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Tony Cuckson - EzineArticles.com Expert Author  

Tony Cuckson is an Irish Mystic storyteller. He invites the invisible embrace of beauty and creative imagination. He teaches the language of the heart through storytelling song, poetry and heart practices. These practices are based around the invitation to deep friendship with the soul. In Celtic Spirituality this is called the Anamcara Experience.

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  • Spiritual Direction From the Deep Hearts Core
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Spiritual guidance comes in many ways. It has always been part of the poets intention. Such was the invitation from the mystical poem by W. B. Yeats called The Lake Isle of Innisfree...


  • Crying For an American Dream - Finding the Harbor of the Heart
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Lady Liberty is not American. She is a state of being that is paradoxical. You are not separate from her. She is your hearts deepest longing to come home.


  • The Law of Attraction - The Real Secret
    [Self-Improvement:Attraction] The mystic poet Rumi speaks of the one secret that we should all know. Here it is in brief.


  • Blessing For a Goal Setter
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] This writer is one for setting goals. One would find it more difficult to finish a book or novel without a proper structure. However the writer has an issue with the idea that you must set goals. This is an idea of the ego that keeps you imprisoned in time and space hoping to get somewhere called success before your time runs out.


  • Reclaiming Your Power to Make a Difference
    [Self-Improvement:Empowerment] New week, new president, plenty of positive global goodwill! President Barack Obama has set a "Yes, We Can" agenda. But first, you have to be able to affirm - Yes, I Can! Learn more about how to own the feelings that you presence here on earth really does make a difference.


  • Creative Intelligence - Four Ways to Think Outside of the Box
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Does the climate out there feel pretty chilly? Feel fearful in this economic climate? It's time to consider using less conventional problem solving methods.


  • Transcending the Swirl of Financial Crisis
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Use these four strategies to combat the anxiety and fear that 'bad news' in the financial markets excites. While the markets may go up and down this balance will always remain steady.


  • Four Ways to Weather Any Kind of Crisis
    [Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Currently there is being experienced throughout the world the collapse of institutions that have served to allow us to live a particular way. This has tended to create a 'have' and 'have not' circumstance. The symbol of the crisis in the I Ching is also the symbol for opportunity or the ability to create what is new.


  • The Radiance of Kindness
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] On the spiritual journey we are enjoined to be kind to others. But we also need to give loving kindness to ourselves. Learning how to do this is an important step on the journey to being a soul friend or anam cara. This is key to true and lasting happiness.


  • My Mo Anam Cara - The Six Characteristics of a Soul Mate
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] St Brigid said that a person without a soul friend is like a body without a head. Your soul friend might be your soul mate but here are six characteristics that will help you identify if that special person is really a soul mate or soul friend.


  • I Know the Way You Can Get to Be Deeply Inspired (1)
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Let the wisdom of Hafiz lead you to the only pub where everyone will always know your name and where the only hangover you ever get is joy. Soul friendship invites a little bit of craziness that will delight children and baffle most adults. A soul friend invites you into sanity.


  • I Know the Way You Can Get to Be Deeply Inspired (2)
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] In this second article find out how to listen to the voice of sanity when all around screams the opposite. Learn the key to getting out of the way to let your creativity pour forth. Best of all you are invited to an inspirational banquet. Will you RSVP an acceptance or regrets?


  • How to Build Your Field of Dreams
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This article will inspire you to let loose your creativity with no striking out! You too can build your own field of dreams where all dreams come true!


  • 4 Ways to Awaken the Sleeping Beauty Within YOU
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The wonder tales that exist throughout various world cultures invite us to feel connected to the beauty that sleeps within us. Often we wait a long time for someone to kiss us awake.


  • The Blessing of Christmas
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] For me, personally, Christmas is the celebration of the return of the Christ. In our Western culture Christ tends to be solely associated with the personage of Jesus of Nazareth.


  • The Blessing of Work (1)
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This article examines the real work that we are asked to do in this world. Love is the great work though every heart is first an apprentice that slaves beneath the city of light.


  • Beyond Valentines Day
    [Self-Improvement:Attraction] This article is for all those who might feel a sense of separateness on St. Valentines Day.


  • Beyond New Years Resolutions that Don't Work
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] How to work with a New Years Resolution which will allow you to greater creativity and greater wonderment in the coming year.


