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Amber is a Psychic Medium & Clairvoyant and Founder of Into the Soul. "I am passionate about helping people and making a difference. I hate seeing people suffering or in pain. Compassion, empathy and a desire to help others, guides me at all times. I help those in hardship through sharing spirit’s guidance. I provide psychic readings, and spiritual, intuitive guidance."

Dense Moist Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes

This recipe has been given the thumbs up by two very fussy and experienced cupcake eaters. I have never managed to sneak a vegan cake past them before… this is my first!! This will yield approximately 15 midsized cupcakes  Ingredients: 250 grams soybean butter (or your preferred vegan butter) 1 cup caster sugar 4 tsp Orgran egg replacer (at your supermarket) 8 tablespoons water 2 teaspoons vanilla essence 2 cups self-raising flour 4 tablespoons cocoa powder 250 ml's coconut milk, or coconut cream if you you're not counting calories 250 grams dark chocolate (make sure its vegan, most dark chocolate is) Icing sugar Method: Melt the chocolate and allow to cool to room temperature (if you don't let it cool it will likely seize, so do this step first!) Oven to 180C Line your muffin/cupcake tins and put to the side Beat  butter and sugar until creamy. It won't fluff up like dairy butter, but it will combine thoroughly and the sugar will no longer appear grainy, and the mixture will be smooth. About 5 mins. Beat the Orgran with the water until somewhat foamy and fluffy. Then add gradually add it to the butter and sugar mix. Beat in the vanilla essence Add a dollop of the chocolate and mix in thoroughly, then add remaining chocolate and mix thoroughly. Sift flour and cocoa powder together.

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Appreciation

Happy Friday Soulful friends! We are almost at the weekend!! And for those whose time-zone is a little behind.... well it's almost Friday, so be happy too!! What an amazing week its been for me. I've truly been so inspired by some of the most wonder-full thinkers of all time. I've submerged myself in  the words and stories of Buddha, Mother Theresa, Socrates, Rumi, Sufi, and John Lennon, to name a few. I have seriously not been able to get enough of them this week!! If you give them a chance they absolutely feed and heal the soul. They may no longer be "here"  but they are definitely alive and kicking on in spirit. In their free-thinking, and their commitment to the plight and, or, service of others they have left me feeling humbled and inspired and humbled all over again. The perspective they have given me as to what really matters and what is truly important, compared with what is peripheral is unparalleled. If I picture myself trying to explain to Mother Theresa or Buddha or Rumi any of my current set of stresses and worries, I straight away see that to hold these particular concerns means I am fortunate. My needs for survival and safety and comfort are met and I am in good health. To live a life where all your basic needs

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Self Love – Be Nice To You

Soulfriends, are you being nice to you ? Treating yourself like a good friend? Have you been kind and understanding to you today? Or have you been running around madly. working hard, squeezing things in and pushing yourself? Did you also have too little sleep? And have you been feeding yourself rubbish food too? Why!?!! Why are we all living this way. Busy-ness is taking over everyone and consuming our identities, and we're all just running around mindlessly. Busyness is the opposite of thoughtfulness, it's how we lose ourselves, miss out on living our lives, become depressed, lose our passion and joy in being alive. The need for stuff becomes consuming and usurps all the goodness from our lives, leaving us with nothing of value... truly the material is never valuable when the emotional life is bankrupt. Who cares how much you have if you have no one to share it with, and no one to love, or your health is compromised, or your mind overwhelmed or depressed? We all need to wake up and start caring again, and treating ourselves with the same care we would a friend. If you would not treat your friend the way you're treating yourself, then there's a problem!! And its time that it was addressed. A really good first step in this direction is just learning to pay attention to your needs again. To listen to

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Risotto with Zucchini and Tomato

