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If you ever wondered what Solution Focused Approaches or Solution Focused Brief Therapy is then checkout the videos below from attendees at this years UKASFP 2008 Conference.

Crystal Healing has to be one of the most controversial of the complementary therapies offered to the public by therapists.

Why Controversy?

Ask six crystal healers/therapists ‘how does a crystal heal? and chances are you’ll get three different answers (and possibly six, seven or eight).

Read any number of crystal healing books and you’ll find a paragraph or two explaining how crystals heal in each.  A good crystal healing book may offer a chapter.  Again, there will be a difference in the explanations of how crystals heal.

Take three crystal healing courses (as I have), and chances are you’ll be offered different explanations of how crystals heal (as I have been offered).

And then, when you examine the information you’ll see that it is presented as facts, theories and intuitive knowledge.

Yet I believe each of the information sources is coming from a position of honesty, integrity and compassion.

Mainstream healthcare providers will always struggle with paradigms until the science is understood and the treatment is proved effective.

The Spirit Of ISIS crystal healing course is for crystal healers or crystal therapists and for anyone else with an interest in this controversial complementary or alternative healthcare modality.

The course, whilst not leading to a professional qualification, is a free online resource that serves to question the unquestionable and answer the unanswerable.

To access the crystal healing course click here

Raja Yoga Meditation is a gentle spiritual way of life, this video will give you an insight into this powerful understanding of consciousness.

Is the universe an idea construct?

I’ve just been reminded of a Julia Roberts quote from a film -

“When two people love each other deeply, but they just can’t get it together, just can’t get on - when is it time to give up?”

Can’t remember who the other half was, but his answer was good enough for Julia

“In every thing, goodness is there. Our goal is to find it.

In every person, the best is there, our job is to recognise it.

In every situation, the positive is there, our opportunity is to see it.

In every problem, the solution is there, our responsibility is to provide it.

In every setback, the success is there, our adventure is to discover it.

In every crisis, the reason is there, our challenge is to understand it.”

Nice one!

Tom Harris MP asks “Why Is Everyone So Bloody Miserable”

A hilarious hour of this nations Mr. and Mrs. Average ringing BBC 5 Live and giving it to him straight, letting him know exactly why they feel miserable and leaving me with the impression that the nation believes that this government is ‘out of touch’ with Mr. and Mrs. Average.  If you ask the question, be prepared to receive the response Tom!

Many of the selected callers say ‘yes, I am miserable - of course I am miserable - just look at the current economic situation, that’s why I am so miserable, don’t tell me I should be happier, this is YOUR fault?’

Hum.

Maybe the perceived unhappiness is a consequence of our declining sense of spiritual values.  Maybe we have lost control of our thinking, lost our identity and forgotten who we are; maybe we have lost a connection with our source of happiness.

Our thoughts habitually drag us into our past, or take us into our future. 

For those of us who are unhappy at the economic situation, maybe we are looking back at when times were better, and we are getting angry that we cannot change the situation now.  Maybe we worry about our future and how we are going to cope with rising housing, fuel and food costs and fear that we won’t manage or provide for our families.

Now, if we do this regularly, then we begin to habitually repeat these patterns of thoughts.  We meet others, who are also struggling, and our thoughts are reinforced, gain greater validity.  We switch on the radio, TV, read newspapers, connect to the internet and we are immediately faced with reinforcing information.  At the same time we are sold, or more importantly our kids, the dream that we need more and more consumer goods in order to have a more convenient and happier life.  Our levels of anger and worry can eat away at us, subconsciously, almost all our waking hours.  This represents stress, at an emotional level, and stress has a physical effect on our bodies.

If you notice where your thoughts are at any one time, then you might notice that you are taken into your past or carried into your future 90% of the time.  You might notice that you are not living in the present, in this moment in time, you’re absent of your life.  You might notice that you have lost control of your thinking.

So, is it that we have too much external stimulation, too much external living?  Maybe; maybe our emotions are influenced by the emotion of others. Maybe, our thoughts and emotions follow what we are fed about what is going on in the world.  Maybe the balance of the source of our happiness has tipped too far in the direction of the external, where we have less control and influence.

Maybe we have less internal peace, less positivity.  Maybe our senses are controlling our thoughts, our peace and our positivity.  Maybe we have lost a sense of who we are.

When we have too much external stimulation and we find our emotions being pulled this way and that, then we are no longer in control, our senses are controlling us and this is exhausting.

But who is the ‘we’ in ‘we are no longer in control’?  Well, we are human beings, human - the physical, tangible, the body; and beings - the non physical, the non tangible, the non body.

Maybe ‘we’ are two energies, the physical, and the non physical; the human and the being; the body and the consciousness; the body and the soul.

What have we learned to identify with?  I guess it’s our body, we believe that we are our bodies, we believe that who we are is what our body is and what is does.  We look in the mirror and see ourselves and identify with the reflection.  Many of us probably don’t even like what we see.  We identify with what we do, our relationships, our jobs, our house, our car, our religions, our countries.  We identify ourselves with these externals, we become obsessed with these externals and when something happens to the externals, we start to feel a little less positive, maybe angry and maybe sad.  Maybe we feel an indescribable void.

If we attach to, and identify with the energies which are tangible, material, physical, then one thing is sure.  External energies are never constant, they are always in flow, they come into our life for a while as we become custodians, and then they flow out of our life.  Cars come, cars go; money comes, money goes.  As adults when we think about the energy of our body, then we know that it is always in decay, and it will eventually die.  If we identify with our body, then we are identifying with something that is deteriorating, our thoughts are negative.

Yet, if we look in the mirror, ‘we’ are there, never decaying, never changing and never deteriorating.  We are behind the face, behind the mask, we are not our bodies.

Within us is a place of peace, a place of happiness, a place of power where we are in control; and when we connect to this peace, and when we connect to our happiness, then maybe we can regain a balanced, calmer and proactive way of dealing with our lives.  Maybe we can move from a place of pessimism to a place of optimism.

Maybe it’s just that we have forgotten how because we have lost our spirituality.

Maybe this is what Tom Harris MP meant by asking ‘Why is everyone so bloody miserable?’

 The Solution Focused Approach?

Solutions are never necessary because there are no problems, only our perception makes it seem so, and only our minds make our perceptions seem real. If there is a problem it is at our level of perception. That is hard to see in a world that celebrates and rewards the finding and solving of ‘the problem’. When you decide that you will no longer perceive the problem, you will see only the facts of a situation. Facts are just facts and any and every situation can always be improved, unless it is in the past, then it’s just a memory, and memories are never a problem, are they? If you can change the patterns of your perceptions, the very idea of ‘problem’, then you will not only be a positive thinker and positive proactive actor, you will be a leader.

Lee