ARE YOU "A HALF FULL" OR "HALF EMPTY" TYPE OF PERSON, DOES IT MATTER?

Some will say if you look on the black side you will never feel the pain of disappointment and anything good that does happen will be a surprise. Many years ago I was one such person and from experience there were few if any surprises, in fact I went around always expecting the worst and I was always right I got the worst. but I wasn't doing myself any favours and I'll tell you why. The Universe is governed by Universal Law and one of these laws especially in this situation is "The law of attraction" so you are only encouraging more negativity towards yourself. 

To prove a point try this; for one month be an optimist but you have to be a proper optimist for this to work, there has to be no half measures. This includes being optimistic  even if you still get negative things coming your way, for you still will in the beginning. However if you can keep this up you will start to find many more 'surprises coming your way and less disappointments. 

After all what have you got to lose, its just for one month but it won't work unless you truly change  your mindset to being "A hall full person"

Come on just try it for one month!

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF SILVER BIRCH

Sometimes when I get a bit down and I feel I'm loosing track of where I am going on my Spiritual Journey I read the philosophy of  Silver Birch. It never fails to uplift me. Here he is talking about and addressing Mediums

The following was a typical address from Spirit Guide Silver Birch speaking through

Medium Maurice Barbanell

To inspire the ambassadors of spirit

You are all privileged to be ambassadors of the Great Spirit. You are representatives of the Great Spirit wherever you labour. It becomes your charge and responsibility to see that your gifts are used in such a fashion that they produce the maximum good wherever you can.

There will be brought to you those whom you can help. They will often be pitiful derelicts, sick, ill, worried, cheerless, full of problems, feeling that life on earth has nothing more to offer them. It becomes your privilege to help them to become aware of themselves, of their true nature, of their inner spirit, the gift of divinity conferred at birth, so that they begin to get a realization of how they should order their lives and derive from them the fullness, richness, beauty, splendor and radiance that should be theirs.

That is your function, to make the power of the spirit available to all who come to you. It is the reason why you have buildings, churches, temples and societies, so that you are accessible. And accessibility is the reason for the existence of all your organizations.

I want you to appreciate that so far as we are concerned, if you help one soul to find itself, to become aware of its latent divinity and to begin to express it, then the whole of your earth life is well worth while. But you will be able to help more than one. You will be able, as a result, to perform this unique service that no others in your world can possibly give because they have made themselves inaccessible to the power of the spirit which is the life-giving essence for the whole cosmos in which we all dwell.

Do not worry if any come to you and after you have done your best you are unable to help them. They have had their chance. You must be sorry because they have not taken it. What you must realize is that until their soul is touched, until they are spiritually ready, there is nothing you can do to help them.

What will produce this preparation is not always easy to understand. It may be an illness. It may be a crisis. It may be anything which brings them to the lowest depths of despair, when they feel there is nothing in the whole of the material world that can produce the answer. Then they should begin to come into their own and you should be able to kindle the divine spark so that it can begin to grow into a lambent flame. That is why you exist in your churches, societies and organizations.

I must also say this. Because of what you are, because this tremendous power, divine in origin flows through you, yours is the greater responsibility to see that you do nothing that in any way lessens the trust that is reposed in you. We are not dictators. We are not your masters. We do not regard you as marionettes who have to dance when the strings are pulled in our world. You are our co-operators. We want to work together. We will always provide whatever is spiritually necessary according to the conditions available at the time.

We will lead. We will guide. We will direct. We will help, but we will not order. We will not compel and we will not dictate. If you hear, supposedly emanating from our life, entities who command you to do this, that and the other, you can be sure that their spiritual status is not very evolved. Co-operation is the law of the spirit. We would win you with love, with common sense and with reason. We would offer you nothing that is an insult to your intelligence or would make your reason revolt. Together we can help the Great Spirit in the eternal processes of evolution and creation.

This is the task on which we are all engaged. This is the opportunity given to all of us to help the Great Spirit so that His children may live a richer, fuller life and not waste all the opportunities earth provides in obtaining the equipment that is necessary when people come to our side of being.

We get too many misfits, too many ill-equipped, too many derelicts who are unready. It is easier for their education to begin in your world than it is in ours. So be aware of the tremendous possibilities that lie within you. Be aware of the great opportunities that you have for service. Do the best you can and then you will be fulfilling the purpose for which you came into your world”.

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COMMUNICATING WITH 'THE OTHER SIDE'

Linking with spirit

As I have said before the best way to develop your abilities is either in a group, such as a circle attached to a psychic college or spiritualist church or under the tutelage of an experienced medium.

Not everyone who sits in a circle will necessarily go on to be a platform medium and as often the case are happy to sit in circle contributing their energy to the group. However the time will come when its time to raise your vibrations and take that step in linking with those in the spirit world. I recommend you do this in a circle or with an experienced medium as you need to be confident in what you are doing and keeping yourself safe.

