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AFTER LIFE What happens when we die?

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Mother Meera visits Ireland DUBLIN March 26th & 27th Mother Meera is one of the most widely revered and loved of the avatars of the divine Mother. In this time of change, Mother Meera offers a direct transmission of light that dissolves all barriers and changes the entire being. www.mothermeera.ie

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By Ben Millett

A world of pure imagination The Chocolate Factory is a new creative community developing in the old Williams & Woods building on King’s Inn Street in Dublin.

The first concrete building in the city is being rejuvenated to become a creative hub comprised of studio spaces for design, art, music, dance, photography and many other creative areas.

The ethos of the Chocolate Factory is a creative community where community is the centre of focus with everybody helping each other out. We are also focused on reusing and upcycling anything we can as part of the development and building work going on in the CF, and want to be as sustainable as possible in every aspect of the project.

Ireland’s first rooftop Urban Farm is being created on the roof of the building and aims to produce and educate people on various horticultural techniques and how to create their own urban farm.

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baker, fashion designers, software designers and many more all becoming part of the community and fuelling the diverse creative atmosphere that is developing.

A cafe and restaurant is planned for the ground floor and it is hoped to be open in the next few months, combining a great place to have a coffee or a meeting, with some roof grown food in a creative and industrial atmosphere of the expansive ground floor.

This project is breathing some life back into King’s Inn Street and hopefully it will help to expand the creative sector of Dublin to include this beautiful old building and its resident creatives. www.chocolatefactory.ie Other spaces worth a look: www.blockt.ie and www.fumballyexchange.com

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a year of 100% wild food Fergus Drennan is aiming to live for an entire year solely (100%) on Wild food, which, even for someone with his extraordinary foraging experience, is quite the daunting task. Because this is, quite literally, the unexplored territory of our age, Fergus is asking for the help and support of the wider community. Not only will his experiences help lay the psychic groundwork for a new way of being in the world, his findings may help us navigate our path forward with a greater depth of knowledge and understanding. Is it possible? How best can we utilise wild food all year round? How does it affect him personally and socially? What are the ecological implications?

Fergus says: “We have all played the ‘What if?’ game, imagining what it would be like - including the benefit to ourselves and others - if we did a specific thing every day, or simply more often. I think that to turn such hypothetical imaginings into a living, breathing and vibrant reality, we need to draw on our own unique skills, gifts and talents. In my case, for whatever mysterious reason, my unique sphere of skill and activity lies within the world of foraging and wild food. So-called food security is a perennial issue and, indeed, issues concerning food and the way we as human beings feed ourselves, are of profound importance. Given its ancient pedigree, an exploration focussing on wild food and foraging, in particular, will throw up valuable insights in such a context.”

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the connections economy

By Kathleen Moore

People have started turning away from large-scale, anonymous companies and towards smaller, local, more authentic ventures. More and more, people want to know the person behind the product they’ve just purchased. They want to see their own personal values being upheld and mirrored in as many exchanges that they have as possible, every single day.

Seth Godin, a leading thinker in business, talks about this shift in his new book,The Icarus Deception. “What matters to people now is connecting with other likeminded people; including those they choose to do business with.” He has coined this new economy “The Connections Economy”.

Godin describes a new landscape of smaller businesses whose size enables them to deal directly with their customers. These new ventures are more personal, non-corporate and authentic entities set up to do something different and important - both for the personal creators and for people who deal with them. Fantastically, the

“Larger companies can use the size of their organisations for a significant social purpose and reconnect with their customers.” digital and social revolution has enabled such a shift, giving small enterprises access to global niche markets, allowing them to be economically viable for the few who run them.

From a big business point of view, all is not lost either. Larger companies can use the size of their organisations for a significant social purpose and reconnect with their customers. This is the fl ipside of the scale of their operations: they can actually make a very positive and real impact on the world. Take, for example, the World’s number one brand: Coke. Coca-Cola, having used the image of the Polar Bear in their advertising campaigns for the last few decades, are now working jointly with the WWF to protect the Arctic – the habitat of the polar bears. Another company giving back is clothing brand Timberland. Since the massive earthquake in 2010, Timberland have been working with a local Haitian NGO to upskill farmers on sustainable farming and improving the forestry of the country.

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the giving pledge goes global

By Trevor Neilson

hero dog’s 911 call People have always seemed to have a soft spot for heroic dogs. Whether it’s TV classics like Lassie or heart-warming family films like Homeward Bound, the idea of dogs rescuing their human masters (or even complete strangers) captures our love and affection as few other things do. So it’s only natural to love hearing about dogs that save people in real life! Here is one true account of a dog that saved a human from perilous circumstances:

“Using their keen sense of smell, animals like Belle can detect abnormalities in a person’s bloodsugar levels.”

A little noticed piece of news emerged in the world of philanthropy in February. A dozen new billionaires signed onto the Buffett-Gates Giving Pledge. The Pledge, established in 2010 by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, encourages the world’s wealthiest individuals to give at least half of their wealth to charity rather than passing it on to their children. With the addition of these signatories, 105 billionaires have now committed a total of $500 billion to philanthropy.

This news is important for a few key reasons. First, Gates and Buffett have done a great job of engaging people around the world to donate their wealth to charity. Most people never thought the Pledge would succeed given the entrenched tradition of passing wealth along to one’s children.

Even in a country like the U.S. that prides itself upon equality of opportunity, inheritances have historically comprised about 20-50% of wealth accumulation - a tradition that stifles ambition and innovation. The fact that 105 billionaires have signed on, including the latest Pledgers who represent 8 different countries, is an encouraging indicator that the culture of wealth is shifting.

As we look to the future, we have reason to hope that this increased commitment to charitable giving will become the social norm. Imagine a society in which extreme giving is the new status symbol for the wealthy. The Pledge could evolve into a giving competition and eventually a Global Philanthropy Award on par with the Nobel Prize.

We’ve already seen the concept take shape through the X Prize, which promotes technological innovations for the benefit of humanity. This model of incentivizing philanthropy through competition and peer pressure has proven successful.

If we can leverage it further, we stand to change the landscape of philanthropy worldwide. www.twitter.com/trevor_neilson

A 17-pound beagle named Belle is more than man’s best friend; she’s a lifesaver. Belle recently received an award for biting onto owner Kevin Weaver’s mobile phone to call 911 after the diabetic man had a seizure and collapsed.

“There is no doubt in my mind that I’d be dead if I didn’t have Belle,” said Weaver, 34, whose blood sugar had dropped dangerously low. Belle had been trained to summon help in just those circumstances. She had been taught to bite down on the number 9 on his mobile phone contacting 911.

Belle was the fi rst canine recipient to win the VITA Wireless Samaritan Award, given to someone who used a mobile phone to save a life, prevent a crime or help in an emergency.

Using their keen sense of smell, animals like Belle can detect abnormalities in a person’s blood-sugar levels. The dog periodically licks Weaver’s nose to take her own reading of his blood-sugar level. If something seems off to her, she will paw and whine at him.

“Every time she paws at me like that, I grab my meter and test myself,” Weaver said. “She’s never been wrong.”

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spirituality & the city “otherworldly experiences” Camille Donegan Theatre Producer One evening in 1999, I had a breakdown and couldn’t stop crying for no apparent reason. I called my friend and she said: “Well, your Dad’s heading off to Peru next week, maybe you’re worried about that.” With that, the floodgates opened: “He’s going to die there,” I blubbered into the phone. After much hysteria, she calmed me down, but I couldn’t get it out of my mind.

I knew I couldn’t talk to my Dad about it, so I wrote him a letter - told him that I had a bad feeling about the trip - and insisted on coming to the airport. I somehow knew it would be the last time I would see him.

The weeks went by. One phone call to wish me a happy 22nd birthday and then a postcard in response to my letter: “Thanks for your concern. I’m here for a good time and want to come back. Don’t worry...”

A week later, I got a call from my Mum to say my Dad was missing in Peru.

His body was never found. It’s in a spiritual tomb on Huascaran in the Andes, where he would have wanted to be buried. www.aliveoproductions.ie

“...I took a wonderful trip through the universe and all the incredible vistas and convergent information at hand.”

Kane Fay Director/Producer with Bright Harbour Productions This is my little tale of an epic journey we will all undertake sooner or later.

Throughout my life, I followed the credo: “Walk the edge, because that’s where the toes tingle.” Well, my stupidity eventually got the better of me and I killed myself. I jumped off a sixty meter cliff after a lovely thirty meter scuba dive under what looked like a natural diving board atop a cliff face, and died.

I had the most sublime of all trips, the most exhilarating articulation with complete freedom of four dimensional space; then the most shameful, as I watched over my friends’ efforts as they tried to revive me; then the most cleansing, as I forgave myself for all past mistakes and was then guided to and through a brilliant light by familiar spirits; then the most welcoming, as I navigated myself through a tunnel of light; and then the most breathtaking and enlightening, as I took a wonderful trip through the universe and all the incredible vistas and convergent information at hand. Then, as I slowed down with fearful thoughts of worry for my children, BANG, I zapped back into my conscious being. www.brightharbour.ie

Jane Topkin Financial Advisor I believe in angels and like the thought that they are all around us. Some years ago, I was playing a big poker tournament. A few days before, it was All Soul’s Day, November 2nd. Our tradition in Estonia is to light a candle and think about special ones who’ve passed away, and so I did.

As I was mentally preparing and going over my strategies, my Granny, who passed away almost twenty years ago, was on my mind. I had always felt weirdly connected to her. I spoke to her and asked her to be there for me. An hour later, lights flickered in my hallway (which freaked me out). I was convinced it was her.

I thought about her every night before falling asleep. I came second in the game, and am convinced it was through the help of that someone special looking after me.

13 Randy Ralston Sacred Intimate/Truth-Seeker/Unashamed Idealist The Universe speaks to me most strongly when I’m in that magical, ecstatic place where sexuality, consciousness and nature merge - where divine, mystical, embodied union takes place.

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Sinead Ringwood Stay-at-home Mum/Gospel Singer 6 years ago, I was very ill in hospital. During that time, my friend’s mother died and I was unable to attend her funeral. This upset me greatly, so, on the day of her funeral, I decided to say my own goodbye to her.

I closed my eyes and said a little prayer. After I called her name in my mind, I could see her running towards me, not sick anymore and full of joy.

She said that she was very happy and was looking forward to seeing who turned up at her funeral.

When her daughter came to visit me, I told her in detail the clothes I saw her mother wearing. My friend’s eyes lit up and she told me: “They are the exact clothes we dressed mammy in for her coffin!”

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Earth realm appears to be one of perpetual growth and learning as we seek to come out of the world, rather than immersing ourselves further into it. I doubt that there is a reader of this magazine who has not felt the massive personal and collective shift taking place during 2012 and 2013. On one level, it is reflective of the harmonic dance of two planets that will converge for the third time in less than a year on May 21st; its antecedents taking place during 1988 and 1989, 1964-68, 1948/49, 1933/37 and 1916/17 to name the most recent phases.

Whilst we live within a time of revolutionary evolution that is affording us the opportunity to bring new conditions of living into being, we are also experiencing our own personal watersheds. There are some of you that will really feel this titanic shift in a very obvious and tangible manner this coming spring. So, to prepare for this acceleration in your own emergence process, I would ask you to reflect on two previous time periods in your life. Firstly, January through May 2002; Secondly, January through April 1993. If those dates stand out for you, then know that this is a period of your life that is fecund with opportunity to undergo an immense transmutation process, helping you to accelerate on your journey back to the light. If those time frames do not resonate for you, no worries, since this alchemical process is going on until 2015.

HINDSIGHT The benefit of looking backwards is to get a feel for the movement that occurred in your soul, since the weather ahead has a similar feel to it. Please do not reflect on your prior growth from within the ego-mind, asking yourself whether the changes were good or bad. It would be more useful to reflect on the mood and intensity of the changes and the areas of your life that underwent those metamorphic processes. Having done that, I would like you to ask yourself whether you can see a similar tone emerging within you in similar arenas of your life now. The tone in 2002 was one of striking, compelling and radical change; the tone in 1993 was a deep purging and soul searching. If so, then know that the time is right in May to utterly transmute your life in consort with the titanic and volcanic shifts occurring around you.

