Welcome! The writings and articles below are the accumulated teachings of Tanis Helliwell and the International Institute for Transformation. They are free for your use – and please do share as widely as you wish. We are all learning from each other and from our own experience. Enjoy!
By Tanis Helliwell “When you put 2 people together you either have more than 2 or less than 2” –Tanis Helliwell Choosing friends and colleagues is one of the most important choices we make in life because who we associate
By Tanis Helliwell Some years ago The International Institute for Chartered Accountants asked me to be the keynote speaker at their annual convention. The topic was Future Trends: The New Renaissance. “Great” I thought, “a chance to bridge the spiritual
By Tanis Helliwell I have a spiritual tradition to start the New Year that I would like to share with you. Although I do this on January 1, please do not wait until then to start this practice. Start now.
By Tanis Helliwell Orende—the Cherokee Word for Life Energy Keeping our energy at optimum through dark winter days days is critical. Our energy is not static. It can increase and decrease depending on the season, the people with whom we associate and
By Tanis Helliwell Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. —Mark Twain Keeping our energy at optimum through the
By Tanis Helliwell I have always been fascinated by how the brain works and lately I’ve read some interesting information that I’d like to share with you about how music affects the brain. Music can directly influence blood pressure, pulse,
By Tanis Helliwell How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect exactly as they are! –The Buddha There are three approaches we can take to deal with something that we don’t like. We can attempt to change it, accept it,
By Tanis Helliwell January 1 is the most important day of the year for me. That day I set aside to reflect on what I’ve accomplished the previous year and decide what I want to do in the coming year.
By Tanis Helliwell “Like millions of trees which are all rooted in one and the same earth, so millions of human minds are rooted in one and the same universal being.” –Paul Brunton Organizations as Living Beings I have always
By Tanis Helliwell This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Shakespeare, in Hamlet I, iii, 65 In our North American
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