Why not come to this free art exhibition showcasing authentic Tibetan Buddhist Thankas and Mandalas. 2 Tibetan Singing Bowl Sound Healing workshops (€15) will also take place in the venue, which will include a demonstration and a talk.
Call Patricia on 0871316826
peewanderlust@gmail.com
Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘Circle’. Sand mandalas are an ancient Tibetan art form. Experience the power of creatively working with this circular art form at a Mandala Nature one day workshop. Mandalas allow you open to your inner healing wisdom and facilitate an experience of moving towards wholeness. The workshop includes some meditation and lectures. Lunch and materials are provided.
www.mandalanature.com
Maya Fiennes is returning to Dublin following on from the success of her workshop earlier this year, with the aim of restoring and re-energising the participants of the event. Maya will be using her own composed music and her fun approach to Yoga to make sure that no one leaves the workshop untouched.
www.mayaspace.com
Call Carrie on 0876546910
By Joel Young
Folks who learn NPA – and consistently practice it – report that all those sticky, awkward, interpersonal blocks just slide away and the quality of their personal interactions with people, across the board, improve dramatically.
In case you haven’t yet heard of NPA, it stands for ‘Non-Personal Awareness’ and is a really simple 6 line, spoken word process that helps you let go of the yucky stuff and let in the yummy stuff of life. It does that by helping you touch into the awareness that everything is energy and fundamentally non-personal.
So, how can this be? How can an approach that helps you focus on the ‘non-personal’ nature of reality improve your ‘personal’ interactions and relationships?
In common language use, making relationships more ‘personal’ generally refers to offering more of yourself; being more open, more authentic and more available.
However, what present themselves as obstacles in the space between people is our seemingly immoveable, pervasive self-identities.
NPA works to dis-identify you from your ‘stuff’. Somehow you just realise that your ‘stuff’ is not ‘you’, it just ‘is’. And the personal investment in the story of you, or the concept of who you are supposed to be (or not be) lessens. Ultimately, your hand-me-down survival strategies and ego games become meaningless. What you are left with is the freedom to Be!
And what is ‘The freedom to Be’? Well, on a practical level, there is no image to protect when you interact with others; no false walls between you. Who you are in the moment has space to breathe and live and express itself. Self-consciousness dwindles, and radical self acceptance emerges. This is where true self-discovery begins. Or, you could say, this is where True-Self discovery begins.
It’s the wonderment of discovering who you are in this environment or that environment, with this person or that person. The unconditionally loving witness is awake and aware, resting as the foundation of wellbeing, at the heart of your life experience.
On a very down-to-Earth level, what emerges from this is a much more open, authentic and available inter-personal experience.
Gill and John are a couple who came together to an NPA event and decided to use their process time to work with each other. Gill had told me that she and her husband were working to improve their relationship. She had done a lot of this sort of thing before, and he really hadn’t. An identity gulf and a lot of frustration had built up on both ‘sides’.
In the morning, where we use NPA to ‘let out the yucky stuff’ – in other words, let go of our attachment to painful false self-identities that are so often fiercely protected – I watched as Gill and John’s walls came down.
In the afternoon, where we ‘let in the yummy stuff’ – in other words open the doors to our authentic, natural expression – I watched Gill and John opened to the real heart of each other, and melted into the love that had always been there between them.
At the end of the event, I found a testimonial penned by John. It described NPA quite simply as: “A Gateway to Intimacy.”
The NPA Expansive Weekend, Dublin.
October 8th & 9th
Use discount code ‘positivelife’ to get €100 off!
Contact Sarah Bird at sarah@sarahbird.ie or +353(0)872193343
www.NonPersonalAwareness.com
The NPA Process
Answer Q1 or Q2 (as feels appropriate).
Q1… What are you experiencing that you would like to allow to pass?
Q2… What are you not experiencing that you would like to allow to come?Say the following sentences out loud, using your answer to Q1 or Q2 to fill in the blank. Stay present to your experience as you say the words…
This _______
This Energy of _______
This Pure Energy of _______ is not personal.
This Pure Energy of _______ is not personal.
This Pure Energy of _______ is not personal,
And I am willing to experience it.Now be inwardly still. Let go and give yourself space to simply be with your experience. Whatever emotion, sensation or thought arises, be still until you feel a natural completion.
By Dr Gill Hart
It’s not surprising that people are reluctant to find out which foods might be contributing to their ill health symptoms: “Where do I start? Which foods should I be avoiding? I just can’t do it”. For those of us who have been faced with having to make, sometimes radical, dietary changes, there are many questions that need answering. What exactly can I eat if I have to remove milk, wheat, gluten and yeast from my diet? Where can I buy those alternatives? How will I manage if I go out to a restaurant and will my friends think I am being awkward? There is no doubt that it can be really daunting and can put people off trying to find out their culprit foods in the first place. Looking on the massive plus side though, the benefits that dietary change can bring can literally be life-changing. The evidence is clear that food intolerance exists, that 45% of the population are suffering from food intolerance and that the ill health symptoms associated with this condition are far and wide ranging. Why is it still the case then that doctors rarely explore the link between food intolerance and chronic conditions such as gut symptoms, irritable bowel, headaches, migraines, sore joints, eczema, skin rashes and fatigue with their patients?
The fact is that every individual person is unique with a different biochemical make-up, even to others with similar conditions. For example, cow’s milk, oranges and eggs may be responsible for Emily’s headaches but safe for Jane who also suffers from headaches. The challenge is to identify the exact culprit foods, and then to feel supported in sticking to your new regime. The link between adherence to dietary advice and improvement of symptoms is clear. In the largest study of its kind, commissioned by the leading medical charity, Allergy UK, it was shown that of 3,559 people who were strict at keeping to the diet according to their test results, 76% reported significant improvements in their food intolerance symptoms. Of the 1,436 people that made a reasonable attempt at the diet, only 66% reported noticeable improvement. In addition, just to show the impact, out of those who struggled changing their diet, only 16% felt any change; and that wasn’t sustained. The test used in the study is the YorkTest FoodScan; it only requires a few drops of blood from a finger prick that can be collected by you in the comfort of your own home. This blood test measures food-specific IgG antibodies. Antibodies to foods are found in the body when the immune system has identified a particular food type as being “foreign”. Measurement of IgG antibodies to foods in blood shows that the body is fighting that particular food. Nutritionist consultations, carried out over the telephone, are offered as standard as part of the YorkTest Food Intolerance Programme.
Most people newly diagnosed with food intolerance are usually fully enthused and determined to change their diet, and make every effort to stick to the new “rules”. The research showed that it is after getting through the first few weeks, and when starting to feel better, that sustaining the new diet becomes difficult: “Just a small amount of XXX food won’t hurt,” says that devilish little voice in your head. Sound familiar? But with your Nutritional Therapist there for you, encouraging you along the way, making sure that you stick to the programme and giving you tips to keep that enthusiasm going, it’s easy to succeed.
If you think you have a food intolerance, or if you have been tested and feel that you need additional help in sticking to your new diet, contact 01 2022701
www.yorktest.ie
By Michael Tanner
I was teaching Yoga and running a centre in the UK. Then, after I moved to Ireland, I started Eireventure Paragliding School. I also started Second Byte, selling second hand Apple computers to provide income on rainy days.
Alan Dare, who had a Health Food shop in Bantry, had found Grapefruit Seed Extract to be the best way of dealing with Candida, and would encourage his customers to try it. Two customers wrote a book about it in German, which was very successful. The publisher sent them a disc with an English translation which they could not open as they had a Mac, which I had sold them, and the disc was in a different format. They gave me the disc and I ended up rewriting the English version, which gave me lots of scientific information and some money to invest.
That’s how the Aisling Foundation, who specialise in Grapefruit Seed Extract, got started. Aisling is our youngest daughter and is Downes Syndrome.
We now have a range of Grapefruit Seed Extract products and a business that started in a one room shack and now exports all over Europe.
The realisation that Life guides and supports us, in so far as we allow it to, is my core belief; and I thank Life for providing me with such a wonderful gift that enables me to make money using a waste product that helps people to become more healthy.
www.aislingfoundation.com
By Dee Wallace
This creation stuff is tricky business. We are so locked into the old rules and regulations of how it has to be done that we can’t see the forest for the trees. Especially because even what we knew of it a year ago has changed and expanded. If we are still holding on to the illusion that the forest and the trees are there regardless of our focus and creation of them, we are missing the newest, most unlimited thought possible.
What if God is merely energy that created for us? That energy – let’s call it the Creative Force – loved us so much that it simply wanted us to play with the creation and manipulation of It, so It could have awesome experiences of everything It could possibly imagine. And let’s pretend that It didn’t call any of those experiences bad: war was simply an exercise in the creation of war, love was dabbling in a different vibrational exercise, etc. Our world of Us would be a virtual reality game where we could create anything and everything without fear of judgment, being wrong, committing sin, losing love, or death from decision in any way. It’s a description of Freedom that is difficult to understand from the limited thoughts of a fearful society.
Our perspective is the most important creation tool in the creation process, and we have heard that principle expressed in a myriad of ways throughout the years: seeing the glass half full or half empty, “As you believe, it will be delivered to you,” and as Henry Ford so aptly put it, “If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” These statements are all saying the same thing: reality is created by choice. Choosing the reality we want, then, should be a no-brainer. Easy. Effortless.
It appears to be so easy that it is hard to grasp. “If it is that easy,” we argue, “why don’t I have what I want?” Because you don’t believe it’s that easy! And as you believe… We just can’t seem to allow ourselves the unlimited thought that daydreaming and imagining and being happy and being joyful is all we have to do to create that in our lives. It has to be more complicated. We have to learn and study and meditate for hours and go through all sorts of machinations to create us being able to create. We are repeating the same need for rituals that old religion did and calling it New Age. Creation should be fun and joyous. Indeed, creation doesn’t happen without that. And yet, here we are, toiling away to figure it out.
So, obviously, there is a belief in place that creation is hard, and as we believe, it is delivered. You can see what awesome creators we are. We are delivering some substantial struggle in our lives.
There are five components to Creation: Know, Believe, Allow, Be Happy, Release. Let’s take money. “I know I am the creation of it. I believe the money is created, I allow it to manifest from anywhere, I choose to be happy. I release it to the Universe to deliver.”
If you can see it, you can create it; but with ease and grace, not force and manipulation. Our minds want to fight that. Our minds want to play by the old rules and regulations of power, manipulation and control. That doesn’t work in the world of virtual reality, because it limits everything and enters the creation game with limitations in place. Who wants to create a virtual world with limitations? We want the virtual worlds of freedom, unconditional love, wellness and more-than-enoughness.
The games that invite us to pick up the sword and the gun are the virtual worlds we create until we know that the greatest power of creation is Love. That is our power. Create that virtual world. Yippee!
Dee Wallace has worked as an author, teacher, dancer and actress in film, television and the stage for over 30 years (E.T. Cujo, The Howling). Her book, Bright Light, tells that tale and shares the spiritual lessons she has learned from a life in acting.
iamdeewallace.com
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