Within this realm of Reality, as consciousness appears to splinter from its origin as a singular, unified entity into a dualistic state creating light and dark; awareness and unconsciousness; male and female; there exist five organising

HIGHLIGHTS OF COSMIC ACTIVITY DURING SPRING 2013 March 8th Pouring Cement continues as Saturn sextiles Pluto March 11th Piscean New Moon March 17th Feeling in Motion Mercury turns Direct in Pisces March 28th Infusion of Light Venus conjoined the Sun in Aries April 10th Arian New Moon April 13th

The Tower as Saturn quincunxes Uranus

April 25th

Lunar eclipse at 5° Scorpio

May 10th

Taurean Annular Eclipse New Moon

May 21st

Revolutionary Evolution; 3rd Stage of Uranus square Pluto

May 25th

Lunar eclipse at 4° Sagittarius

June 8th

Geminian New Moon

time ahead. Abraham Hicks teaches that an emotionally charged thought is what creates reality, since the universe listens to our feeling state, not the verbally elite thoughts that stem from our egos and brains. Reconnecting to our feeling state is indicated during the eclipse season in late April and May, as three separate portals open up to give you a more immediate access to a higher realm of consciousness, facilitating you to bring God/ Source consciousness directly into your life.

These eclipses bode well for reflective practices, so I would gently suggest that you schedule time to spend in deep reflection concerning the release of any stagnant emotions that are polluting your ability to

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“...the time is right in May to utterly transmute your life in consort with the titanic and volcanic shifts occurring around you.” principles in life, known as the elements.

Within the western astrological tradition, four elements are recognised as being the psychic structures through which consciousness is expressed, the fifth being the overall matrix within which life is housed - Ether. The elements of Fire and Water are the two modes that are being accentuated this spring. At a lower vibrational state of consciousness, it may feel like Fire and Water have little in common. Indeed, Water is used to put out Fire, and Fire is used to heat Water.

However, both reflect highly charged emotional states and are required to get things going. Water is Life. Without it we would not exist. It is moulded and shaped according to the matrix into which it flows. Fire is Spirit. It is the life force that animates consciousness. That they are equally strong, reflected in Mercury’s pause in Pisces through March, and Venus’ conjunction with our Logos (the Sun) on March 28th in Aries, means that we can actively cleanse (water) our spirits (fire) and fuel (fire) our emotions (water) with passion (fire) and altruism (water).

see things clearly, thereby eclipsing your ability to manifest reality (lunar eclipse in Scorpio); what ways are you honouring spirit with your body (solar eclipse in Taurus); and how are you spreading your light to those around you with joy and laughter (lunar eclipse in Sagittarius).

Accessing Source consciousness through those portals means that you can literally make quantum leaps in your spiritual evolution, raising not only your consciousness, but the awareness of those around you. Gregg Braden talks about the measurable effect on humanity of group intention in his book The Divine Matrix. Essentially, he refers to research undertaken that suggests it only takes the square root of point one percentage of the population to transform the world by intention alone. Think about that in terms of Ireland – that is a mere 223 people needed to embody the cosmic energy and kick start the paradigm shift. 223! It is safe to say that there is more than that number reading this magazine! 2013 is the year - your year to revolutionise your spiritual evolution. My sincerest best wishes for your journey.

2013 is the first year of the New Age of Awakened Consciousness, and we are in the spring of this first year, sowing seeds imbued with an entirely different frequency of consciousness that will germinate, sprout and flower over the

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shed your skin

By Amanda Collins

Shedding your skin for the year of the Water Snake

positive home

By Amanda Collins The Solar Year began on February Home is the 4th at thirteen foundation minutes after of everything. midnight, and That’s why it’s so with it came the important that your transition from the home supports Water Dragon of health, peace and 2012 to the Water well being. I invite Snake of 2013. The you to connect to Water Snake represents rebirth, healing, your home just like you would connect to new beginnings and transformation as she a person. Listen and pay attention to how sheds her old skin. you feel in your home. Ask yourself, do my The snake holds age-old wisdom and spirits raise or fall when I walk in my front the keys to enjoying life. Every few months, door? Whatever the answer is, things can when snakes shed their skins, we can share always be done to improve the energy with a in this symbol of rebirth, immortality and little knowledge and love. powerful change by releasing our own old Sleep vital for rejuvenation, patterns andisembracing the new. So,so 2013 let’s start with some tips for a good night’s is an especially favourable time to leave sleep.

Place bed sooryou have a full behind anyyour old habits attitudes thatview no of the door, placeso, it we directly under longer servebut us.don’t In doing may come windows.

Ifnatural possible, don’t sleepiswith back to our state which pureyour love head against the toilet wall.connection Solid, wooden, and authenticity, our true to supportive headboards ourselves, to each otherand andnatural to Earth. mattresses are best.

To bring our homes into similar The is a place for rest and balance inbedroom 2013, Classical FengShui makes romance, not work or exercise. Remove several recommendations: Energy Stimulants have high amounts 1 In the Centre of that our homes, to remove of energythe like TVs, digital theelectromagnetic annual visitor Earth, remedy we clocks, telephones.

Clear need tocomputers, add is thirtyand pounds of metal and all clutter frommetal your such bedroom and under some moving as a pendulum your furniture should have clock.bed.

TheBedroom best colours for this central rounded edges,and notpastels. sharp. IfRed youshould have an area are white be en-suite bathroom, the toilet avoided here, and itmake is alsosure important not lid is down the throughout door is shut the before you to have anyand clutter home, but especially in the Centre. settle down for the night.

In the Northwest area A couple of2 hours before bedtime, of our homes, the annual dim the lights to help your inner visitor is Metal.

This clock move towards sleep.

Natural soy,area supports prosperity and paraffin-free candles are also a sensual and soothing way to calm the spirit. Use aromatherapy to further relax the body; try lavender or gardenia.

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6 In the North area, Water will arrive, bringing abundance and love, wisdom and business recognition. The element to add is a Water Fountain, while blues and whites are the right colours for this area.

If you are single and would like to be in a relationship, the North is the area in which you should also spend more time.

7 In the Southwest, Earth energy will arrive. This is not the most auspicious area, for it represents accidents and loneliness.

You can counteract this with two remedies: add metal, a minimum of thirty pounds, and avoid reds here.

8 In another inauspicious place, Wood will arrive in the East area of your home this year. Because this represents arguments, you may remove this energy by adding some fire to burn the wood. The remedy again is to add red accessories to this area.

1 This year also brings Wood to the Southeast area of your home. This area represents romance, academic area for happiness, wealth and love, and achievement, career success and referrals this year it is by far the best area with the at work. To enhance this welcome energy, arrival of Earth. The element that you want add a gentle Water element such as a to add here is Fire, plus red colours such fountain or fish bowl. Lush green plants as maroon, purple or fuchsia, perhaps in a are excellent here also. red cushion, rug or piece of art. You might In this year, and every year, express also add items symbolic of wealth here, your gratitude for your home. The energy such as your wealth vase. This Northeast you give to it is the energy you will receive area is especially good for retailers, and from it. The more you notice, appreciate a great area to strengthen for a couple and express gratitude for blessings wanting a baby. received - no matter how small - the more 5 In the South area, Fire is arriving good things will come your way, including in your home this year. This element money. This Water Snake year of rebirth is will bring fi nancial gain, good luck and a perfect topower createposition a gratitude journal put youtime in the when you Cactus and dried flowers, however, are prospects of marriage and fertility for 2013. to track your daily thanks. are cooking. Placing the colours blue or not recommended. Place happy photos So, again, add Fire redfamily coloured black near or on the refrigerator has been andonce images of you and in your around, items and accessories. www.amandacollins.com scientifically proven to help suppress and surround yourself with art you love appetite. Clear all random magnets and things that inspire you. Decorate with and replace them with a single positive calming colours such as a pastels and affirmation: I love my body and feed it natural earth tones. healthy foods.

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3 In the West area of your home, Metal arrives this year, its energy is unsupportive and therefore capable of bringing competition and loss. Adding a water fountain and the colours blue and black will help you prevent those outcomes.

4 The Northeast area of your home is the

“So, 2013 is an especially favourable time to leave behind any old habits or attitudes that no longer serve us.”

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you are what you seek

By Sandy C. Newbigging

Spiritual mumbo-jumbo or statement of Truth?

Ever heard the phrase: “You are what you seek”? For years, I thought it was just some happy-clappy spiritual mumbojumbo. To be told that I was peace when I wasn’t feeling peaceful was not only confusing, but also darn right annoying!

That was, until I was taught meditation by a bunch of modern day monks that showed me the truth held within these 5 perplexing words.

HOW CAN I BE PEACE IF I’M NOT FEELING PEACEFUL? Imagine you are outside on a clear sunny day, looking up at the sky. Then, out of the blue, a bird flies across your field of vision.

Without realising, you take your attention away from the vast sky and follow the flight of the bird. The same happens in your awareness every day.

Thoughts and emotions are something you are aware of. They are movement occurring in your mind and body, yet they all happen within the context of still, silent, spacious awareness.

Conscious awareness is inherently peaceful – always – irrespective of the thoughts and emotions occurring within it.

By learning to let your attention rest, aware of the context of stillness rather than on the constant movement, you can experience a peace beyond what you thought possible.

YOU ARE NOT YOUR TEMPORARY THOUGHTS OR EMOTIONS But don’t take my word for it! Stop reading, close your eyes and watch your mind;

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quietly observe the thoughts happening.

Then, whenever you become aware of a thought – which could be about this topic, something you need to do later, or anything else – give the thought a number: one, two, three, and so on.

Having done that, how many thoughts did you count: 2, 22, 202? It really doesn’t matter how many. What matters is the fact that you could count even one thought. Why? Because this shows that

emotions coming and going today, there has been an aspect to you that has been here the entire time. An aspect to you that is permanent. That’s your real self. It is continually present, irrespective of the quality or quantity of thoughts that come and go.

BE AWARE OF THE AWARENESS THAT’S AWARE! Not being your temporary thoughts and emotions makes it possible for you to change your relationship with your mind so that your thoughts and emotions can exist without them impacting on your peace and prosperity. Imagine that.

The sky doesn’t care how many birds fly through it. Neither does it care if they are white doves or blackbirds. The same is true for your conscious awareness.

By using meditation techniques to be more consciously aware, you can experience what your own awareness is like you cannot be your thoughts. Instead, you - which is, yes, you guessed it, peaceful (not are that which is aware of your thoughts. to mention love-filled).

A thought is an object and you are the Much serenity and success comes observer of the object. One is constant, from you learning how to put most of your whereas the other is constantly changing. attention on your permanently still and Thoughts come and go, but you don’t. silent conscious awareness, rather than being solely focused on the temporary YOU EXIST EVEN WHEN YOU ARE NOT thoughts, emotions, physical sensations HAVING THOUGHTS and life circumstances that you are aware of.

Peace of mind is possible while having By making this shift in where you put thoughts because you are not your thoughts. your attention, you can reconnect with the Thousands of thoughts pass through your aspect of your real self that is permanently awareness every day. They are constantly peaceful, and the fact that the spiritual coming and going; that’s what thoughts do. sages were speaking the truth when they Thoughts appear for only a moment and said: “You are what you seek.” then disappear to be replaced with another thought and then another one. The same Sandy will lead a one-day Being Calm Class in goes for emotions too.

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“Peace of mind is possible while having thoughts because you are not your thoughts.”

that we can! And that is why turning yourself over to your higher self works better than mentally struggling with the illusion that doing more, and doing it more intensely, creates confidence. When we hold the intention that trust and truth be delivered to us, we can get out of the way and release the doubt that is crippling us.

To do that, we must balance our masculine, feminine and child energy, and the magnetism within each. Like procreation, the masculine must come together with the feminine IN BALANCE, meet in harmony, and create the child, a.k.a. the creation. The divine idea/ instinct/guidance must be taken out into the world with power by the masculine to successfully create.

