Mums and Nature
The lesson for me today is just how healing a walk by myself through the countryside can be. By myself, I can set a really fast pace, but a pace just right for me. I get in touch with my own mind. I do also like walking long walks with other adults to encourage me and keep me company. And I used to love walking with my daughter, although it was hard to get a proper pace going.
This makes me think - how can Mums get into nature? Bringing up a child 0-5 can be the most anti-nature or anti-eco experience in a person's life. Nappies, toys, clothes, TV, indoor play, story books...Or maybe not. Maybe people can be cut off from nature their whole lives.
I bought a tie-it-yourself sling for £60 with the intention of taking my daughter hiking in it but it was such a faff to tie it, it was too long, and I didn't have anyone to help me with tying positions, so after Lizzy outgrew the newborn cradle tying position (which was a lifesaver - so soothing for her, like a mini-womb), I just ended up carrying Lizzy by hand, which I enjoyed but it gave me a curved posture, as I used to stick my belly out to balance her on it, which has since corrected itself. I also used to carry her on my shoulders and hips, always regularly changing position to avoid discomfort. It's a great workout and bonding experience! I really recommend it! The pram was great for an occasional rest and town/city power walking!
But I do want to do long distance walking with Lizzy. I'm not sure when we'll next have the opportunity but I will plan something, somehow....
We were lucky that we chose a house right by the river in Hall Green. I'm glad I had that idea!!! When we moved only a mile away in Sparkhill, we stopped walking down there - it shows how lazy you can get as a Mum but it's not laziness really - when you're a Mum, 1 mile of walking is the same as 2 or 3 miles to a non-Mum, or it was for me anyway! Because of the need to change nappies, find a breastfeeding or bottle feeding place, get the child warm, get food supplies, etc...With planning it can work, but planning can slip easily if you're like me and not really a super Mum!
That's why councils invest so much in parks. Everyone can get there easily and use them... Use prams on them. And parks sufficed for us very well but the river was amazing. The wilds and mountains would've been amazing. The wilds without planning or heating would've been a nightmare. Other Mums do it though, I wish I'd known some hillwalking Mums back in the day to support me...I know I'll find some if there's a next time :-) And even find some now for Lizzy! Oo idea.....
Sunday, 15 April 2012
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Gold and Silver Revisited (Draft)
Gold and Silver Poem
Two forces come together this week - the beautiful strong, warm gold of the sun, of our deepest love and our deepest emotional pain, released through the deep love of the sun - of our son - of the love of Jesus whose deepest, most painful love and sacrifice he gave unwillingly to mankind...and we reasoned it as pure destiny and divine intention... as did Jesus himself... but I still believe there was another way.
(Partly channeled: 'You don't know how hard it was at the time - you try thinking of another way').
The silver... the glorious divine wisdom, the lightest of light energies... like a silver mist, a gossamer thread so fine one can barely feel it... the lightest of humour, of wisdom, of mirth, of love...
I can live with neither on their own, I need both, common sense says... For a year or more I focused on the light... love and light. I became so light at points that I could float. At times, I meditated so often I did float in a metaphorical sense and floated too far away! I alienated myself from my parents, from anyone with a 'low vibration': I shunned those who suffered from anger problems at some points in my development. I felt at points that light would only do so much. Creating happiness within me was only papering over the cracks - marital separation and moving back home was the only option.
Now I come back to love of all. True inclusive, unconditional love.
I have long wanted to make spiritual healing accessible to those I grew up with. To be able to talk about spiritual stuff to them and give advice in everyday conversation.
Emotional heaviness draws me in.... I enjoy pain... the resolution of it through normal conversation and conflict.... Through the natural pulling downwards of our pain to receive healing, we eventually work ourselves back up to the light!
Meditation and higher vibrational work puts us straight into the light sometimes but at others, when there's deep emotional healing needed, we need to release. To feel, to cry. To talk about our hurt feelings... to shout? I don't like shouting, however.
