Friday, September 10th, 2010

Reiki II workshop in the UK. 24 September 2010.

Hi,

I’ll be back in the UK for one day!

Reiki II course in Worthing on 24 September 2010.

Price £125. 10am - 3pm

Please contact me for more information or booking. reiki@rebeccahutley.com

With Love

Rebecca

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Which box will you choose?

Well now, I know the Universe has a sense of humour as so often I find myself just looking up to the sky and saying, ‘this is very funny, very funny indeed’.  But, now it really is quite great.

In the search for freedom, nature, a spontaneous and connected lifestyle we find ourselves drawn to France.  Finally, we feel that we have found a place which suits us all and we are loving it.  Wide open spaces of verdant, lush countryside, beautiful stone houses…  We can see a future here, the school at Issac is great and we have found a gem of a place to live owned by lovely, helpful people.

What more could you ask?  So now we feel we ought to look into ways of making a living whilst we rent and set up a life here.  And we have now met the French tax system!  A system where you have to choose which box your profession sits and more or less stick to it.  At first glance, it would appear that we have walked straight into the lion’s den of restricted, non-spontaneous bureaucracy…

But, am I worried, no.  I am laughing at the perfection of it all.  I see the greatest gift in this and am marveling at the brilliance of it.  In having to restrict myself to only one profession, and as you know I am well known for carrying out 3 or 4 at any given time, I am going to have to practice the Buddhist art of ’single-pointed focus’!  For the first time in my life, I am going to have to choose ONE profession and not only that, I am going to have to stick to it, for very boring french fiscal reasons.

So, the journey continues and the best thing is, I know which box I’m going to choose and I’m also going to have to make it work…

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Camping Out!

We’ve been living in a tent and have now moved into the ‘luxury’ of a mobile home for a month, waiting for our house in the Domaine to come free at the beginning of October. 

I find the journey since we left Spain interesting for a few reasons.  Just before we left we had problems with our one way hire van and had to buy a trailer, leaving us without any spare money at all.  So, we found the nearest campsite to Issac where Jasmin would be starting school and set up our very basic tent, living out of the back of our car.  I think before I would have seen this situation as a problem and been quite depressed by the fact that I hadn’t been able to negotiate a smooth house move.  But, these days we see all this as just how it’s meant to be. 

Because of this situation, we have been living very close the earth which has grounded us and allowed us to really experience the environment we will be living in.  It has given us time and space away from telephones and internet to be in the natural rhythm of the day and well, when we moved into this mobile home with its own shower and toilet, we were in heaven!  We remembered that even living in this basic accommodation we are better off than most people in the world with sanitary conditions and enough food on our plates.  And as we live here without a tv and now the internet card has run out, we find ourselves doing the things we’ve been meaning to do but ‘didn’t have time’. 

So, instead of seeing it all as negative, I can feel that accepting what ‘is’ brings such a wonderful feeling of peace to your life.  The duality of positive and negative is a construct which the mind has been given and latches onto when situations arise.  But, really that’s all it is.  There is no situation that is ‘bad’, the acceptance of a situation and also a feeling or emotion that arises without judging it, holds a great prize within.  A chance to learn, grow, bring yourself (sometimes with a bang) into the present moment, which of course as we know is the only truth.  The past has gone and the future will only be a reflection of where you’re at ‘now’.  So, I continue to watch the stories in my mind which try to delude me and give thanks for where I am NOW…

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Life in the Dordogne begins…

Here I am sitting in a little mobile home on a campsite in the Dordogne.  It has been an interesting but eye-opening start as the journey from Southern Spain took off with a few false starts, as usual testing us all the way to our dreams…

We are waiting to move into The Domaine de Mazieras in an area of the world that I can only best describe as Home.  I think we may have finally found the little corner of Europe where we feel like staying.  Jasmin has started a small village school and the people so lovely she is taking the bus tomorrow morning as she feels totally safe.  This is all very interesting as we used to say it will never be France, we don’t like France, totally writing off a place with vast areas we actually knew nothing about.  Just shows how our minds and the stories we tell ourselves create our own reality. 

Luckily, we saw a property programme about the Dordogne, started working the magic on it and found the Domaine, ran out of other options and so that we didn’t have to sweat through another summer in Andalucia, we left.

We start living in a part of the main house while we wait for another part of the Domaine to become free for long term rental.  What an amazing place!  I really feel like my powers of manifestation have truly surpassed themselves this time.  Why is it though that although the Universe continues to support me at every turn I am now focused in on the small areas of life that are not quite complete?  This has been really interesting to me and I’ve noticed a few things.  When i’m not eating well, supporting my body and exercising and if I’ve been around people with unclear energy I quite quickly revert to this behaviour; totally oblivious of the wonders of my life and focusing on anything that is not complete or appears to be negative. 

So, I’ve spent the last few days cleaning up both physically and energetically, and reminding myself of how incredible the journey has been thus far.  Why, I asked myself if I have been supported this whole way would I not be now?  Then, I came up with the answer.  The Universe is waiting for me, so what is it that i’m not doing?

I think it is because I don’t believe fully in myself to be able to succeed doing what I feel in my heart I should be doing.  It doesn’t matter if this thought is only a small lingering one, if you haven’t dealt with it, it remains and gets in the way.  This negativity is bound up with old family ideas which don’t serve me anymore and so I’m going to do two things.  Work on my own ideas here with the energy, excitement and belief that I usually work on other peoples’ projects and let go of old patterns of laziness and diet.  I’ve been down this route before many a time and always jumped off the wagon at some point, but this time there’s too much at stake to do that. 

So, here’s to Awareness, but here’s also to ACTION.  As I learnt in NLP, we only make changes when the pain of carrying on in the same way is too great for us to bear.  The pain of not fulfilling a life path when you’ve gone so far and are so close I think is too great, so here I go…