I live quite close to a forest that is special in some way. I take a walk once every couple of days. Last tuesday it was raining so bad that I was humming and hawing about going for the daily walk. So I decided to go for the walk. Grabbed my wet gear and wellingtons and left for a fresh air for an hour. At the entrance of the forest I stop and ask the fairies, spirits and guardian of the forests it ok to walk . I get a big yes it is fine to walk threw the forest. This fog comes out of now where and makes it very interesting and mystical to walk throughout the forest. Once I get to a certain point where your sounded by trees. This is when the magic begins. I stop to hear the wind gallop around the trees. The fairies are dancing, trees creek and the leaves sway with amusement. Than I start to continue my walk and I talk to spirits and guardian of the forest about things that are bothering me or to help me grow as individual. While all this is happening rain lightens of a tiny bit. At this time of the year I would find certain animals either lost or dumped. I come across this spirited horse who looks like he been around for awhile. I start chatting to him to see if he is ok. Reapplies with yes everything is grand, there is food water and some seller. So I turn around and start walking back the way I had came because I didn’t want to push the same way he had came and also the horse look comfortable. On my way home I feel so wet. That it feels like soul also received a bath. I arrive home feeling on top of the world and the cobwebs wished out of my hair. Spiritually blessed of taking that walk. I go up and open the animal spirit book because I believe that the animals we see are an indication of where we are at in that moment of time. The horse means you are going on a spiritual trip, freedom and spirited. I read it and and thank the people who look after me in the spiritual world or my guides, guardians and gurus. These messages come to use in order to shake up or lives and make us aware of the other elements of life par spirituality.

Tomorrow is the last day of 2013. The washing machine cycle is slowing down to finish 2013. After tomorrow another cycle on the washing machine will begin. That cycle will be 2014. Another 12 months of something new. As I look back on my own events that happened this year I am glad to have experience all that happened So 2014 is on it way to greet us. I wonder what is n store for use on a individual and worldy scale. When I say world scale I mean where will the ride bring us. If you sit on the fence nothing happens. If you ride the bull with logic things will happen. We choose choices which shape our lives. Ye we have ideas and things to do, create, finish and what ever that idea is follow it. When we follow something that gives us inspiration it makes us get out of bed with hop skip and jump. If live is short why do we put things off or say “oh i’ll do them tomorrow”. Life is discipline. Without discipline we become lazy and only do that project for some period of time and than get board and start something new or wait a few days and do that again. You may think I am rambling of the point but this also fits in with the year that is ahead of us. Energetically all of 2013 has been the clean the gutter or blocked drains. In the chinese calendar it was the snake and shedding old skin, ideas, characteristics of us we don’t like and so on. @014 will be the year of the horse. Which will be very interesting watch this space. I wish everybody who reads this blog. Thank you for reading it means a lot to me. I wish everybody a lovely, happy and magnificent year to come.

Today we are preparing for Christmas day which is tomorrow. As families are busy in preparing food for dinner and the next day.Getting presents for friends, family and co workers. For some people it might be eating and sharing stories with family and friends. Other people might be remembering loved one who pasted away during this time. We forget the people who are homeless for some reason. A few years ago I attend a monastery for Christmas period. I was shown the other side of Christmas. I was shown the spiritual message of Chirstmas than the commercial. In celebrating christmas it is a balance of the true message of Christmas and commercial side. Not everybody lives in a monastery or Ashram where the outside world is closed up and you pray and meditate. That world maybe for somebody who has asked for it on there soul plan. This day 2,0000 years Holy Mary and in Jerusalem looking for some place to stay for the night. They tried all the inns and wasn’t excepted. Mary prayed for some where to stay and her prayer was answered. They found this stables and asked could we stay here and the owner said yes you can. The next day Jesus Christ was born . Once every year we celebrate Christmas to remind us about jesus birth.

Massage is a therapy that that focuses on physical touch to unlock tension and nots to help the body re be in its neutral state. Before the wastage became the word we assoicate with this therapy. Threw out the historical time of massage different cultures have called different names. The names in various languages hold the core techquines of modern day massage. Here is some examples of the word massage in different languages The arabic word: Mass “to touch or feel”, French word massed means “to rub”, Greek word Massein means “to need”and the Latin word means mass means “that forms a lump or not”. In the eastern part of the world is where all these amazing therapies came from. In 3,000 BC in China there was this massage created called amma is the meaning of push or pull. This amma massage technique objective was to create homeostasis balance of energy in the clients body to reave stress, feel better health and to focus on a particular issue that the client would be troubling them. In 1,000 BC the Japanese Zen monks were studying chinese Buddhism and observed traditional Chinese medicine and the healing techniques. They brought this knowledge back to japan. When going threw the Amma massage method they took the exact pressure points and created their own massage called Shiatsu. The word shiatsu means trigger pressure.and applying the correct pressure to body. The benefits of getting this treatment in the modern day and ancient japan was to increase general health, heart, blood and cell growth. In India massage plays a huge role in its culture. In indian scripture have been intertwined with the traditiional Aryuveda medicine. It dates back around 3,000 B.C. Aryuveda is a word that comes from a ancient indian language called Sanskrit. The meaning of this word is they the treating the knowledge of life. In the ancient India they would have all this knowledge written in books called the vedas. The vedas were the art of healing and told people everything to know. In ancient Greece they designed a massage as a form of excise and fitness for the athletes body in its best shape possible. Herodicus was a physican and teacher of Hippocrates wrote a book in the 5th century. The book was based on the benefits of massage. During the 5th century Hippocrates was known as the father of medicine and wanted all doctors to be trained in massage. At this time in history the Romans had control of a lot nations and learned their knowledge and applied it to them. Rome conquered Greece and took their teachings back to Italy. When the Romen Empire was at its strongest Galen was a phyiscian and used massage to help people with either injuries or dieases. He also wrote a clater of medical books about how vital the usage of massage is. JuJulious Cesar becomes next Roman Empiror has neuralgia so he goes and gets daily massage. Roman baths were a place to get washed and was also a place of all social activity happened. Massage is a ritual after you get your bath, giving important speeches, slaves going to Gladiator fights. The benefits that they would receive from the massage better concentration, stronger mucles and cirrcuitry of blood. The Native Americans also preformed massage there angle was applying heat and herbs. Today we use oils to apply into the skin of the client. At that time the herbs were the oils to relax, help the body mend and get rid of problems. Before hunting or battle the Navaho and Cherokee would rub in the herbs into their skin and also if they come home after hunting or battle. The women would use both herbs and massage to help the ease of pregrancy. Other tribees around world also used these methods but in a different approach. Per Henrik Ling was a physiologist and and fenncing. While living in Sweden and influenece massage in which was named Swiddish massage. Between the 18th and 195h century Ling traveled and studied in China. He found system of moves that increased his own health and physical stamina. Lings work noticed by his own country. The Swedish government esblished a Royal Swedish Institute in 1813. Slowly Lings work became recognised around the world. Also Ling was the president of the insitatute. A year before Ling died the Royal Swedish institute opened in London. Now they are all over the world. In many traditions from the history of massage infuse them into your modern daily lives. A bath with oils is from the Roman, Native Americans. Athletes go in every coupled of months to get the nots taken out like in Greece. It is slowly becoming where all medical professions will have massage as part of their profession. In America I went to a rehab centre where they had massage, chiropractor, GP and many other therapies under one roof working together to get the client the best care possible. A phisotherapist job is get all body parts singing in one big orcrastra.