Archive for August, 2009
Theta healing
Posted by: | CommentsTheta healing!
Since I had my collar bone operation, I’ve been stuck at home because I’ve not been able to do my job. With all the spare time I’ve had, I’ve been resting and doing lots of meditation. In fact, I don’t think I’ve meditated so much in my life before, certainly not on a continuous basis anyway.
I have also since seen a theta healing practitioner to help speed up my recover and also because I’m interested in that sort of thing. My wife first saw one and she raved on about it, so I guess I have her to thank. I the same practitioner and her name was Anna (www.bourgeon.co.uk). Prior to our session I had done lots of research about it and read plenty of websites on theta healing and what it was and how it could help. I think the gist of it was that in working with the practitioner, she connects to the divine source energy by going into the theta brainwave pattern, a trace like state perhaps not unsimilar to light hypnosis, meditation but a different frequency. When connected to this source of energy, healing can take place.
Anna was a lovely person and made me feel confortable during the session. We both sat on chairs and the session started with me talking about the reason I was there and about some things I would like to work on. Several things came up which was a relief as I wasn’t too sure what it was that I wanted to work on apart from my collar bone.
Anna started off by enterin the theta state and connecting. She then began by doing some sort of energetic body reading, I just had to sit there with eyes closed. She then started to talk and describe what she was receiving/’seeing’. To say that I was blown away is an understatement! She was spot-on! She picked something up that I had never really talked about and said that my lungs looked sort of restricted or tight, that I found it hard to breathe but or more like I was not breathing in the joy of life. When she said this, I immediately became aware of something that I had not really given much thought about. For quite a long time I have feel a restriction in my chest more in terms of not being able to take a big enough deep breath, to really fill my lungs up. I have noticed this especially when out in the countryside and trying to breathe in the fresh air deeply but not quite getting enough!
I was amazed at how she picked this up. Anna went on to tell me that this was more of an energetic blockage than a physical one. She then asked my permission to clear it and of course I said yeah! we did several processes which involved me going into myself and reflecting back on certain sensations. It reminded me very much of some techniques that I hd learned when I did my NLP training and Timeline Therapy stuff. This made sense as the lady who developed this system had a background in NLP.
Anyway, we worked on certain things and ‘cleared’ them on an energetic level. Towards the end of the session after working on a few things, she did mention that my dad was coming through! My dad passed away last year and I have been in quite a good frame of mind regarding this event. I’m talking more about having a good perspective on it and coming to terms fairly easily with the fact that he is no longer physically with me. Anyway, she mentioned that he was very proud but that this session was intended for work on me rather than communicating with him. We decided that we would explore that another time.
I cannot remember what things we worked on towards the end of the session but I did feel that my hands were tingling. At the end of the session, I felt really spaced out and floaty! The whole session was amazing and Anna gave me a few things to work on myself and encouraged me to continue meditating and connecting with my higher self to strengthen my ability to connect with my intuition.
I guess the whole session felt like a combination of NLP, Timeline therapy, hypnotherapy, reiki/energy type work, psychic all rolled into one! It was definitely more like seeing a psychic better because you are involved with the whole process. I loved the session and found it realy beneficial.
Since then, I have slowly integrated the work and I certainly feel that I can breathe more deeply and fully. It does feel like I can expand more. I have also tried to do more meditation on a daily basis even though it may only be for 5-10 minutes at a time. Would I see Anna again for another sessions? You bet I would and in fact I plan to have another session in September sometime!
Reflecting on my spiritual journey
Posted by: | CommentsLooking back at my spiritual journey over the past few years it’s been interesting for me to reflect back on the path it has actually taken. I guess it happened about 6-7 years ago when my life was going ok but I was certainly nowhere near to where I wanted to be. I had a job at the time but it was quite low paying for the profession that I was in an also for the experience that I had. I was also in a reasonable amount of debt and did not have lots of disposable income.
