Friday 31 January 2014

Weekend Reads

Hello,


we decided to do Weekend Reads this week even though most of you won't have time to look, what with the Grimsby show this weekend!  We are so excited get the 2014 events underway. Anyway we found another mix of sites to look at in some quiet moments ;)

The Unbounded Spirit

This is a really big site which posts on many subjects but all with a spiritual/philosophical approach. An interesting blog that manages to have something interesting whatever you are in the mood for. Unless you're looking for funny cats...


The Food Network

It's what you expect, food and recipes.   I was looking for something new to try for a veggie dinner. Typed in "New Age food" to a Google search and the feature the link takes you to was for "The New Age of Casseroles".  I think in this weather, comfort food like this is a fine idea!

Association for the Scientific Study of Anomolous Phenomena

A charity and society that scientifically studies the Paranormal.  This is an amazing organisation.  It seems to fall on the middle ground of not dismissing peoples experiences, but looking at them through a balanced and unbiased way.  Phenomena is recorded and studied and not just used as examples for an agenda.  Interesting reads.

What Should I Read Next

Not a site to read, but it's a searchable database for books. If you're stuck for something new to read or want to find a new author to get into, type in a book you love and the search engine will suggest books that are similar to it.  If you're like me, you have a pile of books waiting to be read but bookmark the site because you never know when that might come in handy...



Wednesday 29 January 2014

Reiki - In Focus

Hello,

we're starting a new feature tonight called "In Focus". We know a lot of people attending our shows already know a lot about New Age subjects and complementary therapies but for this feature we are aiming at people who are just starting on a new path.

The "In Focus" feature is intended to be a simple look at our subject and hopefully provide a little inspiration for jumping into something new!

Starting with Reiki, which tends to be one of the first therapies that people  try.  It's a very gentle and relaxing therapy which has gained a lot of popularity in recent years.


Reiki (ray-key) is Japanese for "universal life energy", a system of natural healing.

It was founded in Japan by Dr Mikao Usui in the early 20th century and evolved through his research, and experiences.

The system of Reiki was developed by Dr  Usui in 1922 while performing Isyu Guo, a 21 day Buddhist training course held on Mount Kurama. While undergoing this training Usui had gained the knowledge and spiritual power to apply and attune others to what he called Reiki, which entered his body through his crown Chakra.

Reiki is a form of hands-on-healing, through its use, practitioners use set hand positions to transfer universal energy which  allows for self-healing and a state of balance.

There are two main traditions  of Reiki, Traditional Japanese Reiki and Western Reiki. However, in essence both traditions of Reiki treatments can help the body emotionally or spiritually. It is a tradition that is open to any belief system and in some cases is followed as a Spiritual tradition in its own right.

In a typical  Reiki treatment, the person having the treatment will lie down and start to relax while the Reiki practitioner  might takes a few moments to enter a calm or meditative state of mind and mentally prepare for the treatment.

The treatment involves placing the hands on the recipient in various positions. However, the hands are usually held a few centimetres away from the body. The hands are usually kept in a position for three to five minutes before moving to the next position.  Between 12 and 20 positions are used, with the whole treatment lasting anywhere from 45 to 90 minutes.

As a universal energy Reiki can be practiced by anyone as long as they have been "attuned" to the system.  Reiki attunements are divided into 3 levels, all of which include teachings and attunements. Most Reiki practitioners also run or belong to Reiki Share groups.  These events are usually open to everyone.  You can try a mini-treatment, learn more about Reiki and meet up with new people.

As with any complementary therapy, when looking for someone to give you a treatment it's always best to find someone that is recommended by someone you know.

For more information about Reiki and practitioners near you visit www.reikifed.co.uk

Tuesday 28 January 2014

Event News

Morning to all our lovely readers,

just a few little bits of news this week before we continue with our new features tomorrow.  We've already had our Weekend Reads feature start and tomorrow will see the start of our complementary therapy "In Focus" feature.  But first...


