Energy Therapy: Developing Body-Mind-Spirit Consciousness

Riding the invisible waves of life

2010-09-07T13:26:00.001Z

Many people are unaware of the hidden ebbs and flows of energy that underpin their daily existence, unaware of the hidden cycles that are playing out in line with the cosmic rhythm.

Invisible rhythms underlie most of what we assume to be constant in ourselves and the world around us and we are constantly moving in sync to a cosmic rhythm, whether we are aware of it or not.

We must seek to become aware of ourselves by listening to the natural rhythms within us, as well as those which are all around us.

Have you seen professional surfers? They are masters at reading the energy of the waves that come rolling into shore from the deep ocean. Some waves are small, some big, some gigantic. Yet, the process of reading that energy is the same, every time, no exceptions.

Whatever the size of the wave, if the surfer does not read the wave correctly, he or she will wipe out and get dumped in the proverbial "washing machine".

As an amateur surfer who loves the ocean, I love the feeling of catching a wave! It brings me pure joy and a sense of exhilaration. Riding the crest of the wave is fun and effortless once I am able to catch one and ride it into shore, just tweaking the direction I want to go in.

Anyone who has tried to surf will quickly tell you that it takes time, patience and constant practice to read and catch waves at the right time, to time the take off (called "popping") to perfection. Going too soon means nose diving into the water... moving too slowly, you miss the energy and the wave passes you by.

Life has hidden waves of energy that flow in from the deep cosmic ocean of our universe. These waves come in small and big cycles; and like a surfer, we must become adept at waiting patiently, reading the clues of the energy that is building around us and catching the wave when the time is right.

A lot of people are still working hard to produce wealth and financial abundance, for example, but producing hardly any tangible result for the sheer amount of physical effort they are generating. They are trying to compensate for a lack of inner vibrational alignment which points to a lack of energy awareness. Basically, there is not wave to ride for them. They are just paddling, using up lots of energy and not really getting anywhere. They paddle hard but their momentum falls flat...

Others move too quickly and are dumped unceremoniously on the bottom of the reef, and consequently become so they are afraid of picking themselves up and trying again. Or they move too slowly and miss vital opportunities for leverage, also missing the fun and excitement too!

We must learn to sense the invisible waves of life with our intuition. We must wait and be still, conserving our energy when we need to, but ready to act at a moment's notice. As we keep ourselves still but ever mindful, we will know precisely when to act and how to act.

Ask yourself, "am I aware of the invisible energy that underpins each and every one of my life experiences?" If you start by being absolutely honest with yourself, you will then have the power to change your circumstances.

From a young age, we have been conditioned to disconnect from our inner voice and put our intellect up on a pedestal. This is the cause of much frustration, disappointment and even bitterness in our daily lives. Learn to honour and trust your intuition again as it is vital to your wellbeing! Women are generally better at this than men and children are the best at it, until they are taught to go against the grain.

To become a pro surfer in the world of invisible energy we must become excellent at knowing and managing our own personal energy first. This energy is like our surf board. If we don't know how our own surf board works, we are going to crash when we take it out on the ocean.

Life is constantly moving, like the ocean, and it has both shallow and deep currents. The waves are favourable sometimes but many times they are also choppy and difficult to ride. Often, because of a lack of awareness, we don't know which ones we're caught up in until we're in them.

We can begin to navigate the smaller waves of life by paying attention to how we feel in day to day situations. When small challenges come up, these are the choppy but smaller waves that life is sending our way. As we become adept at handling these day to day, smaller waves, when the bigger waves come rolling in, we will be ready.

The choppy, bigger waves are things like recessions, ill health, the end of a relationship, death and so forth. The point here is not that the bigger waves are necessarily bad but if we know how to ride those waves, we will move through these experiences to greater heights, and with more grace.

Even the smaller, favourable waves demand that we pay attention. If you are not able to handle the responsibility that comes with small successes, you will certainly not be able to manage the proportionate responsibility that comes with huge success.

If you knew the waves were going to be choppy and difficult, you'd probably decide not to go out surfing at all. Yet, in life many people intuitively know that a particular course of action will ultimately lend itself to a rough, choppy and undesirable experience but continue to ignore their inner guidance. Some even end up in choppy seas without having managed to ride the smaller waves.

Sometimes we cannot avoid the difficult waves. They come upon us seemingly without warning and so we need to be ready. Readiness is not a sense of doom and gloom, or worry about the future. It means to be in the moment, practised and ready for action, yet expecting nothing.

Seek out your pro surfers to learn from, those who are adept at navigating life's currents and start having fun riding the unseen, invisible waves that you are constantly drawing into your own life today!

Expressing Unity Consciousness

2010-07-23T14:51:00.003Z

Unity Consciousness is both the knowing and realisation that we are ONE with everything and everyone around us, as well as ONE with our spiritual source, that which I refer to as SPIRIT.

Each day, make it a habit to start with an affirmative prayer that acknowledges your own Divinity. The power of your prayer is activated through your intention, so bring your attention to the heart space and allow the resonance of your words to resonate powerfully through your entire being. A basic rule of thumb is, if you don't feel it (the energy in and behind your words), you haven't shifted your vibration.

Avoid the trap of merely paying lip-service to your prayer. To affirm something is to make something firm in mind. Then, through the Law of Mind Action, this knowing is faithfully out-pictured as a living truth in our day to day experience of life.

It is quite easy to fall into patterns of separation, an "us" versus "them" or "me" versus "you" mentality, simply because we are uniquely bound to our own perspective and limited by our own perceptions, beliefs, values and judgments. However, as we deepen our spiritual knowing, we begin to have a much more encompassing view of our own lives and the lives of those people with whom we come into contact.

Clearly apparent to all who have awoken from their hypnotic slumber, who have lifted the veil of illusion, there is unfortunately much negative conditioning spread out all over the world today because our media overly emphasises pain, separation and violence. It is vital to our evolution that we detach from such negative stories and conditioning, instead actively seeking out all that is good and positive about the world around us.

Every day, take a reality check on your dominant, inner vibration. Where is it? Is it hopeful or anxious? Is it one of pain or one of joy? Beware of getting caught in the unconscious mind stream of doom and gloom, especially in relation to the world's current or future geo-political landscape, such as the possible collapse of the world's financial markets or the continued poisoning of our Mother Earth.

We must view all events as essential to the forward movement of consciousness for whenever there is contrast, we have clarity. Yet we cannot move towards the greater good, the healing of our individual and worldly troubles, if our problems continue to be the active vibrations within us. It defies Law.

Common negative energies that block us from allowing the good to flow through are fear, frustration, fatigue, addictions (physical, mental and emotional), ego, doubt, doom, depression, separation consciousness, self-limitation, self-punishment, self-destruction and self-centeredness.

These blocking energies are part of the All-That-Is, yet demonstrate that we can be drawn into fear consciousness, so it is paramount that we seek to maintain our connection to SPIRIT in each moment. This joyful, natural connection naturally allows our inner current of love, positivity and hopefulness to flow out into the world and transmute any fear into love.

As we seek to move in oneness with SPIRIT, we will be continually refreshed and nourished so that we can be of service to others around us. Compassion is the offspring of unity consciousness, so having compassion for ourselves and others is vital to our individual and collective ascension.

Ask yourself, "to what degree am I practising the consciousness of oneness in my day to day interactions with others?" (SRT practitioners, you may like to ask SPIRIT to give you an optimum percentage to aim for and check in on a frequent basis as to where you are).

We are here to embody SPIRIT in the physical, whilst allowing ourselves to be imperfect. We must constantly seek to remember that there is always perfection in the process of life, judging none of it.

We must also continue to practise orderly thinking in our affairs. Clearing energies and raising our vibration is our platform for heightened spiritual growth. If we are idle, scattered or fearful in our thinking, our connection to SPIRIT suffers and our lives will fall demonstrably short of our true potential.

The affirmations given below are to help us remember our oneness, the purpose of our life here, and to deepen our trust in expecting only the good to flow into our lives.

Affirmations

"I feel my ONENESS with SPIRIT. I affirm that I am ONE with everyone who comes into my life, recognising that they are individuations of SPIRIT, perfect and whole in truth."

"I trust. I trust in all situations. I trust and allow SPIRIT to provide all that I desire for true success to manifest in my life and to bring about divine order and harmony in all my affairs."

Healing the emotional body is key to reversing ageing

2010-06-01T23:18:00.007Z

At this time on the planet, the vast majority of people still think they are their physical body and have forgotten that they are made up of vortices of energy and have many subtle bodies that have a direct impact on the physical expression.

On the other hand, beyond the logic of the rational mind, nearly all of humankind intuitively realises that the most profound experiences of life are not purely physical, they are emotional ones.

Without the feeling side of the Being, our journey through life would cease to be the miracle that it is. It is always our emotional response to life that determines the quality of our journey here and the end result, if there is such a thing.

Emotions move through us just as electrical signals move through the nervous system of our physical body, and the emotional body can be sensed during experiences of Non-Ordinary Reality. For example, those exploring healing paths such as Reiki begin to sense "bodies" that lie beyond and yet intertwine with the physical body.

To better understand that the state of our emotional body has a direct impact on the health and longevity of our physical vessel, we simply need to bring awareness to our emotions again. By choosing to fully feel them whenever and wherever they arise, whether positive or negative, we will begin to release dysfunctional emotional patterns.

We must stop diluting the emotional experience through the machinery of our mind which is often playing out an ego-centric, disconnected reality.

Every time you feel a negative emotion, pay attention to these symptoms just as you would with physical pain and discomfort. Often you will be able to sense where the discordant energy is by noticing where pain or discomfort is reflected in the physical body. For example, the back of the heart centre or the area around the larynx might feel tight and constricted after an argument. The back of the head, where the occipital ridge is located, may be "throbbing" with energy as well, since this passageway marks the spot where duality is merged into unity consciousness.

When you are emotionally off centre, pay close attention by being still for a moment and sensing where the stuck energy is. Note its power or intensity, size and direction. By sending yourself, the situation and the area of your body loving-feeling thoughts, the physical and the emotional body will begin to heal.

Having a healthy, flexible emotional body will naturally lend itself to a youthful disposition and your physical body will cease to age compared to those who remain stuck in negative, reactive patterns of thought and feelings.

SPIRIT says that getting older is not the same as ageing. The latter is a belief based on the experience of "wear and tear" on the physical body, the vehicle for our self-expression in this lifetime. The body is perfectly capable of rejuvenating itself in a heartbeat once blocking energies and limiting beliefs have been cleared. The reason that the concept of ageing does not sit well with any of us is that it contradicts our broader perspective's understanding and knowing on the subject.

The tendency of the body is life-ward and it is a huge testament to its miraculous life-giving powers that most of us manage to stay so healthy for so long, despite our neglect of and lack of appreciation for the wonderful vehicle that we inhabit. The physical body is a perfect instrument for our service work - for we are all here to serve each other - and it is the perfect mirror for our consciousness to understand itself at the deepest level. The emotional body is the closest body, after the etheric twin, to our physical and the one that impacts us the most on a moment to moment basis.

The false premise of ageing stems from a misbelief. We have been told by authorities outside of ourselves that our bodies are closed systems, prone to decay, disease and malfunction. And, of course, we can all see that message being driven home in advertisements ruthlessly calculated to evoke a fear response. This so-called "truth" is being played out all around us, validating this ingrained belief that ageing is an ungracious process and that we must eventually wither and die.

Rather than realising that we are, in fact, masters of our physical vessel who can choose to leave when we deem fit, we feel we have no choice about our health or when we "go". Some of us even question whether we exist after we die, despite strong anecdotal evidence to the contrary.

And yet, what if we are capable of living far longer than we could have previously imagined, in such magnificent health that it would strip away the false paradigm laid down by our current view of human biology?

The truth is that the human body is an open, dynamic system made up of intertwining fields of electromagnetic energy, capable of self-correcting and harmonising of its own accord when the mind does not unduly interfere with the process of self-healing. The body's tendency is always to support life, always moving towards optimum health and well-being in each and every moment!

The physical body is, however, the most dense of all the bodies and reflects back to us the energies that are prevalent in the other subtler bodies - emotional, mental and all the spiritual bodies - that make up Who We Really Are.

If we would learn to tend to our mental and emotional bodies when we are young, then we would all have the optimum chance of staying in constant alignment with our spiritual source which constantly sends us a stream of energy to nourish and sustain us.

It is our emotional misalignment over time, separating us from our source, that causes us to wither away like a freshwater stream cut off from its river.

Children are excellent teachers when they are quite young, demonstrating how to move through emotions quickly - happy, sad, angry, joyful, moody, calm, resistant, playful and so forth - until they learn to copy the bad habits of those around them. This is not to cast blame but merely to observe what is so. Once fear sets in and they are schooled not to express themselves, the body's innate ability to rejuvenate is severely impacted.

However, there is still hope, for even for those of us who are much older and childhood is a distant memory, it is never too late to realise that we are carrying around a lot of unnecessary mental and emotional baggage, and to begin to let go of it. Beginning the process of healing the emotional body begins with acceptance of where you are right now.

With just a little effort, it is surprising just how quickly the physical body will heal and correct itself once limiting beliefs and negative subconscious memories are cleared from all of the bodies and minds that make up the spiritual constitution of man. In particular, when destructive emotional tendencies are recognised and overcome, the potential for rejuvenation is enormous.

Since all the systems of the body can run negative as well as positive programming, discordant energies can remain trapped in one or several of our bodies and minds until it is consciously recognised and released. The tendency of life is towards more life, which is evolution. Cycles of decay are replaced with cycles of rebirth.

As an evolving race, we have simply forgotten that our bodies are master vehicles for self-expression. We are not our bodies but we are so intimately connected with our bodies that we oftentimes believe that we are our bodies.

"In truth there is only one reality. You have no way of separating yourself from it... Your separate self, which has a huge personal stake in the world, isn't who you really are. In fact, it may be a total illusion, which is what the Buddha said." Deepak Chopra, The Shadow Effect

We have been given enough glimpses into the illusion of life to understand that we are not our bodies and that all illness is pure illusion. This is not to trivialise the illnesses and suffering that mankind is currently experiencing but, far too often, when most of us experience something that runs counter to our previous knowledge on the subject, we dismiss it out of hand even when the new experience directs us to an improved experience of life itself.

People who have had cancer and who have healed spontaneously are now simply put into a convenient category called "spontaneous regression". The "hinted at" possibility that quick recoveries, instead of long and arduous healing processes, could be the norm is routinely set aside for examination at a later date. The convenience of the label means science can ignore it and press on to look for the glory and the money that comes with the miracle cure that will save everyone from cancer.

By default almost, we have chosen to continue looking at life in a way that fits our past thinking, rather than embrace the quantum leap that miracles show us. We have forgotten that, at a much broader level of awareness, we set up the exact conditions and parameters of our lives so that we can work through them to gain understanding and wisdom.

What if tending to our emotional make-up was the single, most powerful key to eliminating decay and disease in the human body? Humanity would be immediately empowered to take of itself again and the spiritual-holistic approach to well-being would dramatically impact the direction taken by those who pursue the biological sciences.

So, why is it taking so long for us to live a new paradigm that honours our spiritual birthright?

The underlying concern for those in power, for those who fund drug research and development, is that they would be disempowered at a stroke and would additionally lose billions, if not trillions of dollars, in the process of admitting to such a thing. The cosmetic industry, tied to the hip with those same drug companies, would also cease to profit from their constant attention to all that is "wrong" with the body.

For those of us who are not willing to wait for a global awakening, we need to ask ourselves, "what if directing our attention to better feeling thoughts every moment of every day is sufficient enough to maintain excellent health and improve not-so-good health?"

Abraham, the consciousness channelled by Ester Hicks, points out that today more people are sick than ever before despite huge advances in science and medicine because of the tremendous pushing against disease. We shout "no" at a universe that is inclusive, that is based on attraction and by unduly focusing on a particular disease or illness, we activate the potential for it within us. As spiritual beings, we have encoded within us the potential for every possibility, good or bad, which is something science just isn't getting or admitting to right now.

When the ancient Rishis of India said the whole universe was contained within us, they were alluding to the etheric body, the energetic double of our physical self which contains the seed for every potential, positive and negative. As consciousness expressing through a physical body, we get to choose which aspects of life we focus on and which qualities we activate within us at the deepest level. These activations are then played out in our lives, for better or worse.

The time between thought, emotion and the actual physical manifestation of our directed attention is becoming shorter and shorter as we journey through this time-space reality. Science will soon be saying what the ancients have said so many times, so long ago. That every possibility lies dormant within us and that a state of joy is critical to physical health and vitality.

Are you just a statistic?

2010-05-16T11:01:00.009Z

Statistics are usually based on numbers only and often they fail to take into account the invisible energy which lies behind the results being measured. The Oxford Dictionary says a statistic is a "fact or piece of data obtained from a study of a large quantity of numerical data." Nothing more.

And yet whole industries have sprung from observing What-Has-Been, based on the erroneous assumption that What-Has-Been determines What-Will-Be.

Health Insurance is a huge industry turning over billions of pounds worldwide and most of it is based on driving fear into those it seeks to take money from. Insurance companies specialising in health, and their underwriters, are negatively focused and use past data to categorically define which segment of the population is most likely to get cancer, or which group is most likely to die of a heart attack and so forth.

This is not to say there is no correlation between smoking and cancer, or that a lack of exercise and poor diet often leads to obesity. Yet, we are energy beings and it is our connection or disconnection to Source that drives us to engage in constructive or destructive behaviours, which eventually leads to particular outcomes or consequences. The issue is with myopically labelling something or someone without taking into appreciation the psycho-spiritual nature of disease and illness.

And our media sources, they love to report on these negative statistics and further drive home these narrowly focused messages, deep into our subconscious. Our press and TV greatly add to the negative vibrational currents already in place by bringing us tremendously distorted pictures of the troubles in the world, versus the Well-Being of our planet.

Good news does not seem to be worthy of attention, except for fleeting mentions, so one has to look very hard to find good or positive aspects in a newspaper or news report. Of course, this is largely because the public continue to show a morbid fascination with stories which tell of pain, suffering and negative consequences.

The vibrations of negativity and despair are ingested at a deep level, so the underlying vibration of mass consciousness is mainly fear-based and that has a big impact on how energies play out on a personal, national and global scale.

Many of us today are so numb to this type of suggestion, that daily reports of murder, rape, war, terrorism, suicide, child abuse and so forth are just added to the pile of negative data already sitting in our subconscious minds, just below the level of our conscious awareness. We now we don't feel good when we read these stories but if we truly allowed ourselves to feel a valid emotional response to the incoming data, it would surely send us in a downward spiral of depression.

This is not the same as saying that we cannot take action to help others, that we cannot demonstrate love, for we are are part of a stream of consciousness that is, at its essence, indivisible. And to that degree, we cannot and must not idly sit by and watch our fellow brothers and sisters suffer as a result of a lack of will to put right the wrongs of the world, to correct severe imbalances caused by erroneous thinking.

From a position of strength, joy and total alignment with our Inner Being, we can choose to take action. Indeed, we will be inspired to action through our connection to our Spiritual Source, which always has a beneficial result because the underlying energy is positive.

Were we to practice mindfulness and abstain from fixating on the distorted pictures presented to us, we would quickly find our lives would be relatively unaffected by many of the negative conditions of the world. Just as we can stand on a sandy beach and watch a storm rage far out over the ocean, we can stand in the positive energies of our mind stream and be an attractor of positive circumstances and events, regardless of what is happening around us.

On a personal level, we must take care of ourselves first. We must honour our needs as well as the needs of those around us. We cannot give love to others if we are not in balance ourselves. We must learn to focus our personal energies in a constructive way, marrying our thoughts with our feelings to understand where we are, vibrationally speaking, and where we are headed.

Whatever the current disharmonious out-picturing of mass consciousness, many of us who would not necessarily be impacted by those events in the first place, through our undivided attention to those negative vibrations, draw those circumstances into our lives through the Law of Attraction’s laser precision and make those negative “facts” a living reality for us. And so, we become just another statistic.

Taking the recent financial crisis as an example, those people I know who remained positively focused had many opportunities for abunant living flow into their awareness that simply would not have happened if they had bought into the media hype and become negatively focused.

Some were able to borrow money at low interest rates for special projects and invested a portion of it elsewhere to offset the debt accrued. Others found they could buy expensive items because they were substantially reduced and now within their price range.

However, the people who continued to beat the drum of doom and gloom, how bad things were, how much worse they were going to be before they got better, and how they were probably likely to lose their job, for those people the Universe could not bring them the insights and opportunities for greater abundance, happiness and joy.

The lesson is quite simple. Never give your power away! Become the observer, as well as the participant, of your life and you will quickly see for yourself how energy follows awareness, how you are the Master Attractor of all that is playing out in your life.

The mind is creature of habit and it looks at something and re-acts. That is to say, it acts it out again based on past conditioning and past judgments. It becomes a valuable tool only when harnessed by the Master Teacher within, which means you have to stay emotionally centered in your Sacred Heart and create from a space of loving awareness.

The mind loves to analyse and dissect information but it does not see Universal Truth. If it is presented with negative data, it will extrapolate worst case scenarios and run them over and over again. However, the mind when linked with the heart has perfect balance and the ability to know a greater truth.

The Soul portion of you does not react, it creates in present moment awareness. It knows that it can offer a different vibration at any time, which must lead to a different outcome; the mind then simply labels this new outcome as a different statistic, once it happens often enough to a large enough number of people.

We must learn to be discerning about the thoughts we accept and the thoughts we the offer to the world. Therefore, choose to seek out books and programmes which inspire and uplift you and do not pay too much attention to the world’s negative stories that are being fed to you. You can tune into worldly affairs from time to time and take appropriate action to help, when inspired to do so. Giving to charities is an excellent way to use money for good, to further the evolution of society and create change for the better.

What-Is has no bearing on what is coming unless you are continually regurgitating the story of What-Is. If you find yourself playing the victim, or categorising yourself into one of the media’s various negative statistics, find some time to detach from those thoughts that have caused the negative conditions of your life. Start to practise mindfulness.

"It makes no difference whether the thought you are thinking is one you have deliberately chosen to focus upon or whether you are merely lazily observing something and therefore thinking the thought. You are still thinking the thought, offering the vibration, and reaping the manifestational result of that thought.” Abraham-Hicks

Do you really want to prove to yourself, and others, that you are a statistic, a victim of fate? Or do you wish to prove to yourself, time and again, that your personal choices of thought, feeling and emotion determine your destiny?

Choose now to own your personal power and say “I decide which path I take, and which outcome I choose. I choose to stay positively focused in my life, seeking out aspects which please me, which bring me feelings of great joy. And so it is!

How long should you stay in your current job?

2010-04-27T14:55:00.069Z

The first thing that must be remembered as we consider this question is that the mere thought, idea or vibration of "a career or job for life" flows in opposition to Who We Really Are. We always need change to some degree, however subtle. We are change itself!

The dichotomy of our nature means that our broader perspective, our Inner Being, is eternal and stable and yet always changing. Our personalities are projections of our Soul's consciousness which allow us to birth new desires all the time and grandly move towards those desires with joy!

All of us were born with a triad of core intentions pulsing at the heart of our being: freedom, growth and joy! Thus, as multi-dimensional, multi-faceted spiritual beings, we have the potential to change direction at any time during our lives. Each of us, at our core, absolutely reject any limitations on that freedom and feel inner discord and vibrational imbalance when we fail to honour that sense of freedom.

There is no such thing as failure, only a belief in failure which immobilises us. Each preceding part of our lives always sets the ground for the next evolutionary step. Often, even experiences that we do not really enjoy serve us by acting as a powerful catalyst for change, giving us absolutely clarity about what we do not want and thus perfect clarity about what we do want. And as we allow ourselves to focus on our desires without resistance, great change is possible, no matter what our age.

Whether you like Kentucy Fried Chicken or not, the story of Colonel Harland Sanders is truly amazing. This story is inspirational because it's an example of how perseverance, dedication, and ambition can create success, regardless of age or circumstances.

All of our lives would be infinitely happier if we would allow ourselves to trust, to go with the flow and follow our inspiration to recreate ourselves anew. Constantly, from our human perspective, we are birthing new desires and our Inner Being is constantly expanding to hold the essence of those requests. It is only a question of releasing the old and turning our attention to what we truly want, what we truly wish to demonstrate, who we truly wish to be.

Not only is it right that we should allow our desires to shape our lives but it is pefectly natural that they should do so:

"If this life experience has inspired the desire within you, this life experience has the wherewithal to fulfill it down to the very last detail." Abraham-Hicks, Money and the Law of Attraction

Currently there is the prevailing belief all over the world that children should go to school, then to college and/or university (if they can afford to) and look for a company or a role/career that they will follow for the rest of their lives. This is ingrained into so many cultures the world over that any desire to deviate from the norm is met with disapproval, discouragement and even penalties.

And yet, we are free beings, free to choose who we wish to be at any moment. Do you take a moment to ask yourself each day, "why am I doing this?", "who am I doing this for?" and "does this bring me joy?"

Asking the simple question "why" is a powerful motivator for inner change. Moment to moment, ask yourself WHY?

The prevalent attitudes of our society are typically reflected in how we greet each other when we meet someone for the first time. We often say "what do you do for a living?", rather than "what's your passion?" Okay, the alternative question may be a little odd when meeting a stranger but the first question seems to underpin society's need to hear how we are each proving our worth.

Today, just as ever, switching jobs too often is frowned upon, as if it were some sort of deep personality flaw. Young people who do not immediately find their "career for life" and travel for a while or work in a non-related role to the one they decide eventually to pursue often invent stories to explain large gaps in their CVs. Sadly, being true to one's internal guidance in order to find clarity, is commonly judged by society to be akin to a lack of will and a lack of commitment to the world, when exactly the opposite is true.

And yet, to gain clarity, it is often necessary to try out different activities to feel which ones are best aligned with one's Inner Being, one's personality and gifts.

If we could all gravitate towards those activities and embrace those desires that harmonise with our core intentions of freedom, joy and spiritual growth, we would have a much happier world, with far less bitterness and resentment. The consciousness Abraham, channelled by Ester Hicks, invites us to make a career of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income so that we can do things with our money that we then make us happy.

It is still a fact today that most people just do not like what they do and so they feel it is okay to demand more money for their misery. The bad for the bad, so to speak. They sacrifice their time and energy at work to receive money to have fun after work and at the weekend:

"Your life is not about what you will do after work, on the weekend, or after you retire. Your life is happening now and is really represented by how you are feeling now." Abraham-Hicks, Money and the Law of Attraction

The supreme irony is that when we stop struggling, when we do the things that bring us feelings of joy and freedom, all else is added unto us. When we make following our inner guidance system our absolute top priority, then our potential for sustained happiness, health, wealth and success is always at its peak.

Let us each remember to cast aside all of our unspoken, outdated rulebooks that are not serving us. Let us discard the erroneous social viewpoint that we ought to prove our worth to ourselves and others by falling into a predetermined box of how we should behave.

When we are in vibrational alignment with our Inner Being, when our desires and beliefs are in balance, we will never find a need to justify our choices to others. All feelings of imbalance will be replaced by utter sure-footedness and a true sense of Who We Really Are.

We can only ever uplift others from a position of strength and clarity and total alignment. When you find the freedom to change your story, your life will change. Learn to tell a different story and your life will be different from those around you, often inspiring others to make positive changes in their own lives.

Ask yourself, "does my story inspire others?"

Do affirmations lead us to self-delusion?

2010-02-04T14:25:00.002Z

I heard a personal development coach say that affirmations can be the beginnings of self-delusion but is this really true, and what exactly is Self-Delusion from SPIRIT's point of view?

Most people today are taking action, but they are still following the "do-have-be" or "have-do-be" paradigm, both of which flows counter to how the Universe works.

They are trying to do something (work harder) to have something (more money) to be something (happy and content). Or they believe that if they "have" a thing (more time, more money, more love), they can finally do a thing (write a book, take up a hobby, go on holiday, buy a home, strike up a new relationship), which will allow them to "be" a certain thing - happy, content, peaceful, prosperous etc.

Taking action from a lack-vibration makes life so much harder that it was meant to be for no amount of action can compensate for misalignment with one's Inner Being or Spiritual Source. We need to remember to go straight to being something first and act from that position always, remembering the great truth that every possibility exists within us at the deepest level.

Of course, on the other end of the scale, burying your head in the sand in the name of "staying positive" is not a good strategy either. Saying affirmations without taking subsequent action misses the point entirely!

Our work is firstly to bring ourselves into harmony with Self, tending to our emotional centre, and then ACT from that place of joyful connection. We are the blissful union of Spirit and Matter, so there is nothing grander than allowing the energy of Spirit to flow through you as you take action.

Only a mind which has forgotten, which does not recognise its innate power, its Divine heritage, feels powerless and consequently "strives" to make it in the world. It makes sense to stop and ask ourselves from time to time, whom are we trying to please, and what are we trying to prove to ourselves or others? A person who remembers their Divine connection has nothing to prove to anyone, least of all themselves.

Jesus said, "be of the world, not in it", saying to us that we can enjoy worldly success but we do not need to be trapped by the illusion of always wanting more and trying to do more, while failing to appreciate all we are today. Nor should we fall into error by seeking to prove we have "made it" and judging those who have not "made it".

SPIRIT says Self-Delusion is simply this. Not being true to your deepest feelings, and thus not being in tune with your Source.

Taking action without first aligning with your Inner Being first ensures poor results at best for no action can compensate for misalignment. Think of ten-pin bowling. If the bowling ball is running straight, perfectly aligned, it will easily strike all of the pins. A bowling ball thrown askew, no matter how forcefully, may hit a few pins but it most likely will miss the mark altogether.

You will naturally feel compelled to take action when in harmony with the Infinite Stream of Wellness within. Your work will be "love made manifest" because it will spring from the Eternal Source of Wisdom that is Unconditional Love.

There is a saying that "faith without action serves no useful purpose" but there is also a good saying "don't be the richest man in the graveyard".

Many people are heavily focused on money, or their lack of it, because it seems to be an indicator of what one can have, or not have, at least materially speaking and yet, the best measure of success is to notice, in present moment awareness, if you are feeling joy or not.

The man who dreams of wealth and yet walks daily toward certain financial disaster, and the woman who wishes for happiness and takes steps that lead her toward certain despair, are both creating from a place of misalignment - that is, from their lack of sensitivity to their emotional guidance system. Yet who is to say, that those places of extreme contrast are not the right and perfect set of circumstances for them at a Soul Level? Often, we human beings love the drama, and these places of intense feelings can give birth to a new consciousness.