But more...
The reverse vortex movement....
I wrote a few weeks ago of a vortex of pain. I wanted to create a natural healing method, rather than a method of conscious control and resistance. So this is my method:
The vortex of pain pulls us in.... Its magnetism draws us.... The golden, pulsing, pained soul light is heavy and leaden with love... a deep need for the love of another, pure love to heal it... her.... him.... Oh how I long to heal you and this is the most natural instinct in the world.... No healer training is required for this! This is the pure instinctual, natural loving response to another's deep pain and hurt, longing....
So, we are drawn into the vortex and as healers we may fear various things - what to say, how long to take, what method to use, energy transference... But the gold - the soul's gold of pure love will protect us in this natural healing scenario! So don't worry! We will know when it's naturally over. It will not drain us!
Once the vortex has taken all the healing that is needed, it will naturally begin to spin in the opposite direction, producing the most wonderful healing.... The person that received healing, once they have received all they need, is now capable of giving healing themselves! Of giving the most beautiful energy and light into the world! The healer receives their energy back from the patient and in a natural exchange, like in friendship, the 'patient' can become the healer, giving advice etc or healing themselves!
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
After the session, grounding and centring is helpful. And a breather! Fresh air!
Two forces come together this week - the beautiful strong, warm gold of the sun, of our deepest love and our deepest emotional pain, released through the deep love of the sun - of our son - of the love of Jesus whose deepest, most painful love and sacrifice he gave unwillingly to mankind...and we reasoned it as pure destiny and divine intention... as did Jesus himself... but I still believe there was another way.
(Partly channeled: 'You don't know how hard it was at the time - you try thinking of another way').
The silver... the glorious divine wisdom, the lightest of light energies... like a silver mist, a gossamer thread so fine one can barely feel it... the lightest of humour, of wisdom, of mirth, of love...
I can live with neither on their own, I need both, common sense says... For a year or more I focused on the light... love and light. I became so light at points that I could float. At times, I meditated so often I did float in a metaphorical sense and floated too far away! I alienated myself from my parents, from anyone with a 'low vibration': I shunned those who suffered from anger problems at some points in my development. I felt at points that light would only do so much. Creating happiness within me was only papering over the cracks - marital separation and moving back home was the only option.
Now I come back to love of all. True inclusive, unconditional love.
I have long wanted to make spiritual healing accessible to those I grew up with. To be able to talk about spiritual stuff to them and give advice in everyday conversation.
Emotional heaviness draws me in.... I enjoy pain... the resolution of it through normal conversation and conflict.... Through the natural pulling downwards of our pain to receive healing, we eventually work ourselves back up to the light!
Meditation and higher vibrational work puts us straight into the light sometimes but at others, when there's deep emotional healing needed, we need to release. To feel, to cry. To talk about our hurt feelings... to shout? I don't like shouting, however.
But more...
The reverse vortex movement....
I wrote a few weeks ago of a vortex of pain. I wanted to create a natural healing method, rather than a method of conscious control and resistance. So this is my method:
The vortex of pain pulls us in.... Its magnetism draws us.... The golden, pulsing, pained soul light is heavy and leaden with love... a deep need for the love of another, pure love to heal it... her.... him.... Oh how I long to heal you and this is the most natural instinct in the world.... No healer training is required for this! This is the pure instinctual, natural loving response to another's deep pain and hurt, longing....
So, we are drawn into the vortex and as healers we may fear various things - what to say, how long to take, what method to use, energy transference... But the gold - the soul's gold of pure love will protect us in this natural healing scenario! So don't worry! We will know when it's naturally over. It will not drain us!
Once the vortex has taken all the healing that is needed, it will naturally begin to spin in the opposite direction, producing the most wonderful healing.... The person that received healing, once they have received all they need, is now capable of giving healing themselves! Of giving the most beautiful energy and light into the world! The healer receives their energy back from the patient and in a natural exchange, like in friendship, the 'patient' can become the healer, giving advice etc or healing themselves!
