I had a wonderfully powerful one to one ‘HeadTrash’ session with Alexia Leachman last week – plus was interviewed by her for her B.TheChange radio show, here’s the recording for you…

Alexia is definitely ‘one to watch’ !

Rachel x

Every time I write an eshot or blogpost about ‘esoteric’ topics it is always in the knowledge that it will get its fair share of negative – and sometimes even abusive – responses from the cynics out there.  [With this in mind, many thanks to the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday for publishing a piece about this blog on Sunday 3 February without any of the mockery one can often get with journalists...]

Yet the more I discover about the metaphysical world, the more I feel I should share my own experiences, especially for others who are waking up to the realisation that there is more to life than just the material realm.

This post is about an experience which happened to me this morning, but for it to be meaningful to you I need to tell you the ‘back-story’ first.

Several years ago in January 2008 ‘Director’ magazine did a cover story on me, essentially an interview asking what the ‘failed Dragon’ had been doing in the three years since my first business Red Letter Days had crashed.  During the interview I mentioned a Life Plan I wrote back in 2002, at the request of a friend who was training to be a life coach (before I understood about metaphysical principles or the Law of Attraction), where I had stated my intention: “By 2006 to have got rid of Red Letter Days so I can spend more time at home with my children, be creative and write.”

And of course the ‘Universe’ delivered that Cosmic Order to the very word, obligingly flushing my first business down the toilet on 1 August 2005 a week after the birth of my 4th son, creating in its wake a completely new business based from home – and then delivering both a publishing deal to write a book and another baby!

A Business Coach named Lucia Bardoul read the article and sent me an invitation to a weekend retreat designed for women business leaders being held at Windsor Castle that April called ‘Fire and the Feminine’ lead by contemporary shaman Judith Seelig.  It sounded bonkers, but intriguing, and an eclectic group of us ‘power women’ turned up at St George’s House within the Castle grounds to no agenda, no structure and no clue what we had let ourselves in for!  But the weekend was an incredibly powerful mix of yoga, chant and meditation in the presence of the amazing Judith (who many of you will have seen perform at our 12.12.12 One World event) plus two weirdly spooky experiences (more on those later) – which reduced me to tears.

After the event it was as if a channel had been opened and all sorts of magic started showing up in my life.  As you start to awaken to the metaphysical world it can all seem strangely bewildering unless someone is on hand to explain what on earth is going on.  That help came in the form of another coach – who I met randomly but synchronistically - Sue Bottomley  .  Sue suggested that I go on a ‘Journey’ meditation with her to meet my ‘Spirit Guide’.  Which again seemed completely bonkers to me – as I had no idea what a Spirit Guide was, let alone the fact that I had one!

For the benefit of the cynics amongst you, both Judith’s retreat and the help from Sue were offered to me at no charge.

It was on that ‘Journey’ meditation that I met my spirit guide – St George.

Now this was all completely weird – as I had no conscious awareness of any connection to St George – but the dots very quickly joined up…

My family name on my mother’s side was Knight, and she had given me a sovereign from just before I was born depicting St George slaying the Dragon.  I am a Dragon – both in the Chinese Astrology scheme of things, as well as via the TV show Dragons’ Den…  A ‘Red Letter Day’ is traditionally a Saint’s day on the calendar where the date is marked in red.  Our corporate colours were red on a white background.  I also realised I had been ‘called’ before – to see a new client in Barcelona, whose patron saint is St George, where it was St George’s Day when we arrived.  (I still had the red rose brooch pin, which was given to me as is the tradition there.)

And then looking back to the retreat at Windsor Castle, the first mystical experience happened in St George’s Chapel, home of the Knights of the Garter; the second during a yoga pose when the Scouts suddenly came marching round the corner to drums singing ‘Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord’.  Because of course St George is the Scouts’ patron saint – and the retreat was on St George’s Day weekend!

And not only is the road leading in to Windsor Castle called Castle Hill, that’s also the name of the hill where I live in Bakewell !!!

