Hopeful

Those that know me, also know i that i love the way we sometimes are given messages that seemingly can seem coincidental,today i would like to share with one that made me smile.

i was treating a client today and afterwards had another mobile treatment and so i gave the client a lift back to there home as it was on my route.

As we spoke on the short journey back i was speaking of the future and how it would work out and as i said words to that effect i looked to my left and saw written on the back of someones car in white paint as big as the whole back of the car the words "hopeful"

Made us both smile,now you may say,coincidence,but i have never seen that written on the back of a car before in paint, grafitti, yes, "hopeful"...no

Our medicine come to us in ways we relate to, the term,when the student is ready,applies to all area's of our life

The next man i was going to treat was a man i met some 6 years ago when i worked in a hospice,and we have stayed in touch.He was a patient there and now in his 80s still going strong.

He had retired from his work when i met him, he owned many garages and petrol stations.He told me many years ago that he came out of the army with just his gratuity pay and from there him and his mate set up a little buisness fixing cars.
I say buisness, i mean they had an alley way and began there.

they built it up by repeat buisness, the trouble was his mate was a bit of drinker and unreliable and he thought i'll never get ahead like this.One day his mate was drunk and borrowed a car and he thought that enough i need to go alone.

He began to look around week after week without any success as the money they wanted was just to much,he could never afford it.One night after another unsuccessful recki he was comming down the bristol road and his car started to chug along then stopped.

He pulled over to the side,sat there demoralised,thinking i've had enough,forget it.
Then when he raised his head off his steering wheel,he looked to the left and saw an old run down garage, he walked over and went inside.

Looking around,he had the thought,this is the kind of place i could do up,and then a man came out on the reception and said "Can i help you squire"

"Yes" said my friend "I want to buy your garage"

The man said, "I am looking to sell i have had enough"

To cut a long story short,he did buy the garage and began there,the point of sharing this with you,is the simlarity in life.

Sometimes we break down in life and yet this can just the beginning of a new venture,the opening of something new,in fact to be honest i have never met anyone of any substance who hadn't broken down in life in some form either emotionally or physically.

It builds character,depth,ternacity,and usually puts the person in the direction that they should follow.

Sometimes,in fact most times we never see it when were in the midst of the mire,and so i see my job as someone who gets in the mire with another and says lets find a way out,and as we do so,we will find hope,such a powerful thing to hold onto isn't it.

I acknowledge also that the message was for me,as i am venturing out on my own with a new base to work from,and so i thank the painter whoever he/she/they are and i like you hold onto the message of hopeful......

See ya later
Stuart

An amazing thing happened today

An amazing little thing happened today at St Josephs were i go to on a Tuesday morning to teach a little exercise class and treat some of the residents.

Just as were about to begin,a new lady came in, she was 93 years of age,she said i don't know why i have come along, to which i replied
"Welcome to to the poetry class"
my sense of humour is not every ones liking.

We began our little exercise class and she soon realised poetry was not on the agenda,but she took to it and eased gently along.

I began to tell the little group about my new found relic i had sent off for,when the new lady,said she was a follower of Padre Pia and often prayed to him,only she had felt depressed since she had been new to the home and unsettled.

To which another one the ladies said that she had a relic form his robe, just to let you know Padre Pia was the first stigmatized priest in the history of Church.

Anyway,the new lady was captivated and lit up as she heard of a relic from his robe.

we finished the class and i decided to see if i could borrow the relic and give it to the new lady to help her with her depression. I managed to borrow it and proceeded to the new ladies room. I sat down and told her i have something for you,she held her hand out and i placed the relic,she was overjoyed and held it as she prayed.

It was fantastic to see that it meant so much to her, i said this will help you along and ease your depression.

Then what happened next was amazing,the door opened and another elderly lady walked in,holding a little photo and said to her, did you know Jean ?....to which the new lady replied yes, "she was my sister".

"yes" she said,i lived next to her in Ireland and she was my best friend i heard that you were here and i have come to see you,if there is anything you want from this day on, i will get it for you.I hope that from this day on we will be great friends.

Then she showed the photo of her sister to her and her face lit up,like two long lost sisters meeting for the first time,it was amazing.

