A Christmas Thank You

To thank you all for your wonderful support of us and of 7th Space this year, I wrote a Christmas story for you to enjoy.

Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Much love from
Susan and Emma xx

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Peace in the Moment

December is probably the busiest month for most of us and in all the rush and demands it's good to take a quiet time to just be.

Not easy I hear you say but there is always a moment in the day when we can look beyond our worries and notice the beauty.

It might be a beautiful tree in the garden, time to read a favourite poem, connect on Facebook with a friend, stop for a moment to enjoy a Christmas carol on the radio, chat to a neighbour or just have that lovely satisfaction when you can tick one more job off the preparations list!

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Reflections

This week I've been reminded how much we are all reflections of each other.

American Thanksgiving is so identifiable to us all - a time for being with loved ones and family, cooking and having fun, renewing traditions for each generation.

On a personal level I have been overcome the last few days by the kindness of friends and the support of strangers and have been so aware of how we are all aspiring for very similar dreams and desires. How much we all want love, peace, safety and well being. At times feeling the intimacy of the energies has been too much and I've wanted to shout out - back off, let me have some space! But each day brings new awareness of how we are all working together in a way not really experienced before. No one is coming into our lives by accident. No story we hear is by chance. We are busy connecting a great web of energy - ready to change our World.

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Four Horses

In Medieval times much literature and thought was dedicated to the biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pestilence and Death. Given the plagues, war and famines which swept the world it wasn't surprising they were on everyone's mind!

But I was sitting dreaming the other day and I think the world is more than ready for the Four Winged Horses of Light. Love, Gratitude, Joy and Abundance.

So many of us are now living our lives by these guiding lights. Let's give these gifts the chance to fly in every corer of our world.

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Festival of Gratitude

I was watching one of the Star Trek spin-offs on Sunday and the story revolved around one of the alien culture’s Festival of Gratitude.

This struck me as a beautiful idea (and obviously the story writers and producers thought so too since they portrayed it wonderfully!) The emphasis was on writing down the things which weren’t going right for you in your life and then burning the paper in the Fire of Renewal. Having released these problems, you were then free to enjoy with Gratitude the rest of the Festival.

It didn’t surprise me that I happened to catch this particular episode since for most of last week I have been focusing on my own Gratitude and Appreciation and in true Law of Attraction reality, I got a reflection of what I was concentrating my thoughts and emotions on. The reason I was thinking about Gratitude was that I had realised with shame all the times I had accepted wonderful manifests from the Universe and practically taken them for granted.

My gorgeous flat was the second one I looked at and suits me exactly and while I do enjoy it, I’ve spent most of the last year niggling about the things which I don’t like about it. When I took a month off last year to write in Spain I booked sight unseen into a great, family run hotel with a magical view of the Mediterranean and a perfect writing desk and chair next to the tiny balcony. And I moaned about this and that and just in passing thanked the Universe for giving me a wonderful experience.

Knowing that shame and guilt are unproductive emotions which lower our vibrations, I decided to drift back in memory through my life and be present at all the times the Universe has given me gifts which at least matched and most times exceeded my expectations. I decided I would feel Gratitude and Appreciation retrospectively and savour again the magical times.

I had a busy week! The more things and events I remembered, the more came to my attention. There hasn’t been one day in my life (and I’m 55 years old) when the Universe hasn’t showered me with gifts. Gifts of laughter and love and beauty and joy. Gifts of positive outcomes, even in the toughest of situations, gifts of great friends, lovely homes, books, art, music, nature, wild winds and soft candlelight.

So in a way I’ve been having my own Festival of Gratitude these last few days because as I’ve gone back in time and thanked the Universe with Appreciation and Gratitude for all its gifts so freely given, more and more incredible gifts are pouring into my life.

Doesn’t that deserve a Festival?

xx Susan

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Life is Good

Today, I went for a walk. We are blessed in Edinburgh to have an long ago extinct volcano that rises up in the middle of the city.

