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December 2011

• Carol Singing 2011

  Posted on Saturday, 3 December 2011

   

  It’s that time of Year AGAIN

  Just to remind you that Sunday 11^th December 2011 18.00-19.00hrs Trafalgar Square for Carol Singing under the Big Tree. This is a great way to get into the Christmas Spirit and have some fun with friends and family. This year we will be collecting money for the Acorn to Oak Foundation, Action Andrea and Carers Support.  Please let me know whether you can come so we can provide enough song sheets etc... We need as many people of possible to sing, but if that’s not your thing, then come along to shake some buckets and collect money. Thanks for your help and support, if you cannot attend and feel you would like to help and support the work of the Foundation please send a cheque made out to Acorn to Oak Foundation to 32, Greenhill Way, Farnham Surrey GU9 8SZ.

   

  Rap up warm and make sure you have gloves, hats and good boots on!!!!

   

  Meeting point...Read More

January 2011

• 23 Things it’s Helpful to Remember

  Posted on Sunday, 9 January 2011

  1.       The Soul is God individualised

  2.       The Soul is your essence

  3.       Your human parents gave you a physical body and chance to grow up in a family. They have done a wonderful service for you and it is appropriate to honour and be grateful for the great opportunity to be in human form, but you do not have to be burdened for life by belief systems that no longer work for you if you choose to do the necessary inner healing work.

  4.       You can love someone, but not like their behaviour

  5.       Your real parent (and true identity) is light, love and divine energy

  6.       The divine plan for evolution is through free will

  7.       Each of us is 100% responsible...Read More

• What's Your True Potential?

  Posted on Friday, 7 January 2011

  Have you ever just thought of somebody and the phone rings and it’s the same person?

  Or perhaps you say something at exactly the same time as a friend says it or thinks it!

  This is your own natural ESP at work. Now you can easily develop your own ESP and learn to project your mind and detect information to help you make better decisions about health, relationships, business, personal development, and even your purpose in life.
  Find Your Purpose in Life

  Have you ever felt like there was something more you should be doing with your life?

  Maybe you felt that there is a hidden talent just ready to burst into success. Or a special mission, a soul purpose, you are ready to achieve?

  Wouldn’t it be nice to have guidance from higher intelligence as to how to achieve all this?

  What’s Your True Potential?

  Welcome to this Blog on understanding and using the power of your mind to create...Read More

September 2010

• Paramhansa Yogananda’s “Nine-Day Cleansing and Vitalizing Diet.”

  Posted on Wednesday, 8 September 2010

  It’s amazing how comprehensive Paramhansa Yogananda’s teachings are for the balanced development of body, mind and spirit. The list of subjects to which Yogananda applied his cosmic vision is breath taking. One of Yogananda‘s practical regimes for personal improvement that I’m trying presently is his “Nine-Day Cleansing and Vitalizing Diet.” I am on day three

  So what is the Nine-Day Cleansing Diet? The brief description that follows provides all the information needed for you to successfully complete the diet.

  The food allowed each day for the nine days is:
  1 ½ grapefruits
  1 ½ lemons
  5 oranges
  1 cooked vegetable with juice (quantity optional)
  1 raw vegetable salad
  1 glass orange juice*
  3 cups of Vitality Beverage (one cup at each meal)

  *to be taken every night before...Read More

• The 2 Essentials for Finding Your 'Real' Voice

  Posted on Wednesday, 8 September 2010

  Most people are unaware that they can improve their speaking voice, that they probably should improve their voice, and that the techniques for doing so are simple and basic. And while good voice training will actually improve many other aspects of your life, not all those who teach voice understand the two essentials.
  
  Many of us who teach voice are classically-trained singers. While I don't teach singing anymore, I use similar principles in teaching others how to find their 'real' speaking voice.
  
  Good voice training involves teaching you, first and foremost, how to breathe with the support of your diaphragm because your 'real' voice must be powered or amplified from the chest.
  
  If you are part of the 99 percent of the population who are renowned for using only the upper portion of the chest to breathe, then your speaking voice is being powered by...Read More

• The Reiki Story

  Posted on Tuesday, 21 September 2010

  Reiki is a laying on of hands, a healing system of incomparable ease and power.  What it can do and how it can do it is what I’d like to discuss here and now but, to fully appreciate Reiki, it is first necessary to know where it came from and how it reached the West.  The story spans almost all of the written records of humanity and the healing system itself is older than any written account.  I have given a great deal of my time and energy to discovering Reiki origins, through research and reading, but still many gaps remain.  Much pertinent information has never been translated into English and even more information has never been placed into print in any language.  The traditional Reiki story begins in the 1800s, but Reiki was ancient even then.

