A little of what you fancy.....!

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I am away this weekend with my sister and two of my closest friends Jane and Cathy.  Last year we had an amazing girlie day out in London and vowed to do this once a year!  This evening we have tickets to see Take That at Wembley where we will revisit our younger days and be singing and dancing away.  Tomorrow, we are booked into a hotel in central London and we are off for a relaxing, leisurely day.  It will be a lunch here, a cocktail there kind of day!

A lot of the pleasure has been in the planning.  There has been numerous texts and emails going back and forth.  Due to good forward planning, Cathy has booked first class tickets for the train at a lower cost than standard tickets.  We are starting the weekend with a luxury picnic.  One is bringing Champagne, one is bringing pastries and fresh fruit, another is bringing a selection of nibbles and wraps and I with the sweet tooth, have prepared chocolate dipped strawberries, chocolate truffles and homemade fudge!

Getting away from home and connecting with friends and family can be a tonic.  I came across this article by the lovely Aine Belton who encourages us all to do a little more of what we fancy....

Do more of what you love & enJOY yourself!
Obvious as this is, how often do you really allow yourself to a) have a good ponder on what it is you really LOVE, or would love to do, and b) schedule that into your diary.

Make a ‘joy-list’ of all that brings you joy, including the little things, be that your favourite breakfast, favourite flowers or spot in nature, and start adding more of those things into your life. (Obviously if your favourite breakfast is a huge greasy fry up, it might be best to avoid making that a daily habit! )

Doing more of what you love and that which makes your heart sing will raise your vibration naturally, and through that alone, help you attract happier, more positive successful realities and opportunities into your life.
Make joy a priority and get creative about ways to experience it. As you commit to joy and make that intention, the universe will respond. Be open to joyful opportunities coming your way, and of course, get about creating them!

Fun and joy are antidotes to stress, struggle, sacrifice, tediousness and seriousness.

When you experience the playful celebration of life you actively give, both to yourself and others, and are open to sharing more of who you are and riding the current of spontaneity and joy.

Don’t wait for joy or put it out there in your future. Bring it into your now! Joy is so much of the success your heart is seeking.

If you don’t enjoy the journey, chances are you won’t enjoy the destination. Start having fun NOW!”

Beyond ‘doing’, joy comes out of your state of being – it is your true nature! When you let go of more of what you’re not – negative self-beliefs, constricting emotions and un-serving patterns and stories – you experience more of the fountain of joy you truly are!

Have a fabulous weekend one and all - I will be back on Monday!

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor x

Something is in the air....!

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How are you feeling at the moment?  If you are feeling a little bit down, lacking energy and finding it hard to keep your thoughts positive.  You will be glad to know you are not alone.  There has felt like there has been something in the air lately and many of the people I know, myself included have had a difficult few weeks energy wise.  There seem to have been more problems than usual to deal with.  Friends and family have had greater problems to cope with and this seems to have rubbed off on everyone.

There is a very good reason for this and I came across this article which explains in greater detail how and why we have all been feeling a little off lately.  It is in part to do with the Summer Solstice and the planetary changes that have been taking place.  I hope this eases your mind.

