The Singing Heart

Spend long enough in the world of helping and healing you eventually come to reflect on what it is that makes things better, that makes life better for those who are ill or unhappy.

Yes we are flooded with information about what to eat and how to eat it, what to do and how to do it, what to be and how to be it, what to read, hear, say, how to behave, to be mindful, to be spontaneous, and we read watch or hear all that advice and make all those resolutions and form intentions…and then…?

So many of the wise, the great and the good, the enlightened and the endarkened, share their knowledge, experience, philosophy – and where are you now?  How have you changed?  What have you changed?  In yourself or in others?  How do you capture the magic of that moment when you inspire, or are inspired?  And then, how do you sustain it, that moment, that resolution, that intention, through slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or insidious traps of infinite options?

Or do you let it pass, fade softly without further thought, into the brambled tangled wilderness of best left alone, of aversion to risk or challenge, rationalised and analysed until paralysed, and then forgotten?

Can we grasp the song that sings in our heart?  And keep on singing until those vibrations rise to hammer on heaven’s door and carry us onward upward inward transcending the mundane, altering the celestial cellular memory to hold the magic in the moment and let that moment live in time for all time is now, and now, and now!

Are you

Where you want to be?

Doing what you want to do?

With whom you want to be?

Were you, yesterday? last week, last month, last year – all your life?

Will you be, tomorrow? next week, next month, next year – all your life?

Does your heart sing?  What would it take to make it, to make life better?

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The Tao in Dublin 2016

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We are so much looking forward to returning to beautiful Dublin and reconnecting with the lovely people who have always made us so welcome.  Hosted by Máire of Healing Tao Ireland, Anamarta and I have some exciting adventures in store, starting with the Qigong Master-Class on Wednesday and, on Thursday, a Talk on Taoist Healing Love at the Buddhabag.  Here’s a Taster of that:

“Who says you can’t get to heaven having a good time? Don’t answer – you probably know them already, they who pollute the practice of pleasure with demons of Shame, Guilt, and Fear.
Looking at the world, not as a vale of tears, sorrow or suffering but of subjective and objective beauty, a world of reality neither evil nor illusion, seeing all experiences as intrinsically pure and innately perfect, barring nothing except harming another, opens the windows to spiritual independence, creating opportunities for grasping the moment, taking the “short path” to enlightenment, the Tao of Healing Love.”

Interested? You bet! Come on By!

March 9th Qi Gong MASTER Class with Anamarta and Kris Deva North All Welcome 7pm to 8.30 DUBLIN 7 The Sanctuary, Stanhope St

March 10th Taoist Healing Love: The Search for Ecstasy – BuddhaBag/Positive Life Talk with Anamarta and Kris Deva North All Welcome 8pm to 9.45 DUBLIN 8 The Lantern Centre, 17 Synge Street

March 11th Jade Arrows Meeting – Introductory Talk to Taoist Men’s Practices with Kris Deva North All Welcome 7pm to 9pm DUBLIN 2 The Restore Centre, 67 Camden Street

March 11th thru 13th HEALING TAO FOUNDATIONS Special YIN Step 1 & Jade Egg Workshop with Anamarta Ancient Secrets for Modern Women DUBLIN 4 Oscailt Integrative Health Centre

March 12th & 13th INNER ALCHEMY of YIN & YANG: Foundations Step 1 for Men Stress management, grounding, flexibility, with Kris. All Men Welcome. DUBLIN 2 The Restore Centre, 67 Camden Street

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Mastering Pain with Healing NLP

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Healing NLP Master-Practitioner Elena Alvarez (front, center) used NLP techniques to manage the pain of childbirth just three months after completing her Master-Practitioner training. Now Elena runs her own Healing NLP practice in Edinburgh, where she lives with her partner Simon and their son Orion. Hear Elena describe her experience witha click here, and learn more about Healing NLP here.

We have an 8-Day Practitioner Trainer March 21st thru 28th with Special Discounts for Healers, Therapists and Teachers.  See Here – It Could Be YOU!

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Making Life Better – The Engineer

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Antonis (Front, second from right) is an engineer at a famous international corporation, where he uses NLP to confound the bureacracy and make life better at work. He finds the techniques also work for … flirting!
Learn more about how you can use the secrets of Healing NLP to Make Life Better in any way you like at http://www.healingnlp.com

Come on by our Free Talk and Demonstration, Wednesday March 2nd, 7 to 8.30 pm.

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Making Life Better – The Support Worker

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David Hajducki (top left) uses NLP techniques to make life better for people with brain injuries. He is one of many practitioners in the caring professions to use Healing NLP as an additional resource to help themselves help others. After all, NLP began as a healing therapy in the first place and was so effective it was taken up by the business and sales people – which is how it is better known now. The truth is, NLP works the way you want it to!
Learn more at http://www.healingnlp.com

 

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Making Life Better – The Workshop Leader

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Healing NLP Master-Practitioner Ivana Saldana (front, center) specialises in working with children, helping them with NLP techniques to get the edge in exam and audition situations. A former ballerina, Ivana retrained in Shiatsu and NLP and runs workshops in London and Spain. She has helped students and professional dancers at the #CentralSchoolofBallet, the #RoyalBalletSchool, the Conservatoire and other schools in Madrid.
Learn more about how Ivana mastered NLP.