Before you reach this stage you will have of course learned to protect yourself and be experienced in meditation, reason being as its the best way to develop strong mind control which is essential in this work. By this time too, you will have developed the ability to close down fully and open up at will.

When you are ready you need to clear your mind, this is why meditation is important and it teaching you how to still your mind necessary to allow spirit to link with you as all communication with spirit is done through the mind. Having a group around you also boosts your energy to facilitate a good link as does having an experienced medium as he or she will direct some energy to help you connect.. There is a difference in connecting with spirit to receive messages as opposed to delivering healing. Healing energy is a very passive energy and almost trance like whereby  connecting for the purposes of receiving messages is much more energetic and you will find it easier to stand up and perhaps walk about. Some mediums I know like to listen to upbeat music before taking to the platform as they say it helps them raise their vibration to be able to connect with spirit.

This is the method I would use for teaching linking with spirit.

Firstly clear your mind and ask spirit to come close. In the beginning you may find it easier to close your eyes, later on as you become more experienced you will no longer need to do this.

Ask yourself what does the energy feel like? is it a soft energy? a strong energy? Depending on your abilities you may be seeing a picture in your minds eyes or you may just sense. Trust is everything here so trust what your intuition is telling you. Is the energy male or female? No ask spirit to describe themselves, what they look like? Constantly keep asking them to draw close and ask what they passed over with, they me impose a feeling over you like a sudden pain in your head for a stroke say, you may see pictures, you mean hear their voice, but when they do it comes in very fast, too fast for you to think about it, this is why you must learn to still your mind through meditation. Ask what age they were when they passed and ask their name? but above all trust spirit, your own guides will be helping you. It's just as frustrating for spirit on the other side to link with those on the earth plane as they have to lower their vibration to meet you, just as you have to raise yours to link with them. What you are looking for is 'Survival Evidence' to prove that life exists beyond the grave. Ask too why they have come forward today for they generally have come forward for a reason to pass on a message either to you or someone you know so you can pass it on, or someone within the circle. More often than not they tend to come close because of an anniversary of their passing or a birthday.

When you no longer feel you can gain anymore information thank spirit for the message and coming forward and begin to close down and ground yourself, easiest way to to have a glass of water.

Many times i am asked if i can link with someone specifically in the spirit world, that is not up to us, we cannot conjure up someone on command, it is spirit's choice, i will generally ask though and put the thought forward to my guides often I am lucky and the specific person will come forward but even then I ask for identification in that I ask spirit to give me some information that only the person i am reading for, would know. This could be an anecdote from the past or something they have been doing in their home recently as their loved one in spirit has been around them observing what has been going on recently.

The purpose of a medium is to seek confirmation, with as much clues as is possible to prove life goes on after physical death and to trust what information spirit give you and not let your own thoughts interfere and corrupt this evidence. After identifying and proving who they are, they may give some information about the future but they will only do this providing it will not interfere with any challenges or karmic lessons

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A GUIDE TO PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT AND

SPIRITUAL AND INSPIRATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

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OUIJA BOARDS AND WHY YOU MUST NOT PLAY WITH THEM

I am often asked about Ouija boards, my advice is and I cannot stress this strongly enough DO NOT go anywhere near them.

Good and evil, light and dark co-exists in the Universe as everything is balanced and if you have read previous articles on this site I have explained this many times but for those who have not, the Universe operates a series of laws and one of the main ones to consider is 'THE LAW OF ATTRACTION' in other words like attracts like, therefore positivity will attract positivity and negativity will attract negativity. The is why positive thought is very important but it also goes with how you live your life, if you walk in the light and strive to be a good kind person, you will attract all that is good towards you, however if you are an evil person you will attract this back to you. This does not mean however there is no hope for you if you have done wrong in the past, far from it, if you genuinely are sorry and aim to make amends you will attract the good to you. You may have heard the old saying, "What goes around comes around", will this is precisely the law of attraction in operation.

When you are beginning to develop psychically or are indeed curious, you begin to open up and use your third eye chakra, when you do so certain malevolent spirits and entities are very aware you are doing this, you give off a signal. Lower energies and spirits who haven't moved on either because they have committed wrong doing or chose to stay on the lower spiritual realms to cause trouble will be attracted to you. If you are pure in thought and a very positive person, you are less likely to attract these, but if shall we say, you're not a very nice person you are much more likely to attract those.  Lower entities, come in all shapes and sizes often in the shape of flying creatures and can be very frightening. Now these entities cannot harm you in anyway, they cannot control you, but your negativity and fear feeds them and they will play on this. All you need do is basically tell them with conviction, to 'F*** off' and they will go, but you must override your fear and do it with a strong mind. For everything in the spirit world is controlled and operates on thought.

