Healing Touch Galway

13/05/2026

Listen to your Heart ❤️, it knows 🙏

10/05/2026

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Hawthorn or Sceach Gheal begins to flower around Bealtaine and was one of the most respected trees in old Irish tradition.

Not because people were “superstitious” in the modern sense, but because the tree stood at the meeting point between nature, survival, folklore and spirituality.

Hawthorn often grows at boundaries; between fields, paths, hills and old roads. In early Irish life, boundaries mattered. They were places of transition and change. The tree became associated with these liminal spaces and with what people later called the “otherworld”.

Many lone hawthorns were deliberately left untouched even when surrounding land was cleared. Cutting one down was seen as deeply unlucky because certain places in the landscape were understood to carry presence, memory and spiritual consequence.

This is part of the indigenous Irish worldview.

The land was not empty.
It was alive.

Trees, rivers, stones, animals and seasons were part of a wider living system that people depended on and respected.

Hawthorn also held practical importance. It created natural boundaries, sheltered wildlife and provided medicine through its leaves, flowers and berries.

Spirituality and survival were never separated in early Ireland.

Even today, many lone hawthorn trees are still left standing in fields and along roadsides. The deeper meaning behind the tradition may have faded, but the respect itself remains.

Over time, indigenous European ways of seeing the world were replaced or marginalised by the spread of Abrahamic religions such as Christianity and Islam. Yet traces of the older relationship with the land still survive in Irish folklore, custom and the landscape itself.

Our native plants, wildlife, language and indigenous traditions all belong to the same inheritance. They are part of the identity of this island and should be protected, respected and remembered.

In a world increasingly disconnected from nature, places like this remind us of something older; a relationship with the land based not on domination, but respect.

Go and notice the hawthorn now while it blooms.

It is one of the oldest living symbols of the Irish landscape still standing.

30/04/2026

28/04/2026

Small steps lead to big changes 💜

20/04/2026

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16/04/2026

Vitamin Sea before work.
Nothing like it 💙

14/04/2026

The brain does not know the difference between thoughts and reality, so when we are replaying negative situations over in our head the brain thinks it's happening in real time and the body responds accordingly. So create the internal observer and watch the quality of your thoughts.

02/04/2026

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31/03/2026

May you recognize in your life the presence,
power, and light of your soul.

May you realize that you are never alone,
that your soul in its brightness and belonging
connects you intimately with the rhythm of
the universe.

May you have respect for your individuality
and difference.

May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique,
that you have a special destiny here,
that behind the façade of your life,
there is something beautiful and eternal happening.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the blessing, 'For Solitude,' from his books:
Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Kerry, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

31/03/2026

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