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Endings and Beginnings With Numerology

Numbers are predicable, sequential, repeatable, spiritual. They show us where we are is this great cosmic cycle of creative life. If you're familiar with numerology, you can predict major life changes and opportunities for growth. I count on the information it provides to help me to accept the things I cannot change and to grant me the courage to change what I can – at the right time. If you know about numerology, you'll know that 2025 has been a 9 year (Y9); that is, 2+0+2+5=9. Some people (me) have experienced a personal Y9 as well, making it a double Y9. If your birth number is also a 9, you'll have experienced a triple Y9, and I feel for you! Don't worry, it's nearly over. My birthday is tomorrow, 25/12/2025. To figure out my personal year number, I add 2+5+1+2+2+0+2+5=19, which is then reduced to a single digit by adding 1+9=10. The final digit, after adding 1+0=1. This means I am pleased to be moving into my Y1, as of tomorrow.  Things come to an end in Y9, re...

The Creative Cycle

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Do you struggle to work to a daily routine? Me too.  No matter how hard I try to get up, get organised, and get to my computer by 10am, I just can't seem to stay consistent.  Over time, I've noticed that the creative work cycle is different to the nine-to-five work cycle. It breathes with its own rhythm of intense creativity, followed by intense periods of rest and reflection.  This is the cycle of nature, as natural as the bodies that we haul to our computers. The flower doesn't flower every single day, but in an intense burst of creativity, then rest.  Plants and animals rest. Nature rests. We are nature. Knowing this cycle helps me to use my energy in the most efficient way. I've learnt that trying to work when it's time to rest isn't the best use of my precious time. I've learnt to develop rest strategies. When I can't get another word onto the page, it's time to put words back in. This might mean catching up with friends, reading, music or TV. S...

Evolving In 13 Ways When You're Home Alone In Lockdown

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So you're stuck at home in isolation, alone, unable to do life as normal, while we cycle through a collective world groundhog day. The COVID epidemic doesn't look as though it will ease this year, at least. So finding ways to amuse ourselves as days string together into months is super important. Grab a cuppa and get ready to change the world, one dimension at a time.  I believe evolution happens at levels beyond the genetic. As we adapt to outside influences we learn, grow and change, evolving toward managing our challenges more effectively. I have discerned various levels of what I call multidimensional consciousness. You can find out what I mean here . But for today's post I'm focussing on how to adapt to 2020 in particular. It begins with basic coping strategies and then steps you up, level by level, toward world healing and even world-building. Each numbered point represents a dimension of consciousness, each level rising toward greater understanding of and partici...

7 Dos and Don'ts When You're Stressing Out

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Well Cabin Fever is setting in. Not because I'm bored or especially isolated like the elderly, but because life can contain 'issues,' and for the past couple of months several of my panic buttons have been simultaneously pressed. Some, such as job loss, relate to the Carona Virus and its effects, but others are family related. On that level - my isolation is real. So, for my benefit as much as yours, I thought it might be helpful to create a list of dos and don'ts to remember when the shit is at risk of hitting the fan. These tips can help to disperse or re-route intense emotional energy into productive, or at least not destructive, directions. 1. Don't  use social media or mobile phones in a panic. Your response might make perfect sense when you feel stressed, but later when your judgement returns you'll be scrambling to clean up your profile and will possibly be suffering from SMS-guilt. Remember - you can't delete a DM or SMS! Do keep a journal o...

Trauma Rescue - What To Do When You're Freaking Out

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  A little over a decade ago I experienced several years of persistent loss and trauma. I was forced to pick up my broken pieces and start all over again. Previously I had been an avid reader, practitioner and even teacher within the positive thinking movement, but it was useless when I found myself in fight/flight mode, my heart racing, my thinking panicked and irrational.  Gradually over years of refinement under continuing stressful conditions, I created a set of tools that addressed not only calming the inner creature in trauma, but also transitioned that frightened creature out of terror and into empowerment.  Personally I have gained more of a sense of control over my life and my personal energy. And we know particularly during this pandemic that control is really just an idea we hold onto so we don’t fall down. But we can move ourselves out of trauma and gain more control over our own consciousness.  So here’s a step-by-step list of how I pull myse...

Back to Dimension Zero - Calming the Inner-Creature

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I didn't write a book about meditation because I was perfect at it. In fact most of the material I had been writing wasn't about meditation at all but memoir. However, the memoir material was still too emotionally charged for me to face in a rational way. My nervous system, ravaged by Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ( PTSD ), was still wired to react to the slightest aggravation. So as I learned how to rebuild my nervous system from the ground up - using what I knew about human consciousness - the material to structure my first book,  The Love of the Universe , emerged. After I finished writing it I realised that I hadn't included enough practical exercises to generate the shifts in consciousness that I was enjoying myself. Somehow I needed to create a more practical, user-friendly version. Fortunately I had written several guided meditations specifically designed to do the job, enough material to create a second book:  Multidimensional Meditation.  My intent was to sh...

Happy New 99 cent Books - January Only

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Happy New Year to Readers, Past and Future The beginning of this new decade represents the end of one of the most testing decades of my life. It was also one of the most creative. I was crushed, but like cold pressed oil, out came my life's work. Apparently I do possess some skill with working under pressure after all! To celebrate the positivity I feel entering the new decade, I would like offer my books, The Love of the Universe (published in 2017), or Multidimensional Meditation (published in 2019), for just $0.99. Multidimensional Meditation You've heard of mindfulness, most of us have these days - but did you know that you can experience mindfulness in multiple dimensions? This book is an easy step-by-step guide to making up your own meditations, as well as achieve more life balance. Find out more while it's only 99 cents The Love of the Universe This book forms part of a collective and urgent cry to humanity. It invites readers to connect with a ...