Me on the radio!

Catch my interview on Monique Chapman's radio show last night in the archives here... http://www.achieveradio.com/intuition-iq/index.php

When chaos and calamity turns into a dream come true....

I love, love, love it when something bad happens, and yet out of it comes something very good, perhaps something that we had wanted all along!

I have seen this happen time and time again to myself and people around me. They have a wish or a desire that they want to fulfill. It seems impossible though, and sometimes they won't fully commit themselves to it.

They become lazy, and the wish becomes just that... a wish. Then all hell breaks loose and life turns chaotic. But somehow, out of the dust and debris, their wish is granted.

Not the easiet way to wish fulfillment, and far more emotional than a simple genie in a lamp, but undisputable all the same. The universe works in some funny, funny ways!

I have witness this quite a few times lately. My own life has been testament to that fact. I even cover this in my latest book tHe High Heeled guide to Spiritual Living. Let's hope the chaos in the world is heading the same way too!

Now if you don't believe me... try this. Think back to 5 or 10 years ago, to a truly yukky situation in your life. Then think about the good that has come out of it, and how as ar esult you may have had one or two simple or amazing dreams come true. You may be suprised! And of course feel free to share...

Much love and blessings Alice

Try a little Forgiveness and Grace

I hope in this post to encourage everyone to forgive those who have harmed us and experience the sense of grace and peace that tends to bring about.

Forgiveness can be very difficult. Whether a wound is brand new or scarred and old, either way we have a glut of emotions to tend to. We can get so lost in these emotions, they can run so deep, that they may feel a part of our psyche. Our anger becomes a defining characteristic and we thrive on the rush it gives us.

We feel our wayward turmoil belongs to us, we own it, we need it maybe? We can make it a part of our character, and it influences the way we conduct ourselves. For example a past hurt may now rule how you act in a classroom, with a partner, or how you wear your clothes even. We see this as our 'learning' from that hurt. But really in changing ourselves to fit a past hurt are we not just exacerbating that hurt? Making it real and fresh, day in, day out. Are we living off that hurt, because we have not yet found a way to let it go. Instead we keep the scars fresh by revisiting time and time again.

I suggest that rather than fitting your hurt to suit your soul, or wearing it on your literal sleeve, it is wiser and more glorious to simply drop it - although of course this is the more difficult thing to do too!

I believe that anger is something you can put down if you choose to. You may not realise that yet, it may be difficult, trust me i struggle also. But it can be done. The first step is to simply try. To release it. Maybe ask for help from spirit guides, angels, the big electron or whoever or whatever you do believe in. Meditate on it. Contemplate it whilst in the shower, cleaning the car or sitting in traffic. Hold the intention in your heart to drop the bad feelings and see how that feels a little... Do it everyday, be conscious about it. Let the feelings ebb away and enjoy the space this leaves.

Forgiveness is, in the end, always, about you. About your abilitiy to live and to cope with all things. It is about your ability to endure and to seek solace in your own skin.

Forgive someone today one small thing and then take it from there! Make a definite decision to release all frustration, sadness and ugly feeling towards whomever has hurt you. Who knows by next week you could have ascended past all your pains and be living afresh, full of smiles and not one iota of bitterness dragging you back! Good luck!

Tarot Card of The Week - 9 of Cups

Here is this weeks reading from me! hope it rings true for you guys and gals! Love Alice x

Things are going well. You are feeling grateful and life is good. There is much to smile about. Although perhaps underneath the bags of joy and pleasantness something seems a little amiss. You can't put your finger on it becuse otherwise everything is pretty darned fine this week.

Though perhaps this may a case of too much fun? Of course when we get overly happy, we are in danger of being carried away with the moment, we can take our eye off the ball. We can be so consumed in what we are doing and acheiving that we miss something important or vital to our continued happiness. Perhaps you are in danger of missing an opportunity that will bring all kinds of new happiness.

It may be too that you are overindulging in all the fine stuff of life, wine, choccies, nights on the tiles. Whilst indulging in fine foods and crazy evenings there could be a source of peaceful contentment that is being overlooked.

Whatever your situation, be careful that great times do not turn sour. Know that you have a lot to be happy for, but don't get too carried away with it all. Keep your mind in the game and focus! Remember that whilst parties bring great fun, it is only in the calm of our own souls that we will find peace.