Just too many coincidences to mention (and lots of others besides the above), yet I had no awareness whatsoever that my Spirit Guide had been sending subtle clues of his presence to me all my life.

Even now, when I am a low point, or questioning things, or in need of guidance, moments later I will suddenly see a St George’s flag or a red rose and know it is a message from spirit that all is well, that I am on the right path.  And I have learned to pay attention to these signs when they show up as if they are saying ‘There’s something important for you to pay attention to here’.

Fast forward to 2012 which was both a year of amazing personal growth as well as challenges for me and I continued to go through the process of personal transformation.  You often have to go through a breakdown to get to a breakthrough.

One Sunday morning for various reasons I was at a very low point of despair, and I asked God to send me help.  Within 2 minutes the nearby church bells started ringing!  I thought about going to Church (I am not particularly religious) but decided against it.  However, I knew that the bells were a sign that God was listening and that something magical was about to happen…

Next day I was due to speak at a Women’s Enterprise event in Rotherham.  When I arrived at the networking meeting the organiser asked me if I would mind doing my speech in the Minster (the central Church in Rotherham).  I asked to be shown the venue and what should be waiting for me but a huge statue of St George slaying the Dragon.  And of course it was 23 April! (St George’s Day)

The inspiration from the talk I did that day directly lead to my ‘Business Alchemy’ 28 day video programme – which I mind-mapped the next morning and then filmed over 4 days that week.  Each of the 28 videos delivered without a script, simply channelling content around the theme for each day.  And since it’s release in May 2012 Business Alchemy has become my most successful mentoring product ever.

Much other magic happened last year, not least the 12.12.12 One World experience – again delivered on the winds of Grace which has lead to much inspiration for new projects for 2013.

So back to today’s mystical experience…

Last week I was asked to do a telesummit interview where I had to offer a product to listeners to be broadcast in February.  I decided to create an 88 day version of Business Alchemy designed to help manifest a prosperity generating project (in response to demand from people who said they would like a longer Programme).  This morning I sat down to scope the mind-map of topics which had been bubbling through my head, basing the 88 Day Programme on a major new project which I had started to scope on Friday.

The first action I listed was to mark a cross on the 88 day programme end date on the calendar.

I took that action myself this morning and counted forward 88 days from Friday on the calendar.

You guessed it, the end date was none other than St George’s Day – 23 April 2013.

Coincidence, or Divine Guidance?

I continue to remain fascinated by the clues whispered to us by unseen realms and I would be fascinated to hear about your own Spirit Guide experiences!

Please use the comments box below to share your insights and stories as I know many would be intrigued to read them…

Rachel x

Last week I went down to Broadhempston in Devon to see my good friend the Inner Wisdom Expert Srimati and her lovely husband Pat.

Pat (aka @HolyCornishman on Twitter) is a very interesting, humurous and spiritual guy (here’s a clip below) and (horror of horrors to all the green tree drinking Mind Body Spirit people) does like the occasional glass of wine or three… Plus he is a Dragon in the Chinese scheme of things, all of which means to me he’s always great fun to be with.

After an evening of great conversation and laughter, helped along by several bottles of Pinot Grigio, Srimati, Pat and I decided to venture out into the (deserted) village – and for some reason ended up jiving to ‘Dancing Queen’ outside the local pub ‘The Monk’s Retreat’. To cut a long story short they refused to serve us and we were ejected by the landlord, followed up by a letter apparently sent the next day to say we were officially ‘banned’ and if we turned up again the police would be called!

Not very spiritual behaviour???

The answer lies in a brilliant book by Doreen Virtue called ‘Realms of the Earth Angels’ and I’ve just re-read my copy.
Essentially about people who are different and who don’t conform/fit in with the rest of society.

One type is the incarnate elementals – pure elemental energy, the rule breakers, with fiery tempers and addictive personalities, who love women & sex, who are also the life and soul of the party with a mischievous disruptive sense of humour. Then there are the wise ones – old souls with pure magic energy. And a description of a combination of the two (the Leprechauns) – which exactly fits Pat.