When that happens, feeeeeeeeeel and experience my celebration confidence is truly in place. at the creation that the God of Me has So, askI feel yourself: domyself I haveas a lot manifested. love for the of great,entity inspired that I never do creative andideas the majestic creator anything If to theBEanswer is yes, that I am. with?

I choose happiness andknow that youlove, needbecause to balance thethose masculine joy and I know are so you have moreequivalents power to deliver your ideas the emotional to creating. to theisworld.

Or do you push and work That how creation happens: by feeling and strive doing ANYthing, just to try good.

Feeling good makes us powerful. and create, without a lot ofwhich success?

Stop Loving ourselves divinely, means and take time to nurture your feminine. unconditionally, is the beginning of Allow yourcreation channelitself. to open and receive conscious divine STEP guidance, then use the EIGHT:and I turn it over andpower allow that is energy in placeoftothe radiate out. Then all the worldthat to deliver my the creation is most automatically in way place, and creation in the miraculous confidence is reinforced. possible. I ALLOW MYSELF TO RECEIVE, Confidence not something knowing that I amis worthy and deserve all you get. Confidence is the vibration of the blessings of my heart. knowing that you are. Be the knowing of the Creative thatand is you, and When weForce live each every moment confidence is a no-brainer.

Literally. in these principles, and APPLY THEM, we

personal responsibility positive attraction

By Dee Wallace

Get to know your own God of creation When I go into I am excited.

Yippee an andaudition, woo-hoo!I We have to have are finally knowing the confidence what we know and within methat that knowing weI can deliver a good know; and when read.

I have to have we know that, confidence in my all answers are healing I can revealed.that We are a difference fine tuning the creationmake process and seeing in someone’s bymissing the information where we havelife been the links,that and comes through.

I have to have confidence where the focus has eluded us. We have all before I even and sit down to are write this article. the answers, now we meeting the The one common in all challenge of livingprinciple the process.

Yes,these there adventures: have learned to at trust mybe is a learning Icurve.

Yes, it can times channel.

Always without question. a bit daunting andand overwhelming; and is,it.ofWe course, quitepersonal the opposite we areThat doing are taking of what we havefor been definition responsibility the taught. creationThe of Us! of confidence is: full trust. And yet, our We are also allowing ourselves to society has in the belief that we embrace theeducated ease of it,usnow that we know we own the judgment, cancan do never it, andtrust have our released resistance to and God forbid we really trust anyone the creation process itself.

We are realizing outside ourselves; andthat it iswe actually that theof more we accept are it, and impossible to trust ALLwe energy. a it is complete, the more allowQuite it to be conundrum, you agree?

If creation the creation itdon’t is. So, I want to list the steps takes confidence, and confidence is trust, we know, so that there is a solid, black and and wewritten are taught we can’t then white, formula ourtrust, brains canwe can neverfor be 2013. the confident vibration that embrace creates. Ergo, the more you go into your mentalSTEP mindONE: to reason, I mustfigure acceptand the stay safe,

the less me confidence you experience inother the creates and, therefore, my life. In creation process. thentothe pattern of words, I have the And free will choose. limitedSTEP creation begins again.

THREE: I choose exactly what I I mean, couldn’t walkthat intoI want to want to create -I the POSITIVE Mr. Speilberg’s office without any create. confidence book E.T. You even STEPand FOUR: I commit tocan’t the choice have successful making I choose.

It is notlove an empty affiwithout rmation, confidence. yet, ask the Universe a prayer thatAnd turns mywe responsibility to deliver to us energy, when we confident over to another oraren’t a hopeful in thethat trust within to create wish I might getourselves what I want.

It is a it, or to handle the to creation when wefor do.me, So, COMMITMENT create it, by me, the Universe, being theenergy. very wise director in partnership with all it is, must your confidence STEPexperience FIVE: When I commit, I thento manifest your desire.

DIRECT my energy.

I literally tell my energy So, how does one create what to do, what to create.

It is aconfidence? direction I consciously give myself, i.e. putting water in the freezer to make ice.

STEP SIX: I take action from the place of knowing IT HAS ALREADY BEEN CREATED IN THE SPIRITUAL/ENERGETIC REALMS. In other words, I have faith that I have ordered my meal, and the meal is delivered.

STEP SEVEN: Now I feeeeeeeeeeeeeel.

I feel the joy and love of having this. Now, I

‘I mean, I couldn’t walk into Mr. Speilberg’s office without any confidence and book E.T.’

responsibility that I create my own life.

STEP TWO: Part of that responsibility is knowing that I Am the God of Me that

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“That is how creation happens: by feeling good. Feeling good makes us powerful.”

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live every moment as a conscious creator.

Dee Wallace has worked anbliss author, We are freedom and joyas and andteacher, dancer and actresswe in know film, television and balance, because the God of Me is the stage for overthe 30 God yearsof(E.T., Cujo,so The always creating Me. And it is!

Howling). Her book, Bright Light, tells that tale shares spiritual lessons has Dee and Wallace hasthe worked as an author,she teacher, learned from a life in acting. dancer and actress in film, television and

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to feel and be beautiful

By Mary Berkery

only temporary, unless inner refection and healing is incorporated in one’s life journey.

What does it take to Recently, I had a conversation with feel beautiful? Is it a young girl on body image, overeating beautiful clothes, and being overweight. She struggled with a loving partner or these issues. We had both been talking spouse, a beautiful about the Tipping Point principle - that is, home, financial when enough key people start to believe or security? I do not think or champion a new way, then, this believe that any of these makes one feel new way of thinking becomes the norm beautiful. They can help, yet they are not in society. I believe that this is similar the complete picture. to our internal shifts. So, take the time Memories come to mind. One, when to look at and release the shame-based, IBy was running businesses.

I arrived at work Mary Berkery not good enough stories - by attending one morning in my flashy car, “power self-development weekends such as bodydressed” and made up. Walking into the Learn howmorning to show up as your beautiful self centred psychotherapy workshops (e.g. office to good greetings, I felt Hakomi), going to meditation evenings awkward and no different to the little girl (e.g. Mindfulness Ireland’s website has (me) growing up who felt she did not fit I was invitedtime, to spend Winter many to education and spiritual much offer), watching onlineactivities, videos in.

Another I waslast invited to aSolstice ritzy and New Year onand the wonderful, warmdress while also learning lessons fromand rich on positive psychology, healing, by party in London wore a flattering island of Stgreat.

Croix Yet, in the Caribbean. and sometimes cruel life experiences. continually getting informed on healthy and looked I was unable toOur let host, a family of many However, I choices realised(Healthy more deeply than nutritional Habits.com). in theStephan, compliments andfriend admiration that lives and works St Croix. before, that I now have and a choice.

I can With such information integration, Iyears, was receiving, and feltonshy and notStephan sure wakes each morning at 5am to take two choose what thoughts and feelings to hours from that time each day for his entertain. I can live in a deep sense of “inner life”, walking in the rainforest while knowing myself as wonderful, live in embodying more deeply. He says: “The ‘I’ am of who I am, I am wonderful, I am delightful.” Before his work day begins, he walks these words he says into his being, to fully embody these words before his outer day commences. He was an inspiration and a joy to be Iwith. of myself. realized that I was not fully On the morning 21st,of my conscious of my impact of onDec others, Stephan’sor pet peacockpresence. woke meIn atfact, sunrise authority beautiful with a honking, high-pitched cry.and He had wonder and love, or operate from thoughts in spite of many accomplishments not donegifts, this in thefelt previous mornings. of inadequacy and fear. physical I still unworthy and not I wondered if he knew that it was a special I reflected on beauty, the path good enough. date. Arising to peacock cries, fromand the I choose over 25 years ago, as an Since then, the car, the money bedroom veranda I saw a bright, beautiful aesthetician, tutoring in beauty therapy, the possibility of acquiring the latest rainbow clothes archinghave overnot thebeen bluepossible. sea withIt anatomy massage and cosmetic chemistry, designer the given Virginme Islands in the background.

It before embarking on teaching holistic has the opportunity to come back seemed auspicious to wake and welcome beauty. As much as I know on natural to the core of my being, deepen my inner the New our planet with health and beauty approaches, I felt a work andBirth searchoffor who I truly amnature at this celebrating deepening of my desire to embody a more new stage of too. my life. The irony is that I now empowering sense of my own beauty, as a have a more profound sense of my essence Rebirththis existence called Mary, with woman, now in my 5th decade. through In the following days, I felt myself These quotes struck a heartfelt chord awareness of my elegance and grace in a stepping a new I had, a in those days: whole newinto light.

I cantime. see how myfrom being youngand age,impact chosenthose a path “By choosing your thoughts and by and wisdom influence thatbeing had encompassed selecting which emotional currents you will in my life, while also more able to let personal selfrelease and which you will reinforce, you will their care and love touch me. development, determine the effects that you will have upon I now see that we can feel attended fabulous in

i am beautiful

something eventually happens - our lesser, frightened being gives way, “tips over” to a healthy love and beauty and to a deep sense of one’s own unique and glorious offering to the world.

Outer care is an important and significant part of the holistic approach to wholeness. When one feels unworthy of life’s abundant gifts - especially at that time - be even be more conscious about taking care of your body, with daily application of natural oils (I really like the new Intelligent Nutrients body elixirs), attending to our others andappearance the nature ofby thehaving experiences of your personal a groomed life.”cared ~ Gary Zukav and for glow, wearing the clothes and January last year colours“We thatspent enhance who1st you are and lift walking through lives, room-by-room, your energy, andour by eating high vibration drawing up aliving list offoods work to be done, cracks plant-based that your body to be patched.

Maybe this loves.

These practices allyear, help to tobalance loosen the list,grip we ought to walk through of our the of negativity and lowthe selfrooms esteem, lives…not looking for flaws, but for and improve wellbeing, aiding in potential.” this ~ Ellen Goodman shift towards a constant sense of you as a I have a choice to show up daily, beautiful expression. and, like Stephan, with:what “I amthe beautiful.

Then, no matter changes I aminatyour Oneoutside with Love Life.” trends, I hear it are lifeand - fashion fromincome, my beloved of my loveliness, yet, to your relationships, your age - you know it from within will know how to access and nourish your theessence. deeper journey, own radiant vitality is and to live in that state of awareness no matter www.MaryBerkery.com mary@livingbeauty.iewhat else comes up for release and healing; to choose beauty in how I talk, think and feel.

When I am then with others in this place of wonder, I feel different and more present in my way of being and listening. Self-care and daily rituals would come from that deeper love rather than from a place of trying to shape up or measure up to outer standards that set up limiting comparisons.

I experienced how to dissolve thoughts of fear and criticism with awareness and breath, so as to daily step up to the full potential of who I am as a co-creator with the Love Intelligence that has birthed all on Earth and in the cosmos.

Choose to be beautiful, wonderful, filled with Life and Love this day and each day. I am/You are beautiful.

‘When one feels unworthy of life’s abundant gifts - especially at that time - be even be more “I hear it from my beloved of my conscious about taking care of your body...’ loveliness, yet, to know it from within is the deeper journey...”

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By Ann Hill

So, what is it about Earthsong Camps that have people flocking back every year?

You know you’re nearly at the Earthsong field when you start to spot the road-signs saying “SLOW – Fairies Crossing.” That’s the bit when your heart throws off its chains and you begin to inhale properly again.

Earthsong Camps came into being in 2007, andthis year three separate camps will run between May and late July at venues in Tipperary and Clare. They were the dreamchild of renowned drum teacher and community musician John Bowker, with the aim of creating a magical healing space that offers an escape from life in the “system”. The camps offer a place of safety for people to come and be themselves - “a nature reserve for human beings,” as Bowker calls it.

What this looks like on the ground is a page from a kid’s storybook – a field with circles of tents, a forest, giant-sized dream-catchers swaying in the breeze, a café where the seats are bales of straw and at the centre of it all a grand Big Top which serves as the meeting place for all sorts of important events. A sign on the fence reads: “This field may contain nuts,” and for anyone who ever felt at odds with “normal” life, the place is like home.

