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Happy New Year :-)

2012-01-10T16:32:00.000+01:00

Well 2012 is with us and all the mystery and wonder that the year will or will not bring.

Whilst spending the many hours on planes to get home for Christmas I happened upon a documentary that was talking about how Scientists have been challenging the mathematical equations of the Big Bang theory and hence how our Universe came into existence. During the last few years they have come across something they call dark energy, so instead of the universe slowing down in its journey of evolution, it is actually getting faster. And then there is dark flow, where stars and galaxies seem to be moving and flowing towards a certain point.

It kind of made me wonder if there is some connection between this and what we experiencing. Many people who are sensitive to energy have been noticing the energetic shifts and changes, the quickening of time and energy and then there is the end of the Mayan calendar. I am guessing that this is no coincidence. "As above, so below. So below, as above."

So where will this lead us, who knows. I just found it interesting that the Scientists are seeing something different to that which they thought should be happening and for me it is a reflection of what we are seeing and experiencing on earth.

The journey continues...

Post by Lorraine Rytz on 'Gratitude'

2011-11-13T21:03:00.001+01:00

Lorraine sent this to me just after the October newsletter went out and asked me to post this so that you all could read it...

"Having gone through my 50+ years without having had any major illness nor accidents, never having taken strong medications, and no hospital stays (nope, was home-birthed), my emergency entry into hospital this July was a total shock. My difficult situation only seemed to get worse as complications set in and my attempts to hurry-up the healing process only resulted in relapses. My mind definitely judged everything about the situation as a negative problem with high anxiety and terror driving me to look for an escape hatch.

Your wise and loving advice to me was that acceptance rather than avoidance might be key in mastering my situation. Easy for you to say, I thought at the time. You're not the one lying almost immobile in a hospital bed with male! nurses tending to your most intimate personal needs. With doctors being unable to determine the cause of the excruciating back pain, nor the source of the blood infection, and surgeons trying to take away organs that I insisted on keeping intact. Yes, it was easy for you to say because your love truly comes from a pure source. So I accepted your hints, your hugs, and your reminder that even if everyone might like to help by doing this for me, it was afterall really up to me.

As much as the medication did its part, my conviction is that meditation played a higher role. Meditation has been a part of my life, to varying degrees, during the past 20 years. The beautiful form that I practice today, The Art of Ascension as taught by the Ishayas gives me sustenance. My 10 week hospital stay was endured because I was able, sometimes only one breath at a time, to reduce the physical pain and emotional fear by quieting my mind. Meditation became my one constant in a scary situation where things were unpredictable and changes seemed inevitable.

October's DCN guest speaker, Khandro sounds wonderful, meditation the perfect topic. Especially since my recent experience, I find myself resonating very much with the written intro...

" When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as the problem, but in reality whatever problems we experience come from the side of the mind. If we were to respond to difficult situations with a positive or peaceful mind they would not be problems for us; indeed, we might even come to regard them as challenges or opportunities for growth and development. "

My small moment of gratitude has a domino effect.

I appreciate my friend and spiritual sister Dawn, who makes the DCN community possible, with whom I can explore the opportunities for growth and share the insights and gifts received on this journey.

with love, Lorraine"

A Small moment of Gratitude

2011-10-12T21:25:00.000+02:00

Generally I try to read a few pages every night of a spiritual book before going to sleep. This week I started Neale Donald Walsch's book ' Happier than God'. It was a book I had previously over looked, mainly because of the title and then I read a review somewhere and decided it sounded like something that would interest me.
I got to the chapter about 'The miracle that will change your life'. And Neale was writing about having gratitude, nope... nothing new there. But what really struck me was when he went onto to say

"The next time you are confronted with any undesired outcome, result or experience, just stop. Stop right in the middle of whatever's going on. Just ..... Stop.

Close your eyes for the smallest moment and say inside your head. "Thank you God."

Take one good, deep breath and say it again.

