This page is a collection of writings on various aspects of complementary health, complementary therapy, holistic health therapies, personal development, emotional awareness and spiritual issues. Updated monthly, we welcome contributions and encourage feedback.
It is our intention to provide material that will inspire, provoke, inform, challenge, evoke and facilitate your personal journey.
On Being a Healer by Liz Hilton
When my dog nuzzles my hand if I am solemn – she is my healer and my husband is my constant healer. Hills and lakes, whose task is to heal us, surround me, and the entire plant kingdom has this role too. We can be aware of the healers in our lives and this awareness strengthens the “medication”. I believe healing lies in all things.............Loving Friendship by Susanna Michaelis
We come into this world as a unique manifestation of Divine love. Anyone who has looked deeply into the eyes of a new baby and experienced a shock of recognition, or a wake-up call to the wisdom in this child, will know that the essence of this baby is love... What we are doing when we begin to be in loving relationship with ourselves is cultivating a more powerful form of consciousness to displace the negativity and the wounds and pains of life, and bring ourselves into an awareness of our true essence- the essence of Love. And as we remember loving compassion for ourselves we are able to be more loving to others..............How Cranio-Sacral Therapy can help You and Your Family
By Lynn Shamal Dip CST MGCP
At the core of Cranio-Sacral Therapy is the belief of an innate intelligence for health within us all. By giving babies and children the chance and support they require to heal early traumas, they can be free to reach their full potential for life. It is never too late to heal the effects of a difficult pregnancy or birth, but the sooner the better, before the memory becomes a more permanent holding pattern throughout life............
The Healing Power of Flowers Adam Rubinstein
Flowers are the crowning achievement of the plant kingdom, divine creativity expressed through heavenly scents and stunning displays of colour. This divine nature is also present on a subtle vibrational level, where each flower carries a unique life-affirming pattern of energy that we absorb when we're near them, and can also use for healing............Why We Should Move With The Flow Adam May
If the traffic lights of your life are permanently on red or green you are not fully alive. I have written before of how compulsive sensation seeking and activity can itself be a way of people avoiding what is truly important to their growth and development............The Art of Being: Living in the Present Moment Susanna Michaelis
How, in our busy, non-stop world do we become more of a human BEing and less of a human DOing? How can we slow down and enjoy the 'precious moment', the gift of NOW, and still accomplish all we need to do? How do we bring spirit, the awareness and presence of love, into the matter and movement of our lives?.......
Click here to find out about Susanna and the services she offers.Why We Should Get Over Ourselves Adam May
In childhood we concluded that our parents valued certain ways of being above others and we fell into a lifelong habit of presenting ourselves in the light of this perception......In straining to maintain this sense of self we make ourselves inauthentic and unreal. We become victims of our own publicity, placing between ourselves and the world a false self........Compassion by Susanna Michaelis
For myself, I experience compassion as a stirring in my heart that moves me to action, small or large. I feel my heart open, my ego shrink and I am moved to touch, or hold, to pray or write a letter, to phone or make a journey. The action itself is not important, it is the motivation that counts. I am moved by the understanding of the suffering of another, and feel it as my own. Then I long to let that other know that they are not alone, that I understand, that I offer my friendship, support and, most importantly, my love. Because, after all, that is what compassion is to me. It is love in action........Why People Sometimes Just Seem To Mentally Collapse Adam May
Most of us find life an effort some of the time. It's commonly said that there is something about modern life that makes this so, but I tend to think we just sometimes tend to make life hard for ourselves regardless of our situation. At such times it can all just seem too much........Alternative Weddings Susanna Michaelis
It is my pleasure to help the couple design and create the ceremony of their choice. Couples may choose to have relatives read favourite poems or blessings, friends to sing or play musical instruments, a time of silence, a dance or whatever they would like to include in their special day.
As an Interfaith Minister and celebrant I am able to offer a service that honours your belief systems. It is my aim to create a sacred space where the couple may commit to each other blessed by the gods, goddesses, God, Spirit, the Buddha or whoever represents the source of Love for you....Why You Should Trust Adam May
By being trusting, you spare yourself from being perpetually mistrustful, suspicious, anxious and paranoid. The harm others can do to you is as nothing compared to the harm you do to yourself by closing your heart to them....Why Do We Bother? Adam May
People who don’t feel their passion are suppressing it for it lies in everyone. Despite all the difficulties of life, despite all the bad things that happen, despite the fact that we know we will die one day, somewhere inside ourselves there is a source of courage and optimism which keeps us going. We just don't seem to be able to stop ourselves....
Bright Raiment
(Charity Shop Blues)The clothes I seek
are sumptuous.
Nobody wears them yet.
They're sewn in silk
and sequinned,
diaphanous and sleek.
They're feathered fine
and gusseted.
They're fabulous, unique.
Wearing them
transforms me -
I'm goddess, icon, pet.
Once seen
I'm unforgettable.
I haven't found them yet.
