So after what was a very busy spring here at Slievenamon Holistic Therapy we have finally had three days of peace and quiet to attempt to catch up with ourselves before the next wave of activity.

February saw Fundamentals training here, followed by SNOW... everything ground to a halt for four days as the country was blanketed by the white stuff.
March - Advanced BioGeometry - this saw students having to navigate through, wind, rain and snow to get to class - everything mother nature could throw at us she did.
April was a Linking Awareness Journey here - the animal inhabitants excelled themselves helping guide students to where they needed to be.
May - off to the UK to facilitate a Linking Awareness Journey in Leicestershire - an amazing weekend; also the start of guests arriving here to avail of Garden Grove  https://www.airbnb.ie/rooms/24556762?s=51 or www.gardengrove.ie

All that hard work in January is starting to pay off slowly.

So June has been a little quieter, catching up with study, clients and correspondence. July looks like being busy so taking advantage of some space now. August - time to stretch the grey cells again with practitioner training for BioGeometry before heading to UK in Sept and having another class here before the winter.

Hope you have a wonderful summer - take time for yourselves, relax and enjoy the quiet moments when you can get them.

Starting something new can be a daunting task and some 'gurus' suggest creating a vision board and 'manifesting' what you see the project unfolding into.
This method can have mixed results - more often as not nothing happens. You then get despondent and start to believe that you are unable to achieve anything even when you create the most imaginative and dynamic vision boards.

I am speaking from experience here; two years ago I came across this phenomena through a very inspirational lady and then somehow I was being bombarded by life coaches promoting this method of moving forward. For want of something better to do I decided to give it a go, my clinic was taking time to get off the ground, I had been made redundant and I had to get things happening.

Well - I visualised, and I MindScaped but still nothing was changing as far as I could tell, if anything things were slowing down. This was not part of the plan. 

Roll on 6 months or so and I started to work more from my heart using my Linking Awareness tools; my perspective began to alter slightly but the whole vision board thing was still bothering me. I then learnt the next step though Tosha Silver - surrender. I got it wrong for the first bit, I thought that this was a great plan, just sit back and let it all happen no vision boards just surrender and if Divine means it to happen, it will. 

I was still missing the point here, yes Surrender but you also have to get off your backside and DO something to get things moving.

A great friend of mine called in to see me at the start of January and gave me an idea, something that I had been dead set against for the past 5 years, however this time I thought 'why not give it a go?'

So, I have weeded, cleaned gutters, moved 9yrs worth of rubbish (old builders materials), whitewashed raised beds, painted doors, laid new gravel, re-hung gates, put up post and rail fencing, taken trees out, cleaned a stream out, strimmed, mown the lawn. I have had a little help for which I am very thankful but I had to get the ball rolling.

So since starting this little project my clinic has got busier; international classes are filling up steadily. I am not sure where it is going to end up but it feels good to have actually got outside, got mucky and DONE something. I now have a pleasing vista out from my house and clinic if nothing else and hopefully it will be easier to keep clean and tidy.

Some of my vision board has materialised, upon reflection not sure I still want some of the things I thought I did. Take a look at www.gardengrove.ie it is a work in progress :-)

This was one of the best articles that I have read in a while so feel that I have to share it here: 
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Please take the time to read it - it is well worth it.

This week Ireland got battered by a hurricane called Ophelia, by the time she hit land she had been downgraded to a 'storm'.
We have seen heroic work by the repair teams to get power and services restored to over 300,000 homes. That may not seem like a huge number compared to the swathes of the Caribbean that have been hit badly this summer but for a little country not used to or prepared for such an event the response has been exceptional.

In the midst of all the upheaval, power gone, phone signals gone - the puppies, Bree and I sat through it with an old radio for company. Monday night, wind still blowing, sitting by the fire just being in the moment with the pups, there was little else to do, an enforced stillness during the storms blowing around me.  We were just there together.  I allowed myself the time to 'check-in' with some of my animal clients and see how they were, it was a real treat.

I forgot that this radio interview was going out today so when I got a couple of texts and messenger comments it was a lovely surprise - for those of you that missed it https://events.iteleseminar.com/?eventID=101322426

Time to continue the clear up here and the treasure hunt - however, Brian may hinder things this weekend. Class postponed this weekend due to the weather so the next one will be Linking Awareness Journey in November - come and join me on the most profound hike you will ever take, from your head to your heart.
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I was asked recently to do an interview for the Intuitive Pet Parent which was quite flattering to say the least. My little contribution goes out on the 19th October. The Intuitive Pet Parent is a COMPLIMENTARY online summit with 30 animal experts sharing their secrets to resolving energy imbalances, correcting behavioural concerns and enhancing the spiritual bond with your pet family members! This F.R.E.E. online summit begins Tuesday October 10th. Register now! 
http://www.theintuitivepetparent.com Together, we are holding a space for you and your animal companions. In that space, all things are possible for your highest and best. In that space, you’ll find the love and light you need to explore without judgment in your search for deeper meaning.



