I use a mini mist spray bottle you can find in the travel accessories in community natural foods, walmart, or shoppers.

To mix you use

1 cup distilled water

¼ cup witch hazel

At this point is where you can add ingredients to suit your skin

¼ cup aloe vera gel-dry red skin, acne, blemishes

1/8 cup rosewater and glycerin, usually in first aid section. The glycerin is anti aging, can help moisturize and increase elasticity of the skin

1-3 drop tea tree oil for acne

1-5 drops chamomile EO for red skin

1-5 drops lavender EO to calm and cleanse the skin

Always be careful with essential oils, less is better, and test it on your skin. I usually use 3-4 of the extra ingredients, but you can research lots of great recipes out there to see which EO’s compliment eachother. Some have up to six different EO’s in a recipe.

Once you mix, let it set for 24 hours and use after cleansing, or applying makeup. (I find the witch hazel really helps to freshen up the skin if looking dull)

I have also noticed that throughout this journey we call life we all seem to have moments when we are unsure and feel either completely overwhelmed or completely stuck.  It appears to me that it is within these moments that we feel the most insecure and those issues of doubting our worth seem to surface.

So, what if we could always remember to connect to the well of love that lives within each of us, no matter what we are dealing with in life at that moment?  What if we could always remember how amazing we are, without coloring it by our perceptions of how other people view us?

The following is a message that I channeled all about self love:

It is important to remember that love flows from within.

It’s just that sometimes it feels like we can’t find it even though it is always there, it never leaves, it never turns on us in judgement, and it never see us and wants something more.

It is pure unconditional love.

It is god, the universe, and everything sitting, flowing and moving within each of us at all times.

So why do we turn away from it?

Why do we place so much value on how we are viewed externally rather than how we are viewed from within?

How we see ourselves…

That needs to be the gauge we use to determine our personal self worth!!

The outer gauge is colored by others perceptions, as well as how they are feeling about themselves, and that tends to be determined by how they think others feel about them.

It is time to take the power back

It is time to feel that unconditional love that is in all of us for ourselves.

It is so easy to give away the responsibility of our perceptions.

It is much easier to believe what we are told rather than searching for the truth within ourselves.

Because looking in is scary!

Who knows what might be in there….

BUT

The truth is there is only LOVE.

Anything else is just smoke and mirrors.

A distraction from the amazing-ness of the light we each hold within us.

Maybe it’s scary to see that light and know we are amazing, and to know we are love at our core…

In our deepest places

Maybe we are scared that once connected to that love our lives will appear wanting.

That we haven’t fulfilled the “PLAN”.

That we might have to make changes and the ripple effects of those changes could create chaos in our world.

But… sometimes chaos is good, sometimes it is needed and change is ever present whether we want it or not….

Because that’s life!

Life is change and growth.

So why not make conscious changes?

Look in and see what is not working anymore.

What does not line up with you and make some choices, some changes.

Be proactive…

Instead of letting life live you, maybe it’s time to live life…

“ I was curious to try the John of God bed to aid the healing of my spine.  During my first session, I could feel different sensations in my body from pulling to heat and tingles and could sense the different beings in the room with me.  The treatment was very relaxing and I fell asleep more than once and remained in an altered state during the session.  In the days after my first treatment, I began to notice subtle changes with my spine and a decrease in the pain that I usually experienced.  It was like I had been given renewed hope and a stronger belief that my body was healing.  I continued with the weekly treatments and then was guided to set my intention for emotional healing during my next session.  What happened was profound.  I felt an amazing shift in my energy, like a huge weight had been removed, and was left with a joyful, peaceful feeling I can only describe as unconditional love.  I call it the “Magic bed” and feel an amazing atonement to spirit when I am on it and am so grateful for the incredible healing it has brought to my life.  Thank you, Claire! “

Shauna – Calgary

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“ The first time I had a session on the John of God Crystal Healing Bed I was blown away. Going into the session I honestly did not know what to expect other than I know the healing effects that crystals can have, especially on the During my session I saw many images, some I remember, some I do not. I am clairvoyant as well as clairsentient so it makes sense to me that I experienced visuals as well as feelings within my body. I remember thinking a lot of time must have passed when I heard Claire come to check on me. I later learned that only 5 min had passed since I had gone into the session. The rest of the hour went by in a flash as I was taken on a journey. I could see and hear many angels and guides all around me, working with me and my energy for the best results.

