Author Archives: nandajurela

Carlos’ 70th Birthday

It is clear that Carlos Santana has done more for the unity, harmony and well-being in our world, more for the rise of love and bliss, even the identification with them as guiding principles for life … than all new thought teachers, psychologists, philosophers, new agers, many others who declare good principles but come shortContinue reading “Carlos’ 70th Birthday”

Closer to Radiant Health

Ask to be led to radiant health. Consciousness will start offering solutions. Acknowledge them. Then, do what you are being shown. Don’t stay in the browsing stage. Instead, follow up. Surprising and unusual paths are solutions too. Welcome them on your journey to radiant health. Maybe your heart needs just that ingredient to power yourContinue reading “Closer to Radiant Health”

Yes to Place

Watersheds, jaw dropping scenes of nature, even contained and tamed nature – in other words, gardens – can instill connection with and pride in the locality. Connection with and pride in the locality is what will heal the earth and help us rethink our power. It engages our love and makes us contribute with loveContinue reading “Yes to Place”

Uneventful Days

Stay on course on uneventful days. It is the less intense days that offer spaciousness, a friendly break from soap operas, a yummy opportunity to appreciate your journey. The better you tolerate beige days, the saner you are. A meditator welcomes such days for practice. A creative knows that these days precede manifestation. Tranquility isContinue reading “Uneventful Days”

The Gift of the Garden

If you have a prolific, tough, self-sufficient weed that is also medicinal, edible and highly attractive like purslane, don’t throw it in the compost. Give it its own place to shine. I have placed pots with purslane that I collected in garden beds while weeding all over the sunny spots of my garden. I enjoyContinue reading “The Gift of the Garden”

Reiki Circle in July 2020

We are meeting in the sacred circle and letting reiki flow: May the soils on our planet become alive, nutritious and fertile places. May the waters clean up, keep running, and be pleasant homes to all water animals. May the people use the resources well and live in friendly homes and friendly communities.  Today we areContinue reading “Reiki Circle in July 2020”

Thanks On a Friday in March 2020

Thanks to the water that is hydrating and refreshing our bodies and the bodies of all animals that share our watershed. Thanks to the soil for all our sustenance and for providing natural entertainment to growers, gardeners, walkers, hikers and a playground for children and animal children. Thanks to the sky for the air that weContinue reading “Thanks On a Friday in March 2020”

Whale Song

Whales do not sing to attract females. They sing to attract other male singers in order to create a communal song of intense beauty in the hope of attracting the females. This is great: whales are teaching their five-fingered brothers how to win women. Musicians of this world have successfully translated this whale teaching. CarlosContinue reading “Whale Song”

Tend to the Foundation

You can get rid of things in your home or at your desk that feel like downers (clutter or useless) and shortly after lose energy vampires in human form too. What happens energetically is not easy to explain, but they pick up that you aren’t volunteering anymore to feed their emptiness. Support yourself first. ThisContinue reading “Tend to the Foundation”

Spiritual Awakening

It is my experience that spiritual awakening is like a movie that features a newcomer to an old neighbourhood who starts a garden. People pass by, drop off their beer cans and junk into it. The garden matures, starts to feed them and their senses, comforts them, gives them pride in their neighbourhood, lets themContinue reading “Spiritual Awakening”

Time Is Not Renewable

Use it deliberately, to create meaning, to experience gratitude, to feel life pulsating through you. Eliminate what doesn’t serve your well-being, initiative and joy. (There are enough situations that qualify. Just let them be what they are – far away from you. It is easier to refuse predictably bad “nourishment” than it is to putContinue reading “Time Is Not Renewable”

Plant-Based In Spring 2020

Keep your immune system strong with nutrient rich plant based food and ancestral foods. Although only few of our ancestors would have identified as vegans (lucky, if you can claim that), consider that their diet may have been 60% vegan and about 90% vegetarian. (Meat was highly prized, because it was rare and consumed atContinue reading “Plant-Based In Spring 2020”

Music Is the Fountain of Youth

Just look at classical musicians, conductors, people who really enjoy music — they remain young in spirit and very often in the body too. And it isn’t because the music they play is all new, hip or vanguard, but because there is a harmony in music that affects the cells and there is an orderContinue reading “Music Is the Fountain of Youth”

Claim Your Mind

The readiness to defend jerks at all costs, be they politicians, thinkers, people of influence, or gurus, just to be right and feel the short-lived “satisfaction” of rubbing it into another person’s face, is why we have the politicians we have, and why psychopaths can mess with the minds of the masses and are notContinue reading “Claim Your Mind”

Essential Workers During the Quarantine 2020

#essentialworkers #covid19 I have watched a number of essential workers holding back and fighting with their tears when I told them “Thank you for everything you are doing for us in this time.” I notice more women work in essential jobs than men. About 60% or so. Whatever the gender, it is a small thingContinue reading “Essential Workers During the Quarantine 2020”

Reward the Good

Appreciating good people (really, really appreciating them) and losing the taste for bad company is a skill you can learn… and practise for the rest of your life. It takes a small adjustment on your part. But this choice determines how you feel about life. It also ensures that you pay attention to what youContinue reading “Reward the Good”

A Path Is Made By Walking

Do create the conditions in which that what you wish for can grow… or even occur. If it seems impossible or improbable, remember that there is always the one first person who manifested something that hadn’t been there before and that this person wasn’t exactly listening to a list of reasons of “why it won’t work”,Continue reading “A Path Is Made By Walking”

Quarantine 2020

#socialdistancing #spring2020#qualitytime #withfamily #withself This unusual “off time” is an opportunity – to become comfortable with all your emotions and befriend yourself even more than you thought was possible– to teach your child, your children, your spouse, anyone who makes demands on your time emotional intelligence – by example, by example, of course– to makeContinue reading “Quarantine 2020”

Let Them Thrive

I have noticed that most plants that are useful to us — vegetables and fruit especially — benefit from some stimulation.. I will go out on a limb and say that they grow lusher and stronger when they experience the sense of being needed. That explains why many plants produce more when they are being pluckedContinue reading “Let Them Thrive”