"Thank you for this gift, and the treasure that it holds for me." "

This really hit home and sunk in. It really changed how I saw those disastrous moments we are faced with in our lives.. I have always wondered how do you deal with those things that bug you, upset you or make you angry. How do you really think positive thoughts in times like these. I think the Universe just provided me with an answer. Thank you God. :-)

Change is in the Air

2011-09-14T20:50:00.000+02:00

Don't know whether you have noticed it, but things are changing and happening quicker. I feel that there is all of these things happening around me, and I am standing in the centre of it all with my mouth hanging open, gaping, watching it all happen. In the last month I have lost a Sydney friend to Caner, another friend (Swiss living in Sydney) gave birth to twins and had to let one of the girls go back to spirit. There are unplanned pregnancies, people changing jobs, moving country and so much more. Its all a bit surreal and I get the feeling this is only the beginning of my awareness of this. And I don't think this is a normal amount of change. On the surface you could probably explain it away, rationalise it. But I get the feeling it is much more than that.

Maybe there is something in this thing about the Mayan calendar ending next year and the energy is shifting to align with the new energies coming in. All I know is I am standing amongst it, going with the flow for now. I hope you are too.

Love and support

2011-08-10T22:59:00.000+02:00

I mentioned in this months newsletter that one of my very close friends and a wonderfully supportive member of the DCN is stuck in hospital in the Italian part of Switzerland, with excruciating pain that the Doctors can find no cause for. I have been ringing every few days, as has other family and friends to support her and show my love. Her journey through this has been hard and frustrating, as there seems to be no 'physical' cause. Well not that our medical world understands anyway.
It is often hard to watch loved ones go through something painful, whether emotional or physical. It has been a wonderful lesson that i have experienced from time to time in my life that someone else's journey is just that... theirs. Our job is to love and support in any way we can. If we buy into sharing their pain in some way, get emotional or retreat then we can no longer be the support they truly need.
Over the last couple of weeks I have laughed with Lorraine and pulled her up with kindness and love when she views this all in a negative light. And when she finally lands in Basel I can be there for her by helping her process through Journey work, and the like.
Lorraine I send you my love, support and warmest blessings. Get well my girl.

Playing small

2011-07-10T22:08:00.000+02:00

My last month has been busy but I am not exactly sure where it went or what I did. I have just got back from the USA, where I went to our USA office and then to a conference for Neuro-Semantics. I did learn a lot from the conference and I got to met some interesting people. People who really inspire the soul with their drive, motivation and determination. It reminded me just how small I am playing. So I guess it is time to challenge my thinking once again and see where the journey takes me to now.

Change is in the air...

2011-06-15T23:10:00.000+02:00

All I can say at the moment is that I am looking forward to buying a new computer at the end of this month... it will make this that I do so much more enjoyable and hopefully solve the problem of the formatting for this page. We can always live in hope...
Namaste :-)

Patience!

2011-05-09T23:42:00.000+02:00

I am sooo looking forward to a new computer. This one is on its last legs. It takes half an hour to open everything up let alone update the newsletter and blog. A feat and a half! My patience has been stretched to the max tonight. So if you find any mistakes or errors in gramar or spelling, please forgive me. It is way too much effort to try and fix it.
The only thing is that I won't get my new computer until I get to the US in July. My patience is truly going to be tested in the meantime. These things are sent to try us for a reason. If I develop patience with a computer that has a mind of its own, I wonder what else I can develop patience with. The joys of lessons :-)

Aaarrrggghhh!

2011-04-13T22:34:00.000+02:00

It seems as if this year has been sent to try me. The more I try to update the blog the more the formatting goes haywire. The answer is it time to change technology. And this seems to be reflecting other parts of my life. Sometimes i wonder what am I supposed to let go of, I know there is something I am not getting but I am not sure what. And I guess the more I look, the more it hides.

The balance between desiring something and letting it go seems to be evading me at the moment. So I will keep working at it. Maybe by the time I get to the next world I might have it sussed out....or not!

