Monthly Archives: December 2009

Thought of the Day … Katie Keeley

Have we all forgotten to Play Out

Just the other day I was watching a Documentary about the old fashioned games we all used to play and immediately was taken back to the days of playing British Bulldog with all the kids in my school, and then later on in life all the kids in my street with my children. Also the joy of just having a Skipping Rope and a gang of kids or just being on my own, with my skipping rope, or even teaching todays children how to play the games I used to play. When I was a small child my Mother and Father had ploughed all their savings from being a Sargaent Major in Army for 25yrs into a Grocery Shop in Blackpool, and as they opened their shop the first ever superstore opened not so far away, so they had to work all the hours sent to try and keep their head above the water. In the morning I was at school for 8am playing Netball on my own until my friends turned up and after school we went straight to the park so I was never in. In the holidays living in Blackpool I just stayed out all day playing whereas nowadays children have all their toys to hand so dont move out of their rooms. In relationships even, I find doing thousands of readings is that couples have lost their playtime and the relationship becomes stale. It is so important for our own wellbeing that we incorporate Playtime into our lives as we do only live once, life is not a rehersal. I have recently gone back to working out in the swimming pool and feel so much more energised, and able to cope with the stresses and strains of everyday life, but most of all its not boring swimming I have made a plastic box to hold my IPOD in so that I can stand at the edge of the pool Jogging, Twisting, Jacking, Kicking to the music I love and before I know it an hour has passed and Im in a great mood. Can you remember a game that brought joy to your life, share your thoughts with me today.

Katie xx

The Hermit… Laura

The Hermit

I decided to write today’s blog about a much misunderstood Tarot card named ‘The Hermit’. The reason I chose to write about this card is because of a dream I had t’other night in which The Hermit card appeared to me.

As we are post Christmas and pre New Years Eve, in that surreal ‘time- out- of- time’, I feel it ‘s the perfect time to get to know The Hermit, and to connect with and rest within our own ‘centre’.

Before we look at what resting within our centre means, I’ll explain a little about The Hermit himself.

The Hermit is mostly depicted as a wise old man, carrying a staff or a lamp. The lamp represents illumination in the darkness. He can represent wisdom, maturity, learning and spiritual guidance.

When The Hermit turns up in a reading it can cause dismay as it does mean being alone, however it is important not to confuse ‘alone’ with ‘loneliness’. Aloneness is usually a state we choose; whilst loneliness is something we suffer with. The Hermit card can mean aloneness and loneliness, as well as withdrawal, isolation, wisdom and seeking. But the true magical meaning of the card occurs if we look at it from an inner perspective. The Hermit is actually a deeply spiritual, positive and encouraging card.

You can find the true meaning of The Hermit when you are still and calm; he exists in your dreams and meditations, he inspires and with a bit of patience can help reveal your soul’s true purpose. To walk the path of The Hermit, we travel deep inside our soul, we find and ignite our own personal light, and find strength in our aloneness, without fearing ourselves.

As I mentioned earlier to connect to the Hermit, we need to find and rest within our centre. Everyone has their own personal way of finding their centre, but I’ve found this way works pretty well:

Sit cross legged or lie down somewhere you won’t be disturbed, place your right hand just below your belly button, and your left hand on your heart. Breathe in deeply, and feel your breath fill every part of your body, from the top of your head to your little toes. Feel the energy vibrate within your heart and sacral chakra. Feel the warmth and unconditional love flow through your whole body. When you have done this for a while and you feel completely relaxed, pay attention to any sensations you have in your body, or any thoughts which cross your mind. Ask yourself ‘is this thought good for me?’ If the answer is nope, then discard it like unwanted litter, do this until you feel clear of negativity. Rest in this place for a while everyday… your calm, spiritual centre.

Love

Laura x

Thought of the day… Adam

A new inner world

We are just about to enter into a new year and so many of us are really hoping that next year will be a much better year. We will go into the new year with our minds set on achieving everything we didn’t achieve last year plus additional goals to make up for the fact that we didn’t achieve the goals we intended to this year. The thing is its not the outside world via people, laws, money, government etc that stop us. It is us that stops us. Every day our subconscious absorbs impressions from the world around us and it absorbs everything down to the pattern the leaves make on the pavement to how many wrinkles on someone’s face there are. The thing is that if the world around us and the environment we are in sends us a negative message we start to believe that we deserve negativity.

We are permanently assessing our value, how we feel and what we attract is a direct reflection of how we value ourselves. For example:

A lady see’s herself as the healer that helps everyone else with their problems and it gives her a sense of purpose to do so. However, what the subconscious see’s is that she is attracting lots of negative energy her way and thinks this must be what she wants and dealing with them gives her self worth and value. Therefore the subconscious sends a message out to the universe asking for more negative people to gravitate towards her. Eventually the lady gets run down and requires some help herself but because she is attracting negative people they don’t have any positive energy to give her so she feels unloved and unvalued.

The Lady above really needs to re assess what her true value is and why she feels she has to help so many people. It is most likely due to her not believing she can be of worth to others in any other way. She also believes that if she shows weakness that others will ridicule her for it. Therefore the only way to get self worth is to help so many people until the inner void disappears. Thing is it doesn’t because she keeps attracting more of it in. The only way for her to stop this is to change her beliefs on what her value is and change her actions to mirror the new beliefs.

This happens on an anger level also. If your feeling internally angry at the world you will attract anger towards you because your brain thinks that you will feel of worth by expressing it. Why else would you be keeping it inside if it did not have value?

So for this new year if you really want to achieve everything you set out to achieve start off by looking inside. Make sure the feelings you have on the inside match the feelings you wish to have in the outside world. Find inner balance and you will receive outer balance.

Adam