It's not that I have stopped writing, it's that I have been writing elsewhere recently. That's all I can say really, as it has been all very private and has to stay that way to protect other people. However, it's 2011 and I'm back blogging.
Saying goodbye to 2010 wasn't tricky. Although despite some personal challenges I am now the proud owner of a qualification as a hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner. Allowing my clients even more help when they need it. It has been fascinating studying the mind with my superb teacher Barbara Ford Hammond and I have the learning bug more than ever now.
However, perhaps it's January blues but there is a huge feeling of needing an even greater understanding of my existence on this planet. I have decided go in search of "it" and due to my huge health kick last year, I have no vices to give up, I have decided my resolution will be to gain rather than to subtract from my life.
I am not sure what "it" is yet but I have a pretty good idea of what "it" isn't. It isn't for example just a simple search for happiness, or love even. I think I am experienced enough to know that happiness has many forms for each individual and it's a matter of perspective after all.
What I want is a sense of complete calm and knowing firmly cemented in my soul and although that feeling has drifted in and out I plan to find a way to make it stay for the rest of my life.
A few weeks ago, an advert for a Charity Trek to Nepal and the Himalayas in 2012 screamed at me. I met a wonderful Indian woman once who told me that the Himalayas were the back bone of life. Apparently one day, you are walking through difficult forests where you really cant see where you are going, whilst on another day you can see beautiful calm waters and spectacular views, just like life. I will be visiting temples and remote villages with a group of women and Prof Winston who's charity we are raising money for. I least I say I will as I have made the first step and put my name down.
But that's a long way off and for now apart from working on my fitness more than ever, I have to ask myself where else do I find "it". Perhaps I should put my life in the hands of the Universe?
If you are interested in Sponsoring me on my trek for the Charity Genesis Research Trust please e mail me at lizzie@lizziefalconer.com Thank you
Friday, 7 January 2011
Monday, 12 July 2010
Catching up....
It's five to one in the morning but quite frankly if I don't write this now perhaps I won't get round to it for another six months. I have no idea where I have been as to not write this, but I have come to the conclusion that sometimes one has to study in life to learn and sometimes we have to take some practical lessons. I think that's what I have been doing actually.....and it's been an inspirational journey.
Our new puppy has been a wonderful addition to the family and I take him out into the fields every morning for a 3 mile hike across some of Suffolk's most beautiful countryside. Perhaps I am just getting old, but I LOVE walking him and the effect it is having on my mind, body and spirit. I often find myself in the middle of a huge open beautiful space thinking how lucky I am to be able to live in such an amazing place. I love watching the seasons change, as so far, I have trudged through snow and rain, picked Spring flowers and of course at the moment during this heatwave I have watched the crops gradually ripen in the sun. I feel fit and healthy and my mind has never been clearer. And I am totally in love......... with our little black Miniature Schnauzer Woody.
The other walk though, the spiritual one, is not for the faint hearted, some find it difficult to understand why I can not simply stop. I have of course come off the path a few times, but it keeps finding me in the end and the draw to continue is extraordinary. I am not sure that even the work I did a couple of years ago has a any relevance to what I am learning and passing on in my teaching today. I have discovered so many new understandings, which have gone on to help other people..thank you universe.
Of course, we must have bad in this world so we can understand what good is. But it's how we approach this that matters. Learning to detach from negative people and those with an ego is tough and can be very painful. It always comes back to the self and I understand that you only attract what you already are into your life. But the ego is, in my opinion, the nearest thing to evil as we know it. A human led by ego is afraid, needs constant approval, is insecure, and will take no regard for others and their feelings.
The human who has let go of their ego, lives from the soul within. The soul knows there is no need to be afraid of being alone, as we are never really alone. The soul does not need approval, as approval from others doesn't exist...after all, who is better than another? The soul trusts in itself and feels at one, it recognises that insecurity is merely a waste of it's energy.
The soul is an extraordinary energy, the ultimate energy, and when that energy is used in the right way then it can heal the body, the mind and your path in life. Those who's lives are spiralling out of control are living from the ego.
I have worked on my energy for some months now and I have watched interesting things take place, I can not emphasise enough the importance of giving your energy away. Life is a series of adventures and moments, some will make you feel wonderful whilst others will be tough. It's how you see them that matters, what you learn from them. Letting go of a situation when it's difficult allows the Law of Karma to take place, let the Universe sort out your problems and just move on. I have found it difficult at times but seeing others wasting their energy on situations is a wonderful reminder that I need to let go too.
