With the New Year Comes New Challenges

“It is no good looking back on the past and seeing our mistakes.  We need to grasp the nettle and by putting our best intentions forward, make amends and go forward to make a better world and our part in it.

“The past has gone and we can only learn from our difficulties and raise our vibrations to create more positive actions.  It is not only our deeds, but our thoughts that need to be perfected and raised to higher levels.

“Too many souls seem to be ruled by financial interests and are often tempted away from balancing their own economy by using credit cards and taking out loans that over time they will have difficulty repaying.

“Now that the commercial Christmas is over, it is so often a time of counting the cost and for some it is a time for despair.  It is easy to overspend and want to show friends and family that we are better off than we actually are.

“This is brought on by show and an expanding ego, when we constantly try and keep up with others, who may be far better off that we are.

“Perhaps we value the material too much and tend to forget how much the spiritual is worth.  The good things in life are often said to be free, but taxation and higher ecological standards are making our world more expensive to live in.

“A wise First Nation from America told his son some years ago that even fresh water would soon be sold.  He was right in seeing the growing industries of bottled water becoming the baggage for all travellers.

  “It is the simplest things that should lift our spirits such as the first colourful blooms that can be seen in our gardens and parks as the rising sap of spring initiates the wonders of creation.

          “It is not necessary to buy cut flowers to brighten up our homes or to send bouquets of colour through the system of florists to warm the hearts of those with birthdays and anniversaries as well as for the sick.

          “To send cut flowers is to only send a short message of your love and sometimes just gratitude in another form.  However, to send a plant that is in bud and promises to burst forth into colour and remain so, tends to be a joy.

          “This living bundle of happiness can be cherished and nurtured through the months to come and bring to that soul the responsibility of tending it and by doing so in the right spirit of love, so that both can flourish.

          “Plants respond to human kindness as we all do.  They enjoy happy vibrations and gentle music.  For many, who are growing older and often weaker, the gift of a plant can bring them more upliftment than the hustle and bustle of the life around them.

          “We all need an interest to keep us positive and refreshed.  It is not good for the soul or our pathway in life to keep banging the drum of materialism.  We need some time off to rest and relax.

          “So, as we venture into another New Year, let us seek out our responsibilities to make life around us just that bit better for ourselves, our family and those in need who we come across.

          “Thoughtfulness doesn’t cost us very much at all really, but by our caring it is far more likely that we are able to bring a smile to more faces and brush away any lingering sadness that had accrued at this time of year.

          “Remember that there are times when we all need a reason to smile and the best one is to give cheer to another, which we hope may become infectious to all who need that little boost of joy in their lives today.”

 Jenny and Michael Ayers

Saturday, 5^th January 2019

Christmas Cheer

They say that Christmas, the Catholic Mass for Christ, is for the very young and certainly it is a time of presents and games.  As we get older, we feel the greater responsibility to provide more for our families.

Commercially we are battered with ways to spend our money as advertising seems to begin earlier every year and the autumnal season is a prelude to the great annual spend followed by the New Year sales.

In all the commercial hustle and bustle it is easy to forget the symbolic meaning of the Winter Solstice.  It is the shortest day of the year and from this point the days get longer as the herald of summer.

Before there was Christmas, the people celebrated the increasing light given to this hemisphere and it was the high point of their calendar.  Many of the traditional items associated with Christmas come from the festivals before it.

In these early days of small communities, their lives centred around the growing and gathering of food and so the hardship of winter was real enough.

Daylight was a precious gift as they lived in a dark world where they had little to brighten it.  Today, darkness is an almost forgotten phenomenon with street lighting, homes and shops ablaze with light.

So symbolically, we come back to that celebration of the Winter Solstice when the birth of Christ was traditionally born to enlighten us in the ways of the Spirit.

His time on this earth plane was spent largely teaching and healing.  He brought light and comfort to those who understood the presence of a Higher Intelligence.

          All his words and actions were based on love and he lived by example and never allowed negative emotions to influence his ministry.  We should learn from his example, not only at Christmastide but always.

          It is our purpose in this life of ours here on this earth plane to help each other and to negate the negative emotions, which are used by some to have power over others.

          As we approach the traditional time of love and sharing, it is important to allow our energies to carry the words that Jesus taught us.  He preached love to all men and women and he healed them physically and mentally.

          Too many souls fail to acknowledge that they are too selfish to consider other people’s feelings.  They seem to go through life taking what they want for themselves alone.

