Mignon Mukti from Sounds Divine spends a wonderful time with the talented AniKiko, a force to be reckoned with. A genre bending queen, she makes no apologies for her passion for eliciting emotion, which is strong and gentle at once. Her presence, attitude and commitment is to performance excellence and to bring that “otherness” to events and shows which people keep coming back for.
Anikiko is a major presence in the Australian holistic health movement with her range of Music Nutrition Sounds of Solace range which has created a large number of fans in that market. Moving effortlessly from an intimate echoing and haunting sound that can hear a pin drop in a hall, to jump up and down remix racks, Anikiko takes audiences on a journey unlike any other.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed.
You have not hidden it.
That is your greatest gift to me ~ Alice Walker
Everybody has a mum and her presence or non presence can have a powerful influence on your life and how you choose to lead it.
You may decide you want to be just like her, or nothing like her. You may grow up to be a perfectionist because you felt the only way you could get her attention or approval was to do everything perfectly. You may have been abandoned by your mother either physically or emotionally leading to difficulty in trusting others.
You may have had an overprotective mother who was always telling you to rug up more before you went outside or always checking on how you were doing. You may also have or had a mum who instilled confidence in you and was there when you needed her.
Whatever the case, most mums do, or did, the best they could. Most mums love their children, although they may not or cannot show it. Sometimes this may be due to illness (as in postnatal depression), they may not have received love or they may have been abused as a child and don’t know how to show love to their own children.
Here are 7 essential oils that may help with your mother issues:
- Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) is helpful if you are always questioning your own decisions and worrying about whether you have made the right one.
- Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus radiata) if you are feeling suffocated by your mother.
- Grapefruit (Citrus paradisi) is especially useful if you comfort eat to help deal with your difficult emotions or have perfectionistic tendencies. This oil is photosensitive so don’t use on skin that will be exposed to the sun in the next 12 hours.
- Kunzea (Kunzea ambigua) will help you deal with both physical and emotional pain.
- Palmarosa (Cymbopogon martini) can help heal feelings of betrayal, abandonment or not being loved by your mother.
- Pine (Pinus sylvestris) can help you deal with issues of low self-esteem.
- Rose (Rosa damascena) is one of the best oils to use when you are dealing with issues of abuse, lack of trust, emotional coldness, rejection or loss. This is a very expensive oil but you can buy it in 3% jojoba which is perfect for working on a subtle or emotional level. Apply to your heart and solar plexus chakras.
The above oils can be used singly or in a blend of 2 or 3 oils in a vaporiser, massage or anointing blend. For information on dilution see http://www.thefragrantbridge.com/guidelines-for-diluting-essential-oils/
PLEASE NOTE: The information provided in this article is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat or prescribe any medical condition. It is not meant to replace the care or advice your doctor gives you. If you have any concerns please consult your doctor or a professionally trained aromatherapist.
Carole Hodges
Carole Hodges is a professional aromatherapist and massage therapist who has trained in Australia and abroad. She has been using essential oils with her clients for 18 years and continues to update her knowledge. Carole offers aromatherapy massage, Spiritual Essence Aromatherapy massage and True Essence healing sessions and is the author of the Fragrant Change Healing Cards. She can be contacted by email at carole@thefragrantbridge.com on her website or her Facebook page
The Central Coast Community came together on Sunday 18 April to celebrate and showcase what they do in their local area, it started with a wonderful welcome ceremony and the energetic buzz stayed with us all day, it was a beautiful filled with workshops, music, gratitude experiences and creativity, the trade hall provided demonstrations, conversations and connections – such an uplifting and heartfelt day, we cannot wait to come back in 2016,
In the meantime, enjoy the video and check out the rest of 2015 program, these days are so hard to capture in words! you truly need to immerse yourself in them, and be part of the growing movement around Gratitude.
Madelaine “Mirva” Vallin is a Singer/Songwriter, an author and a holistic entrepreneur and she is passionate about helping people find their true purpose and live a happy, healthy juicy fulfilling life. She is also an Embrace Musician and her work, ONE holds the message for us on how we are all connected.
Mirva’s songs touch you on a deep level, her lyrics capture the essence of the soul and portray it in a genre that we can easily connect. This video is one of my favourites, as she offers the gift of peace to everyone as they go along in their every day through a token of a balloon asking them to release it at midday, some invite it in, others are bemused and some are just too busy!
And yet, as Mirva walks in her resolve for a world fill of peace, she is greeted with several hundred balloons being release behind her, showing what we can achieve if we all come together as ONE.
A beautiful and heartfelt song from MIRVA, a Singer/Songwriter, an author, a holistic entrepreneur and one of one of our Embrace Musicians – she is passionate about helping people find their true purpose and live a happy, healthy juicy fulfilling life.
With this moving piece she is sharing with her a personal message she wrote with the arrival of her little boy, it would touch any parents heart.
As many of MIRVA’s songs do, this song also goes to a deeper level of our relationship with self and the beauty we will find when we come home to our soul, connecting to the true essence of our being.
We are moving to the Central Coast, and our local Ambassador Alison Filihia and Marisa Finestone, invite you to join us.
Our Embrace Life Festivals are about celebrating local through wellness, art and music, and our program is filled with amazing local healers, businesses, workshops, musicians, artists and experiences.
Want to know more, visit our Central Coast Festival Program
On March 22nd, we open our Embrace Life Festival to Parramatta we had 3 levels of wellness businesses, experiential and informative workshops, musicians, artists, intuitive readers and healers all coming together sharing their knowledge – consciousness, connection and community!
