1. Please register your details with us by completing the Beautiful New World form by joining us. The programme will be interactive and we will update you on the number of people who have joined so far at regular intervals. We’ll also be asking for your ideas and feedback and this can be sent to

2. Start to pay attention every day to the energies you encounter, including your own thoughts and language. If you find yourself thinking negative thoughts or speaking negative words (especially those which are detrimental to yourself), tell yourself either out loud or mentally to stop. Play back what you just thought or said in the voice of your favourite comedian or cartoon character in your head. You can’t take it seriously! Then play back a more positive version of what is was you wanted to think or say and deliberately make a habit of turning negative language and thoughts into positive.

3. Spend at least 10 minutes a day meditating on what is right with your world at this moment. Here is a list of suggestions to help you get started. I realise they won ’t be applicable to everyone, but you can use these if they are appropriate to you or make your own list. Try adding to it every day and being grateful for what is good in your life. For example:

• Access to clean water
• Your home/place of shelter
• Those you love
• Your health and fitness
• Any part of your body you particularly like
• The fact that you can read and write
• The ability you have with the 5 senses – sight, hearing, touch, taste, aromas
• Freedom of speech and movement
• The fact that you are alive today
• If you have a job and money – be grateful for them even if they are not ideal
• Food and drink
• Medicines
• Our Mother Earth and all the abundance she brings including – plants, trees that help us:

¬ build with materials they produce
¬ make clothing with the materials they produce
¬ access medicines to heal us
¬ see beauty and colour
¬ smell wonderful aromas
¬ enjoy foods they provide
¬ breathe the oxygen they produce
¬ provide shelter and food for all manner of living creatures
¬ shade us from the sun and so much more

4. Spend a further 10 minutes a day dreaming, visualizing and imagining in minute detail, your vision of a perfect world. If there are colours and images in your dream, see them clearly, sharpen the images and turn up the colours. If there are sounds – turn up the volume. Notice who and what is there. If there are any smells, tastes or things to touch, experience them all in fine detail and notice how that makes you feel and where you feel it. If something doesn’t feel right, change it and make it better. Feel how good your perfect world is and how good it makes you feel. Experience the joy, pleasure and love around you and in everything see, hear, taste, smell and touch. Breathe these feelings deep into your body, through the solar plexus at the base of the ribs (expand your ribs out and push out the abdomen so you can take in as much of this feeling as possible) and feel them dispersing around your body as you breathe out. Then, as you continue to breathe deeply from the abdomen, feel those loving, nurturing, positive feelings expand out beyond your body. Stretching as far above your head into the heavens as possible and beneath your feet deep into our Mother Earth as possible – out into infinity in both directions. Push out this energy to either side of your body in both directions into infinity. Then push the energy out to both diagonals far out into infinity, sending each time feelings of healing, love, peace, harmony, balance and light, so that you create a sphere of healing, love, light, positivity, harmony, balance and peace which extends in all directions way, way out into our universe. Imagine what our world and our universe looks like when bathed in this beauty and light. Set a date in the near future when all this will come about. See it clearly, hear it, touch it, smell it, taste it and hold it in your heart as you continue to breathe calmly and comfortably. Know that you are making a difference every time you undertake this practice and that you can benefit from this personally and carry this beautiful feelings and vibrations back with you whenever you choose.
When you’re ready, bring your attention back to the room, move your hands and feet to increase the circulation and open your eyes. Spend a few minutes contemplating your vision and if there are any insights you want to remember, write them down. If you wuld like to, please share these insights by e-mailing them to us at heartshands.org. Keep a diary and notice any changes you feel in you, in those around you and in your experiences and let us know what’s happening for you.

5. You may also want to make collages from photos or draw images of your perfect world and pin them up somewhere you see them regularly. If you want to share these with our colleagues, then scan them and send them to us.

Mini-Meditation For Busy People

If you're really short of time, here's a simple meditation which allows you to participate no matter how busy you are. You can do this in a bus, on a train, when stuck in a traffic jam or wherever you can manage to safely take a few moments.

Take a few deep breaths and relax. Then start to visualise an image of the earth glowing with light and surrounded by a circle of men, women and children holding hands - connecting and sending love and healing to all things in, on and around the earth. Concentrate on this image, whilst thinking "I see a world where all living things connect and live in peace, harmony, joy and balance"

You may find an image or affirmation that you prefer or works better for you and that's fine. The more you connect with the emotion surrounding these images and thoughts, the more effective they will be.

Practiced regularly, even the smallest effort can bring about positive change and it all counts.