Mindfulness Meditation

Soul Therapy life-change seminars share the secrets to a fulfilling, happy and successful life.

For every concern, issue and challenge in life there are lighted pathways, excellent pointers, and profound markers. There is a wealth of knowledge and experience available from great thinkers, spiritual leaders and people who have lived successful and interesting lives.

The Mindfulness Meditation seminar teaches Mindfulness meditation to encourage freedom, healing and happiness. Buddhist teachings state that Mindfulness or ‘right mindfulness’ is a critical factor in the path to liberation and enlightenment.

Mindfulness techniques derived from Buddhist meditation are increasingly being employed in Western psychology to help alleviate a variety of psychological and physiological conditions. Mindfulness-based therapies and meditation elicit positive improvement for a number of medical and psychiatric conditions, notably depression and substance abuse (Melemis 2008:141-157), recurrent suicidal behaviour (Williams et al. 2006), chronic pain (McCracken et al. 2007) and stress (Grossman et al. 2004).

Bishop et al. (2004:232) say that psychological mindfulness is a kind of nonelaborative, nonjudgmental, present-centred awareness in which each thought, feeling, or sensation that arises in the attentional field is acknowledged and accepted as it is.

Mindfulness meditation focuses the conscious awareness on one’s immediate experience (thoughts, feelings, and surroundings) and immediate events in the present moment. It also encourages the attitude of curiosity, openness and acceptance to one’s experiences.

Soul Therapy life-change seminars explore fresh ideas, meaningful tools and useful techniques to enhance the quality of your life.

Stephen Shaw offers personal consultations as a psychic/clairvoyant therapist, shamanic energy worker, transformational life coach and hypnotic life strategist. He also facilitates life-change seminars to help people reach their dreams, discover abundance, and attain a deeper experience of life and love and joy. For more magic information please visit Soul Therapy Bristol and London, UK.

Drugs vs Teacher Plants

The most common drug abuses in the Western world range from alcohol binges and nicotine to cannabis and cocaine. All recreational drugs are known to have serious mental, psychological and physiological side effects. From minor hallucinations, anxiety, depression, intense paranoia and panic attacks to erosion of brain function, lung cancer, upper digestive tract cancers, breast cancer, liver disease, and heart attacks.

Recreational drugs also damage your energy field and your connection to the Creative Life Force, pushing you further away from what you most need! This is the hidden cost of recreational drug-taking.

I have never used recreational drugs for these reasons, and I strongly advise my clients and friends to never use recreational drugs. It's just not worth it.

However, recreational drugs are vastly different to the miraculous and mystical teacher plants San Pedro (Cactus of Vision) and Ayahuasca (Vine of the Soul). These teacher plants are non-addictive with no side effects and have incredible natural abilities to heal on the psychological, emotional and physical levels. Many partakers say they feel like they had a year of psychotherapy in one session with a teacher plant. Others have moved from agnosticism to believing in the Creative Life Force. Many people experience profound life changes and a deeper understanding of life and love.

San Pedro and Ayahuasca (and chacruna) are entheogens, meaning they assist you to 'meet God within'. These psychoactive teacher plants have been used for thousands of years for healing and transcendence. It is absolutely crucial that they are consumed under the supervision of a shaman or spiritual guide. These teacher planets are not recreational drugs!

Also, the importance of set and setting cannot be overstated: this is your personal intention and the environment in which you take the teacher plants.

The Soul Therapy Magic Trip in Peru involves soul healing and life-change sessions guided by Stephen Shaw. It also includes mystical and profound journeys with the ancient and sacred teacher-plants San Pedro (Cactus of Vision) and Ayahuasca (Vine of the Soul). All journeys are run in a sacred, secure, gentle and loving environment in the beautiful Temple of the Moon Garden, and facilitated by Stephen and carefully chosen first-rate Peruvian shamans. For more information, please go to the Soul Therapy website.

Stephen Shaw offers personal consultations as a psychic/clairvoyant therapist, shamanic energy worker, transformational life coach and hypnotic life strategist. He also facilitates life-change seminars to help people reach their dreams, discover abundance, and attain a deeper experience of life and love and joy. For more magic information please visit Soul Therapy Bristol and London, UK.

