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Shifts & Changes

Wow what a great start to April is all I can say. These past two weeks have been great. March was draining I was very physically and mentally tired. All I wanted to do was sleep but my dreams were super busy with lots of astral travel. Meaning I would wake up feeling like I’d done a days work because I had. The planets were busy too as we rode the Mercury Retrograde with a powerful full moon.

March was however a fantastic time for me. My constant whacked state was due to my physical body catching up with the changes of my spiritual body. I’d started a new course of study with my mentor and I was (& still am) reading some old spiritual texts. It was amazing how quick things changed for me and how simple the lessons were to grasp. Whilst my inner self was adjusting to the new information, making leaps & bounds in all the right directions my poor physical body couldn’t keep up. It was literally being left behind. The division of my two parts was extremely evident with the tiredness, sleepless nights & cravings for sugar. (Which I haven’t had in a long time)

Everything I’ve learned over the past six weeks has really settled in now & has been absorbed. I can start living this new truth, integrating my two parts back to balance. I feel so alive again and so very grateful for everything I have right now. I feel cocooned in a pink bubble of happiness. It’s just lovely when these moments of integration happen. When I’m off kilter I look back to these times as a reference point to remember what to do get this feeling back.

I’m seeing random acts of kindness everywhere. Strangers interacting with each other doing the most gracious and caring things. A lady dropped her jacket yesterday in front of me. I thought ‘oh her jacket’ and rushed forward to pick it up to be beaten to it by another kind stranger. Another lady had a tear in her work trousers I noticed from a far. It was a tricky call to make, she obviously didn’t realize as it was in quite a sensitive spot, basically her ass was hanging out! Whilst I thought how shall I approach this, another lady further in front jumped in and subtly mentioned the rip. I sent my gratitude to these wonderful people & hope they are re given too ten fold for their actions. I’m sure they will be.

Another shift that has been occurring for the whole of this year has been with physical exercise. I’ve really struggled with my own personal Bikram practice. I’ve been too drained to get in the room as regularly as I used too. When I’m shifting like this I don’t deal very well in big energy situations, I tend to hibernate. Staying away from the room was my way of dealing. I had a huge mental struggle going on which was fine as my two halves were not as together as usual.

A massive part of my lessons this past two weeks has been to see everyone ‘as one.’ We are all from the same source we see each other in everyone as we are each other. One light with many projections. Does that make sense? It’s hard to explain. With this fresh in my head I was so fired up for some yoga. My body needed to move. The perfect situation to be in a room full of mirrors reflecting back the negative image of the positive soul projections, all-working together and moving together as one. One light, shining. I had a beautiful practice this morning once I’d grasped this concept. No need to feel drowned & bogged down by all the different energy in the room as there is no different energy, just one, all radiating from the same point. I could not have felt more balanced & in unity. After all yoga means unity, now I get this even more deeply.

Have a wonderful day everyone. Do something exceptional today. All the tools you need are inside you already just ask to be shown and use them.

Much love,

Seren xx

Weekend Brunch

I know it’s only Thursday but here’s an idea for a weekend brunch. Soft boiled eggs with lightly steamed asparagus to dip instead of toast fingers.

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Clean Your Space

A couple of posts ago I talked about energy cleansing. Focusing on balancing the invisible energies that get trapped in your physical environment. I learned a great lesson over the long Easter weekend. I pay a lot of care and attention to my energy cleansing rituals but I often over look the physical cleansing. Yes the housework!

To make room in my schedule for the things I love doing that enrich me my house suffers which until now I didn’t much care about. Slowly over the days and weeks the clutter and dust gather. I do a quick clean every weekend, vacuum, tidy, put away. I clean around furniture, only moving what I need to. The kitchen and bathroom always get a good thorough scrub each week. I’m not that disgusting. However I don’t do a big clean very often. The kind that involves pulling out all the furniture, taking up the rugs, removing everything off the shelves and tables and really getting into the corners. Washing the curtains and cleaning the windows.

This is just what I did on Good Friday. The whole afternoon was spent cleaning. It’s amazing how much dirt gathers underneath the sofa and on the bookshelves. Behind the TV on the mass of cables resided a thick layer of dust. I live on a very sandy farm and my floors are tiled so dirt just piles up quickly and it’s hard to keep on top of it so I don’t. I shudder to think what would be lurking inside carpets if I had them.

What I observed and learned from this experience is physical dirt and clutter creates it’s own invisible negative energy. Just like physical objects in our environment can absorb external energies, they can create them too and become transmitters. Dirt and dust are stagnant, not moving, decomposing, depressing. The energy this dirt creates emits outward and makes the environment ‘feel’ stagnant too. Total no brainer I know! This negative energy is passed onto us as we live & breathe it in. It’s Natures law of giving and receiving. We get back just as much as we put into our environment. There is no escaping it. We breathe out so we must breathe in, inhaling all those energies, good & bad from the space around us. This will affect our physical wellbeing.

