http://www.intuitivebridges.com As a Medical Intuitive, Alan Bridges promotes understanding of the human energy system for physical, emotional and spiritual healing. en-uk Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT Copyright: (C) 2003-2010 Alan Bridges. All rights reserved. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/images/rss_intuitivebridges.jpg http://www.intuitivebridges.com Your starting point for learning more about the work of Alan Bridges, medical intuitive, life coach and spiritual teacher. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/index.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/index.asp Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:15:00 GMT My Journey to Power forums offer a warm and welcoming community for comments, chat, discussion and even debate on all things intuitive and spiritual. So, grab a coffee, log on and join us here! http://www.intuitivebridges.com/forums/index.php http://www.intuitivebridges.com/forums/index.php Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Life has a way of changing our plans. Things rarely work out in a neat, orderly and tidy fashion. We have to adapt. And often we simply have to go with what we've got at that time. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20100314.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20100314.asp Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT This has been one of the wettest and snowiest winters I have experienced while living in Spain. Since December, we've had rain, snow or some combination of the two falling from the sky nearly every day. It was getting hard to remember what the sun looked like. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20100225.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20100225.asp Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT It's 2010 and the start of a new decade. My goodness how time flies. It really does seem that it was not so long ago that we were greeting the new millennium. There was so much worry then about what would happen when the clock struck midnight and the dates in all those computers rolled over to 2000. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20100112.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20100112.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:30:00 GMT As we prepare to say "so long" to 2009, the vast majority of us are thinking about resolutions to make as we welcome in 2010. To be sure, this is a time of year when we make all kinds of promises to ourselves. But how many of us will move into 2011 having accomplished those goals? Well, according to the experts, very few indeed. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20091228.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20091228.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Spending so much time in Spain has definitely taught me one thing - food is a way of life for the Spanish. I even dare to say that eating out is more integral to their culture than it is to the French. And it's the Sunday meal that sits atop that culinary pinnacle. While it might be unheard of in London, a Spanish restaurant never plans on more than one sitting per table on a Sunday. This is a leisurely event that consumes hours and is one that simply cannot be rushed. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20091025.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20091025.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT As a medical intuitive, I found Molecules of Emotion a very interesting as well as validating read. In this book, Candace Pert not only tells us how she came to discover the chemical mechanisms that enable body-mind communication but she also shares with us the trials and tribulations of trying to do unconventional research in a very conventional community. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_pert_molecules.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_pert_molecules.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT In this book, Bruce Lipton presents leading-edge research that makes up a new field of science called Epigenetics. It sounds pretty "out there" and yet the relevant discoveries have been made in established institutions and by highly-respected scientists. In a nutshell, Lipton describes a theory that our lives are far less controlled by genetics than conventional allopathic medicine would have us believe. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_lipton_biology.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_lipton_biology.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Trust yourself, remain in the present moment and do what's right for you. I must be referring to the teachings from the latest self-help book. Well, actually no. In fact, these principles were first set out about 150 years before the so-called New Age movement had even been thought of. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20091019.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20091019.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Just like that, Spain is in holiday mode. The beach down the road is heaving. Giddy shrieks and yelps of playing children can be heard over the gentle and peaceful lull of cows bells. City folk struggle to navigate their cars on our winding roads here in the country. Houses that are locked and deserted for most of the year are suddenly thrown open and instantly inhabited with people determined to get away from it all. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090816.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090816.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT It's verging on a truism to say that stress can kill you. Study after study has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt the untold harm that too much stress in one's life can do - emotionally, mentally, physically and of course spiritually. But there's one thing that each of us can do in our lives to reduce, if not reverse, the damage that stress is doing to us, and that is to meditate. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090727.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090727.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Many of us will find what David Hamilton writes in his book Your Mind Can Heal Your Body to be radical or even revolutionary. Others of us will find it incredibly interesting. As a psychic and medical intuitive, I find it reassuring that science is finally catching up with what I have known, albeit intuitively, for years. But no matter which camp you fall into, this book will change the way you think about your thoughts, your beliefs, your body and your health. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_hamilton_mind.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_hamilton_mind.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This past week I received yet another invitation to join yet another social networking site. I won't bother to name-check it as I'm sure you know the one to which I'm referring. Now I'm not one to subscribe to the old-dog-new-tricks mentality but what makes these sites essential to daily living for others has completely passed me by. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090720.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090720.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Some time ago I wrote about a new law that was coming into effect in Britain that had psychics, mediums and healers running scared. (If this brouhaha has passed you by, you can play catch-up by doing the background reading with my previous article.) Well, the regulations are now in force and yet too many of my colleagues are still shaking in their boots. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090713.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090713.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This past week I was speaking with a man who had come to me for a reading. Let's call him Steve, of course not his real name. As is the case with most of my clients for whom I'm reading for the first time, I knew nothing about him. When he rang at the arranged time, I simply asked him to repeat his name a few times so that I could connect with his energy over the phone and get to that place where the impressions flow. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090605.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090605.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT It's a common misconception that only people struggling to overcome illness get a medical intuitive reading. Of course, many of my clients do have some physical ailment that they seek to understand better. Some of them even already have an inkling there's more to it - an emotional or spiritual aspect that has escaped them. But many people seek medical intuitive readings when they are physically fit but simply feel that something is missing in their lives. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090427.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090427.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Let's face it - the world is going from bad to worse. The world's economies are shrinking. Banks are being nationalised left, right and centre. Governments aren't just spending money that they don't have; they are actually printing more - a process that goes by the wonderfully ambiguous euphemism of "quantitative easing". Food prices are soaring. The value of our homes is plummeting. It all paints a pretty bleak picture. Or does it? http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090406.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090406.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT As a medical intuitive, I work with people to understand the emotional and spiritual causes of their illnesses and life circumstances. There was a time when the notion that we create our own reality or that emotions could lead to stress was dismissed as something completely groundless. How times have changed. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090202.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090202.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This week British scientists made a very interesting announcement about a possible way to enhance the human body's ability to repair itself. The technique being studied triggers the body to release 100 times more stem cells to treat whatever and wherever needs healing. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090112.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090112.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT If you've read my review of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, you'll know that I was quite disappointed in what had become a self-help bestseller and even termed a "classic" by some. To me, it was more hype than substance. In fact, I had concluded that I didn't need to read anything else by this author. However, that was to change. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_coelho_pilgrimage.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_coelho_pilgrimage.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT No matter which spiritual path you follow, all the great masters have tried to teach us that the way to becoming conscious and enlightened is to be in the moment. Even today I challenge you to find a single self-help book that does not emphasise the importance of being in the present time. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090105.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20090105.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Putting a blind man in a maze might sound like the opening of some sort of cruel joke. But that's precisely what researchers at Harvard Medical School recently did. And while you might cringe at the thought of what happened next, let's just say that the researchers didn't see this one coming - pun intended. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20081223.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20081223.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This past week I conducted a coaching session with someone who has a very interesting story. He is an entrepreneur who has been very successful in spotting trends. It's almost like he possesses the mythical Midas Touch because whatever he touches turns to gold. Or so it did. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20081215.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20081215.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT I'm not quite sure how I missed this book for so long. It was originally published in 1970 and even became a film. But I had never bothered to find the time to read this incredibly short book. Perhaps I felt that as a fable it would be more appropriate for young adults. Perhaps, and I feel this probably the most likely reason that I never got around to it, it seemed to me that Jonathan Livingston Seagull had had its time and that now some 38 years later it would have gone stale. On both counts, I now admit that I was wrong. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_seagull.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_seagull.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT I recently found myself in a bookshop in London when my eye was caught by a new version of a classic that I had long intended to read but for whatever reason never got around to it. But it felt that the time was right for G. K. Chesterton's Saint Francis of Assisi and so I made my way to the checkout with a copy in tow. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_st_francis.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_st_francis.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT I don't know about you, but I can hardly believe that November is here. Where has 2008 gone? At the risk of sounding like my mother, time really does fly the older we get. It seems like just yesterday that we were picking the fruit and harvesting vegetables we planted this Spring and only the day before that it seems like we were toasting and singing (badly I might add) Auld Lang Syne. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20081103.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20081103.