  • The Blessing of Christmas Presence
    [Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] This article examines what it truly means to give at Christmas


  • Ways to a Wonderful Life - The Way of Purpose I
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] This article is the first in a series teaching 7 Ways to a Wonderful Life


  • Inspirational Children's Story - Shadowflower and the Garden of Time - Part 1
    [Kids-and-Teens] This story is inspired to address the issue of bullying amongst children


  • Beyond New Year Resolutions
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Ways to deep self acceptance...


  • Going Beyond - Freedom from Religious Hierarchy
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] How to free yourself from institutional religion...


  • Overcoming Fear of Terrorism
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This article looks at the way in way we can transcend our fear of terrorism


  • The Blessing of Violence
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] This article askes and answers the question "Are human beings violent by nature?"


  • The Way of Attraction - Walking the Path
    [Self-Improvement:Attraction] This article shares the process of the miracle of manifesting what you desire.


  • Maybe I'm Amazed at the Way you Love Me all the Time
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This article examines the feeling of amazement that is available to each and everyone of us in this ever present moment.


  • Writers Block - Melting the Ice
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] This article shares the experience of moving beyond writers block...


  • The Power of Myth to Transform Your Life
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Discover how the power of myth can transform and enhance your life...


  • Celtic Mythology: 7 Ways to a Wonderful Life
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Find out seven ways that Celtic Mythology can help you lead a wonderful life...


  • The Power of Myth - The Celtic Way
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] This article examines the power of myth in relation to Celtic spirituality.


  • Anamcara - The Blessing of Peace
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Learning what it takes to live a peaceful and peace filled life


  • Anamcara - Driving into Paradise
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Learn to drive your car with full awareness


  • Anamcara - The Blessing of Love
    [Self-Improvement:Attraction] This article reminds you that St. Valentines day can be everyday.


  • Go Where No Man Or Woman Has Gone Before
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This article explores the way in which we can venture forth and live a life full of wonder.


  • Letting Go and Letting Be
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This article takes the words of Beatle Paul McCartney from his beautiful song called "Let it Be" and examines what it means to live a life beyond "times of trouble."


  • Anam Cara - Going Beyond The Good
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This article examines an extract from a poem by Mary Oliver “You do not have to be good You do not have to walk on your knees or a hundred miles through the dessert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it does.”


  • Anamchara - Beyond Positive Thinking
    [Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] This article looks at going beyond "thinking" into "feeling" essential...


  • Anamcara - Being Forever Enough
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This article address the issue of each individual "being enough"...


  • Anam Chara - Healing the Heart Matters
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This is an article about the importance of listening to the hearts yearning.


  • Anam Cara - Life as a Box of Paints
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] This article uses the metaphor of a box of paints to describe how we colour our lives...


  • Anamchara - Living a Meaningful Life
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This is an article which asks the question "What does it mean to lead a meaningful life...


  • Anam Chara - Wishing Versus Wanting
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This article looks at the power of wishing well...


  • Anamchara - Making Sense of Life
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This is an article about coming to our senses...


  • Anamchara - Living From A Deep Place
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This is an article about the metaphor of sitting by a lake.


  • Anamchara - Living An Essential Life
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This article asks people about what is essential in their lives.


  • Anam Cara - Watching The River Flow
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] This article takes the metaphor of life as a river and introduces others to the "flow of life."


  • Living The Real Life Beyond Goal Setting
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] This article asks the question "Is there life beyond goal setting"


  • Anamchara - Living The Real Life
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] “May you recognise your being as the diamond at the centre of your life.” In Corrogue the land begins to fall into sleep. I have awoken from sleep. I woke up this morning with a song in my head. This is something that often happens. Usually the song is speaking to my condition. This is a song written by Freddie Mercury. The rock group Queen wonderfully performed this song. It is an original rock anthem. It is the beginning of “Bohemian Rhapsody.”


  • Anamchara - The Value of Ritual
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] We all have rituals. For most of us these rituals are unconscious. We might sit in the same chair every time we are at a meeting. We might do certain actions in a certain way each morning without realising it. We become creatures of habit. Our lives run in well-set grooves and we hate these routines being disturbed. We protect ourselves against change while all around us change happens.


  • Anamchara - Meeting With The Master
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] “A child's hand in yours what tenderness and power arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
    ~ Marjorie Holmes She said, “Children are for sharing. Not everyone can have one.” We never did. So it is a delight to share time with these creatures of being. They are still connected to their original face. They still play in the garden of eternity.


