December 2016
Winter Solstice
Today will be the shortest of the year - the winter solstice. The solstice marks the moment the sun shines at its most southern point and has been celebrated by pagans for thousands of years. Many of the traditions now associated with Christmas had their roots in winter solstice celebrations - including the Christmas tree. What is it? The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year and the official beginning of winter. The solstice itself is the moment the sun is shining farthest to the south, directly over the Tropic of Capricorn. When is it? In the UK, the precise time of the solstice will be 5.11pm on Saturday December 21st 2013. The time is different every year, falling between December 20th and 23rd. The winter solstice is a major pagan festival, with rituals of rebirth having been celebrated for thousands of years. Every year revellers gather at Stonehenge to watch the sunrise on the shortest day. Many of the traditions we now think of as being part of Christmas -including Yule logs, mistletoe and Christmas trees - have their roots in the pagan celebrations of winter solstice. Wait, the Christmas tree was originally a winter solstice tree? Sort of. The Druids - the priests of the ancient Celts - used evergreen trees , holly and mistletoe as symbols of everlasting life during winter solstice rituals. Cutting them down and putting them in their homes would have been too destructive to nature. The idea of decorating trees in the festive season was a combination of the Druidic rituals and a German tradition, which according to legend was started by Martin Luther. Today will see the fewest hours of sunlight of the year - just 7 hours and 49 minutes. The days will gradually get longer from here until the summer solstice on June 21st 2014. So, is the world going to end? Probably not. Last year, thousands of people showed up at Stonehenge for the winter solstice celebrations because it was thought that the date marked the last day of the Mayan calendar, signalling the end of the world.
Written By Beverley ( Intuitive | Clairvoyant | Healer )
Can You Write To Spirit?
As you know psychics use whatever suits them best to channel spirit, cards, mirrors and even the old crystal ball. There is one more method that is really easy to use and that is automatic writing. Something that first became popular during the rise of spiritualism in the Victorian era. Mediums have written long explanations or even novels using this technique. It started with pen and paper but now we can even use Microsoft Word to produce automatic writing! This form of contact is really good if you are maybe too nervous to contact spirit any other way, if you want some spiritual questions answered or if you find meditative contact a struggle. Before you start it is really helpful if you are used to writing streams of consciousness, a journal or diary. It’s about already writing about you and your emotions, so you have no issues with words and know what could be your feelings and the answers from spirit. It’s pretty easy to start with pen and paper – find somewhere quiet and reserve time when you will not be disturbed. Get comfortable around your desk or table and pick up your pen, rest it on the paper. Take some time to clear your mind and let the distractions fade away. Do not consciously write anything, and then let the pen move across the paper, it’s a really good idea to look away from the paper, even close your eyes. Let your hand run free across the paper and for as long as you feel it is moving freely. Once you come to a stop take a look at the paper, you may have words or you may just have scribble – a little or a lot. Try to decipher what you have, look for words, letters, numbers and symbols. Look for the answer to your question or names and messages. With your PC simply open a blank document , type your question or ask who you are talking to, focus your eyes away from your screen and simply type, do not try to translate what your fingers are typing just let them go. Like all spiritual activities it takes time and you may not get anything coherent for the first few attempts. Let us know what you get!
Written By Beverley ( Intuitive | Clairvoyant | Healer )
Music
Music is a huge part of our lives and also is a great mood changer. A lively piece of music will lift us and a sad piece will bring us to tears, have you ever thought about why this happens? Music affects our mood in a variety of ways including bringing back key memories or stirring long forgotten emotional responses. It’s all about the rhythm and tone of the music we are listening to! When we listen to a rhythm, our heart actually begins to beat at a similar pace and rhythm, a slow rhythm creates a slow heartbeat with a strong diastolic pressure and tells our brain that something sad is happening A very fast beat makes the brain feel excited while, a dreamy rhythm with starts the association with love. The key or tone of the music also affects the brain, those in a major key starts feeling of happiness and the minor key hits into sadness and regret. So music affects the brain and sets off emotions simply by listening, recent research shows that listening to music for only two weeks will change your mood, So here are a few ways to use music to change your mood too – Start your day with happy upbeat music to set your mood for the day, wherever possible dance too in a morning, it wakes up the body starts your endorphins to boost your energy and helps your get up and go. If you want to change from feeling sad to feeling happy beware of the music that takes you back to sad events, it has what NLP practioners call an anchor or an association that is planted in your brain. Choose your music carefully and don’t use random on your music player as you don’t know what’s coming next that may affect you. It’s also wise to avoid songs that have negative wording - I am so lost, I can’t live without you etc all can implant negatively in our brain and affect our moods. Find time to relax and find the best music to do it to. Music like Native American, pan pipes etc will all help you to relax and even meditate, I use music in the background to help me work with spirit as it brings me such peace which spirit are happiest using with me. Remember we are all different what is relaxing to some maybe plain dull to others! Finally odd as it sounds spend some time in silence so you can allow your brain time to process the new mood and you can really feel the changes in mood taking place. Have a great bank holiday.