Ingredients: Olive oil 1 onion, chopped finely Salt 1 cup Arborio rice Wineglass dry white wine 4-5 cups imitation chicken stock, or vegetable stock 1 can chopped/crushed tomatoes 2 zucchini sliced finely Squeeze of lemon Black pepper 1/2 cups fresh parsley chopped finely Method: Heat onion olive oil and salt in a heavy based pan and cook on a low heat until onion is translucent - you don't want the onion to get any colour, just to become soft and mushy. Add the rice and stir for another minute. Add the wine, turn up the heat and let it boil away to nothing. Add a ladle of the stock and stir until its disappeared. Repeat process until half of stock is gone, then add tomatoes, zucchini and lemon if desired. Continue to add stock and stir until rice is tender, but still has substance. Then add parsley and stir through. Serve as is or with cheezly or other cheese substitute if desired. Amber | www.intothesoul.com

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Martha Beck on Healing

This morning I read Martha Beck's thoughts on pain and healing and they resonated with me deeply Soullies. So I'm sharing with you; Martha reminded me that pain is as important a part of our life's journey as joy and happiness are. Her thoughts remind me of a lot of the words of a very wise teacher of mine. She once counselled me that if nothing else the pain we experience is our teacher. It enables us great compassion for all who cross our paths, allowing us great compassion and insight, connecting us to them and in so doing, connecting us to the circle of life, or universe. Our pain affirms our growth... and that of others. This is because the pain is itself a process, not an 'end' point. I love that!!! I hope it means something to you too, and here is what Martha has to say on the whole thing: “Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away... Out goes naiveté, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive. . . . The pain leaves you healthier than it found

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A super good, super easy Pasta Salad

Ingredients for Pasta Salad: 310g small shell-shaped pasta 3 cloves of garlic 255g yellow cherry tomatoes, halved or quartered  255g red cherry tomatoes, halved or quartered 1 handful of black olives, pitted, chopped roughly 2 tablespoons fresh chives, chopped 1 handful of fresh basil, chopped, or if you're particular 'torn' 1 handful continental parsley, chopped ½ a cucumber, chopped Method: Chop up your tomatoes and cucumber and herbs, it looks nice if you keep them smaller than your pasta shells!! Bring pot of salted water to the boil. Add pasta and cloves of garlic, cook to al dente, you don't want mushy pasta salad. Drain, rinse in cold water, remove and keep garlic - it's for the dressing. Put the pasta into a bowl, don't over drain it. Add the tomatoes, olives, chives, basil and cucumber to the bowl. Dressing: garlic that you cooked with your pasta 4 tablespoons white wine vinegar, or to taste 7 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil sea salt and freshly ground black pepper Squash the garlic cloves out of their skins and crush.  Add the vinegar, oil and seasoning, combine well and combine (well) with garlic. Pour over salad, add salt and pepper to taste and add chopped parsley.... and feel free to make it your own -  add or substitute any of your favorite herbs to this pasta salad too.

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Wild Mushroom Pasta

This recipe is super delicious!! I love a good pasta, and this is definitely one of my favourites!! Ingredients: 1 onion 1 clove garlic Olive oil 2 handfuls of fresh thyme 1-2 small dry red chillies, crushed 600 grams mixed (wild, Japanese, interesting) mushrooms, torn Pappardelle Nuttelex 2 handfuls parsley, chopped Optional - feel free to add to this dish!! peas, asparagus, olives would all be delicious!! Method: Fry the onion, and garlic in olive oil until golden Add thyme, chillies, mushrooms Fry until all moisture is cooked away from the mushrooms Cook the Pappardelle in salted water as per packet, reserve a little of the cooking water to loosen the sauce later if required Remove the mushrooms from heat, season to taste, loosen with Nuttelex and cooking water Toss pasta with mushrooms, sprinkle with parsley, and vegan cheese (cheezly) if desired, then serve Amber | www.intothesoul.com

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Lentil Soup

My girlfriend wrote this recipe out for me about 20 years ago!! It's so good that I still have it, exactly as she wrote it, thankyou Erin!! Ingredients: 200g (1 cup) red lentils- washed 3 tbspns long grain rice - washed 3 tbspns chickpeas cooked 2 onions, peeled and chopped 1 carrot chopped 1 stalk celery chopped 4 cloves garlic chopped 2 long red chillies slit down the side (remove seeds for less heat) 1 litre vegetable stock or IMITATION beef-style stock 500 ml water 400 ml tomato puree (crushed tomatoes work too) 1.5 tsp ground cumin 1.5 tsp ground coriander 1 tsp fenugreek seeds - crushed salt and freshly ground black pepper Method: Okay so this is the easiest recipe in the world… put all ingredients in a big pot. Cover. Put on heat and bring slowly to boil. Simmer 40-45 minutes. Add more water or stock to loosen if desired. Serve sprinkled with parsley and hot crusty bread - yum! Amber | www.intothesoul.com

