Good News in Stoke-on-Trent!
(Yes there is some guys!!!)
Council scraps plans to cut deaf support after a national Deaf Charity planned to sue them!
Brown Edge park is getting a beautiful looking refurbishment!
The Potteries Shopping Centre is getting an extension with a cinema and other stuff!
There are new jobs planned for many retailers - Emma Bridgewater etc!
Oatcakes are becoming increasingly popular and are still very tasty!!!
Slash recently did a concert here - power to the people guys we helped to create healing and change by reuniting him with his homeland! That's amazing!
Hanley Bus Station is finally getting its refurb! (That really did need doing!)
Regent Theatre and Victoria Hall have opened up their own Performing Arts Academy! How bloody amazing is that! The big business, funded by you loyal and intelligent concert-goers, is now able to give something back to the community!
Keep working guys we can do it!
We can put Stoke-on-Trent on the map but it doesn't have to be over commercialised like Birmingham's City Centre, it can be successful AND homely, welcoming, and northern!
Stoke-on-Trent is no longer the worst place to live in Britain! Congratulations guys we've done it!!!! Woo hooooo!
Saturday, 17 September 2011
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Penzance - Ode to a Virgin Train
Sometimes when I look at you I want to just sod it all, sod the money worries, abandon all responsibility and jump on the train to Penzance and stay there for a few days.
Maybe they wouldn't even check my ticket!
It stops at lovely places.. Liskeard, St Austell, so many places...
Just to roam the beaches on my own, splash in the sea, swim no matter how cold it is, talk to some crabs and jellyfish, eat some chips by the sea (and maybe some sneaky fish, or a pudding, peas and gravy).
To lie on the sand and dream, look up at the beautiful blue sky.
Get a lovely sun tan, and feel the wind on my skin.
Listen to the seagulls as I wake up in the morning, relax, and listen to the beautiful sound of the sea. The beautiful waves crashing onto the shore.
Maybe they wouldn't even check my ticket!
It stops at lovely places.. Liskeard, St Austell, so many places...
Just to roam the beaches on my own, splash in the sea, swim no matter how cold it is, talk to some crabs and jellyfish, eat some chips by the sea (and maybe some sneaky fish, or a pudding, peas and gravy).
To lie on the sand and dream, look up at the beautiful blue sky.
Get a lovely sun tan, and feel the wind on my skin.
Listen to the seagulls as I wake up in the morning, relax, and listen to the beautiful sound of the sea. The beautiful waves crashing onto the shore.
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Stranger Danger
It's that time of year. My daughter started her first day at playschool today and I'm so happy and proud!
But at the back of my mind I'm wondering about stranger danger.
I totally don't agree with teaching children Stranger Danger. The very term is scary, and created musically to reenforce fear through it's rhyme and rhythm.
And I don't believe in teaching anyone through fear.
Yet there is danger in the world.
What is my own attitude to dangerous people?
Well I believe that the more we trust other people and trust humanity, the more we will attract nice people to us and pleasant situations.
I believe that everyone has a seed of good inside them and that if we look for that seed of good when we're talking to or communicating with someone, we will always find it.
Eye contact is important here and loving, trusting and smiling.
It's easy to have faith in that philosophy myself as I know how to run and shout for help if things did ever get sticky.
Maybe we all have to learn stranger danger before we learn to trust others again?
Eek.
But at the back of my mind I'm wondering about stranger danger.
I totally don't agree with teaching children Stranger Danger. The very term is scary, and created musically to reenforce fear through it's rhyme and rhythm.
And I don't believe in teaching anyone through fear.
Yet there is danger in the world.
What is my own attitude to dangerous people?
Well I believe that the more we trust other people and trust humanity, the more we will attract nice people to us and pleasant situations.
I believe that everyone has a seed of good inside them and that if we look for that seed of good when we're talking to or communicating with someone, we will always find it.
Eye contact is important here and loving, trusting and smiling.
It's easy to have faith in that philosophy myself as I know how to run and shout for help if things did ever get sticky.
Maybe we all have to learn stranger danger before we learn to trust others again?
Eek.
What to do if we miss someone (a gentle suggestion)
Missing someone is an important feeling that can be very beneficial!
You don't need to ignore it - take the time out if you can to go into the vision, explore the depths of your feeling, explore any visions, sights, sounds, tastes etc and in the centre of your own vision say to yourself, what is it that I want in my life from this person? What role do they currently play and what role would I like them to play?
Once you're done (spend five minutes to half an hour max), ground, write down your experience and draw it, colour it in if you like (it's always good to have a handy pencil case of colours, try water soluble ones as they blend like chalk pastels to create beautiful pastel shades and mix with each other too), and think, how can I make my positive healing vision and ideas a reality? Maybe you could make them a little card, or draw/paint them a picture!
