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As a mum of two small children says Meriaed, I&apos;m always reading stories about fairies and mystical tales about make-believe creatures to my little ones - but in my own mind, I&apos;m still not so sure about fairies being mythical. 

A referral for a psychological assessment was made too but nobody could find anything wrong with her and they put it down to an over active childhood imagination. To be perfectly honest, Meriaed doesn&apos;t blame her grandma for taking the steps she did, it must&apos;ve seemed really frightening and so over-the-top to see her beautiful little granddaughter in this state. Not long after the final incident, Meriaed&apos;s grandma decided to hire a gardener to tidy things up. The treehouse also went says Meriaed and I never had any more experiences like those I&apos;ve told you about.

My experiences were very real, if I had to say what I think these creatures were-in all honesty I would say fairies but who knows?

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It isn&apos;t very often you get a Tibetan Buddhist Monk dining at your home and giving teachings, but that&apos;s precisely what&apos;s been happening right here in Rochdale. Geshe Lama Tulku Ahbay Rinpoche isn&apos;t just any monk though, he&apos;s the reincarnation of a highly clairvoyant Tibetan Lama and also 3rd in line to

When he suggested coming to my flat last year how could I refuse? So a group of us came together and welcomed him for a great evening of teachings, food and blessings.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama. So what&apos;s he doing you might ask, coming to visit Julie Kelly &amp; a group of friends in the 7 sisters? Well explains Julie &quot;I&apos;ve been friends with Rinpoche for many years, he kindly wrote the foreword for my book A Death Worth Living For&quot; We first met when I began sponsoring the education of one of his monk students in India and our friendship has continued. Recently though, Ahbay Rinpoche has been traveling the world, delivering teachings on love, compassion, overcoming anger and all kinds of things that make the world a nicer place.

 What I can&apos;t believe, he wanted to come back and that&apos;s exactly what happened on the 29th of March😄 when our group came back together with a few extra people for a great evening and personal Medicine Buddha blessings.

Being Tibetan, Rinpoche is naturally inquisitive and loves nothing more than finding out about people and their lives, culture and beliefs. This is why he was over the moon to be bombarded with lots of questions about Tibetan Buddhism. As last nights experience proved, Rinpoche&apos;s way of answering questions is very much Tibetan style - &apos;direct&apos; something we Westerners often struggle with but if you ask a question you want an answer right? The thing is with Rinpoche, you never know quite what you&apos;re going to get. Last year was filled with chanting and mantra, but this year, was on a more personal level with great Tibetan Buddhist teachings and true to form - lots of laughter. Whatever we were expecting there&apos;s no escaping the fact that simply being in the presence of such a great teacher is both an honour &amp; a privilege. ---------------------------------------&gt; &gt; &gt;

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all really therapeutic outlets to calm and ease worries, increase positivity but most importantly, distract the mind from her pain. Julie says ..... &quot;I think art journaling can really build your confidence and be cathartic. My journals contain my own artwork &amp; and then I attach a decorated tag for people to add to and write on&quot;. It&apos;s all really great, I&apos;ve noticed a definite personal change and also watched troubled kids and teens grow and learn to express themselves. Applying her art in such a beneficial way, has inspired Julie to start up 1-1 sessions with children and also in schools - watch this space I&apos;m sure we&apos;ll be seeing much more of Julie.

Mini journals - perfect gifts for , weddings, baby showers, birth gifts, presents, travel journals , daily journals. Pockets to put notes , photos and memorabilia. £12 

To find out more about Julie&apos;s work, you can contact her at <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="http://Juliebunter@me.com">Juliebunter@me.com</a>

Most people would think you&apos;d gone bonkers if you said you believe in Faeries. That was exactly the case for Meriaed Williams

In today&apos;s inspirational story, Meriaed Williams mum of two from a small country village just outside Llandudno Wales explains what happened to her. Her story leave us wondering whether childhood curiosity and imagination can be so powerful it confuses and entangles reality with make believe or, whether some things are just plain unexplainable. Meriaed goes back to when she was seven years old in the garden she describes as like a &apos;mystical adventure&apos; to a child her age. The garden belonged to her grandmother where she would spend most of her time after school. It was overgrown with rhododendron trees, wild grasses and flowers but it was a fantastic adventure for a little girl my age recalls Meriaed. Before he died, Meriaed&apos;s grandpa built a small ramshackled tree house at the bottom of the garden where she would take her books and spend hours reading and drawing.

