Michele Knight's Blog, page 175
November 24, 2014
Coming Soon! Tarot Talks
I’m starting to film your brand new Tarot Talks videos all about Tarot. I kick off with THE FOOL and take it from there! Let me know what sort of Tarot Talk you would like!
Love Michele x
Don’t Wait to Be 100. Live Your Dreams Today!
Many of you may have seen the heart-warming story of 100-year old Ruby Holt who fulfilled her lifelong dream to see the ocean just a few weeks before turning 101. Ruby’s story has two important messages for all of us: 1 – that you are never too old to live your dream and also most importantly, not to wait until you are 100 to have your dream(s) come true.
Another story I came across was of a woman in her 70’s who woke up one day realising that while she loved horses she had never learned to ride them. At an age where many people are looking at hip replacements and Zimmer frames, she contacted her local riding school. Not only did she learn to ride, she went on to compete successfully and against riders who were often 50 years her junior!
It’s all very well to have a dream but what we need to remember is that having it come true – in other words, turning our dream into a goal, can take courage and requires effort and action on our part. It also requires us to acknowledge our dreams ARE an important part who we are and our soul learning experience. Therefore, our dreams deserve investment be it our time, money or other resources or leaving our comfort zones in order to pursue them.
What many people don’t realise is there are many benefits in heading in the direction of our dreams. Very often to have them we have to try something new. This has the effect of expanding our experience and even re-wiring our brains. The feeling of increased confidence as we reach key stages along the way to our dreams affects all our relationships, releases endorphins for a natural high and boosts our self-esteem. We learn new things and encounter people and experiences along the way we might otherwise missed out on. Looked at this way, what are you waiting for?
Ask yourself what is it you want to do, experience or achieve? Can you break this down into stages? Have your shared your dream with others who may be able to help you or at least point you in the right direction? The fact is that very few dreams can be attained all on our own. In Ruby’s case it was her telling the people at the care home she lived in that she had never seen the ocean. Even if your dream is to sail solo around the world you still need to learn how to sail and get hold of a boat and chances are you need others to help you do that!
Lao Tzu said: ‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step’ and while your goal make look as if it is 1000 miles away when you begin, you would be surprised how taking the smallest step can bring you closer. Very often this can be as simple as showing the universe you are ready to experience something new by making small but different choices in your every day life. Take a different route to work, try a new coffee shop or pick up something you have never tried before at the supermarket. Opt for a new reader if you are thinking about having a psychic reading – if you usually have a Tarot reader try a medium or an astrologer instead. Buy a different newspaper or magazine. All this says you are open to something new and once you start down on this path you will see the process accelerate with synchronicities occurring and people crossing your path who can help you towards your dream in some way. breaking patterns is the most powerful way to allow the Universe to bring something new and exciting in!
You have your dreams for a reason and you would not have them if you did not also have the ability to make them come true. Dare to take that first step towards them today and don’t wait until you’re 100! .
November 20, 2014
4 Soul Hacks To Mend A Broken Heart
Love is the greatest soul lesson. We learn powerful lessons from each person we meet and especially those we love. Sometimes love lessons are incredibly painful but they pave the way to a greater future. Hold in your heart that there is someone just right for you. A relationship, possibly even better than you can conceptualise. Look at what this current situation is teaching you, could the lesson be to love yourself more?
2 When feeling lost in heartache ‘This too shall pass’ is a great mantra. Always remember that everything in life turns, even a broken heart. If you look back to the past, to past hurts and past loves, it becomes clear that these things do not have the impact they once did. Whatever situation you are in, this current pain will also fade. Time will deliver the healing you need.
3. The soulmate illusion.The term soulmate can be very destructive as we can get caught up thinking there is only one person for us and if we loose them we will have a lifetime of loneliness. This is the biggest illusion of them all. There are billions of people on the planet. Right now there are a whole host of gorgeous, beautiful souls longing to find someone like you! This includes people you have loved in past lives just as intensely as the love, you feel now.
4. KNOW you are lovable. Just because you aren’t the right fit for someone does not mean you will not find the perfect fit for you. Comfort and support yourself with every thought. Guard your thoughts and steer them towards loving kindness for yourself. Read and watch inspiring films, take yourself for a walk in nature and nurture your soul.
Read ‘ The Mastery Of Love’ A practical guide to the art of relationships. Don Miguel Ruiz
A fantastic book which is very easy to read and incredibly powerful.
Watch Serendipity A wonderful movie all about how love can find you against all the odds.
November 19, 2014
4 Strong Women Quotes on Loving Yourself!
When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, ‘You’re either going to love yourself or hate yourself.’ And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.
Queen Latifah
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humour, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, colour or sexual habits, love life and your family.
Madonna Ciccone
You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.