In terms of frequency, those who are experiencing lack, are at one end of the emotional scale. Feelings ranging from anger to frustration to bitterness may be "their daily bread", so they simply cannot jump to feeling joy and excitement and bliss on the vibrational scale, and it feels false for them to do so by repeating affirmations.

When any of us choose to say positive affirmations, it doesn't feel true for us, we are really vibrationally focused vibrationally on the opposite of what our heart desires. If your radio dial is set to 88.9FM, you cannot affirm you are at 997 FM, you need gradually increase the frequency dial by reaching for better feeling thoughts.
When experiencing contrast, the key is always to take a vibrational step towards feelings that bring relief, and then listen to inner promptings to move forward.

In SRT circles, SPIRIT has shared that we continuously move through cycles called Octaves of Learning.

We must be aware of something first in order to change it, or move towards it. We then need the desire to create the energy necessary to manifest change. Thirdly, we must have the faith that we can achieve this, which is really a matter of trust. Fourthly, we must be willing to change because without changing our habitual thinking patterns, nothing will change! We must set realistic and achievable goals and work diligently on them. Finally, we must learn to rest as a particular phase comes to an end and appreciate all that we have done. The eighth step leads us back to a new awareness.

The inner growth that our experiences and challenges bring to us is, without doubt, the most important aspect of our Soul's journey but, of course, it is pleasant to notice our successful accomplishments in the "real" world.

The first step in aligning with Source is to be aware of your current emotional state. You don't have to be perfect all the time (which those on the spiritual path often feel do!) or pretend that everything is rosy when it clearly isn't for you! That is a denial of what is and that consciousness may lead you to set up reverse energy on yourself.

You just have to let yourself be, enjoy being alive, and start appreciating all that you are today. If you are in a dark place, you must find a way to make peace with yourself and the situation to create a new vibrational set point.

Once you have come back to centre, and are starting to feel better, you can begin to see what inner improvements are required and then move towards them using your emotional guidance system. SPIRIT will then move towards you and Law of Attraction will assemble all co-operative forces to assist you in your inner and outer journey.

Self-development is a deeply personal journey, one that you know best as you step forward. By virtue of your birth here, as a Leading Edge Creator in this time-space reality, you are entitled to do nothing and not be penalised for it. Doing nothing would be punishment enough, because a life without experiencing the joy of co-creation is no life at all!

As you remember your alignment with your Non-Physical Being, you will find yourself feeling less and less of the pain and frustration that you feel when you are seeking to please others and align with their thoughts and feelings on a particular subject, instead of your own.

See life through the eyes of your Inner Being, using affirmations to help you create a new vibrational set point, and then move to action!

Embracing Wholeness

2010-01-18T22:11:00.002Z

The Universe is a holographic technology, and it works perfectly.

The word "hologram" comes from the Greek words "holos" meaning "whole" and "gramma" meaning "message". Each part of this wonderful Universe is self-contained and yet mirrors the whole. Each part has its own unique role, or message, to play and yet is part of the whole message.

And what is that message? Truth, joy, and freedom - these are the vibrations that represent the essence of our deepest expression.

Jesus, the man, embodied the Christ Consciousness, and he consistently saw the perfection of the process. He did not "fight" against the darkness, he made peace with it, and always acted from that position of constant alignment with Source energy, which he called The Father within.

The polarity of darkness has been anchored here on earth because we have collectively asked for it to find our inner strength and compassion, and to declare Who We Really Are. However, the darkness does not have to be our experience for we can choose to remember who we are, and thus act from the Light.

However, if we constantly polarise our experiences, and fall into judgement, to that degree do we perpetuate the illusion of separation, and add to the darkness. What we judge, creates a charge in us that must be resolved. This is why Jesus said, "thou shalt not judge", and why the old proverb says those who "live by the sword, die by the sword". It is the Law of Attraction, the law of Inner Vibration.

Often we see people around us who appear disadvantaged in one way or another. Sometimes it is us who find ourselves on the back foot, staring into a perceived tunnel of darkness. Yet those conditions are often the right and perfect conditions metaphysically speaking.

From our limited perspective, we cannot always know the exact reason for the conditions we find ourselves in, but we have the innate ability to know whether we are in alignment with our Source and take the emotional journey required of us as we seek to reveal our highest and grandest truths. From that place of deep trust, comes a unique opportunity to transcend the conditions that seemingly hold us in bondage.

Will we allow ourselves to be believe that darkness is an aspect of love, the only frequency that truly exists?

Only by embracing the energy of Compassion, which is the highest aspect of Self-Love, can we move to a heightened sense of awareness of the Eternal Self, a way of Being that we can choose to become.

"What if one person chooses to see beyond hate for those who oppress, while still living among those who oppress? This does not mean that they condone, agree with or would ever choose to have oppression in their lives. It simply means that one person has chosen to become more than the circumstances that they find themselves immersed within, breaking the cycles of response that has been, becoming the higher choice." - Gregg Braden, Walking Between The Worlds

People who are spiritually clear discover that they can live fully present in Ordinary Reality while simultaneously maintaining their connection with their Spiritual Source. They choose to embrace wholeness, rather than separation. Without a negative charge within them, there is nothing to attract further darkness to them.

"Healing means holding the lamp long enough to see God in everyone, to recognise the Divine in everything." - Joyce Hawkes, Cell Level Healing.

When we break down our inner walls of distance, distraction and indifference, we can hear and act on our Inner Guidance, our emotional guidance system, which represents our rudder through life's infinite waters of experience.

There is a single source of creation, a fundamental vibration, which we are all tapped into, if we will allow it to be so. That essence is pure joy and is the seed tone of the standing wave that allows the hologram of life's patterns.

A natural and unique pattern exists for each of us as individuations of the ONE consciousness. Each of us here carries our own unique Soul Signature, an emanation of the ONE vibration, and through steady alignment with our Spiritual Source, we automatically tap into a natural, unlimited flow of energy that is available for our life here and our service to others.

We have at our disposal highly tuned bodies that interpret our day-to-day sensory input - for example, we perceive hot and cold, light and dark, up and down etc, and everything in-between through our Vibrational Reality. Emotion is the energy we attach to our sensory input, that is to say our feelings, and this constantly gives us precise bio-feedback as to our alignment or misalignment with our Inner Being, our Eternal Source.

Whether our emotion is coherent, or incoherent, constructive or destructive, clearly reveals to us whether our Source agrees with our interpretation of what we are experiencing. The greater the discord, the further we are from the vibration of Love and the vibration of Well-Being that flows within, through and around us.

Until we begin to move beyond our personality's needs, to embrace our Soul's desire for creative freedom, we tend to remain trapped in dysfunctional patterns of interpretation.

When you and I react, we take an action that we have taken before. When we 'react', what we are doing is assessing the incoming data, searching our memory bank for the same, or similar, experience, and acting the way we did before. This is an automatic response to a particular stimulus or stimuli and is the work of the mind, not the work of our Soul... our Soul creates, our mind reacts.

Through the modus operandi of the mind, our reaction may or may not serve our desire for inner peace and harmony. Through the modus operandi of the Soul, our response will always serve the larger picture, the broader intent, the Highest Goal.

Most of us have been conditioned to look for others for approval from a very young age, and quickly become disconnected from our emotional guidance system, which is the essential guiding mechanism for following our true path in any given moment. Whenever we look to others for approval, we immediately place ourselves in a position of extreme disadvantage because they can never know what is right for us.

Yet, we have failed to listen to our emotional guidance system, and we have continued to act from positions of weakness, seeking to control how others behave to please us. Walking in virtual darkness, disconnected from our Inner Being, we have decided to impose laws and regulations to control external circumstances, to make "our way" the right way to live.

We have forgotten that diversity does not have to mean disharmony. We have forgotten that contrasting situations do not have to bring us suffering. We have operated from the flawed premise that to be in harmony with another, we have to want and believe the same things.

We have forgotten that life is process, that we are leading-edge creators, contributing to the expansion of All-That-Is. We have forgotten that God, our Spiritual Source, has not made its mind up on everything and come to exact conclusions about the "rightness" and "wrongness" of the circumstances of our lives.

Yet all of this can change in an instant as we remember and act from Who We Really Are, seeking alignment within before taking any action. The technology that lies within us is simple and yet utterly profound. Let us now operate from our true sense of Self, which knows it cannot be harmed and has nothing to fear. Let us seek alignment with our Source, embracing those dark moments which propel us into greater clarity.

Let us choose to walk the path of Joy and Inner Peace.

The Joy of Sex - How to better understand yourself as a sexual being

2010-01-04T12:54:00.004Z

"Everything in the Universe is cyclic in nature and dualistic in nature until you get to the fundamental octave that integrates all duality into unity." - The Hathor Material, by Tom Kenyon

Our innate sexual energy continues to be a source of mystery for most of us. Although we are living in modern times where, at least in the West, the outer ritual of sex has been demystified, most people have not realised the dual opposing force of yin and yang, male and female, exists within them at the deepest level.

It is all too easy to see life from a purely dualistic perspective, and to polarise differences into the "battle of the sexes". We must endeavour to remember that each man also has the female within him and each woman also has the male within her.

From an energetic standpoint, all persons are both male and female, and at the subtlest levels of energy and consciousness, we are potentially androgynous, meaning 'balanced between' the sexual polarities of our energy make-up.

I recall observing this fact and recognising it from very early on in my life, as most young children do before they are socialised to think otherwise.

Sexual energy, and having sex, points to our origins as human beings and can be described as a pure creative energy force that pulses rhythmically through the very core of our being. How we choose to express that creative energy is always up to us. For example, with intention and awareness, we can choose to raise the life force from our root, sacral and energy centres near the base of the spine through all of our energy centres when having sexual intercourse; or we can achieve this through yogic breathing or other energy-based methods.

This phenomenon of the energy moving up the spine through all centres at once causes an experience of sexual bliss - that is to say, oneness - and raises consciousness.

The Hathors, as channelled by Tom Kenyon, say that as we balance the masculine and feminine currents within, holding the intention to elevate ourselves in consciousness, we will begin to have intuitions and understandings about things that are very valuable to us and our earthly brothers and sisters. This is called 'gnosis', which means 'knowledge' and it comes as a feeling or sudden knowing.

An active sexual relationship is not necessary, however, to reach high states of consciousness, for if one practices celibacy and at the same time causes the life force to rise from the root and sexual centres near the base of the spine, one will experience a state of oneness also.

The Hathors further point out that, today, the ancient understanding of the role of celibacy has been lost for the most part. Its purpose was to allow "Mystery School" students to explore their own sexually-based energy patterns. By entering the realms of the Self, the initiate could facilitate the merging of the male and female aspects, an event known as the 'alchemical marriage'.

Most people today are naturally interested in sex, rather than celibacy, for it is part of our pre-programmed biological makeup and our natural desire to merge with another being is nothing less than life seeking to know its Source.

"You can unite the chemical elements of life in a petri dish. Yet this would not satisfy the most basic urges of the soul, which it turns out, are much larger than procreation, and have to do with re-creation of Who and What You Really Are." - Conversations with God, Book 3, by Neale Donald Walsch

Sex always helps us to feel good about ourselves when expressed naturally and joyfully. Yet, most of the dominant thoughts that currently prevail around sex, marriage, birth and death - and especially those laws which seek to control the behaviour of others in relation to these themes - have typically been passed down from those who were out of alignment with their Inner Being.

SPIRIT has shared with me that ejaculation, for example, does not have to equate to depletion of the life force in the body since the sexual energy and fluids are easily separated. If a man does not "disconnect" from his higher chakras, particularly the heart, and his intention of how to move that energy is clear before having sex, the energy will move up the spine during orgasm rather than being released from the body.

Often, however, men are socialised to be primarily stimulated through their root chakra alone and fail to connect through their higher energy centres at the time of orgasm. A simple shift in awareness is all that is necessary.

Women naturally connect through the heart, so not only is sex an emotionally heightened experience but they also are able to raise the energy up, leading to multi-cellular orgasm and a heightened state of oneness.

Culturally, many young women in Western countries are seeking to emulate their male peers and to have sex from the root chakra alone, which deprives them of their natural instinct. This is not necessarily wrong but it may not serve them in their broader goal as a spiritual being having a physical experience.

Until we, both collectively and individually, stop thinking of sex as "dirty" and portraying it as such, we will fail to bring our Spiritual Source into the picture and these two vital aspects of our Well-Being will continue to remain exclusive in our thoughts, and in our actions.

Most people would prefer to leave God out of the bedroom, as it were, but nothing could be further from the truth since sex and spirituality are mutually inclusive. You cannot separate the Non-Physical You from you, so your Source knows everything you are experiencing, wanted and unwanted.

The consciousness known as Abraham, channelled by Esther Hicks, reminds us that there is no greater symbol of co-creative harmony than the physical blending of two people in sexual interaction:

"Being physical does not separate you from Source, and having sex does not diminish your Spiritual connection... There is nothing more Spiritual than to allow the true spirit that is you to flow through you into your physical life." - The Vortex (Teachings of Abraham), by Esther and Jerry Hicks

And in like manner, in his book Conscious Dreaming, Robert Moss reminds us that "society has confused the nature of both spirituality and sexuality and set them falsely at odds with each other".

Engaging in sex, as inspired from your Connection with your Inner Being, is a delicious, physical experience, while engaging in sex out of lack feelings of commitment or responsibility, or to manipulate and control, for hidden motives, and for ego gratification, is a far cry from its divine gifting.

"Don't destroy sexual innocence and pleasure and the purity of the fun, the joy, by misusing sex. Don't use it for power, or hidden purpose; for ego gratification or domination; for any other purpose other than the purest joy, and the highest ecstasy, given and shared which is love, and love recreated - which is new life!" - Conversations with God, by Neale Donald Walsch

Mankind fell in consciousness many earth years ago, and since that time he was wandered in virtual darkness, virtually unaware of his spiritual birthright. However, this is a time of great awakening, which means that the erroneous conclusions and limiting beliefs of our past need not be the limitations of our future.

The majority of our negative emotions arise not because the subject of our thought is wrong but because we are condemning something that our Source does not condemn. Our source is one of pure love, not one of condemnation.

For those of us who are interested in walking a spiritual path, it must surely be a relief to realise that the sexually inactive do not qualify for enlightenment more than the sexually active do. Further, it is not a requirement of the highly evolved that all sexual experience be muted, nor all sexual energy elevated.

The invitation of life is to always raise our energy, our life force, to the highest level in every possible moment and thus act as a whole being. And yet, we are not condemned for not doing so. We merely need to observe what serves us in each moment, and what does not.

Within us is contained the power and mystery of life itself, a precious gift which we can choose to honour and cherish. We can only do that by loving ourselves completely, and expressing ourselves in a way that honours our natural sexual desires.

Healing our limiting beliefs

2009-12-01T08:23:00.000Z

Each difficult or challenging situation in life is an opportunity to heal a limiting belief.

To overcome our limiting beliefs, we must remember that we are spiritual beings expressing through unique vehicles for self-expression (our bodies). Knowing this allows us to acknowledge that we have chosen, both individually and collectively, particular circumstances for our spiritual growth - including all of our social, geo-political and karmic-genetic conditioning that has contributed to who we are today.

We cannot heal ourselves through the mind alone because the mind is a machine and lacks the essential ingredient for transmuting consciousness. We call that ingredient love or compassion and it flows from our energetic center, the heart. How we access that love is through a spiritual awakening that unifies us with our environment, removing the patterns of separation from within.

If we can win the struggle within -- the struggle that Muslims call jihad -- we can begin to create a new reality that brings Heaven to Earth. Hell, from the old English, means "to be cut off from", or "to be separate from". Hell is a place in your mind, projected into your outer reality.

"The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself." Mark Moustakas

Man's spiritual number is 12 and it is not coincidence that Jesus selected twelve apostles to help anchor the Christ Consciousness on Earth. Robert Detzler, founder of the SRA, says that when man is divided he is a pair of sixes which is ongoing or 666. This number, the sign of the devil for some, represents divided consciousness and is the mark of the Beast in Revelation, representing the age old battle between the higher self and the lower self.

What are you battling with right now? What unwanted habit? What undesirable behaviour, what old pattern?

If you don't realize RIGHT NOW that you are a spiritual being, then you cannot petition the Divine to heal the lines of communication that may be blocked.

When squared (12 x 12), man's number becomes 144, which equals 9 (1+4+4), spiritual completion. This is achieved through God-realisation, the realisation of the Divine within.

It is amazing just how much we limit ourselves by refusing to ask the Divine for help on every matter, no matter how small. If God is all mighty and omnipresent, why do we continue to deny her the opportunity to help her children? After all, nothing brings a parent more happiness than helping their child and seeing them grow.

The other day, my wife and I visited my father-in-law for his birthday and he suggested that we attend a nearby carvery for lunch. However, it was typically very busy, especially on weekends, and he thought we would have to wait for a table for at least half an hour.

My wife and I are constantly in the habit of asking for help for everything we do, or intend to do, so my wife said a prayer of intent for us to secure the perfect and right table for us quickly and I asked my High Self to clear blocking energies to a happy experience, which is standard practice for me.

My father-in-law was very surprised when the waitress said a table was ready for us and could seat us immediately. Jennifer and I mentioned that we had asked for help but he quickly replied that he wouldn't bother HIM (i.e. SPIRIT/God/The Divine) with such a request.

Simon is a very articulate, well-educated and religious man with many years of committed service to the Baha'i faith, yet his words clearly demonstrated his own self-limiting beliefs about what he felt was right to "trouble" God about. My High Self indicated he had blocks to freedom.

This is not uncommon for those who follow a particular religion and have forgotten that their deepest spiritual source is there to serve them, as well as their fellow brothers and sisters. Only humans run programs of guilt and self-punishment, and feel that God sits in judgement over them. Going inward and asking for help could be automatic process for all of us but we have built up layers of confusing reasoning as to why it is wrong to do such a thing, and are consumed by our lack thoughts.

Everything in our lives would flow much more smoothly if we were to ask, knowing it is already done, and following our intuition once we have asked.

We need to trust this natural process of asking and receiving, remembering our oneness with the All-That-Is. It is not an intellectual process but one that is heart centered in gratitude.

Let us consider the beautiful butterfly.

A caterpillar does not know it can fly until it transforms into a butterfly. And so, we too, cannot know we are God incarnate until we undergo a spiritual metamorphosis which reveals to us the nature of who we really are - truth, joy and absolute freedom.

Soul transfers and what they mean to you

2009-11-07T18:11:00.001Z

Through my work as a healer and teacher, it is my understanding that each of us has pre-planned various "exit" points along the timeline, which our soul may use to leave our earthly form. This might be due to a serious illness or accident, for instance.

For the most part, we are meant to live a long life in order to fulfil our destinies, to unfold our gifts and talents and help our brothers and sisters unfold theirs. By recognising our own Divinity, we bring heaven to Earth.

If a soul in the body becomes disillusioned with life and decides that it is ready to leave the body, the soul may agree to a soul transfer, instead of losing the vehicle for expression ("death"). Usually a more advanced soul will enter the physical body but the transfer can also be made up of many souls who work together as one consciousness. Ultimately, the transfer always happens under the guidance and wisdom of the Higher Self, and with the mutual co-operation of the soul and the Higher Self.

Sometimes the change is dramatic.

Accident "victims" who have been in coma for several days can often come out of that coma to reveal a completely different persona, which is quite unsettling or disturbing for their loved ones to deal with. Often friends and family are startled by the change and say "you're not the same person!", yet not really knowing the reason why.

At other times, the changes are far more subtle and much more integrated with the personality.

SPIRIT has revealed to me that soul transfers are really quite commonplace, usually highly beneficial, and certainly not something to be feared.

High Self has revealed my father, who had a stroke and collapsed from a intercranial bleed in 2003, received a soul transfer whilst unconscious.

I thought back then that my father's original soul had chosen to return but now I realise that a grander aspect of his Self came in to assist. Since that time he has received many healings, and at least one more soul transfer has been made since the first one.

As a result, I have found that my father, although he still has his ongoing personality traits to work on, is much more open emotionally, and much more in touch with himself and the world around him. He is open to a more spiritual interpretation of life and this is wonderful to see.

Sometimes the Higher Self will deem it appropriate to make a partial or full soul transfer, even though the soul is not disillusioned with life. This is primarily to assist with the Ascension process and often occurs as the personality aspect continues to work in conscious co-operation with the Higher Self. It happens from a sense of readiness, not need.

I recently had the amazing, conscious experience of a soul transfer at the age of 35, just a few months ago. I was aware that my soul had physically left my body, maintaining it from afar, and that a higher level soul wanted to come in to assist with my service path or life work.

Many spiritual teachers and seekers of truth are finding this to be true for them as well.

We are constantly evolving, so it is natural to see soul transfers as an "upgrade" to our operating system as it were. The interface (the body mind) is pretty much the same as it was, and so the initial change will not be noticeable to the outside world.

Later, with time, the new gifts and talents will shine through, if given the space, time and nurturing they need. The personality still needs to co-operate with the new soul energy!

Until very recently, the living soul has been made up of six bodies, and the physical part of our incarnational expression has been made up of seven bodies, making a total of thirteen bodies.

At this time on planet earth, SPIRIT has shared that we have been given five additional soul bodies to help us transition into higher states of awareness as we let go of the illusion of separation from the ONE Spiritual Source that moves through all life. The seven lower bodies of man will remain the same.

The first additional body has been created to give us clarity and spiritual direction. The second grants us the capacity to stay out of fear and give freedom to others, especially since fear has been the root cause of many unjust laws and behaviours.

The third soul-level body will help us to create and feel joy more easily. The fourth additional body brings a love of life itself, and the fifth will give us more patience - patience with ourselves, patience with others and patience with the Divine.

At this time, my High Self indicates that 80% of the world population have had a soul transfer, that 55% of that percentage realise on some level of their consciousness that something is different. About 4%, at this time, actually know that a soul transfer has taken place.

Science without spirituality: The pitfall of making technology our GOD

2009-09-26T23:47:00.007Z

One of the keys to living a successful, joyful life is that the physical body and KA (the etheric twin) must be vital and strong.

As a race, we humans tend to trash our bodies, to say nothing of our minds, and have forgotten the ancient understanding of the sacredness of the four elements and the sacredness of Mother Earth.

We have made technology our God and have failed to see that advances in technology without advances in consciousness will lead to self-destruction as surely as day follows night.

It is imperative that we realise that our present technology is threatening to outstrip our ability to use it wisely and that we are on the verge of becoming a product of our technology.

We've managed to make our lives easier but have we really made our lives better?

Huge advances in satellite TV, mobile technology and the internet have allowed instantaneous communication across the globe in the blink of an eyelid but widespread misuse of this same technology keeps us locks into addictive and unconscious patterns of behaviour which seldom honour our bodies' needs

In February earlier this year, my wife and I were fortunate to participate in a three day wilderness trail through Kruger, one of the biggest game reserves in South Africa. There was no electricity, and the use of mobile phones was prohibited so as not to disturb the unique experience of tuning back into nature in all her raw and awesome glory.

The big game - lion, rhino, buffalo, elephant and leopard - were magnificent and exciting to interact with in such an close and personal way but what struck me most was the simplicity of being alone with one's thoughts, feelings and emotions. Silence was a requirement as the group followed the rangers, single file through the vast wilderness.

In the evening, a sense of tiredness prevailed much more naturally, not just because we were all tired from the intense heat and daily hikes but because we were able to detach from our technology-driven "normality", watching the sun setting over the fields and allowing ourselves to feel the natural rhythms of our body slow down as a velvet-like darkness washed over us to reveal a million stars in the sky.

A newspaper article on IVF treatments caught my attention recently because there are an ever-increasing number of couples who are risking their emotions, financial stability, relationships as well as their own health because they believe that technology is their best hope of conceiving.

SPIRIT indicates that the odds of conveiving through this method are 1 in 5 at best and IVF is extremely expensive for most, costing £4,000 per cycle with an average of £2,500 per time. Despite these facts, more and more people are sacrificing themselves at the altar of these fertility clinics. Why?

The "miracle" advances of science are touted daily everywhere, promising everything from wrinkle-free skin, to perfectly flat stomachs, to conception outside of the womb. This, of course, is in no small part attributable to our celebrity culture, which has made botox, tummy tucks and unnatural conception chic.

People have turned scientists and physicians into priests and priestesses, unwavering in their conviction that they can make miracles happen, despite the expense, the low odds and the yet-unknown risks.

A leading fertility expert at UCL, Professor Sammy Lee, points out that clinicians "take their last pennies and allow them to take unquantifiable risks with their health, all for the agony of yet another failed cycle".

SPIRIT indicates that environmental factors such as stress and a poor nutrition are the root causes of blocks to conceiving.

Today, our soil is highly depleted due to aggressive farming techniques which fail to honour the natural cycles of Mother Earth and much of our food is filled with trace chemicals that have insidious effects on the cells of the body.

"You are eating foods filled with chemicals which have been poured into the soil in a desperate attempt to reconstitute it. While causing no apparent damage to the body in the short term, you will discover to your sadness that in the long run these trace chemicals, which remain in the body, are not health producing." Conversations with God, Book2

Often a far "simpler" approach can help us achieve what we so desperately want, without the burnout. And yet, so many people are not aware that complementary approaches can be extremely helpful, not to mention successful.

Alternative approaches to fertility are routinely dismissed by science and by our media but powerful anecdotal stories are valuable when based on truth and can point the way to a future which embraces life, and does not fight against it.

In my own work as a healer and teacher, I have had the opportunity to work with at least two clients who were categorically told that they could not conceive a child and who went on to successfully conceive and give birth to healthy children.

The first was a client who had a high pressured job with hardly any time for herself, yet alone bringing a child into this world. It was clear that she needed to heal emotionally and mentally, so that she herself could begin to feel nourished and supported.

Allowing healing energy to move through her tired body, creating a safe "space" for conception, was a crucial first step. The second vital step was allowing the process to happen, letting go of her anxiety around "making" the conception happen, realising that God's delays were not God's denials.

After just a couple of Reiki sessions, she happily and naturally conceived.

My second client, several months later, was a nurse who was told that she would not be able to have a second child because she was getting too old, even though she was only in her early forties, and because her husband had been labelled with low sperm count. They had been trying for several months and were considering IVF as a last resort.

Open to a spiritual way of approaching this difficult and very personal dilemma, she agreed to a SRT clearing to clear any negative blocks held at the cellular level. SPIRIT cleared both her and her husband and they happily conceived within a month of the clearing.

"Release of a spiritual issue, when it is a primary blockage, may clear all the other levels, and then what we recognise as a miraculous cure takes place." Cell-Level Healing, Joyce Hawkes Ph.D

Something that is absolutely fascinating which I first read about in The Ancient Secret of The Flower of Life is that an ovum must be absolutely saturated with hundreds of sperm, or conception is not possible.

SPIRIT says that in fact thousands of sperm need to be on the egg and ten, eleven, twelve, sixteen or eighteen (5 different "combinations") of those sperm need to form a particular pattern on the surface to allow the "one" sperm to get through. Having one sperm fertilise an ovum is only possible under unnatural conditions where a clinician manipulates the conception.

Let us return to the old wisdom which is dawning again across our planet, and quickly. Let us ascend in consciousness first and use technology to bless our lives, not to manipulate outcomes no matter what the cost to our physical, mental and emotional health.

When we find inner peace, neither the presence nor the absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance or situation can be the creator of our state of mind or the cause of our experience.

The irony, however, is that when we let go of internal resistance, truly let go, then we allow the ever-present cosmic forces within us to work for us, rather than against us.

Miracles are happening all the time but because most of our news emphasises violence, separation and pain, rather than joy, service and interconnectedness, we miss the good news to lift our spirits and cheer us on.

A deep realisation of the oneness within ourselves can help us heal those patterns that keep us separate from what we most want.

Our bodies are unique and precious, and deserve love and appreciation. The number of cells in each of our bodies, nearly 100 trillion, outnumbers the stars of the Orion Galaxy by 1,500 times - think of it!

Each cell is in perfect communication with ALL the other cells in your body at the same time, so we need to learn to trust this vast intelligence to maintain our health and bring us our deepest desires.

"The cell is the interface between ordinary and non-ordinary reality; possibilities exist here that we have barely begun to understand or develop." Joyce Hawkes.

If you are in need of healing, say this prayer to help you re-align with the God-force within: "I ask that the spiritual dimension of my deepest healing consciousness to guide, sustain and enliven me."

Let us heal our tired minds and bodies first, then we can use technology to help us in a more balanced way.

It is not the technology that is the problem, it is the consciousness behind it.

Embracing life's challenges: Ascension and why it is important to you

2009-09-14T09:42:00.017Z

Earth is going through a period of tremendous change energetically. She is a living consciousness, and most of her changes are outside of the current level of awareness of most of humanity right now.

Nonetheless, regardless of our individual awareness of this process of Earth's own ascension, we are all being affected by these changes on a daily basis.

Many of us are finding that time has somehow sped up, that we have "less" of it, and that challenges are more frequent. For those of our brothers and sisters who's senses are "land-locked", who believe the false cultural story that we are just "human" and that we die at the end of our short time here, those challenges are not being met with the right spiritual attitude which helps one meet and overcome those challenges with poise and grace.

We are here to ascend in consciousness, and Earth is a school of sorts, although SPIRIT says we have nothing to learn, only to remember who we truly are. This planet is a Heart Planet, so it is absolutely vital for us to balance our polarities through our heart centre. The heart chakra (or center) is not the same as the physical heart - it lies directly in the centre of the chest cavity.

I often teach my Reiki First Degree students that chakras are real by having each of them hold a small crystal pendulum above the heart chakra of their partner. Particularly after a Reiki attunement, the energy system is purified and all senses are heightened, so it is easier for a beginner to get a "reading".

By holding the pendulum just above the heart chakra, in the etheric layer, a student will feel the electromagnetic pull and the pendulum will swing by itself, revealing the energetic state of the chakra. This is a wonderful, simple test that validates the concept of humans as living energy fields because the biofeedback mechanism provides irrefutable proof. Students often respond with exclamations of "wow", "amazing", "incredible"!

Today, right now, it is absolutely vital that move beyond the narrow and limited history of man's place in the Universe presently offered to us by our sciences if we are to truly understand and make use of these unique and auspicious times.

We are a race which has been suffering from amnesia, refusing to accept "what is" because it would shatter our entrenched concepts of how we have defined ourselves.

One prevalent idea, which is clearly not true and continues to hinder our spiritual advancement, is that we are the "first" advanced culture to exist on this planet since neanderthal man. This idea has been continually espoused despite stark evidence to the contrary, so must ask ourselves why?