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT There's been a recent and very interesting development in the world of politics both in Britain and in the United States. Religion has once again taken centre stage. Now you might say that politics and religion have always been intimate if not strange bedfellows. But this time there's a twist. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080915.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080915.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT As a Medical Intuitive and Life Coach, I spend a lot of time working with people to help them to appreciate the impact that their beliefs have on their lives. When I do a reading for someone, I become very intimately aware of and acquainted with what that person believes about themselves and the world at large. I also tune into what role those beliefs play in their lives. Do their beliefs give them confidence and warm feelings? Or do their beliefs knock them down or pull the carpet out from under them at the earliest opportunity? http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080901.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080901.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT I don't normally cover the same topics across my sites. However, this week I have made an exception given the level of interest and coverage in the mainstream media regarding a new law that pertains to healers as well as to psychics. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080519.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080519.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Read any newspaper and it's easy to understand why so many people are depressed these days. Headlines herald environmental devastation, food shortages, price hikes at the pumps, increases in the costs to power our homes and then let's not forget those who are struggling just to remain in possession of their homes. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080505.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080505.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT When you consider that physicians estimate that up to 90 percent of their patients have a stress-related condition, it's hard to understand why more people aren't actively managing their stress. It's ridiculous how many of us would rather turn to something outside our bodies to regulate what's occurring on the inside. But if you don't happen to fall into that category, then I may have a book for you. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_benson_response.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_benson_response.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT When I saw the title of this book and who it was by, I just had to get it. Very few people could get away with a title like Life Beyond 100. But Dr. Norm Shealy can. In case you're not familiar with Dr. Shealy, he's a highly respected and prominent physician who became involved with the holistic health movement before it was cool. He's a true pioneer in the field of energy medicine and is known for his commonsensical approach to wellbeing and self-care advocacy. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_shealy_100.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_shealy_100.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT The mission of Shakti Gawain's Living in the Light is to give readers the tools that they need to develop their spirituality and personal wisdom. Gawain's premise is that we become more conscious and more balanced as we get to know, accept and embrace all the different aspects of who we are, including and especially the parts of ourselves that we'd rather forget. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_gawain_living.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_gawain_living.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Far too many people in this world underestimate the power of their belief systems. Indeed many people I work with tell me that they aren't even sure what beliefs they hold. It truly is shocking because what we believe in we give energy to and what we give energy to we create. This is the premise to The Magic of Believing by Claude Bristol. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_bristol_magic.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_bristol_magic.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This week I came across some very interesting medical research. Doctors studying the occurrences of skin cancer discovered something that has more than puzzled them - it's left them baffled. What they've found is that skin melanomas are more likely to appear on the left-hand side of the body than the right-hand side. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080428.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080428.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Lynne McTaggart is an award-winning investigative writer, who is perhaps best known for her revealing work in What Doctors Don't Tell You. But in The Field she moves from conventional medicine to traditional science, cutting-edge physics and the meaning of the universe itself. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_mctaggart_field.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_mctaggart_field.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT The underlying principle of the holistic health movement is that we are more than our physical bodies. At one time this was a pretty out there sort of concept - one that the average person on the street wouldn't understand and one that would cause medical doctors to roll their eyes. Thank goodness times have changed. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080317.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080317.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT The premise of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind is that for many of us our thoughts are on something akin to auto-pilot. In other words, what goes on in our minds is something that at best we observe now and again and at worse something that we ignore completely - and to our detriment. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_murphy_power.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_murphy_power.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Some time ago I met with a client who said that she had one and only one question for me. She sat down and told me her life story very matter-of-factly. She said that while holding down a full-time job, she had raised a family. The children had grown up and left home to live their own lives. She had gone back to school and got a graduate degree. She had even written a book. But amidst all her accomplishments she hadn't managed one key part of life. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080310.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080310.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Many of us get the blues from time to time. For most of us, we are able to snap ourselves out of it. For those of us who experience depression, the turn of choice has been to medicine to get us back on our feet and again feeling better about ourselves and our lives. And for many this solution seems to work. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080303.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20080303.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT The story that Esther and Jerry Hicks have to tell is truly a remarkable one. Jerry was always interested in spirituality and all that was 'out there'. But his wife wanted absolutely nothing to do with his explorations into the 'non-physical'. Oh, how all of that was to change. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_hicks_loa.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_hicks_loa.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This past week news came out of California that was almost completely buried by the tragedy of the fires there. But I am so glad that it caught my eye because its results are most interesting. It's more proof from scientists that how we feel can impact our health. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20071029.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20071029.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Whenever I read for several people and the same theme seems to pop up again and again, I know that something important is going on - for my clients as well as for my ongoing development as a professional medical intuitive. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20071015.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20071015.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This past week I read for a woman who, by anyone's observation, was a very spiritual person. She was active in church. She led a prayer group. And to say that she read the Scriptures religiously wouldn't be a pun or an overstatement. But she was struggling. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20071008.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20071008.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This past week I intuitively assessed a man who came to me regarding problems with his health. He, like so many of my clients, had been to his doctor who could find nothing wrong. He then sought out some specialist who similarly gave him a clean bill of health. Yet he still felt something was wrong and decided that perhaps it was time to try something "a bit off the beaten track" (his words). http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20071001.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20071001.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Energy Medicine by Donna Eden can be approached, read and utilised on several different levels. It is first, as its title suggests, something of a treatise on energy medicine or as the author calls it 'energy kineseology'. Eden adeptly explains the basic together with some of the more advanced concepts of energy medicine. Her approach is fresh in that her position is that working with and healing energy is something that humans have instinctively done for millions of years and not a New Age realisation as some authors mistakenly imply. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_eden_energymedicine.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_eden_energymedicine.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT The cover of Barbel Mohr's The Cosmic Ordering Service says that "it's the book that everyone's talking about." And for quite a while now, that's been true. It has sold over a million copies worldwide. And it was even cited as being responsible for the comeback of one British celebrity who had all but been forgotten by a fickle public. So when I came across it in an airport bookshop, I added it to my pile without a second thought. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_mohr_cosmic.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_mohr_cosmic.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Law of Attraction has been getting a lot of press at the moment. It's the notion that like attracts like. As a principle, we've always known about it. It's the nugget behind such sayings as birds of a feather flock together and so forth. However, we are now no longer observing it, we are actively engaging with this universal law to bring about more of what we want and less of what we don't want. Or at least, that's how it's supposed to work. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070924.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070924.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT As a Medical Intuitive, I read people's energy. What I perceive are impressions of attitudes, thoughts, beliefs, behaviour patterns, experiences and events in their lives, all of which have played a role in their health. Some people come to me for confirmation of what they suspect. Others have come to learn to see themselves in a completely new light. But all of them have known at some level, deep though it may be, that something was wrong. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070917.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070917.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT When people find out that I'm a professional Medical Intuitive, there's the standard list of questions I'm asked. They range from whether I really believe in what I do to what makes me so special. Then there are what I consider to be better questions. I say they are better because they come from a place of curiosity - they are neutral. And one of the most common of these such questions forms the basis of this week's note. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070910.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070910.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This week I'd like to share with you the concept of living intentionally and authentically. It's a concept which I spend a lot of time exploring with my Intuitive Life Coaching clients. For those of you who don't yet know about my coaching, this week's note will then serve as something of an introduction. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070903.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070903.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This past week new statistics were released in the UK that surprised, stunned and even shocked the public at large as well those in the medical community. It would seem that the chances of surviving cancer in the UK are at present below the European average. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070827.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070827.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT A recent poll carried out by the charity Cancer Research UK sought to survey popular beliefs about cancer. Their findings reveal that more than a quarter of the population believe that whether or not they will get cancer is completely out of their hands. In their words, it is down to destiny, fate or chance. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070820.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070820.