Mastering The Living Energy

Soul Therapy life-change seminars share the secrets to a fulfilling, happy and successful life.

For every concern, issue and challenge in life there are lighted pathways, excellent pointers, and profound markers. There is a wealth of knowledge and experience available from great thinkers, spiritual leaders and people who have lived successful and interesting lives.

The Mastering The Living Energy seminar shares the secrets of spiritual masters and advanced esoteric energy practitioners, like the Peruvian Q’ero shamans and Vajrayana Buddhists. We are approaching a spiritual and energetic transition point on our planet, and it is time for the sacred knowledge to be revealed. Learn to shift consciousness, vibration and living energy in order to create and alter personal and social reality. Learn to travel in the sacred world. Learn to positively change your own energy, your relationships, your work, your love life, and your lifestyle. Then use these mystical skills to assist others to change their lives.

At a time when the planet seems in a vice-grip of elitist power, financial chaos, information spin and deceit, and social and environmental exploitation ... something is happening ... a powerful undercurrent of change. This is being initiated by ancient spiritual masters who are finally revealing their sacred knowledge so that men, women and children around the world can be part of a movement of personal and profound change.

Each one of us can master the sacred energies to create a personal life of fulfillment and joy, and a world that is sensible, healthy, caring and peaceful. We can change our own lives, and we can transform our planet. It is up to us, and not dependent on the crumbling hierarchies and gatekeepers of power, money, persuasion, commerce and religion.

Please note, you need to complete the Crossing The Hummingbird Bridge seminar before you may attend the Mastering The Living Energy seminar.

Soul Therapy life-change seminars explore fresh ideas, meaningful tools and useful techniques to enhance the quality of your life.

Stephen Shaw offers personal consultations as a psychic/clairvoyant therapist, shamanic energy worker, transformational life coach and hypnotic life strategist. He also facilitates life-change seminars to help people reach their dreams, discover abundance, and attain a deeper experience of life and love and joy. For more magic information please visit Soul Therapy Bristol and London, UK.

Crossing The Hummingbird Bridge

Soul Therapy life-change seminars share the secrets to a fulfilling, happy and successful life.

For every concern, issue and challenge in life there are lighted pathways, excellent pointers, and profound markers. There is a wealth of knowledge and experience available from great thinkers, spiritual leaders and people who have lived successful and interesting lives.

The Crossing The Hummingbird Bridge seminar is an experiential journey into a new way of being. The world is changing rapidly and there is a powerful spiritual shift taking place. The New Age movement is passé. People are rising up throughout the world and an amazing transformation is happening. We no longer need labels: it is simply a journey into being, self-acceptance, love, freedom, energy and planetary change. Will you be part of it, or will you be a late starter?

This seminar is the beginning of your transition into the energy world. It incorporates aspects of shamanism, which is an ancient philosophy and practice based on energy, freedom, unconditional love, compassion, and an appreciation of the mystery of life. Shamanism is not a religion or a ritualised dogma. It is simply a joyous and loving way of living on this earth, and a way to work with the living energies for the deepest benefit of all.

The 'hummingbird bridge' refers to the crossing from the world of Western materialism, consumerism and emptiness to the fullness, beauty and joy of the ancient shamanic way.

This seminar shares ideas on how to truly live in this world. Spirituality is not meant to take you away from this world; rather, it is learning to live spiritually and to blend higher ways of being into your current life. This seminar is a journey into freedom, peace and joy.

The Crossing The Hummingbird Bridge seminar also prepares you spiritually and energetically for the Mastering The Living Energy seminar.

Soul Therapy life-change seminars explore fresh ideas, meaningful tools and useful techniques to enhance the quality of your life.

Stephen Shaw offers personal consultations as a psychic/clairvoyant therapist, shamanic energy worker, transformational life coach and hypnotic life strategist. He also facilitates life-change seminars to help people reach their dreams, discover abundance, and attain a deeper experience of life and love and joy. For more magic information please visit Soul Therapy Bristol and London, UK.

Soul Therapy Life-Change Seminars

Soul Therapy life-change seminars share the secrets to a fulfilling, happy and successful life.

For every concern, issue and challenge in life there are lighted pathways, excellent pointers, and profound markers. There is a wealth of knowledge and experience available from great thinkers, spiritual leaders and people who have lived successful and interesting lives.