Sometimes you ask a question and it takes a few months to get an answer - in this case I asked Noddy in May and only got the answer on the 22nd September. You need patience working with animals, they are privy to more information than we give them credit for - our egos can and do get in the way at times and inhibit that intuition we all have.

I have facilitated my first BodyTalk Access for Animals and Humans class and hope that it is going to build from here on - the next class is here in October https://www.bodytalksystem.com/seminars/details.cfm?id=28623

Building on that the next Linking Awareness Journey will be at the end of November all being well 25th -27th.

Lyrics Eagles and Horses from album Flower that Shattered the Stone by John DenverHorses are creatures who worship the earth
They gallop on feet of ivory
Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth
The horses still run they are free
My body is merely the shell of my soul
But the flesh must be given its due
Like a pony that carries its rider back home
Like an old friend that's tried and been true
I had a vision of eagles and horses
High on a ridge in a race with the wind
Going higher and higher and faster and faster
On eagles and horses I'm flying again,
Eagles inhabit the heavenly heigths
They know neither limit nor bound
They're the guardian angels of darkness and light
They see all and hear every sound
My spirit will never be broken or caught
For the soul is a free-flying thing
Like an eagle that needs neither comfort nor thought
To rise up on glorious wings
I had a vision of eagles and horses
High on a ridge in a race with the wind
Going higher and higher and faster and faster
On eagles and horses I'm flying again,
I'm flying again, I'm flying again
My body is merely the shell of my soul
But the flesh must be given its due
Like a pony that carries its master back home
Like an old friend that's tried and been true
My spirit will never be broken or caught
For the soul is a free-flying thing
Like an eagle that needs neither comfort nor thought
To rise up on glorious wings
I had a vision of eagles and horses
High on a ridge in a race with the wind
Going higher and higher and faster and faster
On eagles and horses I'm flying again,
I'm flying again, I'm flying again
Written by John Denver, Joe Henry • Copyright © Reservoir One Music, Reservoir Media Management Inc, BMG Rights Management US, LLC

The power of a smell: the memories that can be dredged up, the emotions that can be stirred all by a smell.

Some friends came over on Sunday night and very kindly brought me roses, the smell in the house at the moment is divine.

Out riding this morning the smell of elderflowers and honeysuckle on the damp warm breeze, suddenly I was back at school with the smell of beeswax in the library, the doors open and the smell of honeysuckle drifting through the windows while studying for my final secondary school exams; next thing I am transported to the fields at home when I was a child and the sweet smell of the elderflowers all creamy fluffy and lacy. All of a sudden that trigger of beeswax, which I had not smelt but was a smell association, has taken me from a really happy relaxed childhood memory to one of fear and trepidation of my first night at boarding school when I was eight years old. Then Wham! Philadelphus wafts through the air and I am back at my childhood home again.

That sense of smell is so powerful with so many associations that for no apparent reason at all our emotions can end up being tossed like a dingy in a sudden squall. Every day there are thousands of triggers and not all of them cause a reaction that we are aware of consciously but the body may have subtle reactions that we are not aware of at the time. It is only later maybe hours or days later that the 'symptom' materialises but our association of the smell that triggered is long forgotten.

Sometimes we have words that trigger an association with smells - this morning I had the radio on in the kitchen while I was pottering about; Eritrea was mentioned and the border war there at the end of the 1990s. I was in Eritrea working in 1997 for some reason I could suddenly smell the dust and the heat, next came the cardamon tea and a memory of a small boy aged somewhere between 6-8 who wanted to study, he was living with his grandmother at the time. I think my boss bought him some copy books and pencils as well as a basket of fruit. Now twenty years later (well it will be in July) I wonder what happened to that boy, is he in Eritrea, was he forced to immigrate or was he killed during the bombing of Asmara in 1998.

​We touch indirectly so many people in our lives and sometimes the power of a simple smell can take us off down rabbit holes that we never even thought of.

Everything depends on how we look at it. This morning when Humboldt and Artemis woke me at 5.30am I got up and let them out before organising their breakfast and feeding the horses; then got myself organised and pottered about. During that time I was watching the birds flying around the garden, then planes flying overhead heading to London or Europe from the States; the bees starting to wake up as the sun was getting warmer. It was a whole new world that was being revealed to me. I am so used to going around the house and the stables without my glasses or contact lenses that I sort of do it by subtle sense now. This morning the clarity of vision was astounding - for a moment I did not realise that I had slept with my lenses in.
Sometimes all we need is a moment to notice something new, and that can change our whole lives. The picture is the same flower (Arum Lily) two taken from different angles and one rotated on the computer. The Arum is the flower used in my logo changing its perspective depending on how you look at it.
​Have a wonderful weekend.