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31
May

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Mind is the problem

By mati | Filed in Life, Uncategorized

Here in the west, we are worshipping mind (which lives in the left brain). Mind is worshipped in the schools, at work and even in life. They teach our children to think, plan, memorize, criticize and be competitive. But in life, there always has to be a balance.

The law of balance is the most imporant law to understand. It affects everything in life. If you drink too much, you end up with a hangover, if you eat too much, you become too fat, if you sleep too much, you become lazy and won’t get anything done, if you get too greedy, you’ll lose all your friends, and so on. Anytime you can put the word “too” in front of what you are doing, you are basically doing something that is out of balance.

So, what is wrong with that? I like to think of balance as a pendulum. If you pull it all the way to the side, it is not in a stable space. As soon as you let go, the pendulum swings all the way to the other side, and then back again. Only in the middle is the pendulum iin a stable space. So, anytime you are doing too much of something, there will be a reaction to the other extreme.

So, how can we bring mind into balance? The only way to balance mind is to spend more time in your right brain. Your right brain is your connection to cosmos, to source, to inspiration, psychic insights and creativity. This is where we are meant to live. This is where we are in touch with life. And the mind on the other side is only supposed to be a tool for self expression and survival.

So, why are we worshipping the tool and forgetting our connection to source? Why are we teaching children to worship mind, when it will cause them to forget who they are? No wonder why most of the people on this planet feel like orphans and are wondering why they are here!

I have a wish for the future: That the schools will start to teach in a balanced way – teach the kids how to use mind, but also how to be intuitive beings who knows how to muscle test, use a pendulum, read tarot cards and generally learn to trust the inner voice that guides us.

So, when they teach children how to write, don’t ask them who it is for, and what is the plot, and where is the story going before it is even written! Just give them a general idea, and then ask them to close their eyes, go empty and wait for information to come to them. And, as soon as the words start coming, to write them down as fast as they can, before the info is lost. Editing can be done later! This is how you teach automatic writing that comes straight from the right brain.

The same thing goes for art. Have an idea, go empty, look inside and see what comes…

Every one of us are born with special abilities and talents. We just have to figure out how the universe wants to express itself through each one of us, and allow it to happen. Someone may be a writer, a musician, a great knitter, a great mother, you name it. We all have certain gifts that we came in with. But when mind is in control, it will always dissect, criticize and discourage us from expressing the divine. Very sad actually. The mind will cripple our natural beings, and still, we worship the mind, even though mind is pure madness, and by this I mean never here and now – always in the past or in the future, which actually doesn’t exist.

Mind believes that its perception of reality is real, and everything else is useless, but the truth is, it doesn’t even come close to what is real.
In the East, they know this, because they managed to find ways to go beyond the mind. Is it possible to stop thinking, and still be? Absolutely! Mind is the sickness, meditation is the medicine…

The children are our future. If only the teachers could find their way back to their own source and then teach our children! This is my wish and my vision for a better future – teaching the balance between mind and no-mind, teaching our children to live in both of those realities and to be able to use the mind as just a tool, which is what it was meant to be in the first place. I wish….

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25
May

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Difficult Times

By mati | Filed in Age of Aquarius

Chaos is in the air! Right now, we are in the cycle of Ethics in the mayan calendar, which is why everything unethical is being exposed at the moment. It may be disheartening to see how selfish and horrible people can be, but don’t let it drag you down! It is good that it is exposed, because by exposing everything unethical, people become aware, and they will start working together to put a stop to it.

Locally, we (the people in my area), were recently able to get rid of a corrupt and selfish school super intendent who just kept giving himself raises when everyone else were told there wasn’t enough money. He also tried to get rid of the principle, a lovely lady who was totally loved by the children, but who was questioning everything that the super intendent was doing because she didn’t think he had the children’s best interests in mind.

Both parents and the children at the school stood up to him, and to the board, and told them that it was the super intendent who needed to be fired because he was only thinking of his own needs and didn’t care about anybody or anything else, and we kept up the pressure until he was dismissed by the board! Total victory! We worked together in the Aquarian way and refused to be Piscean victims! And this is going to start happening everywhere.

