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May
8

“Intention & the Law of Attraction”

by Doug Buckingham

Intention is the foundation stone of all energy work. When you have a clear intention, or goal, for a therapy session in whatever modality you are practising then odds you will make some progress assuming it is in the Highest Good of the subject for the session.

Clear intention is also the foundation stone of how we can manifest or attract “things” into our life. Fundamentally, the principles behind attracting something into our life are pretty simple. We are electro-magnetic energy systems with a consciousness and therefore when we make a clear intention which is for our Highest Good, then we magnetically attract it into our energy and “Hey Presto!” it appears. So, stop reading my nonsense right now and go off and manifest the reality you desire…. Or is there just a little something more that we need to pay attention to … which might need a little more explanation…

Much has been written about the Law of Attraction, many workshops have been done and still many people ain’t manifesting what they consider their dreams to be. Unfortunately, a few of the people who teach about the laws of attraction and manifestation and the like got a little too focused on the material world. Books and films and people seemed to suggest that we could attract material wealth, happiness and many other wonderful things into our world with reasonably little application our part. Magic, huh? Well actually yes, it is in a way for sure….when you get it “right” or when you know what’s “right” for you.

What a lot of these people forget to mention (or maybe didn’t know in the first place) is that crucial sentence …“for our Highest Good”. And that, of course, is crucial…and easily forgotten by our personalities. What is in not line with our Soul or Life plan or Highest Good is unlikely to materialise….maybe not until the time is right…or maybe not in this lifetime. All of us can spend a lot of energy trying to manifest the perfect partner, the perfect job, the dream house or whatever it might be that we believe is right, but a lot of these are things that our personalities want and often these can simply be irrelevant to the plan of our Soul.

As an example … material wealth might actually be decidedly unhelpful for someone whose Soul plan is to be happy with very little money. We live in a world where there is an over-emphasis on what we have as defining the happiness of a person, so it’s fairly natural to want more…but it might not be what our Soul wants. And our Soul is invariably the boss…

On the other hand, what we perceive as failure to manifest said thing doesn’t necessarily mean said thing isn’t part of our Soul Plan. It might mean there is a challenge that we have to overcome in order to be able to move forward and achieve that said thing.

Blocks may be in several areas (and I am going to oversimplify here for the sake of an easy read) …

Conscious mind – an ongoing record playing…how we talk to ourselves…an obvious example is ”I am not good enough”…”I don’t deserve…” – you might be able to work through this with affirmations or similar … or go see a good hypnotherapist or both. The source of this is likely to be in the….

Unconscious mind –…as well as other records which you might not be so conscious of…. might be current life stuff or past life stuff where we took vows of poverty/similar that need to be released – go see a good hypnotherapist or more preferably a regression therapist

Higher Mind/ Soul / Superconscious – might not necessarily be a permanent block – it might be a challenge you have to overcome/learn before you can do x….go and see a good Life between Lives therapist and find out what your Soul plan is….finding that out is very helpful anyway. A good (and I mean good) channel or clairvoyant may also be of use in this area too.

Abundance/prosperity is a state of mind too and a feeling in the body, and often a deeper knowing. It is not necessarily to do with the aspect of materialism on our Earthly plan, it is more to do with the aspect of having the “right” experiences in our lives and that comes from having a connection to the Universe. We all have that connection of course, but do we actually work with it, nurture and sustain or invest in some way…a belief or a knowing.

I believe that I learnt the secret of manifestation (or at least what works for me) a few years ago from a Spiritual teacher called Caroline Myss – I will paraphrase again for the sake of any easy read. She said that all manifestation techniques are nonsense!! If you want to manifest then as part of your morning ritual – meditation, teeth brushing, whatever that means to you– then simply say each day “How can I be of service?” and everything else just flows from there.

That works for me and my life does flow fairly abundantly….definitely not in the way my personality to desire but I am very comfortable with the knowing that I am working through my learnings for this life. I haven’t manifested my healing centre yet but maybe that is something I am working towards, maybe that is something that isn’t in my Soul Plan or maybe that is something that someone reading this newsletter (or a friend of theirs) will ring me up about in the next few days….who knows?

