Am I asking the right questions? Thought of the day - by Rev Graeme Owen

It has recently been brought to my attention that although we may try and remain on a path to health, self-improvement or spirituality, which in themselves often seem like full time jobs, how do we know if we're on the right track or doing the right thing?

We may know what to do and we may even be doing it but how can we tell if it's actually working? The solution is often simply to ask yourself better questions, you don't need to know the answers. Just asking the right question will often prompt the answer itself!

The question to ask is simply 'Am I getting better?'
This will force you to analyse whatever it is you are doing and see if it's working. Is your health better than it was? If so, you must be doing something right. There may still be more to do but you're probably heading in the right direction.

Is your spiritual practice fulfilling you and is your life improving? Do you feel better, more calm and relaxed? If you can answer yes to these, then something is working for you. If it is not, then start to make small changes over time, until your life/health/relationships improve. It's usually the questions we need to get right and then the answer usually presents itself!

Graeme Owen
(Sarah and Graeme run the School of Conscious Co-Creation together, training non-religious ministers and spiritual teachers).

My amazing journey into wellness with Louise Hay

Zephoriums Inspirational Women: Lousie Hay

I love the world of complementary medicine. When I started out 20 years ago, we were the odd ‘specs of light’ standing up in a culture that was not best pleased at our outspoken views on healing and health! Even asking my friends for a camomile tea would invoke peals of laughter and being teased about my “weird taste in drinks”.

Now of course everywhere you go, therapists are running workshops and training schools are sprouting up like seedlings on a sunny windowsill after a dark and hard winter. Even camomile tea is available in the most remote tea shops these days!

I love the imagination and thought that is going into all these courses and ‘bow’ before all the people busy doing their particular thing. These days there are books on everything! When I started, Louise Hay was the sole voice in a very empty mind/body/spirit section of the local book store. I am grateful beyond words for her book ‘You can heal your life’ published in 1984 which started my amazing journey into wellness and turned my life around from pain and struggle into happiness and fun.  She has sold 30 million copies and I love to think of her as a clear messenger from ‘Source’ to all of us souls who came here to make a difference.

There are many people who wake us up on our life journey and she is an amazing woman who ignited the memory within so many of us. Thanks Louise!

http://www.louisehay.com/