          Yet over the Christmas festivities, there are thousands of souls who give up their time so that the necessary and emergency situations can remain open and available.

          Surely it is not too much to ask that they receive love and healing to allow them to get through the busy time as they serve the Greater Good with the best intentions.

          There are many who are not blessed with a home and family to share at this time.  Many have lost their security and have fallen on hard times.  Let them be remembered by positive thoughts and comforts.

          Those who are ill and those who lose their loved ones especially need to be sent understanding and peace of mind.  Know that by sparing time to bless others, the giver will be blessed.

          Let Christmas cheer be shared by all people of all races and creeds, as it is a season of love and not a season of differences, so sharing what we have brings goodness into all hearts.

Jenny and Michael Ayers

Friday, 7^th December 2018

No Need To Be SAD Anymore

          Once the clocks go back, it feels as through the barmy days of summer are over and the winter months have truly arrived.  It is important that we realise that this often leads us into depression.

          Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is not as uncommon as many may think.  Within the mysterious depths of our brains and bodies remains the ancient systems that adjusts our sleep and energy patterns causing mood and behaviour that go with the ebb and flow of nature’s seasons.

Many moons ago, especially in temperate latitudes, we evolved a genetic makeup that promoted the “winter blues” or today we call it depression.

We ate a lot, slept a lot and did less physically and socially.  This helped conserve valuable energy.  It was an evolutionary advantage for surviving the harshness of winter.

However today in the twenty-first century, we try and carry on with our lives as usual.  The changing seasons are ignored, as we are not ruled by the rising and the setting of the sun, because we have electricity and the alarm clock.

It was natural for most people who lived and worked in the country to go to bed at sunset and get up at dawn to utilise the daylight hours, but with fewer hours of daylight, we were kept in the dark for so much longer.

For some, the effects are relatively benign. Being a bit cranky, putting on a few extra pounds and snuggling on the settee at the weekend instead of hitting the town, isn’t the hardest cross to bear

But for others, the by-product of this mismatch between the demands of modern living and nature includes lethargy, melancholy, withdrawal from life and complete despair, clinically known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).

To some it is known as seasonal depression, winter depression or the misleadingly sugar-coated term, the winter blues.  It is a form of light starvation.

Electric light is mainly yellow and fails to compensate for the natural sunlight that we receive.  Sunlight is white and is made up of the full spectrum of the available colours.

White light lamps can be purchased and need only be used from half an hour to an hour a day while you carry on with your life or lives.  They certainly can make a difference.

Rather than suffer with depression, a little research can be employed and, with the Internet available, much can be illuminated into whether you suffer needlessly.

Light therapy is safe and simple.  It is not intrusive to your daily life and the results start to happen quickly and easily.  SAD can be treated and there is not longer a need to be sad anymore.

Spiritual healing is also available and any good Hands-on-Healer will be able to help and advise through the Power of God’s healing.  Miracles happen every day. 

The biggest miracle however often remains and that is not to suffer any more, but to get on and do something about it yourself!  Doctors simply peddle pills called anti-depressants.

If you go down that road you will be on them for life, when spiritual alternatives are available and you can deal with your own problems in your own way.

Hands-on-Healing is a safe and simple way to allow that Higher Power into your life to help you through love and your own freewill.

Jenny and Michael Ayers

Monday, 5^th November 2018

Are We As Transparent To Others As We Think We Should Be?

There comes a time when we must recognise the truth about ourselves.  There is the reality of what we are and what we do.  Then there is the picture that we show to others.

There is the well-known saying that, “We wear our heart on our sleeve.”  In other words, we show our emotions readily for all to see and don’t try and hide what some people may not like.

“Honesty is the best policy,” we are told and so it is.  If you tell lies they will always find you out.  You cannot remember all the lies you have told and so you will trip yourself up sooner or later.

Then George Washington was six years old he was given a hatchet with which he chopped down his father’s favourite cherry tree.  His father asked, “Who had done this?”  The young George is supposed to have said, “It was I, father.  I cannot tell a lie!”

Those who recognise their own conscience, will find that they suffer by being untruthful.  If they do something wrong, it festers in their minds until they admit it and put it right.

Those who are ambitious seem to find it easy enough to turn their backs on their conscience and keep saying and acting what suits them best.

If they go to certain churches, it seems easy enough to visit the confessional at regular intervals to be absolved by making some trivial penance and to being let off.