Close to the end of the session I came back to myself and felt the energy pulsing through my body. I was vibrating at a level I had never felt before but have felt since. It was amazing, almost like the bed was shaking but I knew what I was feeling was coming from within me and my energy. I could feel layers being lifted and shifted.

Shortly after coming back to me, Claire came in to end the session and as she turned on the light the bulb blew! That is how intense the energy in the room had become. When I got up from the session I felt completely ungrounded and like I was higher than a kite. Talk about elevation. I felt like I was floating along and not touching the floor.

The best advice I can give anyone coming in to experience the John of God Crystal Healing Bed is to go in with no expectations and just let go. Also after the session, ground yourself back into your body and don’t drive anywhere until you do. This may include having something with protein in it to eat, which is a great grounder.”

Nicole – Calgary

If you believe and are open to receive, come in for a session and see how the John of God Crystal Healing Bed can help you on your journey.

Every session on the John of God Crystal Healing Bed is a very unique and individual experience. Offering us what we need at that precise moment, whether it is on a physical, mental, emotional or spiritual level, as long as we are open to receive. Experiences can range from a calming relaxing session to a life altering experience.

My initial sessions on the bed were calm relaxing experiences, no major epiphanies or energetic feelings, like I’ve seen some people experience.  Over time the sessions have helped me release and heal on an emotional level. It has most definitely also heightened my spiritual connection.  Now days I do feel various energetic pulsations and sensations and also receive guidance.  It’s like the bed has a way of clearing our energetic being and raising our vibrational level/frequency.

I am fortunate to not have any physical ailments, however some clients that do, have reported the feeling of pressure or other sensations as if “work” were being done on the affected areas. Others have reported that the pain felt prior to a session no longer affected them afterward. Another client, who had ovarian cysts, attributes her current clean bill of health to her use of the crystal bed and having taken the herbs prescribed by the benevolent spirits that work through John of God.

The same healing energy that works through John of God, also works through the crystal bed, providing you with an opportunity to experience these unique healing energies, here in Calgary.

If you have gone within and are currently working on healing some aspect of your life, tune in with your higher self and see if you resonate with getting additional assistance. If so, follow your guidance and come and see what a session on the John of God Crystal Healing Bed might have in store for you.

To learn more about John of God, be sure to check out Oprah’s latest postings on You Tube (you can type in OWN John of God).

Also be sure to check out the next article entitled  “Client Shares” – John of God Crystal Healing Bed to see why someone calls it the “Magic Bed”.

When you finally manage to fall asleep, you either get very little of it, it’s not good quality or you’re constantly waking up to go to the bathroom, help the baby, listen to a noise or your worries. It’s a vicious cycle and there are more people who fight with it, whether they realize it or not. So many of us are lacking serotonin (the main “sleep” chemical within our bodies that produces melatonin – the other essential sleep chemical – which helps us to sleep and sleep well) that many of us even do so much for so long that when they do crawl into bed and fall asleep they are so exhausted that no amount of sleep will give them the energy they need because the body is not given the proper time to refill those stores of energy.

So how does massage help you get a better sleep and reduce or remove your insomnia? When you receive a massage, especially relaxing or therapeutic massage, it dilates your arteries (opens them up) which reduces the pressure in the arteries which helps them to work better. This in turn helps produce serotonin, which turns into the rest and sleepy melatonin to help you sleep. This means when you do sleep, you sleep well, for longer periods of restful time and feel more awake when you rise.

Along with the serotonin, these other benefits help sleep to come more easily for you;

-          Relaxation of mind and body

-          Reduction of stress, anxiety, depression

-          Reduction of symptoms/signs of insomnia

-          Increase in serotonin and melatonin

-          Decreased blood pressure

-          Release of “pain chemicals” (thus you wake up feeling less pain and ache in your muscles and body)

So between things you yourself can do to get a better sleep, and receiving a massage, soon you’ll be sleeping peacefully, falling asleep more quickly, staying asleep longer and waking up ready to take on the day – and looking forward to your next massage!

But you don’t need to struggle with a headache whether it’s once in a while or every day. Although there are many triggers for a headache, such as; environment, stress, weather, food, injury, muscle tension or sleeping the wrong way, they all hurt and they are all annoying.

