Your Dream Psychic

Lynn Lait

Why is it good to think positively ? Because we cancel the negative thoughts which block us with fear, brings us down and stops us from reaching our goals in life.

Working with my spirit guides and in my spiritual readings always gives a positive outlook on a situation, they only want to work for our highest good at all times.

My spiritual calendar inspired me to write this blog when I read – “Thoughts create feelings, let me put a full stop to thoughts of useless or painful things”.

A good step to positive thinking is affirmation – which is a positive saying that you can repeat to yourself over and over again to transmit its message to your sub-conscious. Energy follows though, so a repeated affirmation will always manifest as energy.

Here are some tips on making affirmations:

* Choose a present tense – You don’t want to tell your sub-conscious that you will be more joyful at some point in the future – You want to tell it that you are joyful right this minute. Try something like – I attract more joy into my life as it is now.

* Delete any negative words from your affirmations, you want them to be positive.

* Don’t ask for something that will cause harm, whether it be to another person or yourself. Therefore you need to choose your words carefully and add a rider such as “For the highest good of all concerned”.

* Say Your affirmations out loud for at least 5 minutes per day – say it lovingly and feel it’s truth within your heart.

* Know that it will come true and anticipate the joy you feel when it does – don’t confuse your sub-conscious by giving it mixed messages such as “I wonder if it will make me really happy”.

Love and Light

Lynn Lait

John Healey

To get to the studio I have to cross a well known and usually very busy London street.  The air is filled with a dense wall of sound, but some things somehow filter through and catch my attention.  One is the sound of drums and small chirruping cymbals that accompany the chanting approach of a small group of Hare Krishna devotees.  Nine times out of ten they’ll be there.  I turn to look in their direction, and it’s the same scene every time.  It’s the East in the West.  I guess they know what they are doing.
 
The East, put simply, is life will provide for you.  Think Buddhist monks in orange robes with begging bowls.  The West is the deadline.  Recall any time the boss wanted something done by tomorrow, but what he or she really meant was yesterday.  Both ways of life require enormous energy, and are not for the half-hearted or ignorant.  Anyone just living on the street has opted out of either way of doing things.  To be able to live life will provide for me requires serious detachment, and that’s why the East talks endllessly about self realisation.  You can’t be attached ( to the clock ) if you are leaving everything to life.  The West demands unbending focus, and like the East is also utterly impersonal.  No ‘look at poor me.’  You’re not called a disciple – a disciplined one – for nothing.
 
Both East and West use meditation.  One’s passive, the other dynamic.  You’re either letting go, or progamming the brain for the desired result.  The funny thing is, every which way ends up at the same place.  And one clue that you are heading in the right direction is when you really notice that trees are living things.  Has it happened yet?  Have you suddenly stopped, looked, and realised they are not just trees, they are alive?  And when it happened, didn’t you just want to give them a hug?
 
John Healey 2009

Nina Ashby

Green striped lawn, white markings, the sound of the rhythmic smack of a round yellow ball equals excitement for me…its Wimbledon time! I love it, am compulsive about watching it, absorbed by the unfolding drama of the game of lawn tennis. I love sport for its power to reveal the Self and act as a tool for learning.

What is intriguing also is how at that high level of sport, all the players have so much skill and much the same skill, yet it is often their mental outlook that makes the biggest difference as to how successful they are in long tournaments such as Wimbledon or in their rankings. Why does one person succeed where others falter, get the ‘yips’ and cannot find the mental strength to finish off the game. Or is it self-belief; the ‘I can’, ‘I Will’?

As a l club tennis player, I understand this. Learning to play not only involves physical discipline, but also mental and emotional control. I noticed myself having an internal (sometimes external) dialogue at the end of each point –when I did not hit the ball in the right place I would criticise myself; have a conversation with Nina, telling her what an idiot she was to do that. If I did well I would celebrate it with glee or appreciation or relief that the ball went where I wanted it to BUT often went into the next point with fear that about the outcome. I catch myself now; remain positive, forget about the success or ‘failure’ of the next point, deal with the point I am playing and seek to remain focused on the game, not let my mind wander, think about where I am rather than all the stuff I will have to do once the game is over. It is a spiritual discipline for me.

I also link this to the colour green – it is lawn tennis after all. Green symbolises the heart centre, our confidence, sense of self and connection to higher purpose. Coincidence; I don’t think so.

Learning to play tennis was and continues to be a learning experience with my inner self and has revealed to me insecurities and strengths I knew were there but had trouble getting hold of in myself. Tennis is my physical way to transform my psychology and my beliefs about myself and my abilities and as I succeed in tennis, this carries over to other areas of my life. I have to apply all those affirmation tricks that I teach my students:

Override the negative with the positive in body language; smile, stand straight, breathe, consciously relax the body and re-centre

Override negative emotions; laugh with myself, appreciate being here and now

Override the negative thoughts with positive statements; focus on the next point, I can do…

I have a lot of compassion for those professional tennis players who meet themselves in those tournaments – and indeed they are like warriors out there, but are they battling other players or are they battling themselves?

Where do you see your inner battle being revealed?

Does Spiritual work always need to be in a Spiritual context?

How can I help you create an affirmation linked to a colour that will help you be the spiritual warrior in your life?

Nina Ashby ©2009