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This week I want to open with a question: Where's your energy going? What? You don't know? What do you mean you don't know?! Sorry for jumping up and down there, but this is probably the most important question of your life. And no, I'm not kidding. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070716.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070716.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT How are you doing right now? Are you okay? Or are you feeling a little blue? Well if you are, I'm here to say that you're not alone. You see, for those of us in the northern hemisphere, we have reached one of the lowest points in the calendar. And when you look around, it's easy to see why. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070128.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070128.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT What do you think of when someone uses the term holistic? Do you immediately think of your local health food shop? Or do you connect it with candles, crystals and other New Age paraphernalia? For some of you the term might conjure images of gurus sitting in contorted and uncomfortable positions in incense-filled rooms. Still others of you might think of acupuncture and herbal remedies. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070108.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070108.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Alchemist tells a story that is simple, yet is considered by many to be profound. The protagonist is the restless Santiago, who while training to become a priest feels the strong desire to travel. So he trades in the seminary life for a more peripatetic profession. He buys some sheep and takes up shepherding. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_coelho_alchemist.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_coelho_alchemist.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT New Year's celebrations around the world are simultaneously wonderful, wacky and sometimes a little bit weird. For example, here in Northern Spain we welcomed in 2007 by eating twelve grapes as the clock chimed twelve and then washed them down with sparkling cider. In England, someone runs outside and comes back in (via the front door) carrying coal (ideally), but more often than not bread, salt or money as our first-footer. In Switzerland, we used to let a drop of cream hit the floor to bring us luck. And in the US, it was all about eating black-eyed peas while watching the parades and football. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070101.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20070101.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT We're approaching the final stretch. Christmas is just around the corner. The countdown is nearly complete. The cards have been mailed. Plans have been made. And the shopping, for some unfathomable reason, never quite seems to be finished. So when exactly are we supposed to find the time to kick back, relax and enjoy one of those Currier & Ives Christmases? http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20061218.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20061218.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT As a practitioner of kundalini meditation, I was already aware of conscious breathing and its role in expanded consciousness. And so I was really looking forward to reading the latest book to come my way - Breath, Mind, and Consciousness. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_johari_breath.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_johari_breath.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT In many circles say the word kundalini and a hush descends. To be sure, it's a no-no word. I suppose the first time I heard it was when a friend of mine was taking a kundalini yoga class and she mentioned this in a psychic awareness workshop I was attending. Well, at the mention of the word, the facilitator became very serious and warned my friend to drop the class at once. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_kundalini_awakening.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_kundalini_awakening.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This past week I returned to London. It was my first trip back in quite a long time (summer's a busy season in the rural vegetable patch) and so my diary was packed. There was shopping to do. I had a list of places to visit. And most importantly, I wanted to catch up with old friends. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20061127.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20061127.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT It might be hard to believe but many of us don't know how to breathe properly. Now I know what you're thinking. Breathing is so fundamental, so elementary and so easy that only an idiot wouldn't know how to do it. Right? Well, it's not that simple. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20061113.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20061113.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT What stressful times we live in. We're bombarded with information and choices at every turn. And because we're so busy rushing from A to B we have no time to process what we've been given or even to make our selections. Too often we do seem to be simply going through the motions. And to top it all off, we've heard the refrain that we now have to do more with less. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060724.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060724.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Few people approach me for an intuitive reading when everything in their life is going swimmingly. For the most part, people who come to me for one of my comprehensive intuitive readings are experiencing problems in their lives. Yes, there is the person from time to time who is happily going along and ever striving to improve their life situation. But they are the exception and most definitely not the rule. No, most people who come to me have a problem - and many are struggling with quite a few. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060717.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060717.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT And so this week we reach the summit of the chakras - the Seventh Chakra. This is where the spirit connects to mind and body. The energy of this centre motivates us to seek more, to find a higher purpose. It's not just about being aware of our spiritual nature or so-called Higher Self. The Seventh Chakra pushes us to make our spirituality a conscious and fundamental part of our lives. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060529.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060529.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This week we come to the penultimate instalment of our series with the Sixth Chakra. Climbing from the Fifth Chakra, the throat and the area of communication, we arrive at the famous Third Eye. This is where thoughts are generated and evaluated. And because our thoughts are so key to our health, I associate this week's chapter with an old adage - It's all in your mind! http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060522.