Manifesting change

2011-02-06T21:38:00.038+01:00

Well for me this year has started with a bang!...

A new house, big big changes at work, travelling to Vietnam to visit friends and NZ for a wedding and who knows what next...

Sometimes it is easy to get frustrated with life, as we have so many expectations and beliefs of what should be. Yet if we ask the right questions and seek the answers without attachment something always shows up, whether you want it or not.

Maybe I need to learn to be even more patient, and let go even more. How I do this, I have no idea, but maybe I can become my own experiment. Creating my own future is both hard and easy and by some stroke of well-intentioned luck and good thoughts, it happens in a chaotic manner. Maybe I just need to find a way to navigate the chaos.

New Year and New Beginnings

2011-01-10T22:55:00.000+01:00

Well things are storming along at a great pace for the start of the year. So much so I had my first bout of flu in probably 10 years. There are many things happening in my neck of the woods. The universe got listening to a couple of conversations that PJ and I had between us and in our minds and we all of a sudden as of the 30th December owned a house. So now we are scrambling to find tradesman to sand floors, replacing electrics (so that you can turn the jug on without having to turn the lights off otherwise you blow a fuse), knocking out walls, moving kitchen cupboards, painting and getting organised to shift. So lots happening...
So this year is going to be very different and it will be interesting to see it as it unfolds and reveals its magic and mystery...

Treading the Spiritual path

2010-11-10T22:16:00.000+01:00

I saw the quote at the beginning of this months update and it reflects my constant question and internal battle about walking a spiritual path and living in a 'normal world'. Sometimes I just wonder will it ever be different and then I have to remind myself how far I have come, along with the world around me, and all that I am accomplishing now. Yet I get tired of the separation and the constant battle to keep moving forward, even though I know that I am walking towards oneness. Sometimes it would be nice to get off and rest. But life keeps barrelling along, the good the bad and the stupid... me tonight that is. Managed to get hot soup to jump out of the blender down my arm and on my face! Oh Hell! What was I thinking to create that! So I guess that is living the normal life and seeing the funny side with hot tomato soup all over the kitchen walls, floors and me and my brand new shirt is the spiritual way!

Chocolate and No Sleep!

2010-10-10T22:04:00.001+02:00

Hi guys
I often seem to be somewhere in the world writing this blog. This month I am in Sweden, studying Meta-coaching. I am half way through the course, my brain is pickled, my eyes are hanging out of their eye sockets and chocolate is the only sane thing I can think of to save me. Supposedly this is normal. They put you in the pressure cooker to see how you cope and then if you can cope with this then the real world is a piece of cake....Just give me chocolate, I can cope with that!
Today, I hope was my bottom of the roller coaster. I had a challenging person benchmarking my coaching session. Apparently I didn't achieve anything, or so he thought. My coachee had a different experience, but she wasn't valid. Huh! So now the clients aren't valid. When did that happen, did they change Coaching 101?
So this is me in my head... "This guy is an idiot," then the other voice goes, "no listen to what he has to say, some of it is valid, you are just making judgements around one thing, he has rubbed you up the wrong way and you are better than this." "Oh no he has just told me something I did, which I didn't. Wait I have proof, I'll show him!... See you weren't right.... No you didn't listen and you didn't listen previously either. Idiot!" "Dawn judgement! Listen to what he has to say, he is only human." "Yes but so am I!!! AArrggghhh!"
Ok So I guess you get the picture. It isn't enough that I have to unpack all my previous learning and become a helpless pooping baby again, I have to get a babysitter who thinks he is god and missed that he didn't even make angel grade.
Man, so chocolate right now is welcome, even though I was working on kicking sugar totally, today kind of put the spanner in that one.
So this month I am working on Judgement and making sure I have clear intentions for the rest of the week. So my intention is that by the time you see me at the next DCN meeting I will be bright and shiny, without my training wheels on.
Aaarrgghhh!