When you dabble in Ouija boards you will attract these lower entities and malevolent spirits for they think oh I can have a bit of fun here and cause fear and anguish, something they like doing. The other thing they do is to masquerade as the spirit of a loved one to give false messages. One thing spirit of your loved ones DON'T DO is to tell you to do something, as they know we have to live our lives through free will. So if you get a message from someone you know, a deceased love one in spirit telling you to do something, you can guarantee, they are not who they say they care and they are from the dark side.

If you are really interested in communicating with loved ones in spirit go and see and experienced Medium and DO NOT dabble in Ouija boards for all you will do is conjure up the dark and malevolent side

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HOW NEGATIVITY CAN MAKE YOU UNHEALTHY

Why does this not surprise me from a Holistic point of view disease disharmony begins first of all in the spirit and in the emotions long before it begins in the physical. I've written about this many times on here, so to me this just backs up what us Holistic Therapists have been saying for years. (STORY FROM DAILY MAIL BELOW)

When we think positively our Auras expand, they are directly connected to our Chakras, these are spinning vortices of energy and what gives us our vital life force. If our Chakras are able to work correctly without being impinged in anyway, we will be happier mentally and emotionally and physically a lot healthier.

On the other hand if we think negatively our Aura's shrink in on themselves and this affects how the chakra's work, it restricts the flow of vital energy of the life force and starts to cause us problems both mentally and physically. Take for example the throat Chakra, it governs the thyroid and parathyroid endocrine glands and all the structures surrounding our throat and necks and vocal chords. It also governs communication between ourselves and others. So if we are thinking negatively it can lead to stiff neck muscles, causing tension headaches, make us more prone to sore throats, coughs and colds and can lead us to have communication problems relating to others perhaps causing arguments and an inability to understand others. This of course is just one Chakra.

Exercise for sensing and feeling the Human Energy Field commonly known as the Aura
You will need a partner and a chair.

Get your partner to sit on a chair facing away from you with their eyes closed and stand some distance away, several feet if possible.

Rub your hands vigorously together until your palms get warm and with palms facing one another you should feel a sensation like tingling, pulling them apart and bring them together, it should feel like you are bouncing an invisible ball between them, rub them a little more together then pull them apart and bring them together until you feel this.

Now with your palms facing outwards towards your partner ask he/she to think of something positive and happy, something which made them feel really happy.

As they are concentrating on this walk slowly towards them palms outstretched until you feel a sensation like you felt before, you should be able to bounce it like before even pull it a little, this is your partners Aura. Note where you are standing in relation to them.

Now repeat the exercise again, but asking your partner to think of something that made them very sad and miserable and to focus on this as you repeat what you did before. Walk forward again sensing where you detect their aura. Note where you are standing, what do you notice?(Again leave me a comment here of your findings it should be different to your first detection experiment)

Could your friends be making you sick? Toxic relationships are linked to cancer, depression and heart disease

It may be wise to keep your friends close and your enemies not quite so close, after all.

Relationships may be as vital to good health as a balanced diet and plenty of rest, new research suggests.

Scientists at UCLA's school of medicine have found that negative social interactions can lead to increased inflammation, which may in turn cause a host of illnesses from cancer to heart disease and high blood pressure.



Call these friends? The stress caused by negative relationships can lead to inflammatory diseases, say scientists

Published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, the study gives solid grounding to the anecdotal evidence that being upbeat and positive - and surrounding one's self with people with that do not represent competitive or toxic relationships - may be one way to avoid getting sick.

Taking a group of 122 healthy young people, the California-based scientists monitored stressful events and compared them to the body's production of two inflammation-causing proteins.

Relying on the age-old method of capturing emotions - the diary - scientists recorded the group's competitive and frictional moments and compared them with the chemicals found in swabs from the inner cheek.

Those who had a negative few days preceding the swab had a higher proportion of the proteins responsible for conditions including high blood pressure, risk of heart disease, cancer and depression, according to Science News.

A similar peak in the pro-inflammatory proteins also occurred after participants were subjected to a stress-inducing numbers quiz and then asked to give a public speech.

The results - which may bring a whole new light to many a bad relationship - are thought to be grounded in evolutionary survival mechanisms.

While the modern link between stress and illness is well-documented, psychologist Nicholas Rohleder from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, told Science News that inflammation fends off infections that may once have been the result of fight or flight encounters.

Without the dangers humans once faced when it came to getting through each and every day, stress may lead to unchecked chronic inflammation, he said.

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ASTRIDESTELLA'S PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT CIRCLE

I run a psychic development circle amongst psychic friends on Facebook. I regret it is a closed group, this is because I need to be aware of your experience and know you personally. It is by invitation only, so I'm sorry but I have to turn applicants away as its not open to apply.