Have a great month

D

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Apr
11

“Listening to our Guidance”

by Doug Buckingham

All of us have asked for guidance at one time or another in our lives – some of us on very many occasions J When we were young, some would be able to ask our parents, as we grew older we would have included friends in that list of advisors, maybe even our teachers, our bosses and so on.

As adults people might go to their financial advisor or their bank manager, stockbroker for financial guidance or share tips. Any of us who drive a car have to place faith in the guidance in a car mechanic or garage once or twice a year…big leap of faith each time I do that! How we do know how to trust their advice each time – they are experts in their field but can we place our faith in what they say?

A lot of people ask for guidance on their Spiritual Paths; they might ask God, Jesus, the Universe, the Buddha, Mohammed, the Angels or their spirit guides or whatever their particular Faith might include. How do we know when the information coming back to us is “right”?

A lot of people in the Spiritual/new Age world make a good living out of our desire for guidance. They are many who sell books and offer workshops on how to contact your guides, angels, spiritual beings or etc… And of course there are tarot readers, clairvoyants, channels and the like who offer readings of some descriptions. A bit like car mechanics; some are good, honest and always do their best; some are brilliant and tell you really useful information and then a few ….you simply wouldn’t want to take your car to…. so how do you know who to go?

So how do we know? Intuition (Inner tuition) is deeply ingrained within all of us when we come onto the Earthly plane; and then often our well-meaning parents, teachers or society simply pushes it to one side and drags us into the realm of analysis and logic (this is still useful of course but not to the exclusion of our intuition). Some are born more intuitive than others, but it also a skill that can be learnt, practised and polished to reasonable state of perfection fairly easily. The reason for that is that we have the wisdom within us; we know what’s best, or appropriate) for us.

Often we have a knowing when something feels right but does “right” necessarily mean good….at least in the short term…something that is for our Highest Good isn’t always what our personality considers to be short-term good. As a deeply intuitive Piscean I have been fortunate to be a “knower” for a very long time and often I know when I should do something. That can mean eschewing popular opinion and marching to the beat of my own drum. Ten years I gave up a very well-paid job, sold my house and went travelling with no particular goal because I knew that I had to – all of my colleagues, friends and family thought I was crazy but I had a very deep knowing. And now here I am…loving what I do and doing what I love.

We can listen to that knowing within us when we are still (not doing – just being), when we’re in nature or simply taking a quiet couple of minutes or maybe we really just know. A lot of people saying that knowing emanates from the head, but I am of the belief that it comes from the wisdom of the heart or maybe it is just sitting there in our unconscious. When we are clear and grounded we can learn to trust our hearts and to know when something feels right for us. We can ask ourselves the questions “does this feel right” and if we are listening we will get an answer back immediately.

We can also learn to validate our guidance for ourselves by a means of divination – basic pendulum use/dowsing is very simple to learn, we could even programme ourselves for a yes/no response from an ideomotor response from our fingers. Kinesiology shows that there is a wisdom within the whole body and that our body has a positive/negative reaction to certain substances, thoughts, feelings or anything you like really.

And often the Universe will validate our knowing right here in the material. A synchronicity of some kind will transpire- a conversation with a friend who says the right thing, a poster on the tube catches our eye with exactly the right word. The Universe will always respond if we ask for validation or for guidance. It is not here to do the work for us, but it will always assist.

If listening to your guidance is something you are going to go and learn somewhere, then it is wise to go a good school. I am happy to field any questions on any aspects of that. Generally I always recommend either me and/or the School of Intuition & Healing. I do some workshops there and I know the principals of the school and they meet my personal requirements of working with integrity, and in a grounded, clear and protected manner.

For some the question at this moment in time may be….”what am I really here to do?” or “how can i be of service?”  ….I am facilitating a workshop with my friend Jen Treanor in May at the School of Intuition and Healing called “Awakening Your Sacred Journey”. It will involve how to get clear and listen to listen to your guidance, and is specifically designed for those who are called to do work with the Planet or Earth Energy work at this special time of change….whatever that may mean to you.  Needless to say, if you feel or know you have to be there then…..

Love & blessings

Doug

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Mar
1

Workshops / Courses in South Africa

by Doug Buckingham

There are a series of workshops/courses in South Africa which ae taking place on behalf of the Past Life Regression Academy (PLRA). Several workshops have taken place in Cape Town and Johannesburg and more introductory talks and workshops are planned in Cape Town for March 2012.

