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Avatar
Posted by: | CommentsWell after all the hype about the film Avatar, I must say that it was one of the few films that I’ve seen that did not disappoint.
I went to see it with my wife and we were both blown away. The World ‘Pandora’ was the setting and the indigenous population, were those who were very much at one with their environment. They lived in such harmony with the surroundings and respecting nature and each other that it portrays a peaceful oasis that seems unreal.
It is no wonder when in contrast with our own World, with the violence and negativity that we get bombarded with on a daily basis that many people few a bit despondent after watching the film. There has been reported in the Press and online forums, people becoming depressed after watching the movie as they really want to live on the World Pandora and be a Navi, to live in a different way.
It’s a great film and one I think brings hope to people and opens their eyes to what can be (in the movies anyway) and for me more importantly, it gives people a glimpse of what they would like and takes them away from the materialistic life most people lead.
In actual fact, there are probably still a few indigenous populations remaining who still live pretty much how the Navi people live, the tribes of the Amazon forest, the native Indians of America. But no doubt, these cultures are slowly dying out and being driven out by the ‘developing’ Worlds in the name of ‘progress’.
It almost seems ironic, that real true progress is to honour the ways of the old, respecting nature, our environment and each other as human beings. This is what governments are striving for are they not? Strange that to try and ‘progress’ Society and to save the human race we are moving away from doing what needs to be done. Just my own thoughts!
Miracles – An Introduction
Posted by: | CommentsWell, I’ve read the first few pages of ‘A Course in Miracles’. Wow, I must say that I’m not really sure that I understood much of what I read. It was only yesterday that I read it and I guess I can summerize what is left in my mind.
Well the topic was about ‘miracles’. When it spoke of miracles I understood that it was talking about the subject on many different levels. The main thing was that miracles is in essence the act of love and in a sense, is love itself. Or another way to see it is that a miracle is love expressed. By extrapolating this further, we could say that each of us is ‘pure love’ and thus we are each and everyone of us a ‘miracle’.
A miracle is love. By expressing love to one another and in showing love to ones ‘neightbour’ is to perform a miracle unto others.
Well, that’s about all I can remember and not really sure if I got the gist of it but this is my understanding. If things continue this way, then it will be a very tough journey for me! I will persevere and see how I get on with other parts of the course!
Welcome to the Year 2010
Posted by: | CommentsWho would believe it is 2010!
Looking back on the past decade, it’s been quite amazing at all the things that have not only happened in my own life but around the World as well. Certainly on the one hand, time seems to pass so quickly, yet so much happens within that time.
As we enter 2010, I am often reminded of those who believe that the year will be quite a big one for many people. The Year 2010 is supposed to be important in terms of numerology, but it also takes us closer to the exciting and uncertainty of the Year 2012, a year of great change and increased consciousness around the planet. There are many theories about what may happen in 2012 but lets focus on the Now and understand that there is a great deal of living to do before we get there!
Of late I’ve not really taken time out for myself, to slow down and take time out from the chaos of life. This is one of the things that I have made a commitment to do this year and one that I’ve intend to keep. Though the year has already started and New Year seems so far away, it is already quite busy. One of my strategies is to take time out each day to meditate and visualise all of my goals for the coming year. I also aim to go through ‘A Course in Miracles’ and to post my thoughts and reflections on each part that I read. A Course in Miracles is a well-known spiritual book and one that I bought many months ago with good intentions, but it has just sat on the bookshelf all this time.
To start things off, we watched ‘The Secret’ again just to remind ourselves on the teachings of the Law of Attraction and its a great thing to do every now and then. I find watching such DVD’s, reading books and chatting to like-minded friends a great way to energize myself and keep myself on track to mainting a healthy perspective on things.
Before I forget, that is something else that I’m planning on doing. To get all my like-minded friends together every month or two and have a good catch-up. It’s something we’ve done before and I find the energy really great and I feel really motivated afterwards. So bring on 2010!
1st Anniversary
Posted by: | CommentsWell, what a year it has been so far. Time does seem to go very quickly when you are living life but if you take a moment to look back and reflect on all that has happened in your life you may well be surprised at how much has actually happened.
This weekend is our first wedding anniversary and I’m just spending the whole weekend with my wife. We’re not doing anything too grand, just enjoying each others company and spending some time together. Certainly when we reflect on all that has happened in our first year of marriage, we are often blown away at how much stuff has gone on for us and how our life plan has changed and evolved.
Also during this festive period, with Christmas coming up, it is especially special as it is a time for friends and family. I love Christmas, not only because of all the festivities, but everyone seems to be so much more happier! It’s like when the sun comes out in London, everyone is instantly lifted, you can feel the change in the air, it’s quite palpable.
What is more, there is still tiem left in 2009 for more news, more about that in a later post, but for now, there are lots going on still so enjoy the party period and love your friends and family!
An Early Christmas?
Posted by: | CommentsWell, again I start my post saying that it’s been a long while since I’ve posted! Perhaps I will stop saying that I will post often as it doesn’t really happen! Things have been busy as usual and especially during this time of year with the build up to Christmas.
Well, the first thing is that Fireworks night was great fun. We went to the Blackheath fireworks which is said to be one of the largest displays in London, if not the largest. It was amazing and there were several cool ones in particular. One that sticks to mind is a firework that exploded into a heart shape! Amazing, no idea how they managed to do it but it was impressive. Judging by the ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs’ I wasn’t the only one impressed by them.
No sooner was fireworks night over, it seems like Christmas has been thrust upon us. It seems much too early for it and in no way does it really feel like Christmas. It’s far too warm and not cold enough! Walking around town, all the lights are already up in Regent Street and many stores are preparing for what I guess they will hope will be a busy trading period. A tell-tale sign of the impending festive season is the fact that Starbucks have started to use their red crimbo-themed cups!
Anyway, work has been very busy for some reason and there is little breathing room. I have also found a business partner for a new venture that I’m very excited about. Its for a realtively new product and the industry is certainly very young. I will post more as things develop but developments are going well.
Very soon, my wife and I will be celebrating our first English wedding anniversary (6th December) and we are both quite excited and cannot believe that a year has passed in what seems to be such a short space of time. In hindsight and on reflecting on the things that have occured over the past year, we have managed to fit a lot of stuff in and from talking to family and those close to us, next year will mean that 2010 will potentially be an even bigger year.
On the spiritual side of things, there has not been too much occuring apart from me re-reading ‘Conversations with God Book 3′ and its a great read, even second time round. This has been sporadic as it is also competing with me reading the latest Dan Brown novel ‘The Lost Symbol’ which is based on Freemasonery. One thing that I do love and that is a good conspiracy theory! It’s quite a book and with the ‘Davinci Code’, I’m really quite impressed with Dans story telling. I love the way that he weaves some fact with fiction so it becomes quite blurred. It’s all quite clever really.
Another development is that my wife has decided that she wants to become a promary school teacher and has applied on a course. This is quite a big decision and will change our plans completely for 2010. It’s not a bad thing and I really hope that she gains a place on the course that she has applied to. It will mean that we have to have a rethink of some of the plans that we had planned out. It’s all good.
The other news is that my broken collar bone is pretty much fully healed and I can feel that my shoulder is getting stronger all the time, especially if I get off my backside and do some exercises for it. I’m really looking forwards to getting stuck into the Adventure Racing season in 2010 and we already have our first one planned for March.
Yep, it’s going to be a busy year but there still 2009 left to complete and there’s plenty to do, at the very least, making time to see friends that I haven’t had time to catch up with before Christmas!
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!