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  Photo by Kateryna Hliznitsova on Unsplash Like I said in the last post, I really appreciate the thoroughness of Krystle's approach - right from the start of the book, the reader is joining in, not just reading or recapping knowledge, but engaging with it - if the journalling and/or spell exercises are also done.  I'm as guilty as the next person of being an armchair reading witch.  But I'm going to do this book properly - interactively, even if it slows me right down.  Better to be slow and thorough and actually see what works, than cramming in information and then it having nothing to really hook into in my mind because I didn't back it up with actions and considered thought.  So, here are the next set of answers about the introductory section, where the reader is planning their magical wellness journey: mixing magical spirituality with nutrition, movement based practices, meditation and journalling. Ok, here we go - my answers... *** What do you consider to be the

   I really really like the work of Krystle L Jordan.  It seems like the most obvious idea to mix the goals of being more spiritual and magical with being more healthy - body, mind and soul - but I haven't found another witch author doing it in the way she does.  Its all very simple, very intuitive and very deliberate.  On her website, she also offers 2 courses, one about beginning to have a vegan kitchen witch practice , which is reassuringly thorough as Krystle is a qualified  nutritionist as well as a magical practitioner; and one about magical wellness in more depth .  I'm enrolled in both of these - they are very reasonably priced - but for the purposes of this blog, I'm only going to be referring to her book, The Witch's Guide to Wellness (Adams Media, 2022) , and working through the exercises, spells/rituals and suggestions there. (The links for the 2 courses may change as its Black Friday week as I write, so she has sales on; but if you click and they've cha

Photo by Conscious Design on Unsplash  ***   I had far more enjoyment with this meditation style.  It was hugely relaxing! I found a meditation on YouTube that would work for this week's theme, free - I used this one:  https://youtu.be/wGFog-OuFDM?feature=shared The idea of this one was to listen to the chime of a bell, just one chime, and listen as the sound continued, fading, to be replaced by the next one.  The idea of Western concentration pulled into a wider field of mental capacity by the silence after each chime, when you would concentrate on everything else you heard: the sounds of the house (or wherever you are, so few places are silent), would take over.  You would be giving them your attention too.  But the concentration in the silnce becomes different, wider and more all encompassing. Its like two different discplines in one meditation.  The initial laser-like concentration on the sound, followed by the wider more open concentration on the following silence (or minimal