Author Archives: nandajurela

Gift to the Giver

How many of your blessings do you enjoy simply by living on earth? Is it fair to say that the earth provided almost everything that adds to your health and happiness? Why don’t you find a spot you enjoy on this day and tell the earth, “Thank You for Everything”? “Thank you for everything IContinue reading “Gift to the Giver”

Tomatoes, Zero Waste

Not only can you clone your (best) tomatoes from branches, you can also add the leaves to your dishes. Give it a try in a salad, in tomato sauce or in pesto. The leaves taste quite similar to the fruit. Like the herb version, less watery and succulent, but with the familiar, and enhanced, aromaContinue reading “Tomatoes, Zero Waste”

Viva Carlos

A memory of a Santana concert in 2018: Between the songs, Carlos shared highly uplifting ideas about how a collective choice for love can impact the conditions in which we live, heal even unwell situations, make those we come in contact with think in fresh ways, find solutions, stop engaging in harm, and how itContinue reading “Viva Carlos”

New moon in Cancer

Happy new moon in Cancer. New moons are the most cleansing days of every moon cycle. You can benefit from that by giving your body a digestive break, by cleaning objects that need cleaning, by cleaning up your house. Cancer is the astrological archetype most connected to “home” and family “stuff”. Today is an excellentContinue reading “New moon in Cancer”

Carlos’ Words

“You know, where we are today is instead of giving somebody a fish or teaching somebody how to fish, let us investigate who owns the lake. Keep it pristine. Don’t pollute it. Don’t trash your water, your mind, your body.” Carl♡s Santana, born on 20 July 1947 I appreciate the food for thought and theContinue reading “Carlos’ Words”

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”