Our autumn issue is out now. We caught up with five of our readers to find out what awareness means to them. Dive on in to find out more…
In our Summer 2021 issue, we featured an interview with Nevill Houston, the owner of Health and Healing Natural Food Store in Co. Wicklow. Nevill had some great advice to share on how we can absorb the highest nutritional content from our food.
Facebook Page| Tuesday, February 13th, 2018 7:30pm (Doors open at 7pm) | Eur 15 / 10 euros concession | Location: Cinema Room, Generator Hostels, Smithfield Square, Dublin 7, Ireland.
AN EVENING WITH A SPECIAL SCREENING
(We have limited seating available; please book your place early)
Featuring Deepak Chopra, Bruce Lipton, Marianne Williamson, Michael Beckwith, Gregg Braden, Anita Moorjani, Anthony William and more.
Director Kelly Noonan Gores’ documentary takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that our thoughts, beliefs, and emotions have a huge impact on our health and ability to heal. The latest science reveals that we are not victims of unchangeable genes, nor should we buy into a scary prognosis. The fact is we have more control over our health and life than we have been taught to believe. This film will empower you with a new understanding of the miraculous nature of the human body and the extraordinary healer within us all.
Click here to see the trailer. & Click here to get your tickets!
The wellness coach and author Alison Canavan is currently bringing her fascinating health tour, The Full 360 Series, all over the country. On Sunday, February 4th, the latest leg of the tour is set to take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Northgate Street, Athlone. Tickets cost €109 and can be booked at alisoncanavan.com/the-full-360. To avail of a 10% discount for Positive Life readers, just use the discount code ‘positivelife’ when purchasing a ticket.
Alison Canavan’s Full 360 Series has made its mark in Dublin twice: first in September 2017, and again in January. The Full 360 tour aims to empower attendees to take control of their own health by showcasing a large variety of natural products and simple everyday self-care tips. The tour has also hosted many expert exhibitors and speakers such as David Gilna, Jennifer Rock (a.k.a. The Skin Nerd) and Miriam Kerins.
If you missed the Dublin shows, the good news is that there are three more scheduled events set to take place in Athlone, Cork and Kilkenny over the next few months. The Athlone show is just a few days away, on Sunday, February 4th. This short video will give you a taste of what you can expect at the event.
People who attend the event will receive a nutritious lunch, a goody bag of natural products worth over €100, and the opportunity to learn a wide range of wellness tips that can help them to lead more productive and positive lives. There will also be a wide variety of talks on subjects such as gratitude, meditation, mindfulness, healthy eating, and stress reduction.
“People are more stressed and busier than ever,” Alison explains on her website, “and we all put enormous pressure on ourselves to be everything to everyone, often treating ourselves quite harshly and negatively. It’s time to practice self-care to cope with the demands of our busy world. The Full 360 is about joining the dots with our health and wellbeing and having fun along the way.”
Event sponsors include natural make up company Couleur Caramel, Eskimo-3, Wild Nutrition, Dr. Bronner’s, Dr. Coy’s, Pukka, and the Eden Beauty Group. These companies, and many more, will be present on the day to display their amazing products and offer their guidance on how customers can enhance their health. If you cannot make it to the Athlone event, don’t worry: two further event dates are scheduled for Cork and Kilkenny later this year. These dates are below.
March 25th at the Radisson Blu, Little Island, Cork
April 15th at the Lyrath Estate Hotel & Spa, Kilkenny
Visit alisoncanavan.com/the-full-360 for tickets and booking information. Tickets for the Athlone show are €109 each. Early bird tickets, which cost €99, are still available for the events in Cork and Kilkenny. To avail of a 10% discount for Positive Life readers, just use the discount code ‘positivelife’ when purchasing a ticket. You can find out more about Alison’s work at becomplete.ie.
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Positive Nights presents: Special Movie Screening HEAL, You Have the Power to Heal Yourself!
Facebook Page| Tuesday, February 13th, 2018, 7:30pm (Doors open at 7pm) | Eur 15 / 10 euros concession | Location: Cinema Room, Generator Hostels, Smithfield Square, Dublin 7, Ireland.
AN EVENING WITH A SPECIAL SCREENING
(We have limited seating available; please book your place early)
Featuring Deepak Chopra, Bruce Lipton, Marianne Williamson, Michael Beckwith, Gregg Braden, Anita Moorjani, Anthony William and more.