Jennifer Lopez
I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
Lady Gaga
And for what it’s worth here’s something from me
When we love ourselves, when we become our own best friend, when we treat ourselves as kindly as those we love, when we accept ourselves and are strong for ourselves, that is when we are truly liberated. Loving yourself will bring you a freedom beyond your dreams and the world will be your mirror and reflect it right back.
Michele Knight
Psychic And Emotional Protection
Research into mirror neurones along with other research shows how emotions such as happiness ripple out through our social networks and suggests that we are all a bit like psychic sponges, picking up and transmitting what we are feeling to the people we share our lives with. As neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran says, the absolute scientific reality is that the only thing separating all of us is our skin. If someone is upset or angry our own brain is playing that out. We literally go through everything we see as if it were happening to us.
When the emotions that we transmit and pick up are positive, such as joy and happiness, that’s a good thing. But sometimes we have to deal with angry neighbours, grumpy colleagues, or partners who are a bit down and as we are all connected it can be hard maintaining our emotional boundaries. This is particularly important if you are at all a psychic sensitive. I know that I found living in London put me on edge a lot of the time as I sometimes felt the full force of all of the feelings flying around! Take time to work our what your own feelings are and nurture yourself as if you were your own best friend. If you are surrounded by troubled people create time with people who are happy or inspired to balance things out. Who we mix with has an incredible impact on our own life path.
It’s not practical and possible for us to go off and live like hermits in caves, so what can we do to offer ourselves emotional protection?
1/Learn to recognise your own signs of being overwhelmed. I don’t know of any aren’t any scientific reports on this, but a lot of psychically intuitive people can find that they can literally eat more as they try and put up a buffer between them and the world. Or as one friend of mine put it, ‘If I spend too long around other people I get to the point where I literally can’t think straight until I’ve had some time by myself.’ Research does show that general feelings of stress ups our production of cortisol, which can bring a few unpleasant side effects including exhaustion, which explains why you might feel so drained after a day spent handling people who are angry or upset.
2/Find that precious time alone that allows you to centre yourself. Meditate is absolutely proven to be able to change your mood, not just when you do it but eventually how you move throughout all day every day. Go for a walk, do something creative like cooking, playing music or writing in your journal and nurture yourself. Don’t be tempted into thinking that watching your favourite soaps helps you switch off – most of us watch TV, but as they drag us along rollercoaster rides of human drama they don’t really give us the psychic space we need!
3/I swear by good old Epsom salt baths – chuck a handful of salt in a bath and let your unwanted feelings, stress and strain soak up and disappear down the plughole! Or see how giving yourself good smudging with a sage stick feels. If you’ve had loads of friends round and you want to clear the energy in your home, the quickest and easiest way is to open the windows and walk around clapping briskly in every corner and visualise a gold light around yourself.
4/Build in breaks. Not just breaks during the day, but breaks that allow you to shed any emotional debris. We’ve all had those times when we’re running behind so we end up leaving work already tired and rushing onto a social arrangement to arrive even more stressed. Sneak in time to sip a cup of herbal tea alone in a cafe or get off the bus to give you a ten minute stroll – not a gallop – to get where you need to be and you’re much more likely to arrive truly glad to arrive in one emotional piece.
Loads of love,
Michele x
November 18, 2014
November 17, 2014
Soul Shakedown: Sceptic’s Society Founder Shaken by Spiritual Encounter!
I’m always saying that no matter what we believe – we are not our beliefs. And also that we should always keep an open mind. Everyone is entitled to their opinions and nobody should feel threatened if someone else’s worldview is a very different to theirs. If we are truly on the road to self-discovery, growth and knowledge then we always need to question and examine what we are told and see if it holds true for us. No matter what we choose to believe (and we must never forget we do have the choice!), we should accept that others have the right to choose to believe something different. Let’s face it – different beliefs and opinions are what make people and the world interesting. Problems only arise when one party seeks to impose their beliefs on another or feels threatened by another person’s point of view. Which is nonsense really as it’s only a thought or an idea we’re getting upset about!
There is nothing wrong therefore with being a sceptic – especially if you keep an open mind while being one, and we should question everything. Michael Shermer is a scientist and the founder of Skeptic magazine, a contributor to Scientific American and Time, as well as being a Fellow at Chapman University. He’s been well known in the past for being extremely sceptical and we can even say, condescending, about beliefs in the paranormal – even giving a TED talk where he pokes fun at certain theories. But it appears that he also has an open mind as he has now come out and admitted he has been ‘shaken’ by a recent paranormal event for which he has no explanation – even going so far as to publish an account of what happened in his column in Scientific American.