At this time of year it is carpeted with wild flowers, butterflies and sky larks singing their hearts out. It is used all year round by the cities residents and visitors alike...not surprising considering the views that are to be had!

Today, I found a quiet spot off the path and lay back, the wiry grass molding to my back, supporting me, talk about being the arms of mother nature. I let the wind caress me, the scents fill me and the sky larks grace me with their songs. I found that as my body relaxed and dreamed, so did my mind.

I dreamt of all the beautiful things that have happened to me in my life, of all the amazing places & people I have encountered. I dreamt of what more I could have and how this life was fully and uniquely my own.

As I lay with the small, blue hare bells dancing in the breeze; each a little segment of sky and the deep, deep breathing of the land beneath me I felt so much apart of this earth. As my heart responds to these beauties the land sighs and shows me more of her bounty.

I came back into my town house refreshed and able to delight in the golden sandstone of the building, admire my neighbours windows the way they reflect the light, able to embrace the life that is the city.

As I sat at my desk I saw that a friend on Facebook had posted this status 'Don't count the minutes but make the moments MAGICAL.' I smiled in recognition...indeed Life is Good.

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Posted By Emma :o)

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Susan's Stumble

Since we're still in the place of Abundance and Joy this week, I'd like to share my moment of non-manifesting - just as a lesson to myself!

I've been writing a story in which a feather holds a central place. It is in fact an Angel feather and the other evening I wrote the first words about it. Then I curled up to sleep happy with the work. Next day my oldest granddaughter handed me a pristine large white feather. It was a wonderful talisman and affirmation of my story.

So what did I do? Well I was aware and appreciative enough to thank her and I enjoyed it for a few moments, then unceremoniously shoved it into my briefcase where it languished uncared for for the next few days.

Not only that but I also decided in my greater wisdom that the story was no good after all so I abandoned it and started another one. Thanks Universe - but no thanks!

It wasn't until I found the feather again yesterday that I unravelled the sequence and realised just what I'd done. I had to use Theta Healing to clear the subsequent belief that I only get one chance at manifesting and I also had to lift the deep regret I felt - regret just clutters up our energy! It was a sad but excellent lesson and boy am I focusing properly on gratitude and listening to the signals and messages from the Universe!

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Love is you Being You

The words are by a lovely friend, Hemal Radia of www.manifestingandlawofattraction.com.

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Just Be!

While Emma and I were promoting and speaking to people about our Abundance and Joy Week, I was delighted and honoured by the responses from everyone.

A lovely Brazilian woman said ‘Ah Abundance and Joy!’ in a voice redolent of hot summers and joyful living. An elderly man bent and chucked my granddaughter under the chin. ‘Joy is you,’ he told her. A stern businessman’s face wreathed in smiles and said he’d dance his way to 7th Space to join in! A harassed mother stopped still for a moment and I watched her shoulders loosen as she let go the stress. ‘Oh yes!’ she said.

It seems that we’re willing to let our world stop for a moment and let the vibration of these two states take us over. We all have examples of our own abundance and joy and really they aren’t so far below the surface as we sometimes fear.

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Abundance and Joy

Abundance and joy. Next to love can there be two more wonderful words? Joy - even saying it can have the feeling of bubbles fizzing in your blood. It’s sunshine and running free, it’s a hug from your grandchild, it’s the tug of a kite string rising in the wind, it’s the first dive in a crystal clear sea, it’s seeing a summer dawn flood over the horizon, it’s a letter from a loved one, it’s a healthy body, it’s smelling a rose, it’s reaching a goal, it’s dancing under the stars, it’s the first step in pristine snow, it’s a song from your childhood, it’s a balloon ride above the Australian desert, it’s the reality of a dream.

Joy is action - feeling yourself to be unstoppable, free, all that you can be. It is a moment when you transcend everything to experience incandescent life.