The one day workshops which take place on the 17th and 18th March 2012 serve as a splendid introduction to the Regression Academy training in both hypnotherapy and regression therapy which will commence in 2012. The initial training is a 4 day hypnosis training course covering the foundation requirements of using hypnosis which will take place between 21st-24th March 2012 in Cape Town.

This is followed by the PLRA professional programme covering past life regression training and regression therapy training which takes place over three separate modules during 2012. This training already takes place in several locations in Europe as well as the USA, Asia and Australia.

For further information on the training see the PLRA website www.regressionacademy.com

Brochures and further information on the training specific to South Africa will be available soon.

The talks and introductory workshops are as follows (click on the names of more info)

Cape Town

Wednesday 14th – Talk at the 8 o’clock club in Cape Town – The Journey of the Soul (how Hypnosis & Regression to Past Lives and Life between Lives Help us to Discover our Soul Learnings)

Thursday 15th – Talk at Milnerton Light Centre in Cape Town – The Journey of the Soul

An Insight Into Regression Therapy – Sat 17th March

An Insight Into Life Between Lives Spiritual Regression – Sun 18th March

Foundation Certificate in Hypnosis – Wednesday 21st – Saturday 24th March

The one day workshops take place at Constellation House, Rondebosch, and are being run in association with the School of Intuition of Healing (SIH) in Cape Town.

For booking and further information on the one day workshops please contact

Cindy Holmes 021 788 2008/ 0725656072

www.intuitionandhealing.co.za

or email : info@za.intuitionandhealing.org

For further information on the hypnotherapy/regression training in South Africa please contact me directly on info@dougbuckingham.co.uk

Please note that the undersigned is available for private sessions in regression, life between lives, hypnottherapy, spirit release and Reiki during my time in Cape Town (and possibly Johannesburg). For further details please email me on info@dougbuckingham.co.uk

With Love

Doug Buckingham

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Feb
15

Being a A Witness

by Doug Buckingham

I consider myself to be very fortunate in life for many reasons. One of them is because in the “work” area I love what I do and I do what I love.

I am also very blessed to meet many quite wonderful people during the course of my work. And what’s more I am truly privileged to be a witness to and hear stories from people in various different stages of their transformational journey. I do plan to share a few more of the stories via this blog (with the clients permission of course) as I feel that it’s important to get the reality out there that complementary therapies/healing modalities work and make a positive change in people’s every lives.

Here are a few words from one man who took a Reiki course in January….

Reiki Level one has allowed me to get my mother walking her dogs for the first time in a year , to get her to be able to sit down with her grand children on the floor and get up which is quite something , i have filled my every waking day full off positive energy for myself and have had incredible results because of this , i would like to progress now to a further insight into this practice. RB

Love & Blessings

Doug x

Level one has allowed me to get my mother walking her 
dogs for the first time in a year , to get her to be able to sit down with her 
grand children on the floor and get up which is quite something , i have filled 
my every waking day full off positive energy for myself and have had incredible 
results because off this , i would like to progress now to a further insight

into this practice. as usual , made my mind up in 30 seconds

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Feb
13

Funk Up Your February

by Doug Buckingham

Hello Lovely People,

Hopefully that got your attention….and equally hopefully my typing is a little less absent-minded than usual :-)

This is just a quick reminder to let you know how you can funk up your February as there are some wonderfully interesting and exciting events coming up over the next month or so…

Saturday 18th – Inner Child Regression Workshop-at the School of Intuition & Healing

Thursday 23rd – Past Life Regression – Fact or fiction….and Does it Really Matter…?

Saturday 25th – An Intro to Aura Soma – at the School of Intuition & Healing

Wednesday 29th – An Evening of the Essenes – at the School of Intuition & Healing

Saturday 3rd March – Usui Reiki Level I Course

Sunday 4th March – Usui Reiki Level II Course

Thursday 8th March – Full Moon Evening at the School of Intution & Healing

Full details can be found on the links above to the various sites that host the events

Hope to see you at one or more

With Love & Blessings

Doug
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Jan
23

The Benefits of Energy Protection

by Doug Buckingham

I often rave about the benefits of energy protection to clients, colleagues and friends.Like many energy techniques, the true understanding and acceptance of them comes when we find them of benefit to them in our everyday lives…here is the story of one lady’s experience who recently took a Reiki course

I wanted to thank you for the wonderful Reiki II couse that I attended a couple of weeks ago…I have already started to put your teaching into practice and felt I should share with you an incident that happened last night!!

