Chop Wood – Carry Water If you are familiar at all with Buddhism, in particular Zen Buddhism you will have heard the saying “Before enlightenment chop wood – carry water, after enlightenment chop wood carry water. (Not as I have said on occasion, “before enlightenment Chop Wood – Carry Water, after enlightenment get someone else […]
Continue Reading →Tonglen – the Buddhist practice of embracing the pain and suffering of others Westerner have developed many ways to take away the pain and suffering of others, all of these approaches require someone to do something to or for the ‘suffering’person (medical intervention; allopathic or wholistic and all the other therapies that are so prevalent […]
Continue Reading →If we live in a stressed environment, and in my experience many of us do, then that environment will hold us prisoners to that stress. Because we are interacting all of the time with our environment, we are affected by, and affecting, the energies around us. If we ‘inherit’ a stressed environment, ie move […]
Continue Reading →If this is the case, then most people have a very limited home environment. The heart needs to be safe to be open. Our past conditioning, genetic inheritance, and any ‘past life’ energies we bring into this life all influence our perceptions of who we are. If we experience trauma as a child, […]
Continue Reading →Sustainability – What does it mean? If we are concerned about our environment, then it makes sense to begin at home. If our home is, energetically in chaos then it could be a reflection of our own lives. My understanding is that if we wish to support / create greater environmental awareness we must first […]
Continue Reading →Your past dictates response / reaction We are all subject to the influence of our past, how we react, or respond, to situations depends upon our personal history. Clearing is the safest and gentlest of methods to release attachment to the past. However, it is a part of human nature to want to ‘do’ more. […]
Continue Reading →Should I expect immediate results from a clearing? Any obvious shift in conditions after a clearing is dependant upon the ‘state of the person or environment before the clearing. It is more likely that any ‘clearing’ of the environment will yield more obvious results quite quickly than on a person. People tend to hang onto […]
Continue Reading →Supporting friends on medication I was honored to be invited in as part of the support group for a friend, “K”, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last fall and has been undergoing chemotherapy after a lumpectomy. Having never cleared drugs of this type before, I did some research and received a great deal of […]
Continue Reading →Future – What Future? Que sera sera – Whatever will be will be.. Well, it will if we content ourselves to sit back and let it. When we choose one path over another we subtly alter or confirm our allegiance to a belief pattern and give it energy, this is how humanity has evolved over […]
Continue Reading →When we notice how certain situations create strong feelings of anxiety (anger, frustration, depression etc.) in us we are on the first step to freedom from those states. Until we recognise that these feelings arise because of past conditioning, and will continue to arise if we don’t change the program that creates them we are […]
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