Your Best Friend – Is You

Copyright © 2010 by ‘Medicine Woman’.

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This book is dedicated to my greatest teacher,

my son Dominic Stefan.

Contents

Contents

Forward

Learn to listen to your intuition

Walk through meditation for self analysis

Spiritual Paths

Karma and Reincarnation

Past Lives

The Process of Past Life Healing

Soul Groups

Personal Responsibility

Spirit Guides

Angels

Nature’s Invisible Helpers

Messages from Animals

Messages from Dreams

Interpreting your Dreams

Meditation for Connecting with your Animal

Spiritual Protection

Grounding Ourselves

Meditation to ground you

Auras and Chakras

Auric Vibrations of the human body

Positions of the major chakras, (base chakra not shown.)

Chakra Meditation

The Use of Colour

Colours used in Treatments

Meditations to connect with your Guide

Interacting with your Spirit Guides

Clairvoyance and Clairaudience

Attempting clairvoyance for others

Psychometry or Clairsentience

Reading the Energy

Try Psychometry for yourself

Become aware of your energy

Complications to your energy

Affirmations of your wishes

Ways of Receiving messages

Renewal of Spiritual Energy

Your Best Friend—is YOU!

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Forward

When I was 17 an elderly man walked into where I was working in Reception and handed me a black suede bag saying: My wife would have wanted you to have this. At that time we worked in the new town of Milton Keynes, which was only partially built, and I have no idea how he found the office, let alone me. I took the bag and discovered a crystal ball wrapped in a black felt cover and as I turned back to him he was heading for the door. I looked through the large windows to see him depart but he was completely and utterly gone from sight. I had never seen him before or since; and thirty years later am convinced he was a spirit. I still have the crystal ball, but it took me many years to understand why I had been chosen for this wonderful gift.

When I was 18 I was diagnosed with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, (TLE). To me, the classical symptoms answered my fascination with theology, mysticism, spiritualism and my mania for writing, especially the many articles published in the UK Nationals about animal welfare. I now know that a large proportion of TLE sufferers are psychics who benefit from the same medical condition. Many well known people also suffered from this condition, such as Joan of Arc, Vincent Van Gogh, Lewis Carol and Tennyson—all of whom were intensely emotional, deeply religious and compelled to be creative. Dostoyevsky was famous for his hypergraphia and theological pursuits for God’s existence, as it clearly visible in his novel ‘Crime and Punishment’.

I have never been completely satisfied that any orthodox mainstream religion totally fitted into my belief system. I always felt that they were leaving a big chunk out of the equation for me. For instance, the Christian church attempted to gain a religious monopoly in Western Europe by tracking down, arresting, prosecuting and exterminating heretics. In truth, much of Christianity was derived from Pagan sources; this included the sites of many cathedrals, the lives of many Christian saints (who were really recycled pagan goddesses and gods), many Christian holy days, and other cultural celebrations. At the Council of Nicaea, Constantine the Great organised the Bible into the work we know today, ensuring that both pagans and Christians were appeased. One example of this was by maintaining the worship of the Roman Sun god by naming the seventh day a day of rest called Sunday, in order to conciliate everyone.

Over the years the spirit world has given me many signs that things in the mainstream were not all that they seemed. I have studied many religions and ancient beliefs systems over the years. From the Emerald Tablets of Thoth to the Wicca belief system, Egyptian Gnostism to the Druids, I have examined them all and continue in my search for something I can accept 100%. My quest continues whilst I draw upon many traditions in my understanding of the divine forces which we all acknowledge. To me, we are all spokes on the same wheel trying to reach the hub to the Divine in our own ways.

All of my life I have always been passionate about animals and eager to communicate with both wild and domesticated animals. Before leaving the UK to research my PhD in Zimbabwe, I studied Equine Reiki and Shiatsu and Tellington Touch, and have used these with my own spiritual work to heal animals and their owners. (You have to heal the owners if want to rid the animal of the root cause of its disorder). My own healing guide is particularly strong and since I was a teenager I have been able to diagnose friends’ and relatives’ illnesses of which I have no medical knowledge. It is, of course, illegal to diagnose ailments without thorough medical training and I have never done so for clients. If I perceive a medical problem within a client I merely tell them to contact an appropriate doctor.

To raise money for my second degree I equipped my own 4x4’s and recruited people through the Royal Geographic Expedition Society to take on expeditions across the Sahara desert. Although this took one year to plan and organise it was a ‘character building’ experience and one in which you lose a lot of weight.

Despite having travelled worldwide, I have always been drawn to Africa and yearned to have my own game farm since the age of seven or eight! I didn’t actually own my first game farm until I was forty years old but in all those years I never for one minute doubted that I would do so! Over my years in southern Africa I have been privileged to be invited to work with Sangomas, Diviners, Mediums and Clairvoyants. I feel humbled that these gifted people have found me and encouraged my spiritual development at no charge.