Sir Isaac Newton said: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Ask yourself this question: When you wake up in the morning, what is the first thing you think and feel? Do you feel that your life is satisfying? Are you ready to seize a day full of opportunities? Do you have a sense of underlying peace and happiness? Do you feel joyful? Do you look forward to your job or business? Are you happy with the world in which you live? Is your relationship fulfilling? Do you feel positive about your future?

Or do you wake up and wonder why life is such a struggle? Do you just try to get through each day? Do you question the meaning of it all? Are you in a relationship yet feel alone? Do you have a sense of something missing in your life? Do you wonder how others seem to find success and happiness? Or are you just looking for a way to put the puzzle pieces together?

Albert Einstein said: "You cannot solve problems with the same level of intelligence that created them."

Edward de Bono, the pioneer of lateral or creative thinking, said: "You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction."

Soul Therapy life-change seminars explore fresh ideas, meaningful tools and useful techniques to enhance the quality of your life.

Noam Chomsky said: "If you act like there is no possibility for change; you guarantee that there will be no change."

Stephen Shaw offers personal consultations as a psychic/clairvoyant therapist, shamanic energy worker, transformational life coach and hypnotic life strategist. He also facilitates life-change seminars to help people reach their dreams, discover abundance, and attain a deeper experience of life and love and joy. For more magic information please visit Soul Therapy Bristol and London, UK.

Life Coaching #2

This series of Life Coaching ideas, tips and techniques is supplied by Clifton Hypnosis - the London and Bristol Hypnotherapy practice. Clifton Hypnosis is a therapeutic practice founded on more than a decade of experience in life coaching, psychotherapy, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, and esoteric energy work.

Do you feel satisfied and fulfilled in your current job? Are you capitalising on your strengths and talents? Are you able to express the real you at work? Do you feel that you use your passion in your profession? Most people answer “no” to these questions!

The big question is: How can you do what you love, and make a good living from it? How can you turn your passion into a profession?

What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? What deserves your sense of humour, your ingenuity, your intelligence, your energy and your passion for half your waking life?

Often we lack direction because we did not have clear guidance in school; or we lacked knowledge of and exposure to the multitude of career opportunities. Perhaps we had an unsupportive or challenging home life or financial struggles. When our lives are not progressing as we would like, it is tempting to look back and blame many difficult life events and people.

George Elliot said: "It's never too late to become the person you might have been."

At some point you need to sit down and take stock of your life. You may be stuck in a comfort zone: perhaps you are not happy in your current career but you know how to do your job well, you enjoy the people you work with, and you have the security of your monthly pay-cheque.

How do you overcome the psychological and emotional challenges of a life that is just good enough? How do you move toward a life that is fulfilling, vibrant, stimulating and joyful?

The first thing is: you have to really want to make the change!

Anthony Robbins said: "It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

Many people are unclear about their strengths and talents, and unsure about their dreams; others are uncertain about how to turn their dreams into reality.

You can do this exercise by yourself or with a life-coach:

Make a list of your beliefs and values – the things that are really important to you. Then write down the type of job or career that you believe would ideally match your values and beliefs. Once your destination is clear, it is just a matter of working out the concrete action steps to get you there.

Here are some questions to help you in this exercise:

What do you enjoy most in your current job?
What do you enjoy doing when you’re not at work?
Do you prefer working indoors or outdoors?
Do you prefer being left alone or being highly interactive?
Is there a position or person in your company that you admire?
Have you researched various positions, jobs or careers?
Have you looked in magazines and newspapers and online to learn about other careers?
If you had a trust fund or won half a million in the lottery, what would you do for a job?
If you were on your deathbed and looking back on your life, what would your regrets be?

Life coaching is an excellent opportunity to explore your professional life, and obtain clarity about the directions you could be taking.

If you find a job you love, you will never work again.

Stephen Shaw offers personal consultations as a psychic/clairvoyant therapist, shamanic energy worker, transformational life coach and hypnotic life strategist. He also facilitates life-change seminars to help people reach their dreams, discover abundance, and attain a deeper experience of life and love and joy. For more magic information please visit Soul Therapy Bristol and London, UK.

