Beant K Dhillon

How do we use the present moment and our body to attract what we want?

Ria, one of my clients wants to transition to a heart-aligned career. But she is afraid of the financial consequences and of becoming a bad/angry partner because of the stress of the change. This dance of fear and desire is human. And as a life and career coach who

What is embodiment coaching and what kind of goals can you work on during an embodiment coaching session?

Like many of you, Embodiment coaching was a new term for me till last year, even though I had been working with the body and mindfulness for a while. So let's first look at what do I mean when I say Embodiment. What is embodiment coaching? Embodiment has

Why I chose to become an embodiment life and career coach?

The short answer As I type this, the sun is setting, there's a slow song playing in the background and I am feeling the tiredness that comes with warm days when you have a low blood pressure like me. I am simultaneously feeling a pleasant slowness as well

My story of finding a heart-aligned career and an invitation for you

Do you have a successful career and yet you long for something more? Perhaps you are looking for work aligned with your life purpose but don't know what to do next? Or maybe you know the field or the role you want to work in next but can&

My (amazon NL bestselling) book is now available for purchase!!

A Delicious Summer Tiny poems on the vivid beauty of life My book A Delicious Summer is now available for purchase. I am super grateful for your support in making it the #1 Bestselling poetry book on nature in the Netherlands... yay!! If you like vivid, mindful poems, flowers 🌺 and

Art Exhibition & Book Launch...yay!!!

✨ Mark you calendars please:  Join my poetry book launch of A Delicious Summer and 🖼️ art exhibition on 24 & 25th November at Creative Town Eindhoven with International Creative Women Eindhoven (see poster below for details). If you like vivid, mindful poems, flowers 🌺 and vibrant colors 🌈 and would like to visit

Unlock your innate creative potential - workshop on 16th October

Next week Monday (16th October)  I am hosting an online hands-on workshop on Introduction to Embodied Drawing - Connecting with and unlocking the innate creative potential within your body.  After the workshop, you will be able to 👂 listen to & connect with your body. 🔥 work with your body's

How do we listen to the present?

As I write, the sunlight is resting on my feet and arms and I see a plane crossing the soft blue sky, leaving a trail behind. The clock is ticking, cars are passing by, my fingers are clicking over the laptop keyboard, and I am full of gratitude and serenity.

What does feeling things have to do with Forgiveness?

Feeling & Forgiveness As I wrote earlier, I wanted to practice forgiveness this year and let go of any hard feelings I might harbor from the past. So that I could free myself. It seemed to me that forgiveness is a decision. And once I decide, it would be easy

A mid-year reflection on the intentions for 2023

As I write this, my butt hurts from sitting too long, the multi-cooker is humming, the room is redolent with the smell of cooked chickpeas, and the sun is bright yellow on the wooden floor. The beginning of this year was taken up by being sick on and off, feeling

Why we need Islands of Happiness and how do we create them?

We walk our neighbors' dog sometimes, or well, usually my family does. She looks like the dog in the image above. Every time I see her, something comes undone within me. Her movements are so elegant and poetic, they look like those of trained dancer. A few weeks back

How I am finding and living the purpose of my life

As I write this, a pressure cooker whistle is going off, family members are chatting in the background, and I can't hear myself think :D. So I am trying to come back to my body - feeling my feet on the floor, the butt on the seat, and

How accepting pain may create the path to healing

As I write this, there's a pain in my left back and pelvis area - and it has been there since a few days. I have had pain in my muscles on and off, for many years now. And of course I have tried and am trying all

Where are your crazy, stupid ideas ?

When we are thinking of solutions, we want to arrive at a creative and excellent solution right away. But creativity rarely works linearly and more importantly, creative ideas often come from beyond “the good practices”. Because the good practices are already known and established. To find something new or to

How role models might help us learn how to deal with difficulty

Like many of you, I have been unsettled by the news of war in Ukraine. And I almost didn't want to send out this week's newsletter. Because what could I offer at such a time? I had written this article on learning to be creative. But

Why is listening to the bigger world around us essential for us?

Listening to nature Walking is one of my dearest pleasures in life. Some months ago, we went for a guided walk in nature at night. We were walking in the forest in the dark. We could hear the sound of the raindrops hitting the leaves and the wood and the

How drawing can enable mindfulness and what mindfulness enables for me

We were out for a picnic in the park. It was a hot and sticky kind of spring afternoon. Ducks were swimming past us, mosquitos were buzzing around my head, and I was too tired to do anything other than lie on the mat, but my head was too active

How can we learn to see the world clearly

Last week, we met for mindful drawing in the Thankful Drawing Community . We practiced blind contour drawing, where you draw something while looking at the object but not looking at your drawing. Above is a lovely blind contour drawing of cats by Gunjan Singh. Blind contour drawing enables several things:

Storks, Bleeding Hands, and Articulating and Sharing emotions

Last week we were out for a walk and saw storks - the birds which bring babies in some countries :D. They look like north western fashionistas to me - wearing black and white furry feathers, with just an accent of color here and there. During the walk, one of

An intentional life grows one day at a time

A few evenings ago, we were leaving for an evening walk and as my husband opened the door, he went, “Wah!” - an exclamation in several Indian languages; it means “Wow, or very good or how awesome". I peered over his shoulder to see what was so amazing, and

How to stop censoring your thoughts and let the creativity flow through you

Flamingoes look like such fragile birds to me, like a ball of fluffy peach, pink feathers supported on skinny, tall legs and that sinuous neck seems so vulnerable. And yet these birds can fly up to 500 kilometers in one night and travel across continents - talk about stamina and

What's your attention budget like?

A dragonfly, perched atop a cane wings held still, is she meditating? Am I? This tiny poem is from a set that I am writing for an illustrated book of tiny poems, to be released in October. I am inspired by the Haiku poems of Japanese Buddhist monks. Their poems

Cultivating serenity and surrender

The hot blue sky here looks gorgeous and relentless these days, and my brain is molten because of summer headaches and low blood pressure. And yet there is a serenity to hot days, I remember it from childhood too - afternoons during summer holidays in India where the roads were

Completing stress cycles and healing burnout - why and how?

We planted mint in the backyard a few years ago, and also oregano, thyme, and rosemary. Now the mint seems to have taken over everything and the oregano and thyme are barely visible. If we leave it as is, soon the whole backyard will be a mint backyard. While over-enthusiastic

How do you relate to failure - failing at something vs. feeling like a failure

It has been a while since I wrote to you. It was a long summer here and then suddenly fall arrived, and it played hide n seek with summer till now - it seems like we are officially in rainy fall. I love the coziness and romance of fall, but