The authors of Forbidden Archaeology, Richard Thompson and Michael Cremo, document many cases of anomalous evidence like the bones of modern man found in rock strata dated over 50 million years old. They explain that we have not been allowed to hear about many of these important finds because an insidious type of knowledge filter is at work:

“People tend to filter out things that don't fit, that don't make sense in terms of their paradigm or their way of thinking. So in science you find that evidence that doesn't fit the accepted paradigm tends to be eliminated.”

Each year millions of tourists flock to see the Great Pyramid and The Sphinx in Egypt to marvel at its awesome construction and to wonder at the precision and intricacy of it all. Indeed, scientific research indicated that the mortar is of an unknown origin and we have failed to reproduce its chemical composition even with our highly sophisticated technology today.

High Self indicates that 61,678 stones were originally used for the construction - huge, megalithic stones weighing from 2 to 68 tons each!

Most Eygptian archaeologists still date The Great Pyramid and The Sphinx at 4,500 years ago but this is simply a distortion of the truth to fit their belief system. The traditional interpretation of the Koran says that creation began 6000 years ago, so if the Egyptians were to say that it was older than the date of creation they would be seen to be dishonouring their sacred text.

Over fifty years ago, R.A Schwaller de Lubicz, a famous self-educated archaeologist, became extremely interested in the tremendous wear on the surface of the Sphinx. Toward the back of the Sphinx there are wear patterns that cut twelve feet deep into its surface and which are complete different from the patterns on other buildings in Egypt. The ones on the Sphinx look as though they've been smoothed by water, whereas the rest are textured by sand and wind.

Another man called John Anthony West, who had a deep understanding of Egypt and the hidden meanings embedded in the architecture, later became interested and went to Egypt to verify Lubicz's findings of water erosion. He found that the Egyptian archeologists refused to budge, so he brought in an American geologist named Robert Schoch whose computer analysis put the Sphinx back to at least 8000 years old.

My High Self indicates that they date back to 8,500BC and this information is just one of many pieces of information that changes everything!

We are much older than we think. We are not who think we are.

Our senses are tied to this (third) dimension, or reality, and yet our Spirit yearns to reconnect to the greater reality, the Greater Mystery. We are waking up and remembering our birthright but we still have much to do, individually and collectively!

The Higher Self sees us as multiple, interpenetrating fields of light and colour, as interlocking, geometrical shapes within through and around the physical body. It sees us as a galaxy of stars, each atom like a solar system with the central sun as its nucleus and the planets spinning around it. There is tremendous space within our physicality and it is an illusion that we appear to be solid.

We need to remember that our subtle energy system is highly responsive to our every thought and emotion. Simple, yet highly effective, techniques can be used to bring us back into alignment and to help us remember the greater part of ourselves. These techniques can be used to help us ascend, or transcend our present reality.

You may have come across the term ascension but it may not have held much meaning or significance for you. Nothing could be further from the truth. You are here to ascend, whether you currently know it or not.

Ascension is a word I frequently came across many years ago, when starting on my Reiki journey. I thought Reiki was just about healing, but a deeper understanding of the energetics of the human system has allowed me to remember that we are here to ascend in consciousness.

In ancient Egypt, they had Mystery Schools dedicated to this very purpose and initiates would go through various challenges to bring themselves into alignment with SPIRIT and develop their inner gifts and talents, along with latent powers called siddhis.

Essentially, the aim was a refinement of the human soul and personality through its connection with the Divine.

"Ascension is essentially a process of self-awareness and mastery at all levels and it necessitates bringing all those levels of one's existence upward." - Tom Kenyon, The Hathor Material

The ascension process is what happens naturally as one surrenders to love and to the highest possibility in each situation, simultaneously deepening one's understanding of the interconnectedness of all of life.

Through the ascension process one realises that he or she is the ultimate creator of his or her experiences and begins to see through the maya, or the illusion of this world. One's perspective of people, places, circumstances and events is radically altered!

Jesus was a being of such magnitude that he transcended the world–while still being a part of it–and shared this message with the peoples of the Earth. He was also clear that the path of ascension was meant for everyone, not just a select few, when he said "I am the way, the truth and the life, follow me."

In terms of using our energy system to affect and raise consciousness, we must turn our attention to what the yogis called the pranic body, or what the ancient Egyptians referred to as the KA.

The KA is sometimes called the etheric twin as it is a duplicate of the physical body and its energetic fields but at a subtler state of energy. It is the source of the prana (chi or life-force) moving through the first level of the physical field.

How much prana we draw in determines how much energy is available to our organs and bodily systems and the KA simultaneously determines the clarity, power and impact of our thoughts as well as the quality of our emotions.

We can bring more prana into the KA so that it radiates out into the physical body and other subtle bodies by focusing on the pranic tube which extends down through the center of the body, from the crown at the top of the head down through the perineum, a point midway between the genitals and the anus.

For those interested in sacred geometry we can take a brief look at the star tetrahedron surrounding the physical body and relate this to the pranic tube. However, it is not necessary to have an understanding of the star tetrahedron to use the pranic tube.

Looking at the star tetrahedron - interlocking male (Sun) and female (Earth) tetrahedrons - which surrounds the physical body, the pranic tube runs from the apex of the Sun Tetrahedron to the lower apex of the Earth Tetrahedron. The tube looks like a glass fluorescent tube with a crystalline structure at each end that fits into the upper and lower apexes.

Please note that this configuration of the Star Tetrahedron is generally for men, not women. If you are female, imagine you are the figure shown inside the star tetrahedron and turn around 180 degrees, keeping the tetrahedrons exactly as they are. The flat side of the (Upper) Sun Tetrahedron and the pointed side of the (Lower) Earth Tetrahedron will be facing front for you.

Focus on the pranic tube and begin by breathing rhythmically, bringing the energy down from SPIRIT and up from Mother Earth, the two flows meeting in the heart chakra.

As you breathe out, focus your attention on the physical body and allow the energy to move out from the tube into the KA and physical body. Energy follows awareness, so just let this happen naturally. It may take a few rounds of practice to become aware of this energy flow.

By rhythmically, it is useful to take one's pulse and breath in sync with the heart beat itself. Trying breathing in for seven counts, breathing out for seven and holding for five after the out breath - repeat the cycle as many times as necessary during your meditation. If this is too much, start with four counts in, four out, and hold for two. Experiment and see what works for you!

It is crucial to breathe from the lower abdomen, so put your hand on the area just below your belly button to ensure you are breathing from there. The breath in should push your hand out.

Babies breath naturally but most adults have forgotten how to breathe correctly, which leads to a stressed nervous system because they cannot access their higher mind functions, staying "trapped" in their reptilian brain and engaging a flight or fight response.

Rhythmic breathing into the heart chakra through the pranic tube will create a high level of coherence in your energy system as long as you generate the emotional state of appreciation, which is the signature for this method of self-creation. Merely thinking appreciation will not do!

Reiki is a wonderful, simple but highly effective healing modality because it is heart centered. It activates the heart chakra. If you find it difficult to generate feelings of love and appreciation, you may have blocks, so doing a First Degree Reiki course is a valuable way to open up the heart again.

As you begin to feel more comfortable with moving energy through the pranic tube, you can easily extend the tube down into the Earth Star, or lower still into the Gaia Gateway, and up into the Soul Star, or higher still to the Stellar Gateway. (see image below).

"The stellar gateway and soul star chakras are portals through which very high frequency light can enter our etheric field. The stellar gateway is like a spiritual barometer that measures the intensity of light our field can hold. The soul star is the filter through which the light is measured and flows. The soul star also facilitates access to our personal library within the akashic records."- Laurelle Shanti Gaia

This image (left) is kindly reproduced from Laurelle Shanti Gaia's book on Karuna Reiki.

The Soul Star was known as the BA by the ancient Egyptians and resides in a place of consciousness that is outside of linear time and space. The entry point is at a place above your head where your hands would meet if you were to raise them together and touch them above your head. This interdimensional aspect of your self is highly receptive to appreciation.

Take your time with this powerful meditation. Just do a little every day and build up.

As the KA is strenghtened, which provides a deeper connection to the Soul Star or BA, powerful shifts in consciousness are likely to happen, especially if you are following the meditation correctly.

Unconscious patterns of behaviour will most likely come into your field of awareness for release. Therefore, a non-judgemental, accepting attitude of yourself and others is required.

A long time ago, we fell in consciousness and we forgot how to breathe in prana, which in turn affected how we perceived the One Reality. Before "the fall", which High Self refers to as a Shift into Unreality, we used to bring pranic energy simultaneously up and down our pranic tube, the two flows meeting inside one of the major energy centers (or chakras).

My High Self says that currently only 6% of the global population have an activated pranic tube.

For those who are not aware that they have such a tube, their pineal gland, located in the center of the head, is typically the size of a pea. The gland is hugely important for consciousness and will begin to regenerate if one dedicates just a few moments of each day to practice breathing through the pranic tube.

Interesting enough, children who are highly intuitive typically have much larger pineal glands than adults until they learn to shut down their intuitive and emotional self.

"Hidden in the pineal gland are all the sacred geometries and understandings of how the Reality was created."

- The Ancient Secret of The Flower of Life, Drunvalo Melchizedek

Focused thought alone is sufficient to re-activate the pranic tube. You do not have to go to anyone to have it done for you!

Breathing in prana through the nose and mouth alone, rather than through the tube, creates polarity consciousness and disconnects us from Mother Earth, so it is vitally important that we all start to access our pranic tubes and energise our bodies and minds through this deceptively simple ascension technique.

Breathing through the tube, whilst feeling appreciation, will also help one reconnect to one's Higher Self.

One of the keys to the ascension process is to allow our energy fields to open and move freely, and the ability to master positive movement of greater amounts of energy comes through a strongly developed Ka and the simultaneous cultivation of our feeling nature.

"The life situations that arise today on your planet and the emotions they generate are actually the initiatory phases of higher consciousness leading to ascension and mastery." - Tom Kenyon, The Hathor Material

Ascension is a vast topic but the simplest methods are usually best. For those who are interested, I highly recommend the following books, which you can purchase from Amazon.

Death is never an end but always a beginning

2009-08-17T11:01:00.003Z

It is my perception that many of us are still inwardly discouraged from contemplating the esoteric meaning of death, unless death arrives on our own doorstep on the doorstep of someone close to us. Even then, our deepest thoughts and feelings may be suppressed for fear of reprimand from those around us, or not fitting into culturally and socially acceptable behaviour.

We are allowed to say our cultural prayers, hold the departed "in the light", acknowledge they are in "heaven", wherever that is, but we must not consider our own mortality, or immortality. We must not stop to ask demanding questions such as, "what is consciousness?", or "do I exist outside of this body-mind?"

If we were to ask, the illusion could not continue... reality would change! How we interact with our world would change, and it would change sooner, rather than later.

Asking deep questions is not a morbid fascination with death but a Soul Level perspective that acknowledges the body as a vehicle for experience, creation and transformation.

We all know that we come into the world for a short time, to experience the joy and wonder of creating and experiencing through a physical body, knowing that we will, ultimately, choose to leave once again.

Let us remember that we entered this world by choice, that we chose our planet and dimension, our country, our parents and genetic heritage because we knew these ingredients would provide us with the exact circumstances we needed to learn and grow. We also chose to forget our connection to our Spiritual Source, which has served us for a time, until now, a period of monumental change.

This forgetfulness must now come to an end because we are, quite literally, on the brink of self-destruction.

For those amongst us who believe that consciousness ends when the physical body dies, what of the Near Death Experiences (NDEs) recounted by thousands of individuals whose lives were changed forever by those experiences?

Many of those people did not believe in life after death and, yet, they were forced to acknowledge that their perception of reality had changed. And they could not continue to live their lives in the same way as they had before.

Joyce Hawkes was one such person who embraced the gifting of the NDE and all that it had to offer her. A biophysicist and cell biologist by training, she changed careers in 1984 after a NDE and embarked on extensive exploration of indigenous spiritual and healing traditions, which she incorporated in her book "Cell-Level Healing: The Bridge from Soul to Cell."

The NDE forever changed her life, as well as her view of science. "I think that part of me — that my spirit, my soul — left my body and went to another reality," she said. "It just was not part of the paradigm in which I lived as a scientist," Hawkes recalled. "It was a big surprise to me to have this sense of something different than the body — a consciousness different than the body — and to be in this wonderfully healing, peaceful, nurturing place."

"I think what I learned was that there truly is no death, that there is a change in state from a physical form to a spirit form, and that there's nothing to fear about that passage".

The Baha'i writings liken the body to a cage and the soul to a bird. When the cage breaks, the bird can escape unharmed, and is finally free. Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha’i faith calls death a messenger of joy:

“I have made death a messenger of joy to thee. Wherefore dost thou grieve?” – Bahá'u'lláh

Even for those who believe that reincarnation is a false doctrine, the evidence is overwhelming that we have all lived before in another time, place, and body. There are countless books of research and anecdotes of people, young children even, who have recalled one or more prior lives, with astounding accuracy. People, places, circumstances and events that they could never have known otherwise.

My work as a Spiritual Response Therapy Consultant and Teacher has tirelessly demonstrated to me that Past Lives have a great effect on the people living in this time-space reality. Over 95% of SRT research deals with Past Lives. By clearing the negative energies stored in the Akashic Records of the Soul, often astounding changes can occur, spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically.

Yet, this truth is uncomfortable for most. And will continue to be, until a clear choice is made to look beyond the "safe" and yet limiting boundaries we have collectively imposed on ourselves.

The truth seems to be only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it; then it is not only comforting, but inspiring! It is a reflection of our current world state that most of us are excellent at denying what is right in front of us and demand proof, even when the proof is staring us in the face.

Over the last two months in particular, I have been reminded that life and death are both tremendous gifts. Deaths near and far have caused me to remember and compelled me to share this remembrance with you.

On a massive scale, the death of music legend Michael Jackson deeply touched many hearts all over the world, and helped send a timely message about how short our time here on Earth really is.

Society's misunderstandings about death, and about life, are greatly responsible for the fragmented lives that we lead and we are currently facing some of the greatest economic, ecological and social challenges ever because of our failure to embrace the greatest part of ourselves, to stop seeing ourselves as separate from each other, and to remember that life continues after death.

Indeed, every physical death is pre-planned by the soul.

"No experience is visited upon any soul against the soul's will. That is, by definition, not possible, since the soul is creating every experience." Conversations With God, Book 3

As well as Michael Jackson's death, a death nearer to home also touched me just a few weeks later.

My eldest paternal aunt had already suffered two strokes within a short space of time and my parents had called me about a month before to say that she was on life support, completely unable to communicate with anyone or anything. For many days, my cousins had sat around her hospital bed, praying for her to go peacefully and yet, not wanting her to leave them.

I had intended to visit but many things had sprung up which had prevented me from attending the hospital in person.. However, the day before her death, I suddenly "knew" that she would be leaving this world and I also had a strong feeling that it was necessary for me to visit her.

High Self revealed that she would pass away within twenty-four hours and that her soul had already left the body, so I rang my parents to compassionately share this information with them, even if they did not fully understand it.

When I arrived at the hospital it was approximately 2.15pm and, strangely, the room was empty apart from her older brother who had flown in from Canada. I greeted him and expressed my sympathy, giving him a warm hug.

He looked like he needed a break and so he went outside to stretch his legs, leaving me alone with my aunt. I noticed that her body was just a shell, the life force barely sustaining it.

I linked into my High Self and from that connection I gave immediate permission for her Soul to leave as it is my understanding that souls will often not depart whilst close family members are present because of the emotional attachment. We must remember that whilst the body may be unconscious, the soul is fully aware of the whole picture, including the feelings of those present.

As I held her frail hand, I felt Reiki flow into her energy body and within a few moments she stopped breathing. I can only describe it as a peaceful and blessed release, and I felt greatly honoured to be there with her at the time of her passing. The doctor later confirmed that a physical death had occurred.

When we look deeply at something, we begin to see through the illusion. To contemplate something deeply is to see right through it. Then the illusion ceases to exist.

"Death should teach you that what is real is life. And life teaches you that what is unavoidable is not death, but impermanence. Impermanence is the only truth." Conversations With God, Book 2

Death takes many forms, not just the physical death we are acutely aware of. The loss of a job, moving to a new town, city or even country, the end of a great concert, the end of a day, all represent a death. We all perceive the loss and the gift that accompanies it, but we often choose to ignore it.

And yet the transient nature of each moment signals a glorious opportunity for rebirth, awakening to a new moment, a new experience. Nothing is permanent, everything is changing in every holy instant.

One experience must end for another to take its place. We must let go of the old, to embrace the new. Life cannot reveal itself to us fully without us fully embracing death.

Let us remember the truth then.

That death is never an end but always a beginning. Nothing will be painful again when we realise that nothing is real. We are constantly re-creating ourselves anew in each moment. External conditions, circumstances and events are actually projections from our own deepest consciousness.

Whenever we die, we are reborn in that holy instant.

Manifestation Principle #1 - Creating with the Soul

2009-08-09T09:42:00.001Z

"If all you desired is what your Soul desired, everything would be simple. If you listened to the part of you which is pure Spirit, all your decisions would be easy, and all the outcomes joyous. That is because the choices of Spirit are always the highest choices." Conversations With God, Book 3

When we put Spirit first, all else follows. This is the Central Sun of our being, always illuminating the path ahead, willing to guide our every step. And yet, so many of us choose the path of darkness, stumbling along the way, sometimes falling.

We must first begin to listen, and trust, our inner wisdom. We must listen to the small voice within that encourages us to see the bigger picture, to stand back, to let go of the personal drama. Our intuitive voice is one that we are all born with and have immediate access to. Begin now to trust that voice again.

Because we have forgotten who we are, we must begin to learn to use our gifts again. The more we marry our intellect with our innate wisdom, the better our choices will be, the higher our outcomes in all areas of our lives. The highest choice blesses all.

We are constantly creating through body, mind and spirit, whether we are aware of it or not. Yet, when the tri-part being is not acting in unison, mixed results occur and we adamantly say that the Universe does not grant us, or is incapable of bringing us, our desires.

We must remember that the Universe is constantly listening to our desires because we are One in Truth, and it has no choice but to fulfill the essence of our request. It is a choiceless choice!

If the totality of our being is in harmony - with Self, SPIRIT and all of life - then our choices become unified and miracles can occur. The miracle IS that our thoughts naturally follow our beliefs, perceptions and judgements about life, and create our experience of life.

The evolution of a society can be measured by its choices, in whether it follows the urges of the body, the thoughts that rise up in the mind, or the inner promptings of the Soul. It is not wrong to follow the choices of the body but merely following the body's wants, or the mind's desires, without fully integrating the Soul Aspect of our being, will not lead us to the most beneficial outcomes.

Today, we are seeing exactly where we are in the scale of things, through the immediate and obvious crises of the planet.

Most of us understand that we have a mind and that it determines, more often than not, how we feel about life and, therefore, what we experience in our lives.

The mind lives throughout the body, in every cell, and the Soul encapsulates everything within, through and around the physical body. We are made up of 99% empty space!

With regard to the mind, it would be useful to explore the sublevels to better understand how we create. Indeed, we create from at least three interior levels, but we also have access to a fourth. The first three are logic, intuition and emotion. Logic stems from our conscious, rational mind, emotions stem from our subsconscious mind programming, and intuition is borne of the Higher Self. The fourth, which practically none of us use at the present time, is SPIRIT. This fourth level is pure thought, pure consciousness. My High Self tells me that at this time in my own evolution I only access it about 0.5% of the time.

For those who consider themselves firmly on the path to Self-Mastery, and who are consistenly working with their High Self and Spiritual Committees, my High Self says that we must continuously ask for healing by the Father, Mother and Grandfather of the Oversoul to access and create from pure consciousness.

To recap then, body, mind and Spirit must be in unity, and all levels of the inner mind must also be in unity to create the highest and grandest vision we have for ourselves. All levels of our inner mind must be in harmony for a successful outcome or outpicturing of our desire.

If you want to achieve something effortlessly, you will need to understand that you are a triune being and create from that understanding. It takes practice, patience and perseverence. Ultimately, it means listening to your Higher Self and to SPIRIT.

To help, you can build a logic statement around what you wish to achieve. If you can find just one other person in the world who is doing it, or something similar, then it is possible for you.

Secondly, you must intuitively feel it is the right step for you. Listen carefully to your inner voice. It is a nurturing, supportive voice. It is not a voice that says you "should" do this, or "should" do that. It is not a voice that will place you in danger or harm's way.

Thirdly, get excited about the possibilities and let the Universe bring it to you through Divine Manifestation. Emotions are extremely powerful, moving energy through, within and around the body-mind. Desire and excitement are key ingredients, without which nothing happens!

Lastly, when creating anything, be mindful of whether you are coming from love or fear. This is the great polarity, the primal duality. Both are creative, yet one brings the highest outcomes and the other the lowest. All thoughts, ideas, concepts, understandings, decisions, choices, and actions are based in one of those. Of course, if you are really listening to your intuition, the voice of the Higher Self, then you will be coming from Love. Negative Ego's constructions are based in fear, thoughts of not-enoughness, of separation, of victor or victim consciousness. Creating from SPIRIT creates win/win situations that bless all forms of life.

As you endeavour to align the trinity of body, mind and spirit, you may find challenges suddenly appear. These are the gifts to work on, or work through. There is a period of mind purification that follows a clear intention to follow SPIRIT, and create from that place.

It is of the utmost importance that you own your personal power, and be responsible for your self. If you don't own your personal power, you can be run by almost anything in the Universe, including discarnate spirits, negative ego, the weather or your addictions.

Do not fall into victim consciousness and blame outer circumstances! The outer world is a perfect reflection of your consciousness. Pratice forgiveness of self, others and all situations that are bothering you! If you would be free, let go of the old, forgive, and move on!

"The extended use of power is self-control. You will not progress far on the spiritual path without personal power and self-discipline. Also, truthfulness to Self and others is of the utmost importance." Soul Psychology, Joshua David Stone

Finally, this is a work in progress, so be loving with yourself and appreciate yourself no matter where you are in this process of understanding. Remember that all of this "work" is done through love, not judgement or self-punishment.

Is God indifferent? And how do we become enlightened?

2009-07-27T15:15:00.005Z

I heard the comment the other day that “God is indifferent”. I was disturbed by the remark and it caused me to deeply question the underlying (or sponsoring) thought of my friend who had seemingly taken a few knocks on his life journey. This represented a type of negative neutrality, if there can be such a thing, that did not sit well with me.

My experience, despite some very hard tests, has taught me that SPIRIT (or God) shows each of us unconditional acceptance of where we are on our journey of awareness, self-definition and self-creation.

SPIRIT is impartial about the circumstances of our lives because our ultimate success is guaranteed. We cannot fail, although we can appear to in our daily lives. We can choose to feel separate from SPIRIT, and our fellow brothers and sisters, and cry out against life itself, but the illusion is simply that… illusion.

We are creating ourselves anew in each moment and SPIRIT has no judgement in the outcomes that manifest as a result of our choices. It wants what we want for ourselves, even when we appear to hurt or harm ourselves and others along the way. We are always invited to remember the perfection of the process and not make ourselves “bad”, “wrong” or “guilty” for past mistakes.

SPIRIT’s purpose is that we should know ourselves as Divinity made manifest, and cause our fellow brothers and sisters to recognise their own divinity also. Therefore, I would invite you to consider that SPIRIT is not indifferent but cares about the ultimate outcome, and that is why it is assured.

"We are united. We are One. Ours is the biggest marriage ceremony ever held. My vow to you is the grandest vow ever made. I will love you forever, and free you for everything. My love will never bind you in any way, and because of this you are 'bound' to eventually love Me - for freedom to Be Who You Really Are is your greatest desire, and My greatest gift." Conversations With God, Book 3

My Higher Self indicated that indifference is borne of a lack of love, whereas neutrality is borne of love. SPIRIT is neutral.

I have also heard it said that only those who spend a lot of time away from the real world, in meditation, who have the best chance of being “enlightened” or reaching “enlightenment”. Everyone else is doomed.

It is true to say that those who seek to know and understand SPIRIT are often drawn away from the outer, material world, to pursue more esoteric activities that speak to the Soul. However, the knowingness that one is never separate from SPIRIT, or anyone else, comes from the decision to embrace SPIRIT in all aspects of one’s life and demonstrate that in one’s thoughts, words, and actions. One does not have to be totally removed from the outer world to find SPIRIT.

Many more people today engage in some form of meditation or yoga class, or enjoy the spiritual focus of martial arts like Tai Chi and Qi Gong. Yet, few are not trapped in the illusion of the trials of their daily lives.

The outer ritual is oft performed but inner reflection and awareness has been lost along the way. They are going through the motions, unaware that one must first have the primary intention to remember one’s connection to SPIRIT. With that first thought, all else follows quite naturally.

Everything is within us, but we must first know this before we can experience it. Knowing always leads to experience, not the other way round.

The reversal of the BE-DO-HAVE paradigm is the root cause of a disgruntled approach to life because it works against the creative power within us all. We have been socialised this way for so long that we cannot remove ourselves from the picture long enough to see the lie of it.

If you wish to be enlightened, go straight to being that. The best way to cause yourself to be enlightened, or wise, is to cause another to be enlightened. Seek to “be” what you wish to be first and all else follows.

Quantum healing: understanding vibration

2009-07-16T11:54:00.020Z

What does it mean to be healthy? Today, we seem to collectively think that as long as we are free from disease or illness that we are healthy but this is an over simplified way of looking at life; and ultimately one that does not serve us, given Who We Really Are.

There are varying degrees of health or wellness and when one is feeling joyful in the moment, filled with "light" and looking forward to the future, one can be said to be in a state of good health or wellbeing; that is, feeling well across the totality of one's being. Often wellness, true wellness, means feeling good physically, emotionally and mentally, along with being spiritually connected.

In Spiritual Response Therapy, we seek SPIRIT first and all healing follows from that realisation, realisation of the healing power within, the God force.

According to my High Self, the normal vibratory rate of a healthy person is 4,500 Hz (or cycles per second). Anything that lowers the vibration sufficiently will open a person to lower energies, whether that be a "lower" thought form, or a particular energy, such as a discarnate whose normal vibration is between 600 to 700 Hz.

The average vibration has more than doubled since 1988, just over twenty years ago, when Reverend Robert Detzler, founder of the SRT system of healing, indicated that the vibratory rate was just 2,100 Hz. As we continue to collectively raise our consciousness and become more self-aware, all of our subtle bodies are naturally spinning at a faster rate.

Many things can cause our normal, healthy vibration to drop and cause our energies to dissipate. For example, most types of fear-based emotions such as anger, grief, shock, unforgiveness, blame and hate will dramatically lower auric vibrations and sap our natural life force energy from us. Conflict, whether inner or outer, will also cause us to feel depleted.

Places where there is much illness, suffering and death, such as cemeteries, funerals, memorial services, and hospitals can further drain one's vital health, especially if one is open to lower energies. It is therefore useful to be mindful of one's physical, emotional and mental wellbeing before visiting such places or attending such events. Prayer, and asking for protection, is a very useful and appropriate way to stay clear.

Someone who has learnt SRT, or another form of space clearing and protection, will be able to keep themselves clear through setting up a triple and fire shield of protection, as well as asking SPIRIT to clear the intended visiting place of all shadow energies.

Energy follows thought. This is called the Law of Mind Action and is closely aligned with the Law of Attraction which says that wherever we place our attention, we will draw the essence of that vibration to us, if we hold it long enough. Hence, it is very important to be mindful of one's thoughts (intention) and where one is placing one's attention.

Our chakra system (composed of seven energy centres) is a dynamic one, pulling in energies from the outside world, which we then respond to given our perception about life, our model of the world. The faster the rate of spin, the more quickly energies will be drawn to us. Someone of lower consciousness generally has a lower rate of spin and that is good, because it is a safeguard for that person and for the others around him/her.

For those of us engaged in energy work, the necessity of mindfulness becomes even greater. Taking a Reiki attunement during a Reiki class will activate one or more chakras and raise the normal vibratory rate for the individual. My High Self has indicated that my rate jumped to 12-13,000 Hz after taking Reiki First Degree. After taking the Reiki Masters, it jumped to 17,000 Hz. After taking the Advanced SRT Class, it jumped to 23,000 Hz...

Shifts in vibration will always vary according to the personal energy makeup of the individual and their degree of readiness to further embrace SPIRIT.

I have been practising an enormous amount of energy work for almost five years, which I thoroughly enjoy, and SPIRIT now shares with me that my normal healthy vibratory rate sits comfortably at 28,000 Hz. When performing a SRT clearing for a client, the subtle bodies spin at 45,000 Hz.

Last year I was blessed to attend a Flower of Life workshop in Scotland, run by Anne Ward, which dealt with the sacred geometries within, through and around the physical body. When peforming the sacred Merkaba (or Mer-Ka-Ba) meditation, which works with the Higher Self and conscious intent, each of us attending the workshop asked that the star tetrahedons surrounding the physical body (the interpenetrating form of the sun and the earth tetrahedrons around the physical body) spin at ⁹⁄₁₀ of the speed of light, which SPIRIT says is 36,000 Hz.

SPIRIT has revealed that at 40,000 Hz the auric vibrations have already reached the speed of light. SPIRIT has indicated that the maximum spinning rate for anyone incarnated into the physical plane is 70,000 Hz - anything above that will lead to brain damage!

This "quickening" is available to anyone who wishes to practise energy work and integrate this into their daily lives. The result is that energy flows more quickly through the mind-body and that the results of one's manifestation are much faster than before.

In reality, there is no separation from the outside world because wherever we place our consciousness, we merge with that part of the quantum field. However, we experience that we are separate because of the unique illusion we have chosen to experience. We have placed ourselves in a physical body to experience time and space and there is a delay, or gap, between our thoughts and the natural outcome of those thoughts.

As an individual quickens their vibration, the invitation is to be absolutely present in one's daily life and notice the subtle stream of thoughts that surface from the unconscious, along with any reactions to situations and events.

Last year, in 2008, my wife and I went to the Rocky Mountains to study with Jonathan Goldman at the Healing Sounds Intensive. About a month before, my left ear became clogged with wax and I found myself in a state of bother. I did clearing around it, used Reiki, and my wife also gave me some wonderful Reflexology treatments.

As a result of the energy healing, the wax became much less compacted in my ear and stopped hurting me as much. However, I was still partially deaf and it was proving difficult to hear properly, as well as remain emotionally balanced throughout the day. I eventually visited my doctor two weeks before I left for the USA who was kind enough to syringe my ear and clear the blockage.