Director Kelly Noonan Gores’ documentary takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that our thoughts, beliefs, and emotions have a huge impact on our health and ability to heal. The latest science reveals that we are not victims of unchangeable genes, nor should we buy into a scary prognosis. The fact is we have more control over our health and life than we have been taught to believe. This film will empower you with a new understanding of the miraculous nature of the human body and the extraordinary healer within us all.
Click here to see the trailer. & Click here to get your tickets!
Date; October 23rd
Time: 8:00pm
Cost: Eur 15.00
Location: Dublin Holistic Center
Join Declan Hammond and Louise O’Donnell of Soul Medicine for a special evening of soul-nourishing meditations, visualisations, chant and dance to come home to yourself. And to be held in a sacred ritual space bridging the worlds of tantra, shamanism and homeopathy.
you will be invited to:
· Connect with your inner wisdom and expand awareness of your energy body
· Open to the medicine that your soul needs in each chakra
· Work with sacred medicine plant spirit to support the revitalisation of your chakras
· Take home some tools and techniques for tuning up your energy body
· Have fun!
Learn more about Declan & Louise and their extended chakra healing course The Rainbow Bridge here
Keep in touch via the Soul Medicine Facebook page
Water of Life: Explore the Alchemy of The Great Pyramid, Andrew Smith
Within this realm of Reality, as consciousness splinters from its origin as a singular, unified entity into a dualistic state – creating light and dark, pure energy and consciousness, awareness and unconsciousness, male and female – there exists five organising principles in life, known as the elements. Within the western astrological tradition, four of the elements comprise the psychic structures within which consciousness is expressed; the fifth (Aether) creates the overall matrix within which life is housed. Each one of the four elements has one of three ways in which it can take form, resulting in the creation of the zodiacal signs.
We will swim within the gentle, healing currents of the Water element during the summer of 2013. The crescendo of this watery concerto harmonises during a rare, benign celestial alignment on the 18th and 19th of July as a pyramidal pathway opens, linking three planetary archetypes within each of the three aqueous zodiacal signs. This has only happened four times previously in the past 3,000 years; and whilst a similar pattern opened up in early 1967, the triad of planets sojourning within the exact same signs they are this coming summer has not happened since the 17th of August 928 BCE!!
Life-giving
Water is our life giver. We cannot survive without her. She is instinct. She is feeling. She is shapeless, fluid and malleable. Her fixity shaped and sculpted the earth during the Ice Age; her cardinality continues to shape our land and give us energy in the form of waves; and her mutability pours her life-giving elixir on us in the form of rain clouds. Ours is the blue planet, so named because of this element. We have built our cities on the landscape she has shaped – riverbeds, alluvial planes, coastlines. She can extinguish even the hottest known fire (lava), flood or fertilise our earth and cool our air. She nourishes and activates life.
In terms of consciousness, water is simply energy in motion – e-motion. Emotion is what fuels us. According to esoteric teachings, our manifest reality begins with an idea. However, a thought by itself has no momentum until it is charged. Once fuelled by passion (emotion), a thought becomes very, very powerful indeed. You can use the strength of your heart to transform any restrictive emotions, or transmute negative emotions to their opposite positive emotions, but this requires you to always remain fully aware of your feelings and emotions at all times. This is alchemy in action.
You would be forgiven if you thought that alchemy was all about the transmutation of base metals, such as lead, into precious metals, such as gold. True alchemy, however, concerns the evolution of the human body, soul and spirit, where the “lead” of darker characteristics is transmuted into the “gold” of their corresponding positive characteristics in an ongoing process that leads you on the path back to unity with Source Consciousness.
Inner Guidance System
Your emotions are your inner guidance system, and by being continually aware of your feelings, you can steer your life in a more conscious direction instead of being swept along on a river of external thoughts and “situations,” under the influence or even direct control of others. The watery, therefore emotionally charged, climate of this summer’s cosmic conditions is awash with the opportunity to not only hone your ability to bring enormous dreams into being, but equally ripe is the karios to access really deep emotional healing.
No astrologer can ever say how a given celestial event will specifically manifest, since those psychic conditions are moulded by both your awareness and your choices. Nothing is ever written in stone. By becoming aware of the parameters of the planetary climate in any given period, it affords you a more objective ability to channel and guide the latent potential in whatever way you need at this point on your path.