At about 6.30 I drove into my close and noticed a tall man walking quite quickly on the opposite side of the road, as I parked my car and got ready to open the door I felt an immediate sense of danger. The guy was now staring at me then appeared to call someone on his phone, I rationalized this in my mind by saying – Ok he’s waiting for a friend to arrive in the close! He then moved to stand behind a huge bush which obscured him from my view, my gut was telling me I wasn’t safe.

Remembering your teaching I asked for protection and mentally placed a bubble around me, I collected all my shopping and had my door keys in my hand Doug I was petrified I just sensed that I was in danger and had to get a few yards to my front door, I opened the car door and as I pushed it shut out of the corner of my eye I saw him move, I walked / ran around the car and headed to my door, knowing he was following me – then something really weird happened I stopped! and froze half way up my path I made eye contact with him an in a split second I saw him stop in his tracks (It was like he had hit my protective field and couldn’t go any further) I can’t tell you why I stopped when I felt threatened or why I didn’t drive off or sit in my car for longer all I know is I felt safe, did shake like a leaf for about 15 minutes, called the police and reported him as we have had several incidents over the last few months.

How do I feel today? grateful that I knew I was being protected.

As I now live on my own I will always make sure that I never put myself into a situation where I don’t feel safe, I am going to continue living in my protective bubble!!

I have been sharing energy protection techniques in Reiki courses from Level I upwards as standard procedure (not just scary situations) for a few years now, however there are many others places that you can learn energy protection techniques – just try googling….or email me and I can send you something….

And if you want more details on upcoming Reiki courses with me please look here

Love & blessings

Dougx

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Dec
5

Reiki Your Way Into 2012

by Doug Buckingham

The reason why I practice, teach, use and sing the praises of Reiki on a regular basis is …because it works! And it works as a holistic therapy on several levels – i.e. physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. It’s a very effective tool for assisting us to take responsibility for and to manage our own energy, and in my opinion that’s essential in this day and age for everyone on the planet.

At the start, Reiki is a very useful way of helping to work with with one’s own “stuff”, and as a person progresses through the courses and continues to practice Reiki on a regular basis for the Self, it’s a very beneficial part of the process to start to work with other people…friends and family and the like. There is of course the opportunity during the Reiki journey to become a practitioner, though interestingly I note that the majority of people who come to my classes tend to be doing so as part of their own personal self-development programme.

Reiki is more than simply a means of healing or other energy modality. It’s a pathway to greater self-development and thus understanding. I think that it’s a “journey assister” and brings things into your life that otherwise might not have been there…or maybe it simply speeds up the process of bringing things into your life.

If you haven’t had a Reiki session or taken a Reiki course yet, then I have a very simple question for you – why not? And I don’t ask you that question for selfish reasons. Although Reiki is one of the rather splendid ways in which I earn my living, I am always happy to recommend other practitioners if you can’t relate to me peraonally.

Reiki sessions are extremely beneficial for one’s well-being. Reiki works through the subtle energy bodies and the chakras, all of which link to glands in our endocrine system, which in turn governs our immune system. Thus a boost of Reiki does exactly that; it boosts our immune system.

Reiki courses of course give the individual the “power” to do that for themselves. Rather than going to a practitioner and having “Reiki” done for you (though there is always mileage in that), you have the option to give Reiki to yourself whenever you want to…and that;s potentially very empowering…

I am facilitating Reiki courses on a regular basis throughout 2012. All of the courses are reasonably small in size (between 2-6 people) to ensure personal attention.

I have a Reiki I course running on Saturday 7th January 2012 with spaces left

and a Reiki II on Sunday 8th January (though this is almost full)

Subsequent Reiki I courses run at the the end of February and the end of March, and there are usually about 8-10 of these a year in total.

The next Reiki II course will be at on the 25th March 2012 and these tend to run every couple of months or so, again depending on demand,

The next Reiki Master/Teacher course runs 14-15th April and 21-22nd April 2012, and there are usually two of these that run during a year.