This is a common enough happening around the world in certain churches, which peddle forgiveness for just a few dollars more.  Forgiveness given this way by a man dressed in white for purity, doesn’t represent the Almighty except in his own mind.

Forgiveness comes from the heart and must be forgiven by the one who was wronged.  No one can forgive a person for what they did to another except that person themselves.

We all need to seek that forgiveness for ourselves from all those who we have deliberately or accidently wronged by thought or word or deed. 

Benjamin Franklin is famously quoted as saying, “Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”  This is of course very true, because we don’t always know that there will be a tomorrow for us.

We are here on this earth plane for a set time and we don’t know when our passing into the next dimension will be.  If we knew it would affect our behaviour in so many ways, so it is kept from us.

Many, who have had Near-Death Experiences and were taken into a dimension of unconditional love, found that it was too great for them to describe using earthly vocabulary.

They always comment on the love and the light as being greater than anything that they had ever witnessed.  They were blessed with a chance to see where they were going to and what direction they needed to take.

Before they returned, they were told that they had to come back to continue their life on this earth plane, as it was not yet their time.  Miraculously their symptoms of dying were gone.  They returned.

They were given another chance to set their lives back in order before they pass finally into that dimension and they witness their own life revue and are shown what they had done well and what they failed to complete.

We never know when that time is coming, so we must act honourably and seek our own forgiveness before we run out of time to do so.

Jenny and Michael Ayers

Saturday, 6^th October 2018

Is the World of Humanity Ready to Wake Up and Set Aside the Atrocities of the Past?

          As the news continues to break about child abuse and genocide around the world, people are dividing into two camps.  There are those who are angry and want something done and those who wish to ignore it all.

          The abuse of children is sadly not unique to the Catholic Church, as issues have been exposed in children’s homes where those in powerful situations preyed on children, who went unbelieved.

          Unwanted children without parents and a normal home, were considered fair game to the paedophiles, who got away with it for many years.

          The abused children grew up predictably into damaged adults and without treatment will remain so all their lives.  Sadly, these dysfunctional souls try to lead normal family lives, but are unable to do so.

          They end up with relationship problems, which they pass on to the children, who in turn cause problems themselves and so the line of suffering and misery is passed down from generation to generation.

          All this began by thoughtless selfish acts that were covered up and the perpetrators so often got away with it.  Their standing was thought to be more important than that of an innocent child.

          Those who covered up are equally guilty and all must pay the piper.  In the Catholic Church, these people acted as though their institution was more important than Divine Law.

          The confessional is a question of man judging man and that can never be condoned.  If priests had a direct line to ‘God’ as they claim, we should be able to see it through their actions.

          There are many people that are very angry now, both inside and outside the Catholic Church.  There are a lot of words flying about, but little or no action appears to be done.

          The Pope apparently prayed recently for forgiveness for his Church.  It is not the fabric of this institution that needs to seek forgiveness, but those who are running it from the very bottom to the very top.

          It is a simplistic ploy to expect people to believe that the institution is the more important as it carries on from century to century, but it can make no changes without the people who run it.

          They may come, and they may go, but their moral attitude and outrageous behaviour is reflected by their group soul under the umbrella of that organisation.

          Through the threats of Hell and Damnation, they appear to keep their congregations in line, but why don’t the same standards that they preach apply to them?

          Spiritual Law clearly says that we all reap what we sow.  The Master Jesus taught us this.  Sadly, his words and teaching have been largely expunged from the dogma of the Catholic Church.

          As with all religions, they are manmade and are for the use of man and woman alone.  Where are the teachings that prepare us for our passing into the world beyond this one?

          The Master Jesus demonstrated all of this by rising in three days and appearing to those who loved him, as well as those who needed to change their way of life.

          Genocide is the murder of whole nations or ethnic groups and defies the Laws of God, but Mankind seems to still tolerate it.

Jenny and Michael Ayers

Tuesday, 4^th September 2018

We All Have a Duty to the Future

The examples of Climate Change are easy enough to see around the world as fires and droughts and flooding from heavy rains show us that we need to do something before it is too late.

We are entrusted with the safety and security of this planet and we have a duty to leave it in a better condition for its future than it was when we came.

We cannot allow endangered species to continue to disappear at an alarming rate.  Both animals and plants have a right to live here on this earth.

All were created in unconditional love by the great Creator, who made everything to evolve for a purpose.  Many have properties that when used correctly actually help save lives and are currently used in our hospitals.

It is not always the Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical Companies that have all the answers.  Many products have been developed through studying the makeup of the natural world.

We do not know what other products we shall need to combat situations that are still ahead of us and, to assume that science will always find the answers that we will require, is naïve.

We need a balanced world in tune with the Higher Intelligence and allowing spiritual guidance to show us the way we need to go rather than just taking what we want.

It is a world of aggression and bullying between many nations, which inflict their demands on others for their own agenda and are not looking at the needs of the Greater Good.

Religions are wearing a mask of so called brotherly love, which they use to create a business to hold power over their followers, who are made to live in fear rather than unconditional love.

We were all created with a conscience to show us right from wrong and this is a part of the Spirit within us all.  Spiritual Law says that we reap what we sow.

This we do and will answer for it, if not always now, then in the passing out of the physical body and into the next dimension.  We will be shown our lives and will feel the results of what we achieved and what we left undone.

Our part in global pollution is down to us, all of us, as we are a part of the group soul of humanity.  We came to help each other and not take what we wanted regardless of the cost to others.

The oceans are being polluted with plastic waste.  Some of this breaks down in the food chain and will be carried through all those who feed on it.

We are at the top of that food chain and so our children are consuming small plastic particles in their meals.  We all need to look around and see what we can do to help stop this desecration of world resources.

Are our lives so busy that we haven’t made enough time available to see what we are accepting?  Too many of us take the easy way out by saying that our Government should do what is necessary to safeguard us all.

This is the key here!  They are our Government and we are responsible for what they do.  We too have a responsibility to take our own actions to help safeguard our planet.

 We must recognise our conscience and to know that it is guided within all of us, to make our lives more meaningful and to act for the Greater good and not just for what we want.

Jenny and Michael Ayers

Sunday, 12^th August 2018

Every Cloud Does Have a Silver Lining

“Don’t worry about things that you can’t do anything about!  There are plenty of issues that we can engage in for ourselves and the greater good, where our input will pay dividends.

          “We need to assess what we are capable of doing for the best and what is beyond our powers of achievement.  If for whatever reason we feel that we need help and guidance, we must learn to ask.

          “If there are problems that affect us, but we can’t see our way out of them, then we should ask the Higher Intelligence to show us the way to overcome the difficulties.

          “It is no used asking for them to be taken away from us, because they had been put there for us to deal with, whether they were caused by our fault or not.  What lands on our plate must be dealt with by us in the best possible way.

          “The Higher Intelligence is always there, even if we desert Him time and time again.  We think that we can get through life by ourselves all the time things are going well.

          “However, we are not able to see ahead further than the end of our nose unless we have trust and faith that the Spirit is working for us and, as long as we do our honest best, it will look after us.

          “Life works on the basis of you get what you sow.  This is Spiritual Law.  Our common sense confirms that this is true.  If we lead a good life in helping others, then we will be blessed.

          “This does not mean that we shall have a smooth and angst free life.  We are not here in this earthly life to just partake in what we fancy, but to do what is put in front of us to achieve.

          “How often are we beginning to feel that we have reached a level of goodness after all the difficulties have been overcome and then, almost cruelly and suddenly, we are dealt another mighty blow.

          “It is from here that we have to pick ourselves up and keep calm.  We must trust in The Almighty and our Spirit Guides and they will help us to sail through it.

          “It is of no use being negative and crying out, “This is unfair.  Why should this happen to me?”   We are unable to see the greater picture and so we must trust and get on with our lives as they are now shaped.

          “There are always good things that come out of the darkness that, at first, we are totally unable to see.  It is not until the light shines that we can see actually how blessed we are to be so looked after.

          “In time and with complete gratitude for all that is given to us, we are able to start to see and understand how our lives are being directed by a Higher Intelligence for the greater good.

          “Selfishness and increasing our own ego will go no way to see us through this life so that we progress.  From our experiences we need to help and give to others through our understanding and healing gifts.

          “Many people have healing hands, but do not use them for spiritual healing to bring comfort and better health to others.  The more one uses them with their Spirit Guides, the greater the success becomes.

          “Remember Harry Edwards?  He developed his gifts to a huge degree, where he became internationally known over a period of forty years from his Healing Sanctuary at Burrows Lea, Shere in the United Kingdom.

          “Where we have been given gifts to develop from the Spirit, it is our job or destiny to use them and often it is through our own experiences that we become aware of just how much we are able to do.

          “Know that every cloud does have a silver lining and that it is from them that miracles really do happen.”

Jenny and Michael Ayers

Saturday, 7^th July 2018