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Spirit of Things

Leading an Intuitive Life

by Samantha Duly

This month we welcome in the season of autumn or spring in the UK! In this issue, I have chosen to write about ‘Leading an intuitive life’.

Firstly, what is intuition? My understanding is that it is another word for tapping into ones sixth sense. It’s your own inner voice that lets you know and/or warns you of something that could happen or occur, whether it has a positive or negative feeling.

It is more like going with the gut feelings (butterfly like) that you get when maybe something is not quite right. Although, you can also feel it in your gut when it is a good decision, or a good feeling that you have to or want to make. By tuning in to the ‘feeling’ in our gut, the information will have more value, as our sense of feeling is stronger than a ‘thought’. This is because the conscious mind could make us question the ‘thought’. So, by sensing and feeling, it will be truer to ourselves and will be a clearer answer!

Also, to point out, I believe our soul is situated in our solar plexus area - between the sternum and belly button. This can be referred to as ‘using our own soul power’ which means we can tap into our own intuition, true self and gut feelings. It is important to trust these feelings, but we all know at times, we do the complete opposite and don’t listen to our feelings. I am sure we have all, at some point in our life, thought ‘why on earth didn’t I listen to my gut’, as in consequently we didn’t, and then something happened which perhaps was not for our highest good, nor felt like such a good outcome.

So how can we lead more of an intuitive life and how can this benefit us?

“If we tap into our own intuition more, it can change our life in many ways.” My ‘top tip’ would be to show gratitude every single day. To say at least 3-5 things that you are grateful for, and this can include what you would also like to manifest or experience in your life. The more we are grateful, the more things will come into our lives.

Also by learning about yourself and what feels right for you, by eating healthily, resting and having adequate exercise, this all helps towards intuitive living. At this point you are listening to your feelings and what is actually right for you.

Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV)

Over The Rainbow

by Celeste de Vis

Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is a day of significance for the LGBTQIA+ community and falls on March 31st every year.

This is a time to celebrate trans people all around the world. It aims to bring attention to the brave and courageous folk who live authentically and to bring attention to their accomplishments, while also highlighting awareness about discrimination and transphobia that trans people still face.

Being visible can come at a considerable cost. Please stop and think about it for a moment. You were born and assigned a gender. Your parents or carers raised you according to that gender, and inside you knew that you were different. You did not align with the gender that you were assigned by a medical professional and your parents/carers.

How does one navigate their world to be able to live as the gender that they innately know they are? By being brave and courageous - that’s how!

What does Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) mean to me? Everything! My baby girl, Charlotte, is part of a small population of people that have existed on our planet for thousands of years. Some nations, such as India, recognise people who are transgender, as a third gender. Charlotte’s people have lived in all cultures and, within some, have been held in the highest regard. However, even in the present day and age, her people are still largely misunderstood.

To someone uneducated in gender orientation and sexual diversity, my baby girl could be misconstrued as being fake and possibly be demonised. She could be labelled as a ‘boy dressing in girls clothes’, as deceitful by taking advantage of society’s good graces, as confused or being brainwashed by a parent or carer, and additionally, being rejected by churches, labelled an abomination to God.

I was reminded of this only yesterday. My daughter came home from school and relayed an account of a situation that had occurred. A teacher was playing music during the session. A song came on that the teacher assumed all of the girls would love. They called out, ‘I am sure that this is a song that all of you girls love, including you, Charlotte.’ Charlotte felt very uncomfortable. The communication triggered a comment by a classmate. The young person said out aloud to Charlotte, ‘You are male, you were born a male, and you always will be a male.’

Charlotte spoke with me that afternoon, and we organised a meeting about the issue with the school the following morning. It was agreed that the young person would become educated about transgender and gender diverse people. It was also decided that the teacher would become aware of the repercussions that can unfold when someone is singled out about their gender within a large population of students.

The school were amazing in their role to stop bullying on all levels by promoting a constructive and educational approach.

In light of the upcoming Transgender Day of Visibility, the following are five ways that you can show your support on March 31st:

1. Get educated! Please. Trans people are simply a natural variant of the human species. They are beautiful and valuable. In the last Australian Census, (2016) 1,260 people gave an intentional and valid sex/ gender diverse response.

To read the whole article go to www.supernalmagazineaustralia.com.au/past-iissues/

Mental Health Matters

Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS); could technology make us sick?

by Derran Heney

Every decade we are gaining more momentum in the technological race and our exposure to electromagnetic fields is increasing exponentially. This article will explore an ever-increasing trend towards the numbers of non-specific health complaints without evidence of disease detected. There are many cases of people visiting their medical professionals with unusual clusters of symptoms; multiple diagnostic tests are performed, eventually with individuals being told they have a clean bill of health. So what could be going on? The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) now recognise a medical condition called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS). EHS is defined as the health effects caused by non-ionising radiation or in other words, unseen energetic frequencies carrying information.

Electromagnetic fields are produced from the likes of low frequency sources like power lines, electrical wiring and other appliances to higher frequency sources like Wi-Fi/Wi-Fi routers, smart meters, mobile phones, mobile phone towers, computers, cordless phones, microwaves and baby monitors. (ARPANSA, 2015).

The prevalence of EHS in 2008, reported as being as high as 8 percent of the global population. However, these figures may well be higher due to the nature of the symptoms and individuals not being aware of the actual cause of their symptoms (EM Radiation Research Trust, 2015).

Common symptoms reported includes headaches, head pressure, short burst of sudden dizziness, sporadic nausea, fatigue, flu-like symptoms, concentration and sleep disturbances, the sensation of skin burning and other skin problems. As well as other more non-specific symptoms that occur when exposed to enduring Electromagnetic fields ( EMFs), alongside the feeling that these symptoms dissipate when not in range of these fields (WHO, 2020).

One of the difficulties in researching EHS is because the frequencies are unseen, and for most is unfelt, it relies on quantitative evidence. Those that experience EHS report that it can take time to feel the effects, some immediately, some experience mild effects while others more severe, yet others take longer to feel the full effect. EHS effects are cumulative, meaning it can worsen over time and the impact on the individual compounded by many competing sources.

The symptoms of exposure can take time to develop, as well as time for the effects to dissipate after the stimulus has been turned off.

“The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) now recognise a medical condition called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS).”

To read the whole article go to www.supernalmagazineaustralia.com.au/past-iissues/

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