I have some wonderful people in my life and I have learnt some wonderful lessons from some not so wonderful situations, now it's time to go and work with those who want to change and be happy and wish goodbye and good luck to those who don't.
Right bed time.....the sun will be rising up above those fields soon and a little dog will be giving me that look!
Our new puppy has been a wonderful addition to the family and I take him out into the fields every morning for a 3 mile hike across some of Suffolk's most beautiful countryside. Perhaps I am just getting old, but I LOVE walking him and the effect it is having on my mind, body and spirit. I often find myself in the middle of a huge open beautiful space thinking how lucky I am to be able to live in such an amazing place. I love watching the seasons change, as so far, I have trudged through snow and rain, picked Spring flowers and of course at the moment during this heatwave I have watched the crops gradually ripen in the sun. I feel fit and healthy and my mind has never been clearer. And I am totally in love......... with our little black Miniature Schnauzer Woody.
The other walk though, the spiritual one, is not for the faint hearted, some find it difficult to understand why I can not simply stop. I have of course come off the path a few times, but it keeps finding me in the end and the draw to continue is extraordinary. I am not sure that even the work I did a couple of years ago has a any relevance to what I am learning and passing on in my teaching today. I have discovered so many new understandings, which have gone on to help other people..thank you universe.
Of course, we must have bad in this world so we can understand what good is. But it's how we approach this that matters. Learning to detach from negative people and those with an ego is tough and can be very painful. It always comes back to the self and I understand that you only attract what you already are into your life. But the ego is, in my opinion, the nearest thing to evil as we know it. A human led by ego is afraid, needs constant approval, is insecure, and will take no regard for others and their feelings.
The human who has let go of their ego, lives from the soul within. The soul knows there is no need to be afraid of being alone, as we are never really alone. The soul does not need approval, as approval from others doesn't exist...after all, who is better than another? The soul trusts in itself and feels at one, it recognises that insecurity is merely a waste of it's energy.
The soul is an extraordinary energy, the ultimate energy, and when that energy is used in the right way then it can heal the body, the mind and your path in life. Those who's lives are spiralling out of control are living from the ego.
I have worked on my energy for some months now and I have watched interesting things take place, I can not emphasise enough the importance of giving your energy away. Life is a series of adventures and moments, some will make you feel wonderful whilst others will be tough. It's how you see them that matters, what you learn from them. Letting go of a situation when it's difficult allows the Law of Karma to take place, let the Universe sort out your problems and just move on. I have found it difficult at times but seeing others wasting their energy on situations is a wonderful reminder that I need to let go too.
I have some wonderful people in my life and I have learnt some wonderful lessons from some not so wonderful situations, now it's time to go and work with those who want to change and be happy and wish goodbye and good luck to those who don't.
Right bed time.....the sun will be rising up above those fields soon and a little dog will be giving me that look!
Monday, 8 February 2010
Cyril Scott
I have had this recurring dream for a few years now, well actually I have had two recurring dreams but the one I will share with you now strangely has come true...sort of. I dream I am in a big house, I feel it's mine and and each time I dream, I spend time in different room. At the end of each dream I climb a small staircase to an attic and there is a book shelf full of very old books. I seem to know in my dream that if I was to pull out a book and read it, it would give the answer to so much about life. Naturally, every time I am just about to read the book I wake up or am woken up with "Mummy are there any pain au chocolate for breakfast?" So frustrating!
Until the other day, I went into this rather hidden old second hand book shop in our local town and found a book called The Initiate by His Pupil. Written in the 1920's it is the most profound literature I have read for a long time. With a little research I discovered "His Pupil" was the great composer Cyril Scott who looks uncannily like Richard E. Grant in his youth! Scott was an extraordinary man who not only composed some beautiful music but wrote many books on health, and the Occult.
The very mention of the word Occult can send some people into a spin, but this is merely true spiritual enlightenment and has nothing to do with cauldrons and witches. Scott writes so beautifully and despite his rather old English language one soon gets into the flow of it and he makes such sense. Needless to say I am now the proud owner of all his books and am studying rather than reading them and will be sharing with you over the months some of his wonderful knowledge.