I said to her, that's amazing i have just given her this relic of Padre Pio, to which she lit up and said that she had one also and was a devotee of his,and had prayed to him all her life for miracles..

I could not have made it up, they connected in a way that was quite beautiful.

I think i witnessed an act of God,an answer to her prayer that was played out with me passing on a relic of a saint and then the coming together of synchronises that were amazing.

I knew that she would be lifted and had discovered a new friend,it was the timing as much as anything, reminded me of a saying i love "Coincidence is Gods way of remaining anonymous"

Made me smile.

The power of intention

Their is a part of ourselves that knows our future, an intuitive part that guides to us to people and places that best serve us.

Let me give you an example of this,when i was in the building trade, i had this urge to swim and so i went three times a week, it was some months after this that i was was diagnosed with cancer and when i look back,it was the fact that i was so fit at that time that helped me along.I believe that is was my intuition preparing me for what was to come and it did.

I have seen many such incidences of peoples intuition playing it's part in their path in life.we sometimes think that we go to a certain place for one reason,but time reveals another reason.

Our intuition is our connection with something far greater than we realise and can be accessed by the power of intention.

When you set your intention on something that you really desire in life and affirm this with conviction, then you will find that synchronicities and coincidences happen in your life to enable this want to be fulfilled, you will meet people, walk past places that you have a connection with ext,let me give you another example of this.

I met a man years ago when i worked in a hospice,who was a wealthy man in his late 70's then who began to tell me the fascinating story of his life.

He said he came out of the army with his bursery,not much of anything and decided to fix cars around the back of his house with his mate.Their reputation grew and he built up a litte business. The trouble was his mate was a drinker and became not reliable and so this man set his intention of having a go on his own.

For months he held the idea in his mind, dreamed of one day having a successful business of his own.Then one day his mate came in drunk and wreaked a car and he thought enough is enough.The next day he began to look around,he went from garage to garage only to slowly realise that the money he would need to begin was huge and out of his price range completely.

After days of looking he finally began to think, this isn't going to happen and so one night he drove back home to totally disillusioned along the Bristol Rd, Birmingham, to top it all he said, my car started to chug along and finally came to a stop. He thought great after the week I've had this is all i need, he steered the car to the embankment and sat there and sighed........

Then he looked up and to the left was an old garage, he thought I'll see if i can get some help here and went in.As he entered he had the thought this is the kind of place i could make something of, run down but with potential as he had that thought he said an old man can to the counter and said

"Can i help you squire? "

Yes,he said "i would like to buy your garage"

As it happens the man said "i am looking to give it up"
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Then began the process of this man buying and beginning his own business which all began with his intention and led to him breaking down outside a garage.

You will find if you set your intention and it's right, then life will support you in ways such as this.

Remember "coincidence is Gods way of remaining anonymous"

That "it is your intention that moves you towards people and places that best serve you,but it is your intuition that guides you".

The Secret

The Secret

It seems we are told the story about how to create more wealth more abundance and yet in truth we misunderstand that the things of real value lie not in attaining more but in appreciating and forgiving each other.

I worked in a hospice as a volunteer some years ago, i went in believing i could cure all those i touched and yet i learned that healing is sometimes about softening a path for another and simply offering a hand to hold or just to "be" with another.

I met all walks of life there, i watched a woman be wheeled out each morning on her bed so that she could feel the warmth of the sun or feel the rain upon her skin as that moment could be her last chance.

I learned to respect anothers acceptance of there time had come,i learned that determination carries a person only so far,i learned that wisdom is nothing about how long a person has lived for but about the insight they have gained as they pass through life.

In all my time there no one wanted to spend time with there big house or ferrari.

Here's the real secret,what people wanted was to do was to tell another "i Love you" to spend as much time as they had left by being with another human being.That may not be fashionable to say these days,but it is true.

I learned my secret here, that what matters most in this life is love,and the simple things in our life.Yet we pursue with a passion things of "value" that are really meaningless in the context of life. We are brainwashed and cultivated to believe money and matter are Gods and yet deep down we know this isn't true.

