http://www.leafandstar.co.uk en-gb leafandstar.co.uk 2010-3-17T00:00:00Z leafandstar.co.uk http://www.leafandstar.co.uk/page2.htm#60757 Hear the call You who have been asleep dreaming deep Over winter months and wintry weeks The GrandMother folding round you Like the petals of a rose Now listen to the sap rising the life returning Colours of springtime gently emerging Snowdrop crocus trees in bud GrandFather more present up above Nature offering its abundance to you Enticing you back calling you up From dreaming deep in winter sleep Curious what jewels you may bring As you step out into the Spring. 2010-3-17T00:00:00Z http://www.leafandstar.co.uk/page2.htm#58409 I have been reading an excellent book called Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine. It is about healing trauma and is part of the reading list for my craniosacral training. I wanted to share some jewels from it with you you will see why as you get to the end. Most people have some level of trauma it is a pervasive fact. And when we are traumatized there is an eventual disruption in the way that we process information.... Traumatic symptoms are not caused by the triggering event itself they stem from the frozen residue of energy that has not been resolved and discharged this residue remains trapped in the nervous system where it can wreak havoc on our bodies and spirits. Humans suffer when we are unable to discharge the energy that is locked in by the freezing response. Rather than moving through the freezing response as animals do routinely humans often begin a downward spiral characterized by an increasingly debilitating constellation of symptoms. We must pay attention to our anima... 2010-2-14T00:00:00Z http://www.leafandstar.co.uk/page2.htm#56630 It is probably as we have been surrounded by exquisite crystals of snow that I have been dreaming with the work of Masura Emoto. I am sure you are all aware of his work which demonstrates that if human speech or thoughts are directed at water droplets before they are frozen images of the resulting water crystals will be beautiful or ugly depending upon whether the words or thoughts were positive or negative. He has shown that this can be achieved through prayer music or by attaching written words to a container of water. So I have often come upon people with bottles of drinking water with the word love written on the side or similar.. yet something struck me today that takes this to a whole new level. If we imagined ourselves to be like a bottle of water as we mostly are made up of water tonally and as a simple start wrote love or peace or freedom on ourselves either physically or through prayer of intent what a grand bottle of water we would be for all the worlds of the grandmot... 2010-1-21T00:00:00Z http://www.leafandstar.co.uk/page2.htm#54692 Have you ever sat in a circle of people and talked about what each is passionate about Its a beautiful thing to share. For me there are many things I am passionate about being a mother making a better world for the children.... I could go on But what I find myself passionate about right now is stillness. Maybe its the time of year maybe its that I have started this craniosacral course maybe its my age but I find myself from a very deep level calling for stillness. So what is stillness Some may think its about doing nothing about sitting still. Yet why does it have a depth of energy to it that goes way beyond anything we experience For me I find it hard to bring the words to describe my sense of stillness its like a note of music that has a rich tone that echoes out into infinity its like a Presence a Being with its own heart beat its like the grace of the Stars gently enveloping my very atoms its like being connected to the whole of creation. But wherever we fin... 2009-12-16T00:00:00Z http://www.leafandstar.co.uk/page2.htm#54691 I have gotten very excited about embryology having just started a craniosacral therapy CST course and am the child in awe of the process of life. At conception we each already have a midline that grows into the central nervous system that the body organises itself around. And then there is an indentation that happens along the midline which grows into the heart and the diaphram. Just sitting in silence and paying attention to ones breath settles the whole person into themselves how easy is that And in the silence of that breath the connection to ones heart who are you what is your dream With that silence of breath is the space for the answer. We also just touched on resourcing how as a therapist and as a life skill one needs to be able to pull on ones resources to not shut down when a challenging situation happens. From the CST training they asked us to list the top ten things that made us feel good be it your favourite slippers sitting by a roaring fire eating a good c... 2009-11-11T00:00:00Z http://www.leafandstar.co.uk/page2.htm#54690 The internet is such a huge part of the lives of the generations coming in with whole new communication channels opening up. Ive been delving into Facebook and Twitter so as not to get left behind as these mediums are widely used by the younger generations. Both social networking sites offer a great platform for social change for inspiring other or for finding people to follow your cause. It feels that there is a great teaching here for us as dreamers. Twitter for instance restricts your posts to 140 characters and it takes a lot of creativity to say something meaningful with that restriction Twitter asks what are you doing so you can tell the world and probably appeals to the exhibitionist in all of us. But it feels like we could take this model of the world of young ones watching and asking us what ARE you doing At the end of each day what could you post on the site..... it very much helps to focus creativity to focus on the present and be realistic about what is being man... 2009-10-16T00:00:00Z http://www.leafandstar.co.uk/page2.htm#54689 Over the Summer I have become more and more aware that with these quickening times we have to be very conscious of what it is that we are calling in. If indeed we will arrive at a time where thoughts are manifested instantly....... My man and I have been having many discussions about addiction to suffering and what makes one person see things halfempty whilst the next sees things halffull. The question for all of us in every moment is are we investing our attention in what we WANT to manifest in our lives or is our attention on what we DO NOT WANT We all know that our attention creates our reality yet this is such a blind spot for many part of the great forgetting maybe its very essence. Do you know where your attention has been focused If not just look at the results that you have in your life for this is the sum total of your attention. A sobering thought maybe for some. But if this mirror sends you into despair and self pity then you are also forgetting that we are always ... 2009-9-17T00:00:00Z http://www.leafandstar.co.uk/page2.htm#54687 It is great to look at the world through the childs eyes to explore be curious and to wonder. Yet there are many messages in society that try and still our curiosity. For instance Saint Augustine wrote in Confessions AD 397 that in the eons before creating heaven and earth God fashioned hell for the inquisitive. John Clarke in Paroemiologia 1639 suggested that He that pryeth into every cloud may be struck with a thunderbolt. In Don Juan Lord Byron called curiosity that low vice. And of course we have the proverb curiosity killed the cat which speaks volumes about the dance between curiosity and instinct. So maybe it is a good time to do a self assessment of your own internal scale of awe and wonder magic and curiosity. And here are some words from others on this subject that sang to me I believe the most central function of the brain is to allow us a sense of wonder which transforms itself into curiosity and awe. Whenever we learn we are confronted by the enormity of what we st... 2009-4-15T00:00:00Z http://www.leafandstar.co.uk/page2.htm#54686 The revival of hope that Barack Obama brings is tangible his speech an inspiration on so many levels. I was touched at how he honoured the ancestors stands for the childrens children and recognised that only 60 years ago he would not even have been served in a restaurant. Such change in such a short space of time what a beacon for the small steps we each take and how they can contribute to a much bigger dream that we do not even see at this time. And he has courage to go against the accepted normthe consensus reality already his first actions causing necessary ripples of change. Finally I wanted to share something of my son Alden who is 7. This morning tucked up in bed I had an urge to ask him why are you here he said to learn to love and to be friends with most and to make the world a bigger place. And in answer to where are you going I got a big grin and a Im staying right here. A strong teaching on being in the present or attachment to hugs and warm duvets 2009-1-24T00:00:00Z