Seeking inspiration? Just invite an angel in today

Jackie Comerford will connect you with your angel. "It's very simple," she explains. "All you do is invite your angel in."

Asked how one would know when their angel has arrived she smiles serenely. "Oh, you'll know. It's just a knowing. Everyone has an angel. You have an angel," she adds reassuringly.

Ms Comerford gives most of her angel-readings at Inspirations Angel Shop in D·n Laoghaire, but at the weekend she was explaining her service at the Mind, Body, Spirit Festival.

Now in its ninth year, the festival continues today at the RDS. Promising "a profusion of approaches and techniques to support change and healing", it offers lectures, workshops, demonstrations, exhibits to introduce us to "the most innovative discoveries and rediscoveries for revitalising mind, body and spirit."

It's the first Festival for Ms Mairead Conlon, who opened the Angel Inspirations Shop five months ago.

"I sell angel figurines, angel cards, angel worry stones, books on the power of angels, angel scarves, angel magnets, and I have information about the various healing services available. There have been very few sceptics, and business is thriving," she says. Around her are stands offering news about such innovative approaches to self-healing or calming as Hopi ear candles "to calm the mind, soothe the head and ears"; copper-lined healing pyramids to "ensure you are correctly grounded . . . ideal for physical related problems"; and systematic kinesiology, "the science of muscle-testing in relation to all body functions".

But festival organiser Mr Louis O'Connell says that among those also exhibiting at the Festival are four Christian organisations, including the Milltown Institute and Christian Dialogue.