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08/10/2023

14/04/2022

How I resonate with this...living passionately from the heart, driven by purpose & the love & pleasure of what I do, however simple, is the way I find happiness & contentment in life. Anytime I feel "off" it serves as a good indicator that I'm out of alignment with who I really am.

I'm happier, more creative, connected and alive when I'm flowing with life rather than against it; when I remember to embrace the gifts of this life; this body, my vehicle through life; this mind, my navigator; this body-mind creating the opportunity to experience every moment, some challenging others peaceful but all opportunities to learn, discover, explore our truth.

I find I'm at my best when I embrace simplicity... moving my body- yoga, dance, walking; expressing myself- conversationally, writing, the way I dress myself & my home; connections with others sharing honest conversations; time in nature; feeling my feet on the earth; creating food (preferably to share with others); reading; learning new things....

How great would it be if we could all do at least one thing today that we love to do; bless life with ourselves and ourselves with life?

Wishing everyone a magnificent day!

29/03/2022

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs

26/03/2022

The speech Charlie Chaplin gave on his 70th birthday.

As I Began to Love Myself

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.

Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY.”

As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody. As I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me.

Today I call it “RESPECT.”

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow.

Today I call it “Maturity,”

As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time,
and everything happens at the exactly right moment.
So I could be calm.

Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE.”

As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time,
and I stopped designing huge projects for the future.
Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm.

Today I call it “SIMPLICITY.”

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health— food, people, things, situations, and everything the drew me down and away from myself.
At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism.

Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF,”

As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right,
and ever since I was wrong less of the time.

Today I discovered that is “MODESTY.”

As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worry about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where EVERYTHING is happening.

Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT,”

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally.

Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART.”

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born.

Today I know THAT IS “LIFE”!

22/03/2022

How wealthy would you like to be?

When you choose to create the right circumstances to gradually let go of acquired toxicity and what is no longer needed in the body- mind whilst continually supply the natural raw ingredients that are essential for optimal physical, mental and emotional health, magic happens and true authentic wealth is a real possibility.

As the body- mind releases what it no longer needs, acquires what it truly needs, healing and optimal functionality will follow creating an optimal internal and external environment that supports you in being the healthiest and happiest you can be and to truly thrive in life.

coaching nutrition -tox living and wellness coaching classes ones to ones workshops with Kirsty

06/03/2022

Being authentically yourself is the greatest gift you can give to yourself and to the world x

19/02/2022

A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they'd be asked the "half empty or half full" question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: "How heavy is this glass of water?"

Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.

She replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn't change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes." She continued, "The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything."

It’s important to remember to let go of your stresses. As early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down. Don't carry them through the evening and into the night. Remember to put the glass down!

If you need help learning to put your burdens to one side drop me a line. I can help you alleviate your worries.

Have an amazing day x

15/02/2022

Do you get enough sleep?

Sleeping well directly affects your mental and physical health and the quality of your waking life. Not getting enough sleep can deplete your daytime energy, productivity, emotional balance, and even affect your weight.

Eating the right food and eating at the right times throughout the day can mean the difference between a good night sleep and a disturbed nights sleep. Eat right!

Taking exercise creates better sleep. You can use a daily yoga practice to help with flexibility, alleviate aches and pains, reduce anxiety and promote relaxation inducing a deeper, peaceful, restful sleep.

Learn how to relax. Create opportunities to give your mind and body time to wind down and prepare for sleep.

Develop relaxation techniques like breath work, meditation, gentle yoga, guided relaxations or journalling.

If you have emotional residue that occupys your thoughts consider working with me to experience emotional release techniques to alleviate the issue.

I've helped many clients get a better night's sleep and improve their quality of life in many positive ways using a variety of powerful transformational techniques . Drop me a message if I can help you too!

Sleep well!

14/02/2022

Happy Valentines everyone.

01/02/2022

Beautiful Imbolc blessings... At this magical time of year the sun is getting brighter, the earth is getting warmer & life is quickening within the soil. The nourishing earth is pregnant with seeds of delicious new ideas, possibilities, hopes & dreams ready to burst forth. The time arrives to release old wounds & empty ourselves of negativity creating rich, fertile soil for wonderful new ideas & possibilities to take root. May your fertile mind be filled with possibility, illuminated with insight & inspiration & love & hope burn strongly in your heart...May the abundant seeds you plant now take root & flourish in the freshness & expansiveness of spring.

With love, light, inspiration & many, blessings K x

Kirsty Jackson
Transformational Therapist
Empowerment Coach
Health and Well- Being Facilitator

26/01/2022

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow”. – Melodie Beattie

Gratitude is a virtue or law that manifests gratefulness, appreciation, and thankfulness.

Gratitude and yoga go hand in hand, with each affecting the other. Both gratitude and yoga assist us in developing self awareness and mindfulness - each teaching us how to ease into the flow of life, rather than bumping up against life and losing sight of what we are thankful for, the abundance in each and every one of our lives.

Yoga and gratitude are mutually supportive of one another. Gratitude, because it's a way of looking at things and of deeply appreciating the full spectrum of life in each and every moment and yoga, because it develops mindfulness and awareness, our ability to embrace the present moment and respond to the full spectrum of life from the highest place within ourselves. Yoga is a practice that opens the gateway into the wellspring of gratitude that resides within you.
Both yoga and gratitude promote emotional and physical well being. It's as if both are nourishment for the soul working together to reduce stress and negative emotions allowing positive feelings and emotions to abound creating peace of mind, body and soul; good health generates itself; we become more vibrant and connected with the world around us, life is easier and our daily interactions flow. Because both gratitude and yoga support each other, practicing the two together will enhance the benefits of each one.

Practice points
Take a few moments now to reflect on what it is you feel gratitude for today. There are endless reasons to feel gratitude. This life itself is a gift that we have received. We can receive every small thing in life as a gift. When you take your plate to eat, see the plate as a gift. When you serve food on the plate, see the food as a gift. When you sit down on the chair to eat, see the chair as a gift. When you wash your hands after eating, see your fingers as a gift. Consider your family, your friends, your home, your job, and anything else you are grateful for, all are conducive to happiness and facilitation of your physical and emotional well-being.

Every morning as soon as you wake up, before getting out of bed, just try to feel deep gratitude for just being, for just living as a human being in this wonderful Existence. Similarly, every night before you go to sleep, bring in deep gratitude for just being. Feel it in your whole body and mind. Put all judgements aside and feel gratitude.

08/10/2021

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03/05/2021

I'm delighted to be a part of this incredible project!

As Ghandi said "Be the change that you want to see in the world"

The biggest most impactful difference that you will ever make in the world is that that you make in your in your inner world.

When we choose to develop our self awareness; we gain insight and understanding. Truth is revealed lifting the fog of our distorted perceptions of life, revealing what has been hidden. Self enquiry opens our hearts and minds to unlimited possibility expanding our constructive, creativity, moving us beyond mere concepts but to regeneration and empowerment which allows for a richer, more fulfilling, direct experience of reality and an authentic connected relationship with ourselves, with others and with all life.

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21/03/2021

Happy Spring Equinox! Ostara is a solar festival, the vernal equinox, one of two days in the year when day and night are of equal length. Perfect equilibrium, equal day and equal night. Spring has arrived and with it comes hope and warmth. Awakened from her long season of dormant sleep the earth begins to change. She awakens from her slumber and new life springs forth once more. Days will now lengthen, and light will triumph over the darkness of winter. The sap is beginning to flow, the trees are budding, the ground softening, seeds are beginning to sprout, animals are preparing to give birth, new life is starting to appear all around us. Everywhere the fragrance and colour of spring slowly awakens and rejuvenates our own life force. Spring presides over the realm of the conception and birth of new animal life and of the pollination, flowering and ripening of fruits. Sexual activity is the root of all of life and to honour this activity is to honour our most direct connection to nature.

We celebrate the life force, the exuberant expansion of spring, seeds are planted and stems and shoots break through the fertile earth, leaves unfurl, flowers bloom and the egg of creation hatches a living creation. A time of new beginnings. This time is a celebration of spring and growth, the renewal of life that appears on the earth after the winter.

Ostara is a time for sowing seeds, to ensure that there is a harvest in the autumn. this is a time for many of us to create new beginnings in our lives: this can apply to jobs, relationships, living situations, lifestyle choices. Perhaps a new haircut, new clothing, a new exercise program, the grand old tradition of spring cleaning, a new course of study: This is a very powerful time not only because of the balancing of the earth's energies but because of the way our own beings echo the earth's changes. We are literally reborn as we emerge from our winter sleep, ready to partake of all the pleasures of the earth and to meet the challenges we will face as the world changes around us daily. As we greet and celebrate the new season we remember that Spring is not only a season; it is a state of mind.
"The time of change is upon us again - the Equinox has passed the Wheel turns... The Wheel of the Year turns on and on, bringing us all to and from each Season and from and to another We stand, as ever, at a point on the wheel remembering that we begin each journey only when we are brought to our first step. What are your dreams? What seeds do you wish to plant?

Take a seed, imbue it with your hopes and dreams and plant it making a wonderful affirmation to yourself.

Bright springtime blessings!