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
After the session, grounding and centring is helpful. And a breather! Fresh air!
Thursday, 5 April 2012
Distance Healing Article
'A 6-month study of 40 advanced AIDS patients exposed to 10 weeks of "distant healing" reported fewer new illnesses, physician visits, and hospitalizations in the "distant healing" group [12].'
Distant Healing has here been put by the author into the 'Intercessory Prayer' group.
However Distant Healing and Intercessory prayer are not necessarily the same thing.
My definitions, which I hope are correct, are as following:
Intercessory Prayer:
I am asking a divine being to heal somebody. This could be an angel, God, saint, whatever.
This could be further broken down as follows:
Physical Complaints
1a) I ask the being to completely cure someone of everything that is wrong.
1b) I ask the being to completely cure someone of a specific ailment.
1c) I ask the being to send healing where it is needed.
(I might do this if I didn't know if the person was ill or not, but wanted to send positive vibes just in case. I might also do it if someone was really obviously on death's door and I'd feel arrogant asking a being to save someone's life in case it was their time etc. if that makes sense).
1e) I could wish for instantanteous recovery or I could wish for gradual recovery.
1f)I could wish for complete cure or I could wish for an improvement of symptoms.
Emotional/Mental Complaints
The same as above:
2a) I ask the being to heal everything that is wrong or causing difficulty
2b) I ask the being to heal a specific issue.
2c) I ask the being to send healing where it's needed.
2d) I often ask a being to send a loving message or a hug to someone that they will receive in a way that's comfortable for them and in line with their beliefs.
2e) I could wish for instantanteous recovery or I could wish for gradual recovery.
2f)I could wish for complete cure or I could wish for an improvement of symptoms.
Distant Healing
Distant healing to me is the same as above only I'm doing it, rather than the divine or ethereal being. Spiritual healing to me is learning to be a human healing force with similar powers to the divine or ethereal beings.
So it would be the same as above:
3a) I send healing energy with the intention of curing all illness currently present in a person.
3b) I send healing energy with the intention of curing a specific ailment.
3c) I ask the energy to go where it's needed - ask it to show me the way. I don't believe energy is conscious on its own although some do, and maybe it has magnetism ie. it could be drawn to the ill part of someone. But I believe I'm kinda working with ethereal beings when I put out this request.
3d) I imagine myself travelling to someone and giving them a loving message or a hug.
3e) I could wish for instantanteous recovery or I could wish for gradual recovery.
3f)I could wish for complete cure or I could wish for an improvement of symptoms.
And as above it's the same for mental and emotional.
Negative Vibes
'Also, if praying for people worked, would strangers praying against them cause them to become sicker? Or, as one of my religious friends put it, "Is God is so stupid that he or she would respond to
popularity contests?"'
I believe we can be stopped from sending negative vibes. I mean if I was God, I would see that as part of my job somehow although it would be time consuming.
I have heard just two stories of people who wished for death or destruction and it happened. Eg. one guy wished for a helicopter to come down and the next day it did. However this guy committed suicide and they weren't mentally healthy (obviously) at the time and I wasn't there so I can't corroborate that.
However I got really paranoid around this area - when I was first told that negative thoughts travel, I couldn't handle that knowledge and responsibility and went mad.
5 years on, after having been a medium for 5 years and having liver with the knowledge that other beings are only a thought away (basically living in a mental environment where every thought I have can potentially provoke a response from other beings out there) I have learned to deal with this more healthily. I've experimented with and set ground rules, current ones being requesting mental privacy in certain circumstances, only asking for advice from ethereal beings when I need it etc.
Through trusting my natural, human ability to be nice (I believe all humans are nice deep down), I trust my thoughts to be innately nice. Through working through trauma regularly as and when it occurs and through reminding myself of basic niceties, I avoid any 'nasty' moments.
Does It Work?
I don't honestly know. I don't make a log of successes etc. And how can you ever really know on another person if you're not there to witness what else is going on in their life?