Written By Beverley ( Intuitive | Clairvoyant | Healer )
Do You See Auras
Have you started to see auras or being in contact with your spirit guide on a regular basis? Are you meditating, using crystal and listening to your intuition? Do now need to refine your abilities? You will probably already be aware of your spirit guide and you angels who are helping you along the journey but as your skills develop you will be assigned a spiritual teacher. I have a Tibetan teacher who has helped me, but it will vary from person to person. The important part of their role is to develop regulation with you, it is important to ask help from guides to set boundaries so you are not always ‘on’ and available for spirit to contact you. Famous psychic Lisa Williams wears a hat as a sign to spirit she does not want to communicate. Along with regulation they will help you to make a quicker connection with spirit, ask them to help you to find a shortcut from full meditation to a simpler process. These teachers are here to help you work the way you want to, so it is imperative that you are specific and honest in what development you need. Develop your levels of trust even more in your intuition, really take time to listen to what it tells you and most importantly act on it. So if you feel strongly that the red car you are looking at buying will break down as soon as the warranty runs out, based on no physical evidence at all - don’t buy it! If you truly believe in your intuition and take action based on it, only then will it develop further. Practice empathy with as many people as you can, try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and truly be with someone through their pain and joy. This way you are enhancing your abilities to tune into others and also becoming aware of their reactions and emotions, this will enhance your spiritual connection to them too. Find a circle to join where your abilities will be nurtured and cherished by those who are more advanced than you. Study them too to see what works for them, see what can work for you too and see if you can find a mentor to help you work with spirit even more closely. Face up to your fears about death, be open to talking about it and study the theory that you are not your physical body and that you will exist after that 'vessel' ceases to exist. Once you are at peace with this you can accept the spiritual communications you receive and deliver them in an empathic and reassuring way.
Written By Beverley ( Intuitive | Clairvoyant | Healer )
Best Friend
Do you treat yourself as your own best friend? Do you feel you made a mistake or you are the mistake? Is there a critical voice in your head telling you that you are not good enough, you did it wrong or you never do anything right? Most of us have a really harsh view of ourselves and would never speak to anyone we loved the way we speak internally to ourselves. Why? Those voices, opinions and feelings are actually someone else’s, someone we absorbed as a very small child and made into our own personal critic. If we are lucky we also absorbed some loving voices who believed in us who can drown out the critic, but all too often the critic wins. When that happens our self esteem gets hit, we make decisions made to suit that critic or we try to drown them out with drink food or drugs. There are a few simple tips to start to work on those nasty voices and the constant berating we give ourselves – Try to remember where you first heard what you are hearing when you beat yourself up, who was it, what did they say and how old were you? Now you have identified them you can admit they are not yours – catch them and send them away. Now did you have a nurturing, loving supportive influence in your life? Meditate on that person; feel their love come back to you and difficult as it will be in the beginning try to replace the critic with the love. Remember that you heard this when you were very small so sometime be apparent to your feelings and soothe them by being your best friend too. Challenge the idea that being hard on yourself will make any improvements to you or anything else. Being unkind to yourself causes resentment, a sense of defeat, and cause a pattern that will end in emotional damage. If you forgive yourself, let yourself off the error you will not become weak or fail at your life, you in fact become more understanding, intuitive and able to cope with what life throws at you. You become braver as you don’t fear the inner turmoil that would follow failure and you can accept that sometimes you just don’t get it right. Finally the shame that you feel at so many things from your body to your bank balance start to drift away as you accept you are not prefect and that’s ok. Love and light
Written By Beverley ( Intuitive | Clairvoyant | Healer )
Carers