Most importantly, I am very excited to have corresponded with his son Desmond Scott who has given me a little more insight into his wonderful father. For those of you who are tired of reading the same old self help books and are ready to move up a level then please read his work.
I have come to realise that the road to enlightenment is a two part journey. Some of it is practical in the shape of soul-mates who come into our lives to help us to learn to be better people, and then the second part in theory. I have spent a while now working on the practical and am enjoying the studying at the moment.
Last year was for my understanding and healing, this year feels productive and full of hope. Scott explains that material wealth holds no energy that will last and make you happy, only your soul carries your true happiness. When you have realised this then you can move forward with conviction.
Peace
Until the other day, I went into this rather hidden old second hand book shop in our local town and found a book called The Initiate by His Pupil. Written in the 1920's it is the most profound literature I have read for a long time. With a little research I discovered "His Pupil" was the great composer Cyril Scott who looks uncannily like Richard E. Grant in his youth! Scott was an extraordinary man who not only composed some beautiful music but wrote many books on health, and the Occult.
The very mention of the word Occult can send some people into a spin, but this is merely true spiritual enlightenment and has nothing to do with cauldrons and witches. Scott writes so beautifully and despite his rather old English language one soon gets into the flow of it and he makes such sense. Needless to say I am now the proud owner of all his books and am studying rather than reading them and will be sharing with you over the months some of his wonderful knowledge.
Most importantly, I am very excited to have corresponded with his son Desmond Scott who has given me a little more insight into his wonderful father. For those of you who are tired of reading the same old self help books and are ready to move up a level then please read his work.
I have come to realise that the road to enlightenment is a two part journey. Some of it is practical in the shape of soul-mates who come into our lives to help us to learn to be better people, and then the second part in theory. I have spent a while now working on the practical and am enjoying the studying at the moment.
Last year was for my understanding and healing, this year feels productive and full of hope. Scott explains that material wealth holds no energy that will last and make you happy, only your soul carries your true happiness. When you have realised this then you can move forward with conviction.
Peace
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Peace in their time
I have learnt over the last few years on my journey to enlightenment, that if you have a particular dream for something and it's not working out, leave it alone! If a door is shut keep it shut, but if a door is open go through it.....simple! Naturally, like any stubborn female there have been times that I have tried to find the key to open the door or even managed to force it open with a flippin crowbar, but it just swings back and I get my fingers caught or worse!
Lately however, it seems that I am following the right path, doors are opening everywhere and so far I don't feel an annoying draft! As I have mentioned before I have been working with teenagers and twentysomethings.....the youth of today. Never have I experienced anything so rewarding and I feel as if the best is yet to come. Although, I think they get bored of me nagging at them about the rubbish they eat as they munch away in class on stuff that doesn't even look like food. I digress....more importantly they are more enthusiastic than ever to sort out our sorry town.
So despite our long term plan to have a place for them to go,that provides fun and a future for them, first up is giving Sudbury a shake. Once a quaint Suffolk market town, now a place overrun by young people spilling out of pubs and clubs all weekend, causing trouble. Vandalism, drug addiction, alcohol abuse and teenage pregnancy all rising steadily and now......murder. Yes I know we are not exclusive, but Rome and all that.
In 1993, a transendental meditation group on Washington meditated for peace and to lower the crime rate. It worked, just through the power of 4,000 participant's thought process the crime rate was recorded as decreasing by 48%! This is a mind blowing figure and surely can not be ignored? I suggested we try and pursuade Sudbury's population to do the same, bring the place to a grinding halt, even for just for one day.
Positivety is infectious, and organically within an hour we had come up with a cunning plan to produce some kind of Peace Day. Our imagination went nuts as we visualised stages with brilliant bands, amazing speakers and gurus, turning our town for one day into a proper community.
One of the boys said "and perhaps we could all pin our hopes and dreams onto a tree?" His comment blew me away, but it's amazing what happens when you cut down on sugar!
I began in earnest to put the feelers out and the doors are swinging open. Not only did everyone pick up their phone and listen, so far they are all saying yes! Local authorites and the police are being incredibly helpful, my friends and contacts are just the same. Already I have had some very exciting names agree to be on board, details later, and next week I have meetings to pin down the date next year and of course the venues. It has even grown into being a weekend now, a festival.
My 12 year old son said that "we couldn't have peace around us, unless we found peace within first!" and suggested we have a confession cubicle for people to write down their troubles and burn them. And yes it did bring a lump in my throat.