Weather predictor of Self

2010-09-13T22:11:00.000+02:00

Well it is now September and almost like a switch the trees have started to turn and there is a definite chill in the air.
It feels like (I am very kineasthetic if you hadn't noticed) there is a change a foot or the end of change is here. Interesting this year I haven't had the energy levels that I am normally used to, and if I relate that to the way the weather has been this year, there is a strong reflection. Winter was extra cold and wet or snowy, spring was a relief and summer never really got off the ground, which kind of reflects me this year and how I have played out. Really suffering in the winter with low energy and enthusiasm, not wanting to really do much, too cold, too snowy, too something. Spring was a relief, I felt the tide was starting to turn, then when summer was supposedly here but not quite then my energy levels started returning but not quite. And now Autumn is here, there is a anoother change and I feel there is another change in me. Hopefully the winter will be a lot milder this year and my energy levels will return to normal.... finally! That would be wonderful and welcoming.

Non-attachment

2010-06-16T22:46:00.005+02:00

For some reason when I update the DCN blogsite this is the last thing I do. I get frustrated with technology as the blog wants to do it's own thing. Throw spaces into places I don't want, loose hyper links, change formatting and you get the picture. There just comes a time when you go "oh that will do, its 12 am and I need sleep." And it is getting close to that now.

Maybe that is part of this months topic of Non-attachment. At what point do you fight with the unseen forces struggling to make it 'perfect' and at what point do you let go. With this it is when sleep is needed but maybe there is a place before that, like before I start!

I have found the state of mind of non-attachment a difficult one over the years. And it wasn't until my body got it experientially that I understood that it was still ok to create desires, goals and visions. It was just the ability to let them go, give them up to the universe and not mind if i got there or not. So no nashing of teeth or wailing loudly when I didn't get 'what I wanted.' It is just ok and I know that something better is out there for me.

The real challenge for me was loosing Abbey-cat last year. She had been with us for 11 years and I treasure each moment she spent with us. Letting her go wasn't easy. Being attached to people and animals is the hardest. Concepts, events and things I am working at mastering, but this might take another life-time.

So where are you in your journey of non-attachment. Have you experienced moments of it, or is it still a mystic mumbo jumbo?

2010 reflection

2010-05-13T19:09:00.005+02:00

Not sure about this year yet but it is certainly one for lots of change. There seems to be lots of change happening around me this year and as well as lots of inner change. And there seems to be lots of change for my friends as well. Everything is appearing as clear as mud. Yet it is all unfolding perfectly for whatever reason. And it all makes sense once you I have gone through it. Hmmmmm intersting start to the decade.

It is a challenge to stay in that place of the unknown and to trust that the universe will guide and support, yet it does everytime. The more I step into that trust I guess the more I am being challenged to trust. Sometimes I want to do something crazy like "Aaarrggghhh" and hope like hell that it will make it all clear.

Also with the quickening of time there doesn't seem the space to stop and breath before taking the next step. It is just "I'm here, I'm here. Cool! Deep breath. Let's go!" I feel a lot like this at the moment.

It is certainly a new energy for me. Not sure whether I should get used to it or hope it passes soon. Maybe i will just stay open to the universe and trust.

Life's Lessons

2010-04-14T22:06:00.002+02:00

I find that life is a continually amazing journey. And often I don't understand it, and sometimes I get the wonderful gift of understanding in hindsight. But more often than not my journey is like being blind, wondering along in the dark, hands out feeling my way. Someone asked me today what I wanted out of this year, to be honest I wasn't really sure what to answer.

I am especially aware of my own challenges this year. My physical energy levels are way down, and I tire really easy. I have stopped my yoga practice so that my overstretched tendons in the back of my thighs might finally heal, I have suffered this season with the worst hayfever ever and my digestive fire seems to be weakening! On top of that it seems that I am about to step into a minefield at work which I need to coach others through. hmmmm!