Some of us are carers, counsellors, nurses, social workers readers and some of us just like to help others. But there is a tendency to forget to look after ourselves, compassion fatigue can strike the most caring and dedicated helpers. These changes can affect both our personal and professional lives with symptoms such as difficulty concentrating, intrusive imagery, loss of hope, exhaustion and irritability. Just what those we are helping don't need. Once we are suffer from compassion fatigue, we work more and achieve less, our health and our relationships suffer, stress and depression follow. When we are a helper (in anyway) we need to be self aware, we need to keep a check on our physical and mental health. We must take note of the beginnings of fatigue and stress and always bear in mind self care is not selfish. If we feel compassion fatigue we must ask for help and also remember that is not weak but a natural reaction too. Some simple hints are - Assess just how much you have to every day - Make a list of all the demands on your time and energy be as detailed as you can and list even the little things. What can you change, what is changeable, what is making life so busy? Say no to those 'can you just...' requests How much time is just spent on yourself? - Are you currently able to get away for periods of time? Do you have access to respite care? Put it in your diary to have at least one hour per day to do something for yourself, even if it is an undisturbed bath. Ensure you have time alone and make sure others are aware of their roles in providing help or care. Find things that will help you to feel good and remember to look after yourself- food exercise and some fun. Get help and delegate - Are you sharing the load with others? e. Are there things that you are willing to let go and let others do their own way? Unless you ask everyone will assume you are ok. Think what would happen if you had to go away for a week who would step in and what would happen?! Get support - you are not alone so many people suffer from compassion fatigue, find other helpers and support each other, find a counsellor or a friend willing to listen. Love and light
Written By Beverley ( Intuitive | Clairvoyant | Healer )
Letting Go Of Fear
Fear can control us. When we live in fear, we feel paralysed, anxious, and in constant worry. Excitement and fear do not coexist. Fear is associated with anxiety, depression, and lack of self confidence. Negative feelings can be difficult to change, but the truth is that we are the one in control of how we feel. Sometimes, we confuse fear with fate. We forget that we are in control of our lives, and we choose the path we want to be in. It's easy to ignore or deny our fears, even to ourselves. That’s why is necessary to identify the root of our fears, in order to make a conscious commitment to stop thinking negatively. We can use our fears to identify problems and solve them effectively. If we keep letting our fears control our actions, it will keep us from living the life of our dreams. I’ve learned that in order to overcome my fears, I had to stay away from people that may upset or overwhelm me. It’s vital to be aware of how our environment influence us. We are constantly absorbing the energy around us. If we are placed in a room with a negative person, their energy can be very toxic. Learning to recognise people who can bring you down, is a great spiritual skill that can help you to overcome fear and anxiety: pay attention to what is holding you back and stay away. It’s very common to focus on the negative aspects of a situation, or the negative aspects of our lives, instead of investing our thoughts in a positive outcome. The root of fear is negativity. We can only let go of fear when we understand that we are allowing ourselves to be fearful, and that we have the power to change how we feel. The perception we have of ourselves is powerful. Our fears lose power over us when we refuse to fuel the fires of negativity. Our ego is grounded in fear. Learning to deal with fear is all about dealing with our negative thoughts in a way that we can understand that they are just thoughts, and not reality. It’s putting our negativity in perspective. When fear is behind our decisions in life, we become inactive. We can only find the motivation to change our life for the better when we embrace positivity, and we remain hopeful, in order to understand our purpose in life. Living in fear is settling for values that only makes us miserable and unhappy. Remember that failure is part of life. We all must be prepared to deal with failure in a natural way, so we don’t feed our fears. Look for emotional balance by understanding that confronting a fear doesn't always lead to a complete elimination of the fear. All you need to do is to put your focus on improving the quality of your thoughts and your self confidence, and before you know it, you will be able to make decisions based on positive emotions. A negative outcome isn't something we look forward to. That’s why in order to let go of anxiety and fear, it is important to trust that you will be okay no matter what happens. Even if the worst scenario happens, you still have every opportunity to deal with it, and come out stronger on the other side. When we understand that we will be okay despite the circumstances, letting go of negativity becomes easier. For some of us seems difficult to come to the realisation that when we worry about things, we are not helping the situation at all; but by letting go of fear, we are able to feel driven, empowered, and armed with resources. Start your positive journey by writing your fears down, acknowledging them, and throwing them away. When we have the courage to put everything that are holding us back in life in a paper, we are halfway there. Most of our fears are eating us from the inside, but, the thing is that we are so used to them, that we just assume they are part of us. When we take responsibility for our future, we can find the motivation to stay determined to persevere, even when it seems impossible to do it. Visualise how your life would be without fear and anxiety, and surround yourself with positivity. Constantly reminding yourself that what you want is not impossible, is the best way to achieve it. Let your faith be bigger than your fears, and love yourself enough to set yourself free from irrational and negative feelings.
