The New Year

Every year I believe that the new year will be the best one yet. How can it not be, if my future in truth lies in the hands of God, and that I play just as an important role in co-creating it! New opportunities, new growth, new insights, new learning.....all part of the cycle of life just makes every new year or every new day for that matter interesting.

Every day, I write down one new thing I have learned about myself....this means that in the new year, I have 365 new things to explore within. I know that in understanding myself, I have a greater ability to understand others and this is something of great value that one one else can impart to me.

Then what lies beyond the understanding? I believe, action. So if I understand why I have a certain flaw or a certain good quality, then what can I do about it? So in the new year, I also have 365 new action plans to look forward to.

I may not make new year resolutions but the simple daily contemplations make each new year more exciting and inspiring.

2008 will be the best year ever! Happy New Year!

Vaccinations & Immune System

I receive many emails with the question on whether it is ok to vaccinate their child. I think this is a challenging question and many factors have to be taken into consideration.

We know that there is no such thing as infectious diseases just people with low immune system. But how do we get around this with children who do not have enough antibodies to fight the diseases? We are also aware that some vaccinations are more dangerous than the diseases themselves. And that sometimes, the vaccinations can cripple the good health of a child.

I understand where parents are coming from when they ask me these questions. I too, had to face them when my daughter was born.

Toby and I decided that we would go ahead with the vaccinations for diseases that are deemed more 'life-threatening' but we did try to delay them as much as we could, so that our daughter was getting her fair share of antibodies in her little body from the milk she was getting from me. After each vaccination, we cleared her energy system, and did some healing on her.

We, as adults may know how to work on improving our physical and psychological immune system, but we didn't see how a little baby could do that, even with our help. We are constantly clearing her energy system and chakras and even more so now that she is in child care, but she is still getting all the childhood coughs and colds every now and again. The doctor assured us that she is developing antibodies through this coughs and colds and that this will pass.

The world is still operating very much on fear based thoughts and feelings. And diseases are an offspring of this sort of consciousness. Any soul who incarnates on earth are not automatically immuned to these. Immunity on the physical and psychological levels have to be work on and developed. So, we as parents are not only starting our daughter with a program to develop her physical immune system, we are also training her to develop her psychological immune system.

There is so much debate going on about vaccinations. But I am sure that whatever decision any parent comes to will be the right one for their path and journey of life.

Words Of Wisdom...

Beautiful Young People Are Accidents Of Nature, But Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Personal Achievement

I am thrilled to have completed the 42.195km! I was running at a good pace and feeling strong and was all geared up to finish the race in 4 hours 35mins. BUT around the half way mark, muscle cramps made it impossible to run effectively. I had to walk and run in intervals as the cramps came back on every now and then.

With all the training I got from spiritual psychology, the most important thing I have learned is not to be attached to results. And this is exactly what provided me with the good headspace despite the pain and cramps. Even though I didn't complete the race in the time I was trained for, I am equally thrilled to have even completed the race in 5 hours 35mins!

Other runners who did the 10km and 21km asked me if I would discourage them from doing the full marathon, my answer is no. It is something that every runner should try once in their lives for it provides more of a psychological training than a physical one.

With all the months of physical training, it all comes down to race day. And there are many things that are beyond our control on the day itself. So one's mind must be prepared for anything really.

Ultimately, this is a race to compete with self. I am glad I did it!