On reflecting back at that period, I realse that I was also quite a negative person. This was pointed out to me by my friend and work colleague at the time. Unfortunately his comments fell on deaf ears and I don’t think I really heard what he was saying at the time. In hindsight, I now understand my thoughts and languaging were negative. I was always talking about not having enough, not enough money and not enough luck. Little did I know that you can create your own reality. My friend even pointed it out when I said that he ‘was lucky in life’ as everything seemed to go perfectly for him. The reply was a very wise, “I think you make your own luck”. The importance of this comment certainly washed over me, though it remained with me.
Around that time, I had started to read, “Awaken the Giant Within” by Anthony Robbins. This was the first ’self-development’ book that I had read. I had only managed to read half-way through the book before I felt a sudden and dramatic internal shift. I think it was when I was reading about gratitude and being thankful for things in your life. This shift was very powerful and I felt like I was very present and in a state of bliss. All stress and negativity just seemed to melt away, I was walking around in life with a silly grin! This lasted for about 6 months and I had no idea what shifted or changed for me to maintain that state of being.
That was really the start of my spiritual journey and the search for self-improvement. After that I learned that the teachings of Anthony Robbins was based on NLP (neurolinguitic programming). After such a powerful effect from reading his book I readily signed up on an NLP Practitioners course. This was quite an investment but an amazing experience. Being over a few days totally immersed in learning all that stuff was incredible and I came away much more knowledgeable and very much motivated. This lasted a few weeks but I never really found that state of bliss again.
I started to explore life coaching and reading more self-development books. I ended up taking another NLP Practitioner course that integrated aspects of Huna. This sounded a lot more ’spiritual’ and really appealed. Same again, it was a great course but I never really found that state of being from it. Later on I did and completed a life coaching course and graduated. This was more of a personal interest, one where the skills could be used in my daily life.
All of these courses were great and I did learn a lot from them. However, I never really found that ingredient to get me back into that state of bliss that I entered a few years ago.
The next turning point in my ’spiritual journey’ was the movie “The Secret”. This is a hugely popular film in the self-development community and brought some concepts to the masses, namely that of the Law of Attraction. I watched the film about 3-4 years ago with my now wife. I remember afterwards that we were both blown away by the concepts presented and really took in on board. After watching it I lapped up everything to do with the Law of Attraction. This was a definite progression for me. I read lots of other books and deepened my understanding into more esoteric topics.
During my readings I came across the books by Neale Donald Walsch called ‘Conversation with God’. The teachings in these books really appealed and made a lot of sense to me. They explained the concepts of life and the cosmos and how everything works, it seemed to tie everything that I had learned together in a great theory. The more reading I did by various authors, the more that I realised they all basically had the same message. They just had slightly different ways of saying a similar thing, a bit like religion really!
My journey and interests now is more learning about the spiritual realm, soul evolution, spirit guides etc etc. I can see how my interest areas have blossomed and grown over time. With any learnings I obviously am looking to see how I can apply them to my own life to improve and develop.
In hindsight, I can see how I’ve been searching over the years to get back into that state of bliss that I had found many years ago. I now realise that it is not external to me but within me to get into that state. Approaches like NLP, coaching, meditation etc are just ‘technologies’ to help facilitate you into getting in a particular state of Being.
Post-op
Posted by: | CommentsWell, I’ve had my operation on my collar bone and will be in a sling for a few weeks to allow everything to heal. Things are improving and the soreness definitely improving. I’m just looking forwards now to being able to get it moving and getting back into action.
Operation
Posted by: | CommentsWell, my broken collar bone is a few days old now and I’ve been seeing an orthopaedic consultant who has sais that I need it fixed. This means that they will fix the broken bits together on a metal plate! As I type this with one hand, I’m not surprised by the outcome and am thankful that things re going to get done pretty quickly. In fact the operation will be on monday! I will be out of action for a good few weeks after that.
