| Recently, three other holistic therapist friends and I ran | | | | emphasis and focus, not with your eyes and hands. |
| a Holistic Health and Beauty Experience Day in our | | | | The world needs all of us to be our wonderful, glorious, |
| local town. Having met individually, we all realised that | | | | individual selves and no matter how many other |
| we complemented each other's services perfectly and | | | | people work in the same field there is always room |
| could better make local people aware of our presence | | | | and need for more. |
| if we worked together. | | | | I am still surprised by how I seem to know just the right |
| It is easy, in this time of financial challenge, to panic and | | | | piece of information for my clients, or how I have often |
| to want to protect your own interests at all costs. The | | | | shared similar experiences that give me the empathy |
| current external influences can really throw you off | | | | and understanding necessary to really heal and help |
| balance, wobble your confidence in yourself and tip | | | | them. At the same time, I have never been afraid of |
| you into jealousy or competitiveness with those around | | | | recommending a friend or other professional who I feel |
| you. I can really see the importance of the message in | | | | is more suited to a client's personality or need. Even |
| my article at the beginning of this year, when the | | | | when I've sometimes struggled with this concept, |
| Adjustment Tarot card urged us to take up some | | | | thinking I could use the income, I have never regretted it |
| form of meditation to "help us to find that inner source | | | | because that friend or professional has then referred |
| of peace which can hold us strong when we may find | | | | clients to me or brought me work in other ways. |
| ourselves in the middle of uncertain and disruptive | | | | I am convinced that we will make the best and |
| times". | | | | quickest progress by working together, supporting |
| If you have that secure sense of self and | | | | each other and asking how best we can serve our |
| centredness, then you do not feel threatened by the | | | | fellow men and women rather than ourselves. So |
| people around you and you have an innate awareness | | | | while it may be tempting to close in and adopt a |
| of your own purpose and place in the world. It is so | | | | self-defensive position in hard times, I encourage you |
| important to remember that we are all unique and | | | | instead to open out and consider networking with other |
| special, and that you don't need to be like someone | | | | like-minded people to promote whatever is dear to |
| else who may appear to be more successful - you | | | | your heart. I love this quote from American industrialist |
| just need to be you. Yes, there may be other people | | | | Henry Ford: |
| just down the road who do what you do; but not quite | | | | "If everyone is moving forward together, then success |
| in the same way as you, not with your particular | | | | takes care of itself. |