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Yesterday was my second week on my healing course. We gave and received an unconditional love healing to each other.

Awesome.

We are all so full of powerful healing energy collectively miracles can happen.

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Happy New Year

From the Yoga Journal: Resolve to Evolve

A new year’s resolution is a noteworthy concept—start off the year with a change for the better. So how did it devolve into a subconscious exercise in self-loathing? Lose 10 pounds! (Message to self: You’re fat.) Stop drinking caffeine! (You’re unhealthy.) Call Mom and Dad once a week! (You’re ungrateful.) Why not celebrate this new year by trading in your tired (and probably familiar) resolutions for a sankalpa instead?

POSITIVE POWER

A Sanskrit word, sankalpa means “will, purpose, or determination.” To make a sankalpa is to set an intention—it’s like a New Year’s resolution with a yogic twist. While a resolution often zeros in on a perceived negative aspect of ourselves (as in, “I want to lose weight, so no more chocolate chip cookies or ice cream or cheese”), a sankalpa explores what’s behind the thought or feeling (“I crave chocolate chip cookies or ice cream or cheese when I’m feeling stressed or sad. I will set an intention to become conscious of this craving and allow my feelings to arise and pass, rather than fill up on fats”).

EFFORT COUNTS

A sankalpa also praises the nobility of the effort rather than focusing on what you are doing wrong. “New Year’s resolutions leave me feeling guilty and mad at myself for not keeping them,” says Wendy McClellan, a yoga teacher in Louisville, Kentucky. So, last year, in a conscious effort to reject the resolution rut, she taught a special New Year’s Eve yoga class and encouraged students to look back and let go. Her intention, or sankalpa? To open her heart to new possibilities. “An intention has much more of a global sense than a resolution,” she says. “It helps me be softer with myself.” With a sankalpa, the self-loathing that comes from dwelling on past transgressions can begin to dissolve. In its place is an exercise in effort and surrender—create an intention and open yourself to the universe.

Sankalpa Setting

LOOK INWARD

For several days, set aside time to write in a journal and meditate. Mull over your typical resolutions. How do they make you feel? Anxious? Unsettled? Incomplete? Now contemplate how you would like to feel during the coming year. Is there any way you can reframe your results-oriented resolutions into something that will make this year’s journey more joyful and worthwhile?

REPHRASE IT

Create a short sentence or phrase for your sankalpa. Be careful not to set limitations based on fear. For example, instead of “May life bring me only happiness and joy this year” consider “May I be happy and open to what life brings me.”

BE FIRM BUT FAIR

Change doesn’t happen overnight. When you stray from the essence of your sankalpa, don’t berate yourself. Instead, gently remind yourself of your intention. But be firm in your resolve—it’s a good idea to incorporate your sankalpa into yoru daily routine. Use it as a mantra during pranayama or meditation practice; post it on your computer, phone, or mirror; or simply say it to yourself quietly before going to sleep. —C.G

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The Power of Om

During meditation, when we chant Om, we create within ourselves a vibration that attunes sympathy with the cosmic vibration and we start thinking universally. The momentary silence between each chant becomes palpable. Mind moves between the opposites of sound and silence until, at last, it ceases the sound. In the silence, the single thought—Om—is quenched; there is no thought. This is the state of trance, where the mind and the intellect are transcended as the individual self merges with the Infinite Self in the pious moment of realization. It is a moment when the petty worldly affairs are lost in the desire for the universal. Such is the immeasurable power of Om.

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We have so much in common

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“Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this

moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this

moment.

There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden

meaning is serving your own evolution.”

~D. Chopra~

Mother

Mother Amma was in London this week sharing her love and wisdom.

Amma spends most of the year traveling all over the world spreading the message of love and giving the most revered of hugs.

But what strikes me the most is the thousands of people who come to see her from all walks of life and how many of us share the same vision of love and peace for the earth we reside on.

Om shanti x

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Peace Transmission Meditation

'With an enthusiastic heartfelt intention leap into the unknown presence of yourself and realise the beauty of each fully alive moment" Tony Samara 2009

I went to to see Tony this evening at Alchemy, I had the pleasure of listening to Tony many years ago at a little festival and it was the highlight of my stay. A calm and reassuring voice reminding us that the joy we seek is all within us.

Tony Samara satsang can be heard here.

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There's a remedy for that?

In my practice I have noticed recently that there has been a recent influx with clients suffering with sleeping issues. Now sleep and the lack of it is not a new phenomenon by any stretch, however, it has I feel become so commonplace that it is almost considered normal.

But what seems to be most worrying is the consuming of prescribed and over the counter medications that are available to help allure perfect rest without addressing the underlying cause as to why one is not sleeping. It may seem like an obvious question and mostly the reasons are stress related. However how does one aim to help this in the long term, taking everyday medications doesn’t remove the cause, and in the long term can lead to dependency but also a state of grogginess of never feeling fully awake.

The reasons people turn to homeopathy is due to the fact they are fed up of not sleeping and are fed up of taking sleeping pills to do so. They have genuine interest in themselves as to why they are suffering and want to deal with the issue in a natural, non-toxic and holistic way that works with them and their symptoms as individuals.

I have one patient who had not slept for months and after taking his case in detail I prescribed the remedy, Coffea. After taking one dose, at the weekend as suggested, he slept for over 12hours in one night and throughout the weekend he continued to catch up until work on the Monday and I am happy to say he has continued to sleep very well since. This example shows whatever you may be suffering with does not necessarily require a course of tablets to be taken everyday just one indicated remedy and one dose in many cases depending on the underlying cause.

Law of cure

Wise words found at the yoga centre's kitchen this morning.