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	<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on My Wolf Pup is Home by PRH</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.sandycristel.com/2008/07/06/my-wolf-pup-is-home/#comment-188</link>
		<dc:creator>PRH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very cute pics and a very neat name you gave him too!!!    ( you sound like a proud mamma and rightly so... ) :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very cute pics and a very neat name you gave him too!!!    ( you sound like a proud mamma and rightly so&#8230; ) <img src='http://www.blog.sandycristel.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>Comment on The New UK Trading Law by Rivkah (Mystical Healing)</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.sandycristel.com/2008/04/17/the-new-trading-law/#comment-173</link>
		<dc:creator>Rivkah (Mystical Healing)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just wanted to comment about this insane new law that's got the potential to trash those of us in this business who are legitimate.  I don't know that 80% of the people who claim to be psychics are fraudulent but certainly, there are many and they should be stopped.  

However, it's pretty much impossible to prove a negative. How do you prove that something didn't happen??  How can we prove we are NOT fraudulent?  I'm trying hard to remember the Law of Attraction and not put any fear into this situation because I wouldn't want to attract the thing I fear (i.e. being sued by some moron who pretends he/she is horribly upset by my reading or claims that I'm a fraud).

The law is so unfair.  Because of the nature of our work, we haven't got any paperwork or degrees behind us to verify our abilities.  That makes us easy prey, sitting ducks.  Yet solicitors, doctors, business people in general can stick it to people in a big way, despite their formal training, despite any codes of conduct that might be in place for specific professions and they get off with slaps on the wrist (if that).  

Currently, I'm involved in a couple of situations like that, trying to make professionals take responsibility for the very unprofessional way they've treated me but I'm not getting very far.  There is concern that vulnerable people are being exploited in our business, but I can tell you from too much personal experience that solicitors and other business people have taken advantage of me whilst I was in very vulnerable situations and they seem not to have to be made accountable for that.  I've lost a lot of money and have been terribly emotionally upset due to the nature of the particular issues, yet there is no consequence for those people.

And here I am, doing my best to listen to Spirit and be their conduit for a lot of hope and healing, being highly respectful of everyone who needs my help, and I am now supposed to live in fear of doing my job and having some idiot decide to rake me over the coals just because he can...

This world is getting more insane by the minute.  £4,000 being given to heroin addicts who have to go cold turkey in jail because it violates their human rights???  What about the rights of people they were violating to end up in jail in the first place?  Doesn't the government think these people will just get out of jail and do something to be put right back in for a while so they can get another £4,000 to spend on drugs when they get out again??

Professionals and business people in positions of authority and trust seem to have lots of protection but what about legitimate psychics and mediums??  I've had this gift since I was a child and have brought comfort and healing to many because of the messages that are passed along from Spirit.  No one has ever been hurt by those messages; they are always messages of love.  It's just not right that we should have to prove ourselves to be legitimate.  It's easier to prove a fraud is a fraud, but as I said, how do you prove something that isn't?  If it "isn't" - if it doesn't exist, there is no evidence of any kind!!

I will rely heavily on my belief that Spirit will guide and protect me, since they have led me to do this work and it is THEIR work, not mine - so if they want me to do it, they must keep me safe.  I will also rely on my belief about the Law of Attraction and I will keep seeing myself as being protected and unharmed by this ridiculous new law.