For those who have completed their Usui Reiki Master, then there I will be offering the Karuna ® Reiki Master course at the end of March/early April

If you prefer to have Reiki training on a one to one basis then I do offer this for Reiki I and II but it will be at a substantiall higher price – see the website for details -

If you want to “re-take” a Reiki course then I charge 75% of the price if you have done it with another teacher or 50% of the normal price if you have done it with me.

and if you want to ask any Reiki (or related) questions then please don’t hesitate to ask me. If I don’t know how to help, then I hope to be able to point you in the right direction at least.

Love & Reiki Blessings

Doug

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Hello Lovelies,I am having a South African adventure later this month and am going to be faciliating some one day introductory workshops to Regression and LBL in Johannesburg in late November and in Cape Town in early December on behalf of the Regression Academy. These are a very useful and interesting introduction to formal Hypnotherapy and Regression training to take place in SA in 2012 starting in March 2012.

I will also be offering one-to-one Regression and Life Between Lives trainings in both Johannesburg and Cape Town for a couple of days after each workshop.

If you have any friends, clients or contacts that you feel might benefit from or be interested in these workshops or session in South Africa then I would be very grateful if you could pass the word on to them. More info on the workshops can be found on my website here http://bit.ly/oexrgy . Thank you.With love
Doug

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Nov
9

Being of Earthly Use

by Doug Buckingham

There’s been a lot of information given out about the potentials of the 11.11.11 energies and many wonderful possibilities for our collective spiritual advancement and enhancement have been suggested. However, what does need to be emphasised is that the fundamental principle underlying all of this is the need to really ground ourselves and thus the new energies quite thoroughly over the next few day, weeks and months etc

There’s a few reasons for this. Firstly we humans need to be grounded to the planet – full stop. I’ve been a grounding “bore” for a few years now and I like to think it’s served me and hopefully others well – one of my clients pointed out to me at the weekend that on a previous Reiki course that I had forced her to ground…fortunately this was a spot of language confusion and she was actually quite grateful for the “forcing”. The point is useful though because it is essential to our physical, mental and energetic well-being and without it we can run into really big challenges.

I’ve seen a few unfortunate incidents over the years with people who haven’t been able to or have been unwilling to ground (and I do appreciate that’s their free will choice). However, in the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed an increasing amount of physical and mental “emergencies” with several clients with grounding challenges which are all related to the root chakra/grounding channel and frankly none of these are pleasant experiences. The possibility of these “emergencies” may well become more frequent in the future for those who are unable to get their grounding act together.

And on a more pleasant note, we do need to be of earthly use – and that means that the whole point of these energies is to anchor them into the planet and not just as a one-off thing on a significant date in the calendar; it’s an ongoing way of being and of life. I liken grounding (and protection) to cleaning my teeth; as an energetic being having a human experience, I wouldn’t dream of leaving my flat in the morning or going to bed at night without having done either and that’s how I would encourage others to view it too.

We also need to be fully grounded and anchored to exercise our discernment more clearly than ever from now on. Being grounded empowers us to work productively with and overcome the three “D” words – denial, delusion and dissociation. Our heads and brains are lovely but they are not going to be up to scratch in discerning all the energies of the future. In the world of energy all that glitters ain’t necessarily gold. It’s our hearts and our solar plexus that are going to do the hard yards for use in terms of deciding and discerning. In various spiritual traditions, the solar plexus is the gold, it is the true aura, the centre of power, our incarnational star etc – in short it’s where it’s at….that and the heart. And of course one way of getting those areas fully empowered….is getting grounded.

And grouding should be and is a joy. After all, we are connecting to the energy that sustains and nurtures all life on this planet and that’s certainly a pleasure for me. The “rules” of grounding have been changing for a while now, and are continuing to change…eating, stamping our feet a bit and some of the “lesser forms of grounding” are not going to cut the mustard anymore. We need to be doing active grounding exercises and we need to be doing it several times a day – a minute or so each time is pretty easy to spare when it’s one’s well-being that can be substantially improved by doing it. A proverbial piece of cake.

If anyone reading doesn’t know what the heck I am talking about when I mention grounding exercises then please email me – and I will send you a couple of grounding exercises by email.