Another group member has no idea how good his writing is, finally started writing his own blog, and I am very proud of him. Well done Matt, please keep it up! The link is below and definitely worth a read.
http://www.matthew-norton.blogspot.com/
I will be keeping updates of this event on here and there will be facebook etc pages available soon, I think I am going to be rather busy for the next 9 months and as ever, brilliantly timed with the arrival of a new member of the family on Sunday.....Woodstock aka Woody.....our new puppy! Funny how we named him after the most amazing festival ever, before this idea was born. But then there is no such thing as coincedence!
Peace and happiness
Lately however, it seems that I am following the right path, doors are opening everywhere and so far I don't feel an annoying draft! As I have mentioned before I have been working with teenagers and twentysomethings.....the youth of today. Never have I experienced anything so rewarding and I feel as if the best is yet to come. Although, I think they get bored of me nagging at them about the rubbish they eat as they munch away in class on stuff that doesn't even look like food. I digress....more importantly they are more enthusiastic than ever to sort out our sorry town.
So despite our long term plan to have a place for them to go,that provides fun and a future for them, first up is giving Sudbury a shake. Once a quaint Suffolk market town, now a place overrun by young people spilling out of pubs and clubs all weekend, causing trouble. Vandalism, drug addiction, alcohol abuse and teenage pregnancy all rising steadily and now......murder. Yes I know we are not exclusive, but Rome and all that.
In 1993, a transendental meditation group on Washington meditated for peace and to lower the crime rate. It worked, just through the power of 4,000 participant's thought process the crime rate was recorded as decreasing by 48%! This is a mind blowing figure and surely can not be ignored? I suggested we try and pursuade Sudbury's population to do the same, bring the place to a grinding halt, even for just for one day.
Positivety is infectious, and organically within an hour we had come up with a cunning plan to produce some kind of Peace Day. Our imagination went nuts as we visualised stages with brilliant bands, amazing speakers and gurus, turning our town for one day into a proper community.
One of the boys said "and perhaps we could all pin our hopes and dreams onto a tree?" His comment blew me away, but it's amazing what happens when you cut down on sugar!
I began in earnest to put the feelers out and the doors are swinging open. Not only did everyone pick up their phone and listen, so far they are all saying yes! Local authorites and the police are being incredibly helpful, my friends and contacts are just the same. Already I have had some very exciting names agree to be on board, details later, and next week I have meetings to pin down the date next year and of course the venues. It has even grown into being a weekend now, a festival.
My 12 year old son said that "we couldn't have peace around us, unless we found peace within first!" and suggested we have a confession cubicle for people to write down their troubles and burn them. And yes it did bring a lump in my throat.
Another group member has no idea how good his writing is, finally started writing his own blog, and I am very proud of him. Well done Matt, please keep it up! The link is below and definitely worth a read.
http://www.matthew-norton.blogspot.com/
I will be keeping updates of this event on here and there will be facebook etc pages available soon, I think I am going to be rather busy for the next 9 months and as ever, brilliantly timed with the arrival of a new member of the family on Sunday.....Woodstock aka Woody.....our new puppy! Funny how we named him after the most amazing festival ever, before this idea was born. But then there is no such thing as coincedence!
Peace and happiness
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
When we were young
Where does the time go when you're having fun! One minute I am on my rainy summer holidays and the next we are gathering logs for the fire. It's around this time I defiantly promise myself that I WILL be superwoman this Christmas. I visualise myself with my feet up by December in front of said fire, whilst everyone else stands in queues at More Toys R Driving Us Nuts! So far so good, but family members please don't hold your breath!
My work with my teenagers had progressed and I must confess to loving every minute of it. The group grew, so I split the them into girls and boys. Interestingly, the boys are there without fail every week, which has slightly turned into a swap as they are teaching me poker the following evening! The girls have been distracted, and I am not sure that their hunger for wanting to change their lives is so great, perhaps a few more lessons with the outside world first. However, I am touched by the attendance and loyalty from the guys and in return they are making amazing progress in only a few weeks. Their psychic/intuitive ability is incredible and I am so proud to be helping them. Equally, their want for more in their lives is leading them to incredible self motivation. Their aspect on what the world could offer them is changing for the better.
