Archive for October, 2009
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
Posted by: | CommentsWell, it’s been one of those weeks for me, one where I dwell and dream about our future plans and all that we are striving for but one in which I cannot see the path. This has been getting me down and stressing me out and it’s all me that is creating it and I know it.
I’ve tried various things to get myself out of this state but found it difficult. Only today I have started to read one of my old spiritual books which I really got a lot out of. “Conversations with God – Book 3″ by Neale Donald Walsch has been a great book for me and given me many insights that has brought clarity and gave me a sense of peace when I first read it a year or two ago.
Today I started reading it again on the way to work and have found after a short way into it that I am starting to remember the purpose of life as I believe it and one which I have forgotten. In other words, I’m starting to get out of my own made drama and and regaining a good and healthy perspective. It’s realigned some of my thoughts which have kept my mind quite clear and focused.
I guess one other event that has contributed to all of this is the one year anniversary of the death of my dad this weekend. We had a little ceremony with my family and it gave me time to reflect and remind myself of the promises and determination I had at time of his death that time is short and that I just need to go and do the stuff that I want in life and not to sweat the small stuff. Even things like jobs, mortgages, all of these things to me are some of the ’small’ stuff in life and not things that are really that important in the scheme of things.
When I think about what is important in life, it basically boils down to family and experiences. Family is very important and though they can be frustrating at times, they will always be there for you. Experiences are the core for me. There is so much to life that it’s a shame to just stay in a small place and see only the most superficial aspects of it. My wife and I are planning on doing some travelling and experiencing more of this World that we live in. We also haven’t planned how we are going to achieve a lot of the stuff that we desire in our lives as we are trusting in the process.
The key thing for me is to keep some decent level of perspective and don’t sweat the small stuff, at the end of the day, if you lost everything like your job, house, car etc, what will you be left with?
Plan for 2010
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s interesting how human emotions can make you feel different all of the time. My wife and I do try and live our lives as authentically as possible and being true to ourselves. In areas that we have not achieved this fully, we have plans and ideas about how to achieve it. Certainly we have a lot of big changes in our lives for 2010 planned and when I think about it, it is really exciting but also quite daunting and scary at the same time.
Most of the time it’s great to have an idea of where we are heading and a lot kind of depends on how things pan out between now and then. If I think too much about the future and what we are planning on doing, I sometimes over-analyse things and start doubting myself or our approach to life. There is a lot to be said about putting your intentions out there for what you want or wish to achieve and then living in the Present moment as much as possible. Being Present certainly gets you more focused and hopefully enjoying the journey to where you are aiming for.
This is not an easy thing to do, certinaly not for me anyway. I love dreaming and thinking of all the amazing things that we have planned for the coming year. However, this does detract me from the Present moment and being grateful and having gratitude for the things and life that we already have. Looking back, I do find that I can realign and refocus myself if I read spiritual books as I can easily get sidetracked into the ego side of things. A degree of it is fine, but it’s very easy to get myself drawn into the drama of everything when in fact, there really is no drama, it’s just me creating it in the first place.
Trusting in the process of the Universe that everything works out as it should is also a great way to keep Present. Certainly my wife is much better at that than I am. I find my brain works overtime and certainly my left-brain tends to try and work everything out which I know and believe is counter to how it all works. Knowing something and doing it are two very different things!
I should look to my wife more when my mind starts to get a bit overloaded in working how things will pan out. I guess one way of looking at it is that if I try and work everything out and plan it all, then it takes the fun and spontaneity out of life. Yes, having written this post, I will endeavour to read more spiritual books to help remind me and keep me on track in our goals and the way forward.
Damn Hackers!!!
Posted by: | CommentsI noticed the other night that I had a load of undeliverable emails in my inbox of my hotmail account when I checked it. I then discovered that someone had hacked into my hotmail account and switched on the vacation notification so whenever anyone emailed me, they would automatically get an ‘out of office’ type reply with their marketing message! Not only that, but they had also enter their marketing crap into the signature. I think they also emailed everyone in my contacts list.
Of course I deleted all of this and emailed all of my contacts about this. The company whether they did it themselves or it was one of their marketers was an electronics company in China. I wrote a snotty email to them and was going to take some revenge by spamming them myself but my wise wife advised otherwise and to remember the law of attraction and stuff. I saw sense and just left things at that. I’ve no doubt that what goes around comes around, and they will most likely not be in business for very long if that is the way they market themselves…illegally! Damned hackers!
My websites & Theta Session 2
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s been a while since I last posted. It sometimes feels as if I always say that when I post! Anyway, I haven’t been idle. For one, I’ve been working hard at devloping my websites. I have worked very hard and very long hours in my spare time to get everything completed as soon as I could as they form part of my future plans.
Both sites are related to the wedding industry and it is something that I got interested in after our own wedding last year. The first site Wedding Favours Delight sells wedding favours and favour boxes. They are really cool and interestingly enough, my suppliers are actually from my home town in the Midlands! My other site is selling wedding dress boxes for storing wedding dresses in an acid-free environment. These are cool and will certainly help people keep their wedding dresses preserved for much longer than if they just put them into a plastic bag and in the attic. My main activity now related to this is just marketing the sites which will just take some time.
