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Trust
in You - Meditation with Mothers Nature: by Jenni Madison.
Knowing
and trusting in something that is bigger than us, and
having the humility to receive and be guided from within,
is one of the greatest blessings we can give to our
selves. It really does allow us to give life the fullness,
the appreciation and the meaning it deserves.
Meditation is often referred to as a tool to relax and
calm the mind. As much as I agree that this is true,
I also believe that the real purpose of meditation is
to consciously connect. To connect with that part of
our selves and our universe that is sacred and divine.
Within the depth of this connection, we are free from
the usual thought patterns, daily concerns and emotional
triggers that take us away from the present moment.
It is only in the present moment that we have power.
That is the peace, calm, and clarity that allow us to
dance to our own rhythm, and trust in the beautiful
flow of life.
Meditation allows your intentions to be received by
your subconscious, which is where manifestation actually
occurs. By giving yourself the time and the space to
meditate, you are creating an awareness and depth that
touches your soul very deep. Then when you come back
into action and creation mode, life can be in flow as
the blessings continue to appear.
Meditation
To begin your meditation, sit comfortably with your
back straight, close your eyes and take a deep breath.
Relax as you feel the life force of this breath enter
inside of you and then release. Continue to breathe
gently in this way and invoke the Presence of the Divine.
This is a time to be present, ask, receive and trust.
It is a time to relish your relationship with yourself,
and with what you refer to as your divine. Feel and
appreciate the presence that surrounds you, and that
is now within you.
I choose to meditate on the following three intentions
as I believe they lead toward freedom and harmony, and
that is our personal and collective well being. This
is also the essence that covers everything I could possibly
desire.
1. Self Love ~ self love is our only true protection
form the shadow of self and others. I ask that I can
love myself so deeply that I do not burden or project
this need onto others, and that I can give and receive
love generously in my relationships. With self love
I can accept life with grace and take nothing personally.
I then imagine energy flowing in through my crown chakra
and out through my heart. I hold my heart energy and
appreciate the love that I am.
2. Radiant Health ~ with great health we can
have it all. I trust and am grateful that my body restores
itself naturally to perfect health. If I am feeling
any pain or discomfort in any area of my body I imagine
the sacred energy flowing toward this area as it is
healing.
3. Abundance ~ I enjoy abundance as a feeling
of inner fulfilment and joy. Here I ask that all of
my material needs are met and that I need for nothing.
I trust and allow in the will of heaven as I open my
palms up to receive the beauty of this world.
I then ask for others to also receive the blessings
of the above three intentions.
Time in meditation is amazing, it is the essence of
being alive. You really can do this anywhere and at
any time, all it requires is your presence and your
intent. This sacred space is paradoxically personal
and universal.
Mother Natures Magic
Pure essential oils such as frankinsense and sandlewood
ignite your awareness into being grounded and present
in the moment. This is helpful for meditation with intent.
The healing power of pure coconut oil nurtures your
connection to mother nature. By massaging pure coconut
oil gently onto your body, around your forehead and
temples, you are nourishing and nurturing your well
being. This allows a calm and connected space for deep
meditation to occur.
With
love and blessings,
Jenni
Madison Founder, Coconut Magic
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Relaxing
Over the Festive Season: by Clayfield Counselling.
What
do you find relaxing? Perhaps it is the idea of a good
book, fishing, going for a walk, listening to music
or watching movies. But when do we get the chance to
enjoy things that we find relaxing and soothing. Over
the Christmas break, many people will experience stress
and perhaps some high level of excitement, depending
on the festive activities. For many people, after a
break they feel more exhausted, and say they need a
holiday from a holiday. The important thing to remember
is to take 30 minutes a days and dedicate it totally
to relaxing. How often do we find ourselves wanting
to relax, for instance watching a movie, but instead
of sitting down and enjoying ourselves, we need to feel
busy, instead we watch TV and do the ironing at the
same time. This is not relaxation; this is an inability
to relax. Yes life is busy, but life is what you make
it and is one more hour going to make the ironing pile
appear less monstrous.
What makes people so stressed over the Christmas
break?
The main contributor to increased stress over the festive
season is family; Christmas for many people means "family
gatherings" which for some is one of the most daunting
experiences of the year. This year, instead of focusing
on getting everything perfect, just focus on making
sure you and your family enjoy yourselves. If you find,
the stress is starting to wear you down, here are some
ways to help you relax.
Some ways to help you relax:
" Deep breathing - breathe in through the nose and let
the air fill the bottom of your lungs first, breathe
right down to your stomach, then breathe out slowly,
concentrating on letting the muscles of your body relax.
" Focused breathing - breathe in through the nose and
as you breathe out say a positive statement to yourself
like relax or calm down.
" Stretching - stretch out muscles, reach the arms above
the head and stretch, or just stretch whatever part
of the body you feel needs it.
" Visualisation - this is where you picture a pleasant
place and use slow breathing through the nose - you
can make the place anywhere you want to and you can
change anything in the picture to see, feel, hear or
smell just as you wish.
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Unlock
The Power of Your Mind: by Tony Grant of Mind Therapy
Brisbane.
Whatever
your expectations of hypnotherapy, unless you have already
enjoyed your own natural ability to take control of
your feelings, emotions and habits, then my guess is
that you probably don't take control. Yet it is so easy
when you know how.
If you have not experienced clinical hypnotherapy before
then I want you to put aside any past perceptions or
expectations for just long enough for you to read this
short article. You can decide later whether you want
to bring back those old beliefs, that is entirely up
to you.
By way of an explanation and for the purpose of making
this brief I am going to break the mind into two parts,
the conscious mind and the unconscious mind.
The conscious mind is where we are right now while reading
this, a state of awareness, the other part, the subconscious,
lies just below that level of awareness.
