This is a time for structure. I am making it easier for myself to post. Exploring apps on my iPhone and iPad. Making mistakes, the works. Small successes. Used Sandalwood and Brain Power oils on my scalp. Started back with Kundalini Yoga after realizing how much it potentized my use of the oils. Especially the pranayama (breath work).

With the Full Moon following the Spring Equinox, the flavor of this week has been — INTENSITY!

I’ve been using Canadian Red Cedar for the first Chakra. Grounding and Valor on the feet. I’ve even taken a drop or two of Vetiver over the last two days in caps together with a bit of Pine Essential Oil. On the day of the Full Moon, I used a little Humility on the heart chakra because I was starting to feel a little full of myself! Finally, White Angelica on the shoulders, a little Abundance on 3rd Chakra, and notching the Valor Roll-On in the juncture of skull and neck, and I was as good to go as I would ever be.

Here’s something we discovered today… or rather, Janna did, while we were fooling around with the dowsing rod and checking on the expansion and contraction of the auric field with different states and the action of various oils:

If you use a grounding oil — like YL’s Grounding, or Valor, or Cedarwood on the base chakra while applying an oil like Harmony, then we got a huge increase in the energy field. I know that I do use Valor or Cedarwood in the morning before meditation and before the BIG oils, but when I reapply as I need to during the day, I don’t de rigueur, use a Cedarwood-type oil.

Janna had another suggestion about using White Angelica to seal the energy or to ‘protect’… going to check this out another day… might have to do it outside the house because of the increase in diameter…

Another thing with Chrono way of life is that the days of the week are given over to a particular chakra and its associated color. Being someone who responds to color, I really got into this, and when I added a set of yoga excercises addressed with that chakra, I’ve been kind of blown away.

So here are the day and the associated colors. Maybe a food and yoga weekend workshop is in order? Email me if interested… this will have to happen in late Sept/ early October.

Here we go:

Monday 1st chakra — basic function is biological survival – Red, Tuesday 2ns Chakra – orange — sexual and creative energies, Wednesday 3rd Chakra – yellow — personal power and digestive ability and the close communion to higher chakras, Thursday 4th Chakra — green — heart and immune system, Friday 5th Chakra – blue — third eye and thyroid and parathyroid, Saturday 6th Chakra – purple — the power of the mind and intuition, Sunday 7&8th Chakras — white — merging with the cosmos via the Crown Chakra

Recommended Reading: Meditation as Medicine by Dharma Singh Khalsa M.D. and Cameron Stauth

24th Feb, I’ll be winging it over to Los Angeles.

Then, Costa Rica and Sacred Chants with Snatam Kaur

Then the Tribal Five workshop.

I did have a much more detailed posting but it kind of vanished into the ether.

My bags aren’t packed yet, the contents are yet to be washed and dried, and it’s late! And I haven’t even been able to post properly.

Back on 24th March after checking in with Niko who I met during the make of the feature film Nothing Special, and its creator, the fabulous Angela Garcia Coombs

As expected, January is one of the busiest months. We have to remind ourselves that we can only work on one person at a time! Tonight will probably be extra busy since the weather is just right. And as usual, I am super-prepared, having done my morning Sadhana practice (yoga) and eaten a fairly light brunch, and packed the car except for the oils that I’m mollycoddling till the last moment and then they will go in the car as well.

THE CHICKPEA BRUNCH with GRATED BEETROOT/CARROT

For brunch, I soaked chickpeas last night (as I do with nuts, seeds, grains) and cooked it this morning. Tipped water out and squeezed in some lemon, and salt, a touch of basil oil, and cold-pressed organic olive oil. Took a couple of scoops of chickpea mix and added some grated beetroot and carrot, chopped cucumber, that I’d de-parasitized with Lugol’s iodine, and added a touch of vinegar, and we were good to go.

I’m taking with me a sugarless Banana bread that I begged Hal to make (his secret recipe) for when I’m between treatment sessions. Just before I leave, I will make a protein drink with Powermeal (2 scoops) and NingXia Red (180 ml juice in 200ml water).

I’ve been using Harmony oil blend on all those points on the ear lobes and I might re-apply. Plus a bit of Abundance oil for extra energy, Myrrh oil on the feet and pressure applied by way of a spiky ’sports’ ball such as you might see in a Pilates studio, and my skeletal system feels looked after!

Feb is going to be chocka with workshops and trainings. Email me (details on contact page) for details.

My partner rang me this morning and directed me to a passage in a book he reads on the toilet. A copy of Ramana Maharshi’s - the Path to Self Knowledge. As far as I know, the book is out of print.

Briefly:

A congress worker came to the ashram and asked if the desire for political independence was ‘right’?

I take this question to be applicable to other strivings and ambitions such as working towards material survival/animal rights/minority rights etc

The response: Prolonged practical work for the goal widens the outlook so that the individual becomes gradually merged with the country. Such merging is desirable…

The congress worker was elated and said: If political independence is achieved after terrible sacrifice is not the person justified in feeling pleased with the result.

Response: No, in the course of the struggle, he should have surrendered himself to a Higher Power whose Might must be kept in mind and not lost sight of. He should not even care for the result of his actions.

In fact, disinterested activity may be said to be the true bank account.

There is a question and answer session:

Q: Will Maharishi gives his opinion of the future of the World given as we live in such critical times?

A: Why should you worry about the future? You don’t even know the present properly. Take care of the present and the future will take care of itself.

I don’t know how to report on the exact effects of diffusing Palo Santo during the evening. It’s become a bit of a routine after I started doing this in early March during a weekend my husband was away running a food stall at the World Music Festival in Adelaide. I was preparing for the Equinox, eating well and preparing for a detox, lots of leafy green for liver/gall bladder, receiving a couple of Raindrop treatments as well as giving them. So I had the idea with diffusing Palo Santo in the evening using the YLEO cold diffuser.

Not only did I sleep well, the quality of my sleep was different. I recall hearing Gary Young say something about using it as part of a treatment of a client with a serious lung ailment, and at that time thinking that I’d inhale the oil directly a few times a day if I got a flu or cold. I did feel my lungs kept a lot clearer and I would bring up mucus in the morning.

Every now and then, I do use the Sleep Patches and occasionally these don’t work… I think I need to have more Magnesium/Calcium in the body, something I’m at work on–remember this could well be part of a hormonal balance issue. An Epsom Salt footbath helps. Sometimes I get up and have a footbath and read a bit in the kitchen while that’s happening and forty minutes later I’ve put some lavender or whatever else I muscle-test for, or intuit, and I’m having the most fabulous sleep ever.

Anyway, I was checking up online on Magnesium sources and absorption and came across a page and another. You do have to wade through conflicting info. Also, I try to avoid pages that are put up by govt bodies, drug companies, or similar.

YLEO has a good supplement, Cal/Mag but that’s not available in Australia yet.

An except from another online site:

Best Dietary Sources
Many foods are rich in magnesium. Good sources include fish and seafood, including bluefish, carp, cod, flounder, halibut, herring, mackerel, ocean perch, shrimp, and swordfish; fruits and fruit juice; leafy green vegetables; dairy products; nuts, including almonds; molasses; soybeans; sunflower seeds; wheat germ; and snails.

One-half cup of dry soybeans contains 278 milligrams of magnesium; 1/2 pound of spinach provides 200 milligrams. One-half of a medium avocado contains 51 milligrams; 1 cup of bottled grape juice has 30 milligrams, a cup of skim milk or buttermilk 34 milligrams, a cup of ice cream 19 milligrams.

Every now and then, I start ‘overthinking’. Not sure what triggers it but I suspect it is a result of the always-wanting-do-do-more or the perfectionist or the keep-everying-under-control or wouldn’t-it-be-wonderful-if syndrome. There are most likely even more variations on the triggers. Last night, it happened in the liver meridian time so I took the tissue salt Nat Sulph and considered getting up and staying up! I choose an oil from my case — I’ve accumulated a decent selection of oils over the number of years of using Young Living Essential Oils — and picked ‘Rosemary’. I then looked up my Carolyn Mein book Releasing Emotional Patterns with Essential Oils and found the emotion as ‘Sabotage’ and the affirmation ‘I let go of old patterns’. Soon after, I began my Tai Chi Chi Kung and moved on to working on my novel.

Then, in a break from my work, I felt I needed something more to keep my headspace quiet so I reached in my oils kit and got ‘Orange’. It did not have an application in the Carolyn Mein book so I put my mind to other ways of using it. Recently, I’ve been getting excited about adding oils to my juices but I didn’t feel like a juice — and ended up putting it in my diffuser.

Back to the novel!

If you want to know how to get the book or the oils, email me (details in the contact page).

Grand Plan: Going back for the today for the second time this weekend to MBS. Taking the train to Spencer st and walking down.

The day began with a miso soup — on Friday, when I sat down at the Direct Health counter and Phillipe Thebault did a food sensitivities test and it was obvious that vegetables were good for me — as if I didn’t know, I made another resolution to reduce the grain-creep that was overtaking my diet. I also got some Alkalising supplements from this stand but I’m not sure about this; could be too much for my system; just increasing vegetable intake and raw food might handle this better.

I tell a lie — the day actually began with my Tai Chi Chi Kung and an implementation of the Hu chanting that I found out about at the Eckandar stand. This is a gorgeous sound/light meditation. I did the chant at the same time as I did the movement. The practice of combining the two will no doubt get better with experience.

One of the nice things at this festival was the centre stage with some good sound vibrations being produced, instrumental and vocal. Also, on my last trip I met a psychic from Sydney, Cimone-Louise, at the tramstop, and helped her discover the way back to her hotel – perhaps a session with her might be on my cards this morning. I don’t normally do that sort of thing but today, I’m having a break from my normal routine.