The Existence of Faeries - Meriaed Williams

As Meriaed explains: One evening at about 6 PM I was just coming down from my little hideaway when I heard rustling in the tree beneath me.

 &quot;The garden had lots of wildlife so I loved searching around for different types of animals and creatures but this time it was very different&quot;. 
As Meriaed looked closer she saw something glistening and moving between the branches and leaves - and as she continued, it became clear there were more of these shiny glittery things moving back and forth.

Soul Quiz - Test Your Knowledge on Spirituality Health Benefits of Journaling With Julie Walters Your Inspirational Stories - Meriaed Williams &amp; The Existence of Faeries Soul Quiz Answers - Let&apos;s See How You Did Ask Karina - Mystical Agony Aunt What&apos;s Going On? Getting Yourself Out There

HEALTH BENEFITS of JOURNALING Julie Waters

One of our group members and also a very dear friend Anne Fitton, mentioned during the evening how she&apos;d recited the Om Mani Pedme Hung Mantra since being a child on &amp; off. True to form, Rinpoche remembered this and presented her with the most beautiful Tibetan Thangka.

Anne Fitton Receives a Gift from Rinpoche

Rinpoche is currently in the process of building a monastery in India where young people who want to be one monks can go to live &amp; study the Dharma teachings. Many who want to become monks have escaped their motherland of Tibet which is now under the rule of Communist China and has been since 1959. Many of these young monks have experienced torture and persecution simply for wanting to follow Tibetan religion and speak their own mother tongue (Something now illegal in Tibet). Many have also spent long periods of time imprisoned for their unwaivered loyalty to his Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet. Most make the treacherous journey on foot across the Himalayan mountains to the safety of Nepal whether they are received for medical treatment etc. The monastery Rinpoche hopes to build, will have its own medical facility for this purpose and also several floors for the monks &amp; guests to live and study To raise money for his cause, Rinpoche has set up a little shop where he is selling Tibetan goods such as mala beads, Tibetan Thangkas, Alter bells etc. He&apos;s also accepting donations by Standing order.

You Can Contact Rinpoche@ <a href="http://arinpoche73@gmail.com">arinpoche73@gmail.com</a> To find out more on the Tibetan issue please see <a href="http://tibet.net/important-issues/issues-facing-tibet-today/">http://tibet.net/important-issues/issues-facing-tibet-today/</a>

HSBC Bank: Ahbay Rinpoche Monastery Fund Account Number: 91296426 Sort Code: 40-27-01

Dear Karina I wonder if you can help me. My cat is really sick I&apos;ve had her for nearly 8 years and I can&apos;t bear the thought of losing her. Is there anyone who can communicate with animals so I know the best thing to do for her? Deborah - Northamptonshire Dear Deborah I&apos;m so sorry your cat is poorly, it&apos;s horrible when we&apos;ve spent so many years with our pets then find we can&apos;t seem to help them in difficult times. It&apos;s so beautiful you&apos;re looking at an animal communicator to help with the problem. I&apos;ve found someone in your area Deborah who might be able to help. Please let me know how you progress with this and best wishes to you lovely cat. Karina <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="https://www.animaltelepathy.co.uk">https://www.animaltelepathy.co.uk </a>

I&apos;m assuming here you child is very gifted? I hope this helps you understand a little better. Best wishes Karina

Dear Karina. People keep saying my daughter is an indigo child but I haven&apos;t a clue what it is, please can you help? Lorna Frampton - Croydon Dear Lorna Thank you so much for your post let me see if I can clear things up for you. Indigo children, according to a pseudoscientific New Age concept, are children who are believed to possess special, unusual, and sometimes supernatural traits or abilities. The idea is based on concepts developed in the 1970s by someone called Nancy Ann Tappe and further developed by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober.