Clearing Negative Psychic Energy

This series of psychic and clairvoyant articles is supplied by the Psychic Therapist - London and Bristol Clairvoyant. Psychic therapy is all about soul to soul communication with a clairvoyant therapist.

Negative energy in your environment can be quite distressing. You may sense that there is an unpleasant psychic residue in your office or home. This energy can cause stress, it can make you feel angry or depressed, and it can drain and exhaust you.

Usually negative psychic energy is simply residual energy from a traumatic or stressful event. If the previous occupants in your home or office were deeply depressed, engaged in strong arguments or experienced some form of violence, then you will often feel uncomfortable for weeks and months until the energy is cleared. This is very real and definitely affects you.

One needs to be very careful of psychics, clairvoyants and professional energy workers who create drama when they work on your premises. Many psychics conjure up scary or unpleasant stories - a trapped spirit or ghost is usually the favourite - and then do an elaborate and expensive clearing. Many psychics are ordinary people with extraordinary imaginations!

Whether you are psychic or not, every person on this planet has the ability to summon and channel God's energy. Ask and you will receive. If you sense a residue of negative energy in a room, then simply ask/pray/command that God's energy will permeate every part of the room and drive away all negative energy. If you command, it will happen. Do this for as long as it takes to feel a difference in the room. You may be surprised by your own power!

In the rare case of feeling out of your depth with negative energy, then certainly call in a psychic or shaman, but choose carefully because being psychic is a very rare gift, and there are very few real psychics on this planet!

Stephen Shaw offers personal consultations as a psychic/clairvoyant therapist, shamanic energy worker, transformational life coach and hypnotic life strategist. He also facilitates life-change seminars to help people reach their dreams, discover abundance, and attain a deeper experience of life and love and joy. For more magic information please visit Soul Therapy Bristol and London, UK.

Hypnosis FAQs #4

This series of Hypnosis FAQs is supplied by Clifton Hypnosis - the London and Bristol Hypnotherapy practice. Clifton Hypnosis is a therapeutic practice founded on more than a decade of experience in life coaching, psychotherapy, hypnosis, hypnotherapy and esoteric energy work.

Will I remember everything during hypnosis?

The majority of all hypnosis involves your ongoing awareness, as you need to learn in both minds. It is very useful if the hypnotist engages both the conscious and the subconscious minds throughout the therapeutic process. Total amnesia will only occur if you completely trust the therapist, and you choose to go all the way down the rabbit hole ... but that is a whole other adventure related to advanced esoteric and spiritual practice.

Does hypnosis or hypnotherapy involve drugs?

Of course not! However, if you are engaging with an advanced or esoteric hypnotherapy practitioner, you will often feel spaced out and experience some wonderful altered states. If your hypnotherapist is simply using their voice to create pleasant scenes and visualisations, that can be pretty relaxing. There is lot more to experience in hypnotherapy - the choice is yours. Remember, all hypnotherapists are not operating at the same level!

Can I use to hypnosis to explore spiritual states?

Yes, this is an advanced practice reserved only for clients who are truly ready to experience this delightful and exciting area. These experiences advance your life profoundly. This hypnotic work involves shamanic and mystical states only recently shared by the secretive South American Q'ero shamans. Very few people have even met the Q'ero as they have kept themselves hidden at very high altitudes in Peru. The Q'ero are known as the Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge. For more details go to the Magic Trip in Peru at the Soul Therapy website.

Stephen Shaw offers personal consultations as a psychic/clairvoyant therapist, shamanic energy worker, transformational life coach and hypnotic life strategist. He also facilitates life-change seminars to help people reach their dreams, discover abundance, and attain a deeper experience of life and love and joy. For more magic information please visit Soul Therapy Bristol and London, UK.

You See Life Through Your Attitude

Last night I went to listen to Albie Sachs talk about his new book The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law.

From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle to overcome the injustices of apartheid in South Africa. As a result he was detained in solitary confinement, tortured by sleep deprivation and eventually a car bomb cost him his right arm and the sight of an eye.

Albie strongly believes in the role of law as a protector of human dignity in the modern world, and he demonstrated a lifelong commitment to establishing a new era of justice in South Africa. After playing an important part in drafting South Africa's post-apartheid Constitution, he was appointed by Nelson Mandela to be a member of the country's first Constitutional Court in 1994. Justice Sachs retired in October 2009.

