FROM SUGAR TO STEVIA…

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

STEVIA – WHAT IS IT?

 

I have recently discovered stevia and believe this is the answer to the ultimate sugar alternative. Stevia is 300 times sweeter than sugar yet is good for you! This seems too good to be true but I have tried it in cakes, puddings and rice dishes and absolutely love it.

 

Stevia is a completely natural food coming from the leaves of the stevia plant which grows in the wild from western North America to South America. The leaves are naturally sweet and the plant is sometimes called ‘sweetleaf’ or ‘sugarleaf’. It has been used for many years as a sweetener in Japan, replacing sugar in fizzy drinks and in many food products.

My question is why can’t it replace sugar in all food and drink products everywhere?

A lot of us have a sweet tooth but sugar has many detrimental effects on the body and mind and it is often the hidden ingredient in a vast array of food and drink products. You may think that a little sugar here and there does not do any harm, but all these small quantities add up to big amounts at the end of the day.

 

Our bodies and minds are here to serve us in our daily work, tasks and activities during the day; if they do not work to the optimum we are loosing out. We cannot be our full potentiality. Therefore we need sustenance for our health and well being to help us be who we truly are in the world and to follow our divine life paths, whatever they may be.

Perhaps it is not emphasized enough how harmful sugar can be to the body and mind but here are some of the detrimental effects it has:

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CAN LEAD TO DIABETES

CAN CAUSE HYPERACTIVIY, DIFFICULTY CONCENTRATING, ANXIETY

ENCOURAGES THE UNHEALTHY GROWTH OF YEAST CANDIDA (leading to further ill health)

RAISES BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS CREATING IMBALANCE IN ENERGY LEVELS

ENCOURAGES GROWTH OF CANCER

CAN LEAD TO CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

CAN WEAKEN EYESIGHT

INCREASES CHOLESTEROL LEVELS

CAN CHANGE DNA STRUCTURE

INCREASES BACTERIAL INFECTION AS RESULT OF LESSENING DEFENCE MECHANISM OF BODY

CAN ENCOURAGE OSTEOPAROSIS

CAN LEAD TO DEPRESSION

IMMUNE SYSTEM CAN BE LOWERED CONSIDERABLY

REDUCES THE BODY’S ABILTIY TO ABSORB NUTRIENTS/MINERALS/PROTEIN

CAN INCREASE THE AGEING PROCESS

CAN CAUSE ARTHRITIS, ULCERS, VARICOSE VEINS, CATARACTS, MIGRAINES AND HEADACHES

CAN CONTRIBUTE TO ALZEIMERS DISEASE

CAN CREATE HORMONAL IMBALANCE

CAN BE ADDICTIVE

CAN CONSIDERABLY WORSEN THE EFFECTS OF ADD IN CHILDREN

CAN INDUCE EPILEPTIC SEIZURES

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So why eat sugar? Why eat something and have it in so many food products that it is difficult to avoid (in the West)?

 

Most sugar substitutes are also bad for the health such as saccharin which was declared a carcinogen in the 1970′s.

 

YET STEVIA IS GOOD FOR THE HEALTH AND HAS THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES:

 

CONTAINS NO CALORIES SO DOES NOT AFFECT THE WEIGHT

CAN REDUCE BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS

CAN REDUCE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

ANTI-BACTERIAL THEREFORE BENEFICIAL AS TOOTHPASTE INGREDIENT AND MOUTHWASH

AIDS FORMATION OF CALCIUM FOR STRONGER BONES AND TEETH

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HELPS SKIN CONDITIONS

HELPS HEAL MOUTH ULCERS, GUM DISEASE

HELPS HEAL OSTEOPAROSIS

CAN BE USED IN HAIR CARE TO HELP DRY OR THIN HAIR

CAN HELP HEAL CUTS AND WOUNDS

CAN HELP HEAL ALCOHOLISM

ONLY A LITTLE IS NEEDED IN COOKING FOR A SWEET TASTE

 

IT WOULD APPEAR THAT MANY OF THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF SUGAR HAVE THE OPPOSITE POSITIVE AND HEALING EFFECTS WITH STEVIA!

 

I believe we should make a move towards a greater use of stevia in the west as a sugar alternative and aim for health rather than addiction to a substance which is not helping us on any level.

 

I regularly buy a small packet of GREEN stevia powder from a local health food shop which only costs around 38p (UK) which is an extremely cheap food source. If you can get the pure natural green powder that is far better than the processed white powder which may in fact have harmful effects.

I now realise there is much more I can use this amazing sugar alternative for and perhaps I will now wash my hair with it too!

 

I hope you have found some inspiration from this article but please write any feedback below. Thank-you for reading!

References:

http://nancyappleton.com/141-reasons-sugar-ruins-your-health/

http://www.homeremediesweb.com/stevia-health-benefits.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia

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WHO IS THE CONDUCTOR OF YOUR LIFE?

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

The Orchestra of Life©

By Jo Moon

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I entered a beautiful cathedral in the heart of England. I had been there a few times but this time felt irritated by a loud cacophony of folk, a huge crowd of people milling about. There seemed to be an array of interesting looking instruments in the foreground, some accompanied by people. There was a harp, trombones and people with violins.

A group of teenage girls were sitting in the pews, excitedly chatting and giggling while a large group of adults sat on raised seats in front of them below the crucifixion of Jesus.

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 I wanted to sit quietly and pray, find some peace, but it seemed impossible with this rabble of people. I wondered what was happening. A determined looking conductor stood on a platform and tried bringing some order into proceedings. He stared at the harpist who was busily talking to the trombone player.

He waved the group of girls over to the seats where the adults were then handed one of the girls a pamphlet. At this point everyone suddenly clapped.

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I felt increasingly on the outside of this event and seriously curious. Other people had gathered in the aisles now and we all waited in anticipation.

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Suddenly everyone was in their place. The chatter and rabble of chit chat ceased altogether. The harpist took her seat and trombone player took his. Everyone on the raised seats stood up and then it was as if some miracle happened.

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I watched and listened as this group of every day looking people made the most beautiful, incredible sound together. The orchestra played, the men, women and girls sang together in all their different voices, pitches and sounds and I was awe struck.

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I sat there for maybe an hour watching this live rehearsed concert. I watched as the conductor waved his arms about in different directions and the people played and sang with their full hearts, voices and instruments. I was mesmorised by the sound.

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I thought it incredible how this mixed group of people could come together and produce such an awe inspiring sound. Each person played a crucial part in producing the overall effect.

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Everyone contributed in a highly significant way. If only one member of the orchestra or choir were missing then the sound would have been different.

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My conclusion is this: we are all born at this point in history for a divine purpose. We have each chosen to be born at this time. Together we have the potential to create miracles on Earth. We also have the potential of creating chaos. This is perhaps where we are now.

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If God/The Source was the conductor of everyone’s life and each person listened to Him/Her/It in every moment and acted out of the highest good of all then true miracles could happen on Earth. We would have great potentiality as a human race. We could create a beautiful golden world which served every person and every living being that lived here.

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We could design and create amazing temples of light.

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We could create an abundance of healthy food and drink for all.

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We could produce and create whatever we wished for through our thoughts alone.

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We could create amazingly high energies where anything was possible.

Love would exist in many different forms.

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No one would go without.

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Food and all forms of nourishment would be in plentiful supply for all.

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Money would not be in existence and would have no value.

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Everyone would be able to do what they loved to do on a daily basis.

Drugs of all sorts would be non existent. Instead nature and higher energies would provide what people needed.

Everyone would be compassionate to a high degree and able to read people’s emotions and thoughts.

Crime and violence would be an unnecessary concept of the past.

Animals and all living beings would be greatly respected and never killed by human hand for any reason.

All living beings would live in harmony together.

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People would naturally wish to help and be of service in the world.

Everyone would have a strong connection to the divine.

LOVE WOULD PREVAIL

WHEN LOVE IS AT THE CENTRE EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE!

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HOW TO BE FREE

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

WHAT IS FREEDOM?©

 BY JO MOON

(www.jomoonvisions.com)

I have thought about this question a lot. I once believed that being homeless or a wanderer was the answer. I would have no responsibilities: no home or bills, no job, no routine or obligations; a layabout life with no-one to answer to. Of course I was wrong. I have not been homeless myself but have met many who have been. Even people who ‘sofa surf’, ie stay at others’ homes for short periods of time, are not that happy or free. They are obligated to obey the rules and conditions of the household where they are. They cannot live their own lives. I have experienced this myself.

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When I moved into my own flat having surfed around at others’ homes for a few months I felt I had found my freedom once more. I could come and go as I pleased without being questioned or delayed by others’ demands on me. I could sleep on a proper bed rather than being cooped up on the floor in a store room. I could ban all the things in my own home that were not part of my own ethics such as meat, chemical products and toxic sprays. I could create my space as I wished.

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The freedom I lacked in my new environment was when the council put bars on every window to stop children falling out or people taking their own lives. I had no children and no suicidal tendencies. The bars meant I could not open the windows properly or sit on the flat roof. They gave me a feeling of imprisonment. I also started feeling resentful of using so many gallons of water every time I flushed the toilet and then having to pay for this water. I felt annoyed that the heating was inefficient and therefore I had to be cold every winter and watch as the ice encased itself inside the windows and my breath was visible in the cold inside air.

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 When we rent property we are not entirely free. We are under the control of landlords who may not care about us at all. When we own property we are not free either. Many people believe they can be free by owning a house. Yet there is the commitment of a mortgage meaning that a good income must be earned which may drive someone into doing a job they dislike. I know someone who is currently selling his house in order to be free. He sees his house like a prison, something that weighs him down. He wants to be free and does not intend to live anywhere in particularly. This is his concept of freedom.

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 There are people such as Mark Boyle who lived without money for 2 years on his quest to prove that money doesn’t bring happiness or freedom and that it should be banned altogether in the world. I interviewed him in St Leonards-on-Sea when he had just started his moneyless journey,

Mark Boyle and Eric

 When you focus on unconditional giving you receive, when you focus on receiving you don’t get.

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Mark Boyle (in yellow) with travelling companion Eric

Mark explained that by offering people whatever he was able to give: his time or labour he was automatically given back what he needed.

If I’m hungry I can’t just go to a shop and buy food. On the other hand, I don’t have to worry about my bank balance or what clothes to buy. Every day just seems to flow. It’s a mixture of liberation and fear. It’s a really strange feeling not having any control over buying food.

http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/

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Is being penniless and living without money the answer to freedom? In my experience no! I do believe that if we lived in a world without money it would create freedom for us all, but currently we live in a monetary system and without money you cannot be free in this world. Money is needed to live our daily lives or you go without.

 Freedom is not just about money, your home and what you do in life. It is far more than that. I climbed up the famous and powerful Glastonbury Tor recently and asked the question about freedom. Immediately I received an answer which I wrote down in the bitterly cold wind. This is what I wrote:

The Powerful Glastonbury Tor

The Powerful Glastonbury Tor

 SIX STEPS TO FREEDOM

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Do not veer from your true path ever.

Walk alone, not behind the footsteps of others unless they are great masters or acting for your highest good. (This does not mean you need to be alone!)

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Stay attuned to your own heart and soul at all times (to do this engage in spiritual practices of your choice).

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Look forwards not backwards and release the past often.