Manchester guide goes to print!  5 little words that cover 62 hours of work!  End result, a weekend of wonderful exhibition stands and 66 different talks/workshops – over HALF of them FREE!  The Manchester event goes live on the website on 23rd February.



The Newark guides went to post on Monday, so they will hit the doormats any day now!


David Wells has confirmed his attendance at Manchester in October, which is fantastic.


Jacky Newcomb is doing a 90 minute workshop on Archangels and meeting your Archangel guide at Manchester on Sat, 5th April – price £10 – get in quick when booking opens on 23/02


This is shaping up to be a great year already!

Friday 24 January 2014

Weekend Reads

Morning,

welcome to our first regular feature!  Starting off with some easy reading today, lol.

Every Friday we are going to post links to some other blogs and websites that the BSSK team love. There's been much debate recently about the internet and how good/bad it can be.  The scaremongers like to show us it's full of pockets of nastiness and conspiracies and bullying.  We know that element exists but we believe it's mostly a force for good and we're going to prove it...

We don't intend to theme the Weekend Reads.  It's going to be a random mix that we found interesting and relevant to us, so hopefully everyone should find something they like.

The Happiness Project

Gretchen Rubin is a New York based writer who decided that while not unhappy, she wondered if she could increase her happiness levels.  Is it possible to make yourself happier?  Her blog turned into a best selling book which, while seeming self-indulgent was actually a great read and an interesting self-help book.  Lots of fun and inspiring too.

Philosophy for Life

Jules Evans suffered an emotional crisis that he was rescued from by ancient Philosophy.  Can ideas invented and developed over 2,000 years ago help us today?  A more challenging blog but an amazing read.

Liz Lamoreux

A creative journey to your inner self.  Liz hosts creative retreats and workshops in what she describes as "inner Excavation"  exploring your inner self through art and creativity.  She has plenty of online tools and a lively blog.

Kristy Hodges

Serendipity Crystals is an amazing website, packed with information and crystals, energy work and psychic development.  A lively blog that is always so up-beat it's hard to not be filled with enthusiasm.

Hope you enjoy some of these blogs, let us know if you did!

x


Thursday 23 January 2014

Event News and Blog Update

Morning!

Racing towards our first show of 2014, we really can't wait to get started.  Grimsby is just over a week away.

The guides for Grimsby have been posted out.  If you would like to receive one by post or e-mail please e-mail events@bssk.co.uk

An initial list of Newark exhibitors is now on out website and we also have a list of the talks on at Newark as well.

Hannah Luff of Lincoln was our lucky prize draw winner at our very last show of 2013, will you be lucky this year?!

As you may know we are on the lookout for anyone willing to put posters or leaflets out for our shows, within a 45 minute drive of any of our shows.  So if you work in or own a therapy centre, beauty salon or work in a health related establishment and would like to help us out get in touch and in return we'll provide you with a pair of free tickets to one of our shows.

From tomorrow we start posting some regular features and articles on the blog.  The interviews we've done have been a fantastic way to start the re-boot of the BSSK and we do have plans for more.  However we wanted to diversify a bit more!

We're going to have regular features on complementary therapies, New Age articles, spirituality and much more.  Look out for our first regular feature tomorrow.


Monday 20 January 2014

Interview with Ros Coleman

Today we have a great interview with the wonderful Ros Coleman.  Ros is a psychic and intuitive artist, who paints spirit guides and angels.  She can also paint and tell you about your own past lives.  On top of that she has started an online course to show you how to do the same.  She can be found online at www.spiritguideartist.com

Many thanks to Ros for taking the time to answer our questions, we've loved reading them.


To start with could you tell us a little bit about yourself?