Everything around you is a reflection of you. A cluttered house is a reflection of a cluttered life. You are transmitting that clutter from within into your physical world. If you share your house it may be your partner bringing in their clutter. This how my communal space got in such a state. I haven’t been able to keep on top of my partner’s manifestations. To get super technical his mess is a reflection of mine too so it all comes back to you somehow. That is why I’ve realized how important it is to ‘clean’ your physical living space as well as the invisible space.

It was actually quite enjoyable this mass cleaning effort. I kept standing back and admiring my work. It revived me. I felt great afterward. It felt like I’d cleaned myself, which technically I had, I’d cleaned my ‘space.’ My home felt brand new. The stale energy was out and fresh new clean energy was there in place. I put in the effort and was instantly re given to back with clean, fresh energy.

Energy cleansing the invisible is awesome but I need to pay a lot more attention to physical cleaning too. It is no wonder I don’t mind not being at home so much with my schedule. The environment isn’t appealing or welcoming for me. When I am home I migrate to my healing room/home office/art studio that I keep very clean and spotless. Now though I want to be in my main living area because it’s clean. I even set up my easel and painted in the lounge for a change. I really wanted to be in that clear space. New inspiration could flow freely as there was room to do so, it can get through now.

Do you ever feel stagnant and stuck in a rut? Are you always wanting to ‘get out of the house,’ not wanting to be at home? Take a look at your living environment. Give it a good clean and tidy up, followed by an energy cleanse. It’s so simple, yet so powerful. It will feel like you’ve just been on holiday, yet you never left the house.

Get your mop on this week.

Love Seren xx

Is there a Doctor in the house?

Everything around us the earth, the planets & nature all move in cycles. We ourselves are constantly growing & evolving to meet developing needs. I often feel nothing is  really new. Everything has been here before at some point in time, then it might disappear & return again when the time is right or it chooses to be. This is very true for fashion trends.

My morning commute requires me to sit on a train for thirty minutes. I am usually engrossed in a book for this time. Some mornings my mind and eyes wander. A few months ago my wandering eyes (in a non creepy way please!) started noticing people’s foot ware. It was the middle of summer & people were wearing boots. Not just any boots but the classic Dr. Marten boots. There in front of me was a high school girl donning a pair of DM’s with her school uniform. Wow I thought that was how I dressed twenty years ago. (20 years how did that happen?!)

I’ve started seeing Dr. Martens or DM’s, Dockers, Doc’s what ever you wish to call them everywhere. They are back in fashion 53 years since they were launched on April 1st 1960. In the early 90’s nearly everyone at my school had a pair. My father hated them. When I bought my first pair aged 13 he was fuming. Who knows what he thought when I invested in a second pair a few years later.

When DM’s first came on the scene in 1960’s England they were associated with the British working class and a youth culture of punks, rebels & skinheads who donned their DM’s before heading off to fight for their rights. This is probably why my father didn’t like them as they were stereotyped with hooliganism. My era of first wear was definitely for the rock grunge gothic look, not for violence. It was the time of Brit Pop. Oasis and Blur were wearing Doc’s so I wanted some too.

My friends personalised their boots to make them ‘different’ from everyone else’s. Mine were never polished the more scuffed the better. Mud and dirt were my decoration of choice. You tied your boots your own way too. Laced up to the top and tied tightly, left open and untied for a slouchy, sloppy look. For me I left the top three eyes unthreaded, wrapped the laces around the back and finished with a knot at the front. Some people drew on their boots, painted flowers and shapes on them, had brightly coloured laces or beads threaded through the bottom lace. DM’s were a great way to self-express.

The major draw card of Dr. Martens is they are actually very sensible shoes. Flat, sturdy, waterproof and so comfortable are the ‘bouncing soles.’ Okay I admit it the first few weeks can be painful until you break them in. Band-Aids ahoy! They do make your legs look like golf clubs too when worn with skinny jeans or skirts.

It was this comfort factor that drew me to investing in a 2013 pair. I was tempted by the array of funky patterns and finish’s but decided a straight up black pair would be more suitable for my needs. I was the fourth person that day to buy a pair the sale assistant informed me. Twenty-one years after I bought my first pair, Dr. Martens are back on my feet again. Maybe I’m feeling nostalgic for my British roots or I just know a good solid authentic brand when I see one. Whatever the reason I’m rolling with the ebb and flow of universal cycles.

Do you have any favourite iconic brands that you’d love to be revived or those that should never grace our presence again? Leave a comment below!

Love Seren xx

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