Abundance is being - it is the gift of the universe, it is who you are, it is gratitude and wonder.

Abundance is limitless. It’s apple blossom tumbling in the wind, it’s the silver flicker of fish shoals, it’s constellation upon constellation, it’s dew flashing rainbows in the morning, it’s snow flakes shaking down from a winter sky, it’s the endless pattern of flames in a log fire, it’s the myriad cells in our body giving us life, it’s the number of heartbeats in a lifetime, it’s droplets of water in a fountain, it’s the ruby seeds in a pomegranate, it’s all the smiles in the world.

Our tag line for 7th Space is ‘Live life with abundance and joy.’ We believe that one way to do this is through healing and self-empowerment. And this week particularly we are dedicating everything we offer to Abundance and Joy. Come and join us!

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Abundance & Joy Week!

Join us this week & start living life to the full!

4th - 11th August 2009 (all offers apply within this time)

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'If'

I have a beautiful calligraphy scroll on my wall which was penned by my uncle. I never knew him but his choice of poem perhaps says a lot about him. The poem is Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’.

Over the past decades this poem has become unfashionable and rejected by many as the hangover from a world of colonialism and jingoism. Feminists loathe it for its seemingly masculine viewpoint and for the last few words - ‘and, which is more, you’ll be a Man, my son.’

But I think it bears reading again. It speaks of self-trust and fortitude. It warns against being too of the world and losing your centre. It places much emphasis on self-reliance but not isolation - of being there for others. It sows the seeds of the virtue of never giving up, of holding on to the strength and guts which make we humans so magnificent.

It encourages vision and kindliness. It shows how we can walk through the world with our heads high, paying our dues along the way but not being seduced or battered down by false glamours of power and position.

In this poem I think there speaks the truths which many of us today are striving for, are actively modelling our lives around - be we men or women!

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to a make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with torn-out tools.
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”.
If you can walk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - not lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling

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The Butterfly Inside

There is the most glorious Buddlea bush in my garden. Dark mauve flowers tumble down it, scenting the air with honey. The local butterflies flock to it and I can spend hours watching this ‘feeding’ station. Buddlea is often called the Butterfly Bush. It’s astonishing to see the butterflies drinking the nectar until they are almost reeling with drunkenness.

Many of us aspire to be butterflies, to break out of our caterpillar-lives into the light. But on this journey we often forget to visit the feeding stations. We get caught up and focused on the goals and forget to renew and sustain ourselves with wonderful experiences.

Taking time out to watch the birds in our gardens, to sit by cool, fresh water, to dance in the moonlight if that what makes us feel alive, to play with our children, stroke the arm of our loved one, paint, draw, make music, go to an art gallery - whatever feeds us!

This is what will transform us. Beauty and love and joy and laughter. Every hour, dedicate 5 minutes to lifting yourself out of the worries and cares and experience already being the butterfly you long to be.

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Vision Board

I have created a vision board. I thought it might be fun to share it with you...

I find that there are alot of mis-conceptions about abundance & manifesting. One of those is that you can't be spiritual if you 'want' money or things...somehow this implies you are operating on a lesser vibration. Piffle, I say!

Does it make me less spiritual and loving a being if I desire money? Of course not! By having money I can then set up charities and am in a position to offer free healings & workshops, by worrying less about my own troubles I am able to assist others. Is living to my true potential so 'bad'?

"How would I feel if, when I die, God/Creator/Source/ (whatever suits) asks me how did you enjoy my gift of life? And I reply well I do not make much out of it. I always had the feeling I was not worthy to do something truly great with my life'
Lets presume that your God is the Greek God, Zeus. At such a response, Zeus would erupt in fury, expressed with thunder, lightning and cloud bursts. He would yell: "What! You dare doubt one of my brilliant creations- namely you!?? You have the audacity to openly say that I created something of no value!" (Barbel Moh)

Luckily, God proably sees the matter differently...without judgement. But many of the restraints that we apply are based on societal and dogmatic beliefs.