Sadly, our local town, Sudbury, lost a young life to a stabbing a few weeks ago. The shock wave has been immense and some of my group knew the victim. That week in our class we all talked at length about what happened and why. Organically, an idea hatched from these young people who desperately want change in their community. If a typical ignorant adult, who pigeon holes all teenagers as something of a waste of space, lent them an ear they might just learn a thing or too. I found our talk incredibly humbling and inspiring. Given a choice they would rather be playing sport or some other fun activity than spending night after night in a drossy themed pub.
Together we have given life to a project which is still in the embryonic stages, however, driven by a spiritual understanding and already some divine intervention we could change things. A chance for teenagers to have a voice and show others that they are good souls too. They are our future after all. More on this as it unfolds.
As for me, life is getting better and better. I get stronger and wiser every day. Halloween, my favourite time of the year, approaches and I will be at the Scole Inn for a haunted evening on the 31st. I am also about to embark on some new paranormal experiments with a group, based on the experiments that took place, oddly just behind the Scole Inn. Mr and Mr Foy who conducted the original Scole Experiments have sent a copy of the formula and once I acquire all the tools needed , we shall begin! I am so looking forward to seeing what will happen as the book and website is quite intriguing.
www.scoleexperiment.com
As I look back on the last few years, I hardly recognise myself. I finally feel some inner peace and the universe has been hard at work helping me. There is still a part of that mountain to climb, but, I feel the summit is near and I have found the strength to get there. Now, when clients come and see me I feel richer in experience than ever and no longer feel like the plumber fixing other people's taps whilst my own leaks at home.
Peace
My work with my teenagers had progressed and I must confess to loving every minute of it. The group grew, so I split the them into girls and boys. Interestingly, the boys are there without fail every week, which has slightly turned into a swap as they are teaching me poker the following evening! The girls have been distracted, and I am not sure that their hunger for wanting to change their lives is so great, perhaps a few more lessons with the outside world first. However, I am touched by the attendance and loyalty from the guys and in return they are making amazing progress in only a few weeks. Their psychic/intuitive ability is incredible and I am so proud to be helping them. Equally, their want for more in their lives is leading them to incredible self motivation. Their aspect on what the world could offer them is changing for the better.
Sadly, our local town, Sudbury, lost a young life to a stabbing a few weeks ago. The shock wave has been immense and some of my group knew the victim. That week in our class we all talked at length about what happened and why. Organically, an idea hatched from these young people who desperately want change in their community. If a typical ignorant adult, who pigeon holes all teenagers as something of a waste of space, lent them an ear they might just learn a thing or too. I found our talk incredibly humbling and inspiring. Given a choice they would rather be playing sport or some other fun activity than spending night after night in a drossy themed pub.
Together we have given life to a project which is still in the embryonic stages, however, driven by a spiritual understanding and already some divine intervention we could change things. A chance for teenagers to have a voice and show others that they are good souls too. They are our future after all. More on this as it unfolds.
As for me, life is getting better and better. I get stronger and wiser every day. Halloween, my favourite time of the year, approaches and I will be at the Scole Inn for a haunted evening on the 31st. I am also about to embark on some new paranormal experiments with a group, based on the experiments that took place, oddly just behind the Scole Inn. Mr and Mr Foy who conducted the original Scole Experiments have sent a copy of the formula and once I acquire all the tools needed , we shall begin! I am so looking forward to seeing what will happen as the book and website is quite intriguing.
www.scoleexperiment.com
As I look back on the last few years, I hardly recognise myself. I finally feel some inner peace and the universe has been hard at work helping me. There is still a part of that mountain to climb, but, I feel the summit is near and I have found the strength to get there. Now, when clients come and see me I feel richer in experience than ever and no longer feel like the plumber fixing other people's taps whilst my own leaks at home.
Peace
Thursday, 20 August 2009
The youth of today!
Ok, so yes, it's been a while. Three weeks in wet Cornwall wasn't worth banging on about. Suffolk apparently, has more sunshine than anywhere in the country, and boy did I remind myself of that whilst I was in the deep south! It also has less seagulls and I am sorry, but despite the need to love all God's creatures I wish they had manners!
With respect to others I am just going to say that I am happy to be home and I realise more than ever how much I love where I live and how blessed I am to live in sunny Suffolk!
Whilst away, a lovely teenager in the village looked after my house. Yes, I left the house in the capable hands of a teenager! Seems that whilst I was sitting under an umberella on the beach, word was getting out in the Suffolk teenage community about my "cool" work!