All of the Earthsong Camps are strictly drug and alcohol free, which is a rarity even among eco-friendly festivals.

No electronics are allowed on camp, and phones can only be used offsite. The idea is for everyone to “be here now” - to be properly available to connect with yourself and others and not to miss your own experience. Rather than a hardship, the rules are accepted more like a gift – a rare escape from the pull of the digital world. All music onsite is created by the campers – an empowering experience for anyone who has previously only connected with music as a passive listener.

Earthsong Family The safety of this world without alcohol and drugs makes Earthsong an especially appealing place to bring children and teenagers. For little ones, their days at camp offer them something most have never experienced before – the freedom to explore nature, people, creativity and a model of human relationships that they may never see any other time. To see a man hug another man and hold him while he cries, to cook on an open fire, to sit in the middle while around them a bunch of unconnected grown-ups learn to sing a harmony so beautiful it would make an angel blush. After dinner, a human train travels around the camping circles to collect the little ones for their bedtime story, read by gentle and funny grown-ups with space in their hearts for other people’s kids. And it makes you happy-sad to see them skipping away and you ask yourself: “What could it be like, if life was like this all the time?”

For kids and teenagers growing up around the Earthsong ethos, you can sense the possibility that they will

learn how to heal themselves regardless of what life brings their way. Over the years, John Bowker has done powerful work with teenagers and this is one of the strongest currents flowing through the Earthsong week. Teens have the possibility of camping in their own circle, and it is a sight to behold to see them devour the freedom and responsibility their independence brings. Dedicated teen-workers are there for guidance and support, and a full timetable of workshops are on offer in music, movement and the healing arts.

The workshops for all age groups are at the heart of the camp, and once the ticket price is paid, access to every class is free. There are numerous workshops on offer, including dance, drum, family constellations, astrology, creative writing, laughter yoga, conflict resolution and drama. The workshops range from raucous fun to deep personal development classes.

Depending on what you bring with you (inside) when you get there, you will probably find the medicine you need.

This is part of the magic of

“What could it be like, if life was like this all the time?”

Earthsong – that everyone’s experience is completely individual. For some people, it is a week of pure fun, and for others, a time of profound healing. Earthsong offers a massive opportunity for personal development work, with so many workshops available and the likelihood that you will meet a kind healer on your way to the compost loo, who is happy to offer you time and support. For many, this annual visit to a simple field in the countryside has become their yearly chance to recalibrate their lives – to remind themselves of who they really are and how they want their lives to be. There can be sadness for what

has been lost, and then the celebration of discovering yourself again.

Behind it all,Bowker and a team of dedicated coordinators keep all the systems running smoothly, so it seems like this village in a field was always there.

They come on weeks before and build it all – café, crèche, playground, cabaret, hot showers, sauna, and beautiful cosy venues to run workshops in. And when it is over, they restore the field to its pristine state, removing every last trace of the settlement that was there. Then the cows come in and graze the field again, until the next year.

And when you go home, when you step back through the wardrobe and they’ve hardly noticed you were gone. You might start to tell them a thing or two about it until you realise there’s no point, they won’t believe a word of it, unless you take them back next time and they see it for themselves.

For booking information on the 3 camps, visit www.earthsong.ie Ann Hill is a writer and alternative business coach. www.yourlifeswork.ie

The Restore Clinic

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the soul & the body

By Patrick Bridgeman

You are immortal. Your body is not.

When you were born, a new perspective was created. A part of our formless self (pure awareness) squeezed itself into a new form (your body) in order to have another unique experience of the infinite variations of physical existence. Seeing the world from your unique perspective, you became identified with your body and circumstances, and this became the basis of your character.

The mechanism of separation allows for the experience of relationship, one of the main purposes of life as more than one incarnation. The other main purpose is creation. You were created and you can create, and you can create things that can create other things themselves. So, the ultimate purpose of life is 3-fold: Experience, Relationship and Creation. You are succeeding in this in every single moment.

Your body will last a lifetime, and then it will die and rest in peace. Your consciousness will return from whence it came and you will once again be fully aware of the truth of who you are. In the meantime, while you are your physical incarnation, the most fulfilment you can have is to fully express your unique self. To that end, it is a good idea to do more of what you love to do and are naturally gifted at, and to take care of your body the way you would a pet.

Pets need the right food and clean drinking water, plenty of exercise and fresh air, an appropriately stimulating and clean habitat, and (depending on the pet) a certain amount of company and cuddles. Is your body getting its RDA of cuddles? Do you live in a home that nourishes your body, mind and soul? How often do you exercise and spend time in nature? Do you drink plenty of fresh, clean water every day?

The foods you eat affect not only your body but also your mind. Emotions are chemicals that are released by certain thoughts - such as stressful thoughts releasing adrenaline and noradrenaline into your body’s chemistry as part of the “fight or flight” response. In the same way, different foods will break down in your body and activate different chemical reactions. Some of these are beneficial to the body and mind, and some are not.

The wrong foods can cloud the mind, attract stressful thoughts and activate negative emotions. The right foods for your particular body will promote positive

feelings, peaceful thoughts and clarity of mind. This will, in turn, affect your physical health.

Another way the body can affect the mind is through exercise. Exercising the body releases endorphins, which are feel good chemicals. The flip side of this relationship can be found in the use of visualisation as part of athletic training.

Athletes who visualise themselves performing their chosen sport to the best of their body’s ability have been shown to significantly improve in their actual performance.

A similar principle is applied in Laughter Yoga, where the body and mind are fooled into releasing happy chemicals

“To that end, it is a good idea to do more of what you love to do and are naturally gifted at, and to take care of your body the way you would a pet.” by the gesticulations of smiling and laughing. It seems the body doesn’t know the difference between a real and a fake laugh or smile. Speaking of which, I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase: “Laughter is the best medicine.” Well, I’d say Love is even better for the body and the mind. I recently read that cuddling relieves anxiety and depression, and strengthens the immune system; and I’d well believe it, especially knowing what I know about Oxytocin (the love hormone).

While the effect of your physical well-being on your mental health is strong, the effect of the mind on the body is even stronger. Physical health is a good foundation for a happy mind, but the cultivation of a clear mind can lead to the most amazing physical and transcendental experiences of life. Doing this, you can bring more of your god-self into your physical manifestation, and increase the beneficial effect you exert over the Law of Attraction.

Happy Mind + Healthy Body = Wonderful Life.

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Patrick works as an Intuitive Energy Healer and Magazine Editor. www.PatrickBridgeman.com

after life Lessons we’re all dying to learn about life after death

In her groundbreaking book, On Death and Dying, Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross introduced the concept of the Grief Cycle – a framework for observing and understanding the emotional stages of grieving. These stages are not set in stone in a particular order along a linear timeline, because the grieving experience is acutely individual; but recognising and allowing the cycle can assist a grieving person to identify and make sense of the complicated mass of emotions they are feeling.

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Denial This first stage of grieving helps us to survive the loss. Denial and shock help us to cope, and make survival possible. There is a grace in denial. It is nature’s way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

Anger Anger is a necessary stage of the healing process. Anger is strength and it can be an anchor, giving temporary structure to the nothingness of loss. This anger is just another indication of the intensity of your love. Be willing to feel your anger, even though it may seem endless. The more

you truly feel it, the more it will begin to dissipate and the more you will heal.

Bargaining We want life returned to what it was; we want our loved one restored. The “if onlys” cause us to find fault in ourselves and what we “think” we could have done differently.

We will do anything not to feel the pain of this loss.

Depression After bargaining, our attention moves squarely into the present. Empty feelings present themselves, and grief enters

“We are not dead, and neither will you ever be. You will just get up one day and get out of the movie.” ~ Abraham Hicks

our lives on a deeper level, deeper than we ever imagined. It’s important to understand that this depression is not a sign of mental illness. It is the appropriate response to a great loss.

Acceptance Acceptance is often confused with the notion of being “all right” or “okay” with what has happened. This is not the case.

Most people don’t ever feel okay or all right about the loss of a loved one.

This stage is about accepting the reality that our loved one is physically gone, and recognizing that this new reality is the permanent reality. It is the new norm with which we must learn to live.

We must learn to reorganise roles, and reassign them to others or take them on ourselves. Instead of denying our feelings, we listen to our needs; we move, we change, we grow, we evolve. We begin to live again, but we cannot do so until we have given grief its time.

People often think of the stages as lasting weeks or months. They forget that the stages are responses to feelings that can last for minutes or hours as we fl ip in and out of one and then another. We do not enter and leave each individual stage in a linear fashion. We may feel one, then another and back again to the fi rst one. Just remember: your grief is as unique as you are.

Life Between Lives A recent loss may be the catalyst that unearths a lifelong pattern of suppressed emotion arising from within a family culture; and during an experience such as Life Between Lives hypnotherapy, beautiful insights can occur as to why a loved one has left this life, perhaps planning their exit as an unexpected way to illuminate spiritual growth and deeper understanding. Life Between Lives work leaves no doubt in the minds of participants that we live many times; that part of us remains always in the spiritual realm and we return here to be with one another again and again.

Hypnotherapy The eternal part of us, the core energy of who we are, is constantly developing and questing for perfection. Through hypnotherapy, we can access not only the past lives we have experienced in countless reincarnations; we can review the threads running through those lives, the lessons learned, and integrate their relevance with who we are today. We can

meet our loved ones - those with whom we may have reincarnated many times to work with and assist each other as we learn mutually-agreed lessons.

Visions of Loved Ones Our loved ones may take many forms, but in our current incarnation we can view and understand in terms of human understanding alone; the understandings we are ‘wired’ to be able to accept. The beings in the spiritual realm will appear in the most appropriate way for each individual concerned and can take on a variety of forms. They may take on their recognisable, beloved human body, usually rejuvenated and healed of suffering; they may appear as beings of light that transmit an instant ‘knowing’ of their identity. The experience is unique to each person.

Higher Self Deep trance allows memories to be accessed not just from the unconscious mind but from the Higher Self; that super-consciousness in which resides all that we are and have been. We can encounter welcoming spirits, who come to greet us as we arrive home, to the inter-life. We can meet our guides and the beings who have been with us through countless incarnations, ever present and always supportive. We can go to places of rejuvenation to help heal our energies after challenging lives. To deepen our insight, we can visit the library in which our past lives are documented and recorded; we can meet with our soul group, explore the classes where we and certain of our fellow souls undertake specific learning projects. We can visit the place of body selection and learn why we have chosen to inhabit not only our current body but those from the past; and those we could have chosen. And we can meet with the wise group of elder beings who are our between-incarnations advisors, always there with wisdom, knowledge and understanding.

And this unveils a reassurance beyond compare; the knowledge that the spiritual realm – a realm of consistently loving harmony complete with a total absence of judgement that’s unimaginable to humankind – is our natural state of being.

Death’s Door Death is merely the means to the next step; the next stage in our soul’s progress. When we are presented with an overview of our past lives, the bodies and geographic locations we have inhabited

“Death is merely the means to the next step; the next stage in our soul’s progress.”

and the purpose of (and lessons resulting from) each experience we’ve had, a sense of profound understanding of the bigger picture - the greater pattern of living - emerges.

Perfect Harmony In a recent Life Between Lives session, a participant asked if all the different earthly factions could ever come together in harmony. In reply, she was given an incredibly powerful, reassuring image of a wave, gently washing into a welcoming shore. The wave consisted of colours (some of which she had never seen before and found to be indescribable) that were all in complete contrast to each other but nevertheless blended perfectly and harmoniously as that wave moved in perfection towards, and arrived on, the shore. This image was given together with a deep knowing that all is as it is intended to be; humankind is melding together on its journey and will ultimately reach its intended, perfect destination.

Michael Newton, founder of Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy, has a new book out: Memories of the Afterlife. www.newtoninstitute.org

plant medicine

By Julia Szvath

Amazon avatar expedition

A few months ago, I had a very strong intuition to go to the Peruvian Amazon rainforest to participate in a program called Amazon Avatar Expedition. The focus of our training was to use a combination of 5 different plant medicines that grow in the Amazon rainforest. Our intention for using these plant medicines was to accelerate the expansion of our consciousness, and then to upload our realisations into the unified field to support the collective awakening.