Interestingly enough, the "problem" resurfaced this year whilst teaching a Reiki Master Practitioner course over the weekend of the Summer Solstice (in June). My left ear suddenly blocked again and I found myself back to square one.

And yet, it did not feel like square one. I did not feel as helpless or frustrated as the previous time. I felt more empowered than before and I had a deep realisation that mechanical fixes were not going to provide me with the healing I needed. Confirmation that outer fixes would not work were confirmed when hopi ear candling did not bring much relief.

I was being provided with an opportunity to walk my talk once again.

High Self informed me that visiting the doctors would result in a block to grace, so I decided that under no circumstances was I going to visit the doctors. Once I had made that internal decision, I felt no inner conflict or doubt and could concentrate on maintaining my focus.

A little while ago, I had been told by another doctor that some people have "narrow ear canal" sydrome. This sounded like a purely conscious mind interpretation of an energetic problem and did not resonate with me at all, further strenthening my commitment to resolve this through energy work.

Every morning, I would begin with clearing and healing of the ear working with High Self. I set up a contract with High Self to clear the blockage and download vibrational healing throughout each day, which is standard practice for SRT Practitioners, and invoked sacred energies whilst journeying inwardly to "tone" the ear canals, inner and outer.

I found myself moving deeper into my head space than I had ever done before and could actually feel the vibrations of the sound gently breaking up the ear wax and gently stimulating the ear canals. It was an amazing experience and inspired me to maintain my "vision" of clear hearing. I easily remembered the feeling of what it was like to have clear hearing and envisaged the ear popping.

A week went by, and still the ear was blocked, so I had more work to do. I reminded myself that the key was not to self-sabotage by worrying; only a mind which does not know its relationship to the Divine worries. I actually started to enjoy the experience of having a partially blocked ear, in a funny way.

I checked daily with High Self to make sure my faith was operating at 100% and that my doubt was at 0%, ensuring maximum openness to healing. I also repeated clearing and releasing statements to bring my conscious mind into alignment with my desire for perfect hearing, KNOWING that it was possible. I didn't just believe, I knew it to be a truth that had already manifested somewhere in the quantum field.

If we choose "healing", we will always be in a state of healing. I asked knowing that I had already healed.

Research has shown that the brain cannot distinguish between actually doing something and imagining doing something - exactly the same parts of the brain "light up", there is no difference! I reminded myself of this to buoy my faith and continued to marry thought and feeling. If ever I felt resistance to my desire, I stopped. What we resist, persists.

I also knew that by toning my ears and all my chakras, my brain was actually powerfully changing its state and having a direct impact on my auditory and visual system.

During my time in meditation, I realised and accepted that I had unwittingly called to myself this loss of hearing because I deeply disliked the general noise along the main road near my home, especially the use of sirens late at night. I found them to be extemely piercing and would react very negatively by tensing up whenever the police cars or ambulances would drive past. In effect, I was unconsciously sending myself the message that I did not want to hear those sounds and that I wanted to block them out.

So my body simply obeyed my command... and the net effect was the build up of wax in my receptive ear. As mentioned before, the quicker one's vibration, the more "responsible" one is for one's thoughts.

I kept my faith high, recognising and giving thanks for the innate healing intelligence of my body, as well as all of the miracles I have seen many times during my time as a healer and teacher. I released all need and desire to block out sounds and my judgements about those sounds and I affirmed that my body knew how to heal itself.

I said the following prayer several times a day, which I adapted from Doreen Virtue's book "The Lightworker's Way" and which I have found very useful during illness.

"There is no truth, life, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is Divine Mind and its Divine manifestation for GOD is the All-in All. SPIRIT is immortal truth, matter is mortal error. SPIRIT is the real and eternal, matter is the unreal and temporal. SPIRIT is GOD and man is made in his image and likeness, therefore man is not material but spiritual. Therefore, I am not material, I am a spiritual being made in the image and likeness of GOD, the All-That-Is. This condition is material and is already healed in the Mind of GOD."

I would invite you to remember it, make it your own and say it whenever you are unwell. As a statement of highest truth, it can bring forth miracles.

After three weeks, my ear cleared and the wax "disappeared". I had perfect hearing again, and I still have perfect hearing and the knowing that I can heal myself.

I invite you to be fluid in your consciousness and thought, to know you are more than just blood and tissue. As you raise your awareness of Self, you will naturally begin to vibrate at a higher rate and call to yourself more and more circumstances that will help you remember Who You Really Are and your Divine Purpose.

If we can let go of our limiting ideas and beliefs, we will have greater access to the unlimited power and potential that is within us all.

Remembering the miracle: We see with our brain, not our eyes!

2009-07-09T10:18:00.002Z

Are we really complex biological organisms or spiritual beings residing in a time in a physical body? This is for you to decide.

What we believe is made manifest to us, through us. Most importantly, each health challenge we face will be perceived differently according to our beliefs, and we will act differently depending on them.

For a person who believes he is a spiritual being in a physical body, each health challenge will be seen as an opportunity to learn something about his or her consciousness. Why has the disease manifested? What thought pattern needs correction for healing to take place in harmony with the physical expression’s innate healing intelligence?

Visual dysfunction is so commonplace today that we hardly stop to consider the metaphysical implications; short sightedness (myopia), long-sightedness (hyperopia), glaucoma, cataracts and so forth as just accepted as the norm. It’s accepted as being either hereditary or a result of getting older, an inevitable decline.

“To the degree that the collective consciousness is accepted, absorbed and internalised, to that degree will you accept it as your reality.” Conversations with God, Book 3

The best-selling book, Heal Your Body, which later became You Can Heal Your Life, was written by world renowned healer and teacher Louise Hay back in the early 1980s. A timeless masterpiece, the little book of metaphysical causations points out, for example, that cataracts represent the inability to look ahead with joy, that myopia represents fear of the future and long-sightedness represents fear of the present.

Whilst this may not always be true, it makes the clear point that body and mind are one by highlighting the interconnectedness of the two. What are we choosing to see, or not see? How is our perception of life limiting our choices and our health?

So, do we really need glasses, contact lenses or eye surgery? Are we looking for a mechanical fix to a spiritual imbalance?

We have forgotten that our eyes do not see, it is the brain that “sees”. The eyes are the organs that gather visual information for the brain, like our hands gather tactile information which the brain interprets. The eyes receive high frequency light signals which pass through the visual system of the brain and we magically “see”. Indeed, blind people who gain their sight later on in life have to learn how to interpret the signals they are receiving since they cannot make sense of them initially.

The brain’s interpretation of our reality is so fast that we no longer question what is happening but have you ever been looking for something that was right in front of you but you couldn’t see it? I’m sure many, if not most, of us have had that experience on at least one occasion. This experience shows us that we are seeing with our brain.

The visual system, as part of the brain, is at the top of the chain of command and needs to be addressed directly. By bringing our consciousness to the visual system, we can dissolve negative patterns at their source allowing eye, brain and body functions to become integrated as they were meant to be.

I recently came across the brilliant work of Peter Grunwald who has created an amazing system of healing through the visual system called “Eyebody”. In fact, he has mapped out the entire body as related to the eye, and teaches people how to let go of wearing glasses and contact lenses, either permanently or with dramatically less reliance on them.

He takes great care to point out that clear sight is a secondary, not a primary, function of the visual system; and that habitually inefficient ways of using the visual system are what cause difficulty with our eyesight, imbalances in our emotions and functional problems in our bodies.

The primary function of the visual system is co-ordination of our internal world, our physical, emotional and mental states. Indeed, the visual system and pathways pass through each of our three brains, reptilian, limbic and neocortex, which is why it is so fundamental to our overall wellbeing.

Each layer of the brain has a specific, overall relationship to the visual system. The reptilian brain relates to the physical functions of the body, the limbic brain relates to the emotional functions and the neocortex the mental functions.

Peter says that “symptoms or malfunctions in the eye, brain and body are the manifestation of underlying misuse of the visual system”. He speaks of Conscious Depth Perception as a spiritual function that integrates and co-ordinates all three parts of the visual brain.

My work with Spiritual Response Therapy has taught me just how fundamental the eyes and brain are to the over wellbeing of the client. High Self always carries out brain restructuring, or brain repatterning, towards the end of a clearing session, ensuring that the logical and gestalt functions are being performed on the correct side of the brain and that eye positions are testing strong. The degree of peripheral vision is also checked and corrected.

If the visual pathways are not being activated properly, or not at all, our overall functioning will be impaired whether we are aware of it or not, resulting in poor eyesight, bodily pain, an inability to think clearly, and/or disconnection from self and others.

Wearing contact lenses or having surgery, only deal with the symptoms and not the cause of dysfunction. Let us remember that everything that has manifested externally is a result of choices made internally.

I would like to conclude with a story of pure faith, which allowed a blind woman to see. Madame Bire of France, recorded in the archives of the medical department of Lourdes, France was blind, her optic nerves atrophied and useless. Yet, she visited Lourdes and received an instantaneous, miraculous healing. Ruth Cranston, a Protestant woman who investigated and wrote about healings at Lourdes, wrote an article in McCall’s magazine in 1955.

“At Lourdes she regained her sight incredibly, with the optic nerves still lifeless and useless, as several doctors could testify after repeated examinations. A month later, upon re-examination, it was found that the seeing mechanism had been restored to normal. But at first, so far as medical examination could tell, she was seeing with ‘dead eyes’.”

Life is mirrored back to us through our perspective; disease is not real; everything can heal.

Creating With Joy: The BE-DO-HAVE Paradigm

2009-06-26T14:45:00.006Z

In this time-space reality that we currently live in, many of us are still dictated to by others and live our lives accordingly, within very narrow limits. This unnatural tendency is set and maintained by the underlying expectations of others. The expectation to be a daughter or son, wife or husband, mother or father, friend, lover, colleague, and so forth, is usually based upon what those around us feel we must do to prove ourselves.

Our global focus on materialistic values alone also fuels in each of us, as well as our children growing up, the unconscious belief that we are failures if we do not seek to climb to the very top of the ladder; not the spiritual ladder, of course, but the material ladder! And so our disconnected, fragmented way of experiencing life is perpetuated, with expectations that are burdensome and soul destroying.

We all run around trying to have or acquire certain things, doing many things at once, sometimes being in the flow but, quite often, feeling frustrated, resentful and burnt out. That is, until we recognise a deeper truth, a higher one. Once we get a glimpse of our Divine nature, it is only a short time before we can let go of our negative programming and dysfunctional lives.

As Shakespeare so eloquently put it to us a long time ago, “To be or not to be, that is the question.”

Most believe that if they “have” a thing (more time, more money, more love), they can finally do a thing (write a book, take up a hobby, go on a vacation, buy a home, strike up a new relationship), which will allow them to “be” a certain thing – happy, content, peaceful, prosperous etc.

And yet, this unconscious belief fights against the nature of the Universe! Everything is within us, but we must first know this before we can experience it. Knowing always leads to experience, not the other way round. This knowing is borne of intuition, not logic, because the logical mind cannot understand it.

If we wish to be peaceful, wise or compassionate, we must “be” this first and all else follows naturally. We start doing things from this place of being and this ultimately brings us the things we’ve always wanted to have, without the attachment to those things. "Being" something sets us free and our desires become statements of preference to the Universe, not needy demands that constrict the flow of energy to us and through us.

It is far better to have preferences in this world than needs because the creative power has flow. Being needy restricts the flow of energy and limits you as to how the universe will bring you the essence of your request. If we can learn to trust, the manifestation of our requests will be greater than we imagined because the unconditional love of God wants us to have what want.

So many of us are saying to themselves “if only I had a little more time, a little more money, I’d be truly happy”. However, we are failing to notice the connection between choosing to not be happy right now and the less than satisfactory results that are a consequence of that choice.

The person who is being happy seems to have the time to do everything that matters to her/him, all the money necessary and enough love to feel complete joy in doing anything and everything s/he chooses.

“Deciding ahead of time what you choose to be produces that in your experience.” –Conversations with God (Book 3)

If you act as if you are something, you will draw it to you. You become that which you act out… but the action must spring from an inner knowingness; your actions must be sincere or the benefit of the action is lost! After all, you can’t fool yourself, can you?

Natural Law requires the body, mind and spirit to be united in thought, word and deed for the process of creation to work. Thus, if you are choosing to do something for the sake of it, stop. It’s doing it the hard way! Sit down and take a moment to ask yourself why you are choosing to do what you’re doing. Does it feel right, does it bring you joy?

Recognise your connection to the Divine and that all possibilities are open to you from that relationship. Just as a fetus is dependent on its umbilical cord to receive nourishment from its mother, so too are we dependent on SPIRIT for our nourishment.

If you are stuck and feel time-poor or money-poor, unhappy, lost or anything else, you must first realise and admit that you have chosen this experience for yourself. This may be a totally unconscious choice but it is still coming from you, or an aspect of you. Only by owning the experience can you change it. You cannot change anything that you reject because you reject a part of yourself, your Divine Self, which is part of the Great All-That-Is, All-That-Is-Not.

God is everything, the alpha and the omega, the light and the dark. This has been said before, many times, in a myriad of different ways. However, how often do we each stop to acknowledge the absolute profundity of this statement. How often do we rail against the less than pleasant conditions of our lives and bemoan our fate?

We must give thanks for each and every experience we have, for it is a gift. That is the first thing to remember.

Secondly, we must seek to understand that life is a dichotomy, an experience within which two apparently contradictory truths can exist in the same space at the same time.

“[You] cannot choose to be magnificent unless there is something to choose from. Some part of [you] must be less than magnificent for [You] to choose the part of [You] that is magnificent.” – Conversations with God, Book 3

We cannot know rich in the absence of poor, we cannot know light without the presence of darkness, we cannot know love without hate. And yet, we do not have to remain in any "negative" experience longer than we choose for it to be so. The human spirit rises, it does not fall in the face of true opportunity.

Embrace the part of life that is hurting or harming you in some way. Do not resist it, because what you resist persists! Only in a neutral, open state can you allow another possibility to flow to you. This can admittedly be hard, especially if you are used to doing things a certain way and thinking certain thoughts that accompany each behaviour; for example, “this is the way life is” and “this is way its always been done” and "there's no way I can change this."

And yet, if you do not realise your own divinity, and seek to consciously direct your thoughts, your life will continue to be the same.

Remember that past conditions and behaviour are not indicators of Present Truth or Reality. They are only to be used as a basis for asking questions and seeing the grander whole.

Your life is a moving spiral of energy, so if a problem represents itself time and again, the opportunity will always be to see it from a larger, grander, higher viewpoint.

The invitation is to go within and feel your inner truth about who you really are. Who are you choosing to be today in relation to each person, circumstance or event that happens? Who are you choosing to "be"?

Use the illusion to set you free from past behaviours that have kept you stuck.

Be The Architect of Your Reality

2009-05-05T11:15:00.014Z

"If two [thought and feeling] make peace with each other in this one house [body-mind], they will say to the mountain [block/obstacle/illness/difficult circumstance] 'move away' and it will move away." Nag Hammadi Libaray, verse 48

There are essentially two types of feeling we can have at any given moment in time. One being the feeling of love which leads to peaceful, harmonious outcomes, or the lack of love (which we may call fear or hate) which leads to destructive patterns of behaviour and negative outcomes.

In our day to day lives, we tend to use the words "feeling" and "emotion" interchangeably but, although related, they are quintessentially different. In essence, it is the feeling we have which causes us to experience our emotion. We constantly have thoughts and we energise them through our feelings, creating a positive or negative effect in our heart, mind, body and our reality.

We are all conscious beings, living in a physical body but we do not all yet own our ability to direct our consciousness. All too often, we are caught up in our own misbeliefs, the misbeliefs of others and the negative energies of the world around us.

For things to change for the better, we must endeavour to become aware of our thoughts and feelings moment to moment. This takes constant practise and vigilance but the rewards are truly great because we can free ourselves from the prison of our minds.

Without awareness, we cannot change. It is our greatest gift to be self-aware. We need the desire to change and we must maintain our focus, directing our attention to our preferred outcome.

Listening to any inner guidance is crucial to maintain our direction because life is a dynamic interplay of seen and unseen forces, dancing the eternal dance, moving across the boundaries of our space-time reality.

We steer our ship on the ocean of life and we must keep watch, adjusting the rudder to keep ourselves on track, moving us safely and with the least effort to where we wish to go.

Many people have been made aware of the power of the Law of Attraction and have reacted strongly to it. Some have been relieved and empowered to recreate their vision of life, whilst others have been frightened and angry, believing it is too much responsibility to adapt to.

In essence, the Law says that whatever we give our attention to, we create, whether wanted or unwanted. This can understandably be a shock, especially when we begin to realise just how many negative thoughts and feelings we have during each day.

Luckily, it must be said that most people currently do not direct sufficient, sustained energy to their thoughts and feelings to cause destruction to themselves and others. So they must repeat a negative thought, and accompanying feeling, many, many times for it to become part of the fabric of their reality.

A thought without the necessary feeling and emotion to actualise it is a wish; a fanciful thought, if you will.

When we marry our thoughts with a sufficiently strong feeling, we get a chain reaction cascading through our mind and body. The amount of energy we experience coursing through our energy system is always proportionate to the feeling.

Beliefs create our feeling about something or someone, and they are fluid. It can also be said that our current beliefs are based on our level of consciousness. As we raise the bar, old, limiting beliefs drop away to be replaced by ones that serve us better.

We must all purify our hearts and minds to really take advantage of the great gifts of enjoying our ability to focus our attention and direct our will to bring forth our highest and most joyful outcomes. The only thing separating us from what we want and desire is us, and all of the negative programming that is in our cellular memory.

We are all self-programming each and every day, whether we realise it or not. If you read the newspaper every day, ask yourself, "do I believe in all of the hate, conflict, sorrow and ego-ism that afflicts much of the world or do I believe in the goodness and kindness of the world and our ability to transcend our self-imposed limitations?"

Are you telling yourself that the world "is going to the dogs" or are you looking for all of the benevolence, kindness and love that mankind/womankind is giving to his/her fellow brothers and sisters?

Ask yourself, in each situation, "which perspective am I choosing right now?" "What do I truly believe?"

Are you watching too many dime-a-dozen soaps filled with conflict, despair, and separation as its main themes, feeding your unconscious desire to act in ways that separate you from the ones you love the most? Are you learning, or reinforcing, your modes of behaviour from the TV Programs you watch?

We can, and must, reprogram ourselves to think, feel and act differently; and you can start today, if you choose to.

The best times to re-program the mind are in the morning as soon as you open your eyes and just before you close your eyes to go to sleep. The subconscious is more amenable to suggestion because the conscious mind is not fully engaged and we can take great advantage of this.

Advertisers take advantage of you when you watch TV because your brain drops from beta state to alpha or even lower, depending on how tired you are. That is negative programming, causing you to want things you don't really need and repeat modes of behaviour that are not conducive to a joyous, loving and peaceful life.

I have found re-programming statements to be extremely effective when working with SRT and Reiki clients and would like to share this with you, so that you can choose to start now, if you so wish.

I invite you to start off with something you want to really want to change; for example, a lot of us have the unconscious belief that we must suffer on some level, called a self-punishment program in SRT terminology. Search deeply, and you may find it is true for you.

Saying the statements in the order shown is an effective way to bring about a positive change in your thoughts and feelings but it is essential that you connect to the words through your heart, and not just say them like a robot!

The first two statements release the negative pattern, and the last statement replaces the negative pattern with a positive one.

"I release all belief, perception and judgement that I must suffer"
"I release all need and desire to suffer"
"I now completely accept and believe, and instruct my subconscious mind to believe, that men, women and God support and love me in my life."

You may choose the word "life" instead of "God", if you are more comfortable with that:

"I now completely accept and believe, and instruct my subconscious mind to believe, that men, women and Life support me unconditionally. I am loved."

The word God, unfortunately, is loaded with negative perceptions and judgements just as much as positive ones, which is why I have chosen the word "Life" as a possible substitute. When we replace the world God with Life, the meaning becomes a little clearer. God is simply life expressing itself, to know itself, and return to itself having gained the experience of knowing itself.

Even in our modern world, with all of its technology and advancement, we have failed to remember who we truly are and continue to deny who we are because our early programming says otherwise. Most of us seem to be half asleep, trying to get through the day, rather than trying to learn something from each day that we are blessed to live.

We seem to be quick to judge and dismiss that which cannot be "proven" by our science and technology. Yet, so much of our lives is based on the intangible thoughts, feelings and beliefs that underpin our entire existence and expression. These things are real but we cannot prove them because our technology cannot begin to compare to the inbuilt technology that lies within us:

"Your experience and your feelings about a thing represent what you factually and intuitively know about that thing. Words can only seek to symbolise what you know, and can often confuse what you know."
Conversations with God, Neale Donald Walsch

How we interact with our world is governed by our core beliefs about ourselves and our lives, which ultimately lead us to our experiences.

We need to reflect on life's journey, where it has already taken us and where it can take us. Ask yourself, "what are my beliefs about my closest relationships?" "What do I feel about those people and situations that are foremost in my mind?" "How can I change my perception?" "Can I forgive and move on?"

Ask yourself, "do I get up every morning and feel excited about the possibilities that life has to offer me?"

Asking pertinent questions of oneself is key to breaking limiting patterns of behaviour. Listening to and acting on one's higher purpose is essential to creating a life filled with joy, love and harmony. We can achieve our goals the hard way, or we can invite the presence and power of our higher nature to be with us and guide us in our thoughts, feelings and actions.

As Mahatma Ghandi said: "Carefully watch your THOUGHTS, for they become your WORDS. Manage and watch your WORDS, for they will become your ACTIONS. Consider and judge your ACTIONS, for they have become your HABITS. Acknowledge and watch your HABITS, for they shall become your VALUES. Understand and embrace your VALUES, for they become YOUR DESTINY."

The power of thought and emotion must be channelled and focused for it to serve us in our lives. Clarity comes from a release of discordant energy through awareness of what needs to change, the desire to grow and evolve to a more expansive state and the faith that we can achieve this in our lifetime.

Faith transcends our beliefs. We may believe that something is true because of a direct or indirect experience of it but, ultimately, faith is the feeling that we can achieve something despite all evidence to the contrary. The best way to nurture faith is to go inward and search for the ultimate presence that has always existed within you, one that is timeless, birthless and deathless.

Trust that you can find your inner strength and power, and it shall be revealed to you in due course. Let us trust ourselves again, let us trust life again, forgiving ourselves and all of the hurts of the past to embrace a new and glorious future.

Challenging the Primacy of DNA: How our beliefs control our biology

2009-04-22T11:21:00.048Z

It is our inner interpretation of our life experience that determines whether we experience frustration and self-limitation or inner growth and evolution to a more peaceful, joyous way of living. It is my belief that deep within our hearts, each and every one of us desires to understand ourselves better and our relationship to the world in which we live.

Finally science is beginning to understand and admit to the great, underlying potential that each of us has to shape our reality and the destiny, not only of our own lives, but that of our planet. However, by their very nature, scientists are overly cautious creatures and tend to downplay the ramifications of discoveries which have the potential to change the world's view of reality.

Some older theories are so ingrained that they have become dogma and it is akin to heresy to state otherwise; indeed, a serious scientist can risk disrepute and the total rejection of esteemed peers and colleagues, thus leaving his or her career in tatters. Only the brave or foolhardy risk putting groundbreaking theories out there, even at this time.

I recently came across an article in The Big Issue on James Lovelock, the eminent scientist who was ridiculed forty years ago for developing the concept of Gaia. His theory stated that Earth was a huge self-regulating mechanism in which all things including the atmosphere, oceans, rocks and living organisms, exist in an ongoing feedback loop. Serious scientists then dismissed it as hippy nonsense but today his holistic concept of Gaia is now referred to as "Earth system science" and tops the political agenda.

Lovelock recognised this when he said "but that's what happens in science - it takes a long time to persuade colleagues it's real. You can't expect to do it in under twenty years."

Fortunately, we are all blessed at this time to have the work of key scientists appear in a language we can understand. Their insights are hitting the mainsteam through various new age publications. Anyone who is willing to take the time to explore this field, will find themselves being led through a fascinating journey to a greater understanding of themselves.

For those of us who are not keen to read such material, we do not need to have science validate everything we know and feel to be true in our hearts. Science cannot yet measure a thought or weigh an emotion but we know they exist and we witness their powerful effects every day in our lives, consciously or unconsciously. We are learning how reality functions in the laboratory of our own bodies and minds.

We have been taught in our schools and science books that we inherit disease and that we are they way we are because of our genes. It is such a disempowering view because we feel helpless to change anything about ourselves. If you believe that you cannot change, you won't even try.

New information is showing that we are not at the mercy of our genes. Our genes contain the potential for function and dysfunction but it is our environment that determines the manifestation of health or illness in our bodies. The environment certainly includes what we choose to eat, how we breathe, where we live and so forth but I believe it is our inner environment that is the most crucial factor here. Our thoughts, feelings and emotions create a positive or negative charge inside of our bodies and minds which affects us at all levels of our being and determines what happens inside our cells.

From a SRT perspective, we preprogram illness and disease at a Soul level and when the exact mix of frequencies occurs in our lives, the illness or disease is activated. This is something we have chosen to experience.

By clearing the program we allow the body-mind the possibility of tapping into a new state. We tap into the quantum field of possibilities, swapping our unhealthy vibration for a healthy one so that healing can take place. When a healing does not manifest, we must not apportion blame to the process but ask what we can learn from the experience.

You and I have the power to direct our physiology if we can understand and change our underlying core beliefs. The work of Dr Bruce Lipton, eminent scientist and cell biologist, led him to witness this first hand through his lifetime of study and application. As stated before, it is the energy that surrounds our cells determines what is happening inside our cells and this is a radical departure from current scientific beliefs which views us as chemical reactions, at the mercy of "faulty" genes.

The primacy of DNA is incomplete as theory. Genes cannot determine how we function because they are responding to something else, the environment. What makes this of critical importance ot us, is that our cells are responding to an invisible field of energy which is molded by our beliefs, so our beliefs control our biology. Gregg Braden, whose work has been critical in bringing this work to the general public in terms which are simple and easy to comprehend, has called this field The Divine Matrix.

Braden puts it to us that the power of human emotion, expressed as our beliefs, changes the quantum reality of our world and our body.

A profound study in the New England Journal of Medicine, 30th March 1996, stated that researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, reported unambiguous evidence of a baby boy who tested positive for HIV twice at 19 days of age and again one month later, yet this same boy appeared to have been HIV clear for at least four years when he was mandatorily re-tested before entering primary school.

This should have made front page news because it challenges everything that we currently assume to be true about our biology... but it didn't.

Through a process that mainstream science has yet to understand, this young boy created conditions in his body that eradicated the virus. It offers clear evidence that HIV does not have the 100% mortality rate that we once believed and it also shows the change that eradicated the virus happened in the boy's lifetime instead of showing up as a genetic mutation in a subsequent generation.

In my own work, a client who came to see me was an accident and emergency nurse, with a vast array of medical expertise behind her. At 34 weeks old, utrasound scans of her unborn child were showing that the kidneys had not developed properly, there was a large cyst on one of them, and that it was highly likely that the baby would lose one, if not both of them.

Fortunately, she knew about the power of belief and was not afraid to look beyond the boundaries imposed by her profession. After a full SRT clearing was done, she contacted me two weeks later to say that the scans were showing two healthy kidneys for the foetus and went on to have a normal, healthy baby despite all medical evidence to the contrary.

Both the above cases are viewed as a welcome anomaly by the mainstream scientific community. However, we must consider the far-reaching implications for these case studies and others like it. What is possible for one is possible for all.

The Secret of Rebirth - Following our Inner Technology

2009-03-10T11:31:00.037Z

Understanding our Inner Technology is a vital key in helping us look at life and the world from a new perspective that is spiritually and emotionally based. It is through this understanding that we may begin the transformation from a disempowered "victim" of circumstance to a fully empowered human being, one who is aware of his or her deeper connection to All-That-Is and able to meet the challenges of life with insight and detachment.

Today, many of us have been socialised to rely purely on Western Medicine which sees the body as a complex machine, whose parts need fixing from time to time. We have allowed ourselves to become separated from our own truth and because we give our power away so often, we struggle to move through life in a balanced way, that brings us the peace and harmony we so desperately desire. Anxiety and worry are the norm.

We have been told a great lie. That we cannot heal ourselves, that our bodies are subject to decay, that we are separate from one another. Why?

In the sixteenth century, there was a schism between Science and the Church. Science became the new religion and through a series of choices, we chose to accept a Newtonian-based reality rather than a Quantum-based one.

Quantum science is now showing us our true potential, so that we may question and ultimately discard the limiting ideas and beliefs that have prevented us from knowing who we truly are. The codes of all possibility exist holographically within each cell of the human body. Change introduced anywhere in the system is mirrored throughout the entire system. It is our response to life experiences that determines which program patterns are activated.

In his book, The Biology of Belief, acclaimed biologist Bruce Lipton clearly demonstrates that it is the environment that affects how our cells respond, that it is our beliefs that underpin our successes and failures, our health and our non-health. His professor and mentor, Irv Konigsberg, was one of the first cell biologists to master the art of cloning stem cells. He told Bruce early on in his career, when the cultured cells are ailing, look first to the environment, not to the cell itself for the cause.

Lipton's work has been met with much resistance from his peers because it severely challenges what is known as the primacy of DNA, the whole structure upon which our medical model is based right now. The pharmaceutical giants want you to believe your genes are solely responsible for your lack of health, so you can literally buy into their illusion of "fixing" health issues. The primacy of DNA prevents you from owning your power, it deprives you of the joy of knowing that you are more than just a physical body.

Robert Detzler, creator and founder of SRT, has provided key information on DNA. He says there are two forms of DNA. One is called Super DNA, the macrocosm of all the potential that is in our universe. The other is Shadow DNA, the microcosm, the extension of SPIRIT/ALL-THAT-IS as living Souls.

Ten of our thirteen bodies have DNA programming. The Etheric Body, which is where we scan during a Reiki treatment, has 24 strands of DNA and contains the entire design of the universe within it. The First Astral Body and our physical body each have 12 strands. Only two strands are visible in the physical body.

SPIRIT says that the DNA is like the hard drive of a computer and the chromosomes are similar to the bytes in the computer where all the memories are stored. We can now clear the master computer bank, to allow greater self-expression, harmony and wholeness. If the DNA is the computer, then we still need someone to run it. That aspect is consciousness.

