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Isha Judd

Spiritualist Isha Judd has experienced more in her lifetime than many of us could imagine. Originally from Australia and adopted as a child, she became a race-horse trainer at 16 before struggling with alcohol and reinventing herself as a professional singer. Today, she lives and teaches her spiritual system predominantly in South America. Ahead of her visit to Brussels in May, she talks to b.there! about her travels in Europe, and looking inside herself to find true love

For me, everything is uniquely wonderful.

It’s the same wherever I go, because all humans ultimately want the same thing. Obviously the places change and I notice different energies, but I think everything is beautiful and special. I love the bursts of creative expression in Barcelona, for example: the architecture there challenges the limits of the imagination. Gaudí’s majestic Sagrada Familia and the buildings along Passeig de Gràcia demonstrate how this architect’s dream continues to expand and grow without limits. The combination of the historical and the cutting edge is perfectly combined in this captivating wonderland.

The biggest lesson to learn is that we have to love ourselves unconditionally – or we won’t know what unconditional love is. People need to realise that love changes. The external changes all the time; people are born, people get married, people get divorced and people die. You have to realise that the love of your life is you, and find unconditional love within yourself – so that when something external changes, you are open to it. You don’t have to control it, or fall apart because someone left you.

I always thought that my happiness would come from the outside.

I was always trying to control everything in my life, so that I could feel at peace or secure. I got to a point where I realised that I was always trying to prove myself, but somewhere there was a lot of fear. Eventually I started doing many spiritual things; I rebuilt my life. As I looked deeper into myself I started to find a place of peace and love. I found an incredible security, and this allowed me to let go of the things in my life that led me to suffering. I started living in the present moment and focusing more on an appreciation of the present, rather than constantly trying to achieve.

I have lived in a state of joy for 11 years.

I can be riding my horse on the beach or washing the dishes and I’m equally as joyful. My favourite sport is endurance horse racing, and later this year I will run in the Festival Mondial d’Endurance de Compiègne, (two hours from Brussels in northern France), which unites the best horses in the world and the highest level of competition. It’s a very exciting opportunity. Horses are an important part of my life and I’ve never ridden in Europe. It has always been a dream of mine to visit the Lipizzaner stallions at the Spanish Riding School of Vienna.

Love is a profound depth.

It’s very warm, constant and secure, and absolutely complete. And that unconditional love has a force that pushes you into more love. It’s transparent, vulnerable and truthful; it’s a feeling, but it’s also a force that drives this feeling of perfection.

One of the most important things life has taught me is to give.

Give to everyone and at every moment. I’m always touched by the colourful and mysterious discoveries of Italy, and how much they can contribute to a moment.

I love to travel to Milan, Florence and Rome, and to savour such an expressive culture, where everything seems so much larger than life.

I imagine intellects to be like a matrix.

We get trapped in the matrix of our belief systems and things that have happened to us, and the body supports this behaviour. We think that we are our thoughts, but our thoughts are capricious; they’re always changing, they’re looking for drama, they’re based in dualities of more and less, right and wrong. We might react to things without a rational understanding of why, and it’s because a memory within the body provokes a feeling: so we have fears and limitations that we’re not conscious of intellectually. As we evolve in our energy, these profound hurts, or whatever they are, start to come to the surface and resolve, because we no longer need them. So as we look to this internal place of security, we can stop the wranglings of the mind.

Meet Isha

Spiritualism comes to Brussels

Isha is visiting Belgium and The Netherlands during this month and next to launch her book, Why Walk When You Can Fly? (Waarom Lopen Als Je Kunt Vliegen?)

Amsterdam: Conference on 15 April, tel.

Brussels: Conference on 5 May and seminars on 8 and 9 May, tel. , www.whywalkwhenyoucanfly.com

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