Saturday night saw the opening of The Funky Seomra a new Dance night in Dublins Cultivate Centre and what an amazing night it was!
Pubs and Clubs dont really do it for me anymore. I dislike the crowds, the noise and the hangovers. Having said that I'm not really ready for staying in by the fireside every saturday night either so the Funky Seomra sounded like a nice alternative.
From the moment you start walking down the walkway to The Funky Seomra it feels special - it is in a beautifully lit Cathedral Space in the heart of temple bar. There's a fab chillout section with the most comfy large bean bags I've ever been on that were perfect for chatting or relaxing when your legs needed a rest. Around the edge of the room there were stalls selling delicious organic snacks and chocolate treats, a chai & specialist tea bar and smoothie bar. You could even get on a bike and peddle your own smoothie. Personally I was a bit wrecked from all the dancing so preferred to have someone else peddle mine.
DJ David Mooney was fantastic and kept the crowd dancing with the lush beats of funky world music. 3 African drummers put on an amazing show and had the crowd crying out for more. Myself and my friend Liz forced ourselves off the floor every now and then to sample the other delights of the evening but I can honestly say if it wasnt for needing a drink, the loo or a bit of a chill and chat I could happily have danced all the way through.
The Funky Seomra is a alcohol and drugs free zone but as Liz said to me on the way home "if anyone walked in there off the street and realised there wasn't a bar they assume we were all on drugs". Thats the thing about The Funky Seomra - the atmosphere, the warm friendly people, the amazing images playing out on the walls, the fabulous sounds from DJ Dave all make it easy, to open up, let your hair down and let loose - and best of all not a scrap of alcohol required !
All in all The Funky Soemra gets my vote and I'm looking forward to the next one in a months time.
You can find out more about the Funky Seomra on www.cultivate.ie or www.dublin.ie/websites/movement
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
TED - Ideas Worth Spreading
TED is an annual conference that brings together the worlds most fascinating thinkers and doers who are challenged to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes.
If you haven't come across it before you have got to check it out. The best of these talks are available free on www.ted.com—you can also hear some through Sky on the EMTV channel
Many of these talks will blow you away so take some time to browse but here’s suggestions to get you started:
“A Stoke of Insight” — Jill Bolte Taylor is a Brain Scientist who got a research opportunity few scientists would wish for—she got to study herself having a stroke and came up with some amazing insights on the connection between stroke, energy and our brains.
“Why are we happy” - Dan Gilbert gives some interesting evidence to challenge the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don't get what we want
“Do Schools kill creativity” - Sir Ken Robinson delivers a speech as good as stand up comedy but with some really thought provoking ideas
“Classical Music with shining eyes” Benjamin Zander takes an unusual and funny approach to help increase the worlds appreciation of classical music
Enjoy !!
If you haven't come across it before you have got to check it out. The best of these talks are available free on www.ted.com—you can also hear some through Sky on the EMTV channel
Many of these talks will blow you away so take some time to browse but here’s suggestions to get you started:
“A Stoke of Insight” — Jill Bolte Taylor is a Brain Scientist who got a research opportunity few scientists would wish for—she got to study herself having a stroke and came up with some amazing insights on the connection between stroke, energy and our brains.
“Why are we happy” - Dan Gilbert gives some interesting evidence to challenge the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don't get what we want
“Do Schools kill creativity” - Sir Ken Robinson delivers a speech as good as stand up comedy but with some really thought provoking ideas
“Classical Music with shining eyes” Benjamin Zander takes an unusual and funny approach to help increase the worlds appreciation of classical music
Enjoy !!
Breakthrough Weekends
Breakthrough weekends are a perfect way to make a quantum leap forward, work deeply with a challenge you are facing or simply to renew and refresh your energy.
Take a weekend away from it all in beautiful Aughrim, Co Wicklow. Stay locally in B&B, hotel or self catering accomodation. Spend 5 hours spread throughout the weekend with Erica in one to one healing, coaching and therapy work. The rest of the time you are free to integrate in whatever way feels right for you. Spend time nature, hang out in the local coffee shops and restaurants, sit quietly in your room. The choice is yours!
There is something very powerful about taking a breather from your life especially when it is done with a clear intention of bringing about healing or of helping you to create positive change.When this is done in a space that is being energetically held to support your intention and you are receiving direct support through healing and coaching this creates the opportunity for powerful transformation.