Dear Karina I&apos;m absolutely sure I&apos;m psychic but I have a problem. There are some test you can do online to test your psychic ability but I fail every time. Some of these tests ask you to guess the shape or guess what the artist is drawing etc. I can&apos;t even get more than 2 right, yet I often feel connections with people who&apos;ve passed over. Can you please advise me? Julie Ann Leach - Oldham Dear Julie Ann This is really quite common don&apos;t worry. There are different levels and areas of psychic ability. For example, someone might be very clairvoyant but not very good at tuning into other areas for example picking up things from objects. Just concentrate on developing the things you&apos;re comfortable with this is how you&apos;ll become confident in what you&apos;re doing. I hope this helps Best Wishes Karina

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This creature stopped me in my tracks, even as a little girl I remember being so taken by its beauty&quot;. But according to Meriaed a strange feeling overwhelmed her as she focusing on this beautiful creature. She suddenly felt open to all kinds of information and knowledge. For example, I instinctively knew at that moment, my aunt Christina who&apos;d been trying for a baby for so long was pregnant. Don&apos;t ask me how I knew, I just knew. &quot;This must sound like such a far-fetched story to anyone reading it I know, but I can only say what happened and this definitely happened to me.&quot; The vision&apos;s happened more and more over the next few months but it was really hard for her. The information was for other people around her and by all accounts it was accurate too, but how do you begin to say it came from a beautiful giant silver butterfly? This was Meriaed&apos;s dilemma. &quot;It&apos;s ridiculous I know she says, if it was me being given this information I&apos;d think it was bonkers too. Not long after the final incident, Meriaed&apos;s grandma decided to hire a gardener to tidy things up. The treehouse also went says Meriaed and I never had any more experiences like those I&apos;ve told you about. As a mum of two small children, I&apos;m always reading stories about fairies and mystical tales about make-believe creatures to my little ones - but in my own mind, I&apos;m still not so sure about fairies being mythical. My experiences were very real, if I had to say what I think these creatures were-in all honesty I would say fairies but who knows?

Recently I had the greatest honour of Rinpoche visiting my home to eat with us &amp; do a teaching for myself &amp; a small group of spiritually minded people

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As far back as she can remember, Julie&apos;s had a keen interest not only in art, but also in the mind of the artist. She started taking drawing lessons at 11 years old so this is really where it all started. It was around 20 yrs ago, that Julie began painting glass &amp; working with ceramics, some thing she says has always had personal therapeutic benefits. Over the years, Julie has expanded her artistic knowledge &amp; experience around the many different styles of art - something she attributes to the wonders of the internet. Another source of learning according to Julie is Pinterest, a social networking site fast increasing in popularity. Over the years however, Julie&apos;s been perfecting &amp; using her creative skills in the most incredible way in the form of Journaling. For many years, Julie has fostered children from vulnerable, difficult &amp; often abusive backgrounds.

&quot;One example of this explains Julie, is a teen I fostered some time ago. When she first arrived, she was a selective mute, but through art journaling, she was able to open up to me and most importantly to write down and process her thoughts. Another child, full of anger and hurt sat for five hours spilling out her heart into her book.&quot;

&quot;Once she had the materials in her hands, she used it as a mouthpiece to say what she couldn&apos;t vocalise. She loved mixed media and told me using it made her feel calm and less angry.&quot;

One of the ways in which she helps them feel comfortable and able to open up about their feelings, is through journaling.

According to Julie, she finds her artwork &amp; journaling extremely therapeutic on a personal level also. Living with the chronic pain and fatigue caused by Fibromyalgia, Julie often loses herself in her journaling - documenting her innermost thoughts and feelings alongside her gratitude for the good in life. Julie finds affirmations, drawing and doodling    -&gt; -&gt; -&gt; -&gt;

 Also if you could add I am hoping to do one to one sessions with children or classes.

