Post by Ali (Admin) on Aug 17, 2017 14:03:35 GMT
Hello All,
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I thought it would be appropriate to write a little bit about myself for those of you who don't know me.
My name is Alison Wylie, my friends call me Ali. I live in a small town in Italy. Born and brought up in a quiet village in Hertfordshire, I graduated from a south coast college with a Management Degree. After a postgraduate course in the north of England I found employment in Leisure Management. Good job, good money, suit and briefcase it seemed that my life was mapped out....... and that was the problem.
One day I walked into a bank and the bank clerk tried to persuade me that a mortgage would be a good idea. She insisted that I would have it all paid off in 40 years.
This was one of those moments where I had to choose....... the 40 years
or the unknown. I chose the unknown, dumped the suit and the briefcase and cycled off into the sunset.
Fnding your path in life is not always easy and sometimes you have to experience what you don't want in order to discover what you do. After some time discovering, I uncovered a dormant skill... teaching, and after an intensive course in teaching English, I set off into the unknown on a path of discovery.
After few years I began teaching in Italy. A new language, a husband, 2 kids and a dog later another dormant skill came to the surface that of having conscious out-of-body experiences. I was studying my dreams and practicing lucid dreaming when one night I found myself floating above my body.
It needs courage to move to a foreign country I didn't know the language at the time, looking back really I don't know how I managed it without going crazy. In a way it was preparation for what was to come in my inner life, facing my shadows through dreams and out-of-body experiences, again I needed a lot of courage.
My inner life, through meditation,
dreams and out-of-body experiences, has taught me the importance of physical life, to give it our all, never give up, to give it our best shot.
I have learnt that we are guided through life, though many do not realise it, we receive signs and help if we only know how to tune in to our inner guidance system. My OBEs have taught me so much, now I wish to help others so they may live happy and fulfilling lives in mind, body and spirit.
I've been pretty healthy throughout my life so far though as I get older every now and again some pain somewhere shouts at me with a message to change something in my life. I see pain as a message from my body telling me that something needs to be done on a mental, physical or spiritual level, or on all three levels. I have solved many of those niggling health issues with looking deeper into the reason I could be experiencing it. As well as asking the universe to show me the way to cure, and then taking the advice the universe sends me via signs and synchronicities.
I run a podcast in which I help people in becoming totally fit in mind, body and spirit. I started this project as I started to put on weight a few years ago and I didn't like my reflection in the mirror. I was moving up to 50 and well everything seemed to be changing. Drastic measures were needed I started swimming about 5/6 times a week, the first time was very sad I only managed 20 lengths but with consistency and dedication a year later I could manage 100 lengths in an hour.
You can access my podcast 'Connecting the Bits' HERE.
Sometimes it is difficult to get motivated getting into a cold pool in winter is not something I look forward to but I know I will feel good afterwards and it does me good. I'm good at forcing myself to do things. This past year I have been doing Reiki courses in Rome, I never thought I'd have to courage to do that either, it all being in Italian, never easy expressing yourself in a foreign language but I managed that too. 'Feel the fear and do it anyway' as the saying goes!
I started yoga last year and this summer joined the gym as the pool closed for a month in August, I feel so much better when I exercise
" even if sometimes I have to drag myself there.
I live with my mother-in-law who has severe dementia, physically she was very fit up until a year or so ago, now she spends most of the day in an armchair, if only she had kept her mind in trim she would have been able to enjoy her grandchildren growing up. It is very sad and I'm convinced that if she had been more present in life after her husband died things would have been very different.
I want to live long but I want to live well and keeping fit in mind, body and spirit is very important. It is no good just focusing on one area we need to be conscious that a holistic approach to health is the only way. Total fitness leads to healing.
So welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy being here, if you need to know anything just ask.
" I thought it would be appropriate to write a little bit about myself for those of you who don't know me.
My name is Alison Wylie, my friends call me Ali. I live in a small town in Italy. Born and brought up in a quiet village in Hertfordshire, I graduated from a south coast college with a Management Degree. After a postgraduate course in the north of England I found employment in Leisure Management. Good job, good money, suit and briefcase it seemed that my life was mapped out....... and that was the problem.
One day I walked into a bank and the bank clerk tried to persuade me that a mortgage would be a good idea. She insisted that I would have it all paid off in 40 years.
This was one of those moments where I had to choose....... the 40 years
or the unknown. I chose the unknown, dumped the suit and the briefcase and cycled off into the sunset. Fnding your path in life is not always easy and sometimes you have to experience what you don't want in order to discover what you do. After some time discovering, I uncovered a dormant skill... teaching, and after an intensive course in teaching English, I set off into the unknown on a path of discovery.
After few years I began teaching in Italy. A new language, a husband, 2 kids and a dog later another dormant skill came to the surface that of having conscious out-of-body experiences. I was studying my dreams and practicing lucid dreaming when one night I found myself floating above my body.
It needs courage to move to a foreign country I didn't know the language at the time, looking back really I don't know how I managed it without going crazy. In a way it was preparation for what was to come in my inner life, facing my shadows through dreams and out-of-body experiences, again I needed a lot of courage.
My inner life, through meditation,
dreams and out-of-body experiences, has taught me the importance of physical life, to give it our all, never give up, to give it our best shot.I have learnt that we are guided through life, though many do not realise it, we receive signs and help if we only know how to tune in to our inner guidance system. My OBEs have taught me so much, now I wish to help others so they may live happy and fulfilling lives in mind, body and spirit.
I've been pretty healthy throughout my life so far though as I get older every now and again some pain somewhere shouts at me with a message to change something in my life. I see pain as a message from my body telling me that something needs to be done on a mental, physical or spiritual level, or on all three levels. I have solved many of those niggling health issues with looking deeper into the reason I could be experiencing it. As well as asking the universe to show me the way to cure, and then taking the advice the universe sends me via signs and synchronicities.
I run a podcast in which I help people in becoming totally fit in mind, body and spirit. I started this project as I started to put on weight a few years ago and I didn't like my reflection in the mirror. I was moving up to 50 and well everything seemed to be changing. Drastic measures were needed I started swimming about 5/6 times a week, the first time was very sad I only managed 20 lengths but with consistency and dedication a year later I could manage 100 lengths in an hour.
You can access my podcast 'Connecting the Bits' HERE.
Sometimes it is difficult to get motivated getting into a cold pool in winter is not something I look forward to but I know I will feel good afterwards and it does me good. I'm good at forcing myself to do things. This past year I have been doing Reiki courses in Rome, I never thought I'd have to courage to do that either, it all being in Italian, never easy expressing yourself in a foreign language but I managed that too. 'Feel the fear and do it anyway' as the saying goes!
I started yoga last year and this summer joined the gym as the pool closed for a month in August, I feel so much better when I exercise
" even if sometimes I have to drag myself there. I live with my mother-in-law who has severe dementia, physically she was very fit up until a year or so ago, now she spends most of the day in an armchair, if only she had kept her mind in trim she would have been able to enjoy her grandchildren growing up. It is very sad and I'm convinced that if she had been more present in life after her husband died things would have been very different.
I want to live long but I want to live well and keeping fit in mind, body and spirit is very important. It is no good just focusing on one area we need to be conscious that a holistic approach to health is the only way. Total fitness leads to healing.
“When the mind, body, and spirit work as one, anything is possible.” ― Criss Angel.
So welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy being here, if you need to know anything just ask.