It is the day that the Sun shifts into Cancer, heralding the mid-year shift in the seasons. In the Northern Hemisphere, it is time to give thanks and make plans to gather your resources for the long and looming winter. Whilst in the Southern Hemisphere, it is time to give thanks as you make preparations to increase and nurture your resources during the warm, productive months of spring. The chart of the solstice shift in itself is challenging and quite karmic. There is a Cardinal T-Square between the Black Moon Lilith, Mercury, and Saturn indicating that you are dealing with heavily laden emotional dynamics, and are prone to difficult moments of relating to others. This is anger, meets control, meets communicating from the heart, with the broader intention of expressing your pains in a productive way of healing and empowerment.
There is a high level of disappointment in the realms of romance at the moment, as those who have felt compelled to make snap decisions over the last two eclipses, leave their ex-lovers emotionally broken in their wake. It has been a raw experience to read and hear about such heavy emotional endings that have left one side of the relationship equation at a complete loss as to why. For the Solstice chart, Saturn and the Moon sit in quincunx, ensuring that this level of emotionally harsh behaviour is tempered, due to a fear of making an irrational and impractical emotional decision. With the Pisces Moon in perfect trine to Cancer ruled Mercury, there is fluid movement between the heart, the mind and the 12th House karmic intention. Lessons have been learned here, the hard way thanks to Pluto sextile Chiron, but these lessons do open the doorway to the positive experience that is the gift of healing and personal evolution.
In connection to the Cancer Sun, is Neptune, imbuing life participation with a whimsical cloud of artistic beauty and romantic desire. What is often forgotten when discussing Neptune, due to his tendency to cloud matters, is that he is the energy of deeper self, an internal wonderment that we as individuals just know that the outside world will tear apart. This trine will encourage you to connect with your inner beauty and seek ways of enabling you to connect with a safe environment in which more of the true you is able to blossom. Of course, seeking the ultimate fairyland is fraught with the obstacle that is human nature, and there is the potential of falling under the spell of lower intention and delusion from those who are less evolved. Ceres will assist you here, forming a square to the Sun, bringing those who are negative in resisting all that is you into the spotlight. These are the type who wish to dominate or change you and whilst compromise is in order to achieve your goals, you will surmount the external negativity to access your personal nirvana.
Mars in square to Neptune, highlights pockets of negative dependency. This is a tough aspect for those who have substance issues, as it encourages you to party, and hard. With the planet of physical action and movement in contact with Neptune, actual activity comes in spurts and spats, as does clarity with ambition and direction regards love. Your dreams can be exceptionally potent, and impatience stems from the overall vibration of life being intangible. This aspect does have a point and it is encouragement to slow down, tend the physical self with kindness and to bring more ‘you and your meaning’ into the day to day. Mars square Neptune is an aspect that needs concentrated effort in order to improve your attention and attitude towards the physical self. As it also highlights where you are prone to seeking comfort from others in dependent, or negative ways, this aspect is motivation to seek ways of improving your self-confidence and attitude towards independence.
ORACLE ENERGY FOR THE SOLSTICE
LIFE – DANCER OF FRUSTRATION
Life does not get any easier when it boils down to obstacles in your path to achievement. This has been a pattern in motion for years now and obviously, in certain life areas, you feel as if you are about to snap. Patience is a virtue and in some instances, the challenge is all about resolve, but in others, this resistance is motivation to seek another alternative. If you have done all that you can do and are still bashing your head against that brick wall, it could well be time to connect with an alternative intention. Look within when frustrations arrive and seek the fluid motion of compromise. If none can be found and you have exhausted all possibility, it is time to look for new inspiration.
LOVE – DANCER OF RECONCILIATION
This energy will be quite literal for certain romantic connections, and many relationships will be reunited over the next while. In essence however, this influence relates to the deeper learning curve that is gained through understanding and accepting the harsher experience. Where you have experienced shock, loss and disappointment, and life now revolves around this emotional imbalance, harmony will be restored through healing and connecting with genuine others. Receiving this influence indicates that anger will be resolved and internal peace restored, no matter how raw and vulnerable your heart may feel. Where there has been a heavy loss experienced, use this as encouragement to strengthen bonds with those who have displayed the sincerity behind their words.
RESOURCES – HUNTER OF DEATH
It is a time of new direction when this influence appears, a time when doorways are open as a gift for your dedicated efforts in improving self. You will cut your losses regards certain projects and intentions, to follow a more productive path of deeper meaning. Where you have been held back due to internal negativity, you have bolstered your confidence and feelings of self-worth and attach yourself to less toxic intentions. Transformation is the key to success here, with the removal of negative habits and the adaptation of more positive aspirations. Through the release of the old, you gain inner strength and it is this personal empowerment that attracts your true potential.

Love and Blessings for an upward turn in your life with greater happiness ahead!

Jean Fisher-Taylor xxx

Happy Glow

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Have you ever seen someone enter a room with a positive glow about them.  They radiate sunshine, happiness and contentment!  I came across these tips to help you glow with happiness.  Let your inner light shine far and wide as you express just how good you feel about life!

1 Don't try repressing your happiness. If you feel happy about something, let the feelings show in your actions and expression. A person that glows with happiness is the type of person that doesn't try to hide that they are happy. Even just a small smile can express those feelings.

2 Don't let your mind turn to negative thoughts. Even when times are tough, there will always be something to take happiness in. The sun setting over the ocean or the beauty of a flower. When you find yourself thinking bitter thoughts, stop the thought and find something that makes you happy to think about instead.

3 Don't worry. Worrying is the opposite of happiness. Expressions of worry make you seem dull and sad, taking the glow of happiness away. Negative feelings like worry do you little good and actually take a toll on your health. If you find yourself worried about something, recognize the feeling and find the reason for it. If you can't solve the problem or fix it at the current time, don't think about it. There is no point to thinking about something out of your control. If it's something you can solve or fix immediately, fix the problem and move on.

4 Smile often. When you are happy, a smile comes naturally.

5 Let yourself be at peace. When you are peaceful and calm, you will also end up happy. If you find yourself having trouble with peaceful thoughts, do some meditation every day.

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor x

Call of nature

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Monday Mantra - "I invite well being by going outdoors and being at one with nature"

One of the fastest ways to get a happiness boost is to go outdoors!  Being outside, feeling connected to the elements, even when it is chilly and wet actually increases happiness.  When we are inside for too long we become light deprived which can leave us feeling sluggish and down.  People who work from home or in an office or factory environment may struggle to make time to get outside.  Walking from the house to the car and back again at the end of the day isn't providing you with the outdoor fix your body craves.  Add to that weekends filled with cleaning, washing, ironing and shopping, you can see where yor valuable time gets taken away to enjoy outdoors time.

Take some time out everyday to connect with nature and breathe in fresh air.  Spend some time outdoors in the morning - walking bare foot on dewy grass feels lovely in the morning.  Walk to work if possible, take a lunchtime stroll or step out in the evening to shake off a stressful day.  Gardening and maintaining a small plot gives enormous pleasure and gives you valuable thinking time as well as being outdoors.

Even on hot days like this, find a shady spot, sit still and enjoy the gentle breeze!

