My sacred space

My Sacred space

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Is in the mental realms, and is my space I go into and shut out all interference from the nay sayers. I have always enjoyed story’s about the Witch’s and when I knew they were connected to a way of being I wanted to know more.

“This Witch is that part of ourselves that yearns for the return of night (the unconscious hours),who leads us to seek out the uncivilised parts of our nature so that we may cultivate and extend her powers. This Witch isunrestrained by social mores, a true heretic of society and makes us connect with our real self when we feel that we dont fit in.”

The Whites Workshop

This is a perfect description of my feeling about my life in general,  I am Psychic Healer and work professionally has a Tarot Card Reader. I have never really described myself has a witch, but as life has progressed  I respect the term and I am completely open to new ways of being even if it is outside  what other people see for me or believe in themselves.

I could  no longer relate to the mainly male  religions and therefore did not fit in to the normal idea of how a spiritual person was perceived. So I began looking towards the  Goddess beliefs especially the Wicca belief and the fact that it was based on developing the strength and empowerment for  women which drew me to this practice because of my own background and my own need for this.

I began by finding a sacred space, what is a sacred space I hear you say, well to me, it’s a place that can be both  mental as in your imagination and dreams  and a psychical space such has a alter, favourite tree or a room tha t you have sole access to, where only your influence is felt and that it is charged with your positive energy.

This made perfect sense to me and was a good starting point because as a woman, life had  not always allow me  my  own space in any shape  or form due to the pressures of being someone mother,daughter, or wife.And this was especially true for me because where I lived at the time didnt offer me my space that I could say was sacred to just me. Around about that time my interest in being outside in nature became stronger and it is what we did has children to escape a lonely child hood. I began to relate to nature when I was five and always wanted to go into the woods and sit with the trees. This gave me the space I craved, pure oxygen and a sense of  higher self and how we conncet has one

Now I am luckier now in terms of where I live, especially my life situation and I enjoy making the space sacred just to me, which I have never had.  I  started this practice by having a place to meditate inside the house  as it is quiet difficult to meditate outside I needed somewhere inside. I choose the colours and the way it felt, and of course now I live on myown this is so much easier. This then extended to making an altar,  and developing my garden and eventually because it was so much fun the whole area  became a  place I could call sacred.

It helped so much and vital when I came to focus on my spiritual practices, has it leads me into a safe and peaceful mindset , where I can do my Tarot Card readings  and connect with my higher self listen to my guides and generally go in times of stress and feel the calm and secure.  I need to be able to develop a peaceful fulfilled life and this  part of the practice affords this and is the grounding for everything else.

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Say what you mean!

 

 

 

 

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Is easier to say than do and there is an art to this skill

and this is my attempt to do just that 

and my dedication to the spoken and written word

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I am part of several groups on the net

 

TarotForLife@groups.msn.com

 

This is a very good group and well recommended for those who are just starting out understanding and learning about the tarot.

The main strenght of the cards for me is on a creative level, is that I enjoy finding inspiration and enlightenment in the cards

Talking about Tantra: Politics of Sex

 

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Tantra: Politics of Sex

Margot Anand, teacher of the Tantra, extends the Jungian anima/animus concept to the politics of sex.

Talking about Inner Healing Power

 

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Inner Healing Power

To stand back and "witness" what is going on in your mind – instead of "being" your mind – requires meditation or, at the very least, the power of silence. This process can awaken an infinite source of healing energy.

Carl Roders

 

These are some of the books that the humanist author Carl Rodgers has written since he first started practicing as a psychologist and counselling practitioner.

The Therapeutic Relationship and its Impact – A Study of Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics.    Freedom to Learn—     Encounter Groups — Carl Rodgers On personal Power

 

Carl Rodgers writes of his fundamental belief in the subjective, observing that “ Man lives essentially in his own personal and subjective world and even his most objective functioning, in science mathematics and the like is the result of subjective purpose and subjective choice”

 

When I first encountered this man’s theories in the early 80’s it was like a weight had been lifted. Someone who had a similar believes to myself, and although I had tried hard to practice “absolute positive regard” for others I had never quiet made it because I was still living with very abused and abusive people. I was still abusing myself with various states of ways. After all it’s what we had learnt to do. When I first came across this theory was like something had sparked me off. Energy had been ignited. When I finally decided to qualify in counselling and I was training in Nottingham on Heathcoat Street where the Mushroom Bookshop had lived for many years, a very therapeutic area.

The day was barmy and life changing. We sat in a circle and I began to get really excited that I was going to watch Carl Rodgers on video practicing “Absolute Positive Regard” with a thin blond woman whom I barely remember and I cried when I heard him talk. So in need was I of a sign, that what I believed was the way, and that was very subjective to me.  And yes why wouldn’t you want to be treated with respect and basic human kindness. It all made sense; I was on to something, something big.

As with plants so with people and the notion that there is a “real world” and that people increasingly understanding and singing the Levellers Song “There is only one way of life and that’s your own”

It’s a luxury the world can not afford since it leads to false beliefs. His alternative hypothesis is there are as many realities as there are people and people are increasingly “inwardly rejecting the view of one single, culture- approved reality”.  I agree and this is where I am basing my belief system that I am unique to this world and I would just want what we all want Respect and Freedom to learn.

He coined the term “ The Actualising Tendency” which I seem to have a lot of and have been very curious about over the past few years. This is my story of my own learning and development of these features and the active processes that has developed its capacities in the direction of maintaining, enhancing and reproducing me.

 

 

The difficulties I have had has been when these Tendencies have been blocked. My attempt at wholeness and towards actualization of my potential has made me the happiest. One of the main reason I attracted both Counselling and Meditation was to explore where I was blocked, and how could I solve these mysteries without language and understanding of who I was, what had happened and how would I get there. Firstly I recognised that I had a concept of myself that was not the “real me” I had learnt to adapt; I had learnt behaviour that was no longer appropriate to my situation and was destructive. It had been placed there by others because they needed me to believe they were right and had for me to take these false beliefs on.

I did not have someone who loved me just for me no matter what I did, and this is where I feel that the need to have approval became greatest. For someone to give me Positive Regard helps me to experience myself as unique and loved