Having been “sensitive” from birth I found my early years confusing. I am clairvoyant and a natural physical channel for Spirit but did not understand this until much later in life. Some of my childhood experiences include seeing, hearing and sensing “ghosts”; having clear “memories” of incidents in peoples’ lives that I could never have known; feeling I was “someone else” and speaking in voices that were not mine. An angel appeared in my bedroom once. It looked like a very soft, bright light and I felt safe and comforted. I found great peace in daydreaming, art, nature and in the company of animals, birds and insects and still do. Alongside my family and close friends these are my greatest loves.

I was an IT trainer for 20 years, which I loved because it helped people on my courses feel confident and empowered. Plus we had fun and I feel this is so important in a learning environment. In my 40’s I retrained as a life coach and stress management consultant, working with individuals and high profile companies. Becoming atuned to reiki in 2000 was pivotal spiritually as it reawakened the skills I had allowed to grow dormant over the years.

By 2004 I had met others in my spiritual “family” on Earth and with them, was trained by teachers in Spirit, during meditations, to use my intuitive skills through art. It was a magical time, full of love, kindness and laughter. I never forgot the beautiful angel from my childhood and I wanted to paint spirit guardians for other people. So this is what Spirit taught me, and what I came to do for others. Eventually I came to understand that I am a medium and not just “over imaginative”. It was reassuring finding other people who’d had similar experiences discovering the spiritual community felt like coming home.

After several years working in Mind Body and Spirit shows as a psychic artist, I accumulated a wealth of magical experience, knowledge and understanding. I now share this with others through workshops and my online course, The Art of Creative Consciousness. Combining my loves of art, nature and Spirit with my experience in developing and running training courses is so fulfilling and I feel truly blessed.

I see the training courses quite literally as spreading Light. The Art of Creative Consciousness attracts students who are spiritually aware and whose hearts beat with love for art, nature and Spirit. My wish, my intention for them is that their confidence unfolds and amplifies as they discover the creativity and beauty that naturally lies within. As our own light grows brighter, it illuminates and warms others around.



What can you tell us about your online course?


‘The Art of Creative Consciousness” is a comprehensive art course for people who wish to awaken or develop their creativity, and discover a deeper connection and understanding with Spirit through their art. The course is based online and has a wealth of multi-media material plus insights and guidance from experienced psychic artists to draw upon.

The course has 6 parts in sequence. Students may self-pace and take as much time as they need, or, for those who prefer to take the entire course in a set time, I run it over a period of 2 months with live weekly teleconferences in which all can attend and take part. The next course runs March through April 2014.

The first set course ran in July/August 2013. The course itself, the students and their results were phenomenal.  They created beautiful paintings, full of energy and symbology; connected with angels, spirit people and nature spirits. Some had never painted before and others were more experienced. We all learned masses and had such fun. To read more about the course and see students’ painting and feedback, please visit my website http://spiritguideartist.com/e-course.html



Which writer/thinker has influenced you the most?


Without question, the writer/thinker I admire most and whose writings I pay most attention to is the Dalai Lama.  I love books and my walls as lined with books on a variety of topics – channeled spiritual works, therapies, arts and crafts, pets and wildlife to more scientific material like anatomy, NLP and psychoneuroimmunology.

I like to pick out a spiritual book from time to time and as it falls open, something on the page seems to answer a question or deliver some understanding I’ve been seeking. Some I dip into and others, like the extraordinarily talented Psychic Artist Coral Polge’s “Living Images” I’ve read time and again.

Books I have recommended to others are Louise Hay’s “You Can Heal your Life” and “A Guide for the Advanced Soul” by Susan Hayward. The content of each is both enlightening and practical. They are easy to read and when the principles are applied, they work. When I think about it, this is the ethos on which my courses and books are based.



What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given?


Laughing now. It’s more a comment really, made by my Dad after some scrape I got into as a small child. He said to me (in his own inimitable and down-to-Earth way) “If Rosalind fell into a cesspit she’d come out smelling of roses”. My life has been full of adventures, with my fair share of twists and turns and ups and downs and I’ve always emerged safely and wiser after the event. The belief his words instilled have seen me through the tough times and I remember them, and him, with love and gratitude.