I can guarantee you this much, you will feel the same ,if you were to ask a millionaire swap your million for one more hour with someone you have loved every time they would without hesitation swap.

So you have value in your life the moment you nurture the love you have,the moment you awake to the realisation the simple things in life answer your deepest needs.

I believe there is a continuation in life, that what we strive for is somehow carried forward in our children or those we have met, that nothing is wasted in life,nothing is ever truly lost.

That the real secret the real journey in our lives is the return to love and each experience of adversity gives us the opportunity to learn to love

Love is the only true healing balm apply is where necessary to oneself and others.

a return to love

I was at health show last week in Birmingham and spoke to Dr David Hamilton who was signing his book on how the mind heals the body, he said "The evidence in mind-body science is compelling" he says "You can’t have a thought or hold a belief without affecting your brain and body.

I know this to be true out of my own experience, and in fact so do us all, we are all familiar with feeling depressed and no energy, anger and neck ache, frustration and headaches. Or feeling happy and lighter in the body, more positive and more energy and yet somehow the connection between mind and body is lost and forgotten when we speak of recovery from a life threatening illness.

Yet it is so blindingly obvious, that our story is being played out in our life through the symptoms (disease) that we express.

People tell me some amazing things about their lives as I treat them and I listen, but in truth their body always tell me the truth of what is really going on in their life.

I have developed the ability to listen into the body and I find it fascinating because I can quite clearly see the connection between the name of the disease and their thought patterns.

I can also feel as I touch someone the blockages in their system, my fingers will stop on an acupressure point automatically now until I acknowledge it to myself.

In my opinion and from my own experience the symptoms expressed as any disease are a collection of thoughts that have moved away from love.

Healing then becomes the name we give for the journey of self discovery back towards this state of mind.

We each play out our childhood history and even the present living moment not just in our relationships but also in our health.

I have seen the connection between anger, resentment and cancer and I have also seen the connection between remissions when forgiveness is applied.

I have seen the effects of stress on the mind in so many ways that has led to conclude that
each chronic illness undoubtedly has a psychological component to it and until we address those issues we will never really cure much of anything.

A holistic approach to health treats the whole person, in that process we can use our minds to correct our misconceptions about our past and develop a new way of thinking that ultimately shapes our life for the future.

I know that the body always tells me the truth of anyone life that I treat, I also know that the overriding function is to heal itself

When we use the mind alongside touch to support and nurture that process we give ourselves a path towards health and vitality that we can build upon.

When my son was first diagnosed with Crohns disease, I remember holding him and saying what can I do, in a silent prayer I asked.......... and from the corner of my mind came one of the most profound affirmations I have ever received

I heard these words” Love is the only true healing balm, apply it where necessary to oneself and others"

illness could just be the opportunity you needed to take the journey back towards love.....

keep looking for angels

Those of you who know me know that i am always looking for co-incidences becuase they are my way of confirming i am not alone in this life.

I want to tell you a story from a client i treated last week that bring home my search for these so called synchronicites.

A lady i have treated for a while told me of her sister and how close there relationship was and how they had even shared the same house all of there lives and had never married but had lived a full life.

She said when her sister died,she was so full of grief so much so she could no longer live alone in the house they had shared and moved into another one.Her sister remained on her mind daily and grief was not something she could pass through easily.

One day i came back from a day out she said,it seemed even on the days i tried to distract myself i carried the grief, as i opened up the garage door to put my car in,i noticed on the floor a liitle statue of jesus carrying a lantern.

she showed me the little statue she found about 2 inches high, the thing is she said when me and my sister were young, my mother used to tell us a story about Jesus and the light of the world ,it was her favourite story,and the statue was the significant image i always held.

She said"I honestly don't know where this little statue came from,i know it wasn't there when i left and could not have blown under the garage door, whet i do know was it was so significant to me and gave me comfort.To anyone else it would not have meant much but to me,it meant the world and from that place i began to let go of the grief in a different way.

I love these stories,and will to share with you amongst other thoughts these simple honest stories with the hope that they make you smile in some way.

You know medicine comes in so many ways dosen't it ? if you could bottle that comfort this particular incident had on this lady,prescriptions would look like this "Love is the only true healing balm"