Mindful Connections

Are you Time Sick? By  Maria  |  July 5, 2021 Time Sick – a fabulous phrase coined by one of my ANFT teachers, Vicky Kyan. She used this and explained what this meant to her, on one of our training sessions. This phrase has stayed with me and mulls around into my mind at various times begging to be explored and then again and again, to go that little bit deeper. Time Sick We spend our entire lives bound by time.  What time we get up, what time we leave for our days work/school. chores, shopping….. What time we have lunch….. ” I always have lunch at X O’Clock”  And so the day goes on…. Fragmenting our day it to periods of time. Lack of In the process of this, we also create a “lack of” or limitation in our lives. How many times have you said to yourself “I don’t have enough time for this or that” “Time just disappears” ” Theres never enough time in the morning” “Theres never enough hours in the day” We know that our thoughts become our reality and when we listen ...

Mother of the Woods The magnificent Beech Tree, Mother of the woods. Beech trees rise up and stand tall often to approx 140 feet high.  They spread their canopies out to nearly as wide to approx 130 feet, offering a cool and dry place on the forest floor.  Her bark is smooth and silky and invites your hands to touch her.  If you stand within a Beech grove; you will feel the magical grace that exudes from her and the ambience texture in the air. Regarded as the Mother of the woods for her protective and nurturing persona; she invites us to open our senses allowing us to perceive the elemental work of nature and is said to inspire and let us creativity flow. HEALING Ancient folklore says that the water found in hollow beech tree “will cure both man and beast of any scurf or scab”. Beech tree has been used for many skin complaints such as eczema and psoriasis and also as an ingredient of the expectorant used for bronchitis. The leaves also have a uses as are cooling and bind...