According to the book, the Leprechauns are magical time-travelling shape shifters possessing ancient wisdom and healing powers, vacillating between being serious teachers & rowdy jokesters…. wonderfully entertaining teachers & storytellers. ‘As long as you can weather their vacillating moods and flirtations, Leprechauns make wonderful friends and romantic partners. You’ll never be bored by a member of this realm.’

All this made me realise there is another Leprechaun in my life – Barefoot Doctor aka Stephen Russell – who I am now managing. He’s also legendary for his outspoken behaviour and has been banished from several kingdoms as a result of it! Much pompous judgement and speculation rumbles on – particularly amongst the ‘love and light’ people – as to whether his is ‘spiritual behaviour’.

Both Pat and Stephen are lights of my life.

The point of this post is that when we start to understand one another’s amazing energy and enjoy the essence and the magic of it – instead of judging others according our set of ‘rules’ as to what is acceptable and particularly what is ‘spiritual’ – that’s when we can all truly relax and have some fun!

(It is of course easier to say all this when you know you are a much misunderstood elemental yourself – just a different sort – but that’s a whole other blogpost :-)

Wishing you a lovely Leprechaun fun-filled day!!!

Rachel x

With our first live event happening at Sadler’s Wells this Thursday plus the launch of our first published book – ‘The Message’ by Barefoot Doctor – on the same evening, we are well and truly breathing life into the new venture I co-created with Jude Levy and Katharine Dever last year ImagoPeopleTV.

It’s a marketing portal created to promote transformational teachers, heart-centred thought leaders and evolutionaries – and here are the first 20 stars of Imago in the showreel we created from our first shoot last year.

ImagoPeopleTV Showreel from Rachel Elnaugh on Vimeo.

What’s more we’ve also launched a ‘Mentoring Cocoon’ designed to help groom you and your personal brand if you are needing help & support on your journey – details are at www.imagopeople.tv/cocoon.

If you’d like to get involved in Imago please do email me at rachel [at] imagopeople.tv

And if you’d like to come along on Thursday night there are just a few tickets remaining at http://barefootdoctor.eventbrite.co.uk/

Love,

Rachel

When shrines are created for a corporate leader you know that we have entered a new era for business.

An era where business is about far more than just making money, and where entrepreneurs are the visionaries who have the power to change the world.

It isn’t governments who are going to get us out of the current broken mess – they are far too busy trying to preserve the status quo.

It is individuals – taking inspired action to create change and lead the people into the new era.

At a time where our schools are still teaching us that complexity and detail are what wins grades and where governments churn out 68 page dossiers to express what could be summed up in an A4 page, I love this quote by Steve Jobs:

“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”— BusinessWeek interview, May 1998

In case you haven’t seen it here is Steve Job’s famous Stanford Speech -which talks about synchronicity, faith and passion; about keeping going when the ‘corporate’ world rejects you and about living each day as if it were your last. The new era is not so much about Business Plans and logical thought through 3 year forecasts as dreaming big and manifesting everything you need along the way; living in faith and working from the heart not the head.

RIP Steve Jobs 1955 to 2011

Is it just me or does everyone else sense a tremendous ‘cleansing’ process going on right now ?

Suddenly stuff we have been used to being around for years (think NoTW) crumbles and vanishes overnight…  Governments are falling and economies are failing.  And the pace of change all seems to be speeding up.

On a personal level, what started out as a decision to stop drinking alcohol a week ago today has now turned into a personal ‘Project Life Cleanse’ – as I start to clear out everything that is no longer working for me.

Relationships, finances, clutter, habits… plugholes, pores, porches - it’s all up for grabs now!

When we clear this clutter of old energy we create the space for the new to flow.

The exciting thing for me is that this ‘World Detox’ is leading us into a totally new way of being – both as individuals and collectively on the Planet…

Let’s embrace the change!

Rachel