It is easy to focus on how screwed up the world is, but we are going into a new age now, the age of Aquarius, and we no longer have to just take the abuse. Together, we can make a difference, and that is where our focus has to be. If we focus on everything that is wrong, we become depressed and life will seem meaningless, but, by focusing on what we can do to make a difference instead, things WILL start to change!

You may think that you can’t make much of a difference, so what is the point? That is the wrong way to look at it. If everyone does whatever they can to make a difference, together, it all adds up.

A friend of mine sells cookies at a local market. He is so excited about his cookies that he loves giving everyone samples, and his energy is so radiant and happy, that people buy his cookies, not just because they taste good, but because of all the good energy that comes from this man. This man touches so many hearts, just in selling his cookies. Such a simple thing, but so profound! What can be more important than sharing your joy with the world? He is definitely one of the people who has made a difference in my life.

So, don’t let chaos, corruption and difficult times drag you down. Just realize that chaos is a natural part of change, and keep steering in the direction that you want the change to go. In other words, be the change that you want. We are all co-creators of reality…

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10
May

3

Life is a wave

By mati | Filed in Life

If flows and it ebbs, like the waves in the oceans. This applies to everything in your life – your business, your love life, your health, your money flow. The mind likes to think that nothing changes, and that everything will stay fixed, as soon as you get things where you want them to be. But, the truth is, life can change any moment.

So, how do we deal with this kind of change? Well, we can either wait until the tides turn, or we can do whatever we are able to do and then trust that life takes care of the rest.

What does this mean, in practical terms? It means that we have to learn to live with insecurity. Insecurity has its own wisdom – although very uncomfortable for the mind! The mind is fixed, the mind needs to know, the mind likes to plan – this is all left brain stuff. But, life is not in touch with your left brain. Life connects with you through your right brain, and the left brain is just a tool for expressing the inspiration and creativity that comes in through your right brain.

This is a very scary thought – that we have to do what we can, and then trust life, but it is actually the only way, because we are co-creators with life. We ARE life, we ARE creativity, the energy of source, or GOD, runs through us and what we believe about life is reflected back to us from everywhere. So, we must become more aware, what we create, and how we use the power of life. And, we must surrender to the waves, coming and going. Trying to stop the wave from waving is like trying to push the river uphill. Forget it. Just hold a clear vision of where you are going, and then trust that sooner or later, you’ll get there…

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3
May

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Baby medications recalled!

By mati | Filed in Uncategorized

While we are on the subject of chemical exposure, check this out!!! The FDA is recalling all kinds of baby medications that everyone uses!!!
http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm210443.htm

Where are people’s integrity, heart and sense of consciousness? These products are obviously made by people who don’t care! Seems that love is a missing ingredient in the world today…
So, pass this on to everyone you know, especially the ones with babies!

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3
May

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Chemicals in Cleaning Products

By mati | Filed in Uncategorized

Chlorox has recently made a new line of cleaning products called Greenworks. When Wal-mart used to carry it, the greenworks dish washing liquid was the only brand I could find on the shelf that didn’t contain triclosan.

Triclosan is an anti-bacterial agent that can go right through your skin and enter your blood stream, which is not good news. However, since everyone seems to be obsessed about cleanliness and bacerias, triclosan is becoming more and more common in just about everything, like dish washing liquid, hand soap, hand sanitizers, toothpaste, you name it! Talk about chemical invasion!!! If it is in almost everything, without any notice or warning on the packaging, it means that we don’t really have much of a choice…

Greenworks is made with as few chemicals as possible, but it still works just as well as anything else out there. Often times, you’ll find that totally natural cleaning products doesn’t work as well as harsh cleansers, but this doesn’t apply to greenworks. Their products are excellent.

However…. Nobody is educating the public, they just keep buying what they always buy. Habits don’t easily change! So, now, both walmart and our local super market has stopped carrying these products, after trying them out for just a short while! There probably wasn’t enough market for it!