Look into your emotional, spiritual, psychic, physical and mental needs and acquire what you need at each given moment.

Be yourself, heal yourself, honour yourself and your needs.

All shall be well in your world and you shall thrive always. It is not the needs, wants and persuasion or coercions of the world that should dictate your life but rather your true inner being, that which we call the soul, that has a divine purpose upon the Earth at this given moment in time.

The above is a direct quote from what I received on the Tor. I hope this rings true for you but please give me your feedback and comments on what true freedom means to you. I also believe that the above message is true but that the simplicity of it is not always so easy to put into practice!

…And a final quote from Ghandi which Mark Boyle emphasized:

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Thank you for reading and please circulate this to others if you feel inspired.

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IN LIFE THERE ARE MANY FREE GIFTS!

Posted on October 3, 2012 by

EVERYTHING YOU REALLY NEED IN LIFE IS FREE!©

Nature and Magic

By Jo Moon

And – the things that cost money can be acquired through what is for free!

Creating a new future

Magic Wand

CHANGING ENERGY: You can put a simple label on a bottle of water and change dirty tap water or unenergised water to water that contains the energy of love, God, positivity or whatever energy you choose. The word itself will change the nature of the water crystals and what you ingest will then be remarkably different from its original form. This demonstrates a dramatic change in a liquid using a simple label and a written word which could be free or cheap. Changing the energy of something does not need to cost anything but can be deeply profound.

Bottle of Water

LOVE: When you love someone deeply and receive love you are already changing your energy field. By expressing and receiving the energy of love in whatever way this may be, you are changing your state and therefore far more able to attract towards you what you need.

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The acquisition of everything in life that sustains us will come easier when we are in the right state of being. Anger, resentment, confusion, frustration, negative thoughts, despair and hopelessness will not assist us in attaining what we truly desire. It is a sad reality and a difficult aspect of being human. When we think continually that life is going from bad to worse, that everything is going wrong it probably will do. To make things better, the key is to acknowledge how we feel, recognize that something needs to change then alter this spiral of negative thinking and put ourselves into a different state.

Spiritual healing

This can be achieved by doing something you love to do, receiving healing in some form, being around people who lift your spirits and make you feel good. It may be by connecting to nature, going for a run, swim or hike across the fields. Its important to know what works for you. Once your energetic state changes then other things in your life can change too – a bit like the water crystals which transform rapidly simply by a word.

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This does not mean that your life problems no longer exist or that you should ignore them. It means that you need to alter your mood, energy system and outlook in order for life to change. Love is often received through a partner but it does not need to be. It can come through friends, family, healing, massage, animals, pets, nature. 

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CONNECTING TO LOVE IS A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND BENEFICIAL FUNCTION OF BEING HUMAN. THE BENEFITS TO INDIVIDUALS AS WELL AS TO HUMANITY AS A WHOLE ARE FAR REACHING AND MORE THAN WE MAY IMAGINE.

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MEDITATION AND OTHER SPIRITUAL PRACTICES:This is another way in which we can alter our state of mind, health, well being and emotional lives. We may also connect to higher dimensions, increase our vibration and raise consciousness.

Meditation

Through achieving all this we may have new perceptions on our lives, a positive outlook, calmer disposition, receive deep healing or let go of old issues, blocks and negative patterns. We may receive guidance from beings in other dimensions such as angels and Ascended Masters. We may have flashes of insight and inspiration which give us clues as to who we really are and what could help us achieve our goals and aspirations in life.

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Visualization is also a powerful tool. By using your thoughts creatively and consciously you can manifest whatever you wish for in life in some form. It may not come to you in the exact form you visualize because other people have their own free will and timing may not be as you expect either! Other practices could include yoga, chi-gong, Sanskrit chanting and a whole host of other methods! Do what feels comfortable and beneficial for you.

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NATURE: What a joy it is to have trees, plants, oceans, rivers, streams, flowers, herbs, mountains, caves, insects, animals, moss, sand, birds, clouds, forests, beaches and waterfalls here on planet Earth! For the most part this is for free.

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You may not live close to a park, woodland, beach or river and may need to use transport to get to these places. You may need to walk or cycle to get there. Or you may have a roof garden, a few pot plants or herbs on the window sill if you live in the city. 

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There are always possibilities to connect to nature. I would love to encourage everyone to get out into nature as often as possible in whatever way that may be for you. On the whole nature is free yet it can give so much to us. Nature may soothe us when we are troubled. It gives us food and shelter. Nature is truly nourishing for our bodies and souls on all levels. She gives us medicine. Cosmic information is contained in every part of nature and we receive this unconsciously as we dwell in the natural world. There are nature elementals who give us healing and may even whisper words of guidance into our ears as we walk or sit near them. Nature has many wondrous possibilities for us!

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GOD/ANGELS/UNIVERSAL FORCE/SPIRIT GUIDES: God is available to us at any time of day and night and responds to whatever we ask it/he/she for. We can pray for seconds, minutes, hours at a time, We can call on God to help us with anything we like.

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We can ask for things we wish for in life. We can tell God that we no longer wish for something in our lives. We can ask God and Ascended Masters and Archangels (collectively called White Brethren) to heal any part of us that is giving us trouble. God is the all time agony aunt, counsellor, carer, gift bringer, healer, miracle worker and general helper. We may not immediately hear it talking to us in words or even see it, but God exists and is powerful. Always say ‘thank-you God for…..’ at the beginning of asking God for something as this shows that you acknowledge God is already working on your behalf and that you have faith and gratitude for this. This is a powerful way of praying. I can vouch for the effectiveness of this and have experienced miracles myself. As human beings we cannot do everything alone, we do need the assistance of higher forces if we wish to make life work for us.

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PRAYER IS FREE, READILY AVAILABLE AT ANY TIME AND HIGHLY POWERFUL AND EFFECTIVE. WHY NOT PRACTICE THIS GREAT GIFT? IT IS NOT A RELIGION BUT A UNIVERSAL TRUTH. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE PART OF ANY RELIGION OR BELIEF SYSTEM TO TALK TO GOD OR WHATEVER YOU WISH TO CALL THIS UNIVERSAL ALL POWERFUL FORCE.

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MISCELLANEOUS: What else is for free in this world?Friendship, helping others, rest and sleep; if we are fortunate enough to have all our senses then we can use these beneficially in many ways. Helping others also enables us to help ourselves since other individuals represent parts of us that may need help and healing. Sleep and rest can assist us in receiving nourishment and rejuvenation so that we are more prepared for whatever may occur in our lives.

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Play, dance, move, run, walk, skip, crawl, leap, sing, chant, jog – all of this is for free. God gave us bodies and voices to use for our benefit. Not everyone has all of these capabilities but there is something everyone can do using their innate skills, abilities, physicality and creativity in whatever way that may be.

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Take advantage of all these God given gifts we have for free on our beautiful planet. God made the world so that it would sustain us and give us what we need. Humanity has gradually destroyed much on planet Earth. Yet much remains and so too do these wonderful free gifts that could give us so much more than we realise if we would give them full attention and a chance to grow in our lives!

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FINALLY, FOCUS ON ‘WHAT IS’ NOT ON ‘WHAT IS NOT’! THE ‘WHAT IS’ WILL THEN GROW AND THE ‘WHAT IS NOT’ WILL SOON DISAPPEAR!

PUT ANOTHER WAY: FOCUS ON THE ABUNDANCE YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE ALREADY, HOWEVER SMALL, AND TAKE FOCUS AWAY FROM ANY LACK!

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YOU WILL SOON SEE THAT LIFE HAS A GREAT DEAL TO OFFER IF YOU LOOK IN THE RIGHT PLACES AND YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE FINANCIALLY RICH IN ORDER TO APPRECIATE AND ACQUIRE THIS. YOU JUST NEED SPIRITUAL RICHNESS WHICH IS FAR GREATER THAN ANY AMOUNT OF MONETARY RICHNESS! YET IF YOUR SPIRIT NEEDS MONEY IT WILL DRAW IT TOWARDS YOU ANYWAY ESPECIALLY BY PRACTISING AND FOCUSING ON ALL THE ASPECTS MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE.

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DIVINE BLUEPRINT

DIVINE BLUEPRINT

IMPORTANT LAST NOTE: We have all been given a divine blueprint for our lives on planet Earth. Contained in this is everything we need to be doing in this life time to fulfil our soul’s goals.

By asking God to activate this consciously we will be more in tune with what we need to be doing in life and what we feel passionate about. You can even do this on a daily basis to access greater clarity about your life. In this way things can flow more easily and in greater alignment with your true life purpose. This simple procedure takes seconds to do, is free and can achieve a great deal!

DIVINE BLUE PRINT

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VOICES OF THE UNHEARD

Posted on September 24, 2012 by

THE VOICE OF WAR

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elderly ladyI look into your 102 eyes, not 102 eyes but rather eyes that have seen 102 years. You do not know this world around you any more. They bring you tea and take you up to bed and place you in front of the giant TV screen. They do not know who you really are. Why are you still here after 102 years? Did you plan to be here this long for some divine purpose? You remember particles of your life when prompted. You forget where you were born and when. Then suddenly you remember, ‘I was born on 20th February.’ it is a strong statement. We wait in anticipation for more memories to flood back.

Troops of the 2nd Infantry Division

The others ask questions. ‘Were you in the war?’ ‘Was it the army?’ ‘Where did you live?’ but you have no recollection. You cannot remember it precisely. Yet the questioning has set off something in your brain. A part of the memory section has been activated. You want to remember who you are.

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I WAS BORN IN LANCASHIRE.

I LEFT WHEN I WAS 19.

I WENT ABROAD.

MUM DIED

I DIDN’T HAVE A FATHER.

THEY PUT ME IN A HOME.

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And then it gets a little muddled as you try to remember more.

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I WAS IN HOSPITAL FOR 11 MONTHS

I STAYED IN THE HOME FOR 11 YEARS AND THEN I WENT ABROAD.

I LEFT HOME AT 11 MONTHS

I LEFT HOME WHEN I WAS 11.

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Maybe all of this is true. You left home at 11 and were put in a care home. You went abroad at 19 and fought in the war. Maybe you had a spell in hospital for 11 months or maybe it felt like 11 years. The true facts are less important than the emotional memories triggered and what needs to be expressed.

The others want to know more.

‘Were you in the army? Is that why you went abroad?’

NO ANSWER.

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Perhaps the reason for going abroad is knocked out of your memory for the sake of sanity. Yet being in a home and having no father is a strong memory and one that wants to be expressed in this moment.

Fragments of life, fragments of clues about the elderly who sit day after day in care homes around the world, largely forgotten about. They have many interesting stories to tell.

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These memories emerged from a storytelling and reminiscence session I facilitated recently. Others had more to say:

‘My husband was in the RAF.’

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This statement was repeated 6 times by a lady in a wheelchair. As soon as I began the session she stated, ‘I remember the war.’ She said this with such a strong voice that I knew she wanted to talk more about it. There was something very unfinished in her experience and expression of such a traumatic experience in her life, like many others no doubt. She needed a voice, to emphasize what still remained as unfinished business in her own psyche and memory.

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There was a profound need in all 5 participants to express and voice fragments of their lives. I stayed longer to let them speak and finish what they needed to say in these final moments of the session.