I hope that none of the legitimate psychics/mediums will be harmed in any way because of the new law.  Doing this work is an honour, very humbling, extremely important, and a labour of the purest kind of love.  There shouldn't be anything to tarnish it or bring fear into it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just wanted to comment about this insane new law that&#8217;s got the potential to trash those of us in this business who are legitimate.  I don&#8217;t know that 80% of the people who claim to be psychics are fraudulent but certainly, there are many and they should be stopped.  </p>
<p>However, it&#8217;s pretty much impossible to prove a negative. How do you prove that something didn&#8217;t happen??  How can we prove we are NOT fraudulent?  I&#8217;m trying hard to remember the Law of Attraction and not put any fear into this situation because I wouldn&#8217;t want to attract the thing I fear (i.e. being sued by some moron who pretends he/she is horribly upset by my reading or claims that I&#8217;m a fraud).</p>
<p>The law is so unfair.  Because of the nature of our work, we haven&#8217;t got any paperwork or degrees behind us to verify our abilities.  That makes us easy prey, sitting ducks.  Yet solicitors, doctors, business people in general can stick it to people in a big way, despite their formal training, despite any codes of conduct that might be in place for specific professions and they get off with slaps on the wrist (if that).  </p>
<p>Currently, I&#8217;m involved in a couple of situations like that, trying to make professionals take responsibility for the very unprofessional way they&#8217;ve treated me but I&#8217;m not getting very far.  There is concern that vulnerable people are being exploited in our business, but I can tell you from too much personal experience that solicitors and other business people have taken advantage of me whilst I was in very vulnerable situations and they seem not to have to be made accountable for that.  I&#8217;ve lost a lot of money and have been terribly emotionally upset due to the nature of the particular issues, yet there is no consequence for those people.</p>
<p>And here I am, doing my best to listen to Spirit and be their conduit for a lot of hope and healing, being highly respectful of everyone who needs my help, and I am now supposed to live in fear of doing my job and having some idiot decide to rake me over the coals just because he can&#8230;</p>
<p>This world is getting more insane by the minute.  £4,000 being given to heroin addicts who have to go cold turkey in jail because it violates their human rights???  What about the rights of people they were violating to end up in jail in the first place?  Doesn&#8217;t the government think these people will just get out of jail and do something to be put right back in for a while so they can get another £4,000 to spend on drugs when they get out again??</p>
<p>Professionals and business people in positions of authority and trust seem to have lots of protection but what about legitimate psychics and mediums??  I&#8217;ve had this gift since I was a child and have brought comfort and healing to many because of the messages that are passed along from Spirit.  No one has ever been hurt by those messages; they are always messages of love.  It&#8217;s just not right that we should have to prove ourselves to be legitimate.  It&#8217;s easier to prove a fraud is a fraud, but as I said, how do you prove something that isn&#8217;t?  If it &#8220;isn&#8217;t&#8221; - if it doesn&#8217;t exist, there is no evidence of any kind!!</p>
<p>I will rely heavily on my belief that Spirit will guide and protect me, since they have led me to do this work and it is THEIR work, not mine - so if they want me to do it, they must keep me safe.  I will also rely on my belief about the Law of Attraction and I will keep seeing myself as being protected and unharmed by this ridiculous new law.</p>
<p>I hope that none of the legitimate psychics/mediums will be harmed in any way because of the new law.  Doing this work is an honour, very humbling, extremely important, and a labour of the purest kind of love.  There shouldn&#8217;t be anything to tarnish it or bring fear into it.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Energy Is &#8230; by Greybeard</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.sandycristel.com/2008/04/16/energy-is/#comment-172</link>
		<dc:creator>Greybeard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Beautiful! Inspirational!

&lt;i&gt;We are energy and we are limited only by what we are.
What we do is the first step toward what we can be.&lt;/i&gt;

Your timing was perfect!

Thank you xxx</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beautiful! Inspirational!</p>
<p><i>We are energy and we are limited only by what we are.<br />
What we do is the first step toward what we can be.</i></p>
<p>Your timing was perfect!</p>
<p>Thank you xxx</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guilt Trips &#038; Psychic Vampires by Spookypig</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.sandycristel.com/2008/02/17/guilt-trips-psychic-vampires/#comment-59</link>
		<dc:creator>Spookypig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very good article Sands. I have a friend who I love dearly but it took me a while to realise she was Toxic. Most of the time she is supportive but every so often she seems to drip poison, casting doubt on who I am or what I do. I don't mean that she just plays Devil's Advocate rather than agreeing to everything I say or do but she seems to take great delight in turning something around into something bad. 

I've come to the conclusion that she does this whenever she wants to feel good about her self, or her situation. The only way she can do this is to make me or my situation look worse than it is. Then when I am down or upset about her pronouncements she then seems to revel in being the one who is 'there for me' or the one who 'really understands'. It isn't to make you feel better. It is done to make *them* feel better.

Now that I understand her I can stop her from being my Toxic Friend. I can prevent her from hurting me because I know what she is doing and why she is doing it. Because I have taken her 'power' away I can now enjoy her friendship on my terms.  As soon as she becomes too much I know I shall have to terminate the friendship, for my own sanity and well being. 