People, out there, it is time to wake up!!! When companies go to all the effort of creating better, more natural products that are healthier for you and your family to use, you must buy it! You must support their efforts, because in the world of business, money dictates. If something doesn’t sell, it gets pulled off the market, so, in other words, if you don’t buy the new, better products, they will soon go extinct, and you’ll be stuck with the old toxic rubbish instead…

So, don’t be afraid to break your old habits. If you want a less toxic environment for yourself and your family, you must wake up now, and start supporting these new companies that are trying to bring healthier products! Say NO to chemicals, and show them you mean it by not buying those products any more…

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May

2

Mind is like a yoyo…

By mati | Filed in Life

I have a beautiful magnet on my fridge that says: “The heart was only meant to be, a little wild, a little free…” So, where is that wild and free heart? Where is the part of you that has the courage to be wild and free? Are you following your dreams? If not, that part of you has been suppressed. By who or what? If you guessed the mind, you are right.

The mind is like your personal inner nag and negative critic. It stops you dead in your tracks at the first hint of inspiration, before you even finish your sentence in your head. The mind is there with a big club, and your fragile sprout of an idea is dead before you even had time to give birth to it!

I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie “Under the Tuscan Sun.” This lady is on a trip to Tuscany and sees a poster of a lovely little house. Another woman sees her interest and asks, “Are you going to buy it?” And she answers: “Oh, no, I couldn’t possibly, it is a terrible idea!” The other one answers: “Yes, a terrible idea… don’t you love those?”

Those are actually your best ideas! The terrible ones! Those are the ones that makes your mind shiver with fears, buts and great arguments why it will NEVER work!!!

Why does this happen? Why do we have this inner sludge of negativity that stops us from living life with passion and zest? What is this “mind” anyway?

Mind lives in the logical side of your brain, the left side, and it is actually only meant to be a tool for your divine expression. Unfortunately, it has forgotten this, and now it tries to take over your life completely! It rules through logic, reason, criticizm and arrogance, and unfortunately, it has the power to stop us dead in our tracks.

Why does logic have this kind of effect on us? Very simple. When you allow your intuition to speak, it comes from a dimension beyond the known, and it speaks about ideas, things and places that are new to you. Things that you have never done before, or places that you have never seen. It comes from the unknown, and it tempts and ushers you into the unknown as well.

The unknown is not compatible with your mind. To the mind, this kind of behavior looks like sheer madness, so it will convince you that you are either mad, or you must come to your senses! And, then, it starts moving like a yoyo, from past to future and back again.

It convinces you that you have no past experience with what you are about to embark on, which means that you don’t know where you are going either. If you learn from your past, you won’t make mistakes in the future. If you have no past experience, your future will be nothing but a total disaster, with one mistake leading to another! And what is the point of that??? Be reasonable! Think before you leap! And, besides, you are too old, and it is too late, and you won’t be any good at it anyway…

Oh, so convincing. How can you argue with such logic and reason? You make a deep sigh and resign to the fact that no matter how attractive your new ideas are, and no matter how much you want to jump into something new with zest and passion, you can see your courage floating out the window and disappearing back to where it came from in the first place, the source of infinite possibilities and unlimited potential!

However, there is one major fault with the mind, which it hides beautifully, and that is the fact that the mind is never actually here…
It gets its arguments from the past, which is already gone, and it projects its gloomy predictions into the future, which hasn’t happened yet, and it never stops right in between past and future, which is where we are. The past is gone, and the future hasn’t happened. In fact, the future NEVER happens because it is ALWAYS NOW! Now is all there is. And, when we forget that, we give mind all the power to destroy our lives.

The fact is, the mind has no power in the now. It doesn’t actually exist in the now. Only life exists here, and now. So, if you feel that your life is boring, meaningless, and has lost its attraction, and you are no longer excited about anything anymore, it only means one thing – you have allowed your mind to destroy your life!

Once you see this, there is hope. Once you see this, you can start over. New slate, new ideas, here and now… Mind, go away with all your negative ifs and buts… I’m no longer interested. This is my life, and while I’m here, I’m going to make sure I live it! That’s right, life is here to be lived to the fullest! Don’t miss the opportunity… Seize the day….

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26
Apr

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Indigo Children

By mati | Filed in Uncategorized

My son is definitely one of the Indigo children. Indigos got their names from the color of their auras, and people say that they started coming in about 1995 or later. However, I am convinced that I am also an Indigo, even though I was born in 1959. Anyway, this post is my story about being a mother of a strong willed Indigo child – my son, who was born in 1997, in the year of the Ox.