On the spiritual side of things, I’ve only just had another theta healing session. This was an interesting one and though there wasn’t lots to work on, the issue of security came up in terms of being able to follow my dreams and not feel too worried financially etc. We worked on clearing these issues and I certainly felt very much clearer and confident about my plans afterwards.
During the session, I also wanted to work on improving my intuition and ability to listen to my higher self, spirit guides, angels etc. We worked on some exercises where I had to ’see’ my guides and describe them. It was all very interesting and I discovered that I had an angel guide and another animal guide which I described. It was a bit strange as I tended to overanalyze things and found it difficult to let go and trust in what came through to my mind. I believe in this stuff, that’s why I worked on it but found it difficult to let go. It was all very subtle and most of the time felt as if I was talking to myself in my mind but I think that is how it works until things become clearer. I will practice now with the exercises that we worked through and to try to improve my intuitive ability and trust. Perhaps I’m going nuts, but I enjoy doing it as it is quite relaxing so I’ll keep it up.
On the social side of things, I’m getting better and making time to go out and meet with friends which has been great fun. No doubt there will be plenty more of this to come with the festive season fast approaching!
A Busy Week!
Posted by: | CommentsThe past week has certainly been a busy one for us. First we had our Chinese Wedding anniversary! We got married (Chinese Wedding) on the 23rd September 2008. To celebrate, we went out into London and had a lovely walk along the Thames. This was followed by a feast in a Chiense restaurant in China town. We both a had a huge meal which included lobster! One of my all time favourite seafoods. Earlier on in the day we had bought some theatre tickets to see ‘Calender Girls’ and after eating we rocked up to the theatre and were told that our seats had been upgraded due to the upper circle being closed for some reason! Great news for us as we had paid for cheaper seats and now had premium ones. The show itself was superb and had a mixture of laughter, tears and everything else inbetween. It was really good. I was a bit nervous at first entering the theatre as there seemed to be no guys and just a load of women, I felt really out of place! Fortunately when we actually sat down, there were a few fellow men who looked equally uncomfortable but at least there were a few of us around!
At the weekend after we had a friends wedding in Wiltshire, a lovely part of England. The wedding itself was amazing and we were invited to the ceremony itself. We left on the day and as soon as we got onto the M25, my wife had realised that we had both forgotten to bring our wedding oufits with us! We had the following week off work so had packed everything else but the wedding outfits!
As a result we had to turn around and then drive through London again! Not the most relaxing task at the best of times. As it turns out, the M25 was completely jammed probably due to an accident, so if we had continued, we certainly would have been stuck for a while. Anyhow, we managed to get back home pick out stuff up and then drive out again. Because of the detour we unfortunately missed the main part of the ceremony itself with the exchanging of vows but we caught the very last bit of it! Oh well, things happen.
Following the wedding, we spent a couple of nights in Glastonbury. It’s a spiritual place and somewhere we had always wanted to visit. It was a very historic place and I was quite surprised. We went to the Abbey which was some ruins set in some large grounds, it was also where King Arthur was said to be buried. It was a very relaxing place and nice to walk around in. The Glastonbury high street was where a lot of the spiritual type shops were. I was amazed at the number of these shops, at every corner there was some store selling crystals, spiritual books, psychics, tarot readers etc etc. We usually love these shops but this was sheer overwhelm! There was a small spiritual fair going on which we attended. It was here that I had my aura photographed. It was very interesting and I was really surprised when the guy asked me if I had some injury to my right shoulder becuase there was an ‘energy’ weakness there. Wow! Of course I had broken my right collar bone and though I am no longer wearing the sling, it is still recovering, so I was quite impressed with that. The lady there also mentioned something about me being quite psychic or intuitive and whether I did much energy stuff. The answer was no apart from my meditations and readings. It was then that I bought myself a moonstone crystal. I read on a chart that it was one of my birthstones and can help to increase psychic awareness.
Alison my wife, she had an iridiology reading and was recommended some dietary changes. I guess that probably means more vegetarian type foods! Bring on the lentils!
At the fair I also bought myself a tibetian singing bowl which is something that I had wanted for a while. The lady selling them goes to Nepal whenever she can and imports the bowls to sell over here. Her website is: http://www.yakyak.org.uk/.
Of course we also walked up the Glastonbury Tor and then visited the Chalice Well which is a 4 acre gardens with natural springs and the Chalice Well. The garden grounds were beautiful and extremely tranquil. It was said that Joseph of Arimathea went there. The water was drinkable and you could take some home ina water bottle. Of course I washed my moonstone crystal in the water!
After our fun trip to Glastonbury, we spent a few days with our families before returning to London with a final late birthday dinner with some close friends.
So, overall we had a great trip, busy but very much fun. One last thing for me to do is to book my followup theta healing session!