Last Saturday’s UK Daily Mail carried a story on celebrated Scottish medium Helen Duncan, Campaigners bid to clear the ‘witch’ who leaked WWII secrets about sinking battleship.
Mrs Duncan was a physical medium who could produce ectoplasm in seances, but she is best known for providing some of the strongest documented evidence for Spirit communication. (more…)
What are prayer, affirmation, visualization and hypnosis? What do they have in common? And most important how can they each help you be the very best you can?
Prayer is traditionally thought of as kneeling before God, perhaps in a sanctified place of worship, giving praise and thanks to the Great One. More accurately, prayer is any form of communication with a power greater than those found in the physical realm.
Prayer can happen any time, any place, anywhere; I usually pray walking by the sea near my home. It can take any form the pray-er wishes, including giving thanks and praise, but also asking for help with the world’s troubles, healing where it’s needed and also making requests at a material level. (more…)
10 Scientifically Proven Life Skills for Health and Happiness by Dr. Fred Luskin and Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier
Despite living in the age of technological marvels stress and related mental problems have reached epidemic proportions in the Western world. The effects of stress upon the body are real as demonstrated by well-documented “white coat hypertension” in which patient’s blood pressure is significantly higher when measured by their doctor compared with readings measured at home. It’s now widely held that much physical illness either has mental problems at its origin, or is worsened by the patient’s state of mind.
Paradoxically, instead of saving time, technology is actually placing people under pressure to achieve more within the the finite limits of each day. And there’s the rub. Many stress management techniques have been developed over the years, but often they require significant commitment from the already pressed subject. And often they don’t get applied at all. (more…)
Last week England’s Daily Mail published an article, Learn what the future holds at psychic school … but if you have the gift you’d already know about it by Tanya Gold describing the author’s experiences at a £95 a day psychic school.
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“Psych School” is run by “celebrity” medium and author Mia Dolan, who features in the TV show “Haunted Homes” and gives demonstrations of clairvoyance to packed theaters. On the day described 10 participants were led through a series of exercises such as psychometry, seeing auras and guided meditation intended to lead to “the zone”. Gold is unsurprisingly highly scathing of the “Psych School” experience, and indeed it’s unlikely anyone could develop psychism by
merely attending a course such as this. But can we really learn to develop telepathy, precognition and the like? (more…)
A recent episode of the BBC arts and culture series Imagine examined the huge and rapidly-growing self help industry. The Secret of Life started with presenter Alan Yentob watching recent blockbuster The Secret and declaring his skepticism by suggesting the only way to get rich from self help books is by writing one.
What follows is a journey through the self help business in the form of interviews with some of its leading gurus. Together they provide an intriguing overview of what is meant by self help.
Writer and self help addict Amy Jenkins has a large collection of self help books and admits she begins her day reading self help in the way most people have a cup of coffee. Though the underlying messages occur repeatedly in different works, Jenkins believes it can be helpful to study different presentations. (more…)
In just three lines, Reinhold Niebuhr’s Serenity Prayer (as adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous) encapsulates a profound philosophy of life.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
The BBC recently broadcast an edition of its popular science documentary Horizon entitled How to make better decisions. The show featured a number of approaches to decision-making.
It was suggested (confirming what most of us instinctively know) that emotions play a large part in the way we make choices. A mathematician employed a mathematical model supposedly to take the emotion out of decisions. The model was applied to a group of men’s chances of getting a date, and the purchase of a pair of shoes. The problem is that the model doesn’t entirely remove emotion from the process, as it requires us to place subjective ratings to question such as the attractiveness of ourselves and others. (more…)
Ever feel you spend most of you time and energy facing problems? Does life seem nothing more than an incessant stream of difficulties?
If so, take heart that you are not alone. According to American Psychological Association 54% of Americans are concerned about the level of stress in their everyday lives (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011901430.html) while in the U.K. stress is believed to be responsible for 70% of visits to doctors, and 85% of serious illnesses (UK HSE stress statistics quoted at http://www.businessballs.com/stressmanagement.htm)
A major problem is that we tend to notice the negatives, while taking for granted (ie simply not noticing) the vary many positives that fill our lives.
It’s the oldest cliché in the book, but a few moments taking stock of your many reasons to be cheerful really is a powerful antidote to depression and stress. Here’s but a few suggestions to kick you off… (more…)
Learning to hear one’s inner guide (or little voice within) isn’t so much acquiring a new skill as rediscovering a very old one.
As Spiritual beings we are naturally intuitive, naturally perceptive of those signals coming from the non-physical realms. But both as individuals, and as a species, the ability has been neglected, devalued, even ridiculed. (more…)
Genevieve Behrend was the only personal student of mental scientist and pioneer of the “new thought” movement Thomas Troward. In 1921 Behrend wrote Your Invisible Power with the purpose and hope that its suggestions may furnish readers a key to open up the way to the attainment of their desires, and to explain that fear should be entirely banished from their efforts to obtain possession of the things they desire.
Behrend presupposes that the desire for possession is based upon the aspiration for greater liberty. For example, you feel that the possession of more money, lands or friends will make you happier, and your desire for possession of these things arises from a conviction that their possession will bring you liberty and happiness. (more…)