How To Create A Better Reality

I   ❤️   Creating My Own Reality

Some people laugh when I serve up tea in my customized mugs saying how we create our own reality but I think that’s because they think that might make them responsible for all the bad things that happen. But note the

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This is really good news but obviously only when you start creating consciously rather than by mishap. It is not about slapping a determined positive thought process over a current one. It starts with a determination instead to notice your thoughts and thereby get a perspective on them – which will consist of making an observation, following a cascade of thoughts, like ‘that is not necessarily true, though’. You will be amazed how strong a hold your mind has over your whole being and life experience. It constantly tells us, ‘look I’ve thought about that already, so it’s true.’ And that is even if it’s the most unhelpful or dark thought, judgement or belief about yourself or anything else that you can come up with. 

Peace of Mind

Your thoughts are not the truth; they are a constant stream of superficial old thoughts replayed. You may not think that your thoughts are judgmental but we are constantly judging situations as good, better, worse, great or terrible, a sorry state of affairs or a turn of events in the right or wrong direction. There is zero neutrality and that means no peace for the mind. You will always be on the up or a down, never a stable place of acceptance, without drama or resistance. 

The Collective Consciousness 

The problem is that if you just try and pour some pristine, crystal, blue lagoon-water-thoughts into such a pool, it is immediately contaminated by the rest. People talk about the collective consciousness but it’s our immersion in the collective unconsciousness that worries me: All that casual intolerance to one another, cynicism, justifying violence and indifference and the cost on all levels. 

So, how to clean the pool without using chlorine and fluoride (which is like the equivalent to a labotamy)?! Awareness is the key. Personally, I take tracts of inner landscape and look for any entrenched ideas. Then, in the light of that awareness, fill all the new headspace with epic alternative ideas, however unlikely and not-yet-true they seem to be. I am a great believer in the statement that ‘the story you tell becomes the foundation of your life’ I shake out the old ideas by not taking them too seriously and stretching the neural pathways a little. 

What are your favourite words?

A quick way to get inside and see what’s going on in your mind is to stop right now and think of the last thing you talked about and the words you find you use often. For example, if you reply, routinely, to ‘How are you?’ with ‘Sure, you know, I’m overworked, underpaid, got a lot of problems with my joints but can’t complain, mustn’t grumble!! Then that is, unsurprisingly a disastrous creation in terms of perpetuating an old reality. You’ve got to change the story line and make it a classic.

If we don’t take this concept on board, a person will be forever at the mercy of fate, whim and accident. So it is at least worth putting time aside to practice. 

How To Clear Your Energy and Geopathic Stress - Kilkenny, Ireland

Back by popular demand, I've decided to run this course again. Starting next Saturday 28th April.

Pendulums I've made in readiness, although bring your own if you have a favourite crystal or pendant

An Experiential Workshop where participants will be clearing each other from the start. So prepare for your heart to be lifted and help others at the same time.

This course is run over 3x2hr sessions over 3 weeks (Tuesday evenings or Saturday afternoons - which can be agreed between those who check in next Saturday 28th!)

I charge €60 which is payable at the beginning but covers the full course. Further optional reading material includes my book How To Live As One (€10) which takes a deeper look at what we carry around but will now be able to clear! And my angel cards (€15), which introduce concepts that will need further practice as your consciousness awakens, like not taking things personally and learning to genuinely appreciate oneself ... and another 50 that I can't go into right now!

Course Structure

Week One: How to use the pendulum and introduction to the personal energy fields.

Week Two: Introduction to the environmental energy fields and how to clear them.

Week Three: Consolidating good responses and good practice.

Painting Symbolism - Lynx Relaxing

Not all of nature has a purpose. Taking a nap in a sunbeam is valid.

I think it’s important to start with a discussion of the merits of relaxing. Often it is thought about as something external, as something you do. It is considered a little self indulgent and only justifiable after several days of hard work. Most people have favourite ways to ‘switch off’ and that is a sort of forgetting about the situations you’re dealing with, for a while. All these ideas, I’m afraid to say, are mistaken. Relaxing is internal, like the deep breath you take just before you fall asleep.

Rather than being indulgent or unjustified, it is the only way you can take responsibility for your actions. If you are relaxed inside, you will not be reactive to the people around you or events that happen. Furthermore, the quality of the people and events that show up will improve too.

The real route to wellbeing therefore is to switch on rather than switch off. Become conscious of what is happening inside you and if that is stress, address it head on. Do not let it manifest instead as heartburn, a headache or irritability. If you have ever experienced someone ‘rubbing you up the wrong way’ it is only because, inside, you are stressed. Probably all arguments, fights and accidents are aggravated stress.

