FAQ Index
Frequently Asked Questions
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FAQ Index |
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Frequently Asked Questions |
The trouble with much of the self-help and mind-body-soul material available is that is seems to provide answers whilst in fact just filling our heads with yet more dubious facts and theories. In this series of FAQ and articles The Algarve Owl distills his life-time's quest for truth and offers some answers that are accessible to most. I hope the following are helpful:
Wisdom FAQ - how can we gain wisdom?
Healing Arts FAQ - what exactly is 'Healing Art?'
Algarve FAQ - information to help you enjoy your stay
Retreat FAQ - what Is a retreat? what makes a good one?
Healing and Healers - your questions answered
Divi FAQ - An introduction to divination
Mandala FAQ - what is a mandala and how are they used?
Angel FAQ - what are they? Are they amongst us? etc!
Meditation FAQ - what IS meditation & how do you do it?
Reiki FAQ - more than just a form a healing - a way of life?
Life FAQ - what IS the meaning of life!??!
How to choose the right therapist for you
Not quite a FAQ, but a useful piece on chakras: Nothing Really Matters
Summary
of our view and articles on EQ & Emotional Intelligence
(includes links to other EQ sites)
Below are a few other questions that don't belong in any of the above FAQ but which give a bit more background to my take on things in a way thats hopefully free from meaningless jargon:
You don't need to have your chakras done to re-balanced your energies. You don't need to learn some complex (or painful!) set of exercises to balance your muscles. You don't need to listen to a psychologist analyse your subconscious to restore mental balance. These things might help, but none of them on their own would be sufficient to make your life happy and pain-free.
What, in my experience, you do need to feel balanced, is to be able to listen to your body and higher self and to act accordingly: to get the right balance of work, rest and play; to find your personal balance (over the course of a day, week, month or year) between time alone, time with nature, time with family, time sharing with others generally, etc.
Whatever any book or therapist might say, feeling out of balance . . . and the unhappiness and illness that that causes . . . can only be corrected by getting our lives back into balance . . . in what we do and how we think. Anything else anybody else says is just . . . NAB.