Scientists have further demonstrated that it is impossible for us to simply "watch" anything in our world without affecting it. Whether our attention is focused on a quantum particle during a laboratory experiment, the healing of our body, or the successes and failures within our careers and relationships, we have expectations and beliefs that underpin what we are observing.

It is our inner experiences that become part of what we're focused on. By "watching" we become part of what we're watching. When we look into the mirror (of consciousness), we affect what we observe. We are not separate from the image we see before us.

Physicist John Wheeler has called us all "participators" because when we focus our attention on a given place in a moment of time, we involve our consciousness. And in the vast field of consciousness it appears that there's no clear boundary that tells us where we stop and the rest of the world begins - it becomes clear why the ancients believed that everything is connected.

At some point on our journey, we begin to question more deeply who we are, where we have come from, where we are going, and so forth. We understand that we must, in effect, be reborn to live the life we were meant to live. To do this we become aware of our inner state, our feelings, thoughts and emotions and understand what this particular synergy means to us.

In his classic book The Prophet, Gibran reminds us of what it means to have a great gift, and to know that the power of that gift is already within us. "No man can reveal to you," he states, "that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."

At the Soul Level, we pre-programme challenges for ourselves before we enter this time-space reality but we are often caught up in misbeliefs upon entering the physical realms, forgetting our connection to All-That-Is, and so the daily challenges become harder than they need to be. We hold on to destructive energy patterns, blaming life and others for our "fate".

Our conscious mind is the gate keeper, taking on new ideas and beliefs and replacing the old. These choices determine what our subconscious programming will be, so if we constantly say to ourselves, or others, "I'm sick and tired", then we will end up feeling sick and tired. We have a choice in how we respond to each moment but we need to become aware of this choice.

We are conscious beings, having free will to determine the unfolding of each event within our lives, and ultimately our life path. A key portion of our lesson is realisation of the power of thought and the energy we attach to it. As we think, feel and experience emotion, we create. Although many of us do not yet act with such awareness, we are creating all the time.

Many of us pray (speaking to the Divine within) but our words ring hollow. We have forgotten to be in the Heart, to pray with feeling and elicit the emotion of having our prayer answered in the now. We imagine the power to be outside ourselves, rather than within us.

Our planet called Earth is a heart planet and the name "Earth" means "place of transformation". That is a vital clue to unlocking doors that have been shut to us until now. We must become heart-centred in our thoughts, words and actions to awaken to a new day. Each time we move our consciousness into the heart, we feel alive and free and act with joy and spontaneity, honouring ourselves and those around us. When we are constantly in our heads, running the same, old programs again and again life becomes tiresome.

Visionary author and scholar Gregg Braden, has spoken and written about how a subtle, yet powerful, change in our emotional perceptions holds the timeless secret to healing, peace and reality itself. In Awakening to Zero Point, he says:

"Perhaps without full awareness of the process, you are remembering to function within the context of an extremely sophisticated system of creating 'seed thoughts', amassing energy around those seeds, and bringing together components of the energy necessary to 'gel' the seeds into your reality. Even in the technology of present day, one hallmark of sophisticated, user-friendly systems is the unknown complexity behind the scenes, providing apparent simplicity to the user. The user does not have to know the intricacies of the system-only the ability to use them as they were designed."

Emotion is the power we place into our thoughts to make them real, to give them substance. We experience emotion as sensation flowing, directed or lodged within the liquid crystalline form of our bodies. A strong feeling as to the "rightness" or "wrongness" of an outcome is our charge or judgement upon that experience of life. Created as an event that is judged through the eyes of polarity, the holographic mirror of consciousness assures us that we will experience our judgements so that we can reconcile them and move forward in life without the hindrance of that particular charge.

We are more than just physical bodies but knowing this is not enough. It is the daily, patient and persistent application of this knowledge to our lives that brings the rewards we seek, the harvest we wish to reap.

We have the choice to view each situation that is causing us trouble with compassion. Forgiveness is key to neutralising negative charges and allowing us to see new possibilities where we have previously felt disempowered, stuck and even resentful about life.

Aura-Soma®: Ancient Wisdom Revealed

2009-01-23T16:50:00.036Z

Colour is the language through which nature speaks and it is part of the underlying order of the universe. As spiritual beings expressing through this space-time reality, the superconscious (our Higher Self) perceives us as light, colour and geometric form, independently from our physical form.

Colour affects us in subtle yet profound ways throughout our lives. As children, we may have been more willing to listen to our intuition and less constrained by society's opinions. Yet, even as adults, we may find ourselves needing to wear a certain colour or have a certain colour in our living space without really knowing why. We might even find that we disassociate ourselves from certain colours, firmly rejecting them.

Our language is rich with colour... do you have a colourful plate of food in front of you at mealtimes, or is your food colourless? Are you seeing life through rose-tinted glasses or are you seeing red? Are you green with envy or feeling blue? Is life really black and white?

Aura-Soma® philosophy says "You are the colours you choose". Through its use and application this system of awakening opens up levels of communication between the personality and the Soul. In my own experience, it provides for an endless, fascinating journey of self-discovery.

The methodology of Aura-Soma® allows the superconscious to address the underlying cause of disease and lovingly places the responsibility for well-being with the person who chooses their colours. It is an invitation to take part in one's own healing journey and acknowledge the parts we have played in creating our reality.

Aura-Soma® is a system for spiritual awakening which combines the living energy of colours on a herbal basis with essential oils and crystal energy, restoring well being to the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies simultaneously.

There are currently 107 Equilibrium bottles, all filled with dynamic, living energy which make up the cornerstone of the entire system. Through the colours they select, each person is shown how Aura-Soma® is a mirror of their soul. The bottles contain a living consciousness that is accessible to all who wish to improve their lives.

My own journey with Aura-Soma® started dramatically a few years ago. I was in spiritual shock from a recent failed relationship and had just started to use the Ostrich bottle (B79 - orange/violet) which I had selected.

I was confiding my painful reality to my teacher on the foundation course, when I heard a loud explosion. Startled, I looked at the shelves of liquid light... Chang Tsu (B73 - Clear over Gold) had exploded and the liquid was running out of the glass bottle, cascading down the Aura-Soma® Light Box in which all the bottles were beautifually displayed. No other Equilibrium bottles had been touched but my rational mind quickly drew the conclusion that there must have been some sort of electrical fault which had caused this phenomenon. Nonetheless, my intuitive mind was clear enough to realise that I had just witnessed a little miracle, overseen by "the powers that be".

My teacher, Simone, had seen this sort of phenomenon before and explained that it usually happened on a course when there needed to be a powerful shift in energy, either for the group or for an individual. Interestingly enough, the bottle represented a transference of deep insights to me from recent events.

B73 indicates that the more wisdom there is in the conscious mind and the more clarity there is within, the more wisdom can flow through. It also represents suffering at an unconscious level and the ability to get in touch with that in order to release it.

I went home that night and felt amazingly renewed by the next morning. I had experienced my first major shift in consciousness through colour and I must say that I felt incredibly excited!

I continued working with the Ostrich bottle, understanding the importance of healing the time line represented by the orange fraction and the transformation within, represented by the violet. By the end of the course, I felt was a changed person.

Within a month, I went on to meet my life partner on the dance-floor, and to whom I am now married.

I had another confirmation of the incredible sensitivity of the Equilibrium set when another bottle exploded on the next course. Titania (B85 - Turquoise over Clear) exploded on the shelf with another very loud crack. Titania represents the communication of suppressed feelings and the acknowledgement of suffering within. It was a difficult time for me with a close member of my family but the energies of the bottle helped me to stay in the heart, strong and stable in my own beliefs, whilst bringing compassion to my deepest thoughts and actions.

More recently, my Higher Self has most definitely been guiding back to a deeper exploration of colour.

A couple of weeks ago, my father was quickly admitted to A&E because organic irritation to the blood vessels in his brain caused him to have another seizure. About six years ago, my father had a near death experience in which he was unconscious for three days but he miraculously made a full recovery from the sudden cerebral bleed after receiving healing through Reiki and Spiritual Response Therapy over the course of a few months.

When I rushed to the hospital this time, I immediately applied the Physical Rescue (B1 - Blue over Deep Magenta) to his head and the Etheric Rescue (B26 - orange over orange) to the whole left side of his body. Bottle 1 has been one of my favourites and I know it is for a lot of practitioners and users of Aura-Soma®. It is a miracle bottle with many uses for its application, and can be applied anywhere on the body.

The Deep Magenta in the base fraction represents the Soul star energy located above the crown, drawing in energy from the Void. In fact Deep Magenta only ever appears in the base fraction of any Equilibrium bottle and present in the first two bottles, underpinning everything else. It is the colour of all possibilities. Everything comes from it and everything returns to it.

In addition, the Etheric rescue behaved remarkably as I applied the bottle to my father's body. The liquid orange fizzed and bubbled as the two fractions mixed and the bubbles did not subside that evening when I took it home with me. The next morning, when I awoke the bottle was calm again... the bubbles had gone.

I quickly received a synchronistic phone call from my mother within a few minutes of seeing the orange bottle. I knew what she was going to say before she said it. She seemed surprised because the hospital had rung her to say that my father was completely well again and that they were discharging him.

I could feel my body was tight from the shock of it all, having to cope with the fight or flight response, so I booked myself in for a massage with my local health clinic.

About a week before my father's collapse, I was using the Turquoise Pomander and Maha Chohan Quintessence to tap into and express my creative side but, interestingly, I suddenly felt compelled to use the Orange Pomander instead of the Turquoise about two days before my father was rushed to hospital. The superconscious aspect of me knew that I would be in shock and was helping me to support myself energetically through the Orange.

Aura-Soma® continues to surprise and delight me in many ways, not only in my own personal growth but in watching all of the changes in consciousness of those who select a bottle to work with. About a week ago, I bumped into a dear colleague who was struggling to balance her full-time job with part-time study and have enough quality time with her family. She was struggling to complete her assignment and had a complete lack of motivation.

My High Self immediately indicated B1, balancing through the Royal Blue and the Deep Magenta, with the Royal Blue Pomander and Lady Portia Quintessence to lend additional support. Within a day, her energy was completely different. Where before she was languishing, she was in the flow and joyful again.

It is so simple - by applying the appropriate colour wavelength relating to the chakra or chakras needing help, we can synchronise and reinforce the weakened wavelengths, helping to set in motion what that person needs to heal.

In the Aura-Soma® system, we go beyond the composition of the bottles to find the jewel that is presented to us. We must trust ourselves to make the "right" choice, we must trust the wisdom that is within us and allow ourselves to awaken, one step at a time, one bottle at a time.

May you find the peace that passeth all understanding (B1 - Blue over Blue).

Zero Limits

2009-01-04T12:49:00.015Z

As we move through this time-space reality, we are fast approaching what has often been referred to as Zero Point. Along with the dramatic shifts in the physical parameters of Earth we are seeing a rapid transformation in human understanding, perception, and experience.

I was recently reading a brilliantly written book called "Zero Limits" by Joe Vitale which takes the reader on part of the author's personal journey to find and integrate the teachings of an ancient spiritual cleansing ritual called Self I-Dentity through Ho'oponopono (SITH).

In the words of the founder of The Foundation of I which created SITH, the late Morrnah Simeona said that "we can appeal to Divinity who knows our personal blueprint, for healing of all thoughts and memories that are holding us back at this time."

The word Ho'oponopono means to make right, to rectify an error. Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, a native Hawaiian Kahuna Lapa'au, was the designer and developer of the updated Ho'oponopono training. It was so effective that she was invited to teach this method at the United Nations, the World Health Organization and various institutions of healing throughout the world.

You can read more about the organisation and its wonderful work here:
http://www.hooponoponotheamericas.org/

The author of Zero Limits, Joe Vitale, was led to seek out this system of healing by hearing a remarkable story of a psychologist who healed an entire mental hospital full of the criminally insane without seeing a single patient. This man's name was Dr. Hew Len, a close friend of Morrnah. It took a period of about three years but is still a wonderful testimony to a power to which we all have access to.

For me, the process of SITH is remarkably similar to Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT). SITH is based on recognising and tapping into the Divinity within, that is to say the Higher Self, and asking for "cleaning" of the program that has been activated in the subconscious. In SRT, we speak of "clearing" instead of "cleaning" back to the void.

I must admit that I initially had trouble accepting that we are 100% responsible for any problem which we are witnessing. For example, if a client turns up with a problem, the therapist can solve the problem by cleaning himself or herself. However, upon due reflection, it makes perfect sense because of the nature of Reality.

In this time-space reality, we must start by being responsible for our own thoughts and feelings, learning not to blame outer circumstances and events for any discomfort in our own personal experience of Reality.

Esther and Jerry Hicks, who channel the consciousness known as Abraham, have been saying for many years that we must constantly seek to align ourselves with our Inner Being (Higher Self) through a deeper understanding of our own thoughts and feelings. As we heal our own self-limiting patterns, others around us will naturally change because our Inner Alignment will help them to come into alignment with the Higher Aspects of their own Selves.

As we come into alignment with our own Divinity we naturally become more aware that we are collectively responsible for each other and the state of our world because we all come from the same source and we are all ONE in truth.

Sai Baba says it best:

"Do not blame others by pointing out their faults.
You will find upon self-examination
that the faults you see in others are in you.
When you correct yourself, the world becomes correct."

In our day to day lives, we must work on changing ourselves, not others. However, by changing ourselves, we will be set free from the outer circumstances which seemingly hold us in bondage.

It is my feeling and understanding that in SITH and SRT, the healer may act as a mirror for the other person's consciousness. The SITH therapist, Dr. Hew Len, who healed the criminally insane made a Sacred Contract with the Divine to serve as a surrogate for the healing of each patient.

Mystic Christianity speaks of error consciousness as "sin" and that we must petition the Divine to rectify our errors in thought, word and deed. Jesus Christ always petitioned the Divine before doing any sort of healing by saying "My Father and I are one". Unfortunately, many people have been led away from their own Inner Divinity for so long that they do not understand this important inner meaning.

Each person's Soul creates challenges for him/her by downloading programs from the Akashic records. Often we meet others who mirror our thoughts and feelings back to us. We can "heal" them by healing ourselves but we must ask SPIRIT to do the clearing. If we see ourselves as being responsible from the personality level, it will led to further error, much of it very harmful to the individual taking on the "responsibility". We can only do it from a much higher level of being and knowing.

SITH and SRT are valid, remarkable systems of healing and deserve the attention and credit that they are receiving. They are slightly different in their approach but their core tenet is the same - that Divinity is within and that it is The Divine which orchestrates the healing by transmuting our errors into pure light.

Both systems allow us to be non-resistant because they help us to be in the "zero state", where there are no limitations. When we are not resisting life, we are allowing it... and miracles can and will happen.

When you are feeling resistance, say the following Ho'oponopono Prayer and ask, knowing it is done:

Divine creator, father, mother, son as one ...
If I, my family, relatives and ancestors have offended you,
your family, relatives and ancestors
in thoughts, words, deeds and actions
from the beginning of our creation to the present,
we ask your forgiveness ...
Let this cleanse, purify, release, and cut
all the negative memories, blocks, energies and vibrations
and transmute these unwanted energies to pure light
... And it is done.

Wishing you the PEACE that surpasseth all understanding as we move into 2009 and beyond.

The healing journey

2008-12-12T14:51:00.005Z

As spiritual beings, we have ever-present access to higher guidance from SPIRIT. To receive this guidance, we need to practice being clear and neutral. When our emotions are running high or we are holding unforgiveness in our hearts, our High Self disconnects and we experience the illusion of separation.

Of course, there is no separation but we can experience life as being so. It is our choice in each moment which determines the quality of that moment. Ask yourself, am I willing to let go of my personal judgements and invite the warmth and compassion of SPIRIT to guide my interactions with self and others?

My experience of Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT) is that it is one of the most effective healing modalities available to humanity at the present time because it allows the practitioner to be neutral and grounded, allowing SPIRIT to do the greater part of the work necessary to effect change. When using this system of healing, the practitioner can check for percentage accuracy and completeness, ensuring infinite accuracy and completeness on all levels of being.

One thing that is vital to understand, however, is that healing often happens in layers. When one is ready to heal, the changes can be dramatic and swift but just because SPIRIT can heal us in zero time (no time), doesn’t mean it will heal us of all our “problems” in one go. There may be a lesson that our situation is teaching us and it may also be teaching those who are closest to us as well. We also need to let go of our attachment to when the healing should happen or how it should happen.

I was teacher assisting on a SRT course recently and one of the brave souls present decided to bring up a lot of past and present life issues for clearing, which caused the person great difficulty in breathing properly.

We trusted that SPIRIT would do the necessary work to clear the energy but still the student continued to suffer… we needed to let go and trust that the healing would manifest in divine order at the right and perfect time for that person.

Just a couple of days after the course finished, this happened... a natural outpicturing of all the work that had been done earlier.

Often, down the road, other issues may come to light because we are ready to handle them. As we grow spiritually, we increase our vibratory rate and are capable of handling greater tasks and challenges.

We never stop creating challenges for ourselves because we are here to learn. Powerful healing modalities like SRT serve to give us better insight into how we can handle these challenges as well as removing discordant energies which prevent us moving through them quickly.

How many times do we hang on to old, destructive energy patterns that aren’t serving our highest good? SRT can help us understand the many archetypal patterns which are stored within us and any erroneous beliefs stored within us which are sabotaging our desire for love, peace and joy.

No healing modality is able to clear something that the soul is not willing to let go of. Therefore, we must work with the soul to effect real change. As the planet’s consciousness rises, we can more easily clear our programming back to the void.

It’s not what happens to us but the energy we attach to the people, circumstances and events which enter our lives that causes us to experience love or suffering. We make decisions that take less than a nano-second and it is these choices which lead us to the outcomes we see unfolding before us.

SRT and Reiki help to clear the Akashic records, giving us the possibility of making clearer, self-empowered decisions which will bring harmony and wholeness. This is not a library stored in heaven somewhere, just as SPIRIT is not an old man sitting on a cloud watching over us. We contain the spark of our Divine Creator within us, and the Akashic records are stored within our first six bodies. We are walking around in the Akashic records, or at least a subset of it.

Darkness is a part of the great eternal that we call SPIRIT. It is not necessarily bad and we can choose to move to a greater understanding through bringing things into the light. It is only by accepting the totality of ourselves that we can become whole and free. We cannot push our feelings down into the depths of ourselves and choose to ignore them. We can only release that which we love, otherwise we are bound to repeat the lesson.

“Man minus ego equals God” – Sai Baba

We must constantly practise perception or discernment. No one can make us feel a certain way - our perception causes energy to move, creating an emotion, so if we can quickly recognise our judgement about a situation, we can choose to release it.

SRT and Reiki allow us to focus on the spiritual aspects of healing. From SPIRIT’s point of view, everything is okay, even when we are dealing with terminal illness. SRT and Reiki allow us to find and clear energies that are blocking the healing process.

Modern medicine has its place but falls into the trap of seeing the body as a mechanic device whose parts need fixing from time to time. Cutting edge quantum science is much closer to proving the truth of the matter. We are light stepped down vibrationally into physical form.

We actually know very little from our limited conscious mind perspective. Soul healing modalities like SRT and Reiki allow us to go to the highest (or deepest) level possible since we cannot merely address the symptoms to effect real change. The only way to greater understanding is through the Higher Power, the grandest part of ourselves.

We must endeavour to remember that everything is in Divine Order, whether we like it or not. Affirming this in our thoughts and actions allows us to be in the flow. When we resist life, we create more of what we don’t want, and this ultimately brings us more pain and suffering.

Unlimited possibilites

2008-11-20T23:25:00.009Z

We live in exciting times where the possibilities for change and growth are unlimited. This time has been prophesized for ages, which the Hindus call the Dwapara Yuga, and widely referred to as The Age of Aquarius in the West.

With this time of great change, however, comes chaos and upheaval - the storm before the quiet.

Many people are facing illness on a personal level and unprecedented change on a global level. The collapse of the global financial markets is just one of many indicators that the old paradigm no longer serves us and will drop away as surely as a snake sheds its skin. How we choose to respond to this news will be different according to our belief structure.

We feel the pressure of these personal and global energy changes in our minds and in our bodies. This is creating a real need to slow down, get in touch with our real selves and understand just exactly what it is that gives us sustenance and growth. Materialism has sprung from a denial of our innate spirituality, which can never satisfy us at a deep level, and is the manifestation of an unbalanced root, sacral and solar plexus centre at the societal level.

Those who choose the old way will find the struggle more and more difficult. The old ways are not working... not honouring ourselves at the deepest level is having greater and greater consequences. Do we always put others first, wearing ourselves down and feeling resentful or do we always put others last, living in an ego-centric world which cuts us from the life-giving properties of love?

There are different entry points into consciousness. We simply need to choose one of them and stick with it to begin the process of change, and change we will.

For example, simply choosing to breathe correctly for five minutes in the morning, putting one's hand on one's belly and remembering how to take slow, deep breaths will begin to shift our consciousness to a more alive, dynamic state of being.

Stretching out our tired limbs and moving them around, gentle jogging, or a brisk walk can stimulate the physical body enough to remove stagnation in the emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.

Paradoxically, just being still long enough to understand our inner messages is another entry point. In a society that is caught up in a dramatic whirlwind of activity, finding time to be still and quiet allows us the possibility of understanding our larger self.

Eating healthily is a vital part of feeling well but most people's bodies are running on junk. We would never consider putting rubbish into the petrol tank of our cars and expect them to run properly. Yet, we put rubbish into our bodies all the time. Food is alive, especially raw foods, and has a direct impact on the body's consciousness. If we can start to incorporate just a little bit of raw food in our diet, we will put ourselves on the road back to health. The old adage says, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away". What if it did?

Ancient wisdom is all around us and we have a great need to revisit these old, timeless messages which are just as relevant today as they were when they were first spoken. Hipprocates, the father of modern medicine, said "let food be your medicine, and let medicine be your food."

Every thought we think requires energy. Every word we speak requires energy. Every action we take requires energy. Where does your energy come from? Are you the captain of your ship, endeavouring to keep it steady in the choppy waters of life, or is your ship in danger of crashing upon the rocky shore?

The perspective of "I don't have enough time" often leads to limited ways of thinking and doing, and leads to poor choices in how we think, speak, and act, including the quality of food we put into our bodies.

SPIRIT is your constant guide and companion. It is ever present with you, although you may struggle to believe it is so. Healing modalities like Reiki, Spiritual Response Therapy and Theta DNA Healing work because they tap into the unlimited wisdom of Source energy, the Matrix of Life.

We were born to be alive, vital and strong with every breath we take. Yet even if we are struggling with our health, it does not mean we cannot choose to live, happy productive lives. Often, illness and death are great teachers, awakening our consciousness and healing our deepest relationships with ourselves and those around us, near and far.

I recently had a long term client come to me with cancer. It was difficult for her and yet, at the same time, wondrous events occurred.

Arianna (her alias) was in a state of fear, feeling anxious about her life, and depressed at the thought of her husband becoming a widower and her daughter losing her mother. After receiving some Reiki and SRT, she became very calm after just one day. By the second day, Arianna made a clear decision about what she would tolerate in her life and what she would not, and the universe supported her decision in the subsequent actions of those who were around her.

Her sister, who lived thousands of miles away, and who hardly took time off from her job, booked a whole month off to be a part of her support "team" to stand by her side. Arianna had made it clear she only wanted positive people around her and was not prepared to deal with other people feeling sorry for her or using her illness as an excuse to justify their own internal fears about life.

Her relationship to herself, her family and her job dramatically changed, almost in an instant. I do not know the outcome yet but I do know that this story is about the healing of relationships, which is what we are here to learn. To recognise that we are always in a relationship of some kind is to remember how to be alive today.

Are you living in fear, dictated to by your family, friends and perhaps even your doctor? They too, sometimes live in fear and may be unconsciously keeping you trapped in the prison of your own mind.

The flu jab is a key example of society's belief in fear. Do you really get sick each time each and every year or is it because you believe you will? Are you closely watching your thoughts to see where they are leading you?

We must learn to pay attention to our thoughts and words. Our body-mind is like a tape recorder, constantly recording everything we think, say and do and playing that back to us. If we constantly say "I'm sick and tired", then we will be, quite literally, sick and tired. If we keep saying that we can't, we will program ourselves to fail.

It is time to wake up from this sleep which is causing us to lose our birthright to live a life free from fear - free from the judgements, criticisms and prejudices of others. These have been given to us as young children and it is time to let go of these traps of the mind to claim back the one thing we all need to live healthy, productive lives. Love.

Love is the balm that heals all wounds. Love is the essence of creation. Love is power within. Love is acceptance. There is nothing that love is not. Fear is simply the absence of love.

Take the time to get to know yourself. Seek out good books, fill your mind with positive thoughts every day and things will change. Eat something healthy (raw) each day and things will change. Breathe deeply and fully, and things will change.

Remind yourself, why I am doing this? Who am I doing this for? Where did I learn this habit? Start to ask the right questions and the doorway of your mind will reveal new, unlimited possibilities.

The only thing limiting you is you.

Healing through the Heart

2008-11-07T01:42:00.004Z

Most of our karmic patterning is set up within the etheric body, which we can sometimes perceive about half an inch away from our skin, and triggers in our daily lives cause this patterning to manifest itself as illness or dis-ease in our physical body.

Richard Gerber, M.D., in his book Vibrational Medicine, describes how "in reality, it is the organising principle of the etheric body which maintains and sustains the growth of the physical body."

Living in a state of limitation and feeling alienated from our physical bodies, we cannot activate our heart chakra and predominantly operate from the base, sacral and solar plexus chakras. Most of our interactions stem from karmic patterning, power, lust, greed and negative ego. The chaotic results of this behaviour are only too apparent in our world today.

To experience higher, peaceful, spirit-oriented communication and interaction we must learn how to be fully in the body. Soul-level healing modalities such as Reiki and Spiritual Response Therapy activate the heart chakra, empowering clients to begin to tap into their higher chakras, transcending their karmic, limiting patterns of the past.

Today, our urbanised, technological world has greatly exacerbated that feeling of separation from our Divine Self and many of us feel constant pressure to complete this task or that, never taking a break, always reaching for the next goal post. We have forgotten how to just be.

This persistent state of alienation in both our personal and professional lives means we are less able to deal effectively with daily challenges and we often develop coping mechanisms which develop into bad habits and finally illness in the body-mind.

Stress is defined as a "state of mental, emotional, or other strain." Whilst most of us have been conditioned to believe that stress can be positive for us, strain on the physical, emotional, mental or energy body is never a good thing.

Illness, or the manifestation of disease, results from the manifestation of toxins in the body caused by stress and other factors such as, a lack of physical exercise, poor eating habits and constant negative physical, emotional and mental habits. If toxins cannot be quickly eliminated, the toxicity increases until the balance in the body tips from health to illness.

Since we perceive ourselves as separate from Spirit, we unwittingly screen out our higher impulses. Activating, or opening, the heart chakra helps to develop compassion, connection and understanding for those around us as well as our own life circumstances and conditions, allowing us to become open to the higher messages of Spirit and the healing forces within. We are empowered to understand and transmute any negativity we may be feeling.

Healing is about becoming whole again, understanding that we are more than just a physical body. We must recognise that the body has its own consciousness, that it serves as a vehicle for Spirit, but that we are also operating through our emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. It is important to balance all of our bodies for a lasting transformation to occur.

If we continue to maintain the illusion of separation, we will only experience more pain and suffering because we have not remembered who we really are, nor understood the lesson.

"The heart chakra, as the exact center of the personal mandala, suffers the greatest loss, and causes the greatest damage if it should fall too out of its place. Imbalances within the heart (the central core) can throw the entire system off balance. Not only is balance between the upper and lower chakras and between the mind and body necessary, but also between inner and outer, between self and transcendence." Judith Anodea, Ph.D., Wheels of Life

As the heart chakra opens up, we shift into deeper and deeper levels of consciousness and it begins to take predominance over the other chakras. Most chakras are portrayed as conical, narrowing in the center, and spinning. As the heart chakra opens up, we mutate and the chakra system begins to merge into a unified field, as well as the energy bodies around us. This is a beautiful experience because it frees us from fear so that we can experience who we really are.

Breath, as related to the element air, is one of the primary keys to opening the heart chakra. Unfortunately, the average person does not breathe very deeply because of bad habits they have been taught as a child growing up and this keeps them functioning at a lower level of consciousness than they need to be. If we can learn to breathe deeply again, we can use our intention and breath to quickly transmute our negative feelings into positive ones. This is one of the golden keys for healing the body-mind.

Reiki as a spiritual practice

2008-10-02T22:26:00.003Z

As the pace of life continues to accelerate, it is even more imperative that we all learn to slow down and focus inwardly.

Many people are being drawn to learning about healing modalities such as Reiki because it promotes self-awareness and helps them to find a sense of balance and perspective. With daily practice of simple energetic techniques and clear intent, Reiki students find they are able to relax, detaching from the moment to moment pressures of the outer world and understanding at an energetic level what inner changes need to occur to bring about greater peace and health.

Yet others are being drawn to yoga, tai chi, qi qong, and pilates and other forms of body movement which naturally brings through an experiential understanding of the invisible energy, commonly referred to as Chi or Ki, that permeates all of life. Body and mind are one, so working with the body will naturally have an effect on one's thought processes.

A practice is something one does with regularity, consistency, and a strong desire for improvement but whereas a practice often reflects the needs and desires of the personality, a spiritual practice is something one does that honours the Soul.

A spiritual practice can renew our sense of purpose, removing the outer mask that prevents true self-expression, allowing more love and joy to unfold in every area of our lives, from performing the most mundane trivial task to the exciting new experiences that we wish to embrace.

We are all born with a sense of wonder and a knowing that we are interconnected with everyone and everything around us. Challenges throughout our lives often cause us to put up a barrier which prevents further harm but which begins to isolate us from others and from our true self. We simply need to find a way to feel connected again.

In truth we are never separate from our world but we can easily perceive the world to be a fearful, harsh place, one that is separate from our own existence and from which we need to shield ourselves and our loved ones.

Many people are drawn to Reiki through what I call limit situations, a string of seemingly unrelated bad experiences that continue to plague their physical, emotional and mental health.

Reiki is an ancient form of healing and spirituality that honours humans as spiritual beings and reveres the Earth as a living, conscious entity. Practicing Reiki can help those of us living urbanised and technologised lives to understand how to understand themselves and their place in society and how to live in harmony and kinship with each other and with Mother Earth herself.

