Three photos that I saw on the internet and just had to share as I think they are so amazing.  

humour and happiness

Spirals

Just simple everyday life, in the most beautiful colour.

re-invention.

I don't normally like to take other peoples pictures and creative ideas and use them on my blog page, but if I don't take the credit and just copy them for more people to see because I think they are so amazing, then I tell myself that it is OK.  Unfortunately, I do not know whose name to give the credit to, sorry.

DDD

If you have a vision for your life, you need to take control and guide your life in the direction of your vision.  If you are whimsy and non committal you cannot expect your vision to take shape.  People always want to part with their ideas of life onto us and it is so easy to go along and get caught up in someone else's vision in life.  Sometimes it just feels easier to go with someone else, but at some point we need to come back to who we are and what we want in life.

Believe in yourself always, move forward towards your goals.  If  you don't have a goal you have nothing to move towards.  Have long and short terms goals, short terms like little stepping stones, so that you can see some achievement.  Be excited about your goals and never view them with any negativity they are positive milestones in your life.

FLOW AND RELEASE

It is so amazing how  when you go with the flow and release any desired outcomes, how things change to your highest good without you even having to work hard at it.  I am now running the Soul Sanctuary and have half shares in the one esoteric retail shop inside the Soul Sanctuary.  I could not have planned that, but I am absolutely loving the way it has worked out.

It is so funny, now that I am happy that I am going to be staying in Durban for a while longer  I pick up a book to read and it is about how Durban is going to have tsunamis and is a real hotspot for earth changes and that it would be better to move further inland.  It is so important to be able to live each moment fully and enjoy it, if we could be so totally in the moment then when we move to the next moment we will not take anything forward with us because with have dealt with everything in that moment.

Life Changes

Whew, you know life how it can all just change in a moment.  Well my life seems to be at one of those crossroads at the moment, I mean my husband has sold his shares in his business and now a year later wants to change direction.  I have mostly been a city girl, living in the city or just on the outskirts and except for a brief three year inland stay in my early twenties, have always lived right near the beach.
 

Well now my husband Dave, who I think is a bit of a visionary, has decided that we need to go and live on a farm, a huge farm with water and trees.  He thinks he has now found this farm in another province at least a two hours drive from any sort of beach, half an hours drive from the nearest village, which is tiny tiny, and two hours drive to the nearest city.  It has a working forest and sawmill and a rather large river running all the way along the one boundry within the farm.  It is also huge huge huge.  I have also always been used to a tropical climate, which I absolutely love and the climate at the farm is quite a dry one.  Talk about life changes and am I scared, yes hell I am.  It means leaving my children, my friends, my business, my comfort zones and going into totally unknown terrority. At least it is not a cattle farm so there will be no slaughtering of animals, which he would not do anyway, I just have to see about cutting down trees, I love trees (maybe I can go and save them).


Am I going to do it.  Well someone has just out of the blue with no planning on my part, just taken over my shares in the business and we are going down to the farm for 10 days next month to have a look.  All I am trying to do is stay with the truth of my soul, to find the alignment with my soul and to have an open mind.  When you are walking your spiritual path you have to be open and flexible and try see the bigger picture with no attachments to any outcome. To realise that going for a walk on the beach every day if I want to, doing yoga and tai chi classes, to having this convenient lifestyle - is that wrong - I will have to discover different ways of exercising, different walks to take.





I think my lesson here is to just live for the day and not start worrying about what my future might be like.  To plan properly and go down and have a look at the farm, area etc, with the excitement of  going on a new adventure and not to close myself off from any experiences I might have or wonderful people I may meet.

Beautiful city lights have something so magical about them, they really bring out an excitement in me.

The most beautiful wonder in life for me is the sea.  It has its own life, its own moods, its own destiny and heals the whole of humanity by just being what it is.

My Country

Thank You

I am so grateful for what my country has to teach me.  I know that I chose to be here in South Africa and every day I am so humbled by what an amazing country it is, with such a diverse culture and mixture of people.  If we could only all see the good in our surroundings and what each moment has to offer for our growth.  If we could all give love and thanks to that moment.  If we could all realise that all these different aspects are needed by us for us to grow.

Our earth was here long before us, and will be here long after we have gone. The mountains, the sea, the wild life all have their own way of survival, as do we humans - and if we could all live together respecting the differences, but understanding that we need each other, we would all feel the freedom meant for us.

Freedom

An  vendor selling ice creams on the beach on a hot day, with a huge big smile, even though it is so hot and his ice bucket is heavy. He is hoping to make a sale. Giraffes crossing the road, these are not scenes that you would see everywhere in the world, these are uniquely South African scenes, and they are what humbles me and makes me grateful to be living in such an amazing country.



                                                         South Africa I am glad I chose you.

My Healing Practice

I have always loved colour, sound and touch, so when I came across Antaneea Healing which incorporates all three, I knew that this was for me.

Antaneea Healing is a gentle soul massage working over the back of the body only.  13 Coloured oils, soul massage and sound vibration, are used together with a deep awareness and acknowledgement of the soul, leaving you feeling safe, supported and transformed while also balancing the chakras.  During the process destructive patterns of the past are released helping you to take back control of your own lives.

The session is completed by gentle pressure being applied to 12 pulse points on the ears, this promotes access to deeply held subconcious memories.

The oils are hand blended in a sacred environment, using essential oils, crystals and organic colour.  Each one is specially created to heal and support each part of the body that it is applied to.

I work from the Soul Sanctuary every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

 I try to practice Zen Buddhism - as the truth of being in the moment connects very much to my heart and  passion.  I love being in the outdoors, especially at the beach or in the mountains where I can snap away happily with my camera. Another love of mine is oil paintings, and I have recently started lessons which  keep me very much in the moment, almost like a meditation.

Hearts

Sitting in meditation this morning I realised how closed my heart still is.  I always work on opening my heart chakra and see it spinning beautifully and evenly and assuming that My heart chakra was very open and accepting of everyone and everything.  I now see that it is still very closed and needs to be continuously worked on, it can never be too open and loving.

To love the whole world, good and bad, pretty and ugly, dark and light.  Wow that is hard and to realise this then think I had an open heart, no way, I still have so much work to do. To see the good and bad and love them both equally, knowing we need them both.  We need everything that is around us and the more we can accept it all with a loving heart, the more our hearts will open and the more we will grow, and connect back to our original source.

To really love with all our heart is to love through walls, through conditions, through obstacles - through anything that tries to stop that love.  To get to that place our heart will  just be open to love with no thought of any other way but LOVE