Yet at the back of my mind, I know there is a reason to all of this, even if it isn't clear to me now. So I just need to trust and go with the flow. Let go of how I must be or how life must be. Let go of my yoga practice and the ego of how I must teach yoga. Maybe this is a phase of redefinition or realignment.

Whatever it is, I am finding that by letting go the journey is definately easier though not easy. And staying the observer is the key, though it is a challenge I am embracing.

This year appears to be challenging to many in different ways. If nothing else, through all these challenges it is a good time to stop and appreciate the good things that are around you and the great people in your life. If you do nothing other than that today then you have achieved alot!

For all of you having a challenging time, think of everyone else that is and send them your love, so that they can receive your good vibes and then they will come bounding back to you in return.
Namaste
:-)

Spending time with me

2010-03-08T22:38:00.002+01:00

How often do you get to spend a day with you...no one else, just you.

Well I did yesterday and it was great. PJ is in Brazil and I realised my body was craving a retreat, time to do nothing, just relax and let go. So I decided to have a mini retreat at home. So my day was spent meditating, cooking yummy vegan meals, and processing. I read a little out of the Yoga sutras but nothing much else. My body really was craving the stillness that comes with doing nothing. Even watching my fantastic spiritual movies didn't entice me. And I loved it!

You should give it go and see what unfolds from allowing the space for nothing. Today I feel easy, life is great and things are ok again.

And I thank myself for listening to me...try it it is great.

Join Facebook's new Divine Connection Network group

2010-02-07T18:31:00.004+01:00

Facebook Divine Connection Network

All going well if you click the link above you will be directed to the page for the new group I have created. This is a group that you can only join by invitation or by requesting an invitation. It is closed to the public, though the public can see there is a group but none of the members, events or detailed information. And group members can connect to each other.
Many of the group wanted a means of being able to contact each other between events. As most people I talk to use facebook it seems the obvious means of connecting to each other. So lets see if it works. Your feedback will be in invaluable whilst I learn how to use this and you experiment with how it works for you.
Remember by joining the group you are giving permission to other members to connect with you away from the organised group meetings.

2010 - A new year begins

2010-01-11T19:54:00.003+01:00

Happy New Year!

It seems lots of people I have talked to over the festive break are thankful that 2009 has finished and are looking forward to 2010 and all the opportunities that a new year brings.

As I look back over the last six months it seems that many of my friends faced the challenge of coping with a parent being diagnosed with cancers, tumours or other such life threatening diseases. And there were others around me who were just very ill. Then there was the marriage breakups, the economic melt down, and many other crazy things. As I look at all this sickness of body, heart and mind I know it is not that I have reached that age where this happens, but the energy of our universe and our interactions with it that are bringing about such challenges. PJ, my husband made me think when he said that maybe at the quantum level all this ecomomic chaos must be having an energetic effect. Food for thought.

I was reading tonight in Brandon Bays new book, 'Consciousness The New Currency', how we so often sabotage things for ourselves to stop ourselves moving forward and opening up to lifes abundance. Are we resisiting at a global level opening up into the energetic shift of Consiousness that has been talked about for the last few years?

In my experience before the biggest breakthroughs are the biggest resistances. Is that what is happening? More food for thought. So roll on 2010, I am looking forward to what you have to offer and how I can overcome my own resistances and face this new decade.

Forgiveness

2009-11-15T20:13:00.005+01:00

This month the theme is Forgiveness and with Christmas fast approaching this seems to be appropriate.
Forgiveness can be a valuable exercise as not forgiving yourself or others can affect your health. Having forgiven myself and others many times over the years I have come to realise how important it is for lasting and real healing to happen.
You can google forgiveness and get lots of sites describing the 7 steps or 10 steps to healing. Wikipedia defines it as "Forgiveness is typically defined as the process of concluding resentment, indignation or anger as a result of a perceived offense, difference or mistake, and/or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution".
What I have learnt is that part of forgiveness is letting go. Letting go of how you think you should feel or act, letting go of how you think others should feel or act and letting go of all preconceived ideas. Letting go is crucial to the act of forgiveness.
The other thing I have found is that many people forgive as the people they are today, but not as the person they were then. So only a part of them forgives. And it is not until they access the memory of the person they were then and the younger you of that time forgives, does lasting forgiveness happen. This came as a learning time and time again through my practise in Journey work. Try it... and let me know how different your experience is.