  • Anam Cara - Discovering Your Being
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] “May you be blessed to know that the best way to do is to be.” In Corrogue I am practicing “the art of being.” This is a disciplined practice. As part of this practice I spend each day writing what I refer to as “Zen Pages.” This is writing four or more pages of reflections in the moment. I am blessed when these reflections mirror an experience of flow. This allows my hand to simply move across the page and the writing “to be.” This is my way of “doing” the writing.


  • Anam Chara - Telling Your Story
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Even the dull and ignorant: they too have their story. We all have our stories. Even the dull and the ignorant, they too have their stories. Are you, however, prepared to tell our story? Are you prepared to listen deeply to your heart’s story? We human beings are great storytellers. Story is how we first learn. It is how our ancestors first learned.


  • Anam Cara - Losing your Religion
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] “May you value
    the life that is more
    than the life you own.” In Corrogue I am “losing my religion.” “Life, that’s me in the corner.” This is a line from a song I woke up with running through my mind. Even to say it was running through “my mind” is a misnomer. There is simply the observation of lines of a song running as a flow. These lines are from the song “Losing my Religion.” This is a lovely song written by the singer/songwriter Michael Stipe of the rock group REM.


  • Anam Chara - Living A Life Of Value
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] “May you value
    who you are above
    all you do and have
    and may you find your SELF
    Simply Enjoying Love Forever. The days shorten but still the singing bird comes. Each morning I am blessed by a creative creature smaller than my hand. This little bird throws its voice to the sky and can be heard from far off. This little bird does not judge its song or its sound. It shouts its spirit to the winds. It does not think, “My song is not as good as that other birds.” It does not compare its sound to another. It is the singing. The Beloved flows thought the body of this bird that comes outside my window and shares its delight in the morning.


  • Anam Cara - Finding a Song for the Heart
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] “I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping while my guitar gently weeps.” George Harrison In Corrogue I am on song. This morning the mist hangs low in the far off fields. The landscape seems shrouded in mystery. It is always new. It is always fresh to the eye that is accepting of it as it is. I want to go capture this mystery. It is how I imagine the threshold of Tir Na Nog would appear. I want to go and cross this threshold into the land of the ever young. This is the land of the ever-present moment.


  • Anam Chara - The Flow of Life
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] “Listen to the sound
    of the river and
    you`ll catch a trout.” In Corrogue I am flowing. I write a blessing each morning that I allow as a creation in this heart and mind. This facilitates the practice of allowing. This facilitates the practice of flow. Some say I am a dreamer but I am practiced. I am a practitioner of the art of flow. Simply turning up before these blank pages I practice life facilitation. I let go into the surrender of words and the essence of words. I enter ease. This is the meaning of the word “facilitate.” It means, “to make easy.”


  • Anam Cara - Making Sense of Life
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] In Corrogue I am coming to my senses. This morning it is a wet and windy Sunday morning. Each Sunday morning is an extended morning of rest. It is a morning of practice. I practice slowly coming to my senses. It is a morning in which I practice deep caring for the body and the soul. This is a practice of awareness of the sensationalism of life moment to moment. We are beings of the senses.


  • Art of Living - Finding It's a Wonderful Life
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] This article gives a seven step approach to finding how to live a wonderful life:


  • Life Coaching and Beyond
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] This article examines the question "Is there life beyond coaching. It examines the question "what is life" and if it needs to be learned or simply lived


  • Well Being and Your Authentic Voice
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] This article focuses individuals on finding their inner voice. It relates well being to the ability to speak the truth of the heart. It asks that you come to your senses and live authentically. It asks that you sing the song only you can sing.


  • Inner Beauty - Finding the Source
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] This is a way to find an inner beauty that transforms. Then it will allow entry into that other room beyond what we call in Ireland “a thin place.” It will allow me to see banquet moments that are always available in the only time we have. This is the time of now. It will allow me to feel my essence and what is essential to life. I will recognise that my essential self is the moment-to-moment experience of inner beauty. Read on for the seven steps to finding inner beauty...


  • Anam Cara - The Blessing
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] In many cultures there was accepted the idea of "soul friendship." This was within Ancient Greece, Native American and Celtic cultures. In the Celtic culture a Soul Friend was called an Anam Cara. This article explains the deep connection available with those who are a friend of your soul.




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