’t waste the one you are living right now.