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I HAD 7 CHILDREN

I WAS FORCED TO GO TO CHURCH – I DON’T LIKE CHURCHES

I WROTE MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY – ITS SOLD IN PETROL STATIONS

THE MUSIC MAKES ME FEEL SAD – I THINK OF BURIALS

I played simple music with an ocarina and zither for just a few minutes. Through this stimulus memories, emotions and ideas emerged, and the effects profound.

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The lovely people in this group did not want me to leave and said how good it was to sit in a circle and talk about their lives and listen to others’ lives – such a simple activity in many ways yet needing the absence of TV and a wish to engage people in reflections upon their lives, acknowledging what they have really been through and experienced.

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World War 2 was a horrible event yet how many people who suffered through these times had the opportunity to express what they had really been through? How many people were given an opportunity to heal from such trauma – from war wounds whether they were physical or emotional? Very few no doubt.

Care Home

Many of these people are now in homes forgotten about at the final stages of their lives. They deserve to have some kind of positive closure on their lives, a profound way in which they can truly reflect on the life they have led and who they really are. These people need to speak and express who they are. They are not just wheelchair bound frail people – they have experienced and felt a lot in their lives and deserve recognition and respect.

Just as every passing phase in life deserves a ritual of sorts, so too is the passing from this life to the other realms. Without a proper closure of sorts, where there is unfinished business in this life time it will need to be dealt with later on in another life time. Therefore we can help many souls by assisting them in their final stage on Earth to say what they wish to say, remember and reflect on what they wish to reflect upon and then let them prepare peacefully for passing on, away from their Earthly and bodily existence knowing that all is complete and satisfied to the best of their knowledge and experience.

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JO WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE FOR STORYTELLING AND REMINISCENCE WORK IN THE GLASTONBURY, UK AREA AND WORKS WITH CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, THE ELDERLY, CARERS, WOMEN AND OTHER GROUPS. FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT JO AT: JOMOONSTORIES@YAHOO.CO.UK

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IS IT SUMMER OR AUTUMN IN THE UK?

Posted on July 7, 2012 by

IS IT SUMMER OR AUTUMN?©

Autumn scene in midsummer UK

By Jo Moon

Brown leaves scattered on summer ground

Some leaves in the UK this summer are brown. They are dry and falling off the trees. They have been burnt by the high winds. Maybe they think its Autumn. There are brown leaves scattered on the ground amidst summer flowers. This is unusual. Summer leaves are usually green and autumn leaves multicoloured.

Daisies and brown leaves at midsummer

Large clumps of seaweed have been washed up in the tides. There are lines and lines of green, purple and black seaweed along the south coast. I was surprised to see so much seaweed. Due to the high winds and rough seas, unusually in summer time, the seaweed has been wrenched from the sea bed and scattered on our beaches. It is now dead, just as the brown leaves are.

Dead seaweed stranded on the shore

I look at people’s faces. They look distressed and anxious but far more than this. I see in people a feeling of being wrenched from their roots and flung overboard into a deep dark ocean. That ocean is the place where all our fears, worries, emotional issues and past life memories come to the surface. It is a difficult place and it speaks of a vast truth inside us of who we are at a deep soul level.

We have lived many times before in distant ages. We do not remember much but we may be affected by these past experiences on a regular basis.

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We are drawn to certain people and retract from others. We have severe difficulties with certain people which cannot readily be explained by circumstances in this life time alone. We have gifts and skills we have brought from previous incarnations and we have unfinished business too.

Battle

In 2012 many of us are trying to deal with lifetimes of experience and emotional and physical traumas which are embedded in our bodily cells. We need to clear out many issues in order to prepare for what is to come at the end of this year. We are not all doing this on a conscious level, however it is happening nevertheless. The extremes of weather and unusual conditions are reflective also of what is happening inside us as a human race and individually.

After torrential rain

There are many ways in which emotional issues are extracted and healed from the physical and etheric body

Healing of various kinds can help greatly. Physical ailments and illnesses also release emotional pain and toxicity. If emotional issues are not faced head on and recognized then difficult life situations may occur to bring out the emotions.

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You may experience arguments, accidents, traumatic situations of various kinds. Some of these may be reflective of inner emotional turmoil. Others may reflect past life issues that have not been dealt with or healed. Some patterns may occur and re-occur many times before a change can happen.

Argument

It is always best to seek healing and look after your health on all levels as much as possible so as to avoid difficult life situations. Look at your emotional health often and find out how you really feel. You can do this by writing, drawing, talking to a close friend or counsellor or receiving healing. By having healing you cannot totally avoid challenging life situations. However these can lesson the more you take time to look inward.

Art therapy

It is not easy to look at ourselves, feel our emotions and express them in a constructive way as this is not the way most of us have been brought up. We are not taught about our many complex emotions in school, at home or anywhere else. We have been taught (on the whole) to hide them away like little annoying monsters and pretend they don’t exist. We have been taught to eat cake or something nice and sweet, smoke, get drunk or take drugs. We have been taught to indulge ourselves in TV watching, sport, sex or numerous other activities which take us away from how we are really feeling.

Eating Cake

2012 is a new era and it is time we showed our true faces, our true selves and learnt to take off our masks. We cannot go on pretending we are ok while we slowly kill ourselves off with drugs of various kinds denying our complex emotions which are desperately trying to speak! I am not saying this is easy as I know it is not. But we have to change our habits as a human race now if we wish to survive our new climate on planet Earth.

Chichiri Taking Off his Mask

We are indeed like the new seasons. Summer this year in Britain is sometimes winter, sometimes autumn and sometimes spring. Occasionally it actually does seem like summer! One day I am still wearing a woolly hat and rain coat and having to put a heater on indoors. Another day I am lying out on the beach in shorts. Something is very different this year.

winter in summer  Sun  Autumn Days

By the end of this year something will be vastly different. This information was channelled to me during a talk last year. There have been numerous predictions about this year. We are at a turning point in the Earth’s history and something is going to change dramatically as we enter the new world.

In order to embrace this positive new world we must look inward, connect to the divine part of ourselves and take on a spiritual practice in order to be centred and connected to the divine as much as possible. This will make life far easier and more progressive for us all.

Spiritual practice

I wish you the very best in your life journey. May it go well. May you find what is in your heart to do with your life according to your unique purpose. May you learn how to deal with your own emotional life through all its many seasons!

Summer UK rose

Storytelling can help during these changing times. Stories speak a metaphorical language which helps us understand what is going on in our lives and on the planet as a whole. We are given the bigger picture from a divine source. My stories aim to inspire and give hope and reassurance in an often difficult world. Please see the storytelling section of this site for further information. I offer 1:1 storytelling, group sessions and workshops, performances and storytelling parties at your home or other venue for children and adults. Please contact me at jomoonstories@yahoo.co.uk if you would like to hear some stories or book me for a storytelling event.

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DIRTY MONEY!

Posted on June 12, 2012 by

MONEY IS DIRTY©

By Jo Moon

12th June 2012

money

Yes, money is dirty because it is never washed. When did you last take a pound coin, a dollar note, Euro or whatever currency you use and wash it under the tap, in water or disinfect it?

I would be interested to know if anyone has ever done this! However there would seem little point considering that money changes hands so often. If you wash it then someone else’s dirty hands will handle it next.

money photobucket

Where have all those hands been that handle our change and paper money? There may be hundreds or thousands of people who have handled the same coin, maybe over decades. That same coin you hold in your purse, wallet, pocket or piggy bank may have been used in a drug deal, a crime or in acquiring goods and products you may not agree with on any level. That coin could have supported the killing of innocent animals, the torture and abuse of animals and humans and many other such things.

money -Kota photobucket

The coin you hold in your wallet has passed through the hands of endless businesses, people and organizations. Some you may support and others not. The energy held in that coin no doubt consists of every human emotion imaginable. It may contain hatred, love, envy, sadness, depression, misery, feelings of being trapped, joy, resentment, fear, revenge. It will contain multiple thought forms as well as emotional residues. We all have access to money. Most of the human population will have some money in their possession. We need it for our general survival, unless we are totally self sufficient or living in a remote and tribal way where the forest provides for our every need. This is not most people’s experience though it was at one time.

Join Zeek Rewards

We are generally in constant search for and in need of the coins and paper money we hold so dearly to us. Without it we are stuck. But what about the level of toxic energy and physical dirt we receive through the handling of money in our every day lives?

What is money laundering? It is when money is not clean. But is it ever?

laundrette

Does this reflect some general ‘dirty’ element of our use of money? If money was not in existence what would happen?

What would you do, be and have if you did not need to pursue money in order to exist? In this world if you do not have money you cannot usually eat, drink or have shelter, have a home.

Our basic needs should be met whether we have money or not

Home

If a person is in great need of food and a home he or she may do anything to acquire money. This may be working in a job that they do not even believe in ethically or getting involved in crime. Do people choose to slaughter animals, experiment on innocent animals, contribute to the weapon making industry, produce and sell poisons and addictive drugs? If it wasn’t for money would they still do these things?

money_hands_man

We are using a commodity in our every day lives which is designed to feed into all kinds of unethical industries, organizations and motivations. We do not know where that coin has been and where it will be going next. We are receiving it and passing it on without thought. It is simply our survival. We are all part of a chain and unless we live in a jungle or forest or become totally self sufficient we cannot release ourselves from this chain.

Nature living

That is why money is dirty. 

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SPIRITUAL CHANNELLED WEBCAST – OUR LIVES IN 2012!

Posted on June 1, 2012 by

Here is a section of a channelling given by gifted channel Jabeen earlier this year.

Jabeen is a clear channel of the Ascended Masters and Archangels who bring uplifting messages of reassurance and ultimately healing for humantiy with a higher and far more sustainable way forwards for us all on planet Earth.

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Jabeen is available for personal readings also by phone or skype. Please see WWW.GHAEN.NET or email GHAENMAIL@YAHOO.CO.UK 

 

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CATS AND OTHER CREATURES

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

CATS AND HUMAN CREATURES

By Jo Moon

There is an uncanny belief that many animals are wild, ferocious, cannibals even, dangerous, territorial and maybe just ‘nasty’ at times! On the surface this may appear true. We see pictures on the media of animals ripping other creatures to pieces to eat. We see lions stalking deer. So many animals apparently need to kill another for their very survival. However, there is another side to this story.

fierce lion

Within the world there are energies, emotions, attitudes, themes and activities which come from the human and animal kingdoms. 

fierce

When we say cats are territorial it is often true but how territorial are we?

Why do we feel the need to invade other countries, start wars, kill, fight, take over land or not let another country take what we have? Why do we fear other nations taking from us? Why do we fear so much that we destroy another country and its people?

This is war

On a more personal level we have many fears, defences and reactions

We have mini wars and arguments with our own families, friends and colleagues.

in an argument

Within us as human beings there are many many layers and sides to us that we often do not know about consciously. There is a higher part, being the soul or higher self, which knows everything. There are lower parts which have been hurt, abused, neglected, unloved, ridiculed, controlled, judged, dominated or manipulated in this lifetime and many others. If we are fortunate and persevering with ourselves we may receive healing for our internal wounds. If we choose to ignore them we will act in a variety of ways in order to escape or deal with these parts of us in different ways.

drunk=))

Everyone has these wounds to a greater or lesser extent

In the Rudolph Steiner schools it is accepted that every child has a wound and it is part of the teacher’s job to help heal these aspects of each child. One way in which this is done is through daily healing storytelling.*

Feet at a Steiner school

What we see around us in the world, in every aspect of the world, are events, behaviours, actions and emotions which all express aspects of ourselves as a human species. We can only see what exists inside us. We can only know and understand what is already somewhere in our own nature, whether emotional, mental, spiritual or physical.