Defining Moments

2009-10-16T23:19:00.006+02:00

Today I travelled to Edinburgh from London to begin my Ashtanga teaching training. When I went to check in my bags at the airport I was told that I had to check in my small cabin bag as my other small bag that I had my computer, travel documents and wallet in was all I could take on board. Having just travelled the previous evening with the same company from Basel where it was ok, I wasn't happy.

So I checked in my cabin bag and was then told it was going to cost GDP128 (213CHF). This was nearly double the cost of the ticket!

Well there was this defining moment when I observed myself and realised that I was getting angry. In this moment there was a thought of "there is anger here, I don't need to get angry as it won't do me any good and will only come back to bite me later on". It was only a split second, but I made a decision to get angry anyway because I didn't want to suppress how I felt. Unfortunatley for the poor girl behind the desk, she didn't like it much.

But later when I was sitting on the plane, having paid the money, I sat and looked at my behaviour realising that it hadn't helped and now I felt bad. So I spent half the flight sending loving energy to the girl. So I hope she had a better day after that.

There are defining moments in our lives, and they may just be a split second in which we can observe our behaviour and make better choices rather than acting on automatic or from a place of ego or negativity. I challenge you all to find a time this month in which you can take that split second and make a better choice than I did!

Intuition

2009-09-16T07:37:00.003+02:00

We all the know the phrase 'that gut feeling'. But the trouble is we are often not so tuned that we miss the warning signs.
I know for me I have become more aware in the last two years about listening for the signals. Listening to what the universe is trying to tell me. And with time and patience (and yes it takes a lot of both), I have opened up more, but there is still a long way for me to go. However it is also about the journey and my journey isproviding me with lots of interesting things along the way, just to make sure I am not getting bored.
How often do you listen to your intuition, or is it only after the fact, By becoming aware of the times we miss the tap on the shoulder we can start to become more aware of the signals.
What has been your journey and experiences?

Surrender and let go

2009-08-11T22:26:00.006+02:00

I had an appointment tonight with my Accupuncturist. And we were talking about 'Letting go'. How do you explain to someone what it is to let go.

My experience of it is, that my body and mind seems to let go of the attachment it had to something. And it is almost like I feel a release, feeling lighter and free-er. Like a great weight is gone from my shoulders.

So how do you experience letting go? Is there something that is time for you to let go now. And as teachers how do we explain to others this ability to let go?

Resistance

2009-07-07T00:10:00.004+02:00

Resistance has been a real theme for me this month. It has shown up at work a lot and then it started showing up in my yoga practice... yes, my beloved yoga! It made me stop and think about where was it that I was pushing instead of being, where was I trying too hard instead of allowing. At one point I felt completely drained by the whole thing.

The resistance at work was hard, as I have spent the last six months 'trying' to get a program of 'Thinking for Success' accepted. Yet I kept running into resistance and I kept on trying. But there was this point when I realised it wasn't that the program was wrong, as I was getting good feed back from those who wanted it to go ahead, it was just the wrong timing. The majority of people just aren't ready and do not see the need for change... yet!

When I decided to let it go, a small weight left my shoulders and I decided to ask different questions. It was then that I saw a different way forward. A slightly longer route but one that has more integrity for everyone.

So who knows how the next step will be received, but it is interesting that when we let go, we allow the universe to respond and walk by our side.