Requests were coming in for a seance when I got back, or something else equally scarey would be "well bad" or was it good? So, this got me thinking and I thought about how many teenagers are out there bored and getting themselves into trouble. If only they could understand that karma is real, that they have an abilty to reach a "high" on meditation alone and could manifest a happy future for themselves.
Last Thursday, my girls class came and we decided to envoke angels, I hadn't asked for help myself recently and so we began to meditate. We each took it in turns to ask and we all felt amazing, I felt a massive shift.
The following day, things started to happen! Really wierd coincedences started to take place and I felt strangley protected. By Tuesday ten teenagers arrived at my house, 6 boys and 4 girls. Aged between 14 and 19 and all with the most extra ordinary tales to tell. I was recently told by some kind person that I needed to "get into the real world" well "whatever!" if I hadn't before, I have now.
I will not divulge their personal stories for obvious reasons, but I had an insight into lives that broke my heart. Brave faces, clenched jaws and the fear not to cry about incredibly tough lives rocked me. I was trying to work out how I could adopt them all!
But their fascination for my work and their gasps and squeals as I either read for them or showed them how to use their own psychic ability had them gripped.We meditated and talked about how to let go of their past and manifest a happy future.
At the end of the evening, (the last one left at 2am, which is apparently early!) I lay in bed and thanked the universe from the bottom of my heart for allowing me the opportunity to work with these young people. For the record I am not charging this group, the experience is richness enough.
Thanks to face book, twitter, texts and all other normal teenage communication more now want to come! What if......what if spiritual teaching could actually be the key to changing these young peoples lives? The future could be incredible for all of us....after all they are our future.
With respect to others I am just going to say that I am happy to be home and I realise more than ever how much I love where I live and how blessed I am to live in sunny Suffolk!
Whilst away, a lovely teenager in the village looked after my house. Yes, I left the house in the capable hands of a teenager! Seems that whilst I was sitting under an umberella on the beach, word was getting out in the Suffolk teenage community about my "cool" work!
Requests were coming in for a seance when I got back, or something else equally scarey would be "well bad" or was it good? So, this got me thinking and I thought about how many teenagers are out there bored and getting themselves into trouble. If only they could understand that karma is real, that they have an abilty to reach a "high" on meditation alone and could manifest a happy future for themselves.
Last Thursday, my girls class came and we decided to envoke angels, I hadn't asked for help myself recently and so we began to meditate. We each took it in turns to ask and we all felt amazing, I felt a massive shift.
The following day, things started to happen! Really wierd coincedences started to take place and I felt strangley protected. By Tuesday ten teenagers arrived at my house, 6 boys and 4 girls. Aged between 14 and 19 and all with the most extra ordinary tales to tell. I was recently told by some kind person that I needed to "get into the real world" well "whatever!" if I hadn't before, I have now.
I will not divulge their personal stories for obvious reasons, but I had an insight into lives that broke my heart. Brave faces, clenched jaws and the fear not to cry about incredibly tough lives rocked me. I was trying to work out how I could adopt them all!
But their fascination for my work and their gasps and squeals as I either read for them or showed them how to use their own psychic ability had them gripped.We meditated and talked about how to let go of their past and manifest a happy future.
At the end of the evening, (the last one left at 2am, which is apparently early!) I lay in bed and thanked the universe from the bottom of my heart for allowing me the opportunity to work with these young people. For the record I am not charging this group, the experience is richness enough.
Thanks to face book, twitter, texts and all other normal teenage communication more now want to come! What if......what if spiritual teaching could actually be the key to changing these young peoples lives? The future could be incredible for all of us....after all they are our future.
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Is being Spiritual "the new black"?
In my crazy world I meet all sorts. But, living in a western world and with a responsibility to a family and work commitments, my desire to explore India, South America and other spiritual locations can not be fulfilled right now. Yet, I often yearn to indulge in the conversation of a guru, a master or a shaman.
The word Spiritual is everywhere now, from a drop down in face book profile to a section in a generic book shop. "I'm spiritual!" many inform me once they learn about me. But what baffles me is once I learn more about them, I'm not sure if they really know what "being spiritual" really means.
Why do I recognise this? Because I was like that once upon a time....until the Universe gave me a good slap and said "put that ego away and get out there and really learn!".