Breakthrough weekends are available on the following dates: 20th to 22nd February, 24th to 26th April, 17th to 19th July and 21st to 23rd August.
For more details contact Erica on 0402 36899 or createthelifeyouwant@gmail.com
Take a weekend away from it all in beautiful Aughrim, Co Wicklow. Stay locally in B&B, hotel or self catering accomodation. Spend 5 hours spread throughout the weekend with Erica in one to one healing, coaching and therapy work. The rest of the time you are free to integrate in whatever way feels right for you. Spend time nature, hang out in the local coffee shops and restaurants, sit quietly in your room. The choice is yours!
There is something very powerful about taking a breather from your life especially when it is done with a clear intention of bringing about healing or of helping you to create positive change.When this is done in a space that is being energetically held to support your intention and you are receiving direct support through healing and coaching this creates the opportunity for powerful transformation.
Breakthrough weekends are available on the following dates: 20th to 22nd February, 24th to 26th April, 17th to 19th July and 21st to 23rd August.
For more details contact Erica on 0402 36899 or createthelifeyouwant@gmail.com
Courses & Workshops
This season I am delighted to bring you lots of new and exciting opportunities to create space for deep and lasting transformation in your life:
The Law of Attraction Workshop—Learn the secrets of this powerful law and how to use it to create what you desire. This workshop is suitable for people that are new to the law of attraction or for those who have previously read “the secret” or similar books and have worked with limited success with the law.
Energy Awareness & Healing Workshop—I’ve often been asked to teach healing or to provide a follow up to my “understanding the Human Energy Field” Course and I am excited to announce my first weekend workshop that will do just that. Increase your awareness of energy, get in touch with your own healing ability and feel confident enough to use it with yourself, your family, friends and those you see in need.
Live Your Dream Night Class—6 evenings packed full of invaluable skills to get you focusing on and moving steadily towards the future of your dreams.
Understanding the Human Energy Field Workshop—Energy is the source of everything. This workshop is always a huge success and an inspirational 2 days and I am thrilled to now be offering it as a residential course in Chyrsalis starting January 09.
Create the Life You Want Workshop —Breakthrough negative patterns or beliefs that hold you back and learn how to move forward in a positive way in your life. Small group only so book early.
Lose Weight—Feel Great - Get in shape for Christmas with this highly successful private weight loss programme. One to one weight loss coaching at an affordable price. Available in Aughrim, and Dun Laoghaire.
Breakthrough Weekends - A perfect way to make a quantum leap forward, work deeply with a challenge you are facing or simply to renew and refresh in beautiful Aughrim, Co Wicklow.
Healing and Life Coaching - Private consultations are available in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin & Aughrim, Co Wicklow
Be well and happy,
Erica
The Law of Attraction Workshop—Learn the secrets of this powerful law and how to use it to create what you desire. This workshop is suitable for people that are new to the law of attraction or for those who have previously read “the secret” or similar books and have worked with limited success with the law.
Energy Awareness & Healing Workshop—I’ve often been asked to teach healing or to provide a follow up to my “understanding the Human Energy Field” Course and I am excited to announce my first weekend workshop that will do just that. Increase your awareness of energy, get in touch with your own healing ability and feel confident enough to use it with yourself, your family, friends and those you see in need.
Live Your Dream Night Class—6 evenings packed full of invaluable skills to get you focusing on and moving steadily towards the future of your dreams.
Understanding the Human Energy Field Workshop—Energy is the source of everything. This workshop is always a huge success and an inspirational 2 days and I am thrilled to now be offering it as a residential course in Chyrsalis starting January 09.
Create the Life You Want Workshop —Breakthrough negative patterns or beliefs that hold you back and learn how to move forward in a positive way in your life. Small group only so book early.
Lose Weight—Feel Great - Get in shape for Christmas with this highly successful private weight loss programme. One to one weight loss coaching at an affordable price. Available in Aughrim, and Dun Laoghaire.
Breakthrough Weekends - A perfect way to make a quantum leap forward, work deeply with a challenge you are facing or simply to renew and refresh in beautiful Aughrim, Co Wicklow.
