Things of interest "Read a book that brings you wisdom. Listen to your teacher and learn how to use wisdom. Then go and discover the world to practice your wisdom." Meditations - In eastern cultures, the mind is being referred to as the power of ignorance that is creating the illusion of reality. The best way of understanding the way of thinking is to come to a point of stillness. Meditation is about transforming consciousness beyond thought. It is important for your overall well being to find a quiet moment every now and again. This can be difficult if you lead a hectic lifestyle but especially then even more important. You don’t necessarily need to do a lot but simply sit down, clear your mind and relax. Listen to your breath, breathing in through the nose and out via the mouth. You might find it easier to have some relaxing music in the background. Don’t worry if you fall asleep, it only shows that you managed to relax well. Reincarnation - Reincarnation is one of the oldest beliefs in the world(about 5000 years). With it comes the understanding that there is more to life than we can see. It was something so obvious, it simply didn’t need proof. It is mostly rooted in Eastern Religions like Hinduism and Buddhism. Nonetheless, Victorian scientists started to insist on observable proof for everything. Reincarnation was a part of the Christian Dogma until AD 553 when the Council of Constantinople decreed once and for all that it was a heretical doctrine and that no Christian was to believe in it anymore. It became an orthodox belief that souls did not have a pre-existence. However, it happens that we bring experiences from past lives into our present existence without being aware of it. This can result in subconscious fears or illnesses for which we can’t find a solution. If we re-start to consider reincarnation as an obvious fact, we will be more likely to understand why we are here and what our plans are. Crystals - Crystals bring change into our life providing we let them in. They influence us with their colour and energy. You can benefit simply form holding a stone in your hand or keeping it in your pocket. Unless you are looking for a specific stone, it is advisable to just pick a stone that you feel attracted to as this will be the stone you need at the present moment. It is important to clean crystals after you used them as they can hold negative energies. One way of cleaning them is in water. But bear in mind that some stones dissolve in water. In order to avoid that you can also clean them by visualising the white light around them. Crystals are very much part of my every-day life. There has always been a certain fascination for them since I was a little child. I learned intuitively how to use them by simply picking a stone and carrying it around with me. Over the past years I gained additional knowledge about some stones from several books and saw what exactly they can achieve if used consciously. Synchronicity - This is by far the best word to explain things that happen at the right time. It is these situations that are somehow coincidental and leave us astound how things turned out to be. People we suddenly meet who provide us with information which leads to another event that we otherwise wouldn’t have heard of and in the end turns out to be an important link to our future events. Synchronicity is being influenced by higher beings such as our guides. Our gut instinct also plays a role as it will help to make the right decision in order to maintain the overall flow of life. Law of Attraction/Cosmic Ordering - Ask, and it will be given. That is the simple explanation to the exciting term “cosmic ordering”. Every day I make myself clear what I want today or in life generally and either create a clear picture of it in my mind or write it down. In most cases it doesn’t take long to manifest, in all other cases it just took a little longer. Bear in mind to give the universe some time to rearrange events in order to meet your desired needs. You might find yourself suddenly being offered that perfect car for an unexpected dead cheap price, but it might need some more time to cross paths with the love of your life. I’d like to share a simple example of how it can work without you even believing in it. Because a friend of mine really doesn’t believe it is possible to ask the universe for money and actually get it. Once she had a really bad day where everything just went wrong and at the end of the day she was left with no money because she lost the twenty pound note she took out of her account earlier. Actually she was convinced that it had been stolen because there was a man cueing behind her in the supermarket who repeatedly bumped into her. When I said to her that maybe that man, or whoever found the money, needed it more than she did at the moment and that it could be possible that the money would come back to her, possibly even more than she had lost, she joked: “ Yes, pleas let it be 40 pounds!” Only two days later was her birthday and she told me that she had unexpectedly received a card of her ex-husband with money in it. It was exactly 40 pounds. Lightworkers - A Lightworker is here to help raise the consciousness. There are many different opinions on what exactly makes you a Lightworker but it may be true that you simply know what your soul purpose is. There is a distinctive “pulling” into a certain direction that you simply can’t dismiss and you know that you will have to follow that idea in order to complete a higher task. Indigo and Crystal Children - It is said that the Indigo Children were born around the 1980s. They are highly sensitive and have a strong feeling that they need to make a significant difference in the world. They are empathic and in tune with the thoughts of others, and also naturally drawn to mysteries, spirituality, the paranormal and the occult. They are often associated with attention disorders and also Autism. Crystal Children are the new generation starting at the beginning of the new millennium. Both generations are highly sensitive and psychic, and have important life purposes. The main difference is their temperament. Indigos have a warrior spirit, as their purpose is to fight old systems. To accomplish this, they need tempers and fiery determination. The Crystal Children on the other hand are even-tempered, forgiving and easy-going. The Crystals are the generation who benefit from the Indigos' trailblazing, cutting down anything that lacks integrity. Then the Crystal Children follow the cleared path, into a safer and more secure world. Elementals/Nature Spirits - There are four basic elements of nature: fire, air, earth, and water. Within each of the four elements are nature spirits that are the spiritual essence of that element. They are made up of etheric substance that is unique and specific to their particular element. They are living entities often similar to humans in shape but inhabiting a world of their own. Elementals range in size from smaller than an electron to vaster than galactic space. The elementals serving on planet Earth materialize whatever they pick up from the thoughts and feelings of mankind. They do not remain individualized as humans are. These beings are animated by the thought power of the lower angels and so are thought forms of sorts. They are not immortal. When their work is finished they are absorbed back into the ocean of spirit. They have the power to change their size and appearance almost at will. They cannot, however, change elements. I caught some on camera and would like to share the pictures with you. Just click on one picture and have a look if you see anything. If you click on “reveal”, you will find a picture where I circled the main spirits to make it easier for you to recognize them.        