When we find ourselves thinking about something a lot we tend to think that there really is something there that needs to be thought about. When we think someone has done wrong, be it our own guilt or blame, we carry it around with accompanying bad feelings. If we worry, we assume there is something to worry about. If we are stressed, we assume that something genuinely stressful is happening and if we are tired, we suppose that things are tiring. 

However, thinking, blaming, stress and exhaustion are all different forms of hardened resistance. Our energy is not flowing, our minds are not open and tolerant; our hearts are heavy and ignored. You will notice that thoughts go down the same roads every day. You will hopefully also now notice how your thoughts depress your emotions and bring a sort of permanent fatigue into the physical body too. So, if you have ever felt demotivated, that is what is going on.

A direct experience of this I had was with the social welfare. I had always been sure that they were waiting for people to slip up, say the wrong thing, tick the wrong box or declare something in good faith that they can use to justify taking you off their register, of people needing assistance. I had made just such a declaration and they had said that my ‘earnings weren’t from self employment’, they were from a ‘change of circumstance’ which I had not heard of before. That first night, I contemplated what might happen and I could not sleep. The anxiety took shape in my chest as a feeling of rigidity and in my mind as a sort of paralysis. When you can’t do anything practical, it is a real opportunity to practice working on the underlying dynamics that are what are really hurting you anyway. I closed my eyes and said ‘this is neither good nor bad’ and ‘I am so grateful that things always work out alright’. I couldn’t be sure either of these statements were true. Saying them, though, is like a training in talking yourself down from the ledge of self destruction. What would your friends say? ‘Don’t worry, we’ll deal with it’. Soon you will be able to say to yourself, ‘Right here right now, everything is okay. I’m warm, I’m safe, I’m having a good rest before looking at what I need to do next’. You are literally telling yourself what you’re doing, why and how it’s going to turn out. That way, sleep comes easily. When feeling particularly feisty, cultivate the determination to let nothing and no one disturb your peace of mind…especially anyone that is making your life difficult.

I started my working life as a social worker and laboured under the illusion that if I took time off from caring, there would be no one caring what happened to the people on the streets. More recently, I learnt that a human being needs to conserve their energy by responding effectively and authentically to the world around you but when you’re on your own? Return to being happy and contented. It is a replenishing choice.  

The first steps towards relaxation are usually experienced as a softening of the intellect and a relaxing of the ego’s hold (which in simple terms is a vice grip that people are held in that tells them ‘I think this so it must be true’ and ‘I am nothing more than I think I am). Relaxation is therefore crucial to allow you to realize and become conscious that you are so much more than a sum of your parts and the sum of your past.

Naps are a good place to start and moving to the side of the house where the sun shines in the window, over the course of the day. For sustainable relief from stress, start clearing it. Identify one mental, one emotional, one physical and one environmental stress that you are dealing with. An example of mental stress, could be an upcoming test or interview; emotional stress could be a critical partner or even critical inner voice; a physical stress could be an old injury or a demanding lifestyle with children to lift, animals to feed, blocks to be carried or whatever; an environmental stress could be damp accommodation or a smoky fire.

The majority of stresses though are unseen and so not considered. Take the power nap opportunity to set a general intention to clear all the stresses you are under. Let your sleeping, dreaming mind unwind the stresses it comes across, while you are out for the count. R&R provides vital perspective.

Easter In Ireland This Year

Plant and Animal Life 

Easter Sunday in County Kilkenny is a beautiful still day, with daffodils out all over the place and the twinkle of dew to be seen on every blade of grass. There is just the green and brown of Autumn. Winter thankfully doesn’t kill everything in Ireland but Spring and it’s multitude of colours hasn’t come yet. I worry for the farmers who need to sow crops but know that the soil is not warm enough and the temperatures could drop so sharply, on occasion, over the next few months that seedling won’t make it or blossom will not have time to form fruit. I don’t like to think about the farmers behind the lambs I see everywhere. I know they work hard but those lambs are so spindly and delicate and brand new, their mothers so proud and protective. It can’t be right that their only value is as a pound of flesh.

Painting - Lambs at the Secret Valley Wildlife Park

Lambs in Real Life Growing Up in Kilkenny

Lambs being carted off

 

Lamb of God: Jesus' Life

I have thought about life cycles a lot this week. My father is inspired by Jesus’ life and has written three books about Easter specifically. He is sure that Jesus' message was about how to live and what to do with our time here. Rather than getting bogged down in religion and it’s ceremonious and sometimes sanctimonious actions and observations, let's consider the fact that Jesus washed the feet of his friends at the last supper. I think we are to take from that that we are to help, serve and love one another.

Everyone Else's Lives

I wrote a book once from the perspective of various animals I knew well. Two chapters were from two of my childhood friends, Charlie and Tink, bullocks that lived in a field next to my house. However, it was Jonah, my parents’ dog, that pointed out the difficulties in my Dad’s argument. He felt that such a focus on one death did not do justice to the reams of unacknowledged deaths that have taken place before and since Jesus.

