Could we create something better?

The hustle and bustle of life, extra pressure of things costing more, people earning less and seemly less jobs on the market, financial turmoil, political unrest and added stress of challenging relationships...
“So what...?”

Is there a new way to live...? To develop closer community ties when most of us are on the computer all the time staring at an inhuman screen? When we cram onto commuter trains while the top executives of banks and major corporations who can control the markets through big advertising budgets and crushing the small competitors lounge in luxurious decadence...?

This tirade of what life can be viewed as will over spill eventually and I will transform it into a positive accepting view of the world... Accepting and challenging the status Quo to be better, based on gross domestic happiness rather than gross profit as the Dalai Lama recently said and how Bhutan runs their country (they have banned smoking and television by the way, as they found it contributed to their people being less happy...)

There is the rub – how can we create a new community based on better values, based on community and support rather than capital and currency...
We need more community values, this is happening, how about this:
Communities of people, single people, couples, families sharing work, skills and love unconditionally, being ecological, sustainable, growing their own crops on land, living locally supporting each other. Working towards improving their wellbeing and contentment and most importantly celebrating existence....

I don’t mean a beer and a fag and believe me I’ve learnt this too, we don’t REALLY need anything to celebrate life just life itself is enough to celebrate, the beauty of nature, people, the shape of the clouds and SPA-ARKLE of reflected light...
How are we going to do this...?

Answers on a postcard to GOD...Or Supreme Beingness (Or just send me some ideas...)

The Heart of Wellbeing Book Launch in London

The balance between practical action and creative imagination is how Craig Brown Chairman of the British Holistic Medicine Association describes Jan Alcoe, creator of “The Heart of Wellbeing – Seven Tools for Surviving and Thriving” practical wellbeing improvement book.

What is different between this and the myriad of other wellbeing and self help books is that it is a working product – 7 guided meditations on two CD’s for each of the 7 steps of improvement practices drawn from research and many years personal experience...

The publication is short and to the point with easy to read snippets of information with extensive actionable material.

The publication is the collaboration between the Janki Foundation; a Charitable trust that supports health practitioners especially with spiritual awareness and training to help cultivate the energy to heal and The British Holistic Medical Association; a leading body promoting holistic health in healthcare in the UK. After the gathering of many years research into what “wellbeing” actually is the group found that Wellbeing is really the subjective feeling and awareness we have inside us that makes us feel – well; even people seriously ill can experience wellbeing, essentially the feeling of connection, community, compassion and contentment – all possible for us to achieve.

Based on this research into wellbeing and many therapists personal experience they found that wellness was very much influenced by the areas shown in the diagram above (courtesy of The Heart of Wellbeing Book Publishers).

The book launched today gives us 7 tools for improving these areas of our lives:

1. Relax & Tune in.

2. Imagination

3. Thinking Positive

4. Be Creative

5. Lighten Up

6. Value Yourself

7. Discover Peace

Each of the 7 tools has a guided meditation or visualisation on the audio CD to give you some practice help to improving these areas.

Whether you are a practitioner looking to sustain your healing practice, someone who considers themselves happy, really in need of wellbeing support or someone feeling a little under the weather – there is always room for improvement.

The author of The Heart of Wellbeing, Jan Alcoe is a hypnotherapist and holistic health trainer, in the audio CD’s supplied with The Heart of Well-being there are really relaxing, focusing and empowering practices that I have been using to great benefit as I go through the publication.

The publication also references “Human Givens” – early research in the results of this therapy has found rapid success for many different mental health issues – Human Givens helps us to understand our basic needs and provides quick transformative tools to help meet them. This helps people to understand once they have met their “Human Givens” – their basic needs, they can be content and progress forward from this.

Wellbeing is a continual work-in-progress and I am looking forward to utilising this book and it’s CD’s to improve my life in many ways on a daily basis...

I invite you to give it a go....

For further information contact go to:

http://www.jankifoundation.org/heart_of_well_being/purchase_the_book.jsp