Not only is getting massages (on a regular basis), or getting specific massage to your shoulders, neck and head good for you overall, it will help reduce and sometimes eliminate your headaches all together.

When you get specific work done for your headaches, we work around some of the main physical causes. Tension in your shoulders, neck, upper back, scalp, When you are under stress a lot of times we put it into our upper body and this then causes headaches.

If you are having a headache and for some reason cannot make it in for a massage, there are a few places you can work yourself to help it go away or at least take the edge off. You can squeeze the big muscle in between your neck and shoulder (this is your trapezius muscle). You can also take your thumb and first finger, find the edge of the base of your skull at the bottom of your head and press along the edge where the bone and muscle meet together.

The best way to reduce the duration, severity and frequency of headaches is to remove the causes of it but if you can’t do that then massage on a regular basis is the best thing for it! This helps to relax the muscles, flush out toxins that accumulate there due to stress and other factors and help you to not be as tense as you normally would be.

Other changes can also be made such as; better eating habits, proper sleep schedule, removal of stress, proper water intake, getting enough down time to just relax.

So get a massage today and be rid of the pain on your neck – your headache.

Ingredients

1 cup pecans (you can use walnuts in a pinch, but pecans are much better!)

1 cup dates

5 tablespoons raw cacao (cocoa) powder

4 tablespoons shredded unsweetened coconut

2 tablespoons honey or agave nectar

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

Directions

1. Place pecans alone in your food processor and process until the pecans become small and crumbly.

2. Add dates to the raw brownie recipe and process again until the mixture sticks together and the dates are well processed.

3. Add the remaining ingredients to this raw brownie recipe and process again until the mixture turns a lovely dark chocolatey brown. Stop processing before it gets too buttery. (There should still be air between the small bits so that you will be able to press them down into your brownie pan.)

4. Dump the mixture into a brownie dish or small cake pan and press down firmly using your clean hands.

5. Refrigerate this raw brownie recipe for a couple of hours. You do not have to refrigerate it, but it is much easier to slice when chilled. By the way, this is actually a raw brownie recipe that keeps its shape! So it can be good for serving to non-raw fooders because the presentation of this raw brownie recipe is good when chilled.

6. Store this raw brownie recipe in the refrigerator if it lasts that long!

For a bigger chocolate kick add Raw Chocolate Icing!

Ingredients

1 cup dates

1/4 cup raw cacao (cocoa) powder

1/4 cup cold-pressed coconut oil (also known as coconut butter)

3/4 cup water (or a tiny bit more if needed – try to keep at 3/4 cup or so though)

Directions

1. Place all ingredients in a high-speed blender. If possible, let them sit in there for a few minutes to soften the dates a little bit.

2. Blend all ingredients in your high-speed blender. The ingredients can be a little finicky to blend, so start at a slow speed and increase speed slowly.

3. Keep blending for a very long time to get a velvety consistency. This is one of those recipes that really makes use of the power of a high-speed blender. If you feel that the blades are just spinning but aren’t actually moving all of the icing around, turn the blender off and make an air pocket down the side of the blender with a spatula to expose the blades. Remove the spatula, replace the lid, and start blending slowly again.

4. You’ll know it’s ready if there are no bits of dates and all you can taste is velvety chocolate goodness.

5. This raw chocolate icing is ready to use as soon as you pour it out of the blender.

It’s a great raw vegan icing for cakes, brownies and the like! Iced cakes or brownies should be kept in the refrigerator.

One way that I personal use to reground, get back into my body, slow everything down is a very simple breathing techniques and a request to the universe and I am thrilled to share it with you.

1. Stop what you are doing, whatever you are doing, wherever you are….yes I have even done this in Safeway in the produce section.
2. Close your eyes to tune out everything else in the environment.
3. Breathe in the through the nose for a count of 6.
4. Hold your breath for a count of 6.
5. Exhale out of your mouth for a count of 6.
6. Say out loud or in your head (depending on where you are and your comfort level). “I have enough time, sources, resources and support to accomplish all that is truly important today”.
7. Do this 6 times.

You will be amazed the shift in your processes with your thoughts, your energy and how you start to approach things.