As an empath I am often asked about how I protect myself, what the implications are for my relationships and how I cope with the different challenges this interesting ability brings. Much has been written on these topics so I would like to explore a universal approach to this phenomenon.
As the energetic beings that we are, we are constantly in interaction with the energies around us, be that other people, environments, animals or foods, just to name a few. We pick up on, resonate with and experience life in different ways through this interaction with our ‘external’ world and it is these very interactions that give us a greater awareness of who and what we are. If we existed alone in a vacuum, we would be unable to experience and continually define ourselves. Yet for many empaths, the ability to merge with other energies often results in exactly that – an inability to define oneself in relation to something else, because that something else becomes a part of you (your energy field) in that moment.
As a consequence, many empaths and sensitives shut down and close off their energy fields, chakras and emotions in an attempt to protect themselves from ‘getting lost’ in, or overwhelmed by, the energy all around them. However, in doing so we close ourselves off from life and encourage energy to remain stagnant within and around us, rather than permitting it to flow THROUGH us. Just like the great rivers, when we allow life to flow, we retain our life force energy, strength and vitality.
If we look at empathic abilities through the universal truth of Oneness (that is, everything consists of the same interconnected energy expressed in different forms), we can see that empaths are souls embodying this interconnectedness that we all share! Empathic abilities pull down the barriers we have created with ‘me’, ‘you’, ‘us’ and ‘them’, unveiling that what we think, feel and do creates energy that affects everyone around us all the time.
Empaths have a gift that highlights and magnifies the energy around them. When the energy is disharmonious they will feel that disharmony within themselves, as if it were their own.
In my experience, awareness and openness are two of the most important keys that enable empaths and sensitives to harness and use this amazing ability to create healing and harmony in themselves and the world ‘around them’. By maintaining a deep awareness of your body and emotional energy, you can better tap into what energy you are picking up on and where it comes from. Remaining energetically and emotionally open will then allow you to fully feel and release (or integrate) this ‘other’ energy so that it is recycled back into the energetic matrix that runs in and around us.
If you are an empath please remember that you have this ability for a reason. Whenever you can, find a place of gentleness in your heart and allow, rather than resist this special gift.
Jeannine is an energetic healer, holistic counsellor and author who practices on the Central Coast.
For questions, appointments or further information about The Beauty Evolution book, please feel free to browse her website or email her directly on essencepower@live.com.au
Kundalini Meditation for Prosperity
Mish will guide you through a Kundalini Meditation to have you open and connect to your heart. This Meditation will allow the focus and movement to enable prosperity on all levels to come through to you, and for you to master your own abundance.
In this world of social media overload, PR spin and so-called reality TV, it can be hard to determine the real from the unreal, the authentic from the inauthentic. Just who do we believe? Well, we can only start with ourselves.
Authenticity and how we express it – comes from truly knowing who we are. And that can only result from some self- and soul-searching!
Who we are is largely influenced by our upbringing and our relationships with friends, peers and partners. We often communicate and behave in ways that society expects us to – or at least in ways we think are expected of us. As we become adults, experience the world and create our lives, who we are as a result of all these factors might no longer represent, or resonate with, who we are at the core of our being.
Strip away the trappings of your life: the job, the income, the possessions, the social status… and ask yourself, “who am I?”
Does the answer come freely? How do you feel when you ask that question?
Reaching the answer may require a little digging, a lot of reflection, journalling – and meditation. But it’s an ultimately liberating process!
We all know how it feels to be inauthentic, to do things that don’t resonate with our values, skills, interests or personality. We feel stuck, constricted, detached and drained of energy. Our voice falters when we’re not speaking our truth. Things seem like much more effort.
Conversely, when we’re aligned with our authentic self we feel lighter, invigorated, passionate and in the flow of life. We communicate with ease, and from a place of power.
Each of us has a variety of personas we switch between: our work persona, our parental persona, our socialising persona. While we may communicate differently (formal at work, chatty with friends); or dress differently depending on the setting, our authentic self can still shine through.
Authenticity often involves risk: quitting that job that erodes your principles, ending that relationship that stifles you, speaking up for your beliefs, which may be unpopular among friends, family and peers.
But with risk often comes reward.
Are you being your most authentic self? Here are some questions to help you “check in” with your authenticity and how you express it:
- What are your values? Think of the things you stand for, the principles by which you operate in your life.
- What’s your purpose? Consider what you’re passionate about, what puts a fire in your belly and gets you up in the morning – or what would if you were living your ideal life.
- Are you comfortable being vulnerable? Being real means accepting yourself and your flaws. It means speaking from your heart even if you risk rejection.
- Do you speak and act your truth? Notice when your words don’t match your values, and your actions don’t reflect your purpose. How can you align these?
- Are you accountable? Accountability means honouring commitments and admitting to mistakes – we all make them! An authentic person has the courage to say “sorry” too.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and are no substitute for the services of a qualified psychologist or life coach.
As a writer, proofreader and voice-over artist, Virginia helps businesses engage their audience with compelling, authentic content. She especially loves working with health and wellness businesses, bringing her affinity for – and knowledge of – this area into helping conscious businesses find their unique voice to attract the clients they seek.
Virginia is also passionate about music, animals, travel, the arts, Pilates and alternative health. In her spare time, her two dogs and Virginia volunteer with the Delta Society, bringing pet therapy to aged care facilities. If you want to know more about her business, http://www.writenoise.com.au