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Spicy Roast Pumpkin, Spinach & Olive Salad

Ingredients: 3 tablespoons olive oil ½ teaspoon ground cumin ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper sea salt freshly ground black pepper 800g pumpkin, cut into 2cm cubes 100g baby spinach leaves 20 Kalamata olives, pitted or Sprinkle with lightly toasted pine nuts (not both!!) Dressing: 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar 60ml extra virgin olive oil 1 French shallot, finely sliced (optional) Preheat oven to 220c. Place olive oil, cumin, cayenne pepper, salt & pepper in a bowl & stir to combine. Add the roast pumpkin & stir to coat. Transfer to a roasting pan & bake for 30 minutes, or until the pumpkin is tender & slightly caramelized. Whisk all the dressing ingredients together in a bowl until combined. Divide the spinach between four serving plates & scatter roast pumpkin, and olives or pine nuts over the top. Drizzle each with dressing. Amber | www.intothesoul.com

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Minestrone

Ingredients: 200 grams dried (mixed) beans cabbage leaves 2 potatoes 100 grams peas 200 grams fresh string beans 2 eggplant 2 zucchini 2 carrots a stalk of celery a slice of kale olive oil salt and pepper 250 grams pasta or rice seasonal herbs Method: Soak the beans overnight. Put in a pot of cold water and cook for an hour over moderate heat. This is the base of your soup. Add to this the vegetables, which you have cut up into cubes already. Also add olive oil, salt and pepper. Cook for 45 minutes, add extra water if needed. You don't want your minestrone to be too thick, you want it to be a soup. Add the pasta or rice and let cook whilst preparing the pesto. Pesto Ingredients: 6 cloves of garlic 2 handfuls of basil leaves salt 6 handfuls of cheezly/substitute parmesan if desired. I make my pesto without the cheese and its delicious 3 or 4 spoons of olive oil In a mortar combine the garlic, the basil and a little salt. Whilst pounding with a mortar add the nondairy parmesan and when it is all beaten into a paste, add some olive oil and mix it into a thick cream. Loosen further with some broth from the soup, and then just before serving stir the loosened pesto right thru the

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Vegan Risotto – Asparagus and Lemon

Ingredients Asparagus Vegan Risotto: olive oil 1 small onion, finely chopped 200g/7 ounces Arborio rice 125ml/4½ fluid ounces white wine litre - 1.25 litres hot chicken-STYLE or vegetable stock 400g/14 ounces asparagus, chopped salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 small lemon, zest and juice cheezly or other non-dairy cheese if you wish it  - btw you can make your own - its perfectly do-able Method: Heat the oil in a pan over a low heat. Peel onion and chop it finely. Allow the onion to soften in the oil, do not fry it. Stir in rice, coating the grains in the oil. Pour in the wine and allow it to reduce until all of it has evaporated. Slice the asparagus into 1 cm pieces. Keep the 'heads' whole. Blanche or steam them till just tender. Add a large ladleful of hot stock to the rice, turn the heat up a bit, then let the liquid almost disappear before adding the pieces of asparagus and a second ladle of stock. Continue adding the stock as it boils down to almost nothing. Stir the rice often, grating and squeezing the lemon as the rice is cooking. Do taste test!! The lemon can become overpowering if you're not careful. Season with salt, pepper, the lemon zest and juice and continue cooking till the rice is creamy but

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Psychic Connection – Connecting to Your Spirit Guides