On myself I can definitely definitely say that when I've engaged in self healing, whether it be channeling healing energies to an ill part of my body, massaging said part, getting some rest and shut eye, working on the illness on a psychological or emotional level, or whether it be letting or asking the angels to heal it for me, it has mostly worked.
'Intercessory prayer studies accomplish nothing.'
This is a statement that can easily be academically refuted.
Something is always accomplished no matter what we do in life. Even if we accomplish death and destruction.
"Believers" won't change their view if further studies are negative, and nonbelievers won't change theirs if additional studies appear positive.'
Once more, this is a statement that can be called into question.
In fact, people do change their beliefs over the course of a lifetime.
Most, if not all of us, will be on a sliding, changeable spectrum between believer and non-believer.
'Prayer may help some people feel reassured when they are worried, but to me it makes more sense to spend one's time and energy on more constructive health-promoting activities.'
Obviously a personal choice here.
I personally feel that, if prayer and distant healing don't 'work' (the definition of 'work' meaning complete or partial cure of a physical, mental or emotional disease, I assume?) they will confer some benefit to individuals including:
Benefits to the Person doing the Praying / Sending the Healing
-Improved hope, faith, positive thoughts
-Improved feelings of love, creativity, connection
-Increased thoughts about someone, and increased understanding of and feelings of connection to that person:
Praying for someone is a bit like buying them a gift or card, drawing them a picture, sending them a message, liking a status etc - it involves a similar process which is taking the time to think about somebody.
You can do it briefly, or you can go really in depth, depending on how much time and thought you choose to put in.
-Improved health, as love is a healing hormone (oxytocin), taking the time out to pray can be calming and a relief from a busy day, we can obviously pray for ourself and for what we want in life etc.
Benefits to the Person being Prayed for/Healed
-If someone knows they're being prayed for, that can produce, I believe, the most benefit. (Unless they absolutely hate and have a fear of prayer lol!)
Eg. from:
-Placebo effect
-Improved faith and hope
-Feeling loved and cared for
-Feeling relaxed, like some pressure's been taken off
In some ways, this may be a flaw of some studies - if someone doesn't know they're being prayed for, a lot of placebo-related healing may be being taken away.
If placebo works, what's wrong with it? Prayer is quick, often free, carbon neutral etc.
If the person doesn't know they're being prayed for:
Well all that's left here is evidence of recovery! But not just that - see below for knock-on effects:
-Full recovery with no remission
-Full recovery with later remission
-Partial recovery
-Recovery of one illness
-Recovery of all illnesses, etc.
-Improved mental/emotional wellbeing which is less easy to quantify
Knock-On Effects
If someone prays for / sends healing to someone they know, without them knowing, it still may have an actual knock on effect because when the person prays for someone they are actively thinking about them. And when we actively think about someone we are more likely to do something real and tangible for them after the prayer.
Eg. imagine I send healing to Tom and he doesn't know it. I imagine a beautiful visualisation where I send loving energy or a hug or something.
This has an effect on my psyche and subconscious etc. making me more likely to hug Tom in real life. Or to send loving energy in real life, eg. in any form - messages, conversation, gifts, a phone call or visit, etc.
In the case of illness, if I imagine a healing scenario, I might see images of possible assistances for recovery eg. an image of Tom doing more exercise, visiting a doctor, eating more fruit and veg etc. And in real life, after I've finished praying, I might end up relating this info to Tom.
And thus, Tom will receive tangible 'healing' eventually through my resultant actions.
Does this make sense?
---Intercessory Prayer is beginners' prayer in some ways (not all). I see myself as moving through my spiritual healing training, from intercessory prayer, (which most of us have been taught in some way), towards distant healing.
Through learning spiritual healing for 7-9 years, via self study and via observing the angels as they work to heal me and others, I see myself as learning to take the pressure off the angels' / ethereal beings' / whatever you like to call them busy schedules and learn their skills, to become one of them kind of, with similar, shared responsibility, on earth. To also work with them and heal in teams if needed. Which is nice and pleasant to do.