This simple breathing takes into account building your inner qi (also known as life force energy) through using your nose to inhale, hold and exhale. It removes toxins from your body through the exhaling. It re-aligns your chakras and energy to bring you back into balance and therefore removing the stress so that your adrenals calm down, and saying the affirmation puts your request into the universe to bring to you all that you need and awareness of what is not important to fall away so that you stay in the flow, stay connected and enjoy life.

Some days may require a few repeats and other days you might feel like starting your morning this way. Any time that you give yourself these few minutes to relax and come back to self your day will improve, your interactions with others will improve and you build up your magnetic frequency to draw to you enough time, sources, resources and support.

Enjoy – Repeat – Enjoy!

One of the most common areas in which many people here in Calgary feel stuck in is their career.  These clients often explain to me that they feel unhappy and lost. Eventually this leads to negative self-judgments, lack of motivation and overall low energy. These feelings often lead to a negative feedback loop where they feel like hamsters on a wheel, running and running but never getting anywhere, which leads to more self judgment, even less motivation and lower energy. Sound familiar?

Relationships are another common problem that many clients of mine struggle with. Balanced, harmonious interactions with others play such an important part of our lives and contribute so much to our overall happiness.  Whether the relationships are with ourselves or with others, when we find ourselves stuck in relationship it can lead to feeling lonely, unattractive and unfulfilled. This ultimately can result in depression and low self-esteem.

Money makes the world go round, so they say. Being stuck financially can create a lot of stress and tension in our lives.  Anxiety can develop and we can find ourselves being self critical of how we can’t seem to make ends meet. When we feel lack in our finances we perceive ourselves to be limited in our career and relationship options as well.

Wherever you may be feeling stuck in your life, in the long term it undoubtedly affects your overall well-being.  In the end, you end up losing yourself.  And when you lose yourself, you lose connection with your inner own spirit.

 I can help. I will take you on a shamanic drum journey.

 A drum journey allows you to deeply relax and put your worries aside while you connect with spirit, YOUR spirit. You get the opportunity to ask and receive insight to steps you can take immediately to solve your problems!  Imagine that! Drum journeys help you move forward in your life quickly and they help you get un-stuck because your own spirit always knows best. You will leave with a new awareness and feeling a bit lighter and more peaceful than when you first came. You will definitely feel more connected with yourself!

I invite you to come with me on a shamanic drum journey…a journey of  reconnection…a journey to answers…a journey to help you move forward.

Conflict creates triggers.  These triggers are past memories with unresolved emotional trauma attached to them (ie. being bullied as a child).  Another trigger can be a rigid belief system (ie. “Everyone should be treated with respect.”).  When presented with a conflict situation, the body reacts as if it is being attacked and so the conflict not only creates emotional distress it also creates physical symptoms and responses.

So why do we have so much conflict in our life if is it emotionally upsetting and physically stressful?  Because conflict is the door to gaining wisdom and strength about yourself!  If the body was not under stress there would be no need for an immune system.  Our bodies only become stronger if there is stress put on them.  Just like a body builder literally tears his muscle tissue in order to gain more muscle mass, the mind must be stressed in order to achieve a higher level of consciousness.

Our body, mind and spirit are all meant to be challenged so that they can gain the knowledge in how to improve their situation and through that knowledge become wiser and stronger.  It is the building blocks of our evolution.

So running away from conflict will not ease the emotional trauma, in fact it will attract even more conflict until the conflict is finally addressed and wisdom is revealed.  To enter the eye of the storm and truly look at what the situation is trying to reveal will provide the knowledge that can then be transferred into wisdom.  This does not mean that a person has to suffer with the emotional burdens when confronted with a conflict situation.

There are ways to dissociate the emotional charge from a past experience or a rigid belief system so that the person can gain the wisdom by working through the conflict without the overwhelming emotional triggers.

BodyTalk works on the subconscious level of the mind where memories and belief systems are stored.  Through a BodyTalk session the triggers can be addressed and the emotional charge to the memory or belief system can be balanced so that the person can still remember the event, but have no emotional attachment to it.  This provides the person with the ability to enter into a conflict situation and remain calm, reflective and respond from an honest and heart-centred place rather than from a purely reactive emotional response.

Once a person embraces conflict and what it truly offers, the potential for greater understanding and appreciation of what is can be realized.  So don’t run away from conflict, take the bull by the horns and learn what you are destined to experience and become wiser!