   

  Information before written records has been ‘channelled’, but while I must admit that I view such information as considerably...Read More

• What is Reiki

  Posted on Tuesday, 21 September 2010

  The act of laying hands on the human, or animal body, to comfort and relieve pain is as old as instinct.  When experiencing pain, the first thing most people do is to put their hands on it.  When a child falls and scrapes their knee, they want their mother to touch (or kiss) it and make it better.  A mother’s instinct when a child is feverish or ill, directs her to place her hands on the child’s forehead.  Human touch conveys caring and love.  When an animal is in pain, a dog or cat’s instinct is to lick the pain area, an animal mother will also lick her young when they are in distress.  This simple act is the basis for all touch healing techniques.

   

  The living body radiates warmth and energy.  This energy is the life force itself and has as many names as there are human civilisations.  Mary Coddington, in her book ‘In Search of the Healing Energy’...Read More

May 2010

• Getting what you want

  Posted on Thursday, 20 May 2010

  One of the toughest things to learn to do when you start working with the Law of Attraction is letting go of the need to know HOW and WHEN things are going to manifest for you.

   As humans, we like to know these things - but the Universe doesn't work this way.

  When will the money show up? How much longer will I have to wait for my next relationship? How come I'm not seeing results in my business yet?

   These are the kinds of questions that clients ask everyday wondering just when they are going to attract the things which they desire. They often say, "I've cleared my resistance and stated my intentions. How come I haven't attracted what I want yet?"

   The need to know how, when, why, or where is the norm for most of us. We have inquiring minds that want to know. However, the need to know can also block the very thing which we want to attract.  So, how do we get around this?

   I...Read More

• Rejuvenate Yourself With Breathwork

  Posted on Tuesday, 25 May 2010

  Breath is what is called a primary pattern, meaning it's one of the first things a child does when he or she is born. Your whole body responds to the air that you bring in through your lungs, not just your chest, and oxygen is the most vital nutrient your body requires.
  
  While you can live without food and water for days, possibly months, you will survive for a mere four minutes, six at best, without air. Your breath is the interface between voluntary movement and the more passive activities of your organs because it can be somewhat controlled by conscious effort. But, when we let go with our attention, breath continues to flow into our tissues and feed our cells.
  
  Sadly, many people have forgotten how to breathe. Fear, worry, and stress contract the tissues around the rib cage and bring in only a small amount of air, just barely enough to maintain basic functions. Some...Read More

April 2010

• PASSION AND DEVOTION

  Posted on Saturday, 3 April 2010

  In this way, our unconditional passion, which is a genuine longing to connect with the vastness of life, gets converted into an addictive obsession. Yet the belief that our wealth of feeling comes from the object of our passion, whom we must therefore possess, is not just a personal delusion. It is also widely promoted by our culture at large and is a common theme in countless plays, movies, books, and love songs. How many songs on the radio do we hear that are variations on the theme of "You are everything, I am nothing"? ("You're the better part of me," "You are my only sunshine," "I can't live, if living is without you," "I've got to have you, baby," etc.) Yet if this were just a Hollywood fabrication, it would not have such a deep hold at every level of our society. what makes it such a powerful cultural theme is that it represents a convergence of psychological, spiritual, and historical factors...Read More

• Stephen Covey and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

  Posted on Wednesday, 7 April 2010

  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was a popular book when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller 20 years later. It is the best place to start with Stephen Covey. The book was already extremely successful when I first started reading it, and had the chance to do some work with Stephen. Stephen Covey is highly respected in personal and business development. Initially, I expected to read it quickly and walk away with some random, quick tips. But the book really provides detailed information to enable anyone to change their life.

  I have included The “7 Habits”, but the magic comes in the implementation of these habits, not in the reading of them. Dr. Covey writes about the “paradigm shift” required to truly change your life. According to Dr. Covey, you need to actually...Read More

March 2010

• IDOLISING THE BELOVED

  Posted on Monday, 22 March 2010

  What is it, then, that the lover really yearns for? Consider the situation of Joanna, a woman in her early thirties who had been driven to despair by a series of brief affairs that led nowhere. She would repeatedly find herself building up intense feelings about men after a few dates, based on wild, unrealistic dreams of total fulfillment. At first she would inflate a lover to epic proportions, only to crash in disillusion within a few weeks or months. Then she would go through a period of cynical isolation until the next potential saviour came along. She came in for counselling out of a need to understand why her passion took such strange turns, firing her up with inflated hopes one moment and then just as suddenly dashing her on the ground. She no longer trusted that she could feel passionate without becoming swept away by tides of uncontrollable fantasies and emotions. How could such an otherwise...Read More