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Getting the Edge – The Actor’s Tale

kris_edgePeople like you do #NLP training for many reasons. Some become Practitioners, some like me become NLP Trainers, but many simply use NLP to enhance their career performance, improve their relationship, or sort out a few changes in their lives.

Alex Reece uses techniques he mastered on NLP Practitioner Training to enhance his performance as an actor, and to get the edge at auditions (yes, Alex was picked out of 2000 to play the bleach blond haired assassin chasing 007 #DanielCraig in the #Skyfall #Heineken featurette commercial, ‘Crack the Case’ in 2012, a £10million production by Eon and MJZ.)

NLP is all about learning how to help yourself and others succeed, achieve ambitions, fulfil desires, and solve problems, in short to get the edge, whether at work or play, business or healing, to become more effective!
It is surprisingly easy to change our mindset. Anyone who wants to can do it. We can reframe for positivity, or success, creativity, motivation, organisation, health, happiness…you choose. We can do it, even if we have become used to strong negative beliefs since childhood.
Reframing mindset means to let go conditioned thought-patterns put upon us by others, to replace those thoughts with new more useful patterns to lead the life we want, think our own thoughts, reclaim our power. We can feel the difference, and see improvement in communication, at home, at work, or out and about – social situations, sports, helping others, for example and by example!

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Getting the Edge with NLP

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NLP is all about learning how to help yourself and others succeed, achieve ambitions, fulfil desires and solve problems, in short to get the edge, whether at work or play, business or healing, to become more effective!

It’s perfectly normal, isn’t it, to want a better life, achieve your ambitions and fulfil your desires, solve problems, let go some baggage, drop a few of those unnecessary habits – especially the more expensive ones! Lose a few fears or phobias, even help others do the same. Funnily enough, once we’ve started on something it seems to spread into other areas, a kind of virtuous cycle of well-being, satisfaction, achievement, from the magnificent to the mundane…and it is surprisingly easy to change our mindset.  Anyone who wants to can do it. We can reframe for positivity, or success, creativity, motivation, organisation, health, happiness…you choose. We can do it, even if we have become used to strong negative beliefs since childhood.

Reframing mindset means to let go conditioned thought-patterns put upon us by others, to replace those thoughts with new more useful patterns to lead the life we want, think our own thoughts, reclaim our power. We can feel the difference, and see improvement in communication, at home, at work, or out and about – social situations, sports, helping others, for example and by example!

Like to Learn More? Click to see all about Certified Practitioner Training (March 21 thru 28) and an evening Free Talk and Demonstration on Wednesday 2nd March. I look forward to welcoming you!

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A Plague on All their Houses

Keyboard Warriors, Quoters and Haters, Copycats and Plagiarists, behold befuddled masses yawning to breathe free from the wretched refuse of Social Media, that new International State of Mind free from restraint or rules of any kind masticating the mindless minus any moment of original thought: ah the joy of freedom!  Cut to creativity!

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The Guru of Waikiki

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A comment a few weeks ago on one of my fb posts reminded me of what I wrote some ten or more years back:

‘Sitting in the Tao Garden I noticed a young man giving me the keen interested glances of someone seeing someone he thought might be a highly evolved spiritual being. I was cultivating the long hair and dreamy countenance of one with his mind on higher things and accordingly bedecked with bracelets and bangles, ear-ring and beads, clothed in ethnic trousers, sandals and one of those guru-shirts that lend an aura of peace and serenity. Id recently attended a Vipassana retreat too, so must have looked pretty holy, perhaps even halogenically enlightened.

His bow, almost a walking prostration, as the young man approached showed the immense measure of respect with which he had decided to endow the presentation of me that I was offering the world at the time. His first words, uttered as if in a cathedral or the presence of a cathedral spirit, caressed my ego.

May I speak with you? he said, sounding American. Graciously I inclined my head. He continued, I feel I can learn many things from you.

How can I help you? I said in a conversational tone and my normal English accent.

His eyes, lowered until he heard my voice, looked up startled, Where are you from? he asked.

London, England, I replied.

His face fell as fast as he stood upright. London? England?

I tried the gracious nod again but it bounced off the wall of indignation forming around him as he stared angrily at my clothes, my hair, bracelets, beads and sandals, and took a step back.

I thought you might have been a…from…. I thought I might have learned something from you, he said like a child to a broken promise.

I was curious. Learned something like what?

Something, oh I dont know, wise stuff. Yeah, some wisdom.

Maybe you have, I said after him, as he walked away under his disappointed cloud, seeking a distant truth.

You know what they say: nowadays the westerners wear the robes, the gurus drive the Mercedes.

I got my hair cut, chucked the ornamentation. I bought cool gear in Waikiki boutiques, signed up for NLP with Richard Bandler. Nobody mistakes me for a medicine-man any more.’

From finding Spirit in Zen Shiatsu.

In the years since, I have observed how people invest one with whatever qualities, characteristics or failings they choose.  When you point a finger, notice the three pointing back at you!

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