Limiting Language

2009-05-12T23:47:00.003+02:00

Hi everyone,

Not sure whether noone has time or hasn't thought to but you can reply to these blog postings. apparently that is what people do. But then I never have time either!! Just thought I would let you know that it is ok to reply.

Anyway this month has been an interesting experience in observation of others and noticing when I react to them or observe them. I notice I get frustrated when I hear people using limiting language on themselves. It is like "Oh body just wanted you to know that in the next couple of weeks I am expecting a couple of new wrinkles, so can you just make sure you serve that up please". Sometimes I find I can't help but react and other times I patiently and wisely say a little something to see if they are listening or not and continue accordingly. Most times people aren't listening and don't get what I am trying to say. They just aren't tuned in and it isn't my role to force them. As much as I really, really, really, want to. I have to learn the art of biting my tongue!

So what self-limiting and self-prophesying language are you using on yourself. Do you even notice, as we all do it. Yes sadly even me! Do you notice the people around you using it. Have you noticed your reaction to it? Do you quietly agree with the other person and therefore impacting yourself with their own limiting energies?

Thoughts

2009-04-06T23:02:00.002+02:00

I am always amazed when I come across material that relates to how we think and therefore create our future. In the weekend I was at a Yoga workshop and it came up there, as you would expect. But it also came up in conversation with people who I work with over the last few weeks. Some people who don't know much about it call it positive thinking, others really understand the power of our thoughts. But do you understand the power of yours?
Do you know how positive or negative your thoughts are. I decided to start taking more notice of mine, but not just noting whether they were positive or negative but were they future based or past based. I would like to know where my thoughts spend most of their time.
At the moment I am only beginning, and I spend more time thinking than observing, but with time I will become more the observer of my thoughts and not at the mercy of them.

No new news, its only 1000's of years old.

2009-02-03T22:34:00.004+01:00

When I went to update this post I couldn't really think of anything to write, and then I realised it is because it really isn't new it has all been said before. But then maybe one of us didn't quite get it and we need to hear it again differently, or just need a gentle reminder.
So here it is...
"Our thoughts create our future, and our past is a result of all our thoughts and actions up until now. So if there is something that you are not happy with in your lives, change your thinking"
So simple yet...

...yet life is for learning and celebrating, so keep learning, keep celebrating and be an observer of your thoughts and hence your life.

Healing - a tool for learning

2009-01-05T18:53:00.003+01:00

In February I have planned an additional meeting to watch the documentary about Lousie Hay's life. An inspirational lady who teaches about the connection between our thoughts and our current reality. How our body is constantly talking to us through dis-ease, pain and abnominalies. But do we understand what it is telling us.

A few years ago I was made redundant and was devastated by this. I withdrew into myself, suffered with mild depression and didn't want to ever go back to work again, much to the horror of my husband. During this time, I was kneeling on the floor one day at home and my knees collapsed, the patellas moving out of alignment. It made walking hard and bending impossible. My knees no longer wanted to move me forward in life, reflecting my inner turmoil. However with time, physio and emotional healing my knees now carry me forward and only play up now and again, as a reminder, when I face fear that stops me wanting to move forward through a situation.

If you sit quietly and listen to your body, do you understand the subtle messages that it is constantly sending you? What have been your experiences and learnings of ill-health or even just a simple cold?

Spirituality; what does it mean to you

2008-08-09T23:57:00.001+02:00

The word Spiritual or Spirituality is interesting, as we use it a lot yet what do we really mean by it? For me it is defiantly not about religion, though some religious people can be spiritual. It is not about being perfect and never doing anything wrong (something I did not understand for a long time. I thought if you were spiritual you would always act with integrity, fairly, not get angry, etc. How wrong was I!)

Being spiritual to me is about being open to the journey. Allowing yourself to learn from events and others with grace and grattitude. About choosing to wanting to know myself better and to connect with power higher than me. About choosing to be loving, humble, compassionate and of service to others. About appreciating the beauty around me and the wonderful connection I create with others.

And so much more.....

What is it for you?