I made a Vision Board!

This weekend, with time on my hands between my husbands two gigs on Saturday, I invited my friend around and we set about making a vision board each. Despite all my crazy spiritual adventures, you may be suprised to hear I have never made a vision / dream board before! Well. There is a first time for everything. So we set about cutting up a dozen or so magazines and gluing them all over a bit of card.

This is not as easy as one might first assume. There is something intrinsically powerful about this act. Suddenly I became very picky about images and words that I wanted to use to summon up my perfect future. I am a strong believer in the saying 'be careful what you wish for, it may come true'. And so it was with this in mind that I weilded my scissors with due care and attention and started to craft my collage of desired loveliness.

Making our vision boards was a very relaxing and meditative act. It is rare I sit and focus so intently on my life, and what I want. Perhaps that is wherein lies the power of the Vision Board. Because in this act of concentration I focused my mind entirely, not on what I 'think I might ' want, but on what I actually want. My friend and I spent a good couple of hours creating our boards, and every thing that went on there was mentally screened and assessed by my inner guru. Only when fully approved was the glue brought out and the scrap of paper committed to the board.

Whilst I have never done a board such as this before. I knew from my choices, that they were so completely different to what they would have been several years ago. Many of my desires revolve around the easily acheivable, and the internal things such as emotions. I was pleased to notice that I had no requirement for anything very much material (other than a future little cottage). That way heartbreak lies. Most important for me, it seems, is love, relationships, friends, pets, family, well being and my writing. Nothign else really featured. It seems I want what I more or less already have. So my vision board was like a new and improved version of my current life, though without the sleepiness and occasional stresses - of course! Oh and a few images to represent fabulous holidays thrown in - well you have to don't you!

Creating a Vision board was an enlightenment and an exercise in getting to know me, and what it is I really want! I encourage all you Soulies to get making your one too and maybe blogging about it here! Paper and a pritt stick has never been so powerful!

A bad witch's blog: Review: High Heeled Guide to Spiritual Living

A bad witch's blog: Review: High Heeled Guide to Spiritual Living: "I review lot of books for my blog, but rarely do I find myself nodding in agreement as much as I did while reading The High Heeled Guide to..."

SMile and F**k the Wrinkles!

I am sat in a red dress, with hastily applied make up waiting for a photographer. A few years back, this was my ambition: to be a person photographed regularly, or a model as they are otherwise known. Today this little photo session is very much not about what I look like per se, but more about illustrating an article for a local magazine. I'm a local person and in writing my books I have become of some interest to the Shire in which I abode. Which is always lovely, but this isn't about my potential newfound and very specifically shire-d fame, it's about the whole she-bang.

Havng dashed into the house with 30 mins till photography time. I threw on a red dress - it's classy and didn't need ironing - and I haphazardly topped up my make up. In doing so I couldn't help but notice the appearance of some lovely new wrinkles! Some of you may scoff and say 'what wrinkles' but trust me, it's my face, they are there! And even though I just wrote a book ranting and raving about the beauty industry and how it makes Women feel if they do not fit the beauty and youth prescription, my heart still sank a little bit. So being the brave spiritual trooper that I am I decided that a smile would fix it all, so I smiled in the mirror, and guess what, the wrinkles got worse! You just have to laugh...

So this leaves me with a dillemma. The way I see it is I have 3 options. Be morose and sullen and in turn hope to look relatively young. This will of course lead to me obsessed with how I may look, concerned wholly with externals and drastically avoiding any and all humor for fear I may lapse and allow the old crows feet out of the (old) bag. There is of course the option of Botox. Nope to that. So the final option is of course, smile and F**k the wrinkles.

Guess which option I chose?

So if you see a slightly frayed version of my younger self, happily peering out of the pages of a glossy local social mag, you know why. Looks, youth and smooth undereyes are a passing trend, they have an expiry date. Compared to our souls and our wisdom they are but a blip. So with this in mind we should all just smile and F**k the wrinkles! We are more our souls than we will ever know, and the externals be they warped, frayed, wrinkled or flumpy are perfect. They are our perfect little well worn homes. They keep our soul housed and wasting time on major renovations, money on nip tucks and tears and frustrations on ravages of time is time, money and tears wasted! You are beautiful, and your imperfections are too!

On that note... where is this photographer, I'm not getting any younger...