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These past years have been intense, to say the least. With so much chaos and confusion, a very clear shift is happening in the world. A lot of the old ways don’t seem to feel satisfying to us anymore. A lifetime of work with just 2 weeks holiday a year doesn’t feel like a fair trade, people are starting to ...

Jess Lewis | Cats Claw gets its name because of its curved hook-like thorns. This is a plant that has been used for thousands of years in South and Central America, and here’s why! Cat’s claw is known for its medicinal properties and it is used for a multitude of reasons ranging from speeding up the healing of wounds, boosting ...

I’ve been working with people therapeutically now for the last 11 years. If I could share the one observation that’s stood out for me in the last decade in respect to what enables or hinders people’s personal growth… It’s the feeling of safety. Simply put, unless parts of us feel safe, generally speaking, we aren’t going to be willing to ...

Jess Lewis | Gathering of Minds I came across Dragon’s Blood a few years ago after a shaman gave me a bottle to use in case I ‘needed to use it for healing’. At the time, I had no idea of how powerful Dragon’s Blood was, but after doing a bit of research I quickly realised it was more than ...

Jess Lewis | Gathering of Minds Every single day, before dawn, members of the Kichwas tribe gather together around a communal fire and drink Guayusa (Guayusa Ilex, pronounced Gwhy-YOU-sa). Kichwas people believe it is Important for the body to receive Guayusa first thing in the morning when they first wake up. They then share the dreams that they’ve had during ...

Everyone seems to know what “stress” is when they read or hear the word. When asked to define it, however, you’ll get as many definitions as there are people. The National Institutes of Health define stress as the brain’s response to any demand. The American Academy of Family Physicians describes the stress response as the body’s attempt to defend itself. The American Psychological Association calls ...

Eddy Elsey | Dr Martin Shaw, a World renowned Story Teller, whilst spending four years alone in the forest, discovered that the Earth speaks in the language of Myth. This hugely resonated with me. Not only because I love a good story, but because I had, over the past five years, been unearthing my own story. My own myth. And ...

How diving deeper into our uncomfortable feelings, accepting them and letting go, may help us to change our lives and our planet   “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an ...

Emma Gosling | Are you feeling anxious? We have as many as 50,000 thoughts per day, 80% of those are often negative and 98% are repetitive. — National Science Foundation   No there’s a thought, right? Judging by the statistic above, no wonder there are so many of us with anxiety! I suffered with anxiety for many years and now ...

Neil Greenwood | Here I put forward my answers to the questions: What is Consciousness? What is Spirituality? This is MY truth. An outline of MY discoveries so far on my quest as a spiritual scientist. Where to begin? Oh, I know…First, there was the word, and that word was…AUM! From nothingness, came energy. AUM is the very beat of the ...