Welcome all my name is Stawny aka (Steve) and to cut to the chase I am a dedicated Witch. I probably favour the Hedge Witch path more than anything but I am eclectic and solitary.
I am married to Sabina who runs Althea Hands the parent site of this site.
I have been a dedicated Witch now for around 18 years and previously I was in the British Army for over 15 years. Since leaving the forces I have done various jobs, specialist security and so on, but mainly worked in I.T. From PC hardware engineer A+ and also N+ I moved on to become an MCSE and specialised in database admin, coding and also became a SharePoint administrator / developer and a WordPress developer and admin.
Today due to various conditions, mainly Gulf War Syndrome I am disabled and have had to retire early on medical grounds, I also recently suffered a debilitating stroke leaving me with very poor balance and the ability to walk any distance and made my CFE worse. But I am not here to go on about that and am not looking for sympathy. But I firmly believe that my beliefs have helped me through some very dark times.
I think here the keyword is Beliefs and they are so much more than something you believe in such as a faith or religion. Beliefs are in essence who we are and mould us into what we are. Beliefs are fundamental to consciousness and a belief is trigged by external influences and the belief becomes a thought, and thought has emotions attached to it. In turn emotions based on the emotion of that thought release hormones in our bodies and make us feel a certain way, and this becomes how we end up portraying ourselves to others.
Beliefs are nothing more than small programs our brains use and help us to survive the perceived personal reality we are in, they are learn’t by experiences and events in life. Some play an important role in helping us to survive but others do not provide a helpful nor productive role in the present experience.
For many years I suffered with PTSD and anger issues but once I learnt what beliefs actually are it changed my life and for the better.
I realised that many people around me from social networks, groups, authorities, friends, colleagues, and more or less everyone else all have a unique perception of reality, based on their experiences and subsequent personal beliefs and they project their beliefs onto us by being opinionated and judgmental even aggressively at times. We tend to follow what others believe as a means to make things easier and better for us and be more socially acceptable. Yet we often do not realise that many of these beliefs are not our own and that based on me as a person they maybe in resistance to my beliefs.
To understand what beliefs are is BIG personal power and allows you to shape your own life and destiny and if you are living in a balance such as that, then things will start to make sense and work out in a positive way for you.
I understand only too well that many see a site like this as hogwash, but that is their beliefs, but based on what? Religious indoctrination, politics, education, medical and even science. All of which are control mechanisms you have been enslaved into believing in, so the richer get richer and the poorer just work to provide the riches for them.
Modern science today is catching up especially in physics where leading edge discoveries and understanding can only be understood by looking at what our ancestors understood and knew. Unfortunately, we have much to rediscover again as religion destroyed most knowledge and stole from other beliefs and incorporated it their religious systems, to keep the peace as it often meant it would be threat to their power, wealth and control over the masses.
Most people now know and understand this from a religious perspective, but we are in newer systems now such as governance and politics and laws that only suit the few. The financial system today is the biggest control mechanism as it enslaves all in debt via global corrupt corporations, who run the governments we vote for.
If you cannot see this then you have not yet challenged your own beliefs and instead you have fallen prey to beliefs they want you to have.
Changing your belief is not going to change the world, so why should you bother?
Simple by understanding your own beliefs and even changing them for real truths empowers you and for those things that you do not agree with you can then easily let go of them or ignore them, freeing you up to not dwell on such control systems and what they really are, but instead take control of your own life and focus on that. This is true power we all have , but are you ready to do that?