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor

Mother Teresa

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Every so often I write a blog on inspirational people.  I would like to dedicate this to a woman who was born to make a difference and even in death her name lives on as a beacon of hope for those who need care, love and attention.  Mother Teresa has to be one of the warmest humans who lived her dedicated life to others as a saint.

Born: Agnes Gonxha Bajaxhiu on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia

Died: Mother Teresa on September 5, 1997 in Kolkata, India

Received: Joined the Loreto Novitiate on May 23, 1929

First Profession: May 25, 1931 and was to be known as Sister Teresa after her patroness St. Therese of Lisieux

Final Profession: May 24, 1937 and was to be known as Mother Teresa following Loreto custom

Inspiration Day: September 10, 1946 on a train journey from Calcutta to Darjeeling, Mother Teresa received the "call within a call," which was to give rise to the Missionaries of Charity Order.

Founded MC: October 7, 1950 the Missionaries of Charity was officially erected as a religious institute for the Archdiocese of Calcutta.

Among the 124 Awards Received:
Padmashree Award (from the President of India) August 1962
Pope John XXIII Peace Prize January 1971
John F. Kennedy International Award September 1971
Jawahalal Nehru Award for International Understanding November 1972
Templeton Prize for "Progress in Religion" April 1973
Nobel Peace Prize December 1979
Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India) March 1980
Order of Merit (from Queen Elizabeth) November 1983
Gold Medal of the Soviet Peace Committee August 1987
United States Congressional Gold Medal June 1997

Missionaries of Charity:

In addition to the Sisters, Mother Teresa founded four other branches of the Missionaries of Charity family. On March 25, 1963, the Archbishop of Calcutta blessed the beginning of an active branch of Brothers. The contemplative branch of the Sisters began in New York on June 25, 1976, and the contemplative Brothers were established in Rome on March 19, 1979. The Fathers were founded in the Bronx, New York on October 13, 1984.

From the very beginning, Mother Teresa also involved lay people in her service to the poor. In March 1969, the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa were officially begun. On April 16, 1984, the Lay Missionaries of Charity were established.

At the time of Mother Teresa's death, The Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity numbered 3,914 members, and were established in 594 communities in 123 countries of the world. Her work continues under the guidance of Sister Nirmala, Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity Sisters. The order has grown over 4,000 members in 697 foundations in 131 countries of the world.

Mother Teresa is famous for her many inspired quotes -

My personal favourite - "We can do no great things, only small things with great love!"

You Tube have a page of her many quotes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t47pL-myfZY

We may not all be born to make such a huge difference in the world but whilst we each love other, care about our communities and pray for healing in the world then we are all doing our small bit with great love and collectively that has to make a difference.

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor

Garden of dreams

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Several weeks ago I wrote a meditation called The Garden of Dreams.  In this guided meditation I took the group to a beautiful garden where they searched out the most fertile piece of soil and took the seeds of their dreams and goals and planted them with love.  They watered these dreams with love and desire and warmed them from above with a sun full of belief.  They took time to weed out negative thoughts and worries and soon their dreams grew into the most beautiful reality.

It was a lovely meditation to do and one that can be used regularly to recreate the perfect ground to sow the next dream.  I came across this article on a website called http://silverandgrace.com/a-mind-garden and thought it would be of interest as it mirrors my own meditation.

The Mind Garden
The garden of the mind is a more sneaky matter. It’s harder to keep track of all the seeds and weeds that are blowing into that garden. Even the most diligent mind-gardener, careful to prepare the soil with fertile compost and wholesome nutrients is constantly bombarded with weed after weed in our daily lives.
There are countless weeds coming at us all the time. Weeds of fear that keep us from seeing our spectacular flowers are one kind of weeds that destroy the mind-garden. Weeds with thorns of violence, weeds that breed bramble bushes of negativity, weeds of depression, apathy and inactivity are just a few more that we are in constant battle with.
How can we fight the bombardment of weeds on the mind?
It isn’t hopeless. There are steps every good gardener can take.