My experience with the Grandmother (Ayahuasca) was like: “You want to experience expansion and explore the essence of your being? Sure, no problem.

I will guide you, but first you have to go through this dark forest, which is your own shadow, and face all the darkness!” My trip through this imaginary forest contained my deepest fear of death and it was a very intense ride. When she took me on my journey, the intensity of the experience of losing control of myself and my world filled me with such an overwhelming fear that I reacted with huge resistance that made the whole journey more of a struggle. It didn’t help that the ceremony is in complete darkness, in isolation and in silence apart from the shaman singing the Ikaros - the sacred songs that guide us in our journey.

After the first ceremony, when I tried to wrap my head around what just happened to me, my mind went crazy trying to understand this experience, which is impossible because it is so far from the comprehension of the limited mind. In my case, this inner tension of the “control vs. surrender” fight ended in a complete breakdown. Literally, I

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felt something break inside me and I was flooded with emotions so intense that I couldn’t contain them, so they just flew out. I seriously wanted to quit the whole program. Luckily for me, I had excellent support which helped me through this phase of collapse, which turned out to be a huge breakthrough.

“With the medicine opening this inner door in me, it broke the control of the mind and allowed me to reconnect with my essence…”

With the medicine opening this inner door in me, it broke the control of the mind and allowed me to reconnect with my essence, my true nature that somehow felt separated before. She taught me what it is to really surrender from the depth of my heart; to have the deepest trust that, whatever the experience, it can only bring me peace and love; to give over control, recognising that my small, limited mind is incapable of understanding a greater design.

When I was able to allow the grandmother to take me and teach me, I could see my shadow so clearly. I saw that the shadow is part of the light which is denied, pushed away from the love and the light of the heart. At that moment, I felt an intense compassion for all parts of myself that I pushed away (my fear, judgements,

jealousy, anger, etc.). I was overwhelmed by deep sorrow, and I felt really deeply that I wanted all of them back, inviting them back to the love of my heart - the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly.

Suddenly, I saw my radiant heart swirling green and pink light, and slowly all of my pain, suffering and limitation flowed into it and dissolved effortlessly.

It was the most amazing experience. I could see how I created my pain and how everything can be healed in love and acceptance. I really experienced wholeness for the first time in my life; not just the mental knowing that we are all one and connected, but the deep feeling of the very essence of it, the very essence of me, and the very essence of creation. As my whole personality shattered, my true self was revealed behind the veil.

As I allow myself to integrate and embody the experience, I continue to realise the many blessings and fundamental transformation in my life every day. Truly, I can say that a new world (the real world) opened before me, where the wisdom of the mind is aligned fully with the love of the heart and expressed through the power of the throat.

What a mystical, magical experience. www.childrenofthesun.org/Amazon Avatars www.dooroffreedom.com

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The Good Life 2.0 community resilience in a changing world

learning from nature

By Davie Philip

What do billions of years of resilience have to teach us?

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What does it mean to live a good life, especially in a time when we face so many uncertainties? How do we maintain our health, happiness and collective well-being when the world seems to be unravelling?

How do we make a living by collaborating and working together for the common good? These are some of the questions I have been exploring, and attempting to answer, in this column.

In my experience, being on a mission to “save the planet” is actually an unhelpful perspective to taking the action needed to reduce our environmental impact. It’s not the planet that needs saving. As nature is dynamic, always changing, turbulent and unforgiving, any “return to nature” thinking needs to be reframed to look at how we best cope with a rapidly changing world.

As natural systems are resilient, abundant and self-organising, I want to explore what we might learn by observing and emulating them. With nature as a teacher, we could make things in ways that don’t impact the environment anddo strengthen our resilience, and design systems that will allow our communities to flourish.

For three years, I have lived and worked in Cloughjordan, a small village in Tipperary and the 2012 winners of the national Green Community award.

It is also the location of the Ecovillage, Ireland’s largest eco-neighborhood, now home to over 50 families who have relocated in the hope of living a good life. The quality of life in Cloughjordan is indeed high. As a community, we have planted thousands of trees, have our own

farm and live in efficient eco-houses that are bright and heated by renewable energy.

Although ecology is a focus of the community, it is definitely not our objective to get “back to nature”. We encourage the use of natural building materials, farm organically and aspire to reduce our environmental impact, but the Ecovillage project is more about community than saving the planet. The project’s original objective, building sustainable community, has been superseded by the idea of strengthening our community’s resilience.

In their book, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy point out that “a new dialogue is emerging around a new idea, resilience: how to help vulnerable people, organizations and systems persist,

“Coming is in a beginning.

Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” ~ Henry Ford “Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, a mistress above all masters, aretogether labouring vain.” ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

For the last 12 years, through Cultivate, I have coordinated Convergence perhaps even thrive, amid unforeseeable - an annual festival of sustainable living. disruptions. Where sustainability As the name suggests, it is all about aims to put the world back into balance, bringing people and ideas together. Since resilience looks for ways to manage in an itsimbalanced beginningsworld.” in Temple Bar in 2000, Convergence has featured some of the We need to cultivate our resilience, most thinkers and doers, both andinspiring transforming linear, wasteful and from Ireland and abroad.

This eventis an polluting ways of using resources champions the needed to create imperative.

Inchanges the search for genuinely a sustainable economy, society and green solutions that take us beyond environment. has inspired, we initiated conventionalItsustainability, will find and highlighted many community that nature got there first. By observing initiatives including Transition the way nature doesthe things, we can learn Towns process. so much.

The theme this year is Janine Benyus, an American ‘Collaborating for the Future We Want,’ biologist, coined the term biomimicry and rather than just holding number for the science of examiningathe natural mimicking it are to create more ofworld eventsand over a week, we collecting sustainable waysbreakthrough of making andideas doing and illuminating things.

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President Michael D Higgins, who attended the original Earth Summit in Brazil, opened Convergence 2012 in Cloughjordan on June 6th.The programme aimed to ignite a national conversation on values and how we can most effectively work together to create a more sustainable future for Ireland. The main event is being held in Dublin’s City Hall on the 20th of June, the first day of the UN conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. A ‘Host it here?”Biomimicry Yourself’ facilitation guide is also has already helped available to allow local groups to host us to conserve resources, gather water, their ownenergy ‘Convergence’ and feed into harvest more efficiently, and the national harvest and findings.responses to offers all sorts of innovative To organise Convergence in the the challenges we face. current The financial climate, we have had approach makes it possible toto think very differently.

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Permaculture is an approach that

of facilitators who are exploring participatory approaches for leading, convening and engaging people in meaningful conversation using integrated change processes. An important part of the art of hosting is the art of harvesting, and the facilitation team for Convergence will be gathering the findings from the events and the ideas collected to create an interactive exhibit that will be the main feature of the Global Green area of the Electric Picnic in September.

Convergence brings people together who are creating pathways that will enable us to flourish in an increasingly challenging world. We are collecting projects that are inspirational, intergenerational, and that help build a sense of community and equality. We its This profound lesson areenvironment. on the look out for ideas that will from nature to canchanging be applied not only to contribute mindsets, help the waya we design our gardens and our farms build new economy and reduce but how on we the structure impact planet.our Weorganisations are searching and society. Permaculture could be defined as the science of maximising beneficial relationships.

Diversification reduces risk and builds resilience and is essential to a Permaculture approach. Nature relies on a large variety of species, systems and organisms that allow it to withstand external shocks because diversity gives strength. Everyone can study and apply Permaculture design; it really is an for technologies that can help us connect application of common sense. better or use resources in a more efficient If resilience is about cultivating way. We are hunting for initiatives that the ability to cope with shocks and to reuse, rethink or recycle waste, enhance self-organise, to change and to adapt, then biodiversity, and reduce fossil fuel there is no better teacher than nature. As use. We want to showcase businesses Janine Benyus says: “After 3.8 billion years that look at more than just the bottom of research and development, failures are line, and activities that are fossils, andeducational what surrounds us is the secret transforming the way we think about to survival.” our world. a pioneer in this CultivateAre areyou offering a number of field or do you have a project that fi ts this description Permaculture courses over 2013. FETAC in some way and would like to collaborate accredited courses held over three weekends forbeing the future want?

Cultivate would are hostedwe in the spring and autumn, like to invite you to get involved in and a 9-day, full Permaculture Design identifying ideas and Course is held breakthrough in August with renowned USto take part in Convergence. teacher Albert Bates. The courses will be

“If resilience is about cultivating the ability to cope with shocks and to self-organise, to change and to adapt, then there is no better teacher than nature.”

‘We are on the look out for ideas that will contribute to changing mindsets, help build a new economy and reduce our impact on the planet.’ political campaigns, to funding a movie or a startup company. Of course, you need a good idea that is fundable and you need a large base or community to reach out to.

The events of Convergence use a methodology called World Café; a BIOMIMICRY AT THE OLYMPICS technique to host conversations around important questions. Another component is the Green and Social Business Incubator, whichsustainability utilises an approach takes us beyond to a truly called Pro Action Café.

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The incubator creates a healthy way. Underpinning this is the asimple ‘safe’ space people can speak idea ofwhere working with, rather than openly about their project, and is designed against nature. to maximise collaboration and peer-toPermaculture principles can even peer mentoring and support. help us to design viable social systems.

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take a positive approach to health holistic health inspired by nature

We live in a culture where there is “a pill for every ill”. It is time we looked at a different approach to wellness, an approach that encourages lifestyle and nutritional change, encourages exercise and the management of stress and work/life balance, and the use of herbs as medicine alongside our existing biomedical model.

3 well-known Dublin Naturopaths tell us why the Naturopathic model plays an important role in an Integrative Healthcare approach.

Naturopathy is a system of medicine based on some very specific tenets. Vis MediacatrixNaturae (There is a healing power in nature), prevention

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is preferable to cure. The root cause of dysfunction is identified and treated, not the branches (symptoms). The whole person is treated, not the disease. Health is abundant vitality; it is not just the absence of disease. All disease starts with a disruption to the body’s homeostatic mechanisms, and health is a return to balance of these mechanisms. If a person is deficient, treatment is used to build them up, and if they are in excess (toxicity), they are detoxified.

JOHN DORAN (M.P.S.I. Dip Herb. ND) For many years,Naturopaths have been looking at the individual’s constitution, looking at factors such as the 8 principles, heat/cold, yin/yang, excess/deficiency, as well as differential diagnosis. We

use many different tools and treatment modalities depending on the person’s individual constitution.

Pharmaceutical companies are now acknowledging that drugs work only in about 25% of the people who take them. They now see the way forward as genetic testing to identify if the person is suitable for that particular medicine.

This is a positive acknowledgement of each individual’s uniqueness and one that Naturopaths absolutely concur with.

I worked as a pharmacist for many years. In 1992, I computerised the records of my pharmacy. For the fi rst time, I could see a person’s entire drug history going back years. I could see definite patterns such as if a child had one antibiotic, it was almost inevitably followed by a second or third. I realised that the system was not getting to the root of their problems.

I became fascinated with Naturopathy because it really looks to treat the underlying problems, issues such as gut permeability, adrenal stress, nutrient absorption, liver health, and blood sugars, etc. are all looked at and addressed to start a healing process. I have seen fantastic results with this approach. Every day in my practice, I witness people becoming empowered to safely transform their health, with most able to reduce or completely stop their prescription medicines. I now look forward to my work every day.

REBECCA REDMOND (B.A. Dip.Herb.ND) Naturopathy is an umbrella term that describes the blending of modern scientific knowledge with various traditional and natural forms of medicine, including Herbal Medicine, Homeopathy, Nutrition, Iridology, Flower essences, Tissue salts, lifestyle recommendations, and often bodywork such as Massage, Acupuncture and Reflexology.