Maybe tell the person you miss them! Speak gently from the heart to them, send them a card or message, or even better, call them up and have a good old chat! During the conversation, you could be brave and tell them you miss them and would love to see them sometime!
Sometimes, the simple and childlike, innocent communication of your emotions is the best.
In this world, many of us worry at times about what we should and shouldn't say. We are afraid of hurting people or being socially inappropriate but really, speaking and writing gently from the heart is ok, loving, simple, says what we need to say and shouldn't hurt anyone too much.
By the way, to any stalkers out there (maybe a lot of us have done a kind of stalking before ;-) ) remember the other person also has a clear vision for what they want in their life and it may be different from yours, or it may appear to be at first. Respect their wishes and if you do want different things, keep working with the heart (contact me if you want further advice or clarification on this, working with chakras and the ideas talked about here) and hopefully with the heart and further advice if necessary, you will both move to where you need to be in each other's lives.
To contact me with any queries, or for a paid advice session via email or telephone, email nataliewindsor@live.co.uk
You don't need to ignore it - take the time out if you can to go into the vision, explore the depths of your feeling, explore any visions, sights, sounds, tastes etc and in the centre of your own vision say to yourself, what is it that I want in my life from this person? What role do they currently play and what role would I like them to play?
Once you're done (spend five minutes to half an hour max), ground, write down your experience and draw it, colour it in if you like (it's always good to have a handy pencil case of colours, try water soluble ones as they blend like chalk pastels to create beautiful pastel shades and mix with each other too), and think, how can I make my positive healing vision and ideas a reality? Maybe you could make them a little card, or draw/paint them a picture!
Maybe tell the person you miss them! Speak gently from the heart to them, send them a card or message, or even better, call them up and have a good old chat! During the conversation, you could be brave and tell them you miss them and would love to see them sometime!
Sometimes, the simple and childlike, innocent communication of your emotions is the best.
In this world, many of us worry at times about what we should and shouldn't say. We are afraid of hurting people or being socially inappropriate but really, speaking and writing gently from the heart is ok, loving, simple, says what we need to say and shouldn't hurt anyone too much.
By the way, to any stalkers out there (maybe a lot of us have done a kind of stalking before ;-) ) remember the other person also has a clear vision for what they want in their life and it may be different from yours, or it may appear to be at first. Respect their wishes and if you do want different things, keep working with the heart (contact me if you want further advice or clarification on this, working with chakras and the ideas talked about here) and hopefully with the heart and further advice if necessary, you will both move to where you need to be in each other's lives.
To contact me with any queries, or for a paid advice session via email or telephone, email nataliewindsor@live.co.uk
Dreams, Visions, Fantasies - Time to Begin my Career in Healing and Holistics
Healing Assignment
Remembrance
Past lives, intuition, remembering all my skills and all I have learned.
Stimulated by conversations with my counsellors on confidence, a section of past advice that is affecting me negatively now (perhaps because it's redundant, I'm not sure), and on my honest and true-to-self self expression, and stimulated by visions and a feeling of OK from guides or angels, and also stimulated by a few people whom I have helped successfully in trial sessions, I have decided to advertise myself as helping with dream interpretation and doing aura sketches. I feel comfortable with this.
Could I also advertise myself as a spiritual teacher? Run meditation groups? Regular sound baths? I would really like to.. I am afraid of that, yet it is the most fundamental part of what I do and it would greatly benefit others if I could share that?
I am tired of being afraid of helping people in case I damage them or give the wrong advice. I feel this time that starting out on the path of actually making money from the work that I do everyday (helping friends, family and strangers), will motivate me to improve my skills and mainly revise existing ones as most of it I have learned already, and I will naturally speak responsibly and with great sensitivity and attention to detail in a structured, pre arranged healing or advisory etc. session.
This is also helping me to develop a better relationship with my own dreams - I have always had fantastic dreams but my relationship with them has suffered since I became a parent, perhaps due to interrupted sleep, inadequate length of 'dreamtime' or lie-ins on my own, and general neglect of this wonderful side of myself - vision, fantasy, dreaming etc. I have also decided to dedicate more time to real imagination - imagining workshops, healing sessions, other career things, designing a healing hut and an ideal house and garden, and other things. Remembering to use it during the Sirian and occasionally other meditations to create beautiful visions beyond comparison. Sights, sounds, smells, feelings.
Remembrance
Past lives, intuition, remembering all my skills and all I have learned.
Stimulated by conversations with my counsellors on confidence, a section of past advice that is affecting me negatively now (perhaps because it's redundant, I'm not sure), and on my honest and true-to-self self expression, and stimulated by visions and a feeling of OK from guides or angels, and also stimulated by a few people whom I have helped successfully in trial sessions, I have decided to advertise myself as helping with dream interpretation and doing aura sketches. I feel comfortable with this.