Gardening Tricks for the Mind Garden

Fill it with beautiful flowers. It’s a gardener’s secret that if the soil is full, then it is harder for the weeds to take. Be proactive in filling your mind with the happy flowers of your choice. Plant your seeds close together so that the weeds can’t take hold. Create your own unique design. Peaceful, positive, challenging, enlightening, artistic, inventive, or whatever interests you. What would you like your mind-garden design to be? Create a plan. Put it in writing. Look at it daily. The brain is a malleable organ soaking up everything it is exposed to. You have an amazing amount of control over what goes into your brain. Choose to exercise that control and plant your garden the way you want it.
Pull the Weeds. Next, pull the negative weeds out. You might have to look closely to identify the weeds in your life. Some weeds look remarkably like flowers. Or they have been there for so long that we just haven’t paid any attention to them before. It might be that they are in everyone else’s garden so we thought they must be Okay. Take a deep look. Once you have planned your garden design, there won’t be any more room for weeds that will take away from the garden of your dreams. Be very selective. Pull them all! Weeds breed more weeds. Gardeners know that one weed has many friends.
Fill in the empty spaces with new flowers. While it takes effort and time to cultivate friendships and learning, it takes amazingly very little effort to cultivate weeds. You can do nothing but leave them in your life and they will grow, breed and take over. Once you have removed them don’t let them back in. It’s a battlefield in the mind garden and the weeds plan to win! Once you have removed them, fill that space up with new flowers. Remember to water, fertilize and feed those new flowers with positive thoughts, gratitude and celebrations. Take time and attention, carefully care for them and they will reward you with their beauty and fragrance.
Stay Alert. A gardener must always be alert and on the look-out for stealth weeds that sneak in looking like flowers, promising to be a good thing in your life, only to end up taking over the whole garden. Keep in mind, that many nice flowers if left to over-breed can become weeds in the wrong situation. You must choose wisely with balance and determine what are the most important flowers to fill your mind with and in what proportions.
Spend time. A Master Gardener knows you should spend time on your garden every day. Take a walk through it, enjoy it, meditate in it. Get inspiration from it. A beautiful garden will give back much more than you ever will have to put in to it, especially a beautiful mind-garden. Daily short acts of maintenance keeps the job from not getting overwhelming and keeps the weeds at bay.
Focus on the flowers, not the weeds. It’s easy to get hung up on weed control and ignore the power of beauty in the mind-garden. Remember, where our focus goes, our future goes, so focus on the flowers in your life and not the weeds!
You can’t escape having a mind-garden. It will be planted. What goes into that garden is up to you one way or another, by choice of doing something, or by choice of doing nothing.
It’s still a choice.

With love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor x

Breath of life.

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Happy new week! Monday's mantra for this week is:

"As I consciously breathe in, I take control of my emotions and as I breathe out, I release any stale energy from within"

Today I am focusing on breathing properly.  Now if you are reading this you way well be thinking...hello if I wasn't breathing I would not be reading this blog!!!  Of course we all breathe, however, often, when we are stressed our breathing becomes shallow and we take more shorter and rapid breaths which culminate in us feeling more distressed and out of control.

Several times a day, consciously take the time to really breath deeply.  Breathe in through the nose, a long, continuous breath until you feel it right in your lower abdomen and then breathe out through the mouth, expelling any negative and stale energy that has built up.  This is an invaluable technique to use when you are nervous, angry, afraid or if life is just getting too much to cope with.

Your slower, deliberate breathing has a calming effect and releases tension building up in your neck and shoulders and the tightness in your chest will ease along with it. 

This is an exercise that is worth practising often.

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor x

Father;s Day

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What Makes a Dad
God took the strength of a mountain,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun,
The calm of a quiet sea,
The generous soul of nature,
The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages,
The power of the eagle's flight,
The joy of a morning in spring,
The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity,
The depth of a family need,
Then God combined these qualities,
When there was nothing more to add,
He knew His masterpiece was complete,
And so,

He called it ... Dad

~~Author Unknown.~~

Fathers Day is such a bitter sweet day!  For those who are celebrating with their dad, it is a great way to show your appreciation for his love and support.  For many who no longer have their dad's with them, it can be a sad day serving as another reminder that they are no longer here to show that love.

I am somewhere in the middle,my dad is still here in person but in his mind he has gone back several decades to a time when he was probably at his happiest, working hard, busy and earning money. He is in a care home as his type of dementia can lead to violent outbursts with frustration and he needs 24 hour care.

He is incredibly loving and at the moment knows us....most of the time.  When we visit he is always trying to move us along as he needs to be working or speaking to the boss about work.  He is a mere shadow of the supportive, caring, strong man that he used to be.

I will celebrate this special day with him and treat it as a blessing that I still can.  For all those who have their father's in their lives, cherish them and let them know how much they mean to you.  For those who no longer have their father's in their lives may you feel their loving energy around you today.

Love and Blessings

Jean Fisher-Taylor x

I'm no Superwoman!

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I have a confession to make.....I am not Superwoman!  This realisation hit me this week when all my juggling balls that are neatly kept up in the air, plopped down one by one and hit me on the head!

I took a couple of days out to recharge my Wonderwoman batteries (Well...Superwoman was too hard to be) and had a long hard look at priorities.  I also took some of my own advice, remembering the piece that stated "We are human beings not human doings!" Well I had ignored those wise words and forgot to say the word NO to any requests last week.  As a result I was a bedraggled, energy zapped figure who had to stop.

I am now back on top form with the necessary balls back up in the air where they belong and with quite a few of the other balls that were competing for time and energy, discarded.

I read this piece on giving by my ever favorite writer Aine Belton.  It reminds me to give myself where it is needed and to those I care about most instead of trying to spread myself too thin to be of use or value to anyone.

"You are being asked to put your love into action in some way.