These decisions are hard but in the long run you have to accept that maybe the friendship has just run its course and hanging onto it will only sour it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very good article Sands. I have a friend who I love dearly but it took me a while to realise she was Toxic. Most of the time she is supportive but every so often she seems to drip poison, casting doubt on who I am or what I do. I don&#8217;t mean that she just plays Devil&#8217;s Advocate rather than agreeing to everything I say or do but she seems to take great delight in turning something around into something bad. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that she does this whenever she wants to feel good about her self, or her situation. The only way she can do this is to make me or my situation look worse than it is. Then when I am down or upset about her pronouncements she then seems to revel in being the one who is &#8216;there for me&#8217; or the one who &#8216;really understands&#8217;. It isn&#8217;t to make you feel better. It is done to make *them* feel better.</p>
<p>Now that I understand her I can stop her from being my Toxic Friend. I can prevent her from hurting me because I know what she is doing and why she is doing it. Because I have taken her &#8216;power&#8217; away I can now enjoy her friendship on my terms.  As soon as she becomes too much I know I shall have to terminate the friendship, for my own sanity and well being. </p>
<p>These decisions are hard but in the long run you have to accept that maybe the friendship has just run its course and hanging onto it will only sour it.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Updated Spiritual Area by Henry</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.sandycristel.com/2008/01/24/updated-spiritual-area/#comment-46</link>
		<dc:creator>Henry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>:)</description>
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		<title>Comment on Night Terrors Anyone? by Isabella</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.sandycristel.com/2008/02/08/night-terrors-anyone/#comment-45</link>
		<dc:creator>Isabella</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for the link to the book, I have experienced somethings such as you describe and it's reassuring to read of this and see that there is something that can be done.

Somethings can be brushed off as simply a bad dream, however, other things can not. Thanks you once again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for the link to the book, I have experienced somethings such as you describe and it&#8217;s reassuring to read of this and see that there is something that can be done.</p>
<p>Somethings can be brushed off as simply a bad dream, however, other things can not. Thanks you once again.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Darn Mercury .. by Sandy</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.sandycristel.com/2008/02/13/darn-mercury/#comment-44</link>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Jamie, thanks for coming by.  I felt really disconnected but I also have realised that this is doing me the power of good. I feel so grounded at the moment, I cannot remember the last time I felt so focused and on top of everything.  I am even raring to get back to my studies :).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Jamie, thanks for coming by.  I felt really disconnected but I also have realised that this is doing me the power of good. I feel so grounded at the moment, I cannot remember the last time I felt so focused and on top of everything.  I am even raring to get back to my studies :).</p>
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		<title>Comment on Darn Mercury .. by Jamie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I admit to have been feeling something of this effect the last few weeks. I just put it down to a seasonal thing, which I perhaps it is as energy changes flow on a regular basis?

Good to know it will change again soon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I admit to have been feeling something of this effect the last few weeks. I just put it down to a seasonal thing, which I perhaps it is as energy changes flow on a regular basis?</p>
<p>Good to know it will change again soon.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Left Brain? Right Brain? by Jamie</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.sandycristel.com/2008/02/10/left-brain-right-brian/#comment-42</link>
		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fascinating, after a while you can make it flip direction. Funnily enough when I came to it at first I had been concentrating on something and the direction corresponded with logical thinking.

After a while of relaxing and my mind becoming less logical I could change direction.

Something in the left brain / right brain theory after all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fascinating, after a while you can make it flip direction. Funnily enough when I came to it at first I had been concentrating on something and the direction corresponded with logical thinking.</p>
<p>After a while of relaxing and my mind becoming less logical I could change direction.</p>
<p>Something in the left brain / right brain theory after all.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Pushing the Limits by Seeker</title>
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		<dc:creator>Seeker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It's amazing that people just think healing is something you can do one after another all day long.

You did well in your healing, but good to see that you realise you have to limit how many people you treat at one time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s amazing that people just think healing is something you can do one after another all day long.</p>
<p>You did well in your healing, but good to see that you realise you have to limit how many people you treat at one time.</p>
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