As a multifaceted form of health care, Naturopathy includes the holistic

philosophy of viewing a person as a whole, stimulation of the body’s innate healing power, treatment of underlying causes of disease, prevention of disease states and the promotion of balance.

Patient education, empowerment and motivation are key goals of Naturopathy; the aim is to promote personal responsibility for health.

Symptoms of disease (acute and chronic) are seen as warning signals of physiological, emotional, environmental, spiritual and lifestyle imbalances.

Treatment is chosen to kick start the person’s own innate healing ability to overcome illness that has been triggered.

It is incredibly rewarding to witness clients responding to treatment and making changes in how they are living in order to feel well again.

Hippocrates, a Greek physician who lived 2,400 years ago, fi rst formulated the concept of “the healing power of nature”.

As a Naturopath, I enjoy introducing people to the power of nature, so they too can be in awe.

RITA-ANNE KEYES (Dip. Herb.ND.M.INA.M.IRH) I worked for many years in the financial services sector. I experienced high stress levels fi rst hand. When I trained with

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“I enjoy introducing people to the power of nature, so they too can be in awe.”

CNM to work as a Naturopath, I used what I learnt personally and then applied it professionally in practice. There was a huge positive transformation both physically and mentally. I am now a mother of two and really enjoy running a private practice and helping others achieve wellness, while raising my young family. To all those people who have high levels of stress in their lives, there is help out there.

Naturopathy gave me the tools and insight to take charge of my own health.

Typically, a consultation includes a review of the various systems of the body, medical history, and a lifestyle review, including exercise, sleeping habits, diet and levels of stress. This process alone usually raises the patient’s awareness of

what aspects of their life are not working optimally. People often know themselves what they need to change – but may not take the time to recognise it, or may need guidance on how to make the necessary changes.

I design individually tailored plans for each client. This usually includes short-term elements (to address immediate issues) plus long-term elements, to suit the person’s constitution and to manage more chronic health problems. Treatment may include herbs, nutritional change, tissue salts, Bach flower remedies, stress management and work/life balance. It is the long-term elements and constitutional analysis which can empower people to take ownership of their health long-term.

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gardening the soul positive food the wonder of therapeutic horticulture

By Hans Wieland“I Ok, I confess: am addictedisto Gardening afermentation!” wonderfully You might flexible medium have guessed that can as much from transform lives, reading my and, working articles on sourdough, in The Organic Centre, sauerkraut I have seen and firstcheese, butgardening here is mycan fullhelp blown and hand how everyone, unreserved confession: “I simply cannot regardless of age or disability. live without We allfermentation!” have heard people say, And while I can abstain the “Gardening is therapeutic,” butfrom the HSEaforementioned foods, myProject obsession funded Community Food (CFP) with kefir is such I will bring the I coordinated fromthat 2004 to 2011 proves live extended travelssince or thatcultures with theon following figures: holidays to feed habit and avoidhave starting with thethe CFP, participants withdrawal reported 67%symptoms. better health, 91% more notimproved only am Ifitness a Cloudista and less active,So, 78% and 81% Dylanista, I amofalso Fermentista - orwas stressed. One theaother findings member of “the community of fermentos” that gardening together provided ‘mental (Michael Pollan). health gains for those with specific difficulties.’ (J.P. Burke: Growing in Confidence, 2007 Evaluation Report) Researchers at Bristol University and University of London conducted research which suggests that friendly bacteria which are common in fertile soil cause brain cells to produce the beneficial chemical serotonin. It also highlights the importance of gardening organically without using chemicals and toxic sprays.

The CFP has also been working with the Occupational Therapy Department of the Mental Health Services in Sligo. The gardening project, as part of a needs-based therapeutic programme in the hospital, has supported a wide range of individual goals, e.g. relaxation, exercise, socialising, motor skills development, motivation Fermented foods seem to be one of the new food trends, but there is strong evidence that people were fermenting beverages in Babylon circa 3000 BC, and “most food and fermentation processes are ancient rituals that humans have been performing since before the dawn of history” (Katz, The Art of Fermentation).

One of the major benefits of fermentation is the preserving and storing of food without the need for refrigeration. The health benefits of probiotic cultures as a result of fermentation are widely lauded and many people love the flavour of these foods.

“The health benefits of probiotic cultures as a result of fermentation are widely lauded and many people love the flavour of these foods.”

MAKE KEFIR – ADOPT A LIVE CULTURE FOR LIFE One of the simplest and easiest ways to become a fermentista is the fermenting of milk with kefir grains. Kefir, as a living PL_summer_12_d1.indd 33

Cregg House is a residential and day-care service for adults with intellectual disabilities located in Sligo, and has fully embraced a gardening skills programme to offer both educational and therapeutic opportunities to clients with disabilities and autism attending the service. “We have a polytunnel, small glass house, an outdoor gardening area and a cabin,” McCauley continues. “This allows us to carry out gardening activities throughout the year, giving our gardeners an awareness of time and seasonal events.”

She has seen many challenges overcome, “Some of our gardeners have difficulty with fine and gross motor skills. Fine motor skills can be improved upon with the use of different seed sizes, starting off with the bigger seeds like broad beans, and gradually, over time, what is therapeutic horticulture? reducing the seed size so that they can Social and Therapeutic Horticulture is the eventually handle smaller seeds like

By Hans Wieland formal name given to the use of plants sunflowers and lettuce seeds.” and gardening to promote personal The wonderful thing about development, healing, health and Join the community of fermentistas gardening is that all the tasks can be broken wellbeing. down into small achievable tasks or adapted It can be part of a person’s rehabilitation to allow people with different abilities to enable to recover from a difficult culture, is athem complex symbiosis of more their own bubbly stuff and, after a while, to participate in all sorts of gardening time their lives such as drug addiction, than 30 in microorganisms, mainly lactic pass on some kefir grains to friends and activities.

Therapeutic horticulture already bereavement or physical injury. acid bacteria and yeasts. Kefir can help to neighbours.

This is a very empowering has many proven benefits, and The Organic It canthe help clients to learn skills, and restore intestinal flora new of people who are process, sharing your own ferments with Centre isascurrently undertaking a research has been shown to slow down the recovering from a serious illnessprogress or being others youinto outitoffurther. the cash economy. projecttakes to look of a degenerative illness.ItAcquiring newfor treated with antibiotics. is a remedy Of course, we share all this with the unseen skills can also improve the chances of digestive troubles and, because the milk is community fungi and bacteria all I would like toofacknowledge the invaluable finding employment. fermented, tolerable to those people who around support us. given to me by Karen Shanley and are Other lactose intolerant. contains folic benefits includeKefir increased physical Daniel Gaffey in researching this article, and activity, social interaction, opportunities acid, calcium, iron, iodine and is full of HOW TO MAKE MILK KEFIR a big thank you to Helen McCauley from for voluntary andand social Vitamins A, B1,work B2, B6 D. inclusion.

1 PutHouse your grains into ame clean glass bottle Cregg for providing with insightful (Thrive 2011) Fermentistas call it the “champagne or jar (1ltr is best) www.theorganiccentre.ie information. of milks”, because of its alcohol content, 2 Fill the container with milk (any organic that can be as high as 3 percent. At home, we milk will do) 2/3 full produce around 3/4 of a litre each day and 3 Place in cupboard or other spot in the use it as a pro-biotic drink. It is extremely kitchen out of direct sunlight easy to make (see instructions) as it requires 4 Cover jar with clean muslin no temperature control and everybody 5 Let it sit for 24 hours or until it reaches can make it at room temperature in the sourness to your taste kitchen. During the fermentation process 6 When kefir is finished, strain grains (converting lactose into lactic acid) the (with a plastic strainer, NO METAL) from kefir grains multiply and begin an endlessly kefir milk. self-propagating process.

7 Drink kefir, reuse grains. Go back to This is where the community step 1. building aspect of the kefir production, in Are you still wondering how I travel particular, and the fermentation process, in with my kefir grains…? general, kicks in. As part of our “One World Project” at The Organic Centre, linking Essential reading: Sandor Ellix Katz – The community gardens in the North West of Art of Fermentation / Source of grains: Hans Ireland with community gardens in other Wieland, Neantog, Cliffoney, Co. Sligo / parts of the world, we inadvertently (well, Course: Fermented and Cultured Foods, April we knew it would happen) started a Kefir 7th 2013 at The Organic Centre society, enabling participants to produce www.theorganiccentre.ie 05/06/2012

and independent living skills. The project garden includes a polytunnel and is grant aided in 2012 by the National Lottery with the specific purpose of ‘improving physical and mental health.’

The Senses Garden at The Organic Centre has become a well-copied feature, and Helen McCauley - who works as a ‘garden therapist’ in Cregg House - got many ideas from there. “The use of raised beds helps our gardeners using wheelchairs to fully participate in the garden project. Our sensory beds and flower gardens offer a restful place for all our other service users to enjoy through vision, smell, taste, touch and sound,” she says.

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spring recipes

By Tony Keogh, Head Chef at Cornucopia

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The following two vegan recipes are very easy to recreate at home.

Simplicity is the key here as we celebrate the delicate flavours of spring.

The first recipe is very moreish and comforting. It is a marriage of vibrant spring greens with the textures of the departing winter. In this recipe, I have used regular wheat flour although rice flour would work just as well if you want to create a gluten-free alternative.

In Cornucopia this spring, we are introducing a selection of delicious raw main courses in addition to our raw soups, salads and desserts which are so popular.

The second recipe for courgette tagliatelle represents a small taste of what we will have on offer. Again, it is a simple recipe and it works very well. Other vegetables can be substituted for the raw vegetable pasta ribbons; I have had great success using carrots or daikon radish.

Potato boxty with tenderstem broccoli in a spring onion coconut sauce Serves 3

Meanwhile, make the sauce. Heat the mirin in a small saucepan. Allow it to reduce for a minute before adding the coconut milk. Reduce for a further 5 minutes before adding the spring onion tops. Blend to a velvety sauce. While this is happening, blanch the broccoli in some salted boiling water for no more than 2 minutes.

Flood each plate with a ladle of sauce and top with two of the boxty and a third of the broccoli.

Courgette tagliatelle with green olives, sundried tomatoes and basil cashew cream Serves 3-4 2 medium courgettes, rinsed, topped and tailed 40g sundried tomato, soaked in cold water overnight 40g of green olives, thinly sliced 200g cashew nuts, soaked in cold water overnight 200ml water 20g fresh basil 30ml lemon juice 3 cloves fresh garlic Seasoning Heaped dessertspoon of nutritional yeast (optional) Rocket to serve

Using a Y-shaped vegetable peeler, peel the courgettes into a large bowl until you begin to see seeds at the centre.

At this stage, set the interior of the courgettes aside for something else. The courgette strips you now have in the bowl constitute the “tagliatelle�. Finely chop the sundried tomatoes and add them to the courgettes, along with the olives.

Strain the cashews and blend them with the fresh water, basil, lemon, garlic, seasoning and nutritional yeast. To blend, use a high speed blender, a food processor or an immersion blender (we use a vitamix in the restaurant).

Blend the mixture until a velvety sauce is achieved. If the sauce is still a little grainy, it can be put through a fine sieve. Fold the sauce through the courgette ribbons. Adjust the seasoning and serve immediately, topped with some fresh rocket leaves. Enjoy!

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400g grated potato 40g sunflower oil 60g plain flour Juice of half a lemon 1 bunch of spring onion tops and bottoms, finely chopped Seasoning Oil for frying Sauce: 50ml mirin (sweet Japanese rice wine used in cooking) 300ml coconut milk Seasoning 150g tender stem broccoli

Firstly, grate the potato. Add the salt and lemon and give the mixture a good squeeze. Some liquid will escape.

Do not discard as this starchy liquid will help to bind all the other ingredients. Add the flour, oil, spring onion bottoms and seasoning.

Shape the mixture into patties; you should get about 6 from this quantity.

Heat some oil in a large frying pan or skillet. When it’s sizzling, lower the heat to medium and add the patties. Fry the patties for about 5 minutes on each side.