Jonah and Co.

A very beloved man was killed this week in Kilkenny out of the blue. So noone I know is thinking about Jesus. If anyone is going to be resurrected, can it please be Peter. For Aine, Leanne, his brother and parents, Geraldine and the hundreds of devastated friends and relations left behind. A wonderful soul, taken too early. 

What if cows are sacred? This is where they stand in India.

Finians

Kane's Bridge

Immortalized in cave painting

Warrior Cows of Standing Rock campaign.

Calves at Paulstown service station

Millions of Hindus revere and worship cows. Hinduism is a religion that raises the status of Mother to the level of Goddess. Therefore, the cow is considered a sacred animal. The cow is seen as a maternal figure, a care taker of her people. The cow is a symbol of the divine bounty of earth.

Lord Krishna, one of the most well known of the Hindu deities is often depicted playing his flute amongst cows. Krishna also goes by the names Govinda and Gopala, which literally mean “friend and protector of cows.” It is considered highly auspicious for a true devotee to feed a cow, even before eating breakfast oneself.

Throughout the Vedic scriptures there are verses which emphasize that the cow must be protected and cared for. It is considered a sin to kill a cow and eat its meat. Even today in India, there are many states in which the slaughter of cows is illegal. That is why you can find cows roaming freely all over India, even along the busy streets of Delhi and Mumbai.

Cows provide many practical purposes, and are considered a real blessing to the rural community. On the farm, bulls are used to plough the fields and as a means of transportation of goods. Even Lord Shiva’s trusted vehicle is Nandi– the sacred bull.

Cow dung is saved and used for fuel, as it is high in methane, and can generate heat and electricity. Many village homes are plastered with a mud/cow dung mixture, which insulates the walls and floors from extreme hot and cold temperatures. Cow dung is also rich in minerals, and makes an excellent fertilizer. There is a big organic farming movement in India to return to ancient methods of utilizing cow dung to re-mineralize the depleted soil.

In such a spiritual land as India, one can find religious ceremonies taking place at any time and any place. Spiritual “yagnas” are fire ceremonies that performed to thank the Gods and receive their blessings. Cows even play a central role in these fire yagnas or Agnihotras. Scientific research has found that the ritual of burning cow dung as fuel for these sacred fires, actually purifies the air, and has anti-pollutant and anti-radiation qualities in the environment.


Ayurveda understands that some physical and emotional health crisis can not be healed by diet and herbs alone. They need the deeper and subtler healing of these types of Vedic ritual ceremonies to clear astrological past karma. The holy cow again is auspicious in healing.
Holy Cow Article

The Meaning and Symbolism of My Art - one subject matter at a time! Pigs!

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I got a lovely review of my art show last night. She said how she'd loved the colour combinations and hearing about the symbolism and meaning of all the paintings. It would be too much to write but this one came to mind again today 

 

I learnt something new today.

Pigs understand reasoned arguments better than simple commands!

Approximately the same amount of times I have called out to the dog “On the paper’ to remind him to crap outside, I have said ‘Back! to the pigs. But they won’t go back they only go forwards. They will not be ordered and they will not ushered. However, they always welcome an invite, like ‘Come On!’ Becky will literally break into a canter at such times. And don’t doubt her motives; she is as delighted with a stroke behind the ears as a bit of carrot or a quick conversation.

It was just such a conversation I was having with Legend a minute ago. He was nudging the backdoor having seen me inside. I opened it a fraction and I said ‘This time, your approach is slightly back firing isn’t it Legend because you pushing the door makes it difficult for me to come out and say hello’. He looked at me briefly and then carefully reversed off the step and stood still there instead. So I had to go out then, didn’t I, and give him a hug and a rub. 

He reminded me that I used to write something that he specifically wanted me to articulate every day, or week at least. So I think I had better reintroduce those insights ‘From the pigs perspective’.

Pigs Have Memories

Today he wanted me to share that pigs have memories. He remembers his piglet siblings, his mum and what he and Becky got up to!  

Secondly, he said they can tell if someone eats meat still. I asked if it made him aggressive or a little scared. He said no, he is extra sociable and winning, with an eye on the bigger picture of eliciting some empathy for other pigs, going forwards.

Crikey, he’s just like me!


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Imagine for a moment the absolute terror of being torn away from your family as a child, mutilated, and imprisoned in a dark, crowded shed with other children for months – no doubt you wouldn't wish that suffering on anyone. Yet that's exactly what happens to the smart, sensitive pigs who are born on massive industrialised farms.

