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I was on a cramped flight today sitting next to two other people. They knew each other so talked amongst themselves the whole time. Well, not really talked more like complained loudly. They were complaining about everything in their lives worth complaining about, which sounded like just about everything. The energy omitting from them was tense, frustrated and unkind.

For the first half hour or so I managed to block their energy and do my own thing, but I must have had little holes in my protection barrier because I started to feel what they were feeling, and that feeling was not particularly pleasant. I tried putting in ear plugs in and mediating through it but unfortunately their voices penetrated my ear plugs so I blocked the sound out with my ipod and worked on discharging the energy.

The thing is, it’s not like they were complaining about hugely important things. It was more like it was for the sake of complaining, like they were getting off on it somehow. Maybe by complaining about others in their lives they felt more comfortable with their own shadow self, because it was a way of saying that it’s okay to not be perfect because look at these flaws in everyone else.

We need to stop complaining so much. When we endlessly complain we’re stepping into a very negative vibration. I’m all for releasing negative emotions and exploring our shadow selves, but this act of complaining is a little different. It’s a self manufactured destructive energy that feeds the ego more than anything else. It makes us feel yucky, it makes those around us feel yucky, and it very rarely solves problems. We may leave the conversation feeling better, but is that our higher self feeling better or is that our ego feeling superficially better for a while because we’ve talked ourselves into it by complaining about others. Continue reading →

I wanted my first blog post in the US to be a video post and I apologize that it’s not. Staying in a hostel means not a lot of space or privacy for filming and it’s been raining out but I promise I’ll get the camera out as soon as I can.

Two weeks before I embarked on this journey I knew it was going to be a soul searching trip for me, and I’m happy to say I’ve already been answering some questions and getting some clarity on the direction I want to be heading in life.

When I first landed in New York and settled into my hostel, I spent a couple of hours wandering around my new neighborhood, checking out the cafes, bars and restaurants and was ecstatic to find three vegan restaurants, a handful of health food stores and two yoga schools all within a ten minute walk from my hostel.

The city of New York is amazing. There is always a very good health store within a short walking distance. I’m sitting in a cafe writing this and my macbook is picking up 30 wireless Internet connections. I don’t know if I’m going to have enough time to visit all of the raw vegan restaurants in the city during my stay and I walked into a clothing store the other day and bought the best ever organic cotton underwear that you won’t even find online in Australia let alone in a store.

In Australia I can list every health stores in my city on one hand. If my macbook picks up 5 wifi connections that’s a lot, and I have to drive over an hour to get to the one and only raw vegan restaurant in my state, and even then it’s on the border. Continue reading →

There are very interesting times up ahead! I’m about to embark on a journey to the US to learn and experience as much as I can fit into the duration of my trip. I didn’t expect my “journey” to begin until I left Australian shores but I guess the Universe had alternative plans for me. Over the last two weeks I’ve found myself slowing right down and shifting a little sideways from my usual daily routine. And I’ve been presented with beautiful new teachers and new experiences. It has been a wonderful slow warm up to my impending soul journey.

While I’m traveling I’ll be sharing with you my experiences, teachers, lessons and of course the great food I’ll be eating. So don’t worry, you won’t miss out!

The first of many that I want to share with you is a lecture I attended last week in Byron Bay. The lecture was by Nassim Haramein who is an incredibly spiritual and intelligent physicist. I’m not going to be able to do a very good job at explaining his teachings so I recommend you check them out for yourself. A great place to start is a radio interview on KKCR in May this year. You can listen to the interview with Nassim by clicking here.

Nassim talks a lot of big numbers and a lot about the universe and space. I followed a couple of friends along to his lecture now knowing who he was or what it was all about. As soon as the lecture begun I was mesmerized by his speech and his theories on life, the universe and all the stuff we’re often curious about. I even found myself fascinated by the technical discussions even when I had trouble following them! Somehow Nassim’s big heart and spark of intelligence for some of the great mysteries in life has turned science into a topic that is exceptionally entertaining and even enlightening.

I guess one of the biggest teachings that stood out for me was the concept that there would be no time without memory. And how we’re constantly creating and changing the past through our own memory of events.

Think about it. If we could truly only live in the moment, in this absolute second AND without any memory of a past or of a projection into the future .. time would be irrelevant wouldn’t it. There would be no concept of yesterday or last week because we’d have no recollection of it. And I doubt we’d be scheduling in or even stressing about future plans. Because as one true moment passed it would dissolve into the absolute. We’d be completely present.

So our minds eye creates time. It creates a past and it projects a future. It makes everything “appear” linear, as if we’re traveling along an invisible line from point A to point B. When really, perhaps it’s a lot more fluid than that.

But I’m not a physicist or a spiritual teacher, so if you’d like to hear Nassim’s own explanations, here is the link to his radio interview, enjoy!

The more we grow up the less we play. Somewhere along the line a lot of us got this unrealistic expectation that grown ups don’t play to have fun. So instead we began to do what all the other grown ups do to have fun – get drunk, hang out at bars, go out to dinner or watch a movie. Occasionally we join a sport team and play a little with that, but when do we really let everything go and play with no inhibition, no goal and no outcome, just to laugh, be silly and have a really good time…

I have an internal tug of war going on with this concept. A large part of me feels like I need to act a certain way because I’m 30 years old now, and therefore officially a grow up. But there’s also this little child in me that wants to bust out sometimes. It wants to run around the garden, do cartwheels, laugh a lot, wrestle, tickle my friends and dance freely.

I feel that somewhere along the line we learned to lock up this child and never let it out. It’s a beautiful freeing feeling letting that child within us loose. Letting it run around and skip and play.

When a friend and I were walking down the street yesterday we decided to play with this idea a little. So we skipped, walked sideways and jumped down the road. Sure we got a few strange looks from people but both of us ended up in laughter. And it was that deep satisfying, healing belly laughter that comes from playing around and being silly.

That’s the thing – play can be extremely healing. It can bring on laughter, it can move energy around your body and it’s just plain fun. We all know how incredibly healing laughter can be. There are even yogic groups that get together to weave all types of laughter into their practice as a form of healing! And moving the body means moving the energy around. This movement can create more of a free flow of energy throughout the body and help dislodge any blockages. Especially when we move our body in a completely different way to what we’re used to. Try playing with moving every single muscle in your body at once. You may be surprised at how little movement you have in your every day life.

But you don’t have to be as lame as my friend and I. There are no rules to this game. You can play around with anything that you child wants and desires to have fun. Mine is usually tickling, poking and laughing with my friends or dancing around the room (what I call “kid dancing”). What’s yours? I’d love to know.

And here is a video that you may or may not have seen already. It’s a perfect example of this concept, of how having childlike fun can bring more joy and magic into our lives.

Lovely huh. Maybe a lot of us usually take the escalator because it’s WAY more fun than the stairs. So if the stairs were more fun perhaps we would then choose to walk up the stairs.

Happy playing and mucking around x

In this video I attempt to talk about Louise Hay’s acne affirmations and Shazzie’s awesome free eBook, but I got a little distracted …

Here are the affirmations:

I am a Divine expression of life. I love and accept myself where I am right now.

And the less hippy version:

I love and accept myself where I am right now. I am wonderful.

Shazzie Rocks!!

I’m a little bit in love with Shazzie at the moment. She’s been a huge inspiration for me becoming a raw foodie … and she just seems like a really beautiful, loving person.

Her free eBook “Shazzie Whispers 100 Messages Of Love” is like wrapping yourself up in a big warm blanket, or devouring a bowl full of raw chocolate. It’s just a beautiful book to read – get the eBook here.