Natalie Windsor
Distant Healing has here been put by the author into the 'Intercessory Prayer' group.
However Distant Healing and Intercessory prayer are not necessarily the same thing.
My definitions, which I hope are correct, are as following:
Intercessory Prayer:
I am asking a divine being to heal somebody. This could be an angel, God, saint, whatever.
This could be further broken down as follows:
Physical Complaints
1a) I ask the being to completely cure someone of everything that is wrong.
1b) I ask the being to completely cure someone of a specific ailment.
1c) I ask the being to send healing where it is needed.
(I might do this if I didn't know if the person was ill or not, but wanted to send positive vibes just in case. I might also do it if someone was really obviously on death's door and I'd feel arrogant asking a being to save someone's life in case it was their time etc. if that makes sense).
1e) I could wish for instantanteous recovery or I could wish for gradual recovery.
1f)I could wish for complete cure or I could wish for an improvement of symptoms.
Emotional/Mental Complaints
The same as above:
2a) I ask the being to heal everything that is wrong or causing difficulty
2b) I ask the being to heal a specific issue.
2c) I ask the being to send healing where it's needed.
2d) I often ask a being to send a loving message or a hug to someone that they will receive in a way that's comfortable for them and in line with their beliefs.
2e) I could wish for instantanteous recovery or I could wish for gradual recovery.
2f)I could wish for complete cure or I could wish for an improvement of symptoms.
Distant Healing
Distant healing to me is the same as above only I'm doing it, rather than the divine or ethereal being. Spiritual healing to me is learning to be a human healing force with similar powers to the divine or ethereal beings.
So it would be the same as above:
3a) I send healing energy with the intention of curing all illness currently present in a person.
3b) I send healing energy with the intention of curing a specific ailment.
3c) I ask the energy to go where it's needed - ask it to show me the way. I don't believe energy is conscious on its own although some do, and maybe it has magnetism ie. it could be drawn to the ill part of someone. But I believe I'm kinda working with ethereal beings when I put out this request.
3d) I imagine myself travelling to someone and giving them a loving message or a hug.
3e) I could wish for instantanteous recovery or I could wish for gradual recovery.
3f)I could wish for complete cure or I could wish for an improvement of symptoms.
And as above it's the same for mental and emotional.
Negative Vibes
'Also, if praying for people worked, would strangers praying against them cause them to become sicker? Or, as one of my religious friends put it, "Is God is so stupid that he or she would respond to
popularity contests?"'
I believe we can be stopped from sending negative vibes. I mean if I was God, I would see that as part of my job somehow although it would be time consuming.
I have heard just two stories of people who wished for death or destruction and it happened. Eg. one guy wished for a helicopter to come down and the next day it did. However this guy committed suicide and they weren't mentally healthy (obviously) at the time and I wasn't there so I can't corroborate that.
However I got really paranoid around this area - when I was first told that negative thoughts travel, I couldn't handle that knowledge and responsibility and went mad.
5 years on, after having been a medium for 5 years and having liver with the knowledge that other beings are only a thought away (basically living in a mental environment where every thought I have can potentially provoke a response from other beings out there) I have learned to deal with this more healthily. I've experimented with and set ground rules, current ones being requesting mental privacy in certain circumstances, only asking for advice from ethereal beings when I need it etc.
Through trusting my natural, human ability to be nice (I believe all humans are nice deep down), I trust my thoughts to be innately nice. Through working through trauma regularly as and when it occurs and through reminding myself of basic niceties, I avoid any 'nasty' moments.
Does It Work?
I don't honestly know. I don't make a log of successes etc. And how can you ever really know on another person if you're not there to witness what else is going on in their life?