The gift of Reiki allows a practitioner to begin to view life and life's challenges from a detached, spiritual perspective, not easily achieved in a state of ordinary consciousness. The daily practice of Reiki can help us create that little space for ourselves now, realising that outer distractions and commitments will always be there.

Have your dreams fallen to the wayside? Did you have ideas about what you would like to learn, do, or try out? So many of us have said to ourselves, "when I have more time...", "when I have more money...", "when the kids grow up...", "when I get a pay rise...", the list of limiting ideas is endless.

Most of us have had deep, inner longings that we have brushed aside because we were socialised to do so from a very young age. We did not stop to question the outside authority that dictated to us. With the planetary shifts that are occurring with increasing frequency, it is becoming harder and harder for many of us to continue ignoring these stirrings of the Soul.

Are you watching too much TV, slumping down on the couch, snacking on unhealthful foods, only to realise that the evening is over and you feel even more tired than before. What would happen if you changed your routine and went for a walk after dinner? What would happen if you gave yourself permission to have a bath and curl up in bed with an inspiring book, one that would give you new ideas about what you could do?

It is not so much about learning new ideas than breaking down old, limiting patterns that have accumulated during our lifetimes. By committing to self-healing, by breaking away from these old habits, we can gradually discover our true natures. The universe has a flow and so do we. It is much easier to go with the flow than against it. Reiki can allow us to heal the timeline and synchronise our hearts and minds once again.

Reiki can teach us how to own our power again. When we block our own power and expression, we are withdrawn and appear cold and controlling. This control takes energy to maintain but it does not produce energy. Our natural enthusiasm for activities diminishes and we have to “manufacture” energy for our projects, reaching for stimulants such as coffee or sweets.

When we withdraw from life, we become a closed system, instead of the naturally dynamic system that we are meant to be. Our expression turns in on itself, often in anger and self-criticism, which wears us down further. Reiki can help us love ourselves again, getting in touch with our true desires. If we are not loving with ourselves, if we are not connected to Spirit, we have no spark.

Within a culture and educational system that teaches powerlessness as a way of fostering social co-operation, we must re-examine our concept of power. Reiki teaches “power within” as opposed to “power over”. Reiki is heart centred. Reiki focuses on the unity of all life, helping us to act in way that empowers our own lives and everyone whose lives we touch.

The system of Reiki is for everyone, whether young or old, whether child, teenager or adult. Each can benefit from drawing more Ki through them to strengthen and cleanse their inner core. No matter what the physical, emotional or mental state, it can only be of benefit.

The natural ebb and flow of money

2008-09-13T21:26:00.035Z

There is a natural rhythm to money, just as there is a natural cycle to everything in life. Every business has an ebb and flow. Every person has cycles in life, times when money is coming in more than it is going out and vice versa.

Our challenge is not to go up and down emotionally with the natural ebb and flow of money in our lives and to instead use these cycles in a way that furthers our prosperity.

This is particularly important at this time of financial insecurity and prophesies of doom and gloom. The economy has been in a state of ebb for the previous twelve months with many feeling the effects of the "global credit crunch" which has been caused by various factors - an increase in petrol, food and fuel prices and negative equity in the property market to name a few.

Unfortunately, our media are conditioned to draw our attention to these negative "facts" over and over again, which is making daily life a much more painful reality than it needs to be. Remember that whatever we give our energy, focus and attention to, we attract more of - economic conditions are more affected by our beliefs and expectations, than by oil prices or political acts. This is true for each of us personally, as well as for everyone globally.

The challenge of an ebb state is to believe in our future prosperity whilst taking positive action steps to affirm that prosperity now. If you are living your life with joy, affirming abundance through every thought you think, every word you speak and every action you take, you will not be as harshly affected as others might be. With higher and higher levels of self-mastery, you will be able to draw to you what you need when you need it, and be less affected by natural or global cycles.

An excellent affirmation to start the day with is, "My energy is open and flowing in every area of my life."

Have you noticed that there are, in fact, many honest people who find their abundance increasing during an economic downturn. This is easily shrugged off as mere chance but closer observation often reflects a degree of awareness and mastery.

The demand for organic food is a good example of a market where sales have actually been increasing despite the pundits sounding the death knell for the organic market earlier on this year. Since organic farming relies less on expensive chemical inputs and uses less energy than conventional farming methods it has been shielded from escalating seed, spray and fuel costs. Further, many consumers have realised that not only is it great for the environment and one's bodily and energetic health but it can actually be far cheaper than buying "low cost" food from the supermarkets.

My personal experience of the global credit crunch has been that demand for my services has actually doubled over the last twelve months. I have found that, rather than people seeing energy work as a luxury service, clients and students have seen it as a vital step to bring themselves into balance, which in turn has allowed them to attract greater physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and financial abundance.

During this time of personal and planetary change, we need to avoid internal and external criticism as much as possible, refraining from blaming politicians, countries, or anyone else for our personal circumstances or the global economy. Blame is a sure method of giving our power away and places us in the victim role energetically speaking. This lowers our energies and brings us yet more experiences of lack and victimhood.

I suggest trying to find daily examples of prosperity and good fortune to buoy your faith and increase your own magnetism to abundance. We all need to feed our minds, hearts and bodies with loving energy, and give ourselves permission to see with "rose tinted" glasses.

Picking up a copy of the latest Big Issue (September 8th-14th), I felt blessed to read some fascinating stories of vendors who have used the magazine as a springboard to fulfil their potential. It filled my heart with joy and deserves a mention here.

Three years ago, Spanish born Big Issue vendor, Carlos Gonzalez was on his pitch doing his customary magazine juggling tricks when something amazing happened. A photographer for the National Geographic magazine, who he had shown his own photos to a few weeks before, gave him a professional camera.

The photographer was in his seventies and couldn't work much longer due to his Parkinson's disease, so he gave me Gonzalez one of his cameras. It was a turning point for the 33-year-old, who from that moment began to take his hobby for photography more seriously. He started going out specifically to 'hunt' for photos, discovering what subjects he preferred and developing his style.

Gonzalez's launch as a professional art photographer came about soon afterwards, when the Big Issue Foundation was the guest charity at the Affordable Art Fair. Seeing an opportunity, he asked if he could have a stand. He was told to "be realistic" and that he "probably wouldn't sell anything" but he wanted to do it anyway. Following his inner guidance he ended up selling 75 prints at £80 each!

Since then, his images have proved hugely popular, selling in their hundreds and prompting six exhibitions around the capital. Many of shots, which are never digitally retouched, show iconic sights of London but from a totally new perspective.

Focusing on stories such as these is an effective way to step out of negativity, whether internally or externally generated.

Doreen Virtue, well-known author and clairvoyant who works with the angelic, elemental, and ascended-master realms, offers us the following loving advice: "If you are around someone (including a media report) who is making negative statements about money or the economy, silently (or aloud if the person is open-minded) say: 'Cancel, Clear, Delete' or 'In spiritual truth, we are all perfectly and abundantly supported. I now open my arms to receive and share plentifully.' "

The key to mastery is detachment from the outcome, both mentally and emotionally. We are invited to bring joy into our lives and to rest our minds knowing that our finances are already divinely resolved.

Whenever we receive strong intuitive leads to do something positive, we must take action without delay, honouring our inner guidance. Important messages often come to us as an emotional or physical feeling, an idea or flash of inspiration, a vision or dream, or words that we hear.

If you are experiencing ebb, release yourself from fear and self-punishment. Use ebb periods to get clear about money in your life. Continue to see yourself as prosperous and ask yourself what advantages the situation brings. There is always a higher reason for changes in the flow. You may have more time to start doing the things you have been wanting to do: acquiring new knowledge, thinking, relaxing, exploring new avenues, going away for a few days, having some me-time. Not being busy might offer you the opportunity to look at new directions your work could take.

Ultimately there is always a way out of an ebb. The key is to recognise your ever-present abundance and allow your creativity to flow from within you out into your external world. Expect the best! The more you can appreciate the gifts you are receiving, even though the tide is out, the rapidly the tide will come back in.

Rest assured that the economic gloom will soon pass since a new wave of energy and economic prosperity is already flowing in. Be like the surfer who waits patiently and attentively in the water - ready to catch it!

The science behind sound

2008-09-05T13:57:00.012Z

According to quantum physics, everything in the universe is in a state of vibration - from the nucleus of an atom to planets spinning around suns in both our own galaxy and distant galaxies. If it is vibrating, then it is emitting a sound.

One of the basic principles of using sound as a transformative and healing modality is that every part of the body is in a state of vibration, every organ, tissue, muscle, bone, system etc. Together they make up a composite frequency, a harmonic that is unique as a fingerprint. This personal vibratory signature encircles the whole body with an electromagnetic field, which clairvoyants perceive as the human aura, and which can be recorded by means of Kirlian photography.

Each of our bodies is a finely tuned instrument, capable of instantaneously changing its frequency based on its surrounding environment. This principle is known as entrainment. We only have to compare how we feel when we are lying out on the grass in an open field with being cramped on a crowded commuter train after a long day at work to realise that we are, in fact, changing our frequency, or state, all the time. Our environment affects us to a greater or lesser degree, depending on our physical, emotional and mental makeup.

When we are in a state of wellbeing or "sound health", we can say that the body is emitting an overall harmonic of health. However, when there is a frequency in our body that is counter to our health, it creates disharmony which often results in dis-ease. Using an externally created sound, coupled with clear, focused intention, it is possible to project a "healing" sound into the body, reminding the body of its natural resonant frequency, thereby restoring the blueprint for perfect health again.

In 1787, Ernst Chladni published "Discoveries in the Theory of Sound", describing patterns seen by placing sand on metal plates which were made to vibrate by stroking the edge of the plate with a bow. This caused a particular sound frequency which was transmitted through the plate to the sand.

Inspired by systems research and the work of Ernst Chladni, Swiss scientist Hans Jenny began showing the effects of sound waves on many different types of material, including pastes, liquids, and plastics. Jenny placed these various substances on a steel plate, vibrating the plate with a crystal oscillator, and photographed the effects. He coined the term Cymatics, derived from the Greek kyma meaning "wave" and ta kymatika meaning "matters pertaining to waves".

Oscillators are devices which produce vibrations, for example an electronic massage device. If you turn it on and it will vibrate or oscillate. If you place the massager on a bone you can feel how the vibrations are amplified over your body. Touching the massager to your bone is akin to Dr. Jenny attaching his oscillator to a metal plate. The plate amplified the vibrations of the oscillator. From this, it is easy to see that our bodies are amplifiers of sound waves, or vibrational frequencies.

Dr Jenny's work demonstrates positive proof of the amazing power of sound to create form, and to change form. Water, which we all know makes up at least 80% of the human body, took on extraordinary geometric forms in Jenny's experiments.

Many who are attracted to Dr. Jenny's work are artistic and "right brain" by nature because they are inspired by the beauty of his cymatic pictures and are able to sense instantly what they mean. Yet Dr. Jenny's writings are pure science, setting forth a thorough study of vibration befitting an accomplished physicist and systems researcher.

Learning to receive: staying in the Heart

2008-08-28T18:44:00.020Z

Learning how to receive is just as important as learning how to give because the law of circulation governs all areas of our lives.

If we are good at loving others, we must also allow ourselves to be good receivers of love and let others love us. If we are good at giving our time to our loved ones, we must also become willing to let others donate their time and energy to helping us when we need it.

If we do not honour this natural cycle of give and take, we will at some point experience lack because will not have enough to give to others. The universe is made of energy, moving in waves and cycles. There is a natural rhythm to life and as you tap into that rhythm you will notice there is a natural exchange of energy between you and the outside world.

Have you ever had someone offer you a gift for some work you had voluntarily done and you found yourself saying no, even though you would have liked to receive it at the time? Perhaps you saw the other as being poor and not able to afford to give you anything.

We are here to focus our spiritual power and create Heaven on Earth. We must choose to hold the other in abundance, gratefully receiving the gifts that the universe brings us through whichever channels are right and appropriate for us.

We are constantly choosing what we wish to manifest at each moment of time and point of space, with conscious intent or unconsciously. Therefore, let us choose to accept that abundance is everywhere, even where we cannot see it.

Often when you ask for something, you will find yourself going through unexpected changes to prepare you for having what you want. Your attitude or perspective may need changing to free an energy block.

If you are asking for more money but do not value your time and energy, spending all your time giving away your services, or pursuing activities that do not bring you joy, it will be much more difficult to attract it.

We need to give thanks in advance. Gratitude is not something we have to do because our parents told you to do it. The resonance of gratitude in your body takes us out of our head and into our heart. It allows us to open to receive more, raising our consciousness and magnetising us to what you want.

When we give thanks, the Universe sets up a sound to match our Heart Song.

Mental thanks is okay but it is the emotional, heartfelt sense of gratitude which is the most important. By giving thanks, you bring light through your crown center at the top of your head, through the gateway of your heart. If we can focus our attention on what we want, and stay open in our heart to receive the essence of our request, then we will have it that much quicker.

A feeling of gratitude and inner peace provides access to our abstract mind, balancing the left and right brain, allowing us to conceptualise with frameworks of beliefs and realities that lie beyond our habitual way of thinking. The abstract mind is able to see the larger picture of our lives.

You may have noticed that highly evolved souls and great teachers spend much of their time appreciating and thanking the Universe. In their meditation they feel true humility and gratitude for everything they are given, even during their darkest moments.

Creating a gratitude journal and listing the things you appreciate each and every day is a powerful way to link to the heart and become a conscious co-creator of your world. The process of writing down ideas and speaking them puts them out into the world of form infinitely more quickly than just thinking them. The hands and throat are two powerful centres of manifestation.

Gratitude is healing to the emotions. Imagine that your body is a pool of water and that your thoughts and emotions cast ripples, much like throwing a stone into a pond. Most of us have so many ripples that we are not able to distinguish between them. In fact, some ripples cancel each other out!

A state of mental detachment and emotional surrender from the outcome allows us the inner peace to receive the essence of what we have asked for. If we are tense, nervous, or stressed, then it will take longer for the outcome to manifest. Our energy flows best when we are relaxed.

To know what we truly need and manifest the essence, it is important to be still. When we are calm and clear and use the emotion of gratitude, we are using the most magnetic part of ourselves to attract events, people and objects.

A good affirmation to say each day is "I am a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual magnet, attracting to myself all people, places, circumstances and events which bless and prosper me in all ways. I am attracting my highest good."

The challenge then is to give thanks every day, no matter what. To feel this in your heart and to express it with your words and your actions.

Creating Money Through Right Work

2008-07-09T17:20:00.029Z

I bumped into to an acquaintance the other day who had set up his own business and seemed to be doing quite well, although he seemed very tired. On enquiring about his low energy levels, he casually replied that he was "chasing the money" and that "we all have to, don't we?"

This is a false belief which is prevalent among the majority of people today, so check in with yourself to see if this represents how you feel about your life and what you have to do to provide yourself with an income. Ask yourself what ideas do you have about your world? What ideas do you have about money?

Remember that your energy and being are your gifts to the world in this lifetime. You will only become magnetic to money as you discover what you love to do and take small action steps to bring those activities into your daily life.

What makes you come alive? This vital clue will help you to manifest greater emotional and financial abundance in your life. Everything you enjoy doing - every job, hobby, or activity - involves using certain skills and abilities. What things do you enjoy doing in your job? What are your hobbies? What are you passionate about?

Asking key questions of yourself brings you closer to understanding your true purpose and how you can be magnetic to money. Constant re-evaluation of self is also vital. As Peter Goldman of the Centre for New Directions eloquantly states "we don't sign once for life!"

I happened to watch a movie trailer the other day and one line in particular encapsulated our individual and global desire to create a life that is in tune with the Infinite:

"You have a calling... You will be miserable for the rest of your life until you accept that."

If you are currently feeling stuck and disempowered, stop for a moment. Remember that at some level you have created the reality you are currently in. Your thoughts, words and actions have led you to where you are today. To change your reality, you need to change your thoughts, words and actions.

Inner change nearly always precedes outer change, else the outer change is transient and unsatisfactory. The more conscious you become of your energy, the less possible it is to sweep under the carpet those areas of your life which aren't working.

What you are doing right now has within it the seeds of your life's work. As you may have discovered, each time you get a new job you use many of the skills you have already developed. Each lays the ground for the next step. There is no such thing as a dead-end job, only a dead-end attitude. Make a decision to see the positive aspects of everything you do and search for a way to improve at least one thing that you do each day.

Life is a hologram, a projection of Infinite Mind, of which we are all a vital part. We see with our mind, not our physical eyes. To illustrate this last point, think of a time when you were looking for something and couldn't find it, only to have someone come up and say "Look, dummy. It's right in front of you!". We see parts of the tapestry of life but we cannot see all of it at the same time. This is the illusion we have created for ourselves.

It is important to see yourself as successful in the past, as well as in the present and future. Time is spherical, not linear, and by healing the past, you heal and empower your present and future. If you have experienced some "failures" there will be always be key learnings that you took from that, which can be viewed as a success.

Money is energy and responds to how you are feeling. When your physical, emotional and mental energy is clear and flowing, the more energy and time you have to give to others. Through right work, the money that you create from this clear, flowing stream is money of Light that will bring good to you and others.

As you continue along the path of joy, you become magnetic to abundance. Each time you receive money and you consciously acknowledge that incoming stream, you make it possible for you to receive more. Remember to pay all your bills lovingly to keep the flow.

If it resonates with you, try saying the following affirmation each time you have to write a cheque, or pay a bill:

"I circulate money out into the Universe for the highest good of all. I know that it will return to me multiplied."

If you feel afraid to take the first step to change your current reality, know that for every part of you that is afraid, there is a part of you that knows you can succeed. Also, remember that it takes vaster amounts of energy and time to do simple work which isn't in alignment with your highest path than it does to do complex work which matches your skills and abilities.

As you continue to seek abundance, remember that more money alone will not bring you inner joy or love. The intangible gifts are the real, eternal gifts from Spirit. Money is just a reflection of how you are feeling, your inner state.

Are you feeling joy?

Manifesting Perfect Health

2008-06-22T22:57:00.008Z

We have a tendency to be well. Each cell of the trillions of cells in our bodies knows this and diligently plays its role to help us maintain optimum health and vitality.

However, quite often throughout our lives we may find ourselves faced with health challenges, some small and some big. The key is to understand the metaphysical reason for dis-ease and realise that our bodies are the perfect feedback mechanism, mirroring to us the quality of our choices of thought, feeling, emotion, breath and nutrition.

In each moment, we must endeavour to be self-aware and ask ourselves if we are affirming the life principle or denying it. Are we struggling against life or are we honouring it? Whenever we are unwell, no matter how big or small the condition, we are invited to remember that we are being given a message.

Total acceptance of one's condition and present state allows the possibility of perfect health to manifest again because it implies a state of non-resistance. In a neutral state, we allow ourselves the possibility of focusing our vibration (thought and feeling) on the desired outcome.

Whenever we focus on the discomfort, the irritation and the pain, we are merely reinforcing the reality that already exists. Being neutral in the face of discomfort allows the possibility of a different reality to manifest in the body.

Forgiveness of oneself, others and the condition neutralises any internal resistance which is continuing to create the reality we wish to be free of. Forgiveness brings mind, heart and body into a state of equilibrium and paves the way for a new, higher vibration to manifest.

Gregg Braden, author of The God Code, and The Isaiah Effect, points out that "the diagnosis of a condition is not necessarily either incorrect or correct. In the absence of allowing for other possibilites, it is simply incomplete."

In a world of infinite possibilites, prayer is a vital way to reconnect with the Godself within each and everyone of us and restore balance to our inner and outer worlds. Jesus always recognised his relationship to his Father, All-That-Is, by saying "my father and I are one" before he performed any sort of healing. His inner knowledge allowed him to tap into the power of the Universe to create miracles.

Today, many of us have been socialised to rely purely on Western Medicine which sees the body as a complex machine, whose parts need fixing from time to time. We have allowed ourselves to become separated from the truth and because we have given our power away so often, we struggle to regain our health and self-esteem when faced with a major illness. Anxiety and worry are the norm.

We must learn to recognise the body as the vehicle for the Soul, a living consciousness. We know that we are more than just a body and prayer can establish perfect pattern of health in the body by tapping into the divine blueprint. Rather than being an outdated form of healing, prayer is both a timeless science and art form. The Essene masters invited us to focus the power of prayer's individual elements - thought, feeling and emotion, experienced as our mind, heart and body - into a single, focused outcome. Essene texts remind us that our body, heart and mind work together in much the same way as a chariot, horse and driver.

The veil between worlds is quickly disappearing. Time is appearing to speed up and the effects of our choices are being seen more and more quickly in our lives. We are a part of all that we perceive in this world, so how will we choose to define ourselves as we begin to wake up and remember who we really are? Will we make self-empowered choices that tap into our inner wisdom and abilities to heal ourselves, or will we continue to be slaves to those who would disempower us, so that they can profit from our lack of trust in Spirit?

Choose health. Choose life. Choose to reconnect with the deepest part of yourself that transcends time and space and be free from the illusion.

Quantum realities

2008-05-29T23:17:00.034Z

Which reality are you choosing right now? What are you choosing to give your focus and attention to? You are the co-creator of your destiny and this is happening every moment of every day. Your destiny is simply the manifestation of your dominant vibration. That is, what you are thinking, feeling and saying to self and others.

You have the potential to tap into greater possibilities than you are currently experiencing. Every moment of every day is filled with limitless possibilities and infinite potential, yet we often allow ourselves to see ourselves as victims and blame everyone and everything else for our feelings, thoughts and actions as well as the predicaments we find ourselves facing.

The term "alternate realities" or "quantum realities" is often used in spiritual or metaphysical circles to describe realities that are we are living in parallel to our current expression in this time-space reality. Spiritual Response Therapy has taught me that clearing past lives, "future lives", "parallel lives" and "parallel life bleed" can dramatically alter one's experience of present day reality. The clearing works but the question remains to most of us, how do we know such things really exist?

The truth of the matter is really that we are constantly shifting between these different realities all the time, even if we are not conscious of it. Each time we make a decision, or fail to make a decision, we change our quantum path.

The science of quantum physics has demonstrated that two atoms can occupy the same point of space. Such an outcome is called a Bose-Einstein condensate, honouring the authors of the equations that predict such an occurrence. Jeffery Satinover reports that Bose-Einstein conditions have occurred with "condensates of up to 16 million merged beryllium atoms" formed in the laboratory in the late 1990s.

That is an incredible message to us all. The outcome of any situation is not set in stone. Every possible outcome exists at every moment of time and space and it is our conscious or unconscious intention that affects which outcome unfolds before us.

This, of course, is good news when you want the situation to change but perhaps unsettling when you want security.

However, when you perceive that things are not going right, you can lift yourself above the illusion and claim back your power by affirming that things will go well and that a happy, satisfying ending will occur. Remember that an affirmation is not an idle wish - there must be a conscious intention to link to your higher self/mind and recognition of your relationship to the Divine.

You already have a deep connection to Source/Spirit/God just by being you. Yet, having forgotten who we are, it is necessary to remind ourselves to listen to our internal sensing mechanism, that is to say our thoughts and feelings, to determine whether we are in the flow or are feeling resistance.

If we are feeling resistance, we are putting your attention, energy and focus on the opposite of what we truly desire. So, it makes good sense to practice letting go of negative habitual thinking to affect our quantum reality.

This was brought to my attention once again the other day when my wife and I decided to take a short break away together. Her company had already paid for her flight and accommodation to go to Morocco for business reasons and she felt it would be fun to get away together. Once there, her business itinerary was brief, so most of her time would be free to spend with me. All we needed to do was book a flight for me and we could have a beautiful holiday in a place that we always wanted to visit at hardly any cost to ourselves.

However, we happened to switch realities when her company decided at the last minute that it had to send her a couple of days later than envisaged. We felt a great amount of internal resistance to their decision and quickly realised that we both needed to align ourselves with what we wanted, rather than what we didn't.

Linking in to my High Self, I allowed myself to feel the possibility of my wife saying to me "yes, we're going on holiday together and my company is paying for the change of flights and extra nights' accommodation". I visualised her happy face and really got the feeling of it - then I let go of the outcome and left the "how" up to the universe.

Sure enough, this all happened, and we felt blessed by the outcome. If we had continued to hold thoughts of frustration and disappointment, then we would have seen a different reality unfold before us.

Quantum realities can be seen like going on a train journey. Quite often the train can change tracks and you can end up in a totally different place. If you end up somewhere you like then there is no need to change anything. However, it might take another (train) journey along a different path to get you back on track and finally to the destination you wanted.

The more we can practice being aware of our own thoughts, feelings and actions, the quicker we will free ourselves from the tapes of the past that bind us and create futures that serve us, rather than realities which we feel helpless to change.

Spiritual healing for Humanity and Mother Earth

2008-05-15T15:02:00.014Z

Spiritual healing means drawing out the health that is already divinely inherent within each person and situation. Healing is blocked when we focus on a seeming problem and try to banish it because whatever we focus upon tends to increase.

Fear is misuse of creative energy. Focusing upon our problems engages our egos and lowers our emotional energies putting us into a state of fear, thereby attracting the very thing we want to avoid.

Jesus Christ showed us through his example that we heal by recognising the Divine perfection within everyone and every situation. Today, we are being called upon to rise up to present day challenges and do the same. Not only in our personal day-to-day challenges but also on a global scale.

The other day while watching the wonderful documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore, former Vice President of the USA, I was struck by his sense of urgency and purpose in bringing the very real message of global warming to the world, country by country, person by person. He reaches out to touch the hearts and minds of his viewers, very clearly explaining the causes of global warming and the highly visible, detrimental effects that it is having on our planet today. Funny and engaging, he exposes all of the myriad myths and misconceptions that surround it. (To learn more, please visit http://www.climatecrisis.net/)

The documentary is a sad reflection of humanity's greed (of those in power) and ignorance (of the general public) which has led us to where we are today. The world's scientists are in agreement that we have little time left to act together to avert a major catastrophe that could send Planet Earth, our home, into a tail-spin of destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and heat waves.

We can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue - rather, it is the biggest moral challenge facing our global civilization and we must start to see each other as a global family to have any real chance of changing the course of history.

In contrast to the dire flooding and extreme weather patterns which would cause huge displacement of peoples all over the world (it is estimated that 100 million people could be affected), Gore clearly demonstrates that humanity has the power to dramatically change carbon dioxide levels to below what they were forty years ago, if only we can wake up and each do our individual bit.

It’s vital for us to take action such as recycling, reusing, and reducing energy expenditures but we must do so from a place of love instead of from fear. We can recycle because it’s a gift that we give to Mother Earth to honor her and it is also a gift that we give to ourselves. We can switch to eco-friendly cleaning supplies because it feels healthy to be free of chemical pollutants. Whatever we visualise is what we attract and experience, so we must see ourselves living in a clean, healthy planet with food and shelter for all.

Shifting consciousness is an important aspect of changing how we interact with our world, and with each other. True change comes when there is openness, love, and a lack of boundaries between us. We must always seek to see with the eyes of love and ask how we can be of greater service to each other.

When you look at the man, woman or child on the street, how do you perceive them? Do you acknowledge their inherent divinity, or do you only see the outer shell, their personality? Do you cast your beliefs, perceptions and judgements upon them, condemning them for not being as enlightened as you or do you smile inwardly and offer them compassion and non-judgement? Let us remember that a person is not their behaviours and that we all have the capacity to change and grow.

An uplifting thought to have which often helps me to stay centered in difficult situations is "that person is doing the best they can", and maybe they are!

Last but not least, let us all remember to love ourselves for we can only do the best we can each moment of each day. Being kind and loving to ourselves will allow us to naturally extend that behaviour to others and takes us into a higher flow, blessing us with insight and guidance.

Gaia, the sentient being that is Mother Earth, is willing to help us heal if only we are willing to listen. Let us open ourselves up to the wisdom that is within and all around us and be guided by our higher natures, not our lower ones.

Working with sound for healing

2008-04-10T13:55:00.024Z

Sound is all around us but do we ever really listen?

If you are one of those people who live in a big city, then it is highly likely that you are constantly bombarded by a vast array of different sounds, some of which seem pleasant and resonate with you, many which you filter out, and yet others which may irritate you somewhat or perhaps drive you crazy. I know from my own experience that I often find the sound of piercing police sirens difficult to deal with.

Jonathan Goldman, author of "Healing Sounds" and "Shifting Frequencies", makes the point that all sounds are sacred from the higher dimensional perspective. However, it takes a sizeable shift of one's own frequency to turn the sound of a jackhammer or police siren into something palatable. Indeed, there are many beautiful sounds we can turn our attention to before we tackle the much more difficult task of listening to sounds which do not immediately resonate with us.

Hearing is a passive action whilst listening is an active one. It is through the latter that we can begin to awaken our consciousness to the melody and rhythms of life and how everything is interconnected. Listening allows the listener to move beyond the sound into the essence of creation. Rudolf Steiner knew this when he said that the Spring song of birds was the necessary element to bring the plants into bloom.

Cutting-edge Science is now beginning to validate the truth that sound creates form. Everything that has ever existed or will exist in this Cosmos is a complex web of interconectedness, woven layer upon layer, frequency upon frequency. Cymatics shows how sound creates the sacred geometric patterns on which the whole of life is built.

This is not a new truth but an old truth revisited:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
John 1:1

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."
Proverbs 18:21

"An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, But the righteous will escape from trouble."
Proverbs 12:13

Let us remember then that we are highly sensitive energy beings expressing through the physical body.

The pioneering work of Japanese Scientist Masuro Emoto has demonstrated the effect of ugly thoughts and harsh words on water crystals. He has shown time and again that the crystals form into ugly, damaged ones. We all know how it feels to receive a kind word and we know how it feels to receive a harsh word.

The words "you make me sick" produced an ugly, distorted crystal formation, whereas the words 'love and gratitude' produced the following beautiful crystal:

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." Mahatma Gandhi

Of course, we do not have to let the thoughts and words of others affect us but we do need to remember that our own thoughts are words are constantly affecting us. Sooner or later we see the effect of this in our lives.

In terms of healing it has been said many times that the human body is like an orchestra and that if we are well, everything can be said to be playing in tune. However, when we are ill, there will be parts of us that are out of tune and throwing our body system out of balance.

We can use sacred sound to bring ourselves back into balance and the easiest way is through using our own voice and clear intention. Whilst remembering the magic formula of Sound + Intention = Manifestation/Healing, we can tap into the power of sound through toning and chanting vowel sounds.

