Time to pause and enjoy the sun-set at the end of a busy day.
A moment of reflection sets you up for your evening activities.
Bring inner peace and harmony into your life. Amazingly you will find many of your challenges in the outer world ease. It can be basic everyday things like handling a situation where your children are fighting one another, across a spectrum of challenges to dealing with life feeling alone.
In that place of calmness within you will find the guidance, love and strength to help you to find a way through your challenges.read more
So often we are so busy with our lives – work, partners, family and friends that we forget to do something for ourselves. I am as guilty of this as anyone else. Since I stepped out of corporate life, Your Soul Family has been with me on holidays, festivals and family time. I have never been strong with defining my boundaries and I needed to take a look at how I was living.
At the beginning of July my husband suggested a trip to France to look for a new home. France is a large and beautiful country. On previous trips we had narrowed down the areas we were interested in. At the last moment we decided to go camping, something I have not done since my 20s. We bought some kit and the tent only arrived the day before we left. We had no time to practise pitching it before we needed to do it for real to sleep in it.
My husband assured me he had looked at the instructions and the tent only took 15 minutes to pitch, so if we took four times that it was still only an hour. We arrived at the camp site in the late afternoon and set about pitching the tent! I did not find the instructions very helpful and it felt like we were doing an enormous jigsaw puzzle. We considered giving up and hiring one of the cabins but that felt like a poor start to a hunt for a new home. Two hours later after much perspiration and having to view YouTube, the tent was finally up!!! Hooray, success.
The location was magical and more than compensated for the effort with the tent. We pitched under a willow tree for coolness and there was a river flowing on two sides of the tent. I had forgotten how wonderful it is to be in Nature. As a child I was an outdoor girl and stood with my wellington boots in hand at the door on a rainy day waiting for the rain to stop.=&0=&
Mother Nature soothed me again and time seemed to slow. There was very little mobile phone signal so I was not able to do my usual video broadcasts, an activity I find quite stressful. I had no choice but to settle into the arms of Nature and just ‘be’, wonderful. We discovered that the sun set over the river and there was a seat under a tree where you could watch the sun go down. The ducks slept around our tent and you could hear them moving about and quacking in the night. Bird song woke us in the morning. Five minutes walk away was a place where you could swim in the river overlooked by a little restaurant that served great French food and wine. It is a long time since I have felt so content and calm.
What surprised me was that when we came home, I found it hard to go back to living in a flat. Everyone was amazed at how much I loved the camping and thought I would miss life’s luxuries. However what I missed on my return was the close connection with Nature. It has certainly made me re-evaluate how I should be living, prioritising taking breaks much more and walking in Nature to re-capture that closeness. From my time in France my soul feels revived but my heart longs to return to the countryside. Roll-on our next visit.
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From my earliest years I happily chatted to someone inside of me not knowing who they were. Knowing no difference, I assumed everybody else did too. Many children do the same until they are seven when the practice seems to fade. I was a sickly child and spent much of my time in bed. A simple cold would send me to bed for a week to wait for my immune system to kick in. Bored and a little lonely, I kept my practice of chatting to my internal friend going throughout my growing up and into my adult years.
My friend was always with me being my companion, nurturing and loving me. I knew I was never really alone. At a time of crisis he directed me and at a time of upset he would comfort me. Why would I want to deny his existence as many parents encourage their children to do.
As an adult I explored my spiritual self and inner landscape, I came to believe my life companion was a spirit guide helping me to develop. It is only in my 60th decade that I realised my life companion, with whom I had shared all of my life’s ups and downs, was my own soul. We had laughed together, cried together and worked together to overcome the life challenges we all get. I couldn’t imagine life without him.
Increasingly people are asking me about their spiritual development and recognising their soul. I do it by just following my intuition. But perhaps it is easier if you can understand the structure of the universe and the environment in which all spiritual development occurs. I have found the esoteric philosophy the most comprehensive explanation but the original books on the topic are not easy to read. To help you over this hurdle, let me introduce you to my colleague and friend William Meader.
William is a respected and influential teacher of Esoteric Wisdom. He holds an MA in Psychology and a PhD in Esoteric Philosophy and presents seminars, workshops and lectures worldwide, as well as regular webinars. He uses his gifts as a communicator of this philosophy to nurture a deeper understanding of the spiritual path, both from an individual and global perspective.