Extremely friendly Mule Deer

I know of a 15 year old boy who lived in a caravan near a wood with his family and was able to put his nose right up against the nose of a deer. I know of many other situations where deer would run away quickly from any signs of a human being. 

anastasia of the ringing cedars

Anastasia lives in the Taiga forest in Russia and brought up her baby with the assistance of a bear. For warmth and comfort she has encouraged others to sleep with the bear as a kind of bed! Others have been attacked by bears, dogs, cows, tigers, alligators and many other animals. But this is just like our human interactions and encounters: some are loving and giving and others are attacking and fuelled with an energy of fear and negativity.

Killing Beauty

What we see around us is reflective of everything inside us as human beings.

rose

Today I heard the shrieks and cries of cats from my top floor flat. I looked out of the window and saw in the garden 2 cats snarling at each other. I figured that one thought the garden belonged to it and that the other cat was an invader, as territorial cats generally do. 

I immediately visualised light coming between the cats and chanted ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’ – a Sanskrit chant for opening the heart to love and compassion. I sent the chant energetically to the cats. Straight away the snarling and hissing stopped. The hair gradually calmed down and flattened down on the cats’ backs. One of the cats padded off and rolled on its back contentedly on the vegetable patch while the other carried on sitting on its little mound. Perhaps they were slightly distant friends now!

These cats were simply acting out the trials, conflicts and fears we all experience in our day to day relationships with others at times as human beings. 

Light, love and healing is always the answer and more and more of this will bring great miracles to our beautiful Earth especially if we choose as a collective human race to live in the light of God’s love and truth.

spiritual light

Please join in a discussion on this subject or make a comment perhaps about your own animal or non animals experiences!

into the light

*I work with people this way myself in groups and 1:1 sessions telling healing stories and running workshops to help people express what is inside them.


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SANSKRIT CHANTING FOR POSITIVE CHANGE

Posted on May 19, 2012 by

Dear people of the Earth

I am Archangel Raphael. I am Archangel of healing and you may call on me whenever you need my presence and healing energy for any particular condition or need you may have.

I come to you now to relay messages of divine healing which I impart through Jo now to tell you of a method of healing and receiving divine energy which is simple, enjoyable and can be highly effective.

Sanskrit chanting is a highly powerful method of transmuting negative forces within you. It is highly charged energy from ancient sources and you may choose which mantra to chant at any particular time which will enhance, heal and manifest for you your intentions, whatever they may be.

sanskrit

Sanskrit mantras may be chanted with others, in groups and within larger circles of people and this has the greatest power. However you may chant alone also either in your head or out loud. You may acquire a mala which is a necklace of beads which you do not necessarily wear as a necklace but which has 108 beads and when you chant any mantra 108 times it has even more power as this is a magical number. However you may chant for as many times as you wish and this is equally effective in other ways.

LAKSHMI                 Saraswati

There are indeed mantras for peace (Om Shanti for example); for manifestation of your wishes and intentions and for abundance (the Lakshmi energy) and mantras for removing obstacles in your life, our dear Ganesha as portrayed as a great elephant who tramples through whatever obstacles lie in your path.

Lakshmi

By chanting these mantras over and over again you will indeed find that issues may come up for you and you may unleash some emotional residues from previous incarnations, from this life time and from issues that are present in your life currently. Do not be afraid of any of this since it is all a positive way forwards for you and will help you clear away negativity from your system. If you feel a rising up of this energy let it be free and released through the creative arts or by sending this energy up into the light.

Blue Light Burst

I repeat this, negative energy exists in all of humanity from many lifetimes and now is a time when much of this is being released and healed so as to make way for new great times ahead. In this year 2012 I tell you that you do indeed need to release the past and step forwards into a new way of being.

battery candle light

This is all I wish to say for now. Below you will find a recording of a chanting group session in Hastings, East Sussex, UK as an example of this kind of group activity. If you would like to know more about Sanskrit chanting in its entirety then please research on the Internet and look at chants such as Ganesha and Lakshmi on such channels as youtube.

Thank-you, I wish many great blessings upon you all, Archangel Raphael

CLICK BELOW TO HEAR SOME CHANTING!

CHANTING GROUP ST LEONARDS-ON-SEA, EAST SUSSEX

Track one:

SHIMA SHIMA, SHIMA SHIMA, SHIMA SHIMA, SHIMAYA (LOVE)

Track two:

GOVINDA NARAYANA GOPALA NARAYANA

GOVINDA GOPALA NARAYANA

HARE GOVINDA GOPALA NARAYANA


Track three:

AMMA AMMA TAYA

AKHILANDESHWARINIYA

ANNAPURNESHWARITAYE

OOOO ADI PARA SHAKTI NIYE

OOOO ADI PARA SHAKTI NIYA

(OH HOLY MOTHER PERVADING ALL THE UNIVERSE, ALL-PROVIDING. YOU ARE THE FIRST AND HIGHEST POWER)

Track four:

OM NAMO AMITABHAYA

BUDDHA YA DHARMA YA SANGHA YA

OM NAMO OM NAMO OM NAMO AMITABHAYA

(PRAISE TO AMITABA, THE BUDDHA OF COMPASSION. PRAISE TO THE BUDDHA, THE DHARMA WAY, THE PATH OF TRUTH AND THE COMMUNITY OF BUDDHISTS.)


FINAL NOTE

SANSKRIT CHANTING IS A MEANS OF CONNECTING TO THE SOURCE, TO GOD. EACH CHANT REFLECTS A DIFFERENT ASPECT OF GOD ITSELF AND WILL CONNECT YOU TO YOUR HIGHER SELF.


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EVERYONE’S A WINNER!

Posted on May 4, 2012 by

EVERYONE’S A WINNER!

Jayme winning the race

By Jo Moon

I was watching a race recently, but not really watching it. I was in the race myself yet not deliberately. 

SHAWNDA WINNING EVERY RACE

I was trundling down from a cliff on my bike and ended up cycling down a small road which happened to be hosting a local half marathon event, unbeknown to me! It was apparent a race was going on as lots of people were running or jogging with numbers on their backs.

Running the race

What struck me was the people standing at the edges, on the pavements, waving the runners on and shouting out lots of encouragement and congratulations. As I cycled passed them they seemed to be cheering me on too. I could feel the excited, congratulatory energy coming off them and I felt inspired. People kept saying ‘well done!’ as I passed by. They threw bottles of water at the runners and smiled great encouragement all along the way.

cheering on the runners

There were those in funny costumes, some looking worn out and barely able to plod on any further, some still smiling and others looking troubled and suffering a bit. There were fit looking people and others who seemed more fragile. But all were determined to reach the Finish line. Everyone carried on no matter what. All were commended for their efforts.

Gorilla Costume

I had been experiencing a difficult period myself over the previous few weeks. As I cycled along the runners route, not sure where else to ride my bike, I felt I was being applauded and congratulated as if by some higher force. Maybe the angels wanted to include me in all this and communicate their gratitude to me in some way. After all, those in higher dimensions do wish to communicate with us, give us guidance, reassurance and love, and this can come to us in many different ways.

Angel

Today I saw an elderly man swim in the sea and then edge himself out over the rough pebbles looking bitterly cold.

I wanted to commend him on his surprising act and told him how brave he was. He looked up from his trembling body and beamed all over his face. He needed such encouragement. He told me he did this every day. At the moment in the UK it is cold, wet and overcast. I was wearing a winter coat, furry boots and woolly hat. That’s why I felt this man was being brave!

Everyone deserves congratulating on a regular basis for all the difficult things we manage to deal with, for even the smallest of achievements in a day. We are all deserving and we are all achieving something in our daily lives.

well done

If you made someone smile

If you ate healthily all day

If you helped a child feel good about themselves

If you smiled and laughed despite everything

If you tried to help another

If you connected to the plant kingdom

If you cried and knew it was for the best

If you were able to be yourself totally for just one day

If you expressed yourself through talking, dancing, writing, drawing, painting, drumming, sculpture, caring, playing, making music, making a floral decoration

If you meditated, prayed, chanted, did yoga, qi-gong, tai-chi or any spiritual practice

If you healed a part of yourself

If you dreamed a dream and made at least part of it happen

If you gave up alcohol, smoking, drugs or any addiction

If you dared to say what you really believed in despite the reactions of others

If you baked a healthy cake or made a meal for yourself or others in love

If you swam, jogged, cycled, ran, trotted on a horse, skied down a mountain, climbed a hill, walked a long distance, walked a short distance

If you were the only one dancing

If you hugged someone who needed a hug

If you suggested a group hug

If you made a pledge to help the world, 1 person, yourself or another

If you made a decision to be healthy

If you cried a last tear and said you wanted something new

If you learnt to have faith in God, your guardian angel or some other guiding spiritual force

If you dared to be different from the rest

If you dared to speak up when something was wrong

If you lit a candle and said a prayer

If you made something beautiful by your very presence

If you offered warmth and comfort to another

If you set yourself a challenge and made it half way or just some of the way

If you found a beautiful flower

If you found love inside your heart

If you received love

If you gave love

If you chose to be environmentally minded

If you played with a child

If you listened to someone

If you helped someone in any way

If you chose to act out of love

If you made the first step towards something new

If you gave away something you no longer needed

If you gave a gift

Pink Rose

If you did any of these today or anything else significant you have achieved a great deal! You are deserving of the best and you are always loved, no matter what, by God and many of those around you.

Angel face

Congratulations and well done just for being you! Keep going with it and don’t let anyone stop you from expressing exactly who you are. Because you are important. You have a divine role in this world and many other things would not happen or exist if it were not for you.

Congratulations

We are all parts of one big jigsaw. And within this, if we were to look closely, is the big picture. And that picture will give us many clues as to who we really are and what our function is in the world.

The Planet

Reflect on this article and see what stands out to you the most. This will be a divine message for you.

the light

If you are interested in finding out more about who you are and what can help you in your life through channelled messages from the Archangels and Ascended Masters see www.ghaen.net or contact Jabeen on: ghaenmail@yahoo.co.uk for a personal reading by email, phone or skype. I can thoroughly recommend Jabeen who has helped me greatly along life’s path through her channellings.

Watch out also for up and coming LIVE WEBCAST of channelled messages from the Ascended Masters and Archangels on MAY 18TH 6PM BST (WITH OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS) OR ANY DATE AFTER THIS:   www.anymeeting.com/PIID=ED57DC89894A

Light

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WRITING MY NEW LIFE!

Posted on April 8, 2012 by

WRITING MY FUTURE©

By Jo Moon

When the future looks bleak or uncertain write about how you would like it to be!

We are all creating our futures every time we have a thought, wish, desire or emotion.

We can actively create the kind of future we would like for ourselves by doing this simple exercise:

WRITE A JOURNAL OF THE FUTURE!

Imagine you have launched yourself forward by another few weeks, months or years into the future and you are your future self. Now write in the present tense as if today is 30th October 2012 or 2013 or 2020! Choose your date, year, day and your mood too!

WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE DOING, BEING, HAVING OR BECOMING ON THIS DATE OR TIME IN YOUR LIFE?

Imagine the bizarre, wonderful, incredible. Imagine your greatest dreams coming true. Imagine every aspect of your life and how you would like it to be.

The spring time is a great season for manifesting new beginnings for ourselves, starting new projects, ideas and goals.

In your journal of the future you don’t have to think too carefully about what you write. You can simply write very quickly, projecting yourself into this period of time and imagining the greatest possible wild dreams that you have for yourself.

IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE COMPLETELY REALISTIC! Don’t start thinking ‘oh, this couldn’t possibly happen to me. But what if….’

I AM NOT SAYING THAT WHAT YOU WRITE WILL BE AN OUTRIGHT PREDICTION OF THE FUTURE! BUT YOU MAY BE SURPRISED ALL THE SAME AT SOME THEMES YOU CAN MANIFEST IN YOUR LIFE.

I encouraged a friend to try this exercise when she was feeling unwell and down. By writing about her life in a positive way in the near future she instantly felt more positive and uplifted and gradually over time her health improved significantly.

Looking over the Journal of the Future I wrote a couple of months ago for April 2012 I see that not everything has happened in exact timing but these events are happening nevertheless, just a bit later! Some themes are happening already.

IF YOU ARE FED UP WITH SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE NOW AND WISH IT TO CHANGE WRITE ABOUT A DIFFERENT SCENARIO IN THE FUTURE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS!

OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO TO CREATE A MORE POSITIVE FUTURE

Say affirmations especially using the magic words ‘I am…’ e.g. ‘I am moving into a happy work environment doing exactly what I love to do.’

I AM is a powerful expression which helps you achieve whatever you affirm for yourself.

‘I AM attracting new friends into my life’

‘I AM becoming healthier and healthier day by day, minute by minute.’

‘I AM happy with my life and everything is working out well.’

‘I AM attracting positivity into my life right now.’

Put positive messages, words, affirmations and pictures around your home.

Put positive messages, words, affirmations and images into your mind!

Create your new life, new wishes by affirming in your mind and imagination what you would like through visualization and meditating upon your desired outcome.

Sometimes we can be blocked by negative conditioning, past events and emotional issues. Ask for healing and receive help in some way to deal with these issues.

If you do not have sufficient resources you can ask God for help, The White Brethren or the Archangels. Sit quietly in a secluded space and ask Archangel Raphael or the White Brethren to give you healing for any issues that are holding you back.

Chanting, praying, meditation and any spiritual practice can help with moving on in life. Especially chant Ganesh chants for moving through obstacles (see video at end of this article) and Lakshmi chants for creating abundance.

Meanwhile have fun and enjoy creating and manifesting what you wish for in life. We are doing it all the time anyway but usually unconsciously and not always in a positive way.

The mind is a powerful tool. Use it wisely!

Always look after yourself well and remember to rest, sleep well, eat healthily and have exercise and regular contact with nature. We are living in a chaotic world and we need to remain centred and balanced in our own individual energies to be in tune with what we need to do in life for the highest good of all.

For more information on creative writing for health and wellbeing see www.lapidus.org.uk

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WHAT DO WORDS REALLY MEAN?

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

THE NEW DICTIONARY©

By Jo Moon

Many words we use now are a way of disguising the truth. If words were changed to reveal what they really mean we may feel very differently about some things.

Here are some examples:

MEAT – DEAD ANIMAL. A live animal inhumanely kept and slaughtered against its will by human hand.

lamb meat

The meat above is the insides of a lamb (as seen below) after it has been slaughtered. The connection between these two is not often made.

A live lamb

BUTCHERS SHOP – SHOP WHERE SLAUGHTERED INNOCENT ANIMALS ARE CUT UP AND SOLD FOR HUMANS TO EAT.

butchers shop

FISHING – KILLING OR CATCHING FISH BY PUTTING A SPIKE THROUGH THEIR THROAT OR JUST PUTTING THE SPIKE THROUGH THEIR FLESH FOR FUN. OR CAPTURING IN A NET. This is either a sport or for acquiring fish to eat. The fish do not have any say in this.

fish caught in commercial fishing net

PUB OR BAR – PUBLIC VENUE WHERE PEOPLE POISON THEMSELVES WITH ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES. Through this activity people loose their ‘right minds’ and may loose control of themselves. It is often a place where people go to escape from life’s problems and emotional issues but here they will not be helped to overcome these problems or receive healing. On the contrary more problems may be created.

drunk

RIGHT MIND – The ability to think clearly, be in tune with the higher self and able to connect to spirit guides and divine forces which offer help, guidance and protection. The ability to function in the world being in tune with one’s life purpose and acting with integrity.

meditation

LICENSED TO SELL ALCOHOL – Given permission to sell poisonous substances which have the ability to create addition, crime, ill health and death.

barman

SWEETS/CONFECTIONARY – Refined sugar mixed with artificial additives and flavours which have the ability to rot teeth, be detrimental to health, cause addiction and hyperactivity. No or little nutritional value so generally of no value to the well being of the human mind or body. Can create blood sugar level problems and eventually severe health conditions.

TOWNS – Places where there is little nature, emphasis on consumerism, higher volumes of people, large number of buildings, higher concentrations of toxicity, pollution and harmful chemicals together with electromagnetic stress. These places generally operate at a faster pace and can be stressful. There will be lots to do but you will generally need money to do most things here.

town life

COUNTRYSIDE – A calmer and more peaceful place where there is a predominance of nature in all its forms though there may be a small proportion of buildings (commercial and residential). May comprise of trees, hills, lakes, mountains, hills, woods and forests, waterfalls, beaches, plants and flowers and a variety of wildlife. Pursuits in the countryside generally do not require the use of money and may include activities such as walking, cycling, camping, boating, diving, bird watching etc.

FASHION – A way of making people feel insecure and out of date if they are wearing the wrong clothes at the wrong time. This creates consumerism, insecurity amongst people and competition. It creates unnecessary interest in the clothing business as a way of distracting from more important life and spiritual issues.

Dress

MAKE-UP/COSMETICS – A way of making women feel insecure about their appearance and looks and defining a role model which creates unachievable expectations. Toxic substances which damage the skin and body and mask a woman’s true self. An emphasis on glamour in order to cover up the truth of what really makes up a person.

crying through the make-up

FISH FESTIVAL – A way of masking and celebrating the inhumane killing of millions of fish in the world’s oceans for the sake of unnecessary human consumption.

A JOB – Often a mundane activity (though can be interesting) carried out for an individual, company or organization in order to receive money to pay bills, mortgage or rent and buy food. Some people are happy in their jobs but many take on a job out of necessity as money is a pre-requisite to being able to eat, have a home and live. People therefore feel pressurised to acquire a job that earns them the highest income rather than seeking a job or activity that fulfils them as a necessary part of their life purpose and innate interests.

Office Work

Looking at these definitions it would appear that life in our current world and societies is designed to take us away from our true divine selves, away from health and well being and to a place of consumerism, ill health, addiction and distraction. If this is the case we need to look very carefully at our own lives and how we can make adjustments so as to bring ourselves back into balance.

running free

We all have a divine purpose for being on this Earth at this particular time, especially since we are now in 2012. Now is the perfect time to get ourselves back into balance and on the right track!

I have outlined a selection of random words and definitions here in my new dictionary. Please add a few yourself! I would be very interested to hear about any other words that you feel have different meanings to the obvious ones.

Thank-you for reading!

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WHEN SICKNESS BECOMES THE NORM

Posted on March 17, 2012 by

A WORLD OF SICKNESS©

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By Jo Moon

pylon

It cannot be denied that we are living in a stressful world full of toxic substances, chemicals and pools of electromagnetic stress and radiation just about everywhere we go now.

Microvave

I was looking for somewhere to live and just about every flat or house offered ‘free wi-fi’. What they don’t realise is that this is exactly what I am trying to avoid. Wi fi hotspots are dangerous areas and there is no end of information on the web about how dangerous wi-fi is to our health. Yet cafes and other venues entice us in with signs of ‘Free Wi-fi here’. These are the kind of places I tend to avoid. Yet wi-fi is everywhere no matter whether its available at a cafe or not.

wi fi

We take it for granted that as we get older we start to decay and our bodies and minds go down hill rapidly. We accept that hospital stays are a necessity. I was told when growing up that I would not be able to avoid having an operation when I got older and this sad fact seemed horrendous to me, yet I believe this will not be the case in my lifetime.

Illness

I’m sure, had I visited a doctor with some minor complaint I would have gone through the usual medical model and would have been prescribed some toxic pharmaceutical drug or else, further down the line (when I may have contracted some serious side effect from the drug) needed to have an operation.

poison bottle

I have managed to avoid the medical pathway by using herbal remedies, homeopathy, holistic therapies, healing and investigating my own emotional life. It is true that many would rather experience physical pain than emotional pain but I prefer the opposite! I find physical pain horrendous and emotional pain hard but easier. I have had to confront a lot of emotional pain along the way but it has all been well worth it!

Pain Icon

A few years ago I went through an intense spiritual and healing journey which lasted for about 2 years. During this time I did little else but confront my own pain and suffering as well as that of another who was under my care. Following this experience I was greatly transformed and life ran more smoothly in some significant ways (that does not mean to say that there haven’t been great challenges to deal with too!).

I was walking through my local town the other day and saw in a shop window a baby doll wearing glasses. This made me realise how much we accept ill health as the norm. We need to change this outlook rapidly and greatly if we are to survive as a human race. Of course we will be unhealthy if we continue living the way we are.

Osaka doll with glasses

Much of food sold now is not even food but a mixture of chemicals, addictive substances and sugar. This kind of ‘food’ should not even be allowed to be produced let alone sold.

Birthday Cup Cakes

I have recently heard of news stories about severely overweight people who are bed bound yet who still insist on eating and drinking junk and sugary food. If this rubbish is around then it is like a drug which causes addiction. If someone feels bad about themselves and is in pain they will reach out for whatever substance gives a temporary escape. These substances will not solve anything but just create many more problems.

Dessert- Cake

SUGGESTIONS FOR A HEALTHIER NEW WAY OF BEING ON THIS PLANET

Through new laws we need to eliminate all addictive drugs (including alcohol) and junk food from production.

the best drinks-non-alcohol

We need to eliminate electromagnetic stress, radiation and wi-fi from our world and replace it with healthier technology.

We need to make a global decision to be healthy.

We need to have far greater awareness and focus on our emotional health so that further physical ailments do not occur. Emotional intelligence and healthy emotional expression needs to be encouraged greatly. Currently there is an emphasis on emotional repression and a focus on outer appearance. This is a severely unhealthy attitude which has the potential to kill.

We need holistic doctors who look at the whole person and use alternative and natural healing methods as cures, not drugs.

Herbalist

Cosmetics are full of toxicity and show a false representation of a person. If cosmetics are to be used they should have health enhancing properties rather than being health destroying. The value of clean and healthy skin, unmasked with chemicals should become the new ‘Vogue’.

We need new forms of transport which do not emit toxic fumes or create noise pollution.

Hydrocarbon burning Eco Cars

Please add your own comments to this list!

At the moment we do live in a very unhealthy world and it is difficult to maintain good health in this environment. We walk in fogs of carbon monoxide fumes from vehicles almost everywhere we go. We are saturated by toxic chemicals, wi-fi, phone masts, tetra masts, mobile phones and electrical gadgets stuck in our ears and in our homes. Is it any wonder we get sick?

Propaganda

What can you do about this now to enhance your own health?

Take supplements and herbal remedies (we need to protect ourselves strongly with supplements to combat the high levels of pollution and toxicity that we live under).

Drink purified water – there are various methods of doing this with your tap water.

pure water

Invest in electromagnetic stress protectors for phones, computers, gadgets and homes.

Connect to nature often.

Always read the label when buying food products and be aware of additives, sugar content and artificial flavouring etc.

  Junk Food

Buy organic food when possible.

Use a health food store rather than a supermarket if possible.

Invest time and energy in your physical and emotional health and well-being.

Exercise Balls

Acquire herbal remedies.

Herbs

Find ways of expressing yourself in creative ways (write, draw, paint, sing, dance, drum etc).

African Drumming                free dance

splash painting

Find a holistic therapist of some sort (massage, reflexology, spiritual healing, Indian Head Massage, Emotional Freedom Technique, Bach Flower Remedies, Flower Essences etc).

Natural Optimal Wellness & Massage Clinic

Look into natural cosmetics where no artificial chemicals are used.

If money is a problem then just do what you are able to with the resources you have. Try Streetbank, Skill Share sites and Lets schemes in the UK. Ask God to give to you the right help with your health and you will be brought what you need in whatever form that may be.

I hope this is helpful. Write a comment below if you have any experiences you would like to share or other suggestions! Thank-you!

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FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2012

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Today is the day we may celebrate the divine feminine!

This day is celebrated in many different ways around the world: from the political to the jubilant meals and music or a focus perhaps on cultural diversity. Each event may have a different emphasis. It is important to recognize the important role of women in our lives, in the world. We are brought into the world by women after all.

expecting

What I see as being fundamentally important is the role of the divine feminine energy. This energy is within us all whether we are male or female but may be more actively present in women. This energy encompasses the following:

Mary Caring 4 Jesus

NURTURING

CREATIVITY

COMPASSION AND CARE

RECEPTIVITY

SPIRITUALITY

INTUITION

PSYCHIC ABILITIES

The world we currently inhabit has a predominance of the following:

On a mission

POWER STRUGGLES

INEQUALITY

LACK OF COMPASSION

LACK OF BALANCE

LACK OF POSITIVE WAY FORWARD

Trapped

LACK OF POSITIVE SOLUTIONS TO ONGOING PROBLEMS

JUDGEMENT

DISCRIMINATION

LACK OF CREATIVE SOLUTIONS

COMPETITION

fighting

LACK OF CONSIDERATION FOR PEOPLE’S NEEDS

LACK OF CONSIDERATION FOR OUR OWN NEEDS

LACK OF LISTENING

 

LACK OF UNDERSTANDING

LACK OF SPIRITUALITY

LACK OF SPIRITUAL BASIS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS

IN SUMMARY: THE WORLD IS IN CRISIS – IT NEEDS CREATIVE AND COMPASSIONATE SOLUTIONS THROUGH THE DIVINE FEMININE SPIRIT TO CREATE SOLUTIONS AND PUT THE WORLD BACK INTO BALANCE.

Women need to be consulted more

Women’s ideas need to be listened to

The Divine Feminine Voice needs to be heard

Young woman singing to music

We need to look up to the spirit for answers

Spiritual

We need to look inwards more often

We need to be caring, considerate and compassionate towards ourselves and others at all times

LOVE is the answer always

ANGEL LOVE

We need to stop fighting and competing with others and try understanding each unique situation

We need to actively seek ways of helping others

Out of Reach

We need to work together in unity, in love, in peace

We will never achieve anything through war

We will never truly win a battle if it is not fought in love

We will never truly achieve our goals if it is done through competition with others

We will never truly find happiness, abundance and peace if we do not love ourselves and others

We will never truly find ourselves or discover others without a connection to God, to the spirit

Prayer

As women we can fight for the good of all humanity. We can fight for justice but we must do this through our DIVINE FEMININE SPIRIT which in truth knows all the answers. And then we will be, find and give love in its optimum power.

spiritual Love

Pray often

Meditate often

Nurture yourself

Eat nourishing food for the body and mind

Exercise

Be in contact with nature often

Do whatever creative or expressive activity you love to do

 Dance

FOR LOVE IS THE OPTIMUM POWER AND WILL BE FOREVER MORE!

Love_Enters500.jpg Spiritual art

Finally, here are a few women I greatly respect and thank for their great work (In alphabetical order):

AMMA

ANASTASIA

JA’BEEN (GHAEN)

MOTHER THERESA

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HOW TO MAKE BIG CHANGES IN YOUR LIFE!

Posted on March 3, 2012 by

HOW CAN YOU MAKE CHANGES IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU FEEL STUCK?

A few Suggestions by Jo Moon

Sometimes it appears that when we really wish to change a situation and make big changes in our lives it almost seems impossible. We feel angry, resentful and frustrated. We may end up shouting and screaming and saying how fed up and miserable we are and the more we do this the worse it all appears to be. There is a reason for this! 


The more we feed into a feeling of hopelessness, despair, frustration or irritation we only make the very things we wish to go away become larger in our lives. This is an annoying truth which I have discovered myself! This is because whatever we put our focus and energy into grows and grows. If we fear the very worst then this is likely to happen. If we imagine the best then that is what will probably happen.


I know what it is like trying to get out of a negative situation and towards something more positive. From my own experiences and investigations into the whole phenomena I have the following list of suggestions! 


GO OUT WANDERING

Just wander off for a walk nowhere in particular or it may be a place you know and love.

Do not have any particular destination in mind. But set out and ask your guides and angels, God or whatever divine source you refer to, to give you guidance on your walk about your current situation. Note down any feelings, impressions, thoughts, ideas or inspirations you have on your wander. These may carry divine guidance.

  • MEDITATE OR CHANT

    Meditate often on your situation and before your meditation have an intention to find out how you can help yourself move out of your current situation into something more positive. This could be about any life situation. If you do not know how to meditate, try just staring into a candle flame for 10-15 minutes or just sit and be aware of your breath. Or you could stare at a picture of a flower. You could say ‘Om’ out loud or in your head for 5-10 minutes.                                                                                                                                                 

    GO IN THE OTHER DIRECTION

    Try ‘going in the other direction’. This means go on another route into town, work or wherever you usually go. Go down streets, alleyways, paths, parks and places where you would not normally go. This may give you a feeling of breaking your routine a bit and stepping into new places. 

  • TRY A DIFFERENT POSITION

    Get into different physical positions. If you know yoga do some yoga positions.

    If not, try standing on one leg, sitting and standing in unusual ways, walk on tip toes, stretch out your arms and legs or run on the spot. Stretch out the body and move out old energy!

                                                        

VISUALIZATION AND IMAGINATION

  • Visualize and think about what you do want in your life, rather than what you don’t want! Imagine these things as often as possible. You may do this in your head or by drawing or writing. You can even make a little board or scrap book and cut out pictures which represent what it is you would like to manifest in your life. In your head imagine sights, smells, colours and feelings. If you are able try feeling the feeling you would have if you had what you wished for. Really imagine this thing is happening to you now – what feeling does this give you?              

FEEL THE FEELING

I am going to elaborate on the theme of feelings now. If you feel like a hard up, broke person with little hope of anything changing then you will probably stay as you are. However, if you become like an actor who is in fact broke but who plays the part of a rich or well off person and loves playing the part you will attract more riches towards you. You need to access the feeling first and really feel as if you have plenty of money or whatever it is you aspire to and then things can change. You are inviting a new energy into your energetic system and physical body.

THANK GOD AND HAVE FAITH THINGS WILL CHANGE

Or whatever divine source you call upon for helping you achieve your aim. Give thanks often for that which you have not received yet. By saying ‘thank-you’ you are declaring that you have sufficient faith to know that what you wish for is being dealt with on other levels and will come to you when the time is right. Everything is also about divine timing. Never give up believing that your life will change for the better!

JOY AND HAPPINESS

Bring a sense of joy into your life even in small ways. You may be unhappy in your current situation but there are still ways of bringing a little happiness your way even if it takes a bit of effort. Go to a place you love, whether woodland, forest, beach, park or mountain perhaps. If you love swimming go for a swim often. If you love foraging for wild food do that. If you love to ski, hike, ramble, draw, paint, sing, sculpt, move, dance, play guitar, drum, garden, sit still, write, knit, crochet or whatever else is accessible to you then just do it and enjoy yourself even if for a few minutes a day. Write lists of everything (however small) that is good in your life now. Please avoid alcohol, drugs of any kind or unhealthy food though!

  • SPRING CLEAN AND FENG SHUI

    There is nothing like a spring clean! Yes, dirt, clutter, dust and debris get in the way of us moving on in life. So clean out those physical cobwebs as well as the metaphorical ones! If you have things you don’t really like or which are half broken get rid of them. Give your home a good clean. Water is good Feng Shui and dust is negative Feng Shui. There are lots of Feng Shui techniques that can be used to help make positive change in your life but you need to research this. Also when you clean your home put your intention into it, by declaring to the universe that you are clearing away the old to make way for the new!

HEAL YOURSELF

When we work on ourselves we are working on our whole lives and our relationships with others. It may be that you cannot move on yet because there is some resistance, fear or block holding you back and this happens to us all. Try finding a healer or therapist of some kind or if this is not accessible to you write a daily journal to find out how you feel. Ask God to heal you of anything that is holding you back. You can also call on the White Brethren at any time when you are in a relaxed state either lying down, sitting or walking in the countryside. Ask them to give you whatever healing you need right now to help you move on.

DANCE AND CHANTING

  • Sanskrit chanting is very helpful as there are specific chants for moving through obstacles on our path and chants for abundance. Also try doing rituals, 5 Rhythms dance or other therapeutic type dances.

  • DIVINE TIMING

    Finally, it may be that you are not moving on yet because it is not quite the right time and there are other things you need to do first, things to learn or final issues to be resolved where you are currently.


WHAT TO DO WITH THE FRUSTRATION!

If you feel angry and frustrated then you need to feel this, express it and move it out of your system otherwise it will be a block. You need to be aware of how you are feeling initially as this is a message to yourself that you need changes to take place in your life. Express and release the emotions through creative arts, writing about how you feel, talking to a friend or fast physical movement such as stamping, running etc! There are many other ways too. Be aware that you need things to change but let go of anger and frustration and accept your current situation in the best way you can until you are ready for changes to occur. 

Here’s an experience I once had:

I was fed up and angry with a situation which did not seem to change. It was as if I was banging my head against an iron bridge! Anyway, I decided one day to escape my situation for the morning and head off to the nearby beach. I walked further than I would do normally. I was amazed at the beauty I found. I discovered a whole area where no-one seemed to go. I found a cave and huge rock pools. There seemed to be a wide expanse of beach and just me in this space. I felt like I had found my paradise. I spent the whole morning there and loved it. I returned the next day and the next. I ended up spending half of every day at the beach, eating my breakfast by rock pools and singing in the cave. I would stand on one leg and face the rising sun. It felt a really magical experience. I started to even forget my frustrating life situation and felt I was quite happy in my magical world on the beach. Then things started to change. Gradually, gradually my paradise world expanded until I made a big change and it was like turning over a new chapter in a book – or even opening a new book altogether. I had started to have the feeling of being in a positive new experience and so my feeling had manifested more positive change.

So be aware of what you wish to change in your life, value what you do have right now and how you can really enjoy those things and affirm what you would like to manifest. In the meantime look after yourself well during these transient times. Get rest, good nourishment and give yourself healthy treats and nurturing in whatever way that may be!


That’s all for now but I hope you find whatever it is you are wishing for this year. 


2012 is a year of great changes for us all and we can manifest fresh new beginnings for ourselves individually and as a human race.

THESE ARE JUST SOME SUGGESTIONS BUT THERE ARE MANY MORE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO CREATE CHANGE. PLEASE ALSO REMEMBER TO CONNECT WITH NATURE OFTEN AS INSIRATION AND SERENITY CAN BE RECEIVED IN THIS WAY!


If you have any further suggestions to add please write in the comment box or email me! Thank-you!

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THE STORY OF JACK STRAWMAN

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

JACK STRAWMAN

BY JO MOON©

 Dear Everyone

I’d like to tell you a story about a man called Jack. He’s in his late thirties and chooses not to work. He’s involved in several of his own projects.

He doesn’t like forms or giving out personal information. He remains anonymous from the world of databases. He likes to live his own life. He plants trees.

Jack loves gardening and has a passion for trees. He believes in letting everything grow to its optimum. He believes in bringing nature into towns to preserve the ecosystem. He dedicates his life to planting seeds along hedgerows and on wasteland. He says he is a guerilla gardener. He grows vegetables, flowers and fruit trees all over town.

One day he was discovered by the authorities. They said they didn’t like what he was doing and cut back the trees. Jack was fuming with anger and decided to plant more and more trees whether they hacked them back or not. He grew a great lime tree in his front garden. It was admired by many though the local postman had difficulty gaining access to Jack’s front door due to the huge growth of this amazing tree.

Jack received a letter from the council asking him to remove or cut back his tree. Jack threw the letter away and carried on tending to his beautiful tree. Children loved it and one passer by told him the lime leaves were edible and very nutritious. He said the leaves were heart shaped because ‘they’re good for the nerves’.

Lime Leaf

Jack ate the leaves and started cooking amazing curries with them. His other favourite dish was veggie sausages wrapped in cabbage leaves from his garden. He would invite people round for sausage and cabbage dinner. His cooking was exceptional and we all came back for more.

He performed puppet shows and circus acts. In ‘The Dungeon’ as he called it (the cellar), he would hold great banquets where he’d dress up as a minstrel, play his violin and tell us stories. We loved him. He created a whole community spirit in the neighbourhood.

Jack wasn’t interested in the complaints he was getting from the council about his lime tree. The more letters arrived the more he tore them up furiously and threw them in the bin. He put a notice outside his front door, ‘LEAVE ME AND MY TREE ALONE!’

A week later he looked out of the window and saw a woman cutting at his tree. He shouted angrily at this mischief maker who had the audacity to step foot on his pathway and meddle with his prize tree. ‘What do you think you’re doing?’ The woman looked up and smiled.

‘Council orders Mr Strawman. We’ve had complaints about your tree and its in the way.’

‘You can’t do that to my tree! Who do you think you are?’

‘I’m an official of the council Mr Strawman and have an order to cut back your tree which is an offence to this neighbourhood. You have not complied to our requests and there is an order to cut back this tree.’

‘This is outrageous!’ Jack declared, clinging onto his pyjamas in disbelief. He considered throwing a jug of water out of the window onto this mischief maker’s head, but thought again.

‘That’s all Mr Strawman – all done.’ She left while Jack stared at his beautiful tree, all hacked up and forlorn looking. He seized his antique dagger from the cupboard, waving it in the air. ‘You think you’ve got me do you? Well, I’m not having it! I’m not having it!’

It was some weeks later when Jack received another letter from the council. He decided to open it, just to make sure his tree wasn’t under any further threat. It said,

Dear Mr Strawman,

We have decided that your tree is out of proportion with the rest of Concrete Street and does not fit into the general appearance here. If you do not comply with the following requests further action shall be taken. If there is any reason for this work not to be carried out please contact our office immediately. We also note that your property stands out in Concrete Street and is unacceptable for regeneration plans. You must either remove the tree or cut it back considerably. We enclose detailed diagrams of how this tree should look if it is still to stand. Exterior walls of your house must be painted in a neutral colour (white, cream or brown) with no other colours added.

Jack didn’t read any more, but threw the letter immediately in his open fire. ‘Who do they think they are?!’ he blurted out to the resident rat. ‘I’ve lived in this house for 15 years. How dare they try taking away my tree!’ He tore out of the house and took a load of chicken wire and wooden posts from the shed. With tools in hand he started to make a thick guard around the tree.

He installed a spy hole on his front door so as to view anyone daring to chop down his beautiful tree.

Days went by. Jack was loosing his usual jovial state. He started erecting a platform by the front door so he could sit on it and peer through his spy hole. He spent most of his time doing this whilst children passed by looking mournfully at the well guarded tree.

It now had barbed wire running all the way round it. It looked ugly and uninviting. The banquets and puppet shows stopped. Jack spent most of his time sitting on his platform looking through the spy hole.

Jack’s house did stand out. He’d painted it lime green and purple, with stars and rainbows above all the windows. He really had a talent for making things look unique. On each of the windows he’d painted an eye and on the front door it said in big letters, ‘JACK’S HOUSE, ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK BUT HAVE FUN’. As you came in through the front door an orchestra played automatically as if you were entering a concert hall. It was amazing. He was good with electronics and designing multi-media entertainment.

Jack had so many talents and ideas. There was no time to work for anyone else.

The next letter arrived, this time a court summons. He’d never been to court before and didn’t think he could face it. Why were these people hassling him so much?

Jack was worried sick about these letters. He was afraid to open them yet needed to know what was going on. He had little money left now. He had been living on the inheritance left by his parents after their car crash 6 years ago. He was living in their house. They’d always wanted him to express his talents and go far in life. The house was a great project and attracted many admirers. Children loved it.

But Jack was in the grips of turmoil. The council were threatening him with court action. What was he to do?

He said he didn’t believe in money. He only used it because he had to. He said he wanted to become a freeconomist and not use money at all if possible.

‘But you’ve got to go to court over your tree. What will you do?’ I asked him. ‘And what’s a freeconomist?’Jack rubbed his nose as he often did and didn’t reply. The one thing he definitely wasn’t going to do was give them any information about himself, sign any forms or cut back his tree.

As the court case loomed, Jack forgot to wash, shave or eat sometimes. He ate scraps of cheese or out of date biscuits. Bits of his hair started falling out. He didn’t know whether to go to court or not. We told him he could get legal aid. He was too afraid to discuss it with anyone. The thought of being in a court room full of Barristers and Magistrates was too frightening and brought a sickly feeling right from the depths of his stomach. He decided not to go to court and let it all just go away somehow. He was more concerned that no-one cut a single branch off his tree.

The court case happened without him. A week later Jack received another letter. They were fining him £500 for neglecting to follow orders to cut back his tree. Jack stared in disbelief. He grabbed a very old bottle sitting under the kitchen counter, whisky his dad used to drink. Jack never drank, but suddenly felt tempted.

Jack started drinking more and more. It lulled him into a quiet sleep. He would sit on his platform drinking whisky watching his tree out of the spy hole.

The bailiffs eventually came. Jack didn’t answer the door. He knew their tricks. He didn’t answer the door to anyone, just in case it was bailiffs in disguise. He didn’t trust the neighbours any more. The only friend he had in the world seemed to be his tree. Every day it was severely under threat. He talked to it often.

There was a news story soon after Jack’s trial in a national newspaper. Headline read, ‘Bees and Butterflies Dying out and in Severe Danger. More Wildlife Needed in Urban Areas. Tree and flower planting encouraged on national scale.’

When the bailiffs got in eventually when Jack was severely drunk they took most of his possessions, the valuable ones anyway. Jack was looking like a homeless vagrant. He hadn’t changed his clothes for months and was living off tins of spaghetti and biscuits. He drank plenty of whisky. His tree was withered but was left as it was. Jack was never the same again.

A year later the council decided more trees were needed in the town. They dropped Jack’s case and created incentives for people to grow bushes, trees and flowers in gardens, parks and wasteland.

Its a shame Jack wasn’t around to witness this. He was in rehab for alcoholism. He couldn’t remember a lot these days. That was the trouble.

THIS IS NOT A TRUE ACCOUNT BUT BASED ON A TRUE STORY


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THE MAGIC OF SNOW

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

THE MAGIC OF SNOW©

BY JO MOON

A large part of Europe has been blanketed in brilliant white snow this month. In my own town in the south of England I experienced it too.

Snow brings out a magic which doesn’t always exist in mundane life. I was walking through the snow filled town and countryside in the space of a few hours and everything was lit up in a completely different way.

The sounds of traffic have diminished in this new, sometimes silent world. The trees and lamp-posts glisten with a new sparkle. Roads are pure white without roaring cars, buses and lorries. Icicles hang in unexpected places. The sky is a mysterious looking grey-white. Everything stands out in a more magical way.

Time disappears under the snow

Children and adults build snowmen, snow-houses even, throw snowballs and sledge down the hill slopes. Play and mischief is everywhere, like the fairy kingdom in A Midsummers Night Dream.

It is this fun, magic and play which the snow brings out in us and which we need more of in the world. It is so easy to be bogged down in financial worries, the hardships of work and family life and the troubles of the world. I am not saying this is negative because we are all affected by these things and sometimes it is unavoidable. But to create the right balance we need to bring out the magic and fun in life a bit more.

When we have fun, laugh, sing, play music, dance and just play we can manifest many great things for ourselves because we are changing our energy. It is truly the answer to many of our woes in life! But this should not be done through alcohol or drugs of any kind which create further problems.

Try making part of your day just fun time, or do the mundane but bring an element of fun into it. Do something ridiculous, silly, amusing to yourself.

  • Sing while you do the washing up
  • Play with your pets or children
  • Dance from one room to the other
  • Jump up and down
  • Pretend you are an animal and see how you move or make sounds as this creature
  • Try drawing, scribbling (It doesn’t have to be good or look like anything at all!)
  • Write a list of all the things you love to do
  • Indulge in a feast of tasty thoughts and ideas
  • Write a few sentences about how you’d like the world to be or how you’d like your world to be
  • Walk down a path you have never been down before
  • Canter like a horse
  • Take photos of unusual sights in your neighbourhood
  • Just say ‘OM’ three times out loud
  • Say ‘I am happy!’ even if you aren’t

If non of these suggestions appeal to you, make up your own! What is it you love to do just for fun? (but not alcohol, drugs, cream cakes, chocolate or any of those kind of things!)

The magic in life could be brought out more

We live in a world where people often reluctantly get up and go to work in a routine they are not happy with. People sit cramped together on a commuter train where everyone dives into a newspaper and avoids everyone else. We are pressurised by adverts. There are bills to pay. We are saturated by toxic chemicals everywhere we go. We don’t necessarily have contact with nature. We have pressures, responsibilities and time limits. The roads are noisy. People are in a hurry.