Anyway on to the vision board :o) (apologies for horrible photos)

So this one has some of my passions; horse riding, beautiful animals and riding fills me with such joy. Not only are you usually out in nature but you have a magnificent beast to guide you and teach the meaning of freedom and true power.

Fresh flowers...the perfume, the colours...the never ending subtleties.

Landrover...oh how un-green of me! But simple to run...simple to fix..joy!

Cocktail glasses? Best piccie I could find for socialising...having/meeting & being with interesting, fun people...

Passport..travel is a must..feeds my soul & allows me to experience other cultures and indulge my fascination of people watching.

Emerald necklace... hell, just goes with my eyes :o)

OK, big house & land. Ability to turn my house into a creative haven...with studios & craftsmanship to enjoy and for others to open out their creativity. And to entertain...see above :o) Land to grow my own fruits & veg. To lie under the stars anytime I want & to see the seasons..I mean really see...every leaf, to smell the soil, and stroke the softest rose petals...

Wine cellar...art in a bottle.

Beautiful bedding-bliss.

Beautiful stationary to conceal my love in an envelope :o)

Cat? Just cat.

Art; life blood for me.

Freediving...slip into another world and deeply spiritual.

Library...see above.

The picture of the girl? 'Happy Days are Yours' Kinda sums it up, don't you think?

This is only a portion...not sure I'm able to describe the other things as they are often just an emotion or a hint of what I need. I want a place to express and people to share my (rather stifled at present) capacity to love. I want to create a home where people can stay & explore passions; food, art animals...or where ever they are lead.

Here are some of things I do now...and want more of:

Scuba diving, reading, drinking afternoon cocktails, dressing up, travelling, day dreaming, dancing to 30's jazz in my kitchen, eating great food in amazing locations, exploring the world, sitting in churches, painting, making people laugh, flirting, wearing red shoes....

For me spirituality is about experiencing, discovering, and feeling the emotion deep in your heart, your soul and every now & then you are very, very lucky you get the chance to dance with another soul.

What do you want?

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Rain Beauty

We've had a lot of rain in Edinburgh the last month or so.

Fine drizzle that mists the air so buildings loom out like images from the past. Tropical rain which bounces joyously off the pavement, flooding down the High Street in a torrent. Cold rain which nags and soaks and makes you long to be indoors by an unseasonal fire.

Silver rain promising rainbows and a sweet freshness afterward. Titanic rain with jagged bolts of light and clamorous crashings of sound. Swift rain in the early morning, over while the world sleeps leaving jewels scattered on every blade and leaf.

And while we scurry about under our umbrellas, dodging puddles or cursing the smearing wetness on our car windscreens, we long for sunshine and ignore the beauty pouring down on us!

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Morning at The Window

They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.

The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the roofs.

T.S Eliot

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7th Space

We have five senses which feed us the ‘facts’ about the ‘reality’ of our world. For many people these are the boundaries of what is real - ever heard someone say “If I can touch it or see it, then it’s real; anything else is just a fantasy”?

Often too in our busy lives we use our five senses in a very one dimensional way and refuse to allow ourselves the joy of connecting fully to the moment. So here’s a reminder of these five incredible sensory tools:

Taste: sun-warmed blackberries, buttered toast, sparkling champagne

Smell: sausages frying, tea-scented roses, baby’s skin

Hear: wind in the trees, laughter, I love you

Touch: velvet, sea washed pebbles, tree bark

See: glittering raindrops, a hawk soaring, a field of daffodils

Ah, but we also have another sense to rely on - our 6th sense.

Emotions and Feelings: the constant flow of our own and others’ reactions to the world, our barometer to whether we are enjoying life and living to our potential at any given moment.

Imagination and Intuition: the subtle receiving and blossoming of information which is not yet anchored in the purely physical world.

