The year is flying past and I have been busy organizing other social media for the business. I have created another blog space and am contemplating Facebook/myspace. I have created a ning forum for subscribers and will put that link up on the webpage soon. This will have articles of interest such as the Polarity diet and Reiki tips.
In the meantime, I have gone back to teaching at school, just 2 days a week and am teaching a mixture of Japanese and literacy. The units of work are MI/Inquiry based and for the Prep/One/Two’s will be Inquiry based units.
On Friday I start a Certificate IV in Business & Coaching, to help me organize the business side of things and from a practical point of view, learning about coaching, being coached and coming out with a qualification at the end.
This year I am going to add the photos that I took for my website but weren’t used. This flower is Love in the Mist or Nigella.

On the eve of the January new moon and the solar eclipse… it seems like December was an aeon ago. Not being a Christmas person, I got through it OK – a bit grumpy at times. Enough said about it here.
New Year’s Eve in Melbourne was treated to a spectactular night show by nature. Wind, lightening and thunder – better and louder than the fireworks!

Above is the Japanese for Bright Light – it means bright and promising future – a good omen for my business I am sure.
The logo of the yinyang is also significant.

• The Indigo colour to represent the Indigo children, who have a dark and light side
• Yin yang is also associated with reincarnation. Interestingly, I wasn’t aware of this meaning when I did my past life regression training.
• The main flower is a gardenia and the meaning is purity and joy – this represents purity of intention and joy in what I am doing. The flower came from my garden and smells exquisite.
• The small daisy also represents purity, loyalty, patience, simplicity and beauty.
• The reflection of the design draws attention to our shadow side and as the lower image fades into the greater space around, the image overall softens and yet retains a strong energy.

I applied for the school position and have had an automated email in reply, but no indication for an interview and no one at school to find out. The longer I am away from the school setting the less I feel like returning! As a consultant will be fine, but not the day to day stuff.
In the meantime, I have been busy writing course material, adding to my website and producing information packs for the workshops.
The new business cards have arrived and have already been sent out with some marketing material.
February sees the start of a Cert 4 in business – to take the Clinical Hypnotherapy and workshops to a new level.

A busy week again, and this end of the year tends to get really frantic.
The last few days have included a trip to Unity Church to hear a great singer and meet up with friends from the country and an invitation to go to Daylesford for an art exhibition.
I have been sorting out the semester’s work for the students to go into their portfolios and some have copious amounts for the six months. Others have not used their time so wisely……….
In between, there have been a couple of visits to the dentist, the optometrist in Queenscliffe, dinners, lunches and even time to go to the movies to see The Time Traveller’s Wife. I enjoyed the movie greatly and am sure the reviewer had a bad day.
The business website is starting to develop and I have moved on from the logo I found for my advertising at Curves and have developed my own. I have recorded one CD and had intentions to do another last week, but there was too much background noise to do it successfully.

Full moon tonight. Looks spectacular – and it’s a Gemini moon!
Last couple of days have been busy and I have been pushing through an incredible tiredness to complete the year.
School reports are finished and the realization today that there are only 2 more days left for me this year, left me a little bemused as to how fast the year has gone.

I have been offered another day a week at the school for next year, and may take that as a short term contract. It has been great to feel like I am free to walk away if it wasn’t working and each week I have joked with the principal that “I might come back next week!”
What a difference in atmosphere to my last school.
I met a former colleague at the supermarket on Sunday and the conversation with her was awkward to say the least. Confirmed that leaving that school was the best thing to do.

Getting busy with referrals for Hypnotherapy. In the past couple of weeks, I have worked on a variety of issues with clients, from insomnia, study related issues and a couple of past life regressions. I now have a room away from home on a Monday afternoon at an Osteopathic clinic.
In between, there has been a family wedding in Brisbane which was a lot of fun. Great weather and went for some walks along the riverside each day.
The one day a week at the primary school is working out well, and the students have really responded to working with Multiple Intelligences in Japanese. Lots of cross curricular activities with a focus on Japan, both the language and culture. At the moment there are the reports to write, but so much simpler than in past years and I have nearly finished them before the December 4 deadline.

The website is still under construction and although I fell in love with the graphic from the previous post, today the decision was made to move right away from that and to simplify the site- hopefully using a photo from one of my outback trips for the header.

I spent the weekend taking photos of flowers to include in our own version of the graphic and will now use them in a series of cards and calendars for next year.

Lots been happening in the background since the last posting.
Since graduation from the Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy, I have been fortunate to have an increase in clients. Slow but steady……
Other projects have been constructing the IACT Australia info and forum site which was fun to do. Eventually there will be more Australian members, so it should start to run itself.
Another project is my own website, which is currently under construction. When it is finished I will link to it.
There was a successful evening at Curves in Wheelers Hill for a fundraising evening in support of breast cancer. I offered 10 minute Reiki sessions and was booked out for the night.
More study was undertaken and I attended a residential weekend training on Past Life Regression held by Pete Smith and Rick Morse from the ATP. We were treated to a fabulous weekend of hands on learning and therapy and a special preview of the movie “Belladonna” all about past lives/loves. We got to meet the director, writer and her husband the cinematographer the next evening.
So now I have added Past Life Regression to my bag of tools. I have done one on a friend and to get the international certification will have to do five case studies. That should be interesting as well..
Monday afternoons will see me in a room away from home. I do love the home clinic room, but the dog is problematic as he will often whine on the other side of the closed door. I’m also conscious of the fact that not all people like animals and he enthusiastically greets everyone at the front door! So it’s off to a room at an osteopathic clinic and will see how that goes. Now I really have to get serious to pay the rent!!
Wednesdays I am teaching in a play based program for P,1 & 2 and a strong MI influenced LOTE program (which I have written) at Croydon West Primary School. Lovely students and they will try anything – one Year 1 boy successfully constructed an origami tetrahedron by copying what I was doing.
Today I was off to the bank to finally open a business account. The bank insists that I needed a business name even though the government business site shows that as a sole trader I don’t. So today my business name was born…..BrightLight Specialized Education

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
Kahlil Gibran

On one, I want you to do one thing: Look up.

On two, do two things:

Slowly close your eyes and take a deep breath.

On three, do three things:

Breathe out, relax your eyes, and let your body float.

Imagine you are floating in a bath, a lake, a hot tub, or just floating in space.

Each breath is getting

deeper and easier . . .

Use the link to read the research about hypnosis….

LOGOS

I am the word, the way, the light,
I am the morning, the noon and the night,
I am the Alpha, the beginning of all.
I am the path, the Nothing you seek.

I am the Omega, the Ending, be meek.
I am the truth for all to see.
I am the love fulfilling your need.
I am the freedom, from fear in your mind.

I am the rock on which you can climb.
I am the cloak that protects you all.
I am the cross. On me you can call.
I am the answer to all of your prayers.

I am the power, of love, curing ills.
I am the will of the innocent child.
I am the peace in your everyday trials.
I am the freedom from conflict, affliction and death.

I am the love that is. Let me be your breath.
I am the love, unconditional and forgiving.
I am the Love. Let me reign in you.
I am

Peace