• ROMANTIC AGONY

  Posted on Friday, 5 March 2010

  The longing to devote ourselves to something we regard as greater than ourselves is a beautiful quality. But when we fail to recognize its essential nature-as a basic need to realize the fullness of our larger being-falling in love can leave us feeling helpless and tortured, like Joanna in her obsessions with men. Here we see the relation between the words passion and passive. In falling under the spell of her lovers, Joanna saw herself as a passive victim-a state of mind commonly portrayed in the classic love tales. Tristan feels driven toward Isolde not out of choice, but because he has accidentally swallowed a love potion. In the most famous of Sufi love tales, Majnun laments that his passion for Layla, which causes him to go mad and wander the countryside composing love songs, is completely beyond his control: 'I have not chosen the way, I have been cast upon it. I am manacled, and my fetters are made of iron....Read More

February 2010

• LOVE AND DEATH

  Posted on Friday, 26 February 2010

  Addictive passion is thus a no-win situation-in Majnun's words, a "riddle without a solution, a code which none can decipher. " The only solution for Layla and Majnun is the classic denouement of countless tragic romances: death. Thus, paradoxically, passion, which starts out making us feel so intensely alive, brings us to a consideration of death. What is the death of the lovers pointing to? As a symbol, it contains important clues about how we can overcome addictive passion, while still enjoying the larger unconditional passion at the root of the male/female connection.  At one level, the lovers' death suggests that addiction to anything we use to make ourselves feel high must eventually lead to destruction. The tale of Axel and Sara-a gem of nineteenth-century melancholy romanticism by Villiers de l'Isle- Adam-clearly illustrates this Axel, a lonely, brooding young count, meets Sara in the treasury of his...Read More

• PASSION: CONDITIONAL AND UNCONDITIONAL

  Posted on Sunday, 14 February 2010

  Passion's essential nature is spontaneous and unconditional because it is unfabricated. Since our very being is open to begin with, it naturally resonates and wants to connect with what is greater than ourselves-the vastness of life itself. Passion is the feeling of life wanting to connect with life; life inside us connecting with life outside.1 To fall in love is to feel the basic openness of our being. The swelling of passion, which makes us feel so full and rich, makes our usual state of distraction and disconnectedness seem pale and impoverished by contrast. Yet here is where we also start to fall into delusion, for we usually imagine the object of our passion to be the source of this newfound fullness. This makes us try to grasp and hold on to the one who sparks such an intense feeling of aliveness inside us.  The inexhaustible richness of life is, in...Read More

January 2010

• MASTER OF MY OWN DESTINY (A Personal Journey with Reiki) by Janice Cohen

  Posted on Tuesday, 26 January 2010

  Harassed, overworked, underpaid, irritable, bad-tempered, stressed – I was carrying around every negative symptom on a daily basis and letting everyone around me know!

   

  A single mother to two grown up boys, I worked full-time in fashion as PA to a demanding Managing Director and the pressure of working twelve hours a day and running a household single handed bubbled away in my head until one day I thought I would self-combust.  One Saturday afternoon, a beauty therapist at the gym asked me if I was okay, and as my eyes welled up; she took me by the hand into her treatment room, and offered me Reiki.   She could have been speaking Chinese as far as I was concerned (in fact Reiki is Japanese!), but her composed demeanour calmed me down, and before I had even asked for an explanation...Read More

• Meeting My Twin Flame

  Posted on Friday, 22 January 2010

  In 2006 I had the experience of meeting my Twin Flame, nothing that I have read or thought I understood prepared me for this meeting. I have to acknowledge that I had a some what romantic view on this event and had imagined a much different experience. I met this man whilst teaching a workshop and realised that there was a big connection between us, however I usually feel a big connection to all the participants and to be honest this actually felt no different than that.

  As part of the follow up of this particular workshop I decided that I would hold a group support evening once a month. Four weeks later just before leaving on holiday I held the first group and this man and another colleague were the only ones to attend. It was a very relaxed evening working through some of the post workshop assignments and chatting about skiing and what I and my friends would be doing over the next two weeks. This...Read More

December 2009

• Falling in Love

  Posted on Wednesday, 16 December 2009

  SUDDENLY, OUT OF NOWHERE, we are struck by the expression on another's face, how he or she speaks, moves, or looks at us. Some quality of beauty penetrates us and almost makes us ache, stirring a desire to reach out and make contact. This is the energy of passion.

