November 3, 2024

Did you watch the Documentary on Abba?

I watched it in 2023.

I also watched the Documentary on Tina Turner in May 2023 and then watched  the Coronation of King Charles III on 6th May 2023

This is NOT because I am a Royalist far from it I am a Republican.

However I LOVE history and I  wanted to witness history.

I watched it from the comfort of my own home because I was in the last stages of a cold and I was determined to rest.

After making breakfast which took a few hours, (I am not good at judging how long cooking will take but yesterday I did two hours and I enjoyed cooking it has a beginning, middle and end unlike running an online business and social work which doesn’t) I sat down to watch it from 11am until 3am.

I actually had my phone switched off all Friday night on 5th May 2023 and until Saturday afternoon of the 6th May 2023

Talk about Digital Detoxification I was ALL most of 6th May 2023

This is A in the M.A.G.I.C.A.L method  which I practice.

I tend to practice this on a Saturday by just not going on Social media

Not going on Facebook

But on 6th May 2023 after the Pandemic after a very long time I switched off my phone from 1am to 3pm

Abstaining from Digital devices and that’s what I did well I did from the SMART phone during these hours

I know I watched TV a Digital device from 1055 to 3pm on 6th May  but I tell you not having any access to any Digital devices during my waking hours on 6th May morning

From 745am to 1045am on 6th May  whilst cooking I surrounded myself with SILENCE

The rest of my famiy was sleeping

And I was in the Kitchen cooking

I had

No phone

No music playing in the background

No podcast in the background

No TV

Just silence and well the noise of my thoughts

I read chapter in a book and thought about that

It really affected me

The chapter was about Avveros and his last days better known in the Muslim world as Ibn Rushd

How he died in isolation in Marrakesh

Not in Cordoba



And then I returned to check WhatsApp messages at 3pm on 6th May incase family had called or wanting to call.

Abstaining from Digital devices on this day from 745am to 1055 am was SO nourishing SO grounding

It relaxed me SO much

It really gave me the ENERGY to declutter something I had been resisting for SO long

It gave me the ENERGY and FOCUS to declutter my phone and my bedroom

The PEACE I felt on 6th May

OMG

The BALANCE I felt

OMG

Have you ever abstained from ALL Digital devices?

Or just your SMART phone for more than 3 hours?

Have you tried to switch off your SMART phone for 24 hours?

Do you do that weekly?

Have one day in the week where you ABSTAIN?

Try it!

And tell me after 6 weeks when you have abstained every week for weeks, do you feel MORE at peace?

Do you feel more BALANCED?

Try this experiment and then report back to me.

I would really LOVE to know.



It’s strange that this abstaining from digital devices I have don’t since 2003 even before Facebook. I started doing this after attending an ordination ceremony of my rabbi friend Severine in August 2003 and deciding to observe shabbat from Friday evening to Saturday evening. Even though I am not Jewish in fact I am known as the Muslim Alchemist online. I don’t just work with Muslims though. No I have been the reflective space for children, young people, individuals, families as a social worker since 1991. I have offered reflective spaces to children and young people in the criminal justice system since 1997 and still do. And since 2018 I have offered reflective spaces in its different forms to high achievers, high performers and high performing leaders online.

#thereflectivespace
#themuslimalchemist
#abstainingfromdigitaldevices
#reflectivespaces

Abstaining or Abstention from Digital Devices on a regular basis reaps so many health benefits!

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Taniya Hussain qualified as a Social Worker in 1991 from Coventry University in England, UK. She has been working on the front lines in London UK, consistently holding space for individuals and families in chaos and crisis for three decades especially, children and young people on the margins of society. Taniya studied Psycho-dynamic counselling from 1991 to 1993 at Goldsmiths College in London. Taniya met Sheikha Halima Krausen in 1992 and has been studying Islam with her ever since especially Mystical Islam, Tassawuf (Sufism) and walks on the Chisti path. Taniya fuses Jungian Pyschology and Islamic Psychology and this fusion can best be understood if you read her book Dancing with Darkness which is available on Amazon. It became a Best Seller on Amazon in the UK, U.S and France in April 2025. The book tells the story of Tamara Alvi, a fictional charachter and is a psychological thriller and a story of healing. Taniya started her coaching and consulting business in January 2018 and she works mainly with High Achievers and High Performers and High Performing Leaders, offering reflective spaces since 2018 and what she refers to as THE REFLECTIVE SPACE. Taniya since starting her busines discovered that she is a powerful healer and was shocked that clients were relieved from pain even though they have been diagnosed with a chronic illness. Taniya is delighted to have discovered Paceology, which is the detailed study of PACE. She is the first paceologist. She noticed when working with high performers when you slow down in one area of your life, this causes you to speed up in another area and vice cersa thus leading to increased levels of productivity, creativity, clarity and energy. She brands herself as the Muslim Alchemist because she really is The Muslim Alchemist as she guides you to transfom the base, in other words the shit that you have experienced into GOLD whether that is love of yourself or God or another human being or a healthier body or a life where you feel at peace and calm and fulfilled or more energy or more money. You definintely will feel lighter, more freer and more clearer even if you book one consultation with her or several sessions. Taniya has a very holistic approach when working with individuals and works with you on multiple layers, the emotional, the psychological, the social, the physical, the mental and the spriritual. She uses stories from the Quran and the Bible when working with clients on a one to one basis or in group workshops as well as breathwork, body scanning, cognitive behavioural therapy, neuro linguistic programming, motivational interviewing. systems theory, neuro science. She is trained in multiple modalities as well as using her own Paceology and insists on offering her clients a trauma informed and trauma responsive service. She is constantly integrating her knowledge of the Quran and Bible with her vast social work experience and training. Taniya's extensive ability of applying psycho-dynamic theory to organisational settings, teams and groups as well as to individuals results in those who attend her sessions or workshops as feeling lighter and more energised. Taniya uses skillfully her understanding of the Shadow, that Jung constantly talked about and her Mystical Training. She also has integrated her passion for inter-faith dialogue and the archetypes that Jung often refers to, come alive in her one to one sessions and her group workshops thus resulting in individuals feeling more freer and fulfilled after they stop working with her. Taniya just does not provide clarity she WAKES you up to. Taniya has a great skill in being able to see the blind spots in others and does this in a non judgemental way and a way that you feel safe. She also "untangles energetic knots" (a term she uses for Shadow) in your body to promote healing from mental and physical disease. Clients usually are healed in a short amount of time because she pinpoints the memory, the event, the thought that first caused the disease. She also provides one to one sessios or training workshops to social work teams, school, secure and prison estate on youth justice, knife crime prevention as well asidentification and prevention of early onset of burnout. Taniya has three sons, who were born in 1996, 2001 and 200 and lives in Surrey, England and when she is not coaching or writing songs, blogs and poems, she loves to spend time, travelling, walking, listening to music, watching films or playing cricket. She speaks fluent English and Urdu and basic German and French and is learning Arabic and Hebrew.

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