My son had such temper tantrums he could scream for hours. Sometimes, he would end up falling asleep, and when he woke up, he would keep screaming about the same thing. In the supermarket, there was nothing I could do to shut him up, and I remember old ladies telling me “that child is out of control.” Really? Well, why don’t you try to shut him up then? Go ahead, I willing to learn how…

Anyway, he is basically Indigo through and through. He is here, not because he wants to be, but because he has some kind of work to do. He has most definitely ADD, even though he has never been diagnosed, he jumps like a kangaroo and gets incredibly distracted, so everything takes longer to accomplish. And, he is unbelievably psychic, both telepathic and able to see auras.

I had a whole shelf full of parenting books, and I also went to parenting classes, which by the way were nothing but a waste of time and money. None of those methods worked with him. Take away his priveleges – he doesn’t care. Send him to his room in time out – he doesn’t care. Don’t give him any food until he finishes the food from his last meal – he doesn’t care. How do you punish and mold someone who doesn’t care? It doesn’t work, it is as simple as that.

What did work, was to give him options, and full control. I made up a big container in the fridge with foods that he liked, and he just helped himself whenever he was hungry. When he got older, I also taught him how to make toast and omelet, which was very empowering. If he didn’t want to go to bed, I told him that was ok, as long as I didn’t have to see him or hear him, and he stayed in his room, and he was able to get up in the morning without my help. As I learned to work with him, instead of against him, his tantrums got much less.
Punishment just don’t work with these kids, so don’t listen to anyone who haven’t had one of these. They just don’t know…

Now, he has become a teenager. He is very caring and likes to share, and he has become very independent and responsible. He is incredibly good with money and already has his own bank account, ebay account and paypal account, so he can buy whatever he wants on ebay if he has enough money in his bank account. And, he is also very good with computers.

All in all, he was unbelievably challenging for years and years. I felt like a total failure as a mom, and some days, I didn’t even like him. But he has actually turned out greater than I ever imagined. So, just know, if you have given birth to an Indigo child who know what he wants and won’t take no for an answer, don’t despair or feel bad about your parenting skills. These children are here for a reason, and their qualities are very useful to have in an ever changing world. They are probably here to bring in the New Age and change whatever doesn’t work in the world, and their inner strength will help them do this. Just, don’t compare them with anyone else, and whatever you do, don’t dope them with medicines to make them fit in – that would destroy something that shouldn’t be destroyed…

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24
Apr

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Hair Products

By mati | Filed in Beauty

When you wear bangs and they touch your forehead, they often get oily before the day is over. What they need is a bit of a lift. I have tried to put hairspray on the roots and the dry them over a round brush, but they usually fall down again before long.
The other day, I came across a root lift spray by a company called Giovanni, and it works brilliantly. All you need is just a little spritz on the roots of your bangs, style over a round brush, and your bangs are lifted until the next time you wash your hair! I’m very happy with this product and can highly recommend it.
Giovanni also has a very good leave in conditioner that basically brought my hair back to life again, after I fried it recently with the wrong kind of hair dye. So, there you have it – two great products for your hair.

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22
Apr

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Free Tinted Moisturizer

By mati | Filed in Uncategorized

I’m going to start a new little game. Whenever I come up with a new product in my etsy store, I’m going to let one person win a free bottle.

You must have an etsy account to be able to participate, but the account is free and it is easy to sign up. Just CLICK HERE to register. (Etsy is a hand made marketplace with tons of awesome things so you won’t be sorry if you sign up!)

Once your account is set up, you can easily participate in my little game. Just go to my shop at http://www.GreenBeautyCosmetics.etsy.com and find the tinted moisturizer that you have your heart set on. In the right margin, click on the link marked with a heart that says “Add Item to Favorites.”

As soon as the tinted moisturizers gets a total of 200 hearts, I’ll draw one of the names and the lucky winner gets a free bottle! Who wants to play??? Anyone is welcome! And, if this little game works, I’ll do the same thing every time I create a new product. What are you waiting for? Ready, set, go…

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