Catherine Lorimer's Guide to Life

In this weeks podcast I chat about how I worked through my post holiday blues.  having spent 5 fantastic days with a brilliant group of like minded independent women, with lovely food, lots of exercise so dopamine and serotonin hits, I was feeling really low, down, irritable and grumpy so I wanted to find a way to get myself out of feeling like this, have a listen to my podcast to see what worked and how long it took.

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On this weeks podcast I chat about relaxation and what I have learned this week.  I do a little meditation to give you an idea of what it is about.  I focus on collecting all of your negative thoughts or memories of past negative experiences help you to collect them up and help you to let them go. 

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Have a listen to this months news rant, not too much ranting going on though as you can't really change what is happening in the world.  So you are better focusing on your own life, changing that and living your best life and being the best version of yourself.

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The story of the music by Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring is set post second World War, he wrote it for a ballerina, the story is based on a young couple who are settling into a new farmhouse in the early 19th century.    

The angel is the woman looking back on her own life.  It also shows the transgression towards the end of her life, the spotlight represents the beam of light, a way up to heaven.  The music has part of the Lord of the Dance, which is about Jesus and reincarnation, so the angel is pointing to the star of Bethlehem to indicate that Jesus may soon be returning.

When this music and ballet were produced it was the hope that men and women would be equal following on from the war.  There is progress but, now women are encouraged to be beautiful, thin and to alter themselves in order to make themselves attractive to men.  When it should be about who you are as a person as beauty fades over time. The quaker and the conductor, both men are centre stage in the painting as it is mainly men that are listened to in positions of influence.  The young woman is waiting at home at a time of war listening to the quaker.  She doesn’t know if her husband who is at war is alive or dead.  She would not have known this in previous wars, so he is painted as a ghostly figure.  She would have had to manage the house and everything else herself.  She would have had to be a very strong independent woman much like myself, having lived on a smallholding. 

I have added the three buglers as a Union, Confederate and American GI soldier to show previous wars and the bugles sound in the piece of music and represent war today off stage. In today’s modern world people constantly film, they don’t really listen to what is being said, much like Jesus felt he was not listened to.  They just want to show the rest of the world that they were there.  The person in charge of the lights who could be a man or a woman as there is more work equality now.  Is too busy filming and misses the lighting cue.  The spotlight is not on the main star, who is the biggest figure as you should be the star of your own life. She is an angel to represent myself as James Blunts Angel from the subway, heading towards the spotlight, as I have now revealed it’s me.  I feel because I am now a middle-aged woman I am overlooked, ignored, social media means that everyone has a voice and it’s difficult to be heard. The stage manager has his head in his hands as it has gone wrong and there is nothing that he can do about it from the back of the stage.  It is also an indication that in relationships things go wrong and you just have to deal with them as and when they happen.  That’s real life, different to the way relationships are portrayed in the Arts, there isn’t always a happily ever after.

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Firstly thanks to my incredible listeners, blown away by this weeks download figures, 11/04 it was 164 downloads over 7 days, a bit stunned really as when I first started it was about 7 a week.  Really appreciate the original 7 people though.  

This month there has been a lot of personal change for me, I am really good at identifying what is working in my life and what isn't.  If something is making me unhappy then I work to identify that and change it.

I am also really good at identifying things that I no will be a problem for me, in the future and its important to address these things and let the person concerned know so that you can come up with a plan or a way to work around it.

Have a listen and I hope that this helps you to identify just one thing in your life that you think, I have been thinking about that for years, procrastinating over it, this month I will actually do something about it.

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Having had an encounter with someone who has this, I recognised some personality traits in myself so I wanted to find out all about it and self analyse myself. This podcast goes through the psychological and physical personality traits and what steps that you can take to overcome social anxiety.

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What has Mad King Donald been doing this month?

There is a bit of news, but not much as its a bit depressing, mostly this week I chat about getting a voice note from Vernon Kay and sending one back to him.  I also sing a bit and hopefully sound slightly funny in an effort to cheer anyone listening up a bit.  I hopefully restore your faith in humanity by relating a story about a really lovely encounter that I had with some strangers.

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Find out how I am getting on with my own personal self improvement plan and what exciting things that I have been up to this month. 

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For anyone who follows me on Instagram, then you might have seen that I have been sharing that a lot of chocolate contains palm oil. The amount of coco in chocolate has decreased which has impacted on coco bean farmers, the amount of milk in chocolate has been reduced which has impacted on diary farmers.

I can't remember what type of Easter egg that I received last year can you?

I thought I would have a look at some other gift ideas, or an experience,  something that someone will actually remember, rather than just getting an egg of the shelf. Something that requires a little more thought.

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On this weeks episode, I take a light hearted look at Ghostly and UFO sightings in Derbyshire.  I chat through in a humorous and light hearted way, whether they could be a real thing or is there an alternative explanation.

Hopefully this will take you away from the news events that we are currently exposed to and give you some escape for a short while.

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