http://www.spiralheart.co.uk en-gb spiralheart.co.uk 2012-3-27T00:00:00Z spiralheart.co.uk http://www.spiralheart.co.uk/page10.htm#115416 Well it is just about that time again. The Winters grip is loosening and though the Hoare frost is still white diamond sharp in the early morn the sun is growing daily stronger and reaching higher in the sky with each passing day. The girl is making ready to travel out into the forest with the provender that her Mother has been painstakingly making and baking. Grandma left for her house at the other side of the Forest just as the snows were breaking and the nights were still lingering in the dawn skies. She had waited to be home long enough she had told them. Their house was fine and warm for the winter months but she had a garden to tend and her own house to keep. She had been busy herself making the cloak for the girl the one she was now big enough to wear. The long nights by the fire Grandma had first carded wool then spun then wove until when satisfied she had clipped cloth and sewn this garment to be ready for the first journey of spring. The girl brought broth kept logs ... 2012-3-27 16:26:24 http://www.spiralheart.co.uk/page10.htm#110755 So whats that all about then A simple enough question but one that can often be heard in the aftermath of a less than totally cool exhibition of behaviour brought on by a catalyst possibly something as simple as a spider or a bee. The trigger as when situated on a weapon like a gun once pulled has an inevitable outcome and it is also that fast. So how do we install these triggers The brain loves a strategy it is a massive circuit board and its only purpose in life is to find things that light it up like a Christmas tree. This is the purpose of curiosity it keeps the brain firing up those circuit boards and it is our job when there is a less than supportive behaviour being triggered by external events or the stimulation on a limiting belief to switch the signals detour the train of thought to another area lighting up a whole new part of the circuit board and giving the client a new way of dealing with an old problem. You can see this happening everyday. There is so... 2012-1-19 23:43:12 http://www.spiralheart.co.uk/page10.htm#103392 The Big Picture you know that one yes All the time people say to you Look at the Big Picture usually just before they try to sell you something be it a car a house or an idea. So this Big Picture aka The Grand Design this thing that we are all a part of and is supposedly therefore a part of us would be the Universe right Now it seems to me just sitting here actually I was lying in bed contemplating getting up after a night of my usual weird and wonderful dreams of which this could be the result by the way when this thought of the sum of the parts being greater than the whole thats been circling the drain of my brain for a while now got caught up on the safety filter and got recycled so here I sit at this laptop regurgitating it for public consumption what a pleasant metaphor I do hope you have eaten already Anyway I digress my favourite hobby. To get back to these parts well those would be us then. Simple enough concepts on the surface but as we all know nothing is that ... 2011-9-27 17:40:48 http://www.spiralheart.co.uk/page10.htm#97057 There is a theory about daydreaming. Lets face it there is more than just the one My school report card was full of how much of a day dreamer I was in so many of my classes that it was a wonder there was any room left for anything else. Much to my chagrin this would be changed to must try harder but daydreaming is something that you dont have to try to do. All of the adults in my life and some of my peers would be very upset with me for not being present while in their presence. It wasnt as if there was a problem from my point of view I would just get to a space where the words of the teacher parent sibling friend or whomever would become a drone and life would become very still and quiet because I have a volume control inside my head and it would be slowly but irrevocably turned down to silence.. The premise that I am stating here is that at that time in days of yore there was no recognition that actually there was something I was good at. Their focus was on their crite... 2011-6-25 21:32:48 http://www.spiralheart.co.uk/page10.htm#95441 Well now it is a little while since we got back from Canada and we are still a little jet lagged. Isnt it amazing though how time distorts itself when we return from holidays Not two hours after we touched down at Gatwick Airport did it seem like we had dreamt the whole thing. The vastness of that country is breathtakingly beautiful and not a little bit intimidating when you remember that there are bears in them there woods Not just in the woods though on the roadside crossing the roads and sometimes to be found tasting the spaghetti sauce on the hob in the odd unsuspecting persons kitchen. Being bear aware is a fact of life for those who live there but for us it was a constant ambitionto see a bear close up then we would think about it and tell ourselves that well it might not be that entertaining not reallywhile secretly still nursing that wish in our hearts. Bears are just magnificent animals and to see them in their natural habitat beats the zoo hands down. It does of cours... 2011-6-4 01:30:42 http://www.spiralheart.co.uk/page10.htm#81717 Now there is a lot to be said about change and for the most part a lot of people would say that none of it is good. I was one of those a while ago. I hated change. I hated it mainly because it brought chaos into my carefully controlled and safe life. I hated it because I feared it. Then I began to learn and in that learning I became acquainted with a new idea about change. I learned that fear was a magnifying glass of Hubble type properties. I learned that perspective would turn that glass on its ass. I learned that change brought new and interesting concepts into my conscious awareness and that would manifest physical changes in my life. I learned to let go. I began to know how stultifying and rigid fear can make ones life once that knowing was there in my mind like a seed it grew and grew. To nurture that seed I fed it on new ideas and different ways of thinking. It began to bear fruit in the form of choices. More choices than I had ever anticipated opportunities to c... 2010-11-30 21:03:20 http://www.spiralheart.co.uk/page10.htm#69906 How things change Well as the saying goes Theres many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. There we were all excited and shiny about the prospect of going to see Serge Kahili King at his last workshop to be given in Europe. Then we had a bit of a glitch. In Shamanic teaching there is an awful lot about the challenges and tasks that the Shaman is given in life. One of these challenges is to move forward through difficult times. There are many of these for everyone at this timeperhaps it is the Universe giving us a heads up as to how we should perceive our stewardship of ourselves our families our friends and neighbours and the Earth that sustains all this who knows This entry is not really about generalisations this is about part of our challenge. During the planning and determined we shall go to the workshop come hell or high waterings there was something that we chose to not take into account. What the Universe had in store for us. For me it was th... 2010-7-9 01:26:29 http://www.spiralheart.co.uk/page10.htm#60431 So there I am going through the emails and I find this one that somehow got lost in the scrummage. Its from our lovely Sarah Sarah Howcroft ShamanismWales our Celebrant Supreme. Anyways she has sent information on a workshop that will take place in London in May. Im perusing calmly until I see who the workshop is going to be run by... None other than the Urban Shaman himself Serge Kahili King. Now Im having one of those Universe type Duh moments. Inside my brain there are various pieces of jigsaw clicking into place. Do you have those moments of course you do its like when Vincent Donofrio gets it in Criminal Intent or when you realise you have suddenly made the connection that makes everything else make sense. The Greek guy had one once went about hurling the word Eurika about. Got it Yes right that one. All the time Im thinking to myself how can we do this Can we do this We can do this... Its all got to do with NLP strangely or not so strangely really not if you are into the... 2010-3-13 13:04:08 http://www.spiralheart.co.uk/page10.htm#60279 NLP Forensic Evidence of Language Patterns Any selfrespecting crime scene boffin can tell you about evidence evidence is the clue the stuff that leads to the motive and modus operandi of the criminal mind. Not only does physical evidence reveal a crime the spoken word is also a great giver of clues. Lets face it the language patterns of our clients are very telling and NLP is the box full of magic equipment to uncover the clues left behind and bring to light the perpetrators dastardly deeds. For all of the less than totally positive states our client present to us theres a requisite and profound solution. The difference between our s.o.c.o counterparts and us is that the scene of crime comes to our doorstep looking for the NLP practitioner to solve the crime and like a super hero make their world a better place for the future. How do we do that Beginning at the end by knowing our outcome and defining it in advance we are more likely to achieve what weve set ... 2010-3-10 23:20:50