Is there someone in particular you’ve been withholding love or giving from, or you could express more of your love to in some way? Or have you been shying away from life in general and not sharing your gifts, presence or love in some way? Have you been ‘too busy’ and not found the time for those people who matter to you? The greatest gift you have to give people is YOU! Are you giving you? Are you there for people?
There are many ways you can give and share, which I detail shortly. Do so in a way that brings you joy and does not feel like a sacrifice, as that is not what true giving is about.
What’s important here is that this giving is genuine and heartfelt. I’m not talking about martyr hood or obligation here. I’m talking about sharing and expressing your love and care in a way that feels meaningful to you, which is a blessing to others, as well as yourself.
Giving when your heart isn’t in it, or giving-to-get (which isn’t giving at all), or giving out of a feeling of duty or obligation is also not authentic giving, and the person at the ‘receiving end’ won’t feel really like they’ve been given to, as what is received most is the energy and intention behind the giving. That’s why even the smallest act or gift can have the biggest impact if coming from a loving place.
Get in touch with the love and care you have for someone and act from this place.
Let your abundance shine by giving to others, not just in the tangible physical sense, but by giving of who you are and expressing your love, appreciation and gratitude to those around you. You can give in energy, in your thoughts, blessings and well-wishes too, and send love from a distance, silently even.
There are many ways you can give, and it’s certainly not money-bound.
You can give of your time, appreciation, care, well wishes, talent, prayers, nurturing, inspirations, attention, information, touch, wisdom, hope, support, thoughts, blessings, and so on. You may also want to give some of your income away, such as through tithing 10% to a charity each month if you feel financially comfortable to do so.
Give in a way that feels true to you.

Don’t deny yourself or others the wonders and rewards of giving.” ~Aine Belton

Ultimately it is the intention behind your giving that is more important than the actual means of giving. It is you desire to help, your love, care and the expression of that.

Give in a way that brings you joy and have fun sharing your heart!"

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor x

Creative Workshop

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In a previous blog I spoke about daydreaming and going into a Creative Workshop.  I had several messages from readers asking me for more information about this so I am dedicating today's blog to Creative Workshops!

I first heard of this concept through Abraham-Hicks book The Law of Attraction.  They suggest that when you are looking to manifest something wonderful in your life that you take at least 15 minutes everyday to consciously daydream about what you want.

For example if you wanted to move to a new home, you would be encouraged to daydream about how the house would look......

what colour would you paint the front door?,
what would the garden look like?,
what would you plant?,
how would you decorate each of the rooms?
what would your dream kitchen look like?
how would life feel living in a new home?
in what ways would it improve your family life?

So as you can see there are plenty of things you can consciously think about to draw your desire closer to you.  You can also bring clippings from magazines and books that appeal to you and either spend time looking at them and imagining having them in your life right now or you could begin to take the workshop to another level by creating a dream board.  This is where you collect pictures, words, phrases and anything that is related to your dream and then create a collage that you can use everyday to visualise your desire.

The important thing is to take some time out each day to dream and to manifest, when you start to see real results happening you will know that you have the inner power to create miracles and magic in your life whenever you need to!

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor x

Dreams are nothing more than wishes and a wish is just a dream you wish to come true!

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Welcome to another new week! Today is Mantra Monday and today I have chosen is;

"I acknowledge that I am the source of what I manifest"

As you all know by now, I am a huge fan of positive thought and intention.  One of the things that were high on my list to be manifested was to become a published writer.  In my head I imagined that this would be a book that I want to write....however, the universe responds in other ways too and I have taken up a new role with Brew Drinking Thinking as a Wellbeing writer for their on-line magazine.  I will be submitting articles on

Angels, Happiness and Wellbeing, Coaching and Therapies!

This is a dream job, manifested by thought, belief and intention.  I am no different to any other being, I have no more magical abilities to manifest that any one of you magnificent people.  Dream your dreams a size too big and then grow into them.  Visualise the outcome, feel it in your bones and then just wait for your heart's desire to come to you at the most perfect moment in time for you!

Happy manifesting and remember you can manifest a castle just as easy as a button as told to us by Esther and Jerry Hicks.

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor x

Higher Self

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I read this posting from Aine Belton - I am a huge fan of her work and wanted to share this article with you!

By Aine Belton

 Your Higher Self is the aspect of your consciousness closest to Source – the eternal spiritual being that you really are beyond your personality self.
This ‘you’ exists beyond space and time and the confines of this third dimensional reality, and is the overseer of your multi selves – past, present and future, conscious and subconscious.
Your Higher Self is more loving, wise, and magnificent than anything you may imagine. It knows all you have been, all you are now, and all you are becoming, in this life-time and others, and is aware of the countless possibilities available for your growth and success and that which will serve you optimally.
Your Higher Self knows you inside out and loves you totally and unconditionally. Its love and vast, all-encompassing perspectives can gift your life immeasurably, pierce the veils and limits of your personal beliefs and limited understandings, and bring truth and light to even the darkest areas.
You can connect and communicate with this exalted self and receive its love, guidance, healing and support (I share one way of doing so at the end of this article).
It is important to ask for help, and be open and willing to receive it, for your Higher Self loves and respects you too much to force anything upon you. It is, however, ever at your side, whether you are aware of that presence or not, and always willing and desiring to help.
The voice of your Higher Self is always loving and kind about you, though it can be direct at times. It does not pander to pity, but does have great compassion for you, and wishes only for your return to truth; the truth of who you are, and the truth that you are loved, loving and loveable, ever and always.
Your Higher Self can communicate with you in any number of ways. Your intuition and subtle senses can be gateways to receive its insights, but there are many other ways, one of which I outline further below.
Meditation creates fertile ground for the voice of your higher self to be heard. When your conscious mind is quiet and stilled, space is created for inspirations to be received, as well as a balancing and realignment of your energy. Getting off the hamster wheel of your ‘monkey mind’, with its tape-loops of constricting thoughts and feelings, allows space for higher wisdom to dawn.
The wisdom of your higher self is sourced in love, will optimally serve you, and reaches beyond the confines of your conditioned mind. It is the golden compass that points ever towards the truth of who you are, your highest path and potential, the true nature of reality, and the love at the heart of all.
When you connect to this ‘grander you’, the unlimited divine being that you are, you become aware not only how immeasurably loved you are, but that all you need exists within you.