Have a fabulous Friday and please do enjoy all the wonderful happenings on 11/11/11 – it is going to be a very special day – just stay connected to our beautiful planet while you are enjoying :-)

“Be Noble for Your Made of Stars; Be Humble for You Are Made of Earth”

Love & Rainbows

Doug

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Oct
22

November Reiki Courses in London

by Doug Buckingham

Hello,

There are a range of Reiki courses running through November in my new abode in Southgate Road, London N1 3JS

Saturday 5th November – Reiki Level I - an easy intro to Reiki, focussing on the basics and offering simple techniques of how to work with Reiki for yourself on an ongoing basis basis after the course.

Sunday 6th November – Reiki Level II – to enhance your Reiki skills and focussing mainly on working with the Reiki symbols and distance healing.

Sat-Sun 12-13th and 19-20th November – Reiki Master/Teacher - a very wonderful course recommended by many people.

Reiki Practice Group – Monday 21st November - ongoing practice, support and fun

To find out more click on the links above and/or read some of the feedback from previous Reiki courses on the testimonials page

I look forward to hearing from you

With Love & Blessings
Doug
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Sep
22

Inspirational Evening Events

by Doug Buckingham

Hello Lovely People,

Inspirational Evening Events…So called because they are…..

Please note all of these events are now FREE….however they do come together with a gorgeous hug which costs £10 in advance or £15 on the night…..still a rather fabulous investment, methinks…for more details checkout the website and/or come and find out for yourself…

The Autumn Equinox – This Friday 23rd September

An Evening of Crystal Magic on Thursday 29th September - proceeds to Charity

An Evening of the Essenes on Friday 30th September

An Introduction to Aura Soma on Wednesday 5th October

Sound Liberation on Friday 7th October

A Talk on Regression Therapy on Thursday 13th October

Greenwich is conveniently located on both the DLR (Canary Wharf, Bank, London Bridge connections) and the mainline Railway (London Bridge, Charing X and Kent)

Click on the links for more details and how to book
Hope to see you soon

With Love & Plenty of Hugs to Spare
Doug
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” Come along and harvest your successes from the summer and prepare to relax into Autumn. “

With Caroline and Doug

The equinox is all about day and night becoming equal, astronomers see it as a time when the sun moves into libra, a sign of balance

The evening programme includes:

Meditation

Chanting

Reflection

Harvesting what we have achieved

Creating balance in our lives

Inspiring creativity

Friday 23rd September – 7-9pm

You can book here



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Overly stressed? …Losing things more often than you like…Always getting lost?

These are just a couple of the symptoms of being ungrounded which is one of the subjects for Saturday’s half day workshop ” Grounding, Protection and Clearing Our Energies”

It’s an essential part of our life/spiritual journey that each of us takes responsibility for our own energy management. At its basic level this involves being able to ground, protect and clear out own energy system ….taking responsibility for our own energy is essentially a very simple task. In Saturday’s workshop I will be introducing you to or reminding you of a few basic techniques for each subject.

Oh… and a couple of benefits of grounding…

An excellent method to start coping with stress; essential for physical and mental health; helps to balance/strengthen the chakras/aura (and thus the endocrine and immune system) and helps to manifest what we are trying to bring into our life…we don’t get what we “want” unless we ground our ideas….and there’s more….

A great investment for you at thrice the price…book your place(s) here

Love & blessings

D

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Aug
18

Lovin’ the Reiki

by Doug Buckingham

There’s a very simple reason why I practice, teach, use and sing the praises of Reiki on a regular basis – because it works! And it works rather well. And as it’s a very holistic therapy, it works on several levels – i.e. physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

It’s a very effective tool for assisting us to take responsibility for and to manage our own energy (and all aspects of it), and in my opinion that’s essential in this day and age for everyone.

If you haven’t had a Reiki session or taken a Reiki course yet, then I have a very simple question for you – why not? And I don’t ask you that question for selfish reasons. Although Reiki is one of the rather splendid ways in which I earn my living, I am always happy to recommend other practitioners if you can’t relate to my energy.

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Hello Lovelies,

I am having a South African adventure later this month and am going to be faciliating some one day introductory workshops to Regression and LBL in Johannesburg in late November and in Cape Town in early December on behalf of the Regression Academy. These are a very useful and interesting introduction to formal Hypnotherapy and Regression training to take place in SA in 2012 starting in March 2012.

I will also be offering one-to-one Regression and Life Between Lives trainings in both Johannesburg and Cape Town for a couple of days after each workshop.