However there are many exercises and articles on this site for those interested in psychic development it is preferable you join a local group in your area and many can be found in Spiritualist churches.

Love and Light

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Closed group — astridestellaspsychicdevelopment@groups.facebook.com

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THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF TEA-IT CAN LOWER YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE

Story from the Daily Mail, this does not surprise me at all, given that the UK is a nation of Tea drinkers. Tea has this unique quality of being a adaptogen in that it refreshes you and yet relaxes you all at the same time, something that coffee cant do. Although it does contain caffeine its less than coffee and with milk added I find personally that it is a very comforting drink and regularly drink it at bedtime with no effects on my sleep unlike coffee. Tea contains valuable antioxidants which fight off the detrimental effects of free radicals, free radicals are substances, molecules found in the atmosphere that speed up ageing of the body's cells, so obviously anything that defies this ageing process must help the body's organs.

There is a correct way of making tea, and this is aimed at my US readers LOL! but to brew tea the water MUST be boiling and not just hot, otherwise the true flavour is lost.

Below my favourite brand and a little cult figure we have here promoting tea!

Drinking three cups of tea a day 'can lower your blood pressure'

It's good news for the two-thirds of Britons who have a cup of tea every day - enjoying a brew may significantly reduce your blood pressure.

Scientists at The University of Western Australia and Unilever discovered that drinking three cups of tea a day lowers systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

However, researchers based their findings on drinking black tea and the effect of drinking tea with milk is not known.



Heart disease cases could fall by up to 10 per cent if everyone drank three cups of black tea a day

Tea is the world's second-most popular drink, after water. It is full of polyphenols, antioxidants that have been shown to stop cancer cells from growing. Another study from Harvard University found the drink could boost immune function.

Now researchers have found more proof that it keeps the heart healthy.

Lead author Research Professor Jonathan Hodgson said: 'There is already mounting evidence that tea is good for your heart health, but this is an important discovery because it demonstrates a link between tea and a major risk factor for heart disease.'

Blood pressure measurement consists of two numbers. The first is the systolic and measures blood pressure when the heart beats, or contracts to push blood through the body. The second number is the diastolic and measures the amount of pressure in between beats, when the heart is at rest.

In the small study, 95 Australian participants aged between 35 and 75 were recruited to drink either three cups of black tea or a placebo with the same flavour and caffeine content, but not derived from tea.

After six months, the researchers found that compared with the placebo group, participants who drank black tea had a lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure of between 2 and 3 mmHg (millimetres of mercury).

The authors believe a 2 to 3mmHg drop in blood pressure across the board would lead to a 10 per cent drop in the number of people with hypertension and heart disease.

Dr Hodgson wrote: 'A large proportion of the general population has blood pressure within the range included in this trial, making results of the trial applicable to individuals at increased risk of hypertension.'

He added that more research is required to better understand how tea may reduce blood pressure, although earlier studies reported a link between tea drinking and the improved health of people's blood vessels.

The study is published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

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TRANSFIGURATION MEDIUMSHIP

Transfiguration is a form of physical mediumship which allows a spirit to materialise and communicate through a medium. The idea is that the face of a person who has passed over will appear on the face of the medium.


It is a rare form of mediumship as it takes years of sitting in trance circles to perfect this form of mediumship. It’s also supposed to be very draining for the spirit involved, as a lot of energy is needed to be able to appear.


Before transfiguration can take place, the medium, a person who is said to have psychic abilities which enable them to communicate with the spirit world, will go into a trance, sometimes so deep they may even appear asleep.


If the transfiguration is successful, a veil of ectoplasm will appear on or just in front of the medium’s face and this is moulded into the features of the spirit that is trying to communicate. Ectoplasm is a light coloured, glutinous substance which allegedly oozes from the medium’s body and is then physically manipulated by the spirit. It’s sensitive to light and so séances often take place in darkened rooms and often with a red light.


During transfiguration the face that materialises may appear to be almost translucent or in extreme cases the medium’s face might disappear altogether, replaced by the features of the spirit. The spirit may mouth words and in some cases may also utilise the vocal chords of the medium and speak through them.


It isn’t just the face that can be affected by transfiguration. There are stories of other parts of the body taking the form of the spirit; making the medium appear taller or shorter, changing their hair and other physical features. If the person who has passed over, used to wear certain clothes or jewellery, this may materialise too.


There are cases where more than one face has appeared during a transfiguration séance. If there’s a group of people present, many of them may claim to see a face or number of faces that they recognise as dead loved ones.


Transfiguration was popular during the Victorian period and the beginning of the 20th Century, when interest in spiritualism was at its height. Many séances were held in the hope that the faces of dead loved ones would appear, especially during and after World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famous for his ‘Sherlock Holmes’ novels, was a great supporter of spiritualism, including transfiguration. He wrote several books on the subject and was president of the College of Psychic Studies.

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