Video about the Higher Self

Meditation to Connect with your Higher Self

As mentioned, I believe meditation is one of the best ways to connect to your Higher Self, as is anything that enhances greater love in your life – love for self, others and the world.
Below is an example meditation you might like to explore to connect with your Higher Self. If visualization is not your thing, I’ll be sharing a writing technique in a future post, and intuition practices can also help you build pathways to your Higher Self and spiritual insights and guidance beyond the everyday perspectives of conditioned thinking.
1. Relax, close your eyes, and enter a meditative state in whatever way works for you by calming your mind and getting to a still, quiet, and deeply relaxed space. Perhaps by taking a hot soothing bath, listening to relaxing music, counting backwards, slowing your breathing, imagining pleasant imagery, or you might want to listen to the relaxation intro of a guided meditation recording if you have one.
2. When deeply relaxed, imagine a place in nature in your mind’s eye. This could be an somewhere you’ve been before, or somewhere entirely new made up with your imagination, whether it’s an ocean beach, forest grove, the bank of a riverside, a garden or meadow or mountain top.
If visualization isn’t your thing, just get in touch with a sense of it if nothing else, as this is what’s most important, and your intention is what matters.
Make this place as vivid as possible by engaging all of your senses. Try to see any sights you can in detail, smell the air, feel the breeze against your face, and the ground beneath you, reach out and touch something and make it real.
3. Now allow your Higher Self to come to you. For this, have them appear as a human being, likely your gender, seeing them walking towards you, some way away perhaps. They can adopt a human form to better interact with you. Don’t worry if you feel like you’re just imagining it or making it up; your imagination is a platform to help co-create the experience, and the energy of your Higher Self can still come and be with you.
4. See your Higher Self walk towards you. See the love in their eyes, and experience them reach out their hands to embrace you. Feel that embrace. Allow yourself to be received by them.
However vividly or vaguely you experience them, know that they are there and have come to be with you. Just be open to their presence.
If you find it easier, simply imagine them as shimmering light of some kind (such as spherical or oval in shape, or whatever feels comfortable).
Allow that light to wrap around and embrace you in its glowing love.
5. Now together, spend some time with your Higher Self. You may have some questions to ask, in which case see if you hear a reply or if an awareness, image or thought dawns on you. As I am more visual than audio inclined, I sometimes imagine my Higher Self with a white-board and see them writing answers, either in pictures or words, for example. Sometimes I get them to write a message with their finger on my back, letter by letter, as I am sensitive to touch.
Just be open and explore, there’s not q wrong or right way of doing this exercise. If you experience little consciously, that’s OK, just know that they are there for you and love you totally and unconditionally. Make an intention to open to this love if nothing else.
One thing you can do is simply lie down in this place in nature in your mind’s eye and ask your Higher Self to heal you. You may see or sense them placing hands over or upon areas of your body, or light or energy. You may feel emotions or thoughts move through you. You may sense nothing it all, which is also fine. Just be open to receive this healing and allow whatever needs to be done occur at a more subtle energetic level.
This meditation becomes more and more vivid with practice. Like everything in life, new pathways of experience need to be built through flexing like muscles.
If visualization isn’t your ‘thing’, I’ll be sharing a writing technique for connecting to your Higher Self in a future issue.

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor

What you focus on grows.....!

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'I achieve everything I need to succeed easily, effortlessly, excellently, enjoyably, smoothly, successfully, swiftly, marvelously and miraculously this week', and that's exactly what will happen:

I received this email from the Barefoot Doctor yesterday and I loved the above mantra he uses to create a fantastic week so I want to share it with you.  Also he gives a link to his song "Get Spanky" which makes me laugh out loud as it is both cheesy and meaningful!!!

Here it is......

Hi dear Jean

Faced with all the things you have to do this week, based on the
notion that what you focus on grows, tell yourself, 'I achieve
everything I need to succeed easily, effortlessly, excellently,
enjoyably, smoothly, successfully, swiftly, marvelously and
miraculously this week', and that's exactly what will happen: it's
pure wu wei magic.

In promotion of this notion, I let as many people as possible know
about the wee video I made with my friend Leakster, 'Get Spanky',
which compounds the what-you-focus-on-grows concept in comedic
style and so helps alter your approach to life from within by
appealing to your inner child. See it here:

http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=CRwp_&m=3bCOiSBpHN6C1uF&b=4NGDNh1Rz_gvuSXxgmzSTg

And because so many people were away at the time - I could tell by
the high number of out of office responders - I thought it only
proper both in service to you and the work, to let you know again
should you have missed it the first time round. There's an EP of
wonderfully consciousness-altering pieces with an edifying PDF
called 'What You Focus On Grows' now available at iTunes:

http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=CRwp_&m=3bCOiSBpHN6C1uF&b=KBLPjxvJsoFiNz.0pvTU5w

And there's a free audio podcast gift explaining the underlying wu
wei philosophy behind the music you might enjoy - click on the link
and scroll
down to the top audio entry:

http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=CRwp_&m=3bCOiSBpHN6C1uF&b=B1VJ0Y3E7B1VhRmEt2.JSA

And if you have seen Get Spanky and felt it changed your day let
everyone know about it, as it would be a great thing for us to
influence the whole world to focus on what they wanted to grow,
which beyond the selfish would ultimately be a world of peace, love
and plenty for all:

http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=CRwp_&m=3bCOiSBpHN6C1uF&b=4NGDNh1Rz_gvuSXxgmzSTg

May your day be resplendent with peace, love and plenty.

With love, BD

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor x

Tell me what you want...what you really, really want!

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"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want." Madonna

Monday Mantra for today..."I easily identify what I want in life and I truly believe I will receive it"

Quite often we dream about the future and let our imagination create wonderful pictures and scenarios where we have all we need for a magnificent life.  All too often we cancel out those dreams with negative doubts.

I have heard friends and clients say that they would like to move to a bigger house, with a large garden or they would like to change their careers.  Within the same sentence they have told me why it is not possible.  Lack of finances, slump on the housing market, fear of leaving a secure job etc etc.

When you idenitify what you want, dream it, see it, feel it and then simply get out of the way and just believe that it will happen.  Esther and Jerry Hicks recommend going into you "Creative Workshop", this is a 15 minute daydreaming period where you imagine what you want. 

EVERYTHING starts with a thought....so make your thoughts positive ones!

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor

This thing......called love...!

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I was sent these 25 fascinating facts about love that you may be interested in reading!  This was taken from http://www.inewsu.com/news/25-fascinating-love-facts

Love is a many-splendored thing … and a very surprising thing, too. As if you needed proof of that, here are 25 funny little facts about love. Study them, scratch your head over them, and share them with someone you fancy.
1. Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.
2. People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!)
3. When it comes to doing the deed early in the relationship, 78 percent of women would decline an intimate rendezvous if they had not shaved their legs or underarms.
4. Feminist women are more likely than other females to be in a romantic relationship.
5. Two-thirds of people report that they fall in love with someone they've known for some time vs. someone that they just met.
6. There's a reason why office romances occur: The single biggest predictor of love is proximity.
7. Falling in love can induce a calming effect on the body and mind and raises levels of nerve growth factor for about a year, which helps to restore the nervous system and improves the lover's memory.
8. Love can also exert the same stress on your body as deep fear. You see the same physiological responses — pupil dilation, sweaty palms, and increased heart rate.
9. Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate — the part of the brain involving cravings.
10. The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.
11. The "Love Detector" service from Korean cell phone operator KTF uses technology that is supposed to analyze voice patterns to see if a lover is speaking honestly and with affection. Users later receive an analysis of the conversation delivered through text message that breaks down the amount of affection, surprise, concentration and honesty of the other speaker.
12. Eleven percent of women have gone online and done research on a person they were dating or were about to meet, versus seven percent of men.
13. Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
14. The oldest known love song was written 4,000 years ago and comes from an area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
15. The tradition of the diamond engagement ring comes from Archduke Maximillian of Austria who, in the 15th century, gave a diamond ring to his fiancée, Mary of Burgundy.
16. Forty-three percent of women prefer their partners never sign "love" to a card unless they are ready for commitment.
17. People who are newly in love produce decreased levels of the hormone serotonin — as low as levels seen in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Perhaps that's why it's so easy to feel obsessed when you're smitten.
18. Philadelphia International Airport finished as the No. 1 best airport for making a love connection, according to an online survey.
19. According to mathematical theory, we should date a dozen people before choosing a long-term partner; that provides the best chance that you'll make a love match.
20. A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
21. Every Valentine's Day, Verona, the Italian city where Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet took place, receives around 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet.
22. When we get dumped, for a period of time we love the person who rejected us even more, says Dr. Helen Fisher of Rutgers University and author of Why We Love. The brain regions that lit up when we were in a happy union continue to be active.
23. Familiarity breeds comfort and closeness … and romance.
24. One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.
25. OK, this one may not surprise you, but we had to share it: Having a romantic relationship makes both genders happier. The stronger the commitment, the greater the happiness!

Wishing you all a fabulous weekend!

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor xxx

Wakey Wakey Sleepy Head..!

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I hope you all had a lovely bank holiday weekend and enjoyed an extra day at home to take it easy and maybe enjoy a long lie in bed without the ever familiar clanging of an alarm bell!

What is your usual morning routine?  Do you stir to an alarm clock?  Is your first thought of the day...."Hooray another wonderful new day?" or is it more....."Oh god, not another day at work?"

Mornings are a very good time to give gratitude to everything that you have in your life right now!  The cosy bed you have slept in. The clean covers that kept you warm. The sound of the birds chirping away outside. The person you wake up with.  The plentiful water you have to wash with.  The clean clothes you have to wear.  The breakfast food that you will eat etc etc.