Energetic Gateway
The formation of this mid-July sacred geometric pyramidal structure, or Grand Trine, effectively opens up an energetic gateway that enables us to consciously access and integrate the wisdom extant within the three realms of consciousness: Experience, Aspiration and Divinity. Its presence affords us a very powerful opportunity for cleansing and connection at a divine level, since water is the source of cleansing, purification and regeneration. The emotional shifts possible at this time are HUGE, as the depth of feeling, intuitive wisdom and compassion accessed will help you experience profound healing as hidden truths easily emerge, soothed and healed, easing any Soul, family or relationship related pain and suffering that you carry.
Simultaneously, you have access to massive intuitive experiences, creative expression and lucidity of dreaming. It is a time wherein you have the opportunity to create and re-create the highest possible outcomes for your own life, and for those immediately connected to you, since the water element has the ability to permeate all dimensions of life – manifest and ethereal.
If you are seeking to heal during this summer, it would be useful to hold space around family and past emotional intimate experiences between the 26th of June and the 9th of July. During this time, reflect or meditate on what underlying emotion fuels the relationships you create – love, happiness, anger, fear, anxiety, etc. If a lower vibration emotion drives you, please take the time to really feel why you have given permission to those emotions to dictate the course of your platonic and intimate relationships.
Auspicious Astrological Dates for Summer 2013
July 9th is the day to commit to a new feeling that will ignite your emotional development. It is energetically auspicious, between the 9th and 20th of July, to begin experimenting with this new feeling, but please be patient with yourself in the way you would be with an infant learning to walk. As the pyramid forms between the 18th and 20th of July, you have an opportunity to find a dynamic and confident expression of this new emotion. Around the 30th of July, watch for moments of sublime serendipitous confirmation of the commitment you made to your life process on the 9th of July, through people, news events, overheard conversations, chance meetings and moments of clarity.
We are living through a magical time wherein an ideal will emerge in our collective consciousness that will fuel a revolution to unify us on all levels of reality. Now is the time to truly be, and to get out of the way of your Divine Being, whose primary aim is to empower your soul to manifest your heartfelt dreams.
Highlights of summer 2013’s cosmic activity
- June 8th – Geminian New Moon
- June 12th – Manifesting Dreams as Saturn trines Neptune
- June 26th – Expanding Heart as Jupiter enters Cancer and Inner Home as Mercury retrogrades in Cancer
- July 8th – Cancerian New Moon
- July 9th – Commitment as Mercury unites with the Sun
- July 18th – BIG dreams as Jupiter trines Neptune
- July 19th – Sustained Inspiration as Saturn again trines Neptune
- July 20th – Connection as Mercury turns direct
- August 6th – Leonine New Moon
- August 8th – Spiritual Uprising as Jupiter opposes Pluto
- August 21st – Quantum leaps as Jupiter squares Uranus
Andrew’s private practice is in Blackrock, South Dublin. For further information on consultations, workshops or classes, or to receive his free newsletter, please email dastroc@gmail.com, text 0868823554 or join him on Facebook or LinkedIn.
By Mike Tanner
Play the Game of Transformation
It is easy to see our physical body transform. With fresh food and exercise, we look well. Overeating with no exercise, we gain kilos.
How about our emotional body or our mental body; is it as easy to transform them? Yes.
Self-Regulation or Lifestream is our life process. Too hot, we sweat. Too cold, we shiver. The body automatically maintains our optimum temperature. We come with a purpose and are diverted by traumas that are too painful for us to experience. This prevents us from being able to fully interact and grow.
Accepting personal responsibility for ourselves is the first step. Then, in a safe environment, we can learn to release the interference with our natural processes and allow the unexperienced traumas to resolve, enabling healing to take place.
The game of Transformation, developed in Findhorn, enables participants to gain deep insights into the Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual aspects of their questions, revealing problems and offering solutions.
Players agree to be respectful, to confidentiality, and to stay for the agreed duration of the game. Questions from each player are discussed and refined. Once questions are agreed, they are written down, and an envelope (your unconscious) is filled with awareness, setbacks and angels.
You then incarnate into a physical body and begin your journey. The interaction between participants is an essential part of the game, and the insights of the others can be challenging. The more open and intuitive the players allow themselves to be, the greater the result.
Acceptance of your own insights by the others is a wonderful experience.
Once you are able to see and accept the problem, even those you have carried for lifetimes, it is possible to decide on a solution which can be instantaneous.
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Awareness + Insight
By Patrick Bridgeman
In our purest state, we are awareness, but our awareness of this state is rarely pure. Usually, we perceive through filters of ‘I am…’, ‘This is…’ and ‘The story so far…’ We also tend to listen to the commentary of the ego and pay heed to its advice. However, if you were to let go of all of that, and focus your attention on what’s actually happening here and now, you would come to know your self in the way that you truly are.
Try this:
For as long as you like, perceive the things around you without putting labels on them – just look, listen, taste, touch, feel and be. Every time your mind goes to put a label on something, let the words pass through you without sticking to your perception, and keep on perceiving the experience in its pure form. This will free the moment from your ‘story’, and allow a peace and presence to blossom in you. Try it now, if you like.
With this peace and presence comes an increased awareness of what’s going on behind the scenes. If you pay close enough attention, you can catch glimpses of the inner workings of life and the nature of reality. You will see beyond the veil, and be able to use this knowledge to improve your quality of life.
Channelling
Channelling is simply being aware of the more subtle aspects of existence, and consciously allowing non-physical energies and intelligences to flow through you. The more clear your channel, the more clear will be the insights you allow through. They can come as information, guidance or impulse. I channel when I’m dancing, painting and writing. I channel very consciously when I’m facilitating a healing session for a friend or a client. I even had an out-of-body experience when I was acting on stage many years ago. For about 30 seconds, I was standing behind myself, watching myself perform in a different way than I’d rehearsed. It worked. It flowed. And then I was back in my body, performing as normal.
Projection
Projection is the opposite of channelling – making up stories about what’s happening and how people feel, coloured by our own, often misguided, beliefs. In the Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City is ruled by the great and powerful Oz, who is actually an illusion created by a scared little man behind a curtain. In the same way, we can be ruled by the illusions of the ego. But if we do pay attention to the man behind the curtain, we can choose how to respond to his suggestions, instead of reacting like Pavlov’s dogs to a bell.
It can be quite tricky to distinguish between that which you are channelling and that which you are projecting, but with practice, it can be done. The previous exercise will help with that, and so will the following one.
Try this:
For as long as you like, perceive the things around you without putting labels on them – just look, listen, taste, touch, feel and be. Every time your mind goes to put a label on something, let the words pass through you without sticking to your perception, and keep on perceiving the experience in its pure form. This will free the moment from your ‘story’, and allow a peace and presence to blossom in you. Try it now, if you like.
With this peace and presence comes an increased awareness of what’s going on behind the scenes. If you pay close enough attention, you can catch glimpses of the inner workings of life and the nature of reality. You will see beyond the veil, and be able to use this knowledge to improve your quality of life.
Channelling
Channelling is simply being aware of the more subtle aspects of existence, and consciously allowing non-physical energies and intelligences to flow through you. The more clear your channel, the more clear will be the insights you allow through. They can come as information, guidance or impulse. I channel when I’m dancing, painting and writing. I channel very consciously when I’m facilitating a healing session for a friend or a client. I even had an out-of-body experience when I was acting on stage many years ago. For about 30 seconds, I was standing behind myself, watching myself perform in a different way than I’d rehearsed. It worked. It flowed. And then I was back in my body, performing as normal.
Projection
Projection is the opposite of channelling – making up stories about what’s happening and how people feel, coloured by our own, often misguided, beliefs. In the Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City is ruled by the great and powerful Oz, who is actually an illusion created by a scared little man behind a curtain. In the same way, we can be ruled by the illusions of the ego. But if we do pay attention to the man behind the curtain, we can choose how to respond to his suggestions, instead of reacting like Pavlov’s dogs to a bell.
It can be quite tricky to distinguish between that which you are channelling and that which you are projecting, but with practice, it can be done. The previous exercise will help with that, and so will the following one.
Try this:
Follow these words as they enter your eyes. Where do they go? Let your awareness recede back into your head to make space for them. Once they have gone inside, feel free to close your eyes to help you focus on the inner part of the journey. What direction do they take? How far do they go? Where do they end up? You can also follow sounds or other sensations if you find that works better for you. Try it now, and see what happens.
Perceiving purely on the outside or the inside will take us to the same place – an understanding and experience of our true self. It is true that we are all One, but this One is made up of two parts: awareness and creation. There is a whole universe inside of you, ready to be birthed through your experience. Practise awareness and conscious creation, and get to know your self for real.