If you have any friends, clients or contacts that you feel might benefit from or be interested in these workshops or session in South Africa then I would be very grateful if you could pass the word on to them. More info on the workshops can be found on my website here http://bit.ly/oexrgy . Thank you.

With love
Doug

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Nov
9

Being of Earthly Use

by Doug Buckingham

There’s been a lot of information given out about the potentials of the 11.11.11 energies and many wonderful possibilities for our collective spiritual advancement and enhancement have been suggested. However, what does need to be emphasised is that the fundamental principle underlying all of this is the need to really ground ourselves and thus the new energies quite thoroughly over the next few day, weeks and months etc

There’s a few reasons for this. Firstly we humans need to be grounded to the planet – full stop. I’ve been a grounding “bore” for a few years now and I like to think it’s served me and hopefully others well – one of my clients pointed out to me at the weekend that on a previous Reiki course that I had forced her to ground…fortunately this was a spot of language confusion and she was actually quite grateful for the “forcing”. The point is useful though because it is essential to our physical, mental and energetic well-being and without it we can run into really big challenges.

I’ve seen a few unfortunate incidents over the years with people who haven’t been able to or have been unwilling to ground (and I do appreciate that’s their free will choice). However, in the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed an increasing amount of physical and mental “emergencies” with several clients with grounding challenges which are all related to the root chakra/grounding channel and frankly none of these are pleasant experiences. The possibility of these “emergencies” may well become more frequent in the future for those who are unable to get their grounding act together.

And on a more pleasant note, we do need to be of earthly use – and that means that the whole point of these energies is to anchor them into the planet and not just as a one-off thing on a significant date in the calendar; it’s an ongoing way of being and of life. I liken grounding (and protection) to cleaning my teeth; as an energetic being having a human experience, I wouldn’t dream of leaving my flat in the morning or going to bed at night without having done either and that’s how I would encourage others to view it too.

We also need to be fully grounded and anchored to exercise our discernment more clearly than ever from now on. Being grounded empowers us to work productively with and overcome the three “D” words – denial, delusion and dissociation. Our heads and brains are lovely but they are not going to be up to scratch in discerning all the energies of the future. In the world of energy all that glitters ain’t necessarily gold. It’s our hearts and our solar plexus that are going to do the hard yards for use in terms of deciding and discerning. In various spiritual traditions, the solar plexus is the gold, it is the true aura, the centre of power, our incarnational star etc – in short it’s where it’s at….that and the heart. And of course one way of getting those areas fully empowered….is getting grounded.

And grouding should be and is a joy. After all, we are connecting to the energy that sustains and nurtures all life on this planet and that’s certainly a pleasure for me. The “rules” of grounding have been changing for a while now, and are continuing to change…eating, stamping our feet a bit and some of the “lesser forms of grounding” are not going to cut the mustard anymore. We need to be doing active grounding exercises and we need to be doing it several times a day – a minute or so each time is pretty easy to spare when it’s one’s well-being that can be substantially improved by doing it. A proverbial piece of cake.

If anyone reading doesn’t know what the heck I am talking about when I mention grounding exercises then please email me – and I will send you a couple of grounding exercises by email.

Have a fabulous Friday and please do enjoy all the wonderful happenings on 11/11/11 – it is going to be a very special day – just stay connected to our beautiful planet while you are enjoying :-)

“Be Noble for Your Made of Stars; Be Humble for You Are Made of Earth”

Love & Rainbows

Doug

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Oct
22

November Reiki Courses in London

by Doug Buckingham

Hello,

There are a range of Reiki courses running through November in my new abode in Southgate Road, London N1 3JS

Saturday 5th November – Reiki Level I - an easy intro to Reiki, focussing on the basics and offering simple techniques of how to work with Reiki for yourself on an ongoing basis basis after the course.

Sunday 6th November – Reiki Level II – to enhance your Reiki skills and focussing mainly on working with the Reiki symbols and distance healing.

Sat-Sun 12-13th and 19-20th November – Reiki Master/Teacher - a very wonderful course recommended by many people.

Reiki Practice Group – Monday 21st November - ongoing practice, support and fun

To find out more click on the links above and/or read some of the feedback from previous Reiki courses on the testimonials page

I look forward to hearing from you

With Love & Blessings
Doug
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