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a new day, a new you

By Charles Virtue

Breathe out fear, breathe in love One of the major goals of spirituality is to maintain a higher energy regardless of our current life situation. Every moment is a lesson, every moment is an opportunity to learn, and if we can maintain the discipline to remember and practice this, our power to help others and ourselves will increase every day. It is important that we maintain the faith that every situation has a purpose. We are the only true and reliable sources of happiness and well-being for ourselves. While others can

contribute, we must eventually learn to find harmony in self-reliance. The happier you are, the greater your ability will be to help bring joy to others.

Let’s turn desire into prayer, lack into lessons and fear into love. Let’s affirm that every aspect of our lives in this moment has divine meaning. Take a deep breath, close your eyes and thank God for the guidance you have received, and allow yourself to surrender to the knowledge that this guidance will continue every

day and that it will become clearer the more you can release control over every moment. Breathe out your fears, breathe out the limiting thoughts, and breathe in peace, love and trust. Know that your ability to bring joy is not limited to other people’s lives – you have the same power to create happiness for yourself, if you give yourself permission and allow the angels to guide you. charlesvirtue.com

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wings of light

By Stewart Pearce

Angels in Egypt Working as an Angel Medium and Sound Healer means that during the unique events of unfolding 2012, I often heard the voice of the Angels, promising their deeper support in our lives. Their purpose is to enchant us with their love, to heal us with their balm, to inform us through the wisdom of our eternal souls. The pledge is to use their wings of light to create a wind of change, so that the tree of life be shaken, awakening us from our perch of indifference – so that our souls and hearts be made as new. The Angels promise was that they would give literal signs of their presence, through visible assignations with us.

The transcendence of December 2012 was palpable for all of us, where the consciousness of every living being on Mother Earth had the potential to move to a higher octave.

This was a time of celebration, for within unity consciousness and unconditional love, we feel the presence of the Angels warming our hearts and souls.

Facilitating a retreat in Egypt during December meant visiting the famous Star Temples of the Nile, which vibrated with such supernal light, those who took part were all moved to a fifth dimensional reality. The high-octane experiences we had on a daily basis were captured by our photography, through which we see the palpable evidence of the Angels promise. Orbs literally rain through the atmosphere of each Temple, encouraging us, through their caress, to experience other spiritual phenomena such as increased intuition, the gift of manifestation and synchronicity. www.thealchemyofvoice.com www.theangelsofatlantis.com

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sound healing miracles

By Maan Kantar

The power of soothing sound

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a side order of intimacy please

By Mark & Karen Sutton

Intimate moments Our lives have become focused on achieving: the top rung on the ladder, that platinum card, that 400 horsepower purring in the driveway, that sexy pair of ManoloBlahniks; and yes, achieving that orgasm; multiple ones. Isn’t that what Cosmo tells us to do? …In as short a time period as possible, because after all, we need to get some sleep to work on those abs at 5 in the morning. But how much intimacy have you savoured lately; with your partner; with yourself?

Intimacy is the glue that binds the building blocks of our relationships. It creates strength and security, deepens love and compassion. Take time to cultivate intimacy by creating a space with your partner, then, sitting opposite each other, fall into gentle eye-gazing. Begin to breathe in sync with each other, strip away the masks, be bare, open and reconnect heart to heart.

In Tantra, awareness is the key to intimacy. Tantra says: “Stop, slow down. Breathe a little deeper, a little slower than you are right now.” The deeper you breathe, the more your body relaxes. The more you relax, the deeper you are able to breathe. In that moment, you feel more, become more aware and you move away from achieving and focus more on being. You become

intimate with those you love, with the stranger passing in the street, with your morning cup of tea. In the banquet of all that Tantra offers, intimacy expands and sexuality awakens. www.tantraawakenings.org www.life-without-limits.co

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Ancient art, timeless healing Jin Shin Jyutsu physio-philosophy is an ancient art of harmonising life energy in the body. Born of innate wisdom and passed down from generation to generation, the art had fallen into obscurity, when it was revived in the early 1900’s by Master Jiro Murai in Japan.

After clearing himself of a terminal illness, Master Murai devoted the rest of his life to the research and development of Jin Shin Jyutsu, studying t he Kojiki (Record of Ancient Things) written in 712 A.D. and carrying out numerous experiments.

Mary Burmeister, a student of Master Murai’s, began teaching the Art in America and the Western world in the 1960’s.

Jin Shin Jyutsu uses 26 Safety Energy Locks which are located along the energy pathways that feed life into our bodies. When one or more of the

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Jin Shin Jyutsu can be applied as self-help and also by a trained practitioner. A session lasts about an hour. The client remains clothed. The practitioner places his hands on the client’s Safety Energy Locks in various combinations to harmonise the energy flow paths and restore balance to mind, body and spirit.

The Art of Jin Shin Jyutsu is simple yet powerful, enabling us to know and help ourselves and others.

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vitality in life

By Paul Congdon

Invest in the wellness of your body In the heart of Dun Laoghaire, near my home, I was blessed to have stumbled upon a Korean master, Master Hyun, who has 20 years experience in health matters.

He is a wealth of knowledge and looks eternally youthful. Along with Master Soo, our own home-grown Irish master, they offer both CheonSoo and HAMT. CheonSoo is a vital energy treatment using acupressure on different points in the body, combined with the powerful sound of the breath of the practitioner. When I receive a treatment, I feel the energy flow in my body increase, my digestion gets a thorough tune up and I leave feeling buzzed up and ready for action.

HAMT (Hand Acupressure Magnetic Therapy) is a one-day course they run which empowers the individual to look after their own health. Through

a series of kinesiology tests, they determine your energy constitution from a Korean perspective and then, using a special instrument made by Master Hyun called a Hamtic, you are shown a series of acupressure points on your fingers which can greatly improve your health. The hamtic contains positive and negative magnets. The positive magnet recharges the points that need it, and the negative magnet acts as a detox.

In Ireland, the variety of alternative treatments available has grown hugely in the last number of years. All are valid, so keep an eye in your local area, you may have a Korean master knocking around, or an Irish one for that matter.

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If you can’t find it, make it Modern living can wear us down, so I went looking for a simple way to boost my immune system and balance my stressed out body and mind.

I decided to see what would happen if I ate highly nutritious superfoods everyday. Would I feel more energized?

Would I view the world in a different way? The answer was a resounding YES. I felt stronger, healthier and my brain chemistry was more balanced. In short, I felt more fulfilled.

Then I wondered how I could conveniently get these nourishing foods into my everyday diet without breaking the bank. I wanted a product in a smaller quantity that I wouldn’t leave at home gathering dust on my shelf; and when

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www.louisekleu.com 086 731 6499 www.lomilomiukireland.com

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Dublin Holistic Centre A multi-disciplinary venue with over 50 healthcare professionals.

28 south william st, dublin 2 www.dublinholisticcentre.com Reception: 01 633 0063

our life as the dublin holistic centre

By Bella Barker

Staying positive and staying in business

Try our New weekday Lunchtime Classes - 40 minutes choose from Yoga or Pilates 12.10pm and 1.10pm Beginners and Improvers available €8 drop in - new 8 week course commencing March 2013 Visit our website for full listing of special offers, practitioners, workshops and classes.

Arc Healing Residential

Yoga & Holistic Centre www.archealing.ie

“Liquid Ways to Lasting Wellbeing” Soul Nourishing & Cleansing Retreats

Juice Green for a spring clean!

Join us in the beautiful Garden County of Wicklow, where you will learn simple techniques for clearing the mind, body and soul through Juicing, Meditation and Yoga purification.

Venue: Dates: Cost:

Yoga and Holistic Centre Arklow 5th – 7th April Includes accommodation, all meals and activites from €295

Option to attend 1 day retreat on the Saturday 7.30am9.30pm includes (Liquid) breakfast, lunch and dinner €120 Do join us with a view to making real lifestyle changes for 2012 and beyond. *No previous experience in yoga or with juicing is required.

Log on to www.archealing.ie

Or call Aisling on 0879126366 ***************DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE ***************

We are a multi-disciplinary venue with over 50 individual businesses working together under the same roof. We care. We try to help our clients using our various trainings. We make mistakes. We have our good days and our bad. We are only human too.

Sadly one of our founders passed away this year, and although we are tinged with sadness, the support and kindness of everyone here created something more than can ever be expressed. Our clients, our students, our society, we all have challenges to face, but the Dublin Holistic Centre is very lucky to be thriving.

The buzz of South William Street bodes well for us, the wide selection of therapists bodes well for us, the standard of our teachers bodes well for us, but in truth: we are worth more as a whole than the sum of our parts.

As a practitioner, you choose this field because you care, because you want to help, and when you multiply that by 50, it is so much more than just a workplace. This year we shared empathy, hugs, kind words, patience, grief and hardship. We became friends.

Of course we must still be accountable, but if you can become more than money, become more than marketing… The DHC works because we became more than just a business. www.dublinholisticcentre.com

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Heal your body and your life DEBORAH BOYLE Angelic Healer & Teacher •

One to one Angelic/Reiki/Crystal healings which greatly benefit you in all areas of your life

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Angelic, Reiki and Crystal courses held throughout the year and Angelic meditation classes held weekly

South West Gardens Bantry House & Garnish Island.

Mystery Archaeology Tour Ancient people & monuments Ireland’s Golden Age of Christianity World Heritage Site, Skelligs & Beyond Guided Hillwalks in the area with Maeve at 087-9972270 Web: www.walkingbootstours.com Email: maeve@walkingbootstours.com F.B.: Kenmare Day Walks.

For further information contact Deborah on 086 3949117 or deborah@angelicconnections.ie Check website for details www.angelicconections.ie

Olive Tree Mind & Body Studios Our beautiful studios, in the heart of the city, at 15, Grantham Street, Dublin 8, are under new management!

Please check out our full timetable of classes and treatments:

Adult Yoga Mother & Baby Yoga Pregnancy Yoga Kids Yoga Pilates Dance Singing Massage Acupuncture

Our studio and treatment rooms are available for hire to Mind/Body Practitioners Please call Estelle Birdy on (086) 794 1624 www.olivetreedublin.com olivetreedublin@gmail.com

When humans migrated to Ireland and settled here, the time of the Tuatha De Dannan had come to an end. Fairy moved to the other world, beyond the veil, the land between. In Ireland, we are very connected to this energy of the land and to the fairies, even if it is often unconscious.

The fairy energy in Ireland is very strong, and many people visiting here have commented on how connected they feel here and how it’s different from anywhere else they have been.

When visiting another country, the one thing I notice on touch down is that the vibrancy is different. I have always felt it most here in Ireland. Maybe you have felt it too.

Around the world, in myths and legends about the fairies, they are often portrayed as mischievous, but in all my work with them, I have found them to be playful in their communication and assertive in their reproval. You can connect with them through meditation or going to places where their energy is strongest, such as fairy rings or woodlands.

When I first started receiving the

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By Orela Kingston

Connect with healing Fairy energy symbols, it took me by surprise, but over time, as I came to understand them, their potency and how they work has only increased my fascination. I developed the symbols into sprays so that anyone can use them - and children love using them.

There are 18 so far, with 3 already widely for sale. I’m currently developing the rest which will be along shortly. www.brookparktherapies.ie www.facebook.com/FairyEssences

5 tips for optimum health

By Dr Zayd Ratansi

Easy-to-follow life-changing advice Have you ever wondered why some people heal quicker than others, from physical cuts and wounds to illnesses like colds and flu? The body knows how to heal. Give it what it needs and watch the body do its job. Here are 5 ways that you can improve your own body’s healing ability: 1 Make sure you get enough rest and sleep. This is the time that your body heals thanks to the parasympathetic nervous system (an automatic response) which facilitates repair and regeneration.

2 Try to cut down on deep fried foods and refined/processed foods. These foods cause significant stress on your body. Instead, look for more fruits and vegetables. Keep hydrated and focus on the good fats and essential amino acids that are critical nutritional factors for optimal healing.

3 Work on your circulatory pathway and keep the blood pumping. Proper blood flow is absolutely critical to allow

your body to heal and repair.

4 Sweat and clean your body. It has long been known that sweating can help maintain good health, but now, thanks to sweat analysis studies, science has shown that the body can eliminate large quantities of dangerous environmental chemicals. Clean them out and let your body focus on more

important issues like function, repair, growth, and regeneration.

5 Smile and be happy. Studies have confirmed that the mind has a powerful effect on the body, the nervous system, and the immune system. Start now and change the way you feel. www.wellnesswithoutlimits.com

Ultimate Spring Clean Juice Fasting & Yoga Retreat with Ilonka in Hungary 12th - 19th of April 2013 “Fasting is the greatest remedy - the Physician within” - Paracelsus

for lasting change

STOP THE SELF-SABOTAGE!

Are you standing in your own way?

Re-Igniting All Sparks!

“In order to Influence someone you need to know what already Influences them” Sole Providers for Complete Intervention Training For Personal & Professional Transformation Check us out on www.strategicinterventionireland.com Cutting Edge Techniques from the field of Human Needs Psychology, NLP, Hynpotherapy, Systemic Thinking....

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Detoxing, Healing, Weight Loss, Clarity, Inner Peace, Rest & Recuperation

For more information & bookings call 00353 (0) 87741 69 47 yoga@duigo.com www.duigo.com/hungary

active balance clinic Therapies at the Clinic include

Bowen, Massage, Reflexology, Indian Head, Aromatherapy

Contact Natasha & Cora on 041 9819800 or 086 8486990 info@strategicintervention.ie because the grass is greener where you water it.

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Well-being for your heart A whole new health revolution is being led by ReviveQ10+ - a cardiovascular nutrigenomic health food supplement which brings together a unique combination of nutrients in a food supplement designed for cardiovascular well-being.

The effective use of the right nutrients can be a benefit to young and old alike - from the health-challenged to super-fit sportspeople who can benefit from enhanced times and greater endurance.

Speaking at a recent Anti-Ageing conference in London, leading vascular surgeon, Mr Sherif Sultan said: “The virtues of Coenzyme Q10 and L-Arginine are well-proven, and research into their effectiveness has earned Nobel prizes for the leading researchers in this field.”

Tracy Piggott says: “As a television presenter, there are times of high stress levels and a need to be very much ‘on the ball.’ I have always been interested in health and well-being, and

have tried many things over the years. Since taking ReviveQ10+, my coping abilities are far better, I can retain more information, and I suffer far less from the stress I formerly experienced. I put that down to the well-being factor of taking ReviveQ10+ and the effect of its active ingredients, especially the CQ10.

As the cold weather has come in, I find that I am not feeling the cold as much and still have plenty of drive in me, which often disappears in the winter when I have suffered somewhat with feeling low and negative during those months.

I also feel that I generally look healthier and better than before, which helps with confidence when appearing in public.” www.reviveq10plus.com

tri-vortex

By Jessica Crowley

Energise yourself

For the very first time, Tri-Vortex™ natural healing technology is coming to Ireland.

Tri-Vortex™ treated products can have wonderfully beneficial applications in various areas of our well-being, such as proper hydration, natural pain relief, and reduction of sideeffects from cell phones and electronic devices.

Tri-Vortex™ technology combines 20 years of research in sacred geometry, sound and light, and involves a diverse combination of processes, where products are treated in special

chambers for 24 hours and longer. This powerful system uses bio-mimicry to imprint objects with the harmonic energy patterns of hydrogen, oxygen and gold.

Objects treated by Tri-Vortex™ technology become useful as healing tools and energisers, and can be used to structure water. The products are designed to offer a number of simple applications and uses.

For example, in order to treat water, simply place a glass of water on a Tri-Vortex™ treated water disc for 3 minutes.

The molecular structure of the fluid becomes organised and coherent, thereby promoting maximum and rapid absorption into our cells.

Alternatively, pendants and bangles can be worn to induce the beneficial effects of natural energy patterns into the body, aiding in pain relief, energy balance and general well-being.

Complementary therapists may also find uses for Tri-Vortex™ treated products in enhancing their practices, especially through the use of the Tri-Vortex™ Green Laser which can be used to balance energy, stimulate acupoints or in biofeedback therapy, among many other uses. www.trivortex.ie

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loves lost

By James Van Praagh

Get to know love a little better Love defines who we are and everything in life. It is the glue which holds our Universe together or tears it apart. Being the strongest emotional force we know as human beings, it is important we put aside time each day to recognise and celebrate its existence.

Beyond the “Universal” communal love, the one which most of us relate to, is a very personal love. Personalised love, to me, is an intimate love with which two people are willing to share the most inner part of themselves and expose their souls.

We first must appreciate who we are. If we have no basic relationship with ourselves, then our hope for finding love in someone else is little to none. Love, by its very nature, is sensitive, and one must be ready to open their heart to new

“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” ~ Carl Sagan situations in life, not step away from them. Perhaps, in just acknowledging yourself, you have acknowledged love. We must start somewhere.

When we lose a person we love, we must be willing to have some faith, believe in ourselves and know that we are worthy of being found. The energy of love we felt is always there sitting in our hearts. When our grief work is complete and the healing has happened and we become more present, we all can feel the energy of love from the Spirit World. The communal love is the gateway for each of us to open our hearts to people living on the earth and also feeling our loved ones lost.

For details on James’s visit to Ireland, visit www.hypnosisireland.eu

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living your own life

By Derek O’Neill

Seeing the forces at work in your life Though you might go about your life thinking you’re steering the controls, chances are there are other forces – that are not about who you really are, and can be – that are shaping your existence. During this month’s inspirational talk at Creacon Lodge Wellness Centre, I talked about empowering yourself so you can start living your own life.

We are driven by emotions, beliefs and needs. All three of these elements must be looked at and understood.

What are the emotions behind your actions? What’s driving them? What are your beliefs and how do you come to them? Is your mind open to new beliefs if the old ones reveal that change is necessary? What are your needs and are you too attached to chasing things you don’t really require in order to be happy?

The state of your mind determines your reality. I talked about the effect of negative thoughts, heightened emotion and “learned helplessness”. When you begin to live your own life, you leave behind the voices from your past that defined you. When you can’t move forward, there is conflict within you. Working through that conflict is the first step. The goal is to live “at cause”, which is a state of empowered belief. It’s when we live “at effect” that we are in a victim role which cuts us down and takes our power away.

Living your own life and knowing how to get there is essential for a happy, harmonious and productive future for all of us! www.creaconretreats.com

Renowned Medium & Author

James Van Praagh appearing at the

Citywest Hotel Conference Centre for one night only.

“Evening of Spirit Communication” with guest medium Annette Reddy-Keating Sunday evening 7th July 2013 at 7.30pm.

Both survival evidence mediums.

James appears on TV shows such as Dr. Phil, Oprah and many more. This promises to be a very special evening.

This 5 day “Mastering Mediumship class” with James Van Praagh is an intense experiential workshop for novice to advanced mediums.

For further details go to www.vanpraagh.com & click on Calendar to register for this event. www.hypnosisireland.eu - Annette Reddy-Keating http://www.ticketmaster.ie Tickets now on sale

Creacon Lodge wellness centre

The Irish School of Homeopathy Health Education for Life At Milltown Park College, Dublin since 1989 and at Cork City since 2000.Visit our website to read recent testimonials.

Workshops for acute home Prescribing:

relax and rejuvenate wellness • therapy • massage • cafe Creacon Lodge Wellness Centre is an Irish oasis of relaxation.

Open to the public, we offer a wide variety of workshops, yoga, massage, wellness therapies, sauna, meditation, acupuncture and much more.

A warm welcome awaits you!

New Ross, Wexford A great place to relax and enjoy tel: 051 447 666 some delicious food. And a perfect sq-retreats.com venue to host your classes and events, business or club lunches.

‘Get Started in Homeopathy’ 1 Day Introduction €50 – see website for dates at our Dublin, Cork and Galway venues ‘Homeopathy & Nutrition Short course’ 5 weekend course from spring to summer in our Dublin, Cork and now Galway venues includes €50 refund if you attended a workshop

4 Year Professional Training Course: Commences Dublin every September Also held in Brú Columbanus, Wilton, Cork All courses held at weekends

Homeopathic Clinic in Dublin & Cork City: Available to the public as part of our student training programme – visit www.ish.ie

Contact Angie Murphy

01 8682581

info@ish.ie

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Dublin Shiatsu - Touch for Health

Tree of Life Malahide Holistic Centre

Shiatsu is an energetic massage through clothes, balancing your life force to restore and maintain physical, emotional and spiritual health. Shiatsu uses touch and encouraging advice on lifestyle to empower you to heal yourself.

For all your holistic health and well-being needs. Exciting schedule of workshops and courses. Holistic living shop & gift vouchers. All that matters - mind, body, spirit.

Uta Kaiser Dalkey, Dublin 0877425717/www.utakaiser.com

Holistic treatments that give you back your life Kinesiology is a powerful therapy that changes lives.

Covering food testing, stress, skin problems, pain and emotions, it deals with all aspects of health and happiness.

Brenda Darcy Kinesiologist / Reiki Master Dublin 4 / 0876827462 brenda.darcy@kinesiology.ie

Do you have Sore Feet?

Hip, Back, Neck & Shoulders.

Get fitted with “Soft Step” orthotic insoles and help to change your life/activity levels.

Phenomenal difference from custom made orthotics. 38 years on the market in the U.S.A. Invest €350. Lifespan 10 years.

Dublin / Naas / Roscommon 086-8308757 / 086-8309392 www.StepForwardIreland.com

Malahide, Dublin O1 8283992 www.treeoflife.ie

A Traditional Balinese Healing Experience Ni Wayan Tarpidi uses a wide variety of therapies customised to suit your healing needs.

She began learning the art of Balinese Healing at just 5 Years of age and was recently awarded in the Top 5 Spa therapists from the IBPA. Dublin City Centre 0872962101 www.thebalitouch.com

Angela Mitchell Reflexology & Reiki Find your calm with relaxing therapies that help soothe your central nervous system and relieve conditions such as sinus congestion, migraine, stress and anxiety.

Matthew Connolly - Mobile Reiki Training

Sandymount, Dublin 4 0872232011

All Reiki levels available in Galway and around the country in 2013. Reiki 1 - March 16th/17th & April 20th/21st in Galway. Also in May, June, July and August. Courses run on Saturday and Sunday, 10am - 6pm.

Galway Kairos Therapy – Instructor/Therapist

0872036160 matthewconnollytherapies@ gmail.com www.matthewconnollytherapies.com

Maureen Maloney-Faherty – Life Transformation Work. This therapy works using specific energy flows, releasing old behavioural patterns which gives you more access to deeper expansive feelings of Love and Peace from within. Monthly introductory workshops.

Individual sessions / Training 0872808572 / maureenmf@eircom.net www.kairostherapy.com/ireland

Healing the Body with Soul Specialising in Deep Tissue Massage, Asian bodywork and energy healing techniques to help kick-start your body’s self-healing ability. All treatments are holistically customised so you leave relaxed, renewed and with a refreshed spirit!

Andrea Humpfner / Healing Amulet / 0871320179 www.healingamulet.ie

Cork F.A.D.E. - Friendly Angelic Direction for Everyone The Arches Wellness Centre F.A.D.E. offers you assistance with your mind, body and spirit giving you directed guidance and healing from the Angels, Ascended Masters and The Violet Flame.

0858167018 / www.thearches.ie Know where to turn don’t FADE away.

Suffering from the symptoms of Depression or Anxiety?

Fed up with the negative side effects of anti depressants?

“…we are entering a period of the biggest revolution ever experienced by human beings… a revolution of consciousness.”

The Bio Balance Centre led by Dr Edmond O’Flaherty (RCSI) is the first in Ireland to offer tailored nutritional therapy for depression and anxiety. Bio chemical analysis allows us to treat these conditions with natural nutrients with very positive results.

Contact us today to see how we can help you or a loved one.

50 Grafton Street, Dublin 2

www.biobalance.ie

E info@biobalance.ie T 1800 288 288

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