I personally am very guilty of not making enough time to meditate. When I do it regularly I feel amazing and refreshed and more energetic. I think the most important thing is to set yourself a routine of meditation and to really honour that time you have allocated for yourself and your connection to the universe. Yes it’s true, meditating can be a bit of a challenge at first, I definitely find it tough when I am starting out. To me its a bit like going for a run, it takes time to get fit for this activity, you have to build up your meditation muscle, but it does get easier and it does become more enjoyable… just like physical exercise does. So to begin with, commit to meditating 20-60 minutes, 6-7 times a week, for two weeks. You’re not allowed to give up before the 2 weeks is out!! To begin, find a quiet comfortable area that is warm, and lie down. You should be on your back with your arms straight out beside you, hands relaxed, palms upwards. Close your eyes and picture your face. Hold on to this image of yourself. Ask spirit to come forward; “Dear guides, please come and share this time with me, I am here and I am waiting for you,” or whichever words seem natural to you.

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Circle of Life

This is a beautiful, powerful, and affirmative meditation, I hope you enjoy it. You are important and of intrinsic and infinite value. You are someone who is in charge of your own life, your thoughts and choices... All are yours. You are exactly as you are meant to be, and you are perfectly on the journey you set out for. You matter, you make a difference, and you do make things better, for everyone who loves you... Every act of your kindness ripples throughout the universe. Every generosity changes the world. Recognise your contributions, the gifts you share of yourself, and their resonance. See your connection in the circle of life that is the universe, the circle of life that is you. Affirm your place, your belonging and your eternal energy... Amber | www.intothesoul.com

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The Ten of Swords – Meaning & Interpretation

  The ten of swords is the final number card of the sword suit, indicating your completed journey through this particular world of the tarot. This card shows us clearly an end from which there is no returning; the worst has happened, nothing can be changed or saved, nothing can be 'fixed'. The idea, the thought, the dream, it's over. A new beginning must be your focus, you cannot hold onto the old ways any longer. I often make the point that in the swords suit, which correlates to air and thought, that in the majority of this suit you really are able to take control of your thoughts and perception and prevent yourself from suffering the points of the swords. What I mean is that in the swords its your thoughts that are hurting you, change your thoughts and you change the suffering. However, With the 10 of swords, it is too late. You have been pierced already and you are suffering. You will not find a way to avoid this. All you can do is prepare; think ahead and plan how to cope with the mental distress you will be facing. I truly believe that the most important thing that I can share about this card is its gravity. You have to take it seriously. If this card appears in a reading, serious stuff

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Ask me?

Hi Soul-friends!! This page is exactly what it says it is - a place where you can ask me ... See one thing I’ve found on my ‘spiritual journey’ is that there really isn't enough support, guidance or literature out there for us!! It's slow work building a group of like minded people to talk to, or even finding helpful books to refer to. I don’t want you to feel like you're alone on this journey like I did. So if there’s anything I can do to help you, or provide you with some insight or guidance, I’m here; just ask. I am not the most experienced or wise person by any means, but sometimes just sharing experiences and feeling part of a network that understands you goes a long way to giving you what you need. Hopefully we will all be able to share our journeys and grow together, so please leave your questions here, and I will get back to you as soon as I can … xxx    

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Connect to Spirit & your Spirit Guides

I was going through some notes when I came across a list of questions that I had written out to 'ask' my guides. These were personal questions and I will share them below as they provided great insight for me, and I think they would for anyone who sincerely focused on them too. I wanted to explore what was holding me back, what were my fears and what were my blockages. See, I believe that when you connect with spirit, you are very quickly confronted by personal fears. Spirit presents them to you in myriad ways and they keep them coming until you finally do 'deal' with them. For example, childhood issues, sadness, habitual problematic behavoiur and so on... spirit wants you to 'see' and deal with you as a first priority. They are showing you your 'issues' to help you face them, and this really is one of the first tasks on your spiritual journey. So basically, you have to address your personal fears and find self acceptance before you will be able to do any other significant work with spirit. And when you think about it, it really does make sense. In truth, your intuition, or psychic ability is there to inform your connection with creator, 'god' , or the universe. Being 'psychic' is not about knowing secrets or hearing the thoughts of others, it is about connecting to creator and through that

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