There seems to be a void in so many people lives, a sense of something missing, but what on earth, or above for that matter is it!? Someone recently suggested that perhaps we are "homesick" for our true home...our soul home on the other side. I think he may have point, undoubtedly for me, there is always the thirst for more knowledge....but is it one particular book in the life library or a secret code in many. The key is your heart, not your head, if it feels right in your heart then your soul is telling you so.
Going on a spiritual journey can be very hard work, if you follow the signs, signals and your intuition then it will become easier, but our conditioning and humanness tends to blur our vision and then we end up getting lost down some dead end and have to struggle to get back.
I wonder if trends are just a comfort for some, the need to be in a tribe and have or do what everyone else is doing. At my daughter's school pre recession the car park was awash with Discovery 4x4's now mini club man's are the flavour of the month, perhaps in an effort to look as if they are conforming to new greener, less opulent life style?
Spirituality is not meant to be a trend, it's a way of life and once it's really there, it's there for life. Sometimes at a cost to other people and your own enormous personal adjustments. If you try dipping in and out when it suits then accept the consequences, karma has a lovely way of biting us on the backside when we are thought no one was looking.
The road to Enlightenment means understanding basic spiritual laws, and realising the bigger picture. The Universe is watching your every move, your intentions, your thoughts and your manifestations. It could take lifetimes to "get there" so a word of warning, don't allow your ego to look for approval by announcing that you are spiritual. Certain resident gurus in India spend years in meditation, there's no big announcement or sign saying "hey, look at me". They know that this is a personal journey and have no need for approval....that is being Spiritual.
If you want to sign up, educate yourself and meditate, flashing the latest publication from the mind, body and spirit section next to your latte at Starbucks wont enlighten you unless you read it and absorb it. Surrounding yourself with incense sticks, tarot cards, pictures of Buddha...or similar wont do it either. It's all about intention and connecting with your soul. Recognising lessons and being grateful for the now which matter. If tomorrow you mind is on another quick fix then the road will be a long one.
Peace
The word Spiritual is everywhere now, from a drop down in face book profile to a section in a generic book shop. "I'm spiritual!" many inform me once they learn about me. But what baffles me is once I learn more about them, I'm not sure if they really know what "being spiritual" really means.
Why do I recognise this? Because I was like that once upon a time....until the Universe gave me a good slap and said "put that ego away and get out there and really learn!".
There seems to be a void in so many people lives, a sense of something missing, but what on earth, or above for that matter is it!? Someone recently suggested that perhaps we are "homesick" for our true home...our soul home on the other side. I think he may have point, undoubtedly for me, there is always the thirst for more knowledge....but is it one particular book in the life library or a secret code in many. The key is your heart, not your head, if it feels right in your heart then your soul is telling you so.
Going on a spiritual journey can be very hard work, if you follow the signs, signals and your intuition then it will become easier, but our conditioning and humanness tends to blur our vision and then we end up getting lost down some dead end and have to struggle to get back.
I wonder if trends are just a comfort for some, the need to be in a tribe and have or do what everyone else is doing. At my daughter's school pre recession the car park was awash with Discovery 4x4's now mini club man's are the flavour of the month, perhaps in an effort to look as if they are conforming to new greener, less opulent life style?
Spirituality is not meant to be a trend, it's a way of life and once it's really there, it's there for life. Sometimes at a cost to other people and your own enormous personal adjustments. If you try dipping in and out when it suits then accept the consequences, karma has a lovely way of biting us on the backside when we are thought no one was looking.
The road to Enlightenment means understanding basic spiritual laws, and realising the bigger picture. The Universe is watching your every move, your intentions, your thoughts and your manifestations. It could take lifetimes to "get there" so a word of warning, don't allow your ego to look for approval by announcing that you are spiritual. Certain resident gurus in India spend years in meditation, there's no big announcement or sign saying "hey, look at me". They know that this is a personal journey and have no need for approval....that is being Spiritual.
If you want to sign up, educate yourself and meditate, flashing the latest publication from the mind, body and spirit section next to your latte at Starbucks wont enlighten you unless you read it and absorb it. Surrounding yourself with incense sticks, tarot cards, pictures of Buddha...or similar wont do it either. It's all about intention and connecting with your soul. Recognising lessons and being grateful for the now which matter. If tomorrow you mind is on another quick fix then the road will be a long one.
Peace
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