In my view, a gentle introduction to this quite complex topic is to listen to William’s webinar recordings. They are great value and each one explores a topic in the overall philosophy and explains it in words you can understand.
Try one of William’s free lectures from his website
We communicate through energy and our feelings help guide us. Listen to this interesting sound bite from Bruce Lipton on the Evolution of Consciousness.
What a fantastic workshop Irene gave on using spirit art to understand who is trying to communicate with us and to receive some messages. No artistic skills were needed. However we all managed to draw portraits which looked life like and recognisable by ourselves or the person we were working with.
We did other exercises looking at ourselves from different perspectives, our energy over our lifetime, our aura and sunsets with messangers and messages. Everyone created beautiful pictures which were meaningful to themselves.
Lifetime energy
Auras
Sunset messengers and messages
To talk to the different people in your picture, I found you had to focus at different levels – deeper in the picture or nearer to yourself. Once the focus was achieved, information just arrived as a thought, feeling, sensation or knowing. I was surprised how rapid it was. All of us achieved it from the novice to the experienced.
Irene has a lovely relaxed and happy style. With her easy to do exercises, Irene made it feel effortless to learn how to practise spirit art. I found it an uplifting day and would fully recommend trying one of Irene’s workshops.
Irene’s workshops are suitable for people who are just starting out on their spiritual journey. Equally they are good for those who are more experienced and want to explore a new way of connecting with Spirit. I would take her workshop again as life is dynamic and there is always new life guidance for us if we seek it out.=&0=&
Thank you Irene for a great day. I enjoyed myself so much I will be back for another of your workshops.
Thank you to the London Spiritual Mission in Notting Hill for hosting the event. The library has such a good, nurturing feeling about it.
Interested in attending one of Irene’s workshops? Call her on 07746 820491
I’m so glad we’re together in this bright New Year.
If you’re like most people, you’ve probably spent some time reflecting on the year that was, and on your goals for the new year – yourVISION for what you want.
But how do you turn that vision into a real, living, breathing, reality?
Maybe you’re focusing on one important goal. Or maybe you’re dreaming extra big this year. You’re going to really go for it! Marry your soulmate, add another zero to your savings fund, and fit back into your skinny jeans.
In the meantime…
Your current life is pulling at you. There are bills to pay, dishes to clean, food to cook, relationships that need tending to, and work tasks piling up.
It can feel like a lot… …like there’s a big distance between our expansive, visionary selves and our ability to manifest what we long for and dream of.
Bridging that gap isn’t always easy.
Anyone who’s been on a conscious path for a while can probably relate:
You meditate and pray, and follow the signs it feels like you’re getting, but life (too often) doesn’t unfold the way you wish it would…
You visualize and Feng Shui your home for prosperity, but money only manifests in trickles, if that…
You work hard to affirm and build your self-confidence and then at a critical moment, it falters…
At the beginning of July my husband suggested a trip to France to look for a new home. France is a large and beautiful country. On previous trips we had narrowed down the areas we were interested in. At the last moment we decided to go camping, something I have not done since my 20s. We bought some kit and the tent only arrived the day before we left. We had no time to practise pitching it before we needed to do it for real to sleep in it.
The location was magical and more than compensated for the effort with the tent. We pitched under a willow tree for coolness and there was a river flowing on two sides of the tent. I had forgotten how wonderful it is to be in Nature. As a child I was an outdoor girl and stood with my wellington boots in hand at the door on a rainy day waiting for the rain to stop.=&0=&
Mother Nature soothed me again and time seemed to slow. There was very little mobile phone signal so I was not able to do my usual video broadcasts, an activity I find quite stressful. I had no choice but to settle into the arms of Nature and just ‘be’, wonderful. We discovered that the sun set over the river and there was a seat under a tree where you could watch the sun go down. The ducks slept around our tent and you could hear them moving about and quacking in the night. Bird song woke us in the morning. Five minutes walk away was a place where you could swim in the river overlooked by a little restaurant that served great French food and wine. It is a long time since I have felt so content and calm.
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What a fantastic workshop Irene gave on using spirit art to understand who is trying to communicate with us and to receive some messages. No artistic skills were needed. However we all managed to draw portraits which looked life like and recognisable by ourselves or the person we were working with.
Irene’s workshops are suitable for people who are just starting out on their spiritual journey. Equally they are good for those who are more experienced and want to explore a new way of connecting with Spirit. I would take her workshop again as life is dynamic and there is always new life guidance for us if we seek it out.=&0=&
