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What screws us up most in life?

"What screws us up most in life ... is the picture in our head of how it is supposed to be." This is so true. How often do you catch yourself doing exactly this!!?! Thinking about the things you wish you had done, the things you wish you owned, the things you feel you've missed out on and the way you wish your life was. It's so easy to focus on the 'have not's'. The perceived failings, the difference between where you are and where you wish you were. Many people spend their lives this way, imposing an abstract sense of failure upon themselves, that does nothing but stir up feelings of inadequacy and anxiety. What if we just stopped doing that to ourselves? Imagine how much better the quality of life would be if we learnt to focus on what was in front of us, rather than what we 'wish' was in front of us. We all need to come back to the moment, to 'now' and let go of the reality we imagine, the past we miss, or the gaps we perceive between our 'wants' and 'have's.  Don't wish your life away in this type of pattern... Focus on what you feel, what you sense, what you love right now, and spread your wings and soar. Focus on how good 'right now' feels. Living in this exact moment, 'now' is profoundly liberating. Everything

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Middle Pillar Ritual by Israel Regardie

Israel Regardie's book, The Art of True Healing, is an instruction in how to do The Middle Pillar Ritual Meditation.  Readers of Israel Regardie would have heard of this, and so would many with an interest in Western occultism. (Did you know that the word 'occult' simply means - the seeking of truth?) For those of you unfamiliar with "The Middle Pillar" it is an exercise where you work with moving energies throughout the body.  The true potential of this meditation as a means for healing is great as it is one that can be performed not only for one's self, but also to bring healing to another. And this book sets it down simply and practically, and also inspiringly. I highly recommend “The Art of True Healing”.  It’s a wonderful introduction to Israel Regardie and a practical one too, given that its less than $15. If you enjoy it, you can go on ahead and order The Middle Pillar Ritual, which is a longer book on the subject... “The Art of True Healing” gives new insights and depth to subject matters that you're already familiar with and introduces them for others... its well worth it Soul-friends . The Middle Pillar Ritual STEP ONE. When you finish the LBRP, Stand behind your altar (if you have one) facing east. Your hands should be down at your sides. If they’re not already, close your

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This Month’s Sign: Cancer

Cancer (June 22-July 22) Good luck is on the horizon for you after what seems like months and even years of things feeling they are not going your way. But this month and this week changes everything as you come to see you are not the same person you were five years ago. You are faster, wiser, smarter and don't put up with being put down. Not anymore. As you've grown in wisdom and self-esteem, this has helped you to choose more wisely where you work and how you work. But your poise and demeanour are starting to win the respect of those around you, and this positive energy you are drawing to you is what is making you luckier. Work will improve and relationships will improve as the timing is right for you to decide who builds you up and who brings you down. You'll also have a lucky raise or windfall that you weren't expecting. Don't spend it all in one place. Save some, but try to have some fun with the rest.  You've worked too hard not to reward yourself. with thanks to LivePerson.com

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Healing: 7 Steps to Healing Broken Trust

Few people would argue with the idea that honesty is the best policy. Policies however are not always adhered to, even those that we believe in and support. Regardless of how much we may desire to live a life of integrity in which we “walk the talk” and live in accordance with our inner principles, it’s likely that there will be times that we miss the mark. Nobody’s perfect. Every relationship is going to have occasional slippage. Great relationships however, require a high level of integrity in order to thrive. When a violation of trust, large or small, occurs it’s important to examine the conditions that contributed to the situation and to engage in a healing process that will restore trust and goodwill to the relationship. A betrayal is a broken agreement, implicit or explicit, that is considered vital to the integrity of a relationship. The capacity of a relationship to recover from a betrayal has a lot to do with the responses, particularly on the part of the betrayer to the situation. The more open and non-defensive they are, the more likely it is that there will be resolution. When both partners are committed to this as an outcome, the likelihood increases exponentially. When there has been a cover-up to a transgression, the lies and denials can do much more damage to the integrity

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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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