Julie's Blog (87)

myths abound

legends arise

the dragon grows weary

the faery's grow wise

elves in the bluebells

pixies in the mist…

"A stone remembers what the river forgets—"

~ Robin…

Newly described species Tessmannia princeps, a giant tree discovered in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania in Eastern Africa, gets a hug. The new tree towers up to 130 feet (40 meters) above the rainforest canopy and is found in only two small, isolated areas. The trees’ main trunks are about 9 feet (2.7 m) in…

The Callanish Stones, Isle of Lewis…

Artwork carved in bone ...

Tibetan Buddhist art is deeply connected to spiritual practices, with bone playing a sacred role in creating…

Purpose...



To be in touch with the deepest level of your own heart, the energy pattern that is at the core of your Being.



Crystal...



Choose a crystal for this meditation to which you feel a response deep in your heart center.  Try to look for a physical sensation in the heart when tuning in.  In the meditation the crystal is placed over the heart.



Programme...



To be…

pg 95...The She Book by Tanya Markul

"I don't want to wait until the last dance to realise that when life whispered, "Take a chance", it meant for me to follow the ache in my heart, the hunger in my bones, and to allow myself to be led by the footsteps of my soul.…

Over the past 20 years, there has been an explosion of research performed on the effectiveness of EFT Tapping. It's difficult to keep track of them all

Nature Dance Project…

“What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe”  ~ Rumi ~

Your body is amazing. Not…

I've been using Insight Timer, linked below.  It's an App I have on my phone that gives access to Guided Meditations.  I'm finding it useful for short meditations, they range from 5 mins to 10mins, some longer but so far I haven't tried out longer meditations.  The meditations are varied and there are many teachers, meditators and people that offer courses.  The App is free as are the meditations.  The App was already installed on my Motorola phone it has a little brass singing bowl as its…

Tony writes.....

While working in Spain with a friend not so long ago, we were introduced to an amazing woman called Maria, who had for many years worked with children.....She told us that many of the children she worked with were from broken homes or had particularly challenging behaviour, and she sometimes felt she…

Delightful

There's an ethereal kind of beauty in the rain's sweet kiss

There's a certain mysterious uncertainty in the dawn of the mist

There's a wholesome song in the bumble bees wings…

INSIGHTS ON KINDNESS BY POETS, SAGES & ACTIVISTS

In a dominant paradigm weighted towards self-interest and self-orientation, we must make a special effort to question our mode of being. Can we afford to be narrowly self-focused? Can we grow to anywhere near our true potential if we look out only for ourselves? What role do kindness and…

Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways. Creative thinking is a stable, defining characteristic in some personalities, but it may also change based on situation and context. Inspiration and ideas often arise seemingly out of nowhere and then fail to show up when we most need them, and creative thinking requires complex cognition yet is completely distinct from the thinking…

Antoine and Baptise Hugo with their five siblings

Most countries and civilizations have stories about giants in their culture. In Greek and Roman times, Giants were an integral part of history. Ovid documents the story of Giants who once piled mountains up to the stars and were destroyed when Zeus hurled his thunderbolts at them. Homer, in his Odyssey, describes many Giants, often the Cyclops, including the cannibal Polyphemus…