Many people relate the conscious mind to the time we
are awake each day, it does four things:
Analysis - The part of our mind where we look
at problems, analyse them and attempt to find solutions.
The part that makes decisions all day long, every day.
Rational - The part that has to know why things
happen and why we behave the way we do.
Willpower - The determination that we have to
do things.
Short
term memory - The things that we need to know on
a day-to-day basis like how to respond when someone
say 'hi', rather than just stare at them wondering what
to say.
The conscious mind is wherever you happen to be pointing
it at any given time; it is where your attention is.
Have you ever been in a busy cafe with noises all around
you and yet you can focus just on what your partner
is saying to you? Yet at a nearby table someone throws
your name into a sentence and your focus points instantly
to someone else's conversation. If you take your conscious
awareness and point it inside yourself instead of outside
into the world, you begin to become aware of your inner
self, your unconscious self.
This is the part of you that we work with in hypnotherapy.
Your unconscious mind is incredibly powerful and automates
as much of your behaviour as it can so that you do not
have to think. For example there was a time in your
life when you did not know how to walk and yet now you
don't even think about 'how' you just unconsciously
do it.
Our mind is an amazing learning centre, we learn behaviours
and habits then our unconscious mind automates what
we have learnt so that we do these things on auto pilot.
We don't have to analyse or rationalise, we don't even
have to ignite willpower, we just do it because we cannot
question our unconscious mind we can only question things
in our conscious mind.
The unconscious mind holds all long-term memory, absolutely
everything that we have experienced, relationships,
interpretations of and every single influence upon our
world. For example, until you read this you are unlikely
to recall what gifts you received on your last birthday,
who was there and how you felt at the time and yet now
that you are thinking about it you can recall. Your
unconscious mind is where your emotions and behaviours
come from, it knows more about you than you consciously
know that you know.
The unconscious mind provides the solutions to many
of the analytical questions in our conscious mind based
on our past experience. Hypnotherapy is a calm and peaceful
experience by which we can step over the analytical,
rational conscious mind to access the unconscious mind
and make powerful changes, to change your life.
Dip. Clinical Hyp., PMAHA, Reiki Master, Cert. Power
Hyp., Cert. Hyp. Fascination, Cert. Age Regression,
Cert. Parts Therapy
M: 0407441410
E: tony@mindtherapybrisbane.com.au
w: http://www.mindtherapybrisbane.com.au
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Foods You Don't have to Buy Organic:By The Medical Sanctuary!
There
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small doses of pesticides and other chemicals can adversely
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of pesticides are worrisome, not well understood, or
in some cases completely unstudied, shoppers are wise
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Organic fruits and vegetables are by definition grown
without the use of pesticides. But some find the expense
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The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization
that advocates for policies that protect global and
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in Produce. It is based on the results of nearly 43,000
pesticide tests.
Of the 43 different fruit and vegetable categories in
the Guide to Pesticides, the following twelve foods
had the lowest pesticide load when conventionally grown.
Consequently, they are the safest conventionally grown
crops to consume:
o Broccoli
o Eggplant
o Cabbage
o Banana
o Kiwi
o Asparagus
o Sweet peas (frozen)
o Mango
o Pineapple
o Sweet corn (frozen)
o Avocado
o Onion
The dozen with the highest pesticide loads and which
should be avoided unless organic:
o Peaches
o Apples
o Sweet Bell Peppers
o Celery
o Nectarines
o Strawberries
o Cherries
o Lettuce
o Grapes (Imported)
o Pears
o Spinach
o Potatoes
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Short
and Sweet:Spinach & Lentil Soup!
This
is one of my all time favorites & the spinach can easily
be substituted for silver beet.
Serves 4
2 tsp olive oil
1 small onion, halved, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tbs good quality tomato paste
5 cups vegetable, veal or chicken stock.
420g (2 cups) red lentils, rinsed
1 bunch spinach, or half a bunch of silver beet, ends
trimmed, washed, dried, coarsely chopped
2 tbs fresh lemon juice
ground black pepper & fresh parsley to taste
1. Heat the oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat.
Add the onion and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until
soft. Add the garlic and tomato paste and cook, stirring,
for 30 seconds or until aromatic.
2. Add the stock and lentils to the pan. Bring to the
boil. Reduce heat to low and cook, partially covered,
stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes or until lentils
are very soft.
3. Add spinach to lentil mixture and cook for 1-2 minutes
or until cooked.
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Laughter
is the best medicine!
A
woman in a supermarket is following a grandfather and
his badly behaved 3 year-old grandson.
It's obvious to her that he has his hands full with
the child screaming for sweets in the sweet aisle, biscuits
in the biscuit aisle; and for fruit, cereal and pop
in the other aisles.
Meanwhile, Granddad is working his way around, saying
in a controlled voice, "Easy, William, we won't be long
. . . Easy, boy."
Another outburst, and she hears the granddad calmly
say, "It's okay, William, just a couple more minutes
and we'll be out of here. Hang in there, boy."
At the checkout, the little terror is throwing items
out of the cart, and Granddad says again in a controlled
voice, "William, William, relax buddy, don't get upset.
We'll be home in five minutes; stay cool, William."
Very impressed, the woman goes outside where the grandfather
is loading his groceries and the boy into the car.
She said to the elderly gentleman, "It's none of my
business, but you were amazing in there. I don't know
how you did it. That whole time, you kept your composure,
and no matter how loud and disruptive he got, you just
calmly kept saying things would be okay. William is
very lucky to have you as his grandpa."
"Thanks," said the grandfather, "but I'm William . ..
. The little Terror's name is Kevin."
.Quote
of the Month!
"Before you begin a thing remind yourself
that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee
are ahead. You can only see one thing clearly, and that
is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling
to it through thick and thin." Kathleen
Norris
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