How you set the tone of your day determines how the day will unfold.  It is worth spending a few minutes setting your intentions for that day.  What do you want to achieve?, Who do you want to connect with?, Where do you want to go?.  It is also good to set an intention that the day will be a wonderful day, stating it will go smoothly and effortlessly.

I start my mornings with the mantra that I am currently working with and then I spend a few moments with my arms outstretched whilst letting the universe, the Angels and the creator that I am open to miracles and magic in my life today, I am open to an abundance of joy, happiness, peace, love, creativity, solutions, financial flow and divine health.

It doesn't take more than a couple of minutes to set the tone of your day but you will really feel the benefits throughout the day!

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor x

The Awakening.......part 2!

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As promised last week, here is the second part of The Awakening, the words describe our journey through life so beautifully.

                                                                    The Awakening

A time comes in your life when you finally get it...
when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity,
you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice
inside your head cries out...ENOUGH!
Enough fighting and crying and blaming and struggling
to hold on.

Then, like a child quieting down after a tantrum, you
blink back your tears and begin to look at the world
through new eyes.

This is your awakening.

You realize it's time to stop hoping and waiting for
something to change, or for happiness, safety and
security to magically appear over the next horizon.

You realize that in the real world there aren't always
fairy tale endings, and that any guarantee of "happily
ever after" must begin with you... and in the process a sense of
serenity is born of acceptance.

You awaken to the fact that you are not perfect and
that not everyone will always love, appreciate or
approve of who or what you are... and that's OK.
They are entitled to their own views and opinions.

You learn the importance of loving and championing
yourself... and in the process a sense of new found
confidence is born of self-approval.

You stop complaining and blaming other people for the
things they did to you - or didn't do for you - and
you learn that the only thing you can really count
on is the unexpected.

You learn that people don't always say what they mean
or mean what they say and that not everyone will
always be there for you and that everything isn't
always about you.

So, you learn to stand on your own and to take care of
yourself... and in the process a sense of safety and
security is born of self-reliance.

You stop judging and pointing fingers and you begin to
accept people as they are and to overlook their
shortcomings and human frailties... and in the process
a sense of peace and contentment is born of forgiveness.

You learn to open up to new worlds and different points
of view. You begin reassessing and redefining who you
are and what you really stand for.

You learn the difference between wanting and needing
and you begin to discard the doctrines and values
you've outgrown, or should never have bought into to begin with.

You learn that there is power and glory in creating
and contributing and you stop maneuvering through life
merely as a "consumer" looking for your next fix.

You learn that principles such as honesty and
integrity are not the outdated ideals of a bygone era,
but the mortar that holds together the foundation upon
which you must build a life.

You learn that you don't know everything, it's not
your job to save the world and that you can't teach
a pig to sing. You learn that the only cross to bear
is the one you choose to carry and that martyrs get
burned at the stake.

Then you learn about love. You learn to look at
relationships as they really are and not as you would
have them be. You learn that alone does not mean lonely.

You stop trying to control people, situations and
outcomes. You learn to distinguish between guilt and
responsibility and the importance of setting boundaries
and learning to say NO.

You also stop working so hard at putting your feelings
aside, smoothing things over and ignoring your needs.

You learn that your body really is your temple. You
begin to care for it and treat it with respect. You
begin to eat a balanced diet, drink more water, and
take more time to exercise.

You learn that being tired fuels doubt, fear, and
uncertainty and so you take more time to rest. And,
just as food fuels the body, laughter fuels our soul.
So you take more time to laugh and to play.

You learn that, for the most part, you get in life
what you believe you deserve, and that much of life
truly is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

You learn that anything worth achieving is worth
working for and that wishing for something to happen
is different than working toward making it happen.

More importantly, you learn that in order to achieve
success you need direction, discipline and perseverance.
You also learn that no one can do it all alone, and
that it's OK to risk asking for help.

You learn the only thing you must truly fear is fear
itself. You learn to step right into and through your
fears because you know that whatever happens you can
handle it and to give in to fear is to give away the
right to live life on your own terms.


You learn to fight for your life and not to squander
it living under a cloud of impending doom.

You learn that life isn't always fair, you don't
always get what you think you deserve and that
sometimes bad things happen to unsuspecting, good
people... and you learn not to always take it
personally.

You learn that nobody's punishing you and everything
isn't always somebody's fault. It's just life
happening. You learn to admit when you are wrong and to build bridges
instead of
walls.

You learn that negative feelings such as anger, envy
and resentment must be understood and redirected or
they will suffocate the life out of you and poison
the universe that surrounds you.

You learn to be thankful and to take comfort in many
of the simple things we take for granted, things
that millions of people upon the earth can only
dream about: a full refrigerator, clean running
water, a soft warm bed, a long hot shower.

Then, you begin to take responsibility for yourself
by yourself and you make yourself a promise to never
betray yourself and to never, ever settle for less
than your heart's desire.

You make it a point to keep smiling, to keep trusting,
and to stay open to every wonderful possibility.

You hang a wind chime outside your window so you can
listen to the wind.

Finally, with courage in your heart, you take a stand,
you take a deep breath, and you begin to design the life you
want to live as best you can.
Author Unknown

I hope these words resonate deep within you where you seek and realise your own Awakening!

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor x