What is the point of having children?

This is a question I asked my mother, my mother-in-law and any other female I met shortly after I was married. No one could give me an answer other than saying its instinctive!

Well instinctively I went onto have two children and I can say there is every good reason to have children.

When they were young they opened my eyes to a selfless life that was rich in awareness of the smallest flower or pebble. They helped me to walk more slowly, to breathe and to be mindful.

Now they are adults, they are still helping me. Their questions and actions make me consider my own belief systems and principles and they encourage me to be more authentic and transparent.

None of this has been easy but what a blessing they have been and still are.

Just the tip of the iceberg.

The South Downs

The pain is in your knee and you can't remember what you did to cause it but its painful when put weight on it or bend or sit for too long.

Is it just the knee thats the problem? Does the body work in isolated compartments? I think we all realise that is not the case.

The cause of your knee problem could be traced back up the leg either through the groin or the psoas muscle and into the pelvic girdle where the sacroiliac joint could be tight or there is inelastic scar tissue in the pelvis or it could be tight in the back muscles that are pulling the pelvis and that leads up to the spinal vertebrae mid back whose nerves are associated with the stomach!

So there are quite a few physical possibilites for a painful knee but what if the tissue around the knee has been storing the memory of an event that took place in your life that you have not fully come to terms with and it envolved the knee area. For example you tripped over a mat and fell onto your knee with all your weight but at the time you were having an argument with your then husband and you were feeling threatened and vulnerable. This might have happened twenty years ago but now the knee is painful for no apparent reason. It could be that the tissue has stopped compensating for that unresolved memory and the pain is there to get our awareness to do something about it.

So whether the pain in your knee is physical or emotional Upledger Craniosacral therapy has the tools to help your body resolve those issues.

Worth a try?

My first guiding light.

Seascape at Brighton

As a child my family lived in many parts of the world including Hong Kong and as travellers we brought back momentos of our experiences. So I had lived surrounded by chinese calligraphy on the wall, chinese dishes for my cornflakes and a chinese whicker dolls pram. But it wasn't until I was in my early teens and my brother gave me The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin that Oriental culture came into view and particularly Zen Buddhism.
I had been brought up in the Church of England faith and been confirmed and had even dabbled in the Baptist church but what really appealed to me about Buddism as a teenager is that no one was in control apart from you. There were no rules and regulations just a different way of thinking and I have persevered with that independent thought through out my spiritual journey.
Another big influence at that time was a book The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Only two inches thick but a great read.
I also enjoyed reading and writing poetry at this time (where has that interest gone?) and my most favorite poem and often quoted before going to sleep is the following by Ryokan (1757-1831) from the Penguin book of Zen Poetry.

Without a jot of ambition left
I let my nature flow where it will.
There is ten days of rice in my bag
And, by the hearth, a bundle of firewood.
Who prattles of illusion or nirvana?
Forgetting the equal dusts of name and fortune,
Listening to the night rain on the roof of my hut,
I sit at ease, both legs stretched out.

Welcome

Welcome readers to my new blog!

I have created this blog to let you know what healing therapies I offer and through case studies show you the extent and depth of this type of work.

Also I would like you to follow me on my spiritual journey that started in my teenage years and still continues many years later.

From experience I have found that talking to like minded souls has been my main guiding light on my journey and I very much hope you will be one of those guiding lights and likewise I can be yours.