The event occurred the day of Michael’s wedding in the US. His wife, Jennifer was from Germany and had been raised by her mother and her grandfather who was a father figure to her. Just before the wedding her belongings arrived from Germany which included a 1978 transistor radio which had belonged to her grandfather. It had not worked for decades but Michael tried his best to get it going – new batteries, opening it up to see if there were loose wires – to no avail. Giving up he put it in the back of a desk drawer in their bedroom and closed it. The couple exchanged rings at home at a private ceremony with Michael’s family present. Jennifer was feeling emotional afterwards saying she had wished her grandfather had still been alive to give her away and asked to speak to Michael alone. The couple went to the bedroom where they could hear music playing. As there was no sound system in the bedroom they immediately began to search to see if someone had left a phone or MP3 player in there. They opened a window to see if the music was coming from a neighbour and when they realised the sound was coming from the desk even checked to see if the printer was making a noise – but no. Jennifer opened the desk drawer to discover it was the broken radio and that a romantic song was playing. She told Michael “My grandfather is here with us – I’m not alone’and the couple sat in stunned silence. According to Michael’s daughter the music began just as the ceremony was about to start and the radio continued to play music until the following day when it stopped and hasn’t worked since.
Michael has been upfront about the fact he has no ‘logical’explanation for what happened and has now attracted criticism and backlash from previous supporters due to him going public about the incident.
For me, this story illustrates the fact that more people within the scientific community are becoming willing to acknowledge that there are ‘more things in heaven and earth’ than we previously thought possible. Hopefully this will open up an exciting new era for all of us where there is more research into psychic phenomena. The term ‘meta-physics’ literally means ‘beyond physics’ – in other words, beyond our understanding of the world right now. And this is changing all the time as we question more and more. Michaels experience and willingness to be open about it shows that when we open up our minds – we truly do expand our understanding of our world.
November 15, 2014
Spiritual guidelines for the web. Dealing with Trolls
I absolutely love the way that new technology has opened up the world and brought it to our fingertips, we can connect with people we never dreamed of meeting and even use it for cosmic ordering but I think it’s important for us to understand that things happen in virtual reality at a rate, speed and intensity that leaves a lot of what goes on face to face between us standing. Whether you are a member of a social networking site or just following someone on Twitter, there are a few things that I think we all need to be aware of when we go on line.
1/Remember the Toltec wisdom expressed in the Don Miguel Ruiz book The Four Agreements and be impeccable with your word. What we put out into the virtual world can be snatched up and spiral into misunderstandings or gossip that can literally fly around the globe in seconds. Express yourself with care and be aware of how much you might hurt someone if you follow an urge in the moment to say something about someone else or pass on gossip that might not even be true. Even if you write something in an email to someone else, it’s amazing how many people have clicked the wrong button and sent it to the person they were taking about and not the one they meant to send it to. Post on the understanding that what you say about anyone will find its way to them as that’s very likely to be the case, so think twice before you write about how your new manager drives you mad or you can’t stand your sister in law’s table manners!
2/When we are on line we sometimes have to remind ourselves of another of the Four Agreements and avoid taking anything personally. For example, you might post a blog and get a response from a total stranger that feels hostile or hurtful, but it really
isn’t directed at you – it can’t be, because the other person or people only know that part of you that you present on line. Some people fall into the trap of becoming what is now called trolls and appear to thrive on getting involved in on-line feuds and maybe they are quite happy to take part in that kind of cut and thrust, even when it goes beyond being good natured, but you might not be built that way. If someone says something to you on line that you find hurtful, avoid any temptation to respond in kind, even out of what might feel like a need and a right to self defence. Huna wisdom tells us that energy flows where attention goes, and you inevitably find that if you step back, things die down a lot more quickly. If you feel that you really must make a response, wait until you feel calm and centred before you do. most people who send out anger and cruelty have a wound and they are really fighting themselves. Our natural state is one of love.
3/ People who send poison messages or are cruel online need to look at the nature of that energy. Even if they would not do it in ‘real’ life that kind of negativity not only spreads to the ‘victim’ of their rant but also poisons their own energy. We are like giant magnets and draw toward us what we have within us. If you find yourself being nasty or cruel look within to see what wound you have which is creating that energy. Do you feel unlovable? Have you felt as if someone has taken away your self esteem? Do you feel powerless in the real world? Working through it and only sending out that which you wish to receive and retraining your mind to KNOW you are lovable and a valid part of the whole can not only change your online life but also your day to day reality.
4/Remember that when you are on line you are dancing with the whole. What are you putting out there? What kind of energy will that create? How can you use this amazing technology to deepen connections, exchange wisdom, share knowledge and reach out to the very best of what we are?
5/Be real and keep it real. You are a unique shard of this amazing whole so there is no need to adopt a mask, put on a persona or pretend to be anything other than who you are.
Loads of love,
Michele x