Healing and Life Coaching - Private consultations are available in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin & Aughrim, Co Wicklow
Be well and happy,
Erica
Book Review "The Dark Side of the Light Chasers" by Debbie Ford
A Friend of mine gave me this book several years ago -she thought it was amazing and that I’d get a lot out of it. I took a look at it and nothing about it grabbed me so I put it in a drawer and that’s where it sat year after year.
Then one day I felt like I really needed something new, something to move me forward and I remembered this book—I took it out and for the next 3 days I could not put it down—I read it from cover to cover. Everything in it spoke to me. It felt like the perfect gift at that moment.
The Dark Side of the Light Chasers is a powerful guide to help you reclaim your power, creativity, brilliance and dreams by actively embracing the sides of yourself you dislike or deny.
Debbie Ford, the author contends that everyone possesses the entire range of human traits and emotions "the saintly and the cynical, the divine and the diabolical, the courageous and the cowardly" When we try to deny or hide those aspects that we think are not acceptable to others—our dark side– we also end up hiding much of our brilliance and our light.
Ford offers advice on how to recognise your shadow side and how to confront rather than reject the seemingly undesirable parts of yourself. It is only by owning every aspect of yourself that can you achieve harmony and "let your own light shine". She explains. "The purpose of doing shadow work, is to become whole. To end our suffering. To stop hiding ourselves from ourselves. Once we do this we can stop hiding ourselves from the rest of the world".
A fabulous book for anyone whose ready to take a good honest look at themselves. I highly recommend it.
Then one day I felt like I really needed something new, something to move me forward and I remembered this book—I took it out and for the next 3 days I could not put it down—I read it from cover to cover. Everything in it spoke to me. It felt like the perfect gift at that moment.
The Dark Side of the Light Chasers is a powerful guide to help you reclaim your power, creativity, brilliance and dreams by actively embracing the sides of yourself you dislike or deny.
Debbie Ford, the author contends that everyone possesses the entire range of human traits and emotions "the saintly and the cynical, the divine and the diabolical, the courageous and the cowardly" When we try to deny or hide those aspects that we think are not acceptable to others—our dark side– we also end up hiding much of our brilliance and our light.
Ford offers advice on how to recognise your shadow side and how to confront rather than reject the seemingly undesirable parts of yourself. It is only by owning every aspect of yourself that can you achieve harmony and "let your own light shine". She explains. "The purpose of doing shadow work, is to become whole. To end our suffering. To stop hiding ourselves from ourselves. Once we do this we can stop hiding ourselves from the rest of the world".
A fabulous book for anyone whose ready to take a good honest look at themselves. I highly recommend it.
The Law of Attraction
The law of attraction simply says that you attract in to your life whatever you think about. The law of attraction is always at work in your life even if you are completely unaware of it’s existence or how it works.
Without an understanding of how you create then it is very likely that due to scattered, unfocused or negative thinking you will end of creating things that on a conscious level you really don't want.
The Law of Attraction starts with our thought but gains power through our emotions. A thought that does not create an emotional response is not as powerful a creator as one that creates a strong emotional response in us. If we think and feel negative things then we will attract negative things in to our lives. If we think and feel positive things we will attract positive experiences in to our lives.
In order to make the Law of Attraction work for you in a positive way it is important to understand how we create our reality. The essence of this lies in the fact that we and everything else in the world are made of energy and how we think and feel affects the energy we emit to the world. Our energy acts like a magnet attracting like energy to it. This understanding can then be used to deliberately create the things we truly want.
Take a strong step toward creating what you want right now by spending time each day deliberately focusing on the things you want to create in a way that makes you feel strong positive emotion about them. Imagine how you would feel and think if you had what you wanted in your life right now. Really connect with this and bring the sensations and the positive feelings this picture brings into you body. Do this every day for a few minutes.
In parallel to this start to become aware of when you are feeling negative emotion. Negative emotion is a sign that you are thinking negatively and therefore are creating negatively. Allowing yourself to simmer in negative emotions will block good things coming in to your life.
If you’d like to learn more about how to make the law of Attraction work for you check out my workshop on 19th October. You’ll find full details on my www.pathwaytothesoul.com
Without an understanding of how you create then it is very likely that due to scattered, unfocused or negative thinking you will end of creating things that on a conscious level you really don't want.
The Law of Attraction starts with our thought but gains power through our emotions. A thought that does not create an emotional response is not as powerful a creator as one that creates a strong emotional response in us. If we think and feel negative things then we will attract negative things in to our lives. If we think and feel positive things we will attract positive experiences in to our lives.
In order to make the Law of Attraction work for you in a positive way it is important to understand how we create our reality. The essence of this lies in the fact that we and everything else in the world are made of energy and how we think and feel affects the energy we emit to the world. Our energy acts like a magnet attracting like energy to it. This understanding can then be used to deliberately create the things we truly want.
Take a strong step toward creating what you want right now by spending time each day deliberately focusing on the things you want to create in a way that makes you feel strong positive emotion about them. Imagine how you would feel and think if you had what you wanted in your life right now. Really connect with this and bring the sensations and the positive feelings this picture brings into you body. Do this every day for a few minutes.
In parallel to this start to become aware of when you are feeling negative emotion. Negative emotion is a sign that you are thinking negatively and therefore are creating negatively. Allowing yourself to simmer in negative emotions will block good things coming in to your life.
If you’d like to learn more about how to make the law of Attraction work for you check out my workshop on 19th October. You’ll find full details on my www.pathwaytothesoul.com
The Amazing Power of Gratitude
If you’d like to be happier and healthier start cultivating an attitude of gratitude and you’ll be off to a flying start.
According to scientific research by psychologist Emmons and McCullogh the simple act of counting your blessings can increase happiness levels by 25%! Those who make a point of practising gratitude sleep better, exercise more, feel more optimistic and less materialistic, are more empathetic and joyful and reported few physical symptoms such as pain. They can even have sharper minds.
Secondly, this is not hard to achieve - a few hours writing a gratitude journal over 3 weeks can create an effect that lasts 6 months if not more.
Emmons and McCullough carried out an experiential investigation into the link between gratitude and well-being. More than 100 adults took part in the study and were randomly divided into 3 different groups. Each group had to keep a journal. Group A had to write about things they felt grateful about. Group B about things they found annoying, irritating and Group C about things that had no major impact on them.
Results show that the gratitude group generally evidenced higher-levels of well-being than those in the comparison conditions, especially when compared to Group B (the one journaling about hassles), but also compared to the “neutral” group C.
The most common method used in the research was to keep a “Gratitude Journal” where participants wrote something they felt grateful for. Doing so 4 times a week, for as little as 3 weeks, is often enough to create a meaningful difference in one’s level of happiness.
Another exercise is to build a “Gratitude 30” into your day. Select a 30 minute period and actively notice all the things you are grateful for as you go through your daily business.
Alternatively simply taking a few minutes before bed time or in the morning to run through all the things you appreciate in your life can be very effective.
So start being thankful and before you know it you’ll be happy you did!
According to scientific research by psychologist Emmons and McCullogh the simple act of counting your blessings can increase happiness levels by 25%! Those who make a point of practising gratitude sleep better, exercise more, feel more optimistic and less materialistic, are more empathetic and joyful and reported few physical symptoms such as pain. They can even have sharper minds.
Secondly, this is not hard to achieve - a few hours writing a gratitude journal over 3 weeks can create an effect that lasts 6 months if not more.
Emmons and McCullough carried out an experiential investigation into the link between gratitude and well-being. More than 100 adults took part in the study and were randomly divided into 3 different groups. Each group had to keep a journal. Group A had to write about things they felt grateful about. Group B about things they found annoying, irritating and Group C about things that had no major impact on them.
Results show that the gratitude group generally evidenced higher-levels of well-being than those in the comparison conditions, especially when compared to Group B (the one journaling about hassles), but also compared to the “neutral” group C.
The most common method used in the research was to keep a “Gratitude Journal” where participants wrote something they felt grateful for. Doing so 4 times a week, for as little as 3 weeks, is often enough to create a meaningful difference in one’s level of happiness.
Another exercise is to build a “Gratitude 30” into your day. Select a 30 minute period and actively notice all the things you are grateful for as you go through your daily business.
Alternatively simply taking a few minutes before bed time or in the morning to run through all the things you appreciate in your life can be very effective.
So start being thankful and before you know it you’ll be happy you did!
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