Owing to my love of animals my greatest passion is being in the African Bushveld, where my love of Nature allows me to feel inner peace and tranquillity. All of my loneliness caused by my Temporal Lobe Epilepsy melted away the first time I spent some weeks in the Bushveld, and I never wanted to leave. It is a place where the only thing to be afraid of is yourself. Spending weeks in the Bushveld, miles from civilisation, you really appreciate what is important in life. It is my way of renewing my spiritual energy, something which we must all learn to do.

Animals give us important life messages and if you learn to understand them they will reward and guide you through life in so many ways. The ability to heal animals is my passion, similarly the need to teach others how to respect and honour animals, who have the same range of emotional feelings as we do. In 2009 I am constantly appalled that animals continue to suffer at the hands of man, in laboratories under vivisection, ‘canned’ hunting, factory farming, the fur trade, as military target practice, from whaling, and just basic cruelty and ignorance.

Living in Africa I am constantly strengthening my connection with Spirit, life is one long learning experience. My son, now a teenager, has a comprehensive understanding that there are many forces in the Universe that people barely acknowledge. He has learnt that our material world is only one of the numerous worlds surrounding us and that these exist to teach and help us. My son and I now live in South Africa, where I work as a Spiritual Detox Specialist, writing and facilitating my own holistic workshops. Over the years the one belief which has sustained me throughout is that you are never alone if you can learn to tune into and trust your inner guidance, because this is from a higher realm. Therefore, the one person upon whom you can totally rely and who will never let you down is your higher self. Anything you want, need or desire in your physical life you can manifest if you just learn to ask the right questions and how to be receptive to the answers that will always come. Learning to trust your own ability to do this is the key to the life you really wish you had. Thus, your best friend is yourself!

If all the world’s a lonely place

Why do people still fight for space?

Must men violently exert their will?

For the price of land some must kill.

Surely this is not what should be done

To exact a living with a gun?

Wars have always torn land apart

And Nationalism can be the start.

What cost do men pay in their souls

When all around them nothing’s whole?

Can they really enjoy the battle so

To want to murder wherever they go?

And when the fighting’s over and done

Are their heart’s as when they begun?

Or are they scarred and in need of healing?

Can a soldier’s heart have feeling?

All men love and all men cry

It is Fate that some must die.

What are they learning from this life?

What causes men such earthly strife?

Are they gaining Spiritual insight

To know all men have equal right

To live in harmony with one another,

To be called a soldier’s brother.

From my healing guide—a soldier

Introduction

Through the ages religious leaders have related how the spirit world assists us. From the Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, the African Bushmen, the North American Indians to the Australian Aborigines, it is universally acknowledged that there is more to human life than the reality we perceive with our accepted five senses. Today the knowledge of other realms is no longer hidden amongst the secrecy of priests and mystics. Neither does the State persecute people for so-called non-conformist beliefs on religion and reality.

Being in touch with your intuition can guide you through life with a positive approach, as well as assist you on your life path. Some people may instinctively have a well developed ability to observe the messages they receive. For instance, police officers and military personnel have an excellent sixth sense, having learnt to be observant to messages they receive and hence developed an internal warning system for any unrest or nervousness they feel in their line of work. These messages have saved countless lives in the line of duty and we can all develop this kind of intuition. The last thirty years has seen a clear desire to embrace a spiritual relationship, with religious truths outside of traditional faiths.

The energies we can utilise from the spirit world can teach us about our individual life purpose, protect and heal us, inspire and develop us. The only thing you require to do this is the power of your mind to visualise and discover which of the various techniques for development in this book work for you. We all live in a state of infinite possibilities of our own making. Your mind has the ability to create the destiny you desire by consciously manifesting the reality you crave. The only obstacle you face is your own fear: fear of the future, of rejection or of failure. This book will teach you that with peaceful emotions and positive thoughts, your very specific wishes will be achieved. Remember your intuition has not been polluted by other people’s knowledge; it comes straight from your higher self and can therefore be trusted instinctively. Your intuition is your personal connection to the universe, to higher realms of consciousness and to your karma.

Every thought, decision and action you make creates your reality. You have around 90,000 thoughts each day and the ones you give the most energy to are the ones the universe will act upon. This is why you need to examine your belief system in order to sort out the energy your thoughts are emitting. Once you can change your perceptions, your own inner guidance system, your intuition will lead you to the positive outcomes you desire.

If you are searching for knowledge, the ability to trust your own insight, a positive reality or even healing, then you have come to the right place. You live in a product of communal imagination, based on the belief system we have been taught since childhood. But your own imagination is the most powerful tool you will ever possess and this book will teach you how to use it to create the life you have always wanted but never dreamed you would have. Once you