Guides/Guardians/Helpers - It is said that everyone has one or more guides who are there to support us achieving our life plans, tasks and purposes. Usually, however, people are more used to the term Guardian Angel. Although there is a distinct difference between guides and angels it is up to you who you ask for support. There is one guide who is there from birth onwards and will be with you all your life. Other guides will come in if you are about to enter a new territory in your development. Angels operate on a much higher vibration and are much stronger. I have always asked Archangel Michael for protection in critical situations. I usually ask my guides and helpers for support before administering healing. Wake up call - This is said to be an event that influences your life by opening you up to things you weren’t aware of before and heightens your senses and awareness of the other world. It is usually the “right time” even though you might not feel so as it can be quite overwhelming if you haven’t encountered anything like it until then. For example, you could suddenly be aware of a deceased relative or you sense things which you can’t explain with your reasonable mind. It could be caused by a near death experience, a trauma or through the loss of a loved one. On the other hand it can well be that you have been aware of things beyond the usual perceptions from birth onwards. Sometimes it can take a while until you are mentally ready to deal with it. You will never be confronted with something directly if you are not ready for it. And when the time has come you will always have someone, in spirit and on earth, that you can ask for advice and guidance. Sometimes, you might feel that there are happenings that you are incapable of dealing with or that you just don’t want them to happen. Well, if you try to ignore your wake up call, it can intensify and leave you rather exhausted and even scared. Whichever way you develop your awareness, be assured that nothing can do you any harm as long as you don’t act careless and silly and you trust your higher guidance and purpose. Near Death Experiences - Due to drastic improvements in medicines, more and more people report so called near death experiences(NDE). Advances in medical science and the fact that more people die in hospitals rather than at home means that more people are being successfully resuscitated and therefore more likely to experience a NDE. Reported are the feelings of an out of body experience, being at complete ease, being timeless, the tunnel effect, beings of light and meeting deceased relatives In 1937, an anonymous physician described his NDEs but was worried about the effect of going public. Until today, death is still the ultimate taboo. Billions are spend on keeping dying patients alive for a few extra days or weeks, prolonging their agony in exchange for a few precious moments of life. Because life is everything and death is seen as the ultimate full stop. Those that had been clinically dead and who brought back clear memories of what was going on around them suggests that consciousness might not be located in the brain. So, if our consciousness and awareness of who we are isn’t located in the brain is there a chance that it also doesn’t die with the brain? This is the crux of the near death experience debate. Are NDE simply recounting fantasies brought on by medications or brain chemicals or the body’s natural reaction to trauma? Astral travel/OBE - There are many recorded out of body experiences(OBE). They can occur unexpected, e.g. during a near death experience, or some people even train themselves to go at will. Basically what happens is a split of your consciousness and one conscious part of you leaves your physical body in form of an energy body whereas your physical self still functions as usual. A connection to the physical body will be maintained through a so called silver cord which makes it possible to go back into physical form at any time. Caution needs to be taken in experimenting with OBEs as unexpected happenings can be very distressing, even harmful to the inexperienced. I had a few experiences where I must have done this without actually realising. I discovered for example that on some occasions I was able to describe a room that I have never been to after a session of distant healing. The thing is that once your astral body re-enters the body the stronger consciousness will overwrite the weaker consciousness and if you are e.g. asleep at the point of re-entrance you won’t realise that you had an OBE. A little excursion into the world of Physics - The whole matter on our planet, inanimate and crowded, consists of atoms. An atom is the smallest particle that comprises a chemical element and consists of an electron cloud that surrounds a dense nucleus. This nucleus contains positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons, whereas the surrounding cloud is made up of negatively charged electrons. When the number of protons in the nucleus equals the number of electrons, the atom is electrically neutral; otherwise it is an ion and has a negative charge. In approximately 400 BCE, Democritus, a Greek scholar, claimed the world consists of small indivisible particles of matter and coined the term Atom(átomos, which meant "uncuttable"). However, his idea has been refused as one saw the world as something divine and therefore his finding remained unnoticed for almost 2000 years. “It only looks like a thing has a colour and it only appears to be sweet or bitter. In reality, there are only atoms and the empty space”. Democritus The physicist J. J. Thomson, through his work on cathode rays in 1897, discovered the electron and its subatomic nature, which destroyed the concept of atoms as being indivisible units. Thomson believed that the electrons were distributed throughout the atom, with their charge balanced by the presence of a uniform sea of positive charge. His discovery was exceptional as one thought electricity was liquid. In 1926, Erwin Schrödinger, developed a mathematical model of the atom that described the electrons as three-dimensional waveforms, rather than point particles. In this concept, for each measurement of a position one could only obtain a range of probable values for momentum, and vice versa. Although this model was difficult to visually conceptualize, it was able to explain observations of atomic behaviour that previous models could not, such as certain structural and spectral patterns of atoms larger than hydrogen. The development of the mass spectrometer allowed the exact mass of atoms to be measured. The device uses a magnet to bend the trajectory of a beam of ions, and the amount of deflection is determined by the ratio of an atom's mass to its charge. The chemist Francis William Aston used this instrument to demonstrate that isotopes had different masses. The mass of these isotopes varied by integer amounts, called the whole number rule. The explanation for these different atomic isotopes awaited the discovery of the neutron, a neutral-charged particle with a mass similar to the proton, by the physicist James Chadwick in 1932. According to Paul Davis in “The fifth miracle”, every human has about one billion atoms in their body which once belonged to Shakespeare or even Buddha or Mozart. Due to the constant circle of life and the apparent long-living atoms, a permanent new use as a dewdrop, leaf or new human is possible. So, if everything consists of indivisible atoms on which one can even have a certain influence, why doubt the effect of healing?