On myself I can definitely definitely say that when I've engaged in self healing, whether it be channeling healing energies to an ill part of my body, massaging said part, getting some rest and shut eye, working on the illness on a psychological or emotional level, or whether it be letting or asking the angels to heal it for me, it has mostly worked.
'Intercessory prayer studies accomplish nothing.'
This is a statement that can easily be academically refuted.
Something is always accomplished no matter what we do in life. Even if we accomplish death and destruction.
"Believers" won't change their view if further studies are negative, and nonbelievers won't change theirs if additional studies appear positive.'
Once more, this is a statement that can be called into question.
In fact, people do change their beliefs over the course of a lifetime.
Most, if not all of us, will be on a sliding, changeable spectrum between believer and non-believer.
'Prayer may help some people feel reassured when they are worried, but to me it makes more sense to spend one's time and energy on more constructive health-promoting activities.'
Obviously a personal choice here.
I personally feel that, if prayer and distant healing don't 'work' (the definition of 'work' meaning complete or partial cure of a physical, mental or emotional disease, I assume?) they will confer some benefit to individuals including:
Benefits to the Person doing the Praying / Sending the Healing
-Improved hope, faith, positive thoughts
-Improved feelings of love, creativity, connection
-Increased thoughts about someone, and increased understanding of and feelings of connection to that person:
Praying for someone is a bit like buying them a gift or card, drawing them a picture, sending them a message, liking a status etc - it involves a similar process which is taking the time to think about somebody.
You can do it briefly, or you can go really in depth, depending on how much time and thought you choose to put in.
-Improved health, as love is a healing hormone (oxytocin), taking the time out to pray can be calming and a relief from a busy day, we can obviously pray for ourself and for what we want in life etc.
Benefits to the Person being Prayed for/Healed
-If someone knows they're being prayed for, that can produce, I believe, the most benefit. (Unless they absolutely hate and have a fear of prayer lol!)
Eg. from:
-Placebo effect
-Improved faith and hope
-Feeling loved and cared for
-Feeling relaxed, like some pressure's been taken off
In some ways, this may be a flaw of some studies - if someone doesn't know they're being prayed for, a lot of placebo-related healing may be being taken away.
If placebo works, what's wrong with it? Prayer is quick, often free, carbon neutral etc.
If the person doesn't know they're being prayed for:
Well all that's left here is evidence of recovery! But not just that - see below for knock-on effects:
-Full recovery with no remission
-Full recovery with later remission
-Partial recovery
-Recovery of one illness
-Recovery of all illnesses, etc.
-Improved mental/emotional wellbeing which is less easy to quantify
Knock-On Effects
If someone prays for / sends healing to someone they know, without them knowing, it still may have an actual knock on effect because when the person prays for someone they are actively thinking about them. And when we actively think about someone we are more likely to do something real and tangible for them after the prayer.
Eg. imagine I send healing to Tom and he doesn't know it. I imagine a beautiful visualisation where I send loving energy or a hug or something.
This has an effect on my psyche and subconscious etc. making me more likely to hug Tom in real life. Or to send loving energy in real life, eg. in any form - messages, conversation, gifts, a phone call or visit, etc.
In the case of illness, if I imagine a healing scenario, I might see images of possible assistances for recovery eg. an image of Tom doing more exercise, visiting a doctor, eating more fruit and veg etc. And in real life, after I've finished praying, I might end up relating this info to Tom.
And thus, Tom will receive tangible 'healing' eventually through my resultant actions.
Does this make sense?
---Intercessory Prayer is beginners' prayer in some ways (not all). I see myself as moving through my spiritual healing training, from intercessory prayer, (which most of us have been taught in some way), towards distant healing.
Through learning spiritual healing for 7-9 years, via self study and via observing the angels as they work to heal me and others, I see myself as learning to take the pressure off the angels' / ethereal beings' / whatever you like to call them busy schedules and learn their skills, to become one of them kind of, with similar, shared responsibility, on earth. To also work with them and heal in teams if needed. Which is nice and pleasant to do.
Natalie Windsor
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