And then we come to 7th Space which informs and influences and makes our lives meaningful:

Serenity: calm, peace, acceptance, certainty, being in the moment

Possibilities: dreams, desires, aspiring, enthusiasm, drive, limitless, potential, abilities

Abundance: expanding, manifesting, joyful, embracing, allowing

Clarity: knowledge, stillness, discernment, questioning

Energy: clear, vibrant, high frequency, connected, healing, free flowing

7th Space is a place of healing and light, brimming with love and joy. It is adventure, discovery a journey for us and for you..into the unknown, yet so safe & guided by the truth in our hearts.

It is about allowing ourselves to ramble over the hills and valleys, testing ourselves with precarious cliffs and wild winds. It is lying in the embrace of fresh spring grass and watching the clouds drift by filled with the pictures of our dreams.

A place of creativity and vitality, crackling with energy and enthusiasm. It is exploring our potential, and being free to express it.

It is self discovery and healing on the deepest level. Helping you to let go of pain, physical, emotional and spiritual.

And above all it is helping you to remember how to live & love unconditionally.

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Queen's Garden Party

Today the Queen hosted the annual Garden Party in the grounds of the Palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh. It is a chance for her to meet people from all walks of life.

I came past the Palace and up The Canongate and the Royal Mile just as everyone was leaving, so my usual ten minute drive home from 7th Space took an hour.

But I didn’t really mind. It was lovely watching all the beautiful and colourful outfits and hats of the ladies. They looked like an elegant flock of birds. And the men looked just as gorgeous. They were in black suits, full kilt regalia or Armed Forces dress uniforms. Most of them looked proud of the lovely ladies on their arms, too. As I looked back at the magnificent gates, I saw the gold tips of the towers glinting against a stormy sky.

As they walked up the steep Royal Mile I was suddenly transported back in time and could easily imagine the Scots courtiers and officials following Mary Queen of Scots on processional from the Palace to the Castle.

It’s one of the wonderful things about living in Edinburgh - past, present and the future are always hand in hand.

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More passions!

Still on the subject of passions - and being in the present of every moment of life, here is my favourite extract from The Great Lover by Rupert Brooke:


These I have loved...

White plates and cups, clean-gleaming,
Ringed with blue lines: and feathery, faery-dust;
Wet roofs, beneath the lamp-light; the strong crust
Of friendly bread; and many-tasting food;
Rainbows; and the blue bitter smoke of wood;
And radiant raindrops couching in cool flowers;
And flowers themselves, that sway through sunny hours,
Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon;
Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon
Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss
Of blankets; grainy wood; live hair that is
Shining and free; blue-massing clouds; the keen
Unpassioned beauty of a great machine;
The benison of hot water; furs to touch;
The good smell of old clothes; and other such-
The comfortable smell of friendly fingers
Hair's fragrance, and the musty reek that lingers
About dead leaves and last year's ferns...

Few have said it better!

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What are your Passions?

I thought I'd share with you some of my passions. I love horses..as a girl was totally obsessed covering my bedroom walls in posters & riding whenever I could. Now, I don't get much opportunity but am planning on getting my girls riding...for their own benefit, obviously :P

I am also crazy about scuba diving, having learnt in Lake Malawi and dived in warm climes I have to admit that I am a fair weather, warm water diver! I am very keen on getting into Freediving...always like a challenge. Again this is something I am not doing alot of at the moment but living in chilly Scotland with the less than appealing North Sea on my doorstep, can you blame me?

I am an avid reader, mainly non-fiction (although anything goes!) and the mantra of 'you can never have enough books' is one you'd hear me repeat regularly :o) Books are a window into other worlds, experiences and a mass of knowledge..they kept me sane when I was growing up and allowed me to grow and learn in a way school was never going to do.

I have lots & lots of passions. They keep me alive, always experiencing and striving to open myself out to see as much of the world and what it has to offer.

What are your passions? What fires you up and makes you feel full and satisfied?

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