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060522.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Having left the chakra that was all about love and compassion, we reach the Fifth Chakra where expression takes centre stage. We're now just above the heart and just below the head. In other words, we're in the throat. So it's no wonder that I've entitled this week's instalment Communication Central! http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060515.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060515.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This week we reach the Fourth Chakra and arrive at the halfway point of our journey. Three chakras lie below and three above. In other words, we are at the heart of the human energy system - and that, dear readers, is no pun. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060508.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060508.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT I have to say that the I heard it from someone who swears it's true is an effective construct. It saves a lot of time when trying to convince one's readers to just sit back and trust that what is being said is the gospel truth. Trust me, I know of what I speak. Second-hand storytelling worked in Merimee's Carmen. It worked in Don Quixote. And it worked for Thomas More in his Utopia. But does it work in the Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth? http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_ancient_secret.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_ancient_secret.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Last week when we looked at the Second Chakra, we considered the energy of how we interact and interrelate with each other - one-on-one. Now we move on to the Third Chakra. It's still about relationships, but the relationship that we'll focus on here is the one we have with ourselves. This is the point in our developmental journey when our sense of who we are matures. We cast aside the characteristics, attitudes and beliefs of the tribe and of those around us. In short, the ego emerges. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060501.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060501.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT In Second Sight, Dr. Judith Orloff shares her journey to becoming a psychiatrist and practicing intuitive. And as I recommend it as an essential read at PsychicBridges, I was very keen to review her subsequent book Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing - 5 Steps to Physical, Emotional and Sexual Wellness. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_intuitive_healing.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_reviews_books_intuitive_healing.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT The First Chakra grounds us and gives us our initial sense of identity. The energy of this chakra is that of the traditions and beliefs that come to us from our tribe or our culture. But at a certain point we begin to question the tribe's authority and what we have been taught. Just because it's right for them doesn't mean it's right me. Such reasoning marks the movement into the realm of the Second Chakra. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060424.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060424.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT We set off on our exploration of the chakras with the logical starting point - the First Chakra. It is equally the starting point for each of us in our journey to becoming conscious. This is where we become members of the tribe. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060417.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060417.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Let's get one thing straight from the beginning. We - you and I - are energetic beings. Our thoughts are energy. Our emotions are energy. Our memories are energy. Our attitudes are energy. Our beliefs are energy. Our dreams are energy. And while you might never have thought about it this way, we in fact interact with other people, our surroundings and the environment through energy - or rather, an exchange of energy to be precise. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060410.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060410.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT This week I came across a very interesting article about the latest research in what is referred to as sick building syndrome (SBS). SBS is used to describe a situation in which people experience acute symptoms of ill health that appear to be linked to spending time in a particular building. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060403.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20060403.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT As a medical intuitive, one of my goals is help people get in touch with what their bodies are trying to tell them. I'm forever saying, "Your body is talking to you. The challenge is for you to listen." http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20051020.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20051020.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Over the years I have witnessed some pretty amazing events that have broken every law of conventional medicine, not to mention physics. I have observed spiritual healing cure people from supposed life-threatening illnesses literally in an instant and I have seen spirit forces levitate objects (without any human assistance or intervention). I have also listened to words of wisdom from disincarnate spirit guides. All of these things fly in the face of conventional wisdom and traditional spirituality. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20050726.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20050726.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT In my work as an intuitive, I recently encountered a woman who, at the early age of thirty-eight, had already suffered from (and conquered!) three types of cancer. As she put it, it seemed as though no sooner would she complete treatment for one form than she would be diagnosed with another. And although she came to me for any insights I could offer, she understandably arrived with anger and contempt for everything - and almost everyone. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20050620.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20050620.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Not so long ago, I decided to take a break from London life. This city mouse packed his bags and moved to rural Spain. My mission? To learn about village life and experience what I thought must be a simpler way of life. http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20050613.asp http://www.intuitivebridges.com/ib_weekly20050613.asp Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT