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“Your kundalini rises naturally once you discover who you are beyond the roles of mother, daughter, sister, wife/partner, friend, aunt, etc. The deepest truth of being female is wild, primordial, undulating, spacious, and unstoppable.”

— India Ame’ye, Author, The Melody of Love

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So whenever your relationship is not working, whenever it brings out the “madness” in you and in your partner, be glad. What was unconscious is being brought up to the light. It is an opportunity for salvation. Every moment, hold the knowing of that moment, particularly of your inner state. If there is anger, know that there is anger. If there is jealousy, defensiveness, the urge to argue, the need to be right, an inner child demanding love and attention, or emotional pain of any kind — whatever it is, know the reality of that moment and hold the knowing. The relationship then becomes your sadhana, your spiritual practice. If you observe unconscious behavior in your partner, hold it in the loving embrace of your knowing so that you won’t react. Unconsciousness and knowing cannot coexist for long — even if the knowing is only in the other person and not in the one who is acting out the unconsciousness. The energy form that lies behind hostility and attack finds the presence of love absolutely intolerable. If you react at all to your partner’s unconsciousness, you become unconscious yourself. But if you then remember to know your reaction, nothing is lost.

Eckhart Tolle

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Intense presence is needed when certain situations trigger a reaction with a strong emotional charge, such as when your self-image is threatened, a challenge comes into your life that triggers fear, things “go wrong,” or an emotional complex from the past is brought up.

In those instances, the tendency is for you to become “unconscious.” The reaction or emotion takes you over — you “become” it. You act it out. You justify, make wrong, attack, defend. . .except that it isn’t you, it’s the reactive pattern, the mind in its habitual survival mode.

Identification with the mind gives it more energy; observation of the mind withdraws energy from it. Identification with the mind creates more time; observation of the mind opens up the dimension of the timeless. The energy that is withdrawn from the mind turns into presence.

Once you can feel what it means to be present, it becomes much easier to simply choose to step out of the time dimension whenever time is not needed for practical purposes and move more deeply into the Now.

This does not impair your ability to use time — past or future — when you need to refer to it for practical matters. Nor does it impair your ability to use your mind. In fact, it enhances it. When you do use your mind, it will be sharper, more focused.

Eckhart Tolle

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My Truth - An Open Letter from a Mirror

Hurt hurts. Fear hurts. We may not be scared to run naked through the streets or rough somebody up if need be, we may not even be scared to jump out of a plane. But the real things we are scared of, the real things of substance that we cannot face, they expose our wounds. We must face one another and uncover truth, even if it produces hurt because hurt will occur regardless but hurt paired with incongruent understanding is additive pain.

People say they want growth but surely they do not always. People, we want growth as far as our effort and comfort are extended. Healing and growing are very hard, that’s why many people are unhealed and immature/un-evolved. It takes sacrifice and dedication to grow. People want to grow as far as they don’t have to morph their toxic behaviors that are most in need of healing and correction. The idea that “we are all toxic to someone” is a complete falsehood. That is a toxic person’s platitude, bred purely out of lack of accountability. Not everyone is perceptively toxic to “somebody”, some people ARE just toxic and they try to conceal it from some people but cannot hide it from others. And some people have toxic tendencies that are exposed predominantly in certain situations and circumstances and thus more prevalently seen with certain people, but overall that person is still toxic or has toxic tendencies. It is our duty to combat this in ourselves. We are capable and WORTHY.

Growing and evolving has been some of the worst pain of my life. I genuinely thought to myself at times “at this point I’d rather remain un-evolved than to face my truth head on and feel this deep, lingering pain”. I feel like people sometimes say “eh I don’t want to hurt them by telling them the truth”. But that’s cowardly and immature because sometimes we hurt people when what we want doesn’t align with what they want and that’s unavoidable. So avoiding saying it makes no sense because the person is hurt regardless but now they are also feeling disregarded and disrespected as well as looking at you differently. And that’s completely unecessary when we could just be straight up. I’ve done this to others in the past and I completely recognize how inconsiderate and hurtful that can be, and so I apologized and addressed and changed that behavior because I don’t want to be anyone’s villain. I’m WORTHY of healing and reconciliation, we are multifaceted beings with flaws but also the capacity to correct them. I will not disrespect myself by hurting other people carelessly.

So often we do not want confrontation. Not really. People want the confrontation they know they can control. This control is so insidious and quiet at times, yet just as dominating as a loud and outward control. I’ve found that stoicism is greatly of use to me. Letting things go, not holding on when things are outside of my control. But also recognizing when things ARE within my realm of accountability so that I can grow and be forward and upright. We cannot control something without also being controlled by it. And so I do not try and control things because I don’t seek to be controlled. In that same vein however, humans are beings of exchange, so not giving effort and accountability equates to a lapse in natural exchange and thus a deficit in connectivity and relationships. It just requires a desire for change, but for some people our core wounds inhibit us from the beauty we can create.

I actually understand when people talk about change but take actions that are counterintuitive to it. People often rather sit in their toxic traits for as long as possible until it breaks them, because it seems easier to keep on living as we have been. What that says to me is, “I seek an early grave and a life of control and domination”, even if that’s exactly the thing we think we are counteracting. By avoiding we are allowing ourselves to be controlled and divorcing ourselves from total freedom. It’s not easy to relinquish, but it’s worth our lives... I don’t want to live my life in perpetual toxicity because it’s “what I know” and “easier”. Forget easiness, I want the difficulty, I want to invest in rituals that are fulfilling and nurturing and most importantly TRULY liberating. I don’t want to just reach the tipping point of breaking free then allow the toxicity to envelope me again. I will fight until it kills me, kills my ego. Get out of your comfort zone. New experiences, profound experiences, require new perspectives and a new you. We cannot run away when people demand accountability from us. We are perpetuating a cycle. I have been guilty of this in the past and it would always come back to bite me when I thought I had evaded it and “wiped the slate”. I was just avoiding my self. It wasn’t about anyone else. We must break that cycle. Set ourselves free. Do we even want true liberation? Who are we without our traumas to define us? Are we afraid to stand tall aside from the things that broke us? Are we afraid we won’t recognize ourselves anymore? There isn’t security in toxic avoidance, only perpetual hurt of ourselves and others. We must rebirth and rebuild ourselves.

It seems like people only want a facade of freedom. A kind of freedom they feel that they deserve, that they feel they are good enough for. Freedom they feel they can attain. We lie to ourselves and say we want a perfect mate. We want someone who will perfectly permit our toxicities and who will share in their regressive nature. True liberation has no bondage or association to trauma, liberation is Love so it is inhospitable with trauma. Our perfect mate stands as a mirror and exposes who we are and what we avoid showing. They demand reformation of the things that damage us and uplift and accentuate the things that REALLY make us. True liberation isn’t limited by our perceptions. Comfort breeds avoidance and tolerance. Freedom is absolute and unconditional. It is bold and uncomforting. It demands we create ecstasy is this wake of freeness and we hand it off to everyone we love. In our idealisms of freedom, what are we free from? What does this “freedom” embody for us? Does this freedom have longevity? Is it true? Is it perpetual? Often it is not. It’s framed so integrally in toxic perceptions. We cannot have freedom without absolving our traumas and bondage FIRST. Otherwise we are building on polluted ground, and thus polluting whatever is grown or built there.

I could have SWORN I was already incredibly free. But then my deepest core fear happened, I was subjectively “abandoned and rejected” after bearing my “truth” or what I thought it to be. It was an incomplete realization that needed isolation to be fully realized. It needed to happen. I needed to face it. It hurt bad. So bad. I had to review everything I thought I had built and corrected about myself and realized I had built an image of me on unstable ground. I just built over and around the things that hurt me in the past and so when my foundation was rocked it crumbled. I thought I addressed those things... but growth is continuous and new things may reveal breaks in the structure you have formed. I had to find who I was among my wreckage. It was a quiet and at times loud hurt. But I had to be fully alone.

My fear was aloneness. I covered and covered it, constantly just reimplementing myself with new people when situations with old would fall through, not healing, just “moving on”. I needed true isolation. Not solitude, but isolation. Craving dependency and denying it to myself. I was grasping at and trying to maintain control and just do what felt good to subdue the pain. We run and we run and finally “it” catches up with us and we can either go willingly or be dragged along. But it’s happening and once it starts we cannot cease it. I suppose that’s what true and chasmic awakening is. Cracked open like an egg. We can never revert back to prior form thereafter.

People want the best for those they care about. Such a simple line but so much depth when you say it over and over. People that do not care will not demand you excel, they will tolerate and allow you to sit in the things that inhibit you. People that care require mutuality because mutuality demands a respect for yourself and thus the other person that ventures beyond the surface. You do not truly respect yourself if you will settle for being “toxic” with no attempt at transformation. You are deifying your idealisms and toxic beliefs. Making them feel true so you have something to hold onto that feels and resembles sturdiness, even if it is clearly broken. That is a fear driven move. A broken person’s method of operation.

We must demand for ourselves to no longer be broken people. It’s so hard and arduous but so worth it because the truth of liberation comes via the sacrifice we make for ourselves. Growth is never without relinquishing. We must throw away so much to be clear and open for new seeds to take root. Roots. Roots. Roots. Which do we snip and which do we nurture? We can only avoid for so long. And then it catches up. I don’t need to be in your life to want you to be healed and full. I don’t need to know you anymore to love and care about you. But with that love and care I still give fully yet with established boundary, even from afar I want you to be your greatest. I told you I’d care forever even if I do not know you for that time. I told you my truth. I’m sure with time you will really see it. Really hear it. And I hope it makes a difference.

Do not run from what darkens your path. Inhabit it. Allow yourself to submit. LIVE in it and beyond it. Embody Life Always. You will fall so deep that the world will flip. Your world will be upside down and you holding dear. But when you cut the final string you will find that you have fallen upwards, ascended, and are now fully coated in Light.

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I AM now choosing to cleanse myself and release any and all thought forms, beings, situations, and energies that are no longer of service to my highest and greatest good… Across all planes of my existence, across all universes, and in all lifetimes. I ask that all energies that are less than love be transmuted for the highest good of all. And so it is. You are luminous.

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aquarius has an intrinsic awareness of the multiplicity of the self not in the multiple gemini way, but in the way they perceive their multidimensional self, the knowledge that their very existence in this physical reality is replicated through all time and space in other worlds and galaxies and they can become conscious of these otherworldly planes, in this way they are kind of aware of the feeling of heaven, that is releasing into particle in rapturous divine union, this is why they try to bring heaven to earth through their tremendous ideals and utopian visions 

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Energy Work: Energy breathing

Energy breathing is an energy working technique that is used to bring energy into your body, and expel negative energy from the inside. This breathing technique can also be used in order to focus your mind, while you go through the process of also allowing your energetic flow to be strengthened, and cleansed throughout your body.  This technique is very simple, and can be done anywhere at anytime and can be combined with the practices of centering, and grounding.

1) Begin this practice by sitting, standing or laying in a relaxing position, then proceed to close your eyes.

2) Visualize the energy flowing throughout the inside of your body as a blue mist.

3) Now begin deep breathing, Inhale through your nose, and exhale through your mouth. As you do this visualize breathing in more bright blue mist on your inhale, and on exhale blowing out black dark smoke. On inhale you are going to want to breathe in fully expanding all parts of the lungs, and on exhale you are also going to want to empty your lungs as much as you can. With every breath visualize your energy as blue mist moving throughout your body.

4) Continue to do this for an extended period of time while visualizing this imagery as clearly as you can in your mind.

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A Practical Guide to Herbology

Lesson One: Medicinal Teas

When I was first starting out with herbology, I was living in a small village in Croatia with a total population of less than 100 people. We depended on homemade teas, salves and medicines to heal us since the nearest hospital was two hours away. We treated ourselves with the power of herbs, gifted to us by the Earth.

These days, we can purchase all the tools we need to grow both common and exotic plants. Dried herbs are also another good option, especially for those that cannot grow their own. And with these tools, we can craft our own medicines. 

For the first lesson, I’m going to focus on something simple: the art of crafting medicinal tea. 

Creating Tea Blends

When starting out with creating medicinal teas, it’s important to understand how each ingredient interacts with our bodies. Be sure that you’re not allergic to any of your herbs and that they won’t interact poorly with any prescribed medications that you’re on. For example, those who are diabetic should not take angelica root; folks who are allergic to ragweed should avoid chamomile. 

Here’s a list of common herbs and their functions for the purposes of crafting medicinal teas:

Angelica Root: Soothes colds and flu, reduces phlegm and fever. (Do not use if you are diabetic)

Basil: Eases headaches, indigestion, muscle spasms, insomnia; reduces stress and tension

Blackberry Leaves or Roots: Reduces diarrhea

Catnip: Soothes teething pain, colic, diarrhea, indigestion, anxiety, insomnia. (May cause drowsiness. Avoid if on Lithium or sedatives)

Calendula (marigold): Reduces fevers, soothes indigestion, gastrointestinal cramps, flu; antiseptic. (May cause drowsiness. Avoid if on sedatives)

Cayenne Pepper: Soothes coughs, colds, arthritis (topical), nerve pain, fever, flu; expectorant. (Avoid taking with medications that contain Theophylline).

Chamomile: Reduces insomnia, anxiety, stress, fever, indigestion; aids with sleep and pain relief. (May decrease effectiveness of birth control pills and some cancer medications, may increase the effects of warfarin; avoid if you are taking medications for your liver)

Cinnamon Bark: Soothes sore throats and coughs; anti-inflammatory (Avoid taking with diabetes medications)

Dandelion Root: Detoxifying, aids digestion, relieves constipation, laxative. (Avoid if on antibiotics, lithium or water pills)

Dandelion Leaf: Mild diuretic, potassium-rich (Avoid if on medication for liver)

Elderberries: Wards off colds and flu

Ginger: Eases morning sickness, nausea, colic, indigestion, diarrhea, fever, sore throats. (Avoid taking with medications that slow blood clotting)

Ginkgo: Relieves anxiety, vertigo, tinnitus; improves circulation, helps concentration; helps PMS. (Avoid taking with ibuprofen or with medications that slow blood clotting; numerous medications have interactions with ginkgo so speak to your specialist before use)

Ginseng: Aphrodisiac, mild stimulant, boosts immune system. (Do not take with medications that slow blood clotting, and avoid taking with diabetes medications or with MAO inhibitors)

Goldenrod: Relieves gout and cramps

Lavender: Reduces anxiety, headaches, tension, stress, indigestion, IBS; antibacterial; antiseptic; disinfectant (May cause drowsiness; avoid if on sedatives)

Lemon balm: Relieves anxiety, cold sores, colic, insomnia, restlessness, indigestion; boosts memory (May cause drowsiness, avoid taking with sedatives)

Nettle: Reduces hay fever and arthritis; diuretic. (Avoid taking with diabetes medications, medications for high BP, sedatives, medications that slow blood clotting, and lithium)

Peppermint: Relieves nausea, anxiety, indigestion, IBS, colic, diarrhea, fever, coughs, colds; anesthetic (Avoid if you have acid-reflux disease; avoid taking with cyclosporine; avoid if on liver medications)

Pine Needles: Expectorant; antiseptic; relieves coughs, colds, fever and congestion

Rosemary: Improves focus, memory, concentration, BP, circulation; antiseptic; antidepressant; eases indigestion

Thyme: Antibacterial, antiseptic, eases coughs and colds, expectorant (Do not take with medications that slow blood clotting)

Recipes

For those starting out, here are a few recipes for common ailments. As you start making your own teas, you’ll learn which blends of herbs work best for your body. Keep track of which ingredients and combinations are successful - with each steep, you get closer and closer to crafting your perfect personalized medicine cabinet.

Anxiety Relief - ½ tsp chamomile - ½ tsp lemon balm Cold Relief - ½ tsp elderberry flower - ½ tsp thyme Mood Booster - ½ tsp lavender - ½ tsp catnip - ½ tsp rosemary Cramp Relief - ½ tsp basil - ½ tsp calendula (marigold) - ½ tsp goldenrod Indigestion Relief - ½ tsp ginger - ½ tsp lemon balm - ½ tsp peppermint Expectorant - ½ tsp pine needles - ½ tsp nettle leaf - ½ tsp angelica root Insomnia - ½ tsp chamomile - ½ tsp catnip - ½ tsp lavender Sore Throat Relief - ½ tsp cinnamon (or half a stick) - ½ tsp ginger - 1 tbsp honey Fever Break - ¼ tsp cayenne pepper - ½ tsp angelica root Flu Relief - ½ tsp calendula (marigold) - ½ tsp lemon balm

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Photographs are under the Creative Commons License. Content is from my grimoire and is embedded with information from a variety of sources over the years. 

Updated 7 March 2018 with relevant warnings and to be consistent with other posts in this series.

Warnings:  All plant material should be sourced appropriately and responsibly for your own safety and well-being. Be certain that you are purchasing food-grade ingredients from a reliable retailer or supplier. Along these lines, not all dried herbs are meant for consumption so please be on the lookout for “external use only” labels - you do not want those products for this.

Do your own research regarding medicinal plants and usage, especially if you are sensitive or have allergies of any kind. If you are on medication(s), consult a doctor before use.

Finally, medicinal teas are a health supplement and not a substitution for professional medical and psychiatric aid. If you are experiencing any prolonged health and/or mental health issues, SEE A DOCTOR.

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The Medicine Wheel of Life

The Medicine Wheel, sometimes known as the Sacred Hoop, has been used by generations of various Native American tribes to represent all knowledge of the universe. Within the cosmology of primal peoples, the Medicine Wheel represents the circle of life. All aspects of life, energy, and the ever-moving universe spiral in circles. The plants, the animals, the minerals, and the elemental forces of nature all exist within the circle.

The Medicine Wheel provides a means of entering sacred space–that place where you can find yourself over and over again. The Medicine Wheel of Life is a mandala, a symbolic blueprint or map of reality. It represents a multidimensional, interwoven web of relationships that are in constant communion with each other. The sacred wheel exists simultaneously in a horizontal and vertical axis, as well as in the unfolding continuum of time–past, present, and future.

The Medicine Wheel of Life serves as a portal to consciously enter the cyclic, time-space unfolding of Tao or Great Mystery through a practice of reverent, harmonious relationship. It is based on the belief that the universe is alive, sentient, and constantly communicating its wisdom to who ever makes an effort to listen.

To move around the wheel and develop a relationship with each direction is to step onto a path of learning and fulfillment. Each direction has qualities and attributes that help us spiral toward completion on the wheel of life. All creatures walk the circumference of the Medicine Wheel, experiencing birth, life, and death. After completing a cycle of learning on the sacred wheel, each of us returns to the source, the Great Mystery at the center or heart of the circle.

The Medicine Wheel of Life is symbolized by a circle that is bisected first with a line of light from East to West. From the East the sun arises and the guardian Eagle takes flight. Though the qualities attributed to each of the four cardinal directions tend to vary from culture to culture, the energy of the East is typically associated with the vernal equinox, Eagle, Hummingbird, morning, birth, beginnings, the rising sun, illumination, inspiration, ascending consciousness, and the element of Air.

From the South rises the vital energy of renewal, regeneration, and growth. From the South we learn to plant seeds of good cause. We learn that our thoughts and actions create our reality. South is related to the summer solstice, Serpent, Coyote, midday, youth, trust, growth, and the element of Fire.

From the West flows the energy of transformation. In the West we assimilate our life experiences. Experience is the only baggage we carry with us from this Earth walk. From the West we exit the realm of physical experience and join into vast levels of experience in the spirit worlds of light, or we choose to return and walk again the sacred wheel of life. West is connected to the autumnal equinox, Bear, twilight, introspection, emotions, flow, the moon, death, endings, transformation, and the element of Water.

From the North flows the energy that completes the quartering of the circle. From the North we receive wisdom and clarity of mind. North is linked to the winter solstice, Buffalo, night, wisdom, clarity, patience, renewal, blessings, abundance, and the element of Earth.

Quartering the circle defines all that is the Great Mystery. We are here on earth to experience and realize the mystery. The vision of that mystery is ever present within each of us. When we still the incessant chatter of the mind, we begin to realize the Sacred Vision. We begin to recognize certain qualities from the four directions that help us evolve on the wheel of life.

Father Sky and Mother Earth together generate the powers of creation. The four directions are the power and life-giving forces of the created. When we begin in the East and turn clockwise, acknowledging the four directions, we align ourselves with the powers that shape our reality. We are also creating a circle–a boundary that separates the sacred from the ordinary and profane. Such a ritual creates a sacred space that can be slipped in and out of at will. By creating a circle, we are also structuring an energy pattern that will contain, focus, and amplify the power generated by ritual. A circle will shape the elemental forces into a powerful current that will spiral upward and downward, uniting heaven and earth. Thus, we synchronize our environment and ourselves to the circle of all that exists.

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The Ultimate Dystopian Playlist

Need some music to get your creative juices flowing? We’ve got you covered!

1. Radioactive by Imagine Dragons

2. Bones by Ms Mr

3. Uprising by Muse

4. We Are Responsible by Anna Johnson

5. Anything Could Happen by Elli Goulding

6. Renegades by X Ambassadors

7. Resistance by Muse

8. Stompa by Serena Ryder

9. It’s Time by Imagine Dragons

10. Lantern by Josh Ritter

11. Human by The Killers

12. Final Masquerade by Linkin Park

13. Escape by Kongos

14. Drive it Like You Stole it by the Glitch Mob

15. Edge of a Revolution by Nickelback

16. Crystals by Of Monsters and Men

17. Hero of War by Rise Against

18. Search and Destroy by 30 Seconds to Mars

19. Secrets by OneRepublic

20. Monsters by Matchbook Romance

21. Invincible by Skillet

22. Gold by Imagine Dragons

23. Human Race by Three Days Grace

24. Into the Fire by Thirteen Senses

25. Vox Populi by 30 Seconds to Mars

26. Human by Christina Perri

27. Some Kind of Monster by Neon Trees

28. What I’ve Done by Linkin Park

29. Away From the Sun by Three Doors Down

30. State of My Head by Shinedown

31. Cough Syrup by Young The Giant

32. Sick Of It by Skillet

33. Centuries by Fall Out Boy

34. Mountain At My Gate by Foals

35. Castle by Halsey

36. Pompeii by Bastille

37. Save the World by Swedish House Mafia

38. Who We Are by Imagine Dragons

39. I Own You by Shinedown

40. Collective Amnesia by Rise Against

41. Viva La Vida by Coldplay

42. Inferred by Placebo

43. Young Volcanoes by Fall Out Boy

44. Burn by Elli Goulding

45. Derezzed by The Glitch Mob

46. You Make Me Want to Die by The Pretty Reckless

47. Glittering Clouds by Imogen Heap

48. Outcast by Shinedown

49. Oh, What a Life by American Authors

50. It’s About Time by Young The Giant

51. Kingdom of Rust by Doves

52. Somewhere Only We Know by Keane

53. Kerosene Dreams by X Ambassadors

54. Recondite mixed by Wahbi Abderrahamane

55. Aftermath by Muse

56. Ready, Aim, Fire by Imagine Dragons

57. Empty Gold by Halsey

58. Believer by Imagine Dragons

59. Meet Me On the Battlefield by SVRCINA

60. Feed The Machine by Nickelback

61. The Bad in Each Other by Fiest

62. Warrior by Beth Crowley

63. Midnight City by M83

64. Not Afraid Anymore by Halsey

65. Yamaha by Delta Spirit

66. Beast by Nico Vega

67. Polarize by Twenty One Pilots

68. Gasoline by Halsey

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Inside - Vadim Sadovski

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Black isn't synonymous to ghetto.

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