Here are some ways in which magic could be brought back into life:

  • Car free days where no-one drives a car at all for one day a month. This could apply to particular towns.

  • Free cups of herbal tea could be offered to commuters on trains. Each person is entitled to one cup. There are no conditions on this and no adverse motive involved! Free tea could be offered between 7-9am and 4-7pm.

  • There is a games room on each train. Everyone who goes into the room plays a game facilitated by a person employed to do this. There could be a small payment for playing games.

  • Books/pamphlets about spiritual matters in a light hearted/’easy to read’ way could be freely available on trains. These pamphlets could be about the difficulties we face in life and ways of dealing with them. See http://www.ghaen.net/connecting-heaven-and-earth.html

  • Train and bus stations could have a prayer, meditation and relaxation room with soothing music.                                                      

  • Every town could have a policy of using bright and colourful colours on its buildings including the colour gold.
  • Positive words and sentences could be hung up on billboards and banners in towns such as ‘Be Love Today’, ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’, ‘Love yourself’, ‘God loves you no matter what’, ‘Walk your truth’, ‘The day is yours. Just be yourself.’
  • Spiritual choirs that sing in towns, streets and at events to bring in positive energy. Music could include mantras, Sanskrit chants and use of sacred instruments such as Tibetan bells and bowls.

  • Use of crystals in government, local councils, organisations and for individual homes. Crystals could be seen as an essential component to creating a positive environment and positivity between people in general. They could be used for many different purposes.
  • Use of pyramids of different sizes in towns, villages, events, organisations for positive healing and spiritual energy.

The point of these suggestions is that life could be made more helpful and enjoyable for people in small ways rather than making it a burden, a difficulty and a way of getting money out of the population.

Small gestures can make a lot of difference in a person’s day. Currently people often search for something more pleasant through mobile phones or eating junk or sugary food.

We can co-create this world to make it more magical, spiritual and less of the mundane

Many of us love to watch fantasy and sci-fi films. No matter what we believe in we watch films and read books about magic, fairies, elves and gnomes, goblins, spells, witches and wizards, aliens, other planets, other worlds, other dimensions…We really crave all these things, otherwise why are these books and films so popular: Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars?

Ask yourself, if you could bring one element of these books and films into your life what would it be? I am really interested in your answers to this question and any comments on the subject so please write any ideas below! Thank-you!

Finally, the more we notice the smallest pieces of magic in our own lives the more these elements will grow and grow. We may indeed be very surprised by what we then discover!

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HEALING TOWNS

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

HEALING TOWNS©

By Jo Moon

This is a new concept but a much needed one. There are already transition towns based on the concept of certain people choosing to help create a more sustainable environment where they live. The idea I am proposing here is going a few steps further than this.

Going a few steps further...

We live in a polluted world. We live under an umbrella of toxicity.

Our trees are even diminishing. The world and humanity is in desperate need of healing. The toxicity we live under is not just chemical but also emotional, spiritual and mental. There are negative thought forms, a spiritual disconnection and emotional turbulence. All this is not surprising considering the kind of unsympathetic world we live in.

The Christmas Tree Graveyard

The world is indeed in chaos: wars, famine; starvation in one part of the world and over-eating in another; unhealthy lifestyles and nutrition, dependence on legal and illegal drugs, alcohol and financial collapse. We have not learnt how to live in harmony with ourselves let alone with other life forms. We are killing plants, trees and animals for our own means with little thought to the destruction we are causing. Nature will not tolerate this and will fight back eventually.

This is a summary of life on planet Earth currently. We are now in 2012 when great changes can occur and a golden opportunity to set things right and get on track again in our true God like forms.

A New Golden Opportunity Awaits

We can rectify every negative situation in the world with the right will and intention. We are being helped by many unseen beings in other dimensions and on other planets. Without their help we may not have survived this long.

We need to build communities of light in many rural parts of the globe. These communities of eco-dwellings, powered by the sun and wind, will create great light which will spread across the world sending out healing. People are already gathering together to create these communities.

What we also need is for specific towns and villages (new or existing ones) to devote themselves to being HEALING TOWNS OR VILLAGES

These towns/villages would be run in a very specific way and would only allow people to live there who are dedicated to living a healthy and healing lifestyle.

  • Pubs, bars and nightclubs would not exist and alcohol would not be permitted to be sold in any shop or outlet. Cigarettes would also be banned from being sold or smoked anywhere. In place of these would be juice bars, healing bars, raw chocolate bars and healing dance venues. There would be plenty of healing and healthy activities for young people and adults. 
  • There would be a central large holistic health centre with low cost and subsidised healing and therapeutic activities for everyone. This would also be a venue for meditation, yoga and other such classes, creative healing arts, a spiritual sanctuary, talks, workshops and support for living a healthy lifestyle.
  • These towns would have beautiful gardens and lots of trees, plants and greenery in many places. There would be central composting schemes whereby waste vegetable/fruit matter could be collected from homes and used to make community compost. There would be growing schemes whereby fruit and vegetables are grown within the town or on the outskirts specifically for local use and sold at markets and local shops.
  • A central large health food store would be created in place of supermarkets. It would also have low cost products and could be a co-operative.
  • Wind turbines would be in operation (possibly a wind farm in nearby countryside) and solar run events, shops and cafes.
  • There would be vegan and vegetarian cafes and restaurants catering for specialist dietary needs and no meat eating outlets allowed. Therefore shops would not be permitted to sell any form of meat or fish in any form.
  • Everyone living in this town/village would need to be totally committed to this way of living and wanting to live a healthy, meat, alcohol and drug free existence.
  • There would be no wi-fi, mobile phone or tetra masts.
  • Public transport would be greatly encouraged and made easy and low cost.

  • People living in these towns and villages would need to contribute as much as they are able from their own funds to make the venture work. Investors would be needed rather than dependence on government.
  • Schools would be within an alternative framework giving children more of what they really need. Children would contribute to the running and creation of the school based on their own ideas and needs.
  • There would not be a council. Local residents would form their own self governing body which could be a co-operative or similar organisation. A constitution of sorts would be drawn up so it would be completely clear what the ethos of this town/village was. Each town could add its own specific ideas to these central themes.

  • A larger body/organisation would provide funds and other support to all of these HEALING TOWNS/VILLAGES when needed.

This is an ideal and it is all possible if enough people wish to live in this way and support such a scheme. It is quite different to how most towns are run now. Alcohol is usually a central theme, pubs being even in the smallest of villages. This needs to change dramatically if we wish to survive as a human race. We have to rethink our whole way of living down to the tiniest detail.

If you have any comments to make on this idea please write in the comment box below as I would be very interested to know others’ views on this concept. Or email me directly on the contact page. Thank-you!

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INDIGO COWS FIGHT BACK!

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

INDIGO COWS FIGHT BACK!©

By Jo Moon

There was a stirring on the old farm, something like a scratching and scraping at the woodwork. A clock was ticking fast in the farmhouse kitchen. Something wasn’t right today. Something wasn’t right with that new breed of white cows and bullocks. Giles, the farmer, pushed his breakfast plate away and ambled towards the back door in search of boots and green wax jacket. The sun was a bright red and low down on a hillock. It was all just the beginning.

Off for slaughter today. That noise was getting louder and louder, rattling, like thunder against the huge metal cowsheds. His ears pricked up the sound as it shattered across the landscape. He started running now, cantering like a mad horse across the yard. Tim, the farmhand was just arriving from the gate. ‘Get up to the cow shed Tim, fast!’

That was just the start of it. Twenty white cows stood in their shed kicking and snarling like wild beasts. Troughs of water were overturned. Heads and horns butted against the metal walls fiercely. Everything was overturned. These cows were no ordinary breed. Giles had come across them at market like nothing he’d ever seen before. Great white cows, with tall horns and huge. They had become so big he couldn’t keep that many.

We just want to show them what and who we are, not just cows waiting to be milked, killed and eaten. We’ve had enough of that game. That’s why we were born, that’s why we came to be here. WE’RE THE NEW INDIGO COWS. WE WILL MAKE OUR ESCAPE. We will get out. That’s what they don’t know yet. They have no idea. This is just the start.

We won’t let them cut us up into tiny morsels to put in their bellies. Let them see what we can do. We’ll fight back and nothing will stop us, nothing!

The noise escalated further. Giles pushed his way through the great metal ugly looking shed doors. Suddenly he found himself facing straight at the enormous brown eyes of a white cow, horns sticking upwards ready to charge.

He took a gulp. ‘Tim, get the ropes, quick!’ Not quick enough, the large white cow took a dig at Giles’ flesh with his sharp teeth. Blood started to ooze out. The cow head butted Giles in the stomach and he was thrown backwards. The cows started making their escape, pushing through bars, gates and fences.

A herd of brilliant white cows chased out of the farmyard like white horses in the sea. They thumped and ran like a thunder storm erupting. These cows pushed past Tim, making him fall to the ground. They kicked open the gate and made a run. Giles got up, bleeding and clutching onto his stomach. ‘Get those bloody cows Tim!’

Tim made a call on his mobile, not to catch the cows. He phoned the local doctor. Giles was in severe pain and bleeding heavily. Tim rushed over and covered the blood with his scarf. ‘Doctor says to call an ambulance Giles.’

‘What about the bloody cows?’

‘I’ll call the police. You’re seriously wounded Giles.’

Giles threw the phone across the field and told Tim to get the gun. Tim ran indoors and called 999 instead. He wanted to help Giles, but somehow he couldn’t get the gun. He knew where it was but it didn’t seem right to shoot all those cows. What for? He was only in this job to study as part of his veterinary degree. He cared about animals. Maybe they wanted to be free. Maybe they knew it was slaughter day. These were new thoughts coming into his mind.

Eventually…

they sent out search parties, men on horseback, helicopters even but that herd of white cows were never found, and no trace of them ever discovered.

Giles was taken to hospital. Tim left his job on the farm but became a good vet. The farm eventually closed down when Giles realised he couldn’t manage it any more. The herd of mysterious white cows have been unheard of ever since. The uniqueness of the cows and the strangeness of this story is still being investigated by scientists, psychics and the farm world in general but unresolved.

Since it happened, THERE HAS BEEN A MARKED DECREASE IN THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED ON A DAILY BASIS WORLDWIDE. THE DEMAND FOR MEAT HAS DECREASED SIGNIFICANTLY and most farms have at least one pure white cow with horns within their herds.

The new regulations have meant that every farm has to keep the white cows as animals in their own right, never to be slaughtered. It has been observed that wherever a white cow lives there is great prosperity as long as its owner treats all their animals with respect, love and care. If not there is great turbulence and often violence, usually leading to the complete closure of the farm.

The white cows are indeed a mystery. But their presence and impact on the planet cannot be denied, whether they are visible or invisible. They are revered, yet feared. More and more farmers are feeling a total reluctance to take any of their animals to slaughter when they own a white cow. Usually they get sick on the way to the abattoir, the animals play up, there is trouble on the roads or the farmer just gets some guilty feeling inside them and ends up closing down the farm altogether.

Its plainly obvious to me – the white cows just want their justice over aeons and years of slaughter and maltreatment of their kind. They want to live in harmony with the human race, just as all of God’s creatures wish to do. But how can they if we are killing them in order to eat their flesh?

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT A TRUE STORY – YET….

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