It hit me this morning, there’s nothing to be gained from thinking about what just happened. I didn’t just think it, I felt it in the body.  It doesn’t help with the present, and it cannot help the future either.  I asked myself:  What if you didn’t think over what happened and just let it pass?  Would you be disadvantaged in the future?  How does going over what happened actually help? Can it make the present or future better or safer or make you better somehow?  If you didn’t think it over, what would you lose?  Think about it…

Now, what if the experience of what happened was the wisdom you have gained?  And that thinking it over is not only a waste of time, but an interference pattern simply due to second guessing your action.  That’s it’s just a looping reel whose purpose is actually to keep you bound to replaying old patterns and that the very thing you think is helpful in stopping you repeating old mistakes is the very thing that is making you repeat them? In other words, going over what happened is actually re-creating them in the same image in the present and future.

Just for a moment, allow the possibility that the experience was all that was necessary. Continue reading →

I’ve been pondering on Gandhi’s famous words ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world’.

On Facebook it’s often quoted several times a day, I’ve posted in myself too and it’s been an inspiration and reminder to me many times along the way. It’s is often quoted in reaction to those who post about feeling torn up with suffering because they are not able to separate their own pain to that of others, of the worn torn victims, death, destruction, terror and loss that is generally accepted as given experience of life on earth.

I do believe that conflict resolution in first and foremost an inside job and that when we address the conditioning and erroneous beliefs about ourselves, we come into a state of peace that is then reflected back at us in our life experience.  On the larger scale, I also see that the state of the world is a reflection of our collective consciousness, our inner sub-conscious beliefs projected out on others, and the world in general.

And yet Gandhi himself led a peaceful revolution that brought about change. This he didn’t do by sitting on his tod sending love and peace to the situation. Continue reading →

Separation is part of Nature’s cycle.

I feel the new calling to me. I feel the old Being stretched ever thinner, the veil tearing apart, disintegrating.

It’s time to let go of my previous roles and identifications with them. Before re-invention can occur, there has to be space. The old is literally falling away like caked on mud. Like ashes blowing away in the wind.

 “The soul of the world is crying to be heard, and only those who have suffered can fully recognize it. If women can come to know the sacred dimension of their own and the earth’s suffering, if they can see that it is part of the mysterious destiny of the soul of our world, if they can look beyond their own personal pain and anger to accept their larger destiny, then the forces of life can flow in a new way.” Llewellyn Vaughn- Lee

We must strive to be Real and never feel we have to apologize for expressing what is real in the moment, even when that truth is hideous to behold.  If you give it expression, it will not define or limit you any longer.  If someone cannot handle that truth, then let them go for they are not yet ready to receive you fully, and not ready to behold that within themselves.

Expressing Rage is without doubt one of the most challenging steps in becoming Real.  This is because the very nature of rage is that it is completely uncontrollable, chaotic and uncivilized.  Continue reading →

The ‘Blether Report’ RADIO SHOW featuring Lynn in a fun and fascinating discussion:

What started as a relatively simple wish to understand what was is important, in various aspects including spiritually and physically, about women choosing to go grey, or continuing to dye their hair.  This fascinating discussion leads Lynn Paterson and Jackie Walker into blethering and exploring issues as diverse as:

• Gandalf the grey
• spiritual haircutting
• hairless men
• lack of grey in grey hair!
• fiery redheads
• being greyceful (spelling intended!)
• astrology
• persecution of witches
• and so much more!

We are sure that this Blether Report will leave you pondering your own choices, and asking yourself questions, after all, that’s what a good blether is for!

Tune in to the Blether Report every Monday at 8pm UK.

In PART 2, Jackie and Kama J Franklin explore how hair dye can have some serious consequences, and some positive effects of grey hair! http://naturalhealthradio.co.uk/blether-report-shades-grey-hair-pt-2-16th-december/

There were thousands of people at the Dalai Lama seminar in Glasgow, back in 2004, and Isaac and I were amongst them.

Quite frankly, it was boring as watching paint dry.

Not that I was not enchanted by the Dalai Lama, or that it wasn’t a treat being entertained by his bright smile and laughter. However, along with that came seriousness that was so very heavy.

I could feel it – a rope like connection travelling back thousands of years to ancient times in prehistory, effectively tying the present to the past. As I feel my way back in time to that moment in the conference I am yet again aware of how this effectively cuts off any chance of freedom for the individual as it makes it impossible to be completely in the present moment. It feels like I am bound to what has occurred in the past, which feels like an incredible pull on my energy.

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