Pigs can live for 10 to 12 years in nature, but on factory farms, few will ever see their first birthday. When piglets are just weeks old, their tails are chopped off, their teeth are ground down, and males are castrated, all without any painkillers. The animals' lives are spent in a filthy warehouse prison until they're about 5 months old. That's when they are dragged out, thrown onto a lorry, and driven off to the abattoir, where they're stunned with electric tongs, suffocated with carbon dioxide, and hoisted upside down by their back legs so workers can cut their throats. Many remain conscious throughout the horrifying process.

PETA and our international affiliates expose the misery pigs endure from birth until the moment they are violently killed at the abattoir, and in doing so, we help change people's eating habits, bring about reforms that reduce suffering, and get abusers locked up. Investigators have documented workers kicking mother sows, beating them with metal gate rods, and poking them in the eyes. Footage from one hideous facility shows a worker slamming piglets considered "runts" against the ground head first to kill them.

It's essential that PETA and our affiliates release dramatic video such as this to make a difference for animals: this case resulted in the state of Iowa's first-ever felony cruelty convictions of factory-farm workers. Tens of thousands of advocates took action after PETA Germany revealed the suffering of pigs on a farm owned by three German MPs. The poor animals could barely walk, suffered from eye infections and bloody tails, and were covered with faeces and crammed together on cold, damp concrete floors.

PETA is defending the public's right to know about this cruelty and pushing for reforms that improve animals' lives. An eyewitness on a UK farm discovered pigs with open wounds and injuries, used syringes and bottles of antibiotics strewn about, and piles of young, dead piglets simply left to rot. But as we've seen, conditions such as these are common at many of the world's abattoirs and farms, and that's why PETA works with caring local people to challenge plans to build them as soon as they threaten to spring up.

Help us spread compassion for pigs and other animals who are being exploited, abused, and killed by the millions at this very moment. The best way to spare pigs, cows, and other animals immense suffering in the food industry is to go vegan, and every day, we're persuading thousands of people to shun animal "products". Our work is making it far, far easier for compassionate people to choose vegan foods – with resources such as free vegan starter kit, mouth-watering recipes, and more. We're also collaborating with top restaurant chains such as Pizza Express and JD Wetherspoon to help them develop more vegan options.

Our headline-grabbing demonstrations, events, and celebrity endorsements are keeping media and consumer attention focused on the animals we're working to help. And we're confronting the meat industry head-on. We recently mobilised thousands of supporters to help get plans rejected for a massive farm in Rugby that would have sent thousands of pigs to slaughter annually. With your help today, we'll be able to reach more people, distribute more vegan starter kits, release more cruelty exposés that prompt consumers to make compassionate food choices, and launch more hard-hitting campaigns that improve animals' lives.


The above information is PETA's great article and work - this is the link to support them. I do every month because we have to help each other as well as the animals I reckon!

45 Paintings!

 Tellwell and Thinkerbell, The Philosopher Ponies

Abundance Arriving On Angels' Wings. Gold Frame with Glass

 Happy Family - Gold Frame With Glass

Getting Married But Still Shy. Gold Frame with Glass

 Friends and The Black Dog. Gold Frame with Glass

Portal at Kilkenny Castle Natural Wooden Frame

Leave Her Alone, She's With Me. White Frame

Wild Spray at The Lighthouse. White Frame

Evening Drinks. White Frame

Back To The Cottage. Black frame with glass

Unicorns over New York Skyline. White Frame

Home For The Summer. White Frame

 Looks Like Our Ships Are Coming In. White Frame

Ram and Ewe in the Gorse. White Frame

Destined MX5 Meeting. White Frame

 Camel Crew. White Frame

Happy Pirates White Frame

Romantic Moment, Tantra Tents. White Frame

Salsa Spins. White Frame

Giraffe Dance Floor White Frame with glass

 Dog Spirit Guides. White Frame

 Sustainable Living White Frame with glass

Lynx Moment with Dancing Ladies White Frame

Deer Family. Gold Frame with glass

 Fulmar Gulls and Seals Back of the Island. Watercolour. White frame with glass

Hen Eating 

Hen on Golden Egg

Soulmates Gold Frame

Unicorn and Dragon- White and gold inner frame

Planet Earth with Dancing Continents. Gold Frame

Windy and Magic. Watercolour. White frame with glass

Who Wants To Ride Billy Joe? Gold Frame with glass

Lovers In The Sand Dunes. White Frame with glass

Jonah, Zola and Sky

Metatron's Cube White frame

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Deer of County Clare. White Frame with glass

Feel Good, Look Good. White Frame with glass

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Autumn Walk. White Frame With Glass

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Lioness To Water - White Frame with glass

Who Let The Dogs In

Twilight Meeting

Communing - Waiting for the farrier

How To Live As One - Cover of my book