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After about three or four minutes according to Meriaed, each one started to dim and disappear before her eyes. &quot; it was so strange, they were so fast but unbelievably shiny, so much they would dazzle my eyes &quot; if you can imagine tiny pieces of foil fastened to the branches of trees on a sunny day, this is what it was like-everywhere I looked my eyes were dazzled.&quot; Like any curious child, she was eager to go back the next day and see if it happened again but it didn&apos;t.

Meriaed recalls one particular time when the tree was absolutely full of them fluttering and rustling around. 

For weeks and weeks Meriaed waited just to see if the same thing would happen. &quot;It was like nothing I&apos;d seen before she told me, but at the same time, it was frustrating because when I told my grandma, she dismissed it as if my eyes were playing tricks on me.&quot;

Slowly the experience began to fade until one evening quite unexpectedly it happened again, but this time it affected me in the strangest way. They were all inside the tree once again glistening &amp; moving around so fast flicking this way and that. One however seemed less active than the rest, enough for me to get a real view of it. Like a large bright silver butterfly with really long antennae repeatedly folding back and forth across its wings. &quot;It was absolutely breathtaking&quot; says Meriaed, the most magnificent creature I&apos;ve ever seen in the garden but as I stared at it, a strange sensation came over me. Like nauseous and tired it was all really very odd. Suddenly 

Her grandma who was sitting in the garden at the time, was beckoned over by Meriaed who says, &quot;it was so important to me that someone else witnessed what I was looking at however, when my grandma looked she couldn&apos;t see anything. It was so frustrating, my health was declining, I was tired all the time and feeling really depressed. What can you do when nobody believes you yet you know what you&apos;re saying is true? This is when Meriaed&apos;s grandma decided she should perhaps seek some medical advice and so she took her to the doctor. They did all the necessary tests and asked loads of questions to see if I could remember my own name etc says Meriaed. A referral for a psychological assessment was made too but nobody could find anything wrong with her and they put it down to an over active childhood imagination.

To be perfectly honest, Meriaed doesn&apos;t blame her grandma for taking the steps she did, it must&apos;ve seemed really frightening and so over-the-top to see her beautiful little granddaughter in this state.

everything seemed so clear, it wasn&apos;t so much like a psychic experience but more a clear experience. 

It was like being in a place where everything is clear and unobstructed and where information is so understandable in the subconscious.&quot;


This is when Meriaed&apos;s grandma decided she should perhaps seek some medical advice and so she took her to the doctor. They did all the necessary tests and asked loads of questions to see if I could remember my own name etc says Meriaed. -------------------------------------------&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;

Dear Karina I wonder if you could help me with something. Ever since I was a small child I&apos;ve been able to communicate with someone who lives in our house. The person is what some would call a spirit. I&apos;ve seen him but nobody else has. My parents and family are very keen churchgoers and they&apos;ve been saying that they think I&apos;m possessed by the devil. What can I do? I don&apos;t want to separate from my parents, and I don&apos;t want to end up in hospital on medication because that&apos;s what my parents are saying that I need. They&apos;re saying I&apos;m having some kind of breakdown but I can see this person as clear as day. Glenda

Hi Glenda Thank you so much for posting in. This is quite a dilemma you have and it sounds quite frightening too. Is the person you&apos;re speaking to giving you any messages for any particular person? One of the things you could try if this is the case, is passing the message on so that you might be seen credible in relation to what you&apos;ve been saying to people. Another way that you could deal with this, is to find your local spiritualist church and go to speak to one of the mediums there. What&apos;s happening to you seems like quite a gift but of course not everyone will acknowledge this. My advice to you for now is to speak to people who may understand what&apos;s happening to you and not to your parents. This way you can prevent things turning messy. I hope my advice has helped. Best Wishes Karina -------------------&gt;

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