Written By Claudia ( Tarot Reader | Counsellor | Email Reader )
Inner Peace
Inner peace sounds like a wonderful but unobtainable thing, a dream or fantasy that not ever be achieved. Actually it’s a choice. It’s quite hard to get your head around that isn't it? There are so many things to drag us down, the news, politics, disasters, things that happen to those we love and things that happen to us. Our emotions are all affected by those and we feel so much anxiety about our lives, we fear the future and regret the past. To find inner peace we have to take control of our reactions, starting at the very beginning, our negative thoughts about ourselves usually come from our childhood, we need to face them. They are not true; they are opinions of others we have taken on as our beliefs. We need to learn we are loved and lovable, we make mistakes, we are not mistakes and we should not judge ourselves or others harshly. Once we start to know ourselves we can believe we are loved. There needs to be acceptance in our lives, we need to accept that there are something’s we cannot change, in fact the only thing we can change is ourselves. We have to recognize that we all have egos and sometimes they drive the wrong behaviours in us, they want us to control things and people (we all know that control freak!!), they allow us to judge others and make comparisons about ourselves with others. These are all things we simply cannot control now matter how hard we try, and when we try to something that we cannot ever achieve we have no chance of finding peace. We often think negative thoughts 'I can’t', 'it’s hard' 'I will never be able to...' most of these are based on fear, old messages from others, unexpressed grief and our inadequacies. But they are based on half truths at best and we are not what we think we are. We can control those thoughts (not easy!) and once we can part them from our feelings we will start to see a mismatch, if a thought about ourselves feels uncomfortable then it’s not true. We can change our thoughts starting by finding out where that belief came from - 'who told me it’s always going to be hard?’ Then we can stop them as soon as they begin to form. Gratitude plays a huge role in inner peace; being appreciative of all the things you have already, really feeling how much people, things, animals whatever it is means to us brings us a warm feeling of love. It helps to stop us yearning for the unobtainable and living is a state of 'until' i.e. ‘I’ll be peaceful when I have...', 'I can’t be happy until I am thin' and so on. When we treat ourselves and others with kindness (being our own best friend) we bring respect in to our lives. This is a choice for us every day, dealing with angry people, beggars, telesales - we can choose to be kind. We can say no, we can stand our ground; we can be assertive and still be kind to ourselves and others. Bringing some peace into our lives helps too, meditate, listen to music or silence, and visualize peace- a Desert Island or a forest whatever brings you peace. We lead such busy lives inner peace needs relaxation so we need to make time for ourselves and not be over burdened, we also need to be happy so doing what makes us laugh helps.
Written By Beverley ( Intuitive | Clairvoyant | Healer )
Spiritual Relationship
If we have a great relationship how do we make it better? How do we make a spiritual relationship? A spiritual relationship starts when you and your partner are working towards personal growth together. Together you decide on what you want to develop as individuals and as a couple, when you are totally committed to helping, supporting and loving each other throughout the journey – the good and the bad bits! You are both clear that you have security and support and are now ready to move on to a more spiritual level by both becoming more enlightened together. You are both striving for things beyond money, reward and vanity. Although you are working towards this goal both of you are aware that you are individuals and are working on being a more spiritual person all the time, even when you are apart. You and your partner are working on improving your self esteem and self respect; you are able to give yourself everything you need. As part of this both of you know that you are not joined at the hip, you have separate relationships, hobbies and careers coming together again to develop further refreshed by the separation. No subject is taboo between you and all lines of communication are open all the time. There is no manipulation, judgement or fear in your communications and both of you have let go of your insecurities. Even when you disagree it is done with respect and can even be a learning experience for you both. Forgiveness is a key part of your relationship, errors and mistakes are human and you both accept that these will be part of your journey together. Both of you are willing to admit your mistakes and to apologize and really mean that ‘sorry’ too. Although you are both working together on spiritual growth, you both accept each other as you are, with no wishes to change your partner into anything or anyone else. You will be with them every step of the way to growth but you accept them if they succeed or fail. Celebration, laughter and joy run through your relationship and you both want to make each other happy. Your joy for life is catching. Good luck
Written By Beverley ( Intuitive | Clairvoyant | Healer )
The Power Of Purpose
We all want a sense of meaning and purpose in our lives. When we feel lost, we lose the intuition that comes from the experience. We lose the discovery of our own boundaries and preferences. And we lose the joy that is a natural result of vulnerability, awareness, and energy. All of this, results in losing our awareness of our life purpose, our passion. We lose our clarity, too. Purpose will be unique for everyone, what you identify as your path may be different from others. True purpose is about recognising your own gifts and using them to contribute to the world. Every human being has a deep inner longing for meaning, significance, and purpose. List your talents, interests, and gifts (you may or may not be using them). Write about one that you would like to nurture.Understanding your purpose in life helps to motivate you and protect you from the inevitable ups and downs of everyday life. In order to find your spiritual purpose, you must reconnect to your passion and what excites you. Moving into new chambers opens up the way for new possibilities to emerge, allowing our life purpose to evolve. You might be comparing yourself to other people’s achievements and perhaps feel like you are not doing enough. Let me assure you that we're ALL playing a huge role in this awakening and while some roles are larger than others, NO ROLE is any less important! Honour your resistances and the times when you feel no willpower, to put into practice what you know you need to do. Listen and you will find you probably need some nurturing or to finish some loose ends in your life, maybe heal one of your relationships, leave a job, or change your negative thinking. You are not backsliding if you go through a period of needing help. Everyday, we have the opportunity to send out positive thoughts and intentions to the world. I want you to remember that happiness is an emotion, not a goal. Our goal is to experience as many things in life as possible that help to enrich our spirit. Some of these things might bring sorrow and pain which allows us to grow spiritually.