"As we change the malleable structure of the voice through sounding vowels, we vibrate different parts of the body." Susan Elizabeth Hale

"Sound is living material. Music is a ladder of precise harmonic laws co-ordinating the ascent and descent of consciousness and matter." David Hykes

You do not need to be properly trained to start this profound work. You just need practice and commitment. Sound clears the static energy of the body, moving through it to create a space for healing to take place.

We should remember that we have the underlying tendency to be well and our body has an infinite intelligence that knows how to take care of itself. The reason so many of us suffer in body and mind is because we program our minds with false beliefs and erroneous ideas which flow contrary to the life principle. Sound is a way of bringing ourselves back into alignment with the life force within.

To do the following exercise, please make sure you find a safe, quiet space where you won't be disturbed. If you feel self-conscious, then the exercise will not be effective. Do not let others' doubt or cynicism prevent you from self-discovery.

Each of our major chakras has been said to have a particular key or note. However, different theories abound as to the correct note. As we are all slightly different in our energy make-up, the best way for you to tune-up your own body is to follow your intuition when toning.

Generally speaking, you would start with the base chakra making the lowest note that you can, and then incrementally raise the pitch as you progressively move up to each succeeding chakra. To find the correct pitch, just get your mind out of the way. You cannot think which note you need since you need a right-brained, intuitive method to hit the correct note.

Jonathan Goldman recommends working with the following vowel sounds to clear and balance each of the major chakras:

Uh as in 'curd' (Base)
Ooo as in 'you' (Sacral)
Oh as in 'go' (Solar Plexus)
Ah as in 'bar' (Heart)
Eye as in 'my' (Throat)
Ay as in 'say' (Third Eye)
Eee as in 'me' (Crown)

Let the sound come from deep inside yourself but there is no need to strain your voice, so choose a level that is comfortable for you and refrain from over-extending yourself.

We need to trust and allow ourselves to be a vehicle for sound from the higher dimensions. If we trust, then the "right" note will come out. It may not sound pleasant to our ears but it will be the one that creates the shift. It is important to remember that not all sounds are melodious.

Once you are comfortable making sounds, you may also like to experiment chanting mantras (sacred, sonic formulas used in meditations) or sacred words like the Om, which has been called the sound of the universe. Om is the first sound and all sounds have their source in this seed syllable. Feel the O in the cauldron of your belly and let it rise up to the top of your head with the M. Sound the O and close the lips on M, letting the sound circulate inside your mouth.

For those of you who are Reiki attuned and know the mantras for the Reiki symbols, it is wondeful to chant the symbols out loud. This can greatly magnify the quality of the Reiki energy coming through.

Please take time to rest and integrate the totality of your experience after your session. Also, drink plenty of good quality water afterwards to ensure you are not dehydrated.

If you do not experience much during your initial attempts, keep going. The rewards will outweigh the effort.

Awakening to our true identity and place in the Universe

2008-03-31T18:15:00.027Z

This universe, as many of us are beginning to realise, is infinitely vast and complex and this life that we see is but a reflection of a much grander, vaster truth. God's infinite universe is filled with life and it is the height of egoism to think that humans are the only life form to exist or be self-aware. I have verfied the information I present to you here through working with my High Self and I believe that it is completely accurate.

Virtually every year across the world we are blessed with the formation of Crop Circles - a term used to describe complex geometric shapes, often circular, that have been "made" by the flattening of crops such as wheat, barley, rapeseed (also called "canola"), rye, corn, linseed and soy.

These astounding patterns have been largely dismissed by the media as fake but when you consider the evidence, it is obvious that these shapes could not have been created by mankind at its present level of consciousness, using its comparatively limited technology.

Wherever the crop circles are made, the stalks are gently bent horizontally, often with multi-level layering; the plants are not broken and continue to grow until harvested by the farmer. The plant and soil samples have been analysed in laboratories showing they are affected at the cellular level.

The hoaxes that were focused upon by our media actually insult the integrity of this incredibly intricate work, which is a major blessing from a highly advanced alien race called the Arcturians. My High Self assures me these patterns have been created each year across our entire planet for thousands of years - we have only just discovered them relatively recently.

The Arcturians believe that we all came from the same source and that we were all created in light. Seeing us as younger brothers and sisters, they seek to lift our consciousness and help humanity liberate itself from a course of self-destruction which is being instigated by darker forces at hand.

But much more than simply conveying a message of hope, the Arcturians are Masters of Frequency creating these powerful Sacred Geometric Shapes at key points on the World Grid to help restore balance to our sacred planet.

One aspect that unites all the crop circles across the world is that they occur in the vicinity of sites our ancestors considered sacred. Although these locations are known and watched during the summer months, no one has seen a crop circle in the process of forming. Usually there is a flash of light and the crop circle appears moments afterwards.

Our governments are very aware of the presence of extraterrestials, and their messages for humanity. So you wonder why more of this type of information doesn't come out in the press and on TV? Unfortunately, for many years, members of the dark forces have been acting insidiously; they have infiltrated key positions of wealth and power and own our networks. So, when such information has come out in the past, they have gone into action to stifle it or discredit it completely.

There was a great sense of awakening at the beginning of the 20th century and this was cut short by the short-sighted egotism of the few. We are now at that point again and it is time to open our eyes to the infinite possibilites and really demand to know what is out there.

For those of you who want to know more about Extraterrestrial Life and Sacred Geometry, I highly recommend reading "Hidden Mysteries" by Joshua David Stone and "The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life" by Drunvalo Melchizedek.

The walls that block our highest good

2008-03-06T10:15:00.009Z

As we move through our daily experience of life, sometimes we encounter people, circumstances or situations that bring us pain.

The natural reaction is to put a wall up around ourselves to protect us from further harm or hurt. When we were children these actions may have been necessary but as adults these walls that shield us from attack also serve to imprison us, breaking our lines of communication with ourselves and others, and preventing us from receiving intuitive guidance from our higher selves.

The responsibility of forgiveness and letting go rests with us. We have to learn to tear down these walls we have built around us. If you live in house surrounded by stone, how can you know what the sun feels like? Perhaps at first we need a window or doorway that will allow a little light in?

The way to do this is through the heart. This organ actually has an intelligence of its own far, far beyond what our mainstream scientists recognise who merely see it as a passive organ, a slave to the brain. However, those on the cutting edge of science are recognising what we light workers have known for ages past - that the human heart has its own intelligence which links us to the cosmos and all of life.

"Love is more than an emotion, it is the beam of energy that guides us Home into the arms of Infinity. And compassion is the nest that protects us from the unknown and our fears. The Sacred Space in each of our Hearts is the key, my friends. There, beyond the mind and its insistent thoughts that never tire, is a pool of calm clear water that is older than the most distant star." Drunvalo Melchizedek.

For those of you who are guided to, please read "Living in the Heart" by Drunvalo Melchizedek which is cutting-edge material on this most profound subject.

Notice that when you are feeling good, you feel light and you can probably sense that your heart feels open. However, when something happens that causes you pain, notice the tendency to move out of the heart down towards the area around your belly button. This area is where the seat of individuality and ego lies.

The key to breaking down these walls it to try to remain in the heart whenever something is going wrong. If you allow your attention and consciousness to move into ego, then it is likely that you will want to cause harm or hurt back, and that you will build a protective wall around yourself.

Whenever something causes you pain or tension, breathe deeply and let go. This is the first step since much of our tension can be released through the conscious act of breathing. Usually breathing is an automatic habit but it can be controlled through intention and will power.

Secondly, try to see the situation with the eyes of love and not hurt. Why is the other person acting that way? A loving word will often diffuse the situation quickly whereas a spiteful word will add fuel to the fire.

Thirdly, bless and forgive the situation. Ask yourself what life is trying to teach you. If you can quickly move to discovery of the "lesson", it is more likely that you will move beyond your own limiting response.

Fourthly, notice if you have constructed any walls to protect yourself and mentally affirm that you are loving and open. Say a prayer to connect you to your Mighty I Am Presence and ask your Higher Self to remove these walls and align you with your highest truth, letting the love and wisdom flow down from above.

There is great strength in being open and vulnerable. Society has taught us to be closed, which is causing us separation from God and those around us.

However, please be aware that being "open" does not mean that you should offload your emotions onto everyone around you. Being open means being aware of your thoughts and feelings and sharing them at appropriate times.

Being open means that you can let go of negativity so much more quickly than if you are closed. The river that has a dam around it has no outlet and the water level rises. If you consider that the human body is made up of 70-80% water and that water is responsible for carrying our emotions, we can quickly see that our negative emotions get trapped by our walls (dams) and become more intense (raise their levels).

Best to remove the dam and let the water circulate - let your emotions move through you and learn to let go of negative ones quickly.

When conversations don't go right

2008-02-18T16:20:00.001Z

When someone says something you don't like, that challenges your perception of how life is, or challenges how you see yourself, it is your choice how you respond to that. You have a choice as to whether you take it personally.

If you react in a negative, unconstructive way, take some time out to reflect on what happened leading up to that moment. How were you feeling at the time when they said it? That is to say, what particular "state" were you in? Did you focus on what you heard (did you turn up the volume?) or what you saw? Did you blow things out of proportion (make a mountain out of a molehill)? Did they give you a particular look that really pushed your ego button?

The key is to learn from each situation and grow. You can then be prepared should a similar situation occur in the future. You should not expect difficulties to present themselves but you should be as prepared as you can be to meet them. Prepare for everything, yet expect nothing.

Keep an open mind and new solutions will present themselves to you. You can choose to respond a different way. Be aware of your own internal tension and take deep breaths to release it. Tap into source (see previous post on Short meditation for connecting to Spirit) and respond from a centred space. Socrates, the great ancient Philosopher, took time to go into a meditative state before meetings.

Try asking questions to find out why the other person said certain things or acted a certain way. If you allow them to respond in their own time, in their own way, then "in-sight" will come your way. Insight is literally to see inside, to understand the deeper reasons.

You might try asking open-ended questions such as "why do you believe...?" or "what makes you say...?" or "where did you learn that...?"

It is important to ask with the intention of discovering more about the other person, so that you can better understand them. Quite often the reason we fall into arguments is because we have one way of looking at the world and the other person has their own unique way. Therefore, you need to learn to be fluid and shift your frequency so that you can see with their eyes.

Note that if your intention is to manipulate the other into your way of thinking or behaving, however, then the outcome of the conversation is likely to be a negative one. If your intention is pure and you seek to enter a neutral space whilst putting aside your agenda, you allow yourself the possibility of transcending your own limitations.

If the other person is limiting the way they interpret life, your intention and neutral space will allow them to question their internal beliefs and perceptions. The likely result will be that they will see and understand your side of the coin, if only because you have endeavoured to see and understand theirs. The law of reciprocity then takes effect and produces a helpful, angst-free outcome for both parties.

Make your conversations fun. You don't have to agree to get on, so detach from your need to be right!

Using dreams to access higher consciousness

2008-02-01T15:08:00.002Z

Do you dream at night?

Most of us dream but we have not been taught how to tap into our higher mind to harness the information that is revealed to us during sleep. You can awaken to the power of dreaming to facilitate healing and wellbeing. Dreams are one of the most valuable ways to get in touch with higher realms of consciousness and to develop a greater sense of Self.

Ancient Egyptians believed that in the dream state, transformation took place. Today, Native Americans today still use dreaming as an important way to keep in touch with the spiritual world and the Aboriginals in Australia believe that dreaming helps us recognise that we are part of a greater coherent whole - they call it the realm of the Great Spirit. These ancient cultures, and more modern ones, believe that dreams are an extension of our waking life and not to be ignored.

Through paying attention to their dreams, people have received insight and guidance in all matters of their worldly affairs. You can develop the skill of using dreamtime with intention to accomplish specific things you want to manifest in your life.

Being aware of your dreams will help you tap into your unconscious mind and reveal the deepest parts of yourself. Learning to develop your own interpretation is a key part to self-discovery and learning about your unique energy makeup.

Trusting your own insight and developing your own evaluation of what your dreams mean in your life is very important since the deeper aspects of your psyche communicates with images, scenes and symbols. These will have different meanings for you than they will for someone else because you have a unique reality that no one else shares.

As you approach sleep time, write down an intention for healing or something that you need guidance on, whether it be for getting over a cold or flu, guidance for a new job or help in a present job, help in a relationship, or finding a new relationship, removing blocks to create an opportunity, guidance to earn more money - the list is endless!

Quietly affirm as you drift off to sleep that you will recall important scenes upon awakening. It would be most useful to keep a diary next to your bed, so you can jot down the scenarios that have been presented to you as you sleep.

When you first wake up, practice remaining quiet for a few moments before going on auto-pilot and hopping out of bed. These first few moments are a very powerful time to consciously recall first thoughts, important feelings and dream memories. Jotting these thoughts and feelings down in your journal can be very valuable, even if you think they're insignificant.

When dreaming, observe the location and whether it seems familiar to you or not, and try to get a sense of where you are in the dream. Being aware of your environment will help when you analyse your dream. Does anything in the dream remind you of your waking life? Sense if you're inside, outside, what time of day or night is it and what the weather is like. Notice if you see any colours or objects. Anything that might seem out of place or out of proportion can hold special meaning as if the dream is showing you where its main message will be found.

If you have been suffering from ill health or have other troublesome disturbances, disharmonies or diseases in your life, you can ask to be given or shown a special symbol or object in your dreams that you could use to help facilitate healing for yourself.

Practice setting the right kind of intentions for manifesting health and healing in your body by thinking specific thoughts about the area to be healed. Replace any negative, self-limiting beliefs with a powerful flow of positive healing thoughts, images and feelings. You must trust that you will be healed, not idly wish for healing. Purposeful thought ensures that your subconscious will work on the problem during your dreamtime.

Pay attention during the day to any synchronistic events which may give you further guidance. You might be in a conversation with someone or have something drawn to your attention that may be important. Synchronicity happens all the time and takes on many forms - life can be full of wonderful surprises when we are open to the possibility of support from the universe.

Remember that your journal is for your eyes only.

Manifesting your dreams

2008-01-07T11:41:00.001Z

2008 is a “1” year numerologically speaking, which means it is a good year for confident, creative new beginnings.

Adding all of the digits together, 2+0+0+8, we receive the sum of 10. Add these two digits together 1+0, and you have a 1. The number 1 means that our thoughts are instantly manifesting into form, so the key to enjoying a blissful 2008 is to keep your thoughts focused on love and everything that affirms the highest and best within you.

In order to take advantage of the high spiritual energy that is creating massive change across our planet, it is important to be aware of the different levels of our being that we use to co-create our reality.

Firstly, we have the action plane, the physical. This is the one most of us are familiar with - i.e. what are we doing to achieve our goals? However, it is not the only one and if we are constantly “doing” things without being aware of the other levels of our being, then we might just be missing the mark.

Let us start then with the mental plane and come back to the physical later.

The mental plane is where our thoughts reside. As mentioned in a previous blog “Thought forms” (April 08, 2007), whenever we think about something, we immediately form a mental image of it called a 'thought form'.

It may surprise you to learn that thoughts have shape, size, weight and even texture. If we have the same thought over and over again, it gains strength and may actually appear in our reality in some way. This process of thinking about something and then seeing it in our lives is called manifestation.

Our consciousness, or mind, then is responsible for producing the results we experience which we label as either good or bad. If we are fearful in some way, the energy tends to produce a negative outcome and if we are harmonious and loving, the energy we carry tends to produce a positive one.

Today, in our society, the most common ill is that our minds are constantly cluttered with all kinds of random thoughts which aren’t in alignment with our true purpose. If our thoughts are all over the place, then perhaps our lives are mirrors for our vacillating thoughts? As well as focusing on love, having steady thoughts is essential for conscious manifestation.

It is also important to be aware of our emotions. How do we feel at any given time and point of space? Usually, we move through the day entering various different states – happy, sad, joyful, disappointed, irritated, relaxed, nervous, to name just a few.

If we are thinking about something, we will usually have a conditioned, emotional response to it. As we become more aware of ourselves, we can learn to undo past conditioned patterns and stop generating negative emotions when we start to think negatively. It is the energy behind any thought which gives it strength and power.

Spiritually, we must be aligned with our purpose. It is important to realise that certain wants, needs and desires have been programmed into our subconscious but they may not bring us the inner joy, wisdom and peace of mind that we crave. If things are not working in your life, if you are hitting blocks and feeling down, you need to take time to just be. Relax, go for a walk in the local park and commune with nature, visit a place of worship and let you body and mind be filled with thoughts and sounds of a higher vibration.

Take the time to connect to your Higher Self/Higher Aspects of Consciousness. Please read "Short meditation for connecting to Spirit", published 07 June 2008. Once you feel connected, ask for guidance on moving forward. You may ask for advice on any subject. Once you have asked, let it go "knowing" that you will receive an answer. Ask that the answer be delivered clearly to you.

Lastly, is the physical aspect of manifestation. What are we doing to bring our dreams and goals into reality? What are the key steps we need to take?

It is important to listen and act quickly on inner guidance. At first, you may doubt yourself, but with practice you will develop your ability to sense what is right for you and what is not. Similarly, it is also important to analyse your results and do this with detachment and discernment.

We can now see that just “doing” without being aware of our thoughts and emotions, or the deep feelings we have about ourselves and situation we are involved in, is akin to walking in the dark. To really see, we must endeavour to bring our physical actions and our thoughts, feelings and emotions into one coherent, harmonious whole.

A good affirmation to say upon waking up is “I am a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual magnet attracting to myself all people, places, circumstances and events that bless and prosper me in all ways.”

I would also like to leave you with a powerful prayer from Doreen Virtue: “I ask that you open my heart to Divine Love, and help me to feel safe, protected, and energized. Please help me to adjust my life so that it is in alignment with my truth and integrity. Help me to release any emotional energy drains, now and completely. Help me to release any old anger, unforgiveness, resentment, or other emotional toxins, now and forever. Help me to have the courage to be my true self in all ways. Thank you, Amen.”

Peace and letting go

2007-12-12T15:31:00.000Z

What is the ENERGY of PEACE?

Peace is more than just a word. It is a state of being that goes beyond the mind and transcends the experiences of daily life.

It is a commonly held belief that to feel at peace, everything must be going smoothly in one's life. That the trains and buses must always run on time, that one's bank account must always be filled with copious amounts of money, that one's body must be perfectly healthy without pain or discomfort, or that there mustn't be any disagreements or differences of opinion with one's partner, friends or parents etc.

This is negative ego consciousness. Ego cannot see beyond its own shadow and it believes that Maya or Illusion is real.

You have the power to invite peace into your lives now through acceptance. Despite the turmoil that surrounds you, you can practice letting go. Why are you holding on to the harsher life lessons when you can choose to accept life's circumstances as they are, right now?

Total acceptance will lead to a deep release of any tension that you are holding in either your body or mind.

If things are not as you would like them to be, acceptance is not equal to defeat. Acceptance doesn't mean that you can't do the inner and outer work to change the current order of your life. Acceptance frees your mind, so that you may see clearly and change your attention, energy and focus.

Your present thoughts, words and actions have brought you to where you are now. Your point of power is in the present moment and you need to change your thoughts, words and actions to re-create your future. The past and future are illusions of the mind. Valid reference points, but nothing more. You cannot exist in the past, nor can you exist in the future. You only exist NOW.

You can only feel the power of the pre-sent moment by letting go of all past hurts and bitterness and future worries and by bringing your attention fully into the NOW time.

Allow yourself to be fully present in your body. Keep your focus on the EN-ER-GY of peace and letting go. Breathe deeply from the abdomen, focusing on the navel and follow the breath in and out of the body. Become aware of any tension in your body or any dark, cold places in your mind and send it the quality of love. What is it like when you receive love? What is it like to give love?

Imagine, right now, a bubble of blue that surrounds your physical body. Imagine that colour to be sky blue, blue like the sky without any clouds. Feel that bubble surrounding you. How does that FEEL? Does it have a particular texture? Keep breathing and letting go... You may choose to say an affirmation to keep your mind steady in the light. Something like, "I now choose to forgive myself and every person and situation that has caused me harm."

It takes a little practice, so don't give up if your mind goes back to its usual, incessant chatter.

When we can all find inner peace, the world will change. The world longs for peace and it can only be found as each individual recognises that quality of peace within himself or herself. You cannot change the actions of another but you can change how you feel about any person, place or thing.

Find peace in your Sacred Heart, for there it exists. It has always existed there.

May peace be with you, always.

Key steps to look after your body

2007-11-11T18:13:00.000Z

The body is a temple for our soul, our living essence. As such, it is to be honoured and respected and serve as a vehicle for our highest expression. The body is not the whole picture but we cannot build a life that serves us if our bodies are not functioning at their optimum level.

The basic components to look after the physical part of our being are:

correct breathing and posture,
adequate rest and relaxation
healthy intake of food and water

Let us examine each of these principles in more depth, starting with the first - correct breathing and posture.

In this modern day world, many of us have developed incorrect habits regarding our breathing and posture, and yet breath is fundamental to life. Indeed, we have whole systems devoted to this aspect of our wellbeing, Hatha yoga being the most widely known in the West today. Hatha yoga is one branch of Yoga that is also a complete system in itself, dealing with care of the physical body in order to allow the higher mind functions to develop.

The importance of breathing cannot be underestimated. If we stopped eating, we would only survive a few weeks at most; without drinking water, a few days. If we stopped breathing, however, we would only survive a few seconds.

Firstly, it is important to breathe through the nose. The nasal passage has filters which filter out harmful bacteria in the air, and they also warm the air so that it can enter the bloodstream at the correct temperature. We do not eat through our nose and so, we should not inhale through our mouth. Just this practice of being conscious and breathing through the nose will strengthen the body's immune system and its capacity to fight against colds, flu and the like. If we choose to breathe through our mouth, then cold, unfiltered air enters our system and may cause us to be more susceptible to disease.

We should also breathe from the belly, which can be termed "low breathing". A lot of us are prone to mid and high breathing, with our shoulders drooping and chest in a concave position. Often we breathe from the center of our chest or, even worse, the upper part. This is not efficient for the lungs as it has to work three or four times as hard to get the required amount of oxygen and prana (chi) into the bloodstream.

If you can imagine that your lungs are like a pair of balloons, that will help you imagine how to breathe. When you blow up a balloon, the air enters the bottom of the balloon and then rises to the top. Likewise when you breathe, air should enter the lower abdomen and then rise to the middle and higher part of the chest. Daily practice should help correct any bad habits.

Posture is vital too. If we can keep our shoulders back and keep our chest sticking out, then we have a greater chance of maintaining correct breathing habits. Moment to moment vigilance is required and it takes practice. However, the benefits far outweigh the price.

It would be good to imagine a hook at the back of the crown pulling your head up; it should be a gentle, relaxed pulling which will help you to keep yourself correctly aligned.

The next principle we shall briefly examine is rest.

Rest and relaxation are essential for both our minds and bodies. Have you ever tried to do anything after having a bad night's sleep? Have you felt moody or irritated, argumentative with virtually everyone who crosses your path, lacking the inner strength and desire to accomplish minor tasks? We each sleep approximately eight hours every day, which equates to one third of our lives. This is a key insight! Nature has designed us this way so that we may recuperate and regenerate.

The infinite intelligence that created us is perfectly capable of restoring us to full and glowing health but we must allow ourselves that possibility by ensuring that we get enough sleep. Whilst we are asleep, the powerhouse that we know as the subconscious mind orchestrates an intricate dance between the trillions of cells in the body and will faithfully restore us to radiant health, if we will allow it.

The reason we do not always return to radiant health immediately is because the subconsious mind is a faithful servant and will always obey the commands of our conscious minds. A lot of us unconsciously give our subconscious minds commands that adversely affect our health. We should, however, not beat ourselves up because of this but rather realise it is a process of awakening.

We move through each and every day passing through a variety of 'states' - happy, sad, moody, joyful, etc. The key is to know when we are tense, irritable, moody or any other disempowering state and let it go. Learning how to let go of the past, how to let go of worry and get in touch with the peaceful, all-knowing, wise part of yourself is a critical step in acheiving a healthy body and life.

Finally, we will merely touch upon the last principle of nourishing our bodies through food and drink.

Quite often when we eat food that is not particularly healthy (crisps, chocolate, sweets etc.) it is mainly because we are not listening to our bodies. We are listening to our minds - to the programmes running there which have come from clever advertising, or because our mental and emotional bodies are out of balance and we need a quick fix. If we always need to eat sugary foods, it might be apt to ask ourselves, why does life not taste so sweet to us? What "hole" or "gap" are we trying to fill?

Generally, we should try to eat lots of high water-content food. That is, lots of fruit and vegetables. It is not really advisable to drink excess amounts of water (the usual saying touted about is to drink "2 litres" a day) because it passes straight out of body. It makes no sense to drown our systems in water.

The best way to drink water is to sense when your body is giving you signals to drink water or eat more fruit and vegetables. The mouth will often feel dry or parched, yet we have become so accustomed to ignoring or misinterpreting that signal that we fail to act in timely manner. In a lot of cases, we confuse thirst with hunger and actually eat more than we need to.

A good tip I learnt the other day was to eat fruit separately from your meals. Apparently, fruit goes straight into the small intestine and the fructose is immediately converted into glucose for the brain and nervous system. You should allow approximately 15 minutes before consuming other foods, so that you do not feel bloated.

You can also try to eat meat/fish and vegetables together, and starchy carbohydrates (pasta, potatoes etc) separately from meat and fish. This comes from the principle of food combining and allows the body to process energy from food in a far more efficient and beneficial manner. Try it and see if this is your truth.

There are endless books and conflicting pieces of advice. As such, it is vitally important to begin to listen to your body again and honour your intution. "In"-tuition means to be taught from within. It is a gut feeling and a sense of knowing that cannot be shaken. Too often today we give our power away, so stop and listen to your body!

Do not blindly follow advice. Listen, try something new out, see what works for you.

Disclaimer: The information in this article constitutes neither medical nor nutritional advice. Please consult your doctor or nutritionist if you are at all unsure about what you may or may not eat.

Letting go of judgement

2007-08-23T09:40:00.000Z

If you find yourself feeling particularly hostile towards another, it is a good idea to remind yourself that ugly thoughts create ugly situations and beautiful thoughts create empowering and loving situations. What are you choosing to create, right now?

We cannot change the outer circumstance without doing the inner work first. It is even more important to heal the relationships with those we are closest to. Quite often we run away from these challenges or put up a "brick wall" with the justified response "well, it's their problem, and if they can't change, then I certainly won't". This is negative ego speaking and it is important to recognise it, laugh, and forgive yourself and them.

Catch your thoughts. It is quite often because we wish to convince the other that we are right, that we get dragged into negative ego consciousness and the illusion of separation... we're right and they're wrong!

If someone you love and care about is looking at you with yesterday's eyes, judging you for a actual or supposed wrong committed in the past, you do not have to react with anger and judgement about how they are seeing you. Whilst they may be wrong, they are not responsible for how you think and feel about them. Only you are responsible for how you think and feel.

In the bible, Matt 18:21, Peter says to Jesus "Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?" and Jesus replied "I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven." (Matt 18:22). Forgiveness, letting go, and moving on is key.

It is difficult sometimes because we all want our friends, family, colleagues and even strangers, to love us and we can easily get caught up in their perceptions. The best remedy is to say "I forgive you" and to remain detached. Perhaps, if you can remain detached, they will begin to see you differently but they may not and this is where the challenge lies.

You may ask what is the quickest way to reach forgiveness and move on? Send love!

You may ask how can you send love when they have hurt you, but if you do not, then you have fallen into Maya (i.e. Illusion) and are forgetting that they are really a part of you.

If a part of your body is hurting, you do not disconnect yourself from it. You want to know what's wrong, you want to heal it. You cannot do this by pretending that the hurting part is separate from you, that it is not really you. So, if you send love to them, you send love to yourself. The question to ask in every single life situation is "what would LOVE do now?"

We all have chances to re-create ourselves anew in the present moment. We do not have to repeat destructive patterns and it is only through loving action that we can create the life experience that we want. Remember that the only true belongings you have are your thoughts, words and actions. I invite you to consider, what are you thinking, right now? What are you saying, right now? What are you doing, right now?

Short meditation for connecting to Spirit

2007-06-07T12:57:00.000Z

Cultivate the daily habit of connecting to Spirit/Source/Higher Consciousness. Recently, whilst attending a spiritual healing course I was reminded of the importance of this. Here are a few key steps to help you, which I suggest you do first thing in the morning and during the day, whenever you feel off centre.

Close your eyes and breathe deeply from your belly, focusing on your navel. Sitting within the golden area of the body, two inches above your navel and a little way inside, is your Incarnational star which determines your incarnation into the physical plane. It is at the point of the first cell. Within that first cell is all of the potential we have as a divine being.
As you breathe out, let go of the past and let go of the future, bringing your attention fully into the present moment.
Make sure your feet are firmly placed flat on the floor which will help you ground the spiritual energies you are connecting with.
Imagine that the sun is shining on the top of your crown and feel this warmth. Know that this is Spirit.
Draw the warmth of Spirit down through your body to your navel, then to your hips, legs and all the way down to your feet. Bring in energy and information in the form of light from the Soul star, which is above your crown chakra, down towards the Incarnational star and the Sacred Heart. Allow the warmth of Spirit to flow down to Mother Earth, to her molten core.
Now draw the energy up from Mother Earth (Gaia) through the Earth Star, which is underneath the soles of your feet.
Feel for a two-way energy flow. Remember to keep your feet flat and keep yourself grounded. Part of the unfolding and growth of your soul essence is reliant upon consciousness moving towards the Earth star. It is not possible to open the Sacred Heart unless one is grounded. If the Sacred Heart opens, you come into synchronicity with the earth.
Say a simple prayer of your choice. For example, “My father and I are one” or “Spirit and I are one. It is the only presence, power and consciousness. Nothing else can interfere now or ever.”
As you continue to breathe deeply, feel the connection and remember this feeling as you bring your attention back to the outside world. Open your eyes, smile and give thanks. God is peace, God is everywhere, therefore peace is everywhere in truth.
Finally, put a shield of protection around you. The easiest way is to visualise a bubble of golden white light around you and then fill it with images that make you feel good. This can be as simple as imagining lots of beautiful stars. If you cannot easily see a circle or sphere in your mind, then try to get the feeling of having one around you. The main thing is to make it as real as possible.

As you continue to practice this short meditation, you will be able to close your eyes at any point during the day and take a couple of deep breaths and re-connect. It really is that simple.

Be aware, this is a powerful meditation and will accelerate your own healing.

Om tat sat.