Would you name 6 “Desert Island” books or films (ones you would like if you were stranded on a desert island - for young ones who don’t know about Desert Island discs!)



Films – Billy Elliot – a heartwarming story with a feelgood ending. I can’t count the number of times I’ve watched the ending on Youtube. Love it! And Jungle Book, which I’ve still not seen and children would love.

Books – something practical for surviving on a desert island, like the SAS Survival Handbook by John Lofty Williams. For a fascinating esoteric read - The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. And for sheer inspiration Nelson Mandela’s Autobiography, The Road to Freedom.

Finally, a song. It’s totally in keeping with the desert island “Somewhere over the Rainbow” sung by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole. Enjoy the song here on Youtube.

Friday 10 January 2014

Interview with Sally Harding

We are all starting to get into the swing of 2014 now!  We're really excited about our first show in Grimsby on 1st and 2nd of February - can't wait to get this years shows underway.

In the meantime, we have an interview with Sally Harding who is healer and counsellor and an Emotion Code practitioner.  Many thanks to Sally for answering our questions and we look forward to seeing her again at some of the shows this year.


Can you tell us a little bit about yourself please?


After the initial young girls dream of working in the equestrian industry I then spent the early part of my career working with UK health charities whilst also competing my beautiful Hanoverian regularly in Dressage competitions in my spare time. Healthy living and natural products has always been an interest of mine (I come from a very sensitive skinned family) and in my mid 30’s I began to work with energy healing at the same time as I was completing a degree in Person Centred Counselling. Thus began my gradual shift into the holistic field with further training as a Clinical Hypnotherapist, an Advanced PSYCH-K practitioner and more recently I have achieved my Certification as an Emotion Code Practitioner. I am currently working towards my Body Code Practitioner qualification. Whilst building my own practice I was also lucky enough to be involved in delivering obesity workshops for the NHS providing information to allow people to make informed lifestyle choices to enable them to achieve improved health. My personal passion lies in working with people to assist them to move forward with health and emotional issues and so my practice, Happiness and Health Solutions, was born. I always refer to my work as working with my clients as I consider it is my role to help each individual to access their own personal wisdom, with myself being the facilitator who is privileged enough to be able to assist with this process. I believe that we all have the innate ability to heal ourselves when guided towards what is needed in the moment. I consider myself to have been very fortunate to have been guided towards some of the most up to date and effective approaches in energy medicine.
What can you expect from me at the show:
Well we are all carrying some level of emotional baggage from the past due to our many experiences in our lives such as relationship breakups, death of a loved one, personal traumas to name but a few and the strong emotions we feel during these emotionally charged life events are unseen energies which can get trapped in our bodies. I have personally experienced the many dramatic shifts that can come about through the release of these energies, which can then release long held pain, physical symptoms and emotional issues and I am very excited at this opportunity to share this wonderful healing modality. I will also be offering some interesting additional items linked to the work I do.


Which writer/thinker has influenced you the most?


This has to be the great Dr Bruce Lipton and particularly his book The Biology of Belief. It can really open our eyes and change the way we think about the connection between mind and matter. Many of my clients find me after reading this book. And of course The Emotion Code book written by Dr Bradley Nelson, which is a self healing classic.


What is the best piece of advice you've been given?


This is not necessarily advice that I have received but comes more from my learning from my life experience and this is the understanding and recognition of how vitally important it is to be 100% responsible for my own physical and emotional health.


Could you name your Desert Island Discs/books?


A book called The Key to Self Liberation is one of my bible books alongside the Bruce Lipton books. I also love The Ringing Cedars of Russia series. As for films well Breakfast at Tiffany’s is an all time favourite classic and Good Will Hunting comes high on my list. I love music and have been known to sing a bit with a local band. The late great Kirstie McColl is a favourite along with anything by Eva Cassidy and too many others to mention.