Could I also advertise myself as a spiritual teacher? Run meditation groups? Regular sound baths? I would really like to.. I am afraid of that, yet it is the most fundamental part of what I do and it would greatly benefit others if I could share that?
I am tired of being afraid of helping people in case I damage them or give the wrong advice. I feel this time that starting out on the path of actually making money from the work that I do everyday (helping friends, family and strangers), will motivate me to improve my skills and mainly revise existing ones as most of it I have learned already, and I will naturally speak responsibly and with great sensitivity and attention to detail in a structured, pre arranged healing or advisory etc. session.
This is also helping me to develop a better relationship with my own dreams - I have always had fantastic dreams but my relationship with them has suffered since I became a parent, perhaps due to interrupted sleep, inadequate length of 'dreamtime' or lie-ins on my own, and general neglect of this wonderful side of myself - vision, fantasy, dreaming etc. I have also decided to dedicate more time to real imagination - imagining workshops, healing sessions, other career things, designing a healing hut and an ideal house and garden, and other things. Remembering to use it during the Sirian and occasionally other meditations to create beautiful visions beyond comparison. Sights, sounds, smells, feelings.
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
My Favourite Teas
Yogi Tea - Cinnamon Spice
This smells amazing and the box design is beautiful. A wide palette of spices for the nose :-)
Yogi Tea - Chocolate Tea
This is perfect if you are craving chocolate but need to skip the calories and it has lovely spicy scents :-)
Love Tea
This is one of my favourite teas for many reasons, and I really feel it works on the chakras and perhaps this is what the makers intended - lavender for the brow and eyes, camomile for the solar plexus, rose for the heart, all blended beautifully :-)
Mr Scruff Tea - Mint and Chilli Tea
A tasty tea and great if you are bored of normal peppermint - you can barely taste the chilli unless you brew for Britain! The chilli makes it really refreshing! The box has added lovely cartoons on! I really want to try the other flavours - available from branches of Selfridges.
Vanilla Rooibos Tea
I love all kinds of rooibos (or red bush) tea, but especially this one that has a lovely sweet edge to it from the vanilla, bringing out caramel flavours.
Masala Chai Tea
I love chai blends - they're lovely on their own, stewed with soy milk, or added to rooibos.
Genmaicha
Roasted brown rice tea from Japan, this is absolutely heavenly for me at the moment - it must be the perfect tea for the onset of Autumn though I love it at any time of year and it really reminds me of eating and drinking in cafes in Japan :-)
Roasted malty earthy flavours yet delicate, light and refreshing, without the bitterness of a sencha green tea, (as long as you don't brew too long).
Hojicha & Kukicha
These also remind me of cafes in Japan where lovely varieties of green tea are available on tap, free refill :-) malty flavours, roasted twigs and lovely, earthy scents.
Rose Tea
I love rose tea, especially ones with less black tea blended in - reminding me of the heart chakra, I love the beautiful deep scents that relax me and calm me down..
This smells amazing and the box design is beautiful. A wide palette of spices for the nose :-)
Yogi Tea - Chocolate Tea
This is perfect if you are craving chocolate but need to skip the calories and it has lovely spicy scents :-)
Love Tea
This is one of my favourite teas for many reasons, and I really feel it works on the chakras and perhaps this is what the makers intended - lavender for the brow and eyes, camomile for the solar plexus, rose for the heart, all blended beautifully :-)
Mr Scruff Tea - Mint and Chilli Tea
A tasty tea and great if you are bored of normal peppermint - you can barely taste the chilli unless you brew for Britain! The chilli makes it really refreshing! The box has added lovely cartoons on! I really want to try the other flavours - available from branches of Selfridges.
Vanilla Rooibos Tea
I love all kinds of rooibos (or red bush) tea, but especially this one that has a lovely sweet edge to it from the vanilla, bringing out caramel flavours.
Masala Chai Tea
I love chai blends - they're lovely on their own, stewed with soy milk, or added to rooibos.
Genmaicha
Roasted brown rice tea from Japan, this is absolutely heavenly for me at the moment - it must be the perfect tea for the onset of Autumn though I love it at any time of year and it really reminds me of eating and drinking in cafes in Japan :-)
Roasted malty earthy flavours yet delicate, light and refreshing, without the bitterness of a sencha green tea, (as long as you don't brew too long).
Hojicha & Kukicha
These also remind me of cafes in Japan where lovely varieties of green tea are available on tap, free refill :-) malty flavours, roasted twigs and lovely, earthy scents.
Rose Tea
I love rose tea, especially ones with less black tea blended in - reminding me of the heart chakra, I love the beautiful deep scents that relax me and calm me down..
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