Committing to self-mastery

2007-05-14T14:18:00.000Z

The first step to self-mastery is to constantly remind yourself that you are the cause of your present reality. The second important step is to commit to taking positive daily action to change any aspect of your reality that is not meeting your needs. Remember that it is your Divine Right as a localised expression of the creative principle to experience joy, peace and harmony every day.

You are a droplet of water in the vast ocean of consciousness. There is no difference in the quality of power that you can call into your life, only the degree. Waking up and bumbling along in life is not going to serve your long-term goals. It takes committed, dedicated action, along with a sense of humour.

The first thing to realise (and constantly remind yourself of) is that you cannot attract into your life that which you desire if your vibration does not match it. If your dial is set to 100FM, you will not receive the broadcast from 106FM. The inner work must be done first to achieve your desired frequency.

Prayer is a most effective tool for attracting what you want but you need to learn how to pray first. Asking in an insipid way is not going to cut the mustard because the universe does not respond to this way of being. If you say to a dog, "please sit down", it would most likely ignore you and continue to frolic around. If, other the other hand, you say "SIT DOWN" with complete authority in your voice, then it will obey you.

The same is true of the universe. If you ask, believing that you will receive or, better still, that you have already received it, then it will manifest in your life. The key is keep your mind ‘steady in the light’ and not to self-sabotage. We live in a dimension where time and space exists, so it is important to maintain a positive attitude that your desire will manifest at the right and perfect time.

The second thing to bear in mind is that you must celebrate any match that demonstrates that the universe is listening to you. If you want money and you affirm “Abundance is a feeling and I love the feeling of abundance all around me, therefore greater and greater prosperity is coming to me now”, and you find a penny on the ground, celebrate your good fortune! It is your chance to affirm that your receiving channels are open. If you choose to deny the match, and curse your “bad luck” that you have only received a penny, then you will be saying to the universe that you do not believe in yourself, in your prayer, and ultimately the power of the universe to deliver wealth to you in perfect timing.

If, when saying your affirmation, you feel any negative thought arise from your subconscious, demand that it leave your consciousness immediately. Reject it and replace it with a life affirming thought. It is crucial to weed out negativity from your subconscious and you can do this through the practice of asserting your personal power over it.

Through prayer you are speaking to God. You are part of God and vice versa, so how can God not hear you? Do you honestly think that a force which is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient cannot hear your requests? If you replace the word God with the word Life you will form a more accurate picture of "who" God is.

Through meditation you are listening to God. Instead of letting your mind run amok, still your mind and allow your intuition to guide you. The best way is to put your hand on your heart and wait. The language of the soul will speak to you through your deepest feelings and thoughts. You may also see images and/or hear voices or other sounds. If your mind is noisy at first, be an observer of the clutter that is within and let it go. Watch it as you would watch a film at the cinema where you see the scene once - you don't replay it over and over again.

The daily practice of prayer and meditation is the way to bring yourself into alignment with your Higher Self and God.

If you do everything “right” and you do not receive the expected answer to your prayer, then perhaps what you desire is not right for you. When making demands of the universe, you can say “God, this or something better” or words to this effect. Be open and listen to any inner guidance.

Have preferences but let go of your attachments. If you desperately desire something in order to be happy, the universe may not give it to you because it is a life lesson to be even minded and joyful no matter what the exterior circumstance is. This is a tough one but we are constantly given opportunities to practice detachment.

Thought forms

2007-04-08T22:42:00.000Z

Whenever we think about something, we immediately form a mental image of it called a 'thought form'. If we have the same thought over and over again, it gains strength and may actually appear in our reality in some way. This process of thinking about something and then seeing it in our lives is called manifestation.

Our consciousness, or mind, then is responsible for producing the results we experience which we label as either good or bad. If we are fearful in some way, the energy tends to produce a negative outcome and if we are harmonious and loving, the energy we carry tends to produce a positive one.

For example, if a man is constantly jealous of his wife and fears that she will cheat on him and nutures that fear every day, week after week, eventually through the law of vibration a sequence of events will occur that will cause his wife to find another partner and leave him.

If we are constantly anxious and fearful in our heart about what may happen, then uneasiness pervades our consciousness and it works to create that which is bothering us.

If a man is looking for employment and strongly believes he is worthy of a suitable position for his skills within a good company and confidently plays the imagery of finding the perfect job in his mind, he will eventually be guided to such a position.

If we are quietly confident and grateful in our heart about the hidden potentialities of the future, then peace and power permeates our consciousness and it works to create the perfect outcome to match our vibration.

Thought forms can become very powerful but once a firm decision is made by the conscious mind not to entertain future similar, disruptive thoughts then the thought form rapidly loses its vitality and strength. Just as a flower or leaf withers and dies when it is cut from a plant or tree, a negative thought form dies when it is no longer nourished by additional negative energy, which stems from fear-based thinking.

With regard to sending out negative thoughts to another person, this is rather like writing an email using a mail client where the email is automatically stored in your sent items. The person sends the email but a digital copy is stored on their hard disk. Fortunately, the intended receiver of your email does not have to download the email to their inbox and can bounce the email back to the sender.

The cumulative effects of practising mind control are enormous and the daily practice of being self-aware makes holding positive thoughts easier. Meditation, prayer and writing in a journal are effective tools to help us observe any discordant mental thought patterns and change our negative behaviours into positive, harmonious ones.

A brief introduction to Reiki

2007-03-02T22:42:00.000Z

Reiki is a powerful, non-invasive system of healing which was discovered in 1914 by Mikao Usui on the holy mountain of Kurama in Kyoto, Japan.

Usui Reiki, commonly referred to as Reiki, is spiritually guided life force energy which is channelled by the practitioner from their High Self. Reiki energy usually enters through the practitioner’s crown chakra and passes through the upper chakras to their heart and solar plexus chakras and is then passed through the arms and hands to the recipient.

Reiki releases energy blockages at their root and allows healing and integration on all levels from the physical body, through the mental and emotional bodies to the spiritual body. It can help the body recognise and release old patterns and habits at a cellular level.

Usui Reiki, and Karuna Reiki ® in particular, which evolved out of the original Usui system, both allow these unhealthy patterns, known as somatic memories, to be released and replaced with new healthy ones.

Reiki treats the whole person and creates many beneficial effects including relaxation and feelings of peace, security and well-being. Many have reported miraculous results from receiving the loving energy that is Reiki. Occasionally people might not seem to feel much at all but Reiki is working nonetheless and positive results occur.

It may, however, take several sessions to obtain lasting relief from symptoms, especially if there is a long-standing disease or imbalance. Many changes may have to take place before the root cause is reached and the symptoms completely disappear. Reiki does not suppress symptoms the way many drugs do, so it can seem slower.

It is also important to remember that although Reiki facilitates healing, it does not do the healing. Ultimately, the Reiki energy assists by giving information to the body’s systems and allows healing to take place from within the person. As the adage goes, “The doctor dresses the wound, and God heals it.” The same is true for Reiki.

All healing comes about through self-love

2006-11-10T13:33:00.000Z

We need to love every part of ourselves unconditionally first before others will love us the way we wish them to.

All of us encounter minor or major challenges as we move through life but quite often the negative, discordant energy we create during these times gets trapped in our emotional and mental bodies. The experiences teach us what we need to learn and grow but we need to release any guilt, resentment or general negativity about these challenges to be free and happy now.

The point of power is in the present moment. All great spiritual texts speak of living and being in the present moment. Quite often we are trapped in the prisons of our minds, stuck in the past or the future… fear of the present leads to thinking constantly about the future, a time when everything will be alright.

We cannot change what has happened to us in the past but we can change how we feel about it in the present moment. If something has upset you in the past, don’t give it a second thought. Quite literally, don’t give it another thought. You will move from being stuck in the past to the present moment and you will start to be free.

If you are going through a tough time, do your best accept the challenges that life has brought your way. This will allow you to move through them with the minimum amount of suffering. Resistance merely causes tension in your body and mind and prolongs the challenge by offering negative energy to fuel it.

Yesterday’s thoughts have created today’s reality and today’s repetitive thoughts are creating your future. The mind is a tool, so learn to use it wisely. Fill it with valuable information that can serve you. Seek out good books and have quality conversations that empower you. What are you choosing to fill your mind with?

The stronger the thought, the more impact it will have on shaping your reality. Can we measure a thought? Is there an instrument that will tell us how strong a thought is? In today’s world, science cannot provide us with one but you already have an inbuilt system which allows you to know this.

An emotion represents energy (e) moving (motion) through us. It is the emotion you feel when thinking a particular thought that determines how strong it is.

Love and joy are high vibrations which create powerful, helpful thoughts. Likewise, hatred, despair or anger are low vibrations which create powerful, destructive thoughts.

Do not worry if you feel anger or despair though. Simply recognise it and let it go. The more you practice, the easier it will become.

Reclaim your power, tame the wild beast that is your mind, and enjoy the blessings that life has to offer you, in the here and now.

Seeing beyond the illusion

2006-08-04T13:28:00.000Z

If life is “maya” (illusion), and we can choose how we experience the illusion, then why do we so often choose to let worry sabotage our dreams and true desires?

Much of the answer is due to past and present programming, especially social and cultural. The other is due to the observation cycle and the law of attraction. Remember that the law of attraction gives you more of what you give your attention, energy and focus to, whether wanted or unwanted.

Have you ever noticed that when an important part of your life (health, love, job etc) is going really well, the knock-on effect it has on all the other areas? Equally, have you noticed that when an important aspect of your life is going badly, it has the capacity to create havoc in other areas also?

Can we break the observation cycle when things are seemingly going wrong and causing all areas of our lives to feel unstable? The answer is definitely yes! The key is to realise that life is an illusion, a contextual field which allows us to give birth to new desires and the subsequent manifestations of those desires. We merely need to choose to "see" the opposite of what we are experiencing, should our present reality be far removed from our desires.

This is not self-denial. Rather, this is about raising your vision and allowing yourself to see clearly despite the darkness.

In the film “What the bleep do we know”, it showed quantum scientists conducting an experiment where they asked their subjects to look at a certain object, then to close their eyes are visualise the same object. In both instances, exactly the same parts of the brain lit up. There was no difference!

So, if you imagine your reality as you would like it to be, your mind cannot tell the difference!! The more real you can make your experience in your mind, the quicker it will manifest.

Allow yourself to feel the experience, really FEEL it. The touchstone of all of life is how you feel at any given moment in time. Your feelings determine your vibrational set point and what you are attracting into your life. If you can synchronise your body and mind, the result will be a rapid manifestation of your desires.

Remember that you deserve to live an abundant life. The universe does not recognise or acknowledge lack, unless you do! The law of life is the law of abundance! Therefore, if you are receiving additional sums of money or financial reward, remember that you are not depriving anyone else of their share. Don’t buy into scarcity thinking!

Be confident about what you want to achieve. Try to get a sense of how it would feel to live your dream and fulfil your deepest needs and desires. Value yourself and what you have to offer to society.

Once you start to use creative visualisation as part of your every day life, you will get inner prompts to take action. Follow this guidance and you can also seek the advice of wise friends and people who have walked the path you wish to take.

Make a decision to commit to your dream and choose a different reality! Not making a decision is like making a decision for everything to remain the same.

Our relationships to everyone and everything

2006-07-19T13:17:00.000Z

When we think of relationships we usually think of our relationships to other people and our partners, family and friends spring to mind. However, we all have relationships with everything in our lives. Our home, the place where we work, the food we eat, the water we drink, and the sunlight and the moonlight which bless us with invisible healing energy, and so on and so forth.

It is how we see our relationships that determines the unfolding of each, with each allowing us to define ourselves fully. Relationships, especially our most intimate ones, allow us to see all of ourselves (the good and the bad), and to recognise those parts of ourselves that we need to work on.

Why do we allow ourselves to be plagued by jealousy and insecurity? Focusing on what one brings to the relationship, rather than what one gets from it, is the best remedy for this type of inner angst.

Being confident about who we are and where we are going in life is attractive. Being needy is not. This is not a criticism but merely an observation. If we are being needy, then it because we are looking to the other person to complete us in some way, or we are dependent on them for our sense of self, neither of which they can do.

Any relationship should be like the ebb and flow of the tide; sometimes you give and sometimes you receive. If you are giving too much, that is not beneficial to you and you will probably end up resenting the other who is “taking” from you all the time; if you are receiving much more than you are giving, that is not healthy either.

What about your relationship with your food? Do you carefully select your food, trusting your intuition and take your time to enjoy it. Or do you get through the day snacking on not-so-healthy foods and gobble down everything without really appreciating the energy and vitality that mother earth is providing you with?

Are you taking enough time to rest and appreciate your body’s natural rhythms? Or are you cramming in too much, not able to unwind and relax, and hence feeling low on energy most of the time?

Pause for a moment and take the time to listen to your inner voice. You can turn things around in a relatively short space of time.

The desire to improve your lifestyle choices should be a natural one, not one that feels alien to you. In this way, should you revert back to old programmed patterns that aren't serving you, you will recognise it more quickly than the time before, and be able to switch back to a more balanced, healthy and productive way of living.

Look within to change your experience of life

2006-06-11T14:23:00.000Z

Each of us has one or more gifts that we bring with us into this lifetime and it is our Divine right to experience the unique unfolding of our latent talents in a beautiful way from the core of our being.

Sometimes this can flash across our conscious minds from the superconscious but because most of us have been conditioned to accept our present reality without questioning it, we have unwittingly subdued our freedom to be who we really are in order to fit into the society around us.

This wouldn’t be so bad if that society led us to the inner peace, joy, love and happiness that we all desire. Unfortunately, it usually doesn’t.

If you are willing to explore deep within, you may find old wounds that have not been healed and a certain amount of fear which might hinder you from taking the necessary steps to empower your life and move you in the right direction. Fear is self-created, quite often unconsciously.

Spiritual, non-invasive therapies such as Reiki, Spiritual Response Therapy and Aura-Soma work beyond the physical, at the soul level, and can help you realise a better and more meaningful life by altering your perspective.

Through altering your perspective, you shift your perception and change your experience. Elementary quantum physics says that it is not possible to separate the observer and the observed and that the notion of an “objective reality” is an oxymoron.

Your seed is already planted in the garden, beneath the soil, waiting for the right conditions to germinate. The ground has to be prepared: the stones and weeds need clearing, the earth has to be turned and the nutrients introduced. Once you start to shift your consciousness and are able to see clearly from within, your life experiences will naturally begin to improve in beautiful ways.

You are a co-creator of your universe. Know that and be free.

Inspiring quotes

2006-05-24T00:31:00.000Z

"Thought control is the highest form of prayer. Therefore, think only on good things and righteous. Dwell not in negativity and darkness. And even in moments when things look bleak – especially in those moments – see only perfection, express only gratefulness, and then imagine only what manifestation of perfection you choose next."
Conversations With God, Neale Donald Walsch

"If you have the ability to imagine it, or even to think about it, this Universe has the ability and the resources to deliver it fully unto you."
The Teachings of Abraham (Ask And It Is Given)

"God's delays are not God's denials."
Robert H Schuller

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."
Robert H Schuller

"Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth - that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The key to bringing something into your experience that you desire is to achieve vibrational harmony with what you desire."
The Teachings of Abraham (Ask And It Is Given)

"All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by one of two emotions - fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions - only two words in the language of the soul. These are the opposite ends of the great polarity, the Alpha and the Omega, which allow the system you call 'relativity' to be."
Conversations with God, Neale Donald Walsch

"Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe."
St. Augustine

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. "
Albert Einstein

"Happiness is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of happiness... This statement holds true for every other state of being as well." Communion with God, Neale Donald Walsch

"The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future."
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

Coping with negative emotions

2006-05-01T15:47:00.000Z

Life often pushes us past our comfort zones and the challenge is to be comfortable with our vulnerabilities. There is no such thing as right or wrong, so it's certainly not wrong to feel sad or angry, or experience any other negative emotion. Indeed, it is a natural and inherent part of being human.

The only proviso is that we should not feel negative emotions constantly, all the time. After all, we are here to experience the positive ones too.

Many times in our lives we are faced with challenges which deeply affect us on all levels of our being - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. For example, a life-threatening illness, a serious accident, the breakup of an intimate relationship, or the death of a loved one will cause us to feel unbalanced for a greater or lesser time and we may have the acute sense that our world is falling apart.

Failure to accept a situation is really what causes our suffering. We can sometimes control external realities but often we cannot. In all cases, however, we can try to control how we feel and behave in relation to what is happening.

If we use the analogy of driving a car, if you hit an oil slick and go into a skid and you focus your attention on the nearest brick wall or lamp post, that is exactly what you will hit. If, despite the skid, you are able to focus on the road, you will most likely avoid crashing or any serious injury.

Sometimes in life, we go into a skid and too many of us focus on the wall. The next time life is throwing you a few challenges, dig deep and absolutely refuse to focus on the 'bad' situation. Divert your attention to a positive outcome. Think just one positive thought and hang on to it until you start to feel yourself lift out of the depression. Throw your shoulders back, stick your chest out, head straight and laugh or shout to get yourself out of the downward spiral.

Remember that the mind affects the body, but that the body also affects the mind.

Immediately, when your life is turning upside down, go and grab a pen and piece of paper. Any pen, any piece of paper. Write down what is working in your life, what you are grateful for, what is making you happy. Then read it over and over and over, until you impregnate your mind with a surge of positivity. Like thoughts coalesce.

Do not struggle against the situation because you will be struggling against the universe. Ask, how can I change my view? Ask, how can I feel differently about this? Ask, what can I learn from this? You may wish for things to be different but remember that everything is perfectly ordered at each moment of your life. It may not seem so but many times, the universe provides opportunities for growth through difficult circumstances. The quicker you can focus on the good, the quicker your adversity will change. If you re-act, this means that you are acting out of previous experience(s) and you will miss the opportunity. If you start to flip that positive switch you will re-create your circumstances anew.

It is the meaning we choose to give to each event in our lives that determines the eventual outcome.

Look within yourself and know that you have the power to move through any situation. It would be very wise to meditate for ten minutes in the morning and ten minutes in the evening, especially when your life is in disarray. It is within the silence that your inner voice will speak to you and where you will find inner strength and courage and, ultimately, peace. We live in a sanitized society, where we are given images of people practising yoga and meditation in peaceful surroundings. So, we naturally believe this is a precondition of engaging in such activities.

This is a terrible shame because all great spiritual teachers know the value of meditation, especially for finding the answers to difficult questions and life situations.

Do not beat yourself up if you find yourself falling apart at the seams - give yourself permission to be fully human and be gentle with yourself. Forgive yourself, as well as the situation, and you will be one step closer to peace.

Intimate relationships

2006-03-17T16:46:00.000Z

If we accept the idea that we are created from the Divine, the One, then it is only natural that we should seek to remember our Divine Heritage and want to, once again, unite with our Source of Being. One of the primary ways of doing this is through our relationships with others, and especially through our intimate relationships.

Men are one part of the equation and the women are the other. We are naturally attracted to the “opposite sex” and physical love, especially sex, is a result of our desire to be “one” with the Divine. You might question why there are same sex relationships and the answer lies beyond the exterior; within each man there is yin (female), and within each woman there is yang (male). Therefore one “man” might be very female in his manner and being and another “woman” might be very male in her manner and being.

Whether an opposite sex relationship or a same sex relationship, it is observable today that our “love” for the other is not love in the highest sense that it can be, especially in the West. We are needy in our affections, rather than enjoying the act of loving without the need for anything, and we often expect them to make us happy or even to make us complete.

It is important to realise that no one can make you happy or complete. Other people can give you cause for happiness but only you can find joy and peace, within yourself.

It is often when two people enter into a relationship, with unrealistic expectations about what the other can do for them, that it turns “sour”. This either happens quickly, or slowly, depending on the underlying expectations. Sometimes, the two individuals will be very good at concealing their true feelings and will happily act in the manner that their partner wants, until they feel they are safe to reveal their true identity and their expectations. The irony is that all this often happens unconsciously.

So, when we enter yet another “disastrous” relationship (it’s the same person, just the face has changed), we fail to see why this has occurred. The relationships you attract are always determined by your feelings and thoughts, which causes you to send out vibrations to the universe and draw to yourself vibrations of a similar kind.

Your thoughts, and the way you feel (which is to say your sponsoring thought - the thought behind the original thought!) is the point of your attraction, and will determine the people, places, circumstances and events that you attract into your life.

The gift of imagination

2006-03-13T00:32:00.000Z

The gift of imagination. Are you using it enough?

Imagination is the key to transformation and the manifestation of your heart's desires, so rather than being a waste of time, it is actually a productive use of time. Most of us are so used to the negative conditioning imposed upon us by society that we have long forgotten how to bring our desires to fruition through the power of intent and consistent focus.

Remember that your intention (i.e. the reason why you do something) gives birth to change, and that your focused attention waters the seed of intention and allows it to grow and blossom into the living, breathing manifestation that you see with your mind's eye.

People are usually dismissive of visualisation techniques because they merely try them for a day, perhaps a week at the most, and give up before the miracle occurs. Have you done this?

If you can keep visualising and make your reality almost tangible, then the unwritten laws of the universe will bring your desires to you, and more. Be as detailed as possible. Whether it is a dream home, or car, or holiday, acquire cuttings from magazines or the internet, and stick them in a box, which you should label as your "dream box". Keep reviewing the material whenever you feel happy. Be playful. Having fun is the key!

Avoid going through the cuttings in your dream box if you feel negative because it will probably heighten your sense of "not having" your desire and cancel out a lot of the good work you have done.

Keep your mind open and fill it with beautiful thoughts, often.

Cycles of rest and activity

2006-02-12T16:23:00.000Z

It seems that many of us are beginning to engage in activities that promote rest and relaxation of the body and mind. More and more, people are attending yoga or pilates classes, practising tai chi, going for regular "tune-ups" by seeing a masseuse, aromatherapist, reflexologist or Reiki practitioner, or visiting health spas and being pampered for a whole day or weekend.

We are learning to reconnect with inner selves and this is very important right now, since we are healing. Through healing ourselves, we are also touching/influencing those around us and helping them.

However, there are periods when we tend to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of day to day life, and forget that resting is critical to enjoying our day and tapping into unique gifts and talents that lie buried within us. Moreover, it is difficult to interact and relate to others when the body and mind are tired. Negative feelings tend to infiltrate our consciousness more easily when we lack proper rest and nourishment.

Nature gives us strong clues as to how to behave. If you look at any plant or animal, you will see it has natural cycles of rest and activity and adheres to these cycles instinctively. As human beings, we have forgotten how to tap into our natural rhythms because we are pressured by society and by ourselves.

A good way of tapping back into our true nature is to practise daily meditation. Unfortunately, most people have distorted ideas about what it means to meditate; they believe you have to be in a particular type of position, quite often used by advanced yogis, and that a single meditation has no value unless it is practised for many hours.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The only requirements are that you feel comfortable, with your head and neck aligned. Lying down in bed, face up, first thing in the morning would be just fine. Usually, first thing in the morning is a very good time to practice since your conscious mind is normally quiet and free from the clutter of thoughts that arise during other parts of the day.

Put one hand on your belly and the other hand on your heart. If your mind is already noisy and a million things have flooded into it, that's okay. Just tell it to be quiet and put all your cares and worries aside. Just for ten minutes. Then concentrate on your breathing, nothing else. Breathe in through your nose, filling your belly first and then pushing the breath up into the top part of your chest, and then out through your nose or mouth.

Don't breathe in through your mouth. After all, you don't eat through your nose, do you?

As you breathe in, visualise brilliant white light coming in through your nose and filling your belly and then, from there, running all through your body. When you breathe out, imagine breathing out darkness and any impurities from your body.

Just ten minutes. Get up ten minutes early to do this and do this every day for ninety days, and your life will begin to change. The results are cumulative, however, so you can't expect good results if you only practice this for a few days and then give up.

Make time for yourself and practice breathing. Breath is life.

Where's your focus?

2006-02-07T16:05:00.000Z

Whether you are working at a job, or you are running your own business, take time out periodically to ask yourself "how can I best serve others through what I do?"

If you are part of a team, try to get a high level view of the goals of the team. It is very good to focus on your role and to excel at that but it is also important to understand the wider implications of your work. Doing this will allow you to see aspects of your work in a different light and improve it accordingly, in line with the greater whole.

People will notice as you shift your vibration upwards, and both you and the team will reap the rewards in due time.

You may encounter resistance within yourself as you seek to go beyond your programmed way of thinking. Thoughts such as "why should I bother?", "I don't get paid enough", may surface. If you decide to acknowledge and weed out these thoughts, you will see that you will get more fulfilment from your work, people will respond to you and appreciate you better. Actually, you will be setting off a chain of events that will allow you to attract the raise you want. If your current boss is unwillingly to see the value you have to offer, someone else undoubtedly will, in due time.

You may also encounter resistance in the "real" world. Quite often, people around you are living in a fog and ruled by their egos and will assume that you are just in it for yourself and trying to "prove" something. They may confront you and try to sabotage your valiant efforts to think and act differently. In fact, the outer response to your change is valid, since you are "clearing" negativity from within and the outer world is mirroring this change.

Patience and perseverance is the key. The more relaxed you can be, the more the situation will dissolve by itself.

If you are working independently, for example as a small business owner, you still need to focus on others and your greatest challenge will be to overcome the usual worries that are commonplace as you seek to create both wealth and independence. If you start finding yourself doubting yourself or worrying that not enough money is materialising, start asking yourself "what do I want and what am I seeking to achieve?"

Worrying that the market is bad, or there aren't enough clients is a sign that you are sabotaging any positive currents you have set up and your desires will be delayed. Remember that your results are determined by your thoughts, nothing else.

"Statistics" and "facts" are based on the external, and on realities already created. You can choose, at any moment it time, how tomorrow will be. What will you choose? If you still believe in the negative stories around you, find the exception and concentrate on that. How many times have you heard about a "lucky" business person making lots of money in a "bad" market? If we could have looked behind the scenes, at the thoughts and the actions of that person, we would undoubtedly have seen positive thoughts and strong belief which caused circumstances and events to manifest a positive result.

Practice visualisation techniques and "see yourself" meeting your customers' or clients' needs. Get the happy feeling of the situation. Your imagination is a powerful tool and your results will change the more you can tap into this wonderful source of energy and power. Remember that the purpose of any business, small or large, is to solve other people's problems. The focus is not you.

It is important that you achieve the wealth and inner fulfilment you desire to create as well, so focus your mind upon the results you want to achieve but, in the long run, the results you achieve are a consequence of your desire to help others.

The reactive mind

2006-01-25T22:29:00.000Z

Quite often, we absorb into our life experiences what one may term "negative" conditioning. So, instead of looking at each life situation uniquely and viewing it without judgement, we tend to react according to the residue that has been left in our mind.

If you can recognise that your mind is re-acting (that is to say acting out the experience again), this awareness alone will allow you to eventually transcend negative reactions that might be causing you to suffer unnecessarily in your life right now. It is only through the vehicle of the soul, and through living consciously, that you can create a new experience and transcend the karma of natural law.

We each have an emotional body and mental body, which are separate from and yet intertwined with the physical, which act as storehouses for both "good" and "bad" thoughts.

Negative thoughts that seep into our minds cause us to generate negative emotions, which then feed the original thought to create a monster over which we seem to have little control. An emotion represents the energy behind a thought and it is precisely this energy that affects you, on all levels of your being. If your emotion is sufficiently energised by a strong feeling, it has that much more power.

The key to releasing yourself from a downward spiral is to observe yourself without judgement. Often, we "beat ourselves up" because we have observed something within us that we do not like but this is counter-productive because, once again, we are causing ourselves yet more pain and more negativity. The cycle can only be broken by rising above the lower vibration.

Forgiveness is key. If you want to start experiencing a more stress-free life, then you must pay the price. The price is forgiveness, both of yourself and the situation(s) you find yourself in.
This does not mean you are condoning the action of another who has perhaps acted unjustly towards you, but it does mean that you can free yourself from the mind games that destroy your peace of mind.

Blessing a situation, and forgiving the other person(s), raises your vibration and your point of attraction.

You might find it hard to do at first, so don't condemn yourself if you find you have to play out all the negative thoughts that cascade into your mind before realising that you have, in fact, created your own internal tension.

If you realise all of this, even long after the event has passed, you are that much closer to changing who you are. The first step is simply awareness.

Remember: What you resist, persists. What you look at (without judgement, accepting what is), dissolves.

The law of attraction

2005-12-22T00:00:00.000Z

The powerful Universal Law of Attraction says that you draw to you the essence of whatever you are predominantly thinking about. If you usually think about the things you want, and you are quietly confident about those things manifesting in your life, then your life experience reflects those things. The Law also states that if you usually focus on things you don't particularly want, your life experience reflects those things.

When you understand the powerful laws of the Universe, including the Law of Attraction, then you are never surprised by what occurs in your experience. Nothing can occur in your life experience without your invitation of it through thought.

It's necessary to understand that it is how you feel about what you are thinking that determines what you manifest into your life. For example, if you want to go on holiday, and you are constantly thinking that you can't afford it, then your vibration is one of lack/limitation and you are really thinking about not going on holiday, rather than going on holiday. You know this because you feel frustrated/angry/disappointed etc. instead of expectant/joyous/hopeful etc.

So, how could you change this feeling?

If you started to "pivot", and said to yourself "i'm going to put a little money aside each month towards my holiday, whatever I can manage", you would immediately activate a positive vibration/feeling within you. If you said to yourself "I've had holidays before, and I'm sure I'll have the opportunity again soon", you would activate a positive vibration within you.

If you can only begin to recognise that you are the point of attraction around which all things in your life occurs, you will start to become a deliberate creator/attractor of things you want, rather than things you don't. The Law of Attraction is always responding to your feelings about what you are thinking, and the more powerful the emotion (the energy behind the feelings) you are feeling, the quicker the result will come, whether wanted or unwanted.

The feeling of having money is very different from the feeling of not having/having lack of money. If you are in a good place, it is easy to feel good and attract more "luck". If you are in a not-so-good place right now, try to reach for the best feeling you can.

A very good way of raising your vibration is to sit down and make a list of the positive aspects of your life. As you write down one good thought, another will come your way. That is the nature of thought. Also, in making a positive list of all the good stuff in your life, you will be showing gratitude to the Universe and aligning yourself with an invisible power which will bring you more harmony, health and happiness as you continue to practice thinking better thoughts.

Do not expect things to change overnight, although they might well do so. Be patient and practice, and see for yourself. You can wish for things to be better in the future but acceptance of where you are right now will ease any internal tension/anxiety and help you to live each day in a more balanced and harmonious way. The result will be that you naturally attract more positive events into your life.