   Love's passion is a powerful force that has both inspired and destroyed countless lovers through the ages. One moment it can feel like divine grace; the next moment it can sweep us away in a torrent of hopes and fears that blind us, bend us out of shape, and leave us hurt and disillusioned. As a student of mine once remarked, "No experience has ever made me feel so intensely alive, yet so confused and out of touch at the same time." We have no idea where this intensity of feeling comes from, why it drives us as it does, or where it will lead. No wonder so many people are either addicted to falling in love or scared to death of it, or both at the...Read More

• How we hypnotise our children

  Posted on Wednesday, 16 December 2009

  People find hypnosis and suggestion fascinating. They seem to be slightly mystical and unreal, yet are well accepted by the scientific world. Most people have witnessed these techniques, perhaps as part of a stage show, for getting help to cure a habit, or for relaxation.

  The key elements of hypnosis are very familiar to us, the hypnotist uses some device to distract the mind (like watch the watch), the commanding tone ('you will feel nothing'), and the rhythmic, repetitious tone of speech. We also know about post-hypnotic suggestion, the ability to implant a command, which the unsuspecting person later carries out, often to his or her dismay, at a given signal. It all makes for good theatre, but also can be used as therapy in the hands of a qualified practitioner.

  What most people don't realise, however, is that hypnosis is an everyday event. Whenever we use certain patterns of speech,...Read More

• PASSION AND SURRENDER

  Posted on Wednesday, 16 December 2009

  Thus if passion is a great stream of life energy surging through us, its natural course is to lead to surrender, like a river that must empty into the sea. Recently I met my twin flame in my very first moments of attraction to this man, I can sense a surrender that must follow if it was to move forward. In wanting to move toward him, I felt moved, in ways I could not control. In wanting to reach out and touch him, I feel touched, in my most sensitive spots. If I opened to my passion and let it move freely in me, which I did, it would force me to let go, give in, and feel how raw and vulnerable I truly am.   Although I would liked to possess the aliveness of passion without having to go through the death of surrendering, this is not possible. Passion and surrender are two halves of one whole cycle. The river must return to the sea that is its source so that its waters can keep on flowing....Read More

• PASSION AS A PATH

  Posted on Wednesday, 16 December 2009

  Because romantic passion has led to countless broken lives and marriages, many people have turned against it and condemned it altogether. Writers such as Denis de Rougemont, Scott Peck, and Robert Johnson regard it as the antithesis of mature human love. As de Rougemont writes, “Passion-love is … an impoverishment of one's being… Passion wrecks the very notion of marriage.”   What these writers rightly criticise is the misguided attempt to make a relationship the main source of our spiritual fulfillment. Yet in trying to set things straight, they go to the other extreme-discounting any larger dimension of passion altogether. When Peck writes, "Love is not a feeling, [but] an act of will," he is arguing for all work, no play, for earth at the expense of heaven. In so doing, he fails to appreciate the unconditional nature of passion-as a deep resonance with life's great...Read More

• THE SPARK OF PASSION

  Posted on Wednesday, 16 December 2009

  Passion is the spark of excitement we feel when we stand on the edge of the unknown. It arises at the boundary where two different worlds rub up against each other-male and female, self and other, inner and outer, familiar patterns and uncharted possibilities.

  As D. H. Lawrence put it, "What is the beloved? She is that which I am not." In one of his poems Lawrence conveys this impassioned sense of wonder:  I put out my hand in the night, one night, and my hand touched that which was verily not me... it was the unknown...The other, she has strange green eyes! And land that beats with a pulse! Also she...has strange-mounded breasts and strange sheer slopes, and white levels...I touched her flank and knew I was carried... over to the new world...  When we fall in love, a new world opens up. Leaping across the boundary of self and other, the spark of passion "lights up the night," providing...Read More

November 2009

• My Story

  Posted on Friday, 13 November 2009

  When I look back over my first half of my life I realise that we are all searching for something. The search may take many turns and may change from time to time particularly when we realise a goal. Another vision is created, another goal may emerge. It may be a material possession or job, or an inner attribute we'd like to explore or ridding ourselves of a quality or behaviour that we dislike or have out grown.

  I’ve become aware that we are never satisfied; we have within us a'divine discontentment'. It lives within us all- maybe driving us to achieve more, gain more, be more, have more until in a moment of pure grace we are at last fulfilled. Tapping into an inexplicable vastness beyond thought or deed and are integrated even momentarily into a universal lovingness and knowingness. Having experienced this unconditional love at our natural state our world is forever changed.

  To me God is the eternal Mother, Father, God,...Read More