On a personal development note, I’ve purchased an online audio course on developing one’s intuition. It’s called the, “Silva Intuition Program” and I’ve downloaded it and will start working through the course soon. I will post here my progress.
Broken collar bone! Arghhh!
Posted by: | CommentsWell, yesterday I entered a mountain bike orienteering event in Hampshire and was doing very well (for my second event!). Unfortuntately, towards my final check point I was going downhill on an off-road section and lost control of my frnot wheel which hit a divut. Having done this, my bike came to quite an abrupt stop and I went right over the bars and whacked my head and right shoulder on to the bank.
A crunch followed by a daze followed and behold I had broken my collar bone! Fortunately, so kind participants stopped to help me (one happened to be a GP!). A few hours in A&E and I was sent home in a sling with some painkillers. I expect to be out of action in term of mountain biking for a couple of month then I hope to resume some more events! My helmet had a dent and crack in it and it certainly saved me! The lesson? Wear a helmet and be safe!!!
Wordpress or Zencart eCommerce
Posted by: | CommentsRight now I’m in the process of planning my next and final ecommerce website for this year! I know what I will be selling and have some suppliers. I just need to decide on the actual ecommerce platform.
For all of my previous stores, I’ve used zencart. It’s something I’m quite familar with since I’ve used it with a few stores and know it works. However, I’ve recently been getting into using wordpress to develop websites. There are a few ok looking plugins for wordpress to give it some ecommerce functionality. However, it is first and foremost a blogging platform.
I’m only considering using wordpress because I think it is a great piece of software and generally think it looks great in terms of presentation. The ecommerce plugins are quite lightweight when compared with a specialist cart like zencart but I’m very much tempted to try wordpress out.
My dilemma is that I do not want to spend weeks developing the wordpress store only to find that it cannot do something that I need it to or that it doesn’t really work that well! As I write this I’m starting to think that I should perhaps play safe ad use zencart! Hmmm, the choices!
With regards to the wordpress ecommerce plugins, I’m looking at Shopp and wp-ecommerce. I will chew on it a bit more and then decide I think. The more I think about it, the more I am leaning on zencart again. But there is the other side of me who would love to try something different. I’ll post back here when I have decided.
Websites
Posted by: | CommentsAt the moment I am working at completing my web projects so I can then focus on marketing them for the remainder of the year. I am working at redesigning an existing website using Wordpress. Wordpress is a free blogging software and very customizable to look like any other website. The great advantage is that it is loved by search engines due to its structure.
I will post the website here when it is completed. This particular one that I’m transferring over should be completed over the next few days.
I then have one last site that I want to develop and has been in the pipeline for the past few weeks in terms of planning. It is another ecommerce site and I that will probably take me about 4-6 weeks to complete. Once done, I will again post it up for people to see.
Apart from that, I’m starting to get into mountain biking and adventure racing. It’s basically orienteering over 3 disciplines, kayaking, trail running and mountain biking. It’s great fun and I have some events coming up soon. In the meantime, I’m doing what training I can in the time I have available. Basically, not much at all!
This weekend I have a mountain bike orienteering event over 3 hours and the aim is to get as many points as possible over that time. Will post more when I’ve done it.
Update again!!!
Posted by: | CommentsWell, here we go again, another long overdue update.
Things have been a bit crazy this year and there are no signs of it calming down much, such is life, it’s great isn’t it? I’ve had a few different blogs in my time, each focusing on personal stuff, my business activities and my spiritual interests. I’ve decided to make this my blog focus. I’m stopping the other ones as it’s too time consuming and I feel as if I’m spreading myself out too thinly and not doing anything justice. To solve this problem, this blog will be an amalgamation of my life activities (within reason!).
I will be developing the look of the site over the next few weeks and will be posting regularly on my life happenings!
At the moment, one of my main focuses is getting my Internet ecommerce websites up and running. I will post more details on these in the near future. So for now, I’ve got lots to do and will write again soon.