Archive for the ‘Enjoyment’ Category

Looking for a great banana bread recipe?

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

bananabread…then try this recipe from Watirose. I made it once again recently and it goes down a treat.

Ingre­di­ents:

100g organic but­ter, soft­ened
175g Wait­rose Organic New Zealand For­est Honey
2 organic eggs, beaten
2 large ripe organic Fair­trade bananas, roughly chopped
½ tsp organic ground cin­na­mon
225g organic self-raising flour
50g pack organic wal­nut pieces
50g pack organic Brazil nuts, roughly chopped

Method

1. Pre­heat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. Lightly grease a 1kg loaf tin and line the base and ends with a long strip of bak­ing parchment.

2. Place the but­ter, honey, eggs, bananas, cin­na­mon and flour in a food proces­sor and blend until smooth. Alter­na­tively, beat by hand with a wooden spoon. Add the nuts, and pulse or mix until just combined.

3. Pour the mix­ture into the pre­pared tin and smooth the top. Bake for 35–40 min­utes until a skewer inserted into the cen­tre of the loaf comes out clean, and the bread is golden and well risen. Allow the loaf to cool in the tin for 10 min­utes then turn out. Remove the bak­ing parch­ment and cut into slices. Deli­cious served warm or cold, spread with butter.

Meditation and Reiki group in Bath

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

If you have your Reiki I or higher and would like to attended a small Med­i­ta­tion and Reiki group in Bath please con­tact Liza Har­wood on 07889 880 415 or at reiki@lizaharwood.com

We meet once every 2 months on or close to New Moon.

Dates  for your diary: -
Mon­day Octo­ber 19
Wednes­day Decem­ber 16

Love your life this weekend (12/09/09)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Holis­tic Insights is once again inspir­ing you to change your life.

ONE DAY, 5 TALKS, ONE LIFE TO CHANGE

It’s at Bail­brook House Hotel, Bath, this Sat­ur­day the 12th of Sep­tem­ber 2009, 9:30am until 5pm.

More infor­ma­tion: http://www.holisticinsights.co.uk/events_love_life_roadshow_sept_09.htm

See you there!

A drama called ‘love’

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Eck­hart Tolle on Relationships:

True com­mu­ni­ca­tion is com­mu­nion — the real­i­sa­tion of one­ness, which is love. Usu­ally, this is quickly lost again, unless you are able to stay present enough to keep out the mind and its old pat­terns. As soon as the mind and mind iden­ti­fi­ca­tion return, you are no longer your­self but a men­tal images of your­self, and you start play­ing games and roles again to get your ego needs met. You are a human mind again, pre­tend­ing to be a human being, inter­act­ing with another mind, play­ing a drama called ‘love’.”

Eck­hart Tolle — The Power of Now (Page 156)

Does this make sense out of con­text?

Might our ability to handle stress be better if we know we’ve got that massage appointment booked?

Monday, August 10th, 2009

I’ve been mus­ing on some­thing inter­est­ing which has pre­vi­ously not occurred to me.

We know the effects of stress reduc­tion, dur­ing and post mas­sage, are mas­sive. But I never con­sid­ered what the psy­cho­log­i­cal effects of hav­ing an appoint­ment booked in the future might be i.e. pre mas­sage. Might the knowl­edge that our next mas­sage, being just around the cor­ner, help us to ‘cope’ bet­ter when stress lev­els are high for a period of time?

It’s like hav­ing that hol­i­day is in sight; it’s a lit­tle eas­ier to deal with every­thing that might be get­ting too much. I pro­pose the same to be true about hav­ing a mas­sage to look for­ward to.

If we are going through a stress­ful time, surely sub­con­sciously, or maybe even con­sciously, we are able too remain sane in the knowl­edge that, in a few days, we can just let it all drift away and feel the post mas­sage effects for the days to come?