What an interesting and spiritual man. When asked about being tortured and held in solitary confinement, he said "Revenge is not the solution. We would not allow them to dictate our values even though we were in solitary confinement ... If we become instruments of death, we destroy the core of ourselves." Later he said that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established in the same spirit: "Incarcerating all the perpetrators of apartheid violence would not have helped heal the country. What we needed was a shared history. We needed the truth to come out, and then we needed to forgive and move on."

Imagine we could all live our lives like that ...

Asked about the price he paid to help free South Africa from apartheid, Justice Albie Sachs said: "What price? It was part of the journey. I was privileged to be on that journey. In fact, I think I am the most privileged person on the planet!"

Albie's attitude is reminiscent of Viktor Frankl M.D., Ph.D. (1905-1997) who was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. His wife and parents were killed in the concentration camps. Yet Viktor was able to emotionally survive and overcome because of his attitude - to find meaning in life despite suffering. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, and wrote a best-selling book called Man's Search for Meaning.

Frankl said: "We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work (e.g. writing, cooking, building) or doing a deed (e.g. job, sport, charity); (2) by experiencing something (like a sunset) or encountering someone (e.g. love, friendship, family); (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering (loving and living in spite of challenges and suffering)."

Stephen Shaw offers personal consultations as a psychic/clairvoyant therapist, shamanic energy worker, transformational life coach and hypnotic life strategist. He also facilitates life-change seminars to help people reach their dreams, discover abundance, and attain a deeper experience of life and love and joy. For more magic information please visit Soul Therapy Bristol and London, UK.

Life Coaching #1

This series of Life Coaching ideas, tips and techniques is supplied by Clifton Hypnosis - the London and Bristol Hypnotherapy practice. Clifton Hypnosis is a therapeutic practice founded on more than a decade of experience in life coaching, psychotherapy, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, and esoteric energy work.

The GROW model is useful for creating change in your life:

Goal Setting

Reality checking
Options
Way Forward

Goals: where do you want to be?

Using a large piece of paper or notebook write down the key areas of your life: career, money, health, family, social, love, etc. These are areas of life that you feel are important to you. Now, think about what you would like to experience, feel and see in these areas. Write it all down. Paint clear and detailed pictures of the final outcomes. Ask yourself this question: "How will I know that I have achieved this goal?"

Reality: where are you now?

Write down one or two goals to focus on. List what you have already done to move forward to these goals. What challenges have you overcome? What research have you done? Which experts have you spoken with?

Options: how do you move from here to there?

Now it is time to brainstorm new, fresh, wild and crazy ideas. Day-dream, discuss with significant others, do some research, consult experts. Keep the question in your mind, then watch what comes across your path over the next few days and weeks. List all the ideas that come up!

Way Forward: what is your clear strategy?

Take your long list of ideas and reality-check them. Talk to significant others and experts. Shorten the list to feasible and workable ideas. Develop these into a concrete action plan: exactly what are you going to do to move forward? Have you broken the tasks into smaller tasks / action steps? Are there any time frames? Is there a budget? Who is supporting you emotionally?

How Do You Choose A Life Coach?

If you need additional support, then consult a life-coach. Your life-coach:

1. Should have a degree in psychology.

2. Should have proven success in business and life.

3. Should have at least a decade of life experience.

Do not choose a life coach who has simply done a five-day course in life coaching or a one-week course in NLP or hypnotherapy. A life coach needs a degree in psychology or other life sciences; whereas a professional/business coach needs a degree in a particular profession/business. Do not choose a life coach unless they have proven success in business and life - otherwise what will they teach you? How will they inspire you?

Ideally, a life coach is someone who has found success, peace and happiness in life, and is now ready to mentor you toward a successful, peaceful and happy life.

Stephen Shaw offers personal consultations as a psychic/clairvoyant therapist, shamanic energy worker, transformational life coach and hypnotic life strategist. He also facilitates life-change seminars to help people reach their dreams, discover abundance, and attain a deeper experience of life and love and joy. For more magic information please visit Soul Therapy Bristol and London, UK.