Canva design | July 2022 Have you ever seen a car engine get messed up and eventually the car stops working and needs to go into the mechanic for a fix?
The same can happens to us energetically. In physics, energy is the capacity for doing work, is a property that must be transferred to a body or physical system to perform work on that body. So energy is always carried by something, usually in the form of movement/action. As humans, our energy, our Electromagnetic energy is then energy that travels/moves. We can build up the energy, contain it inside, other energies can mess up with ours, we might even be constantly releasing too much energy out there and not been able to build energy for ourselves. And this is when our energy is unbalanced, out of rhythm. Do you extremely tired for no reason? Do you feel invaded by strong emotions that are hard to control? Do you feel you don’t have enough power or will to know what you want or who you are? Is there that one person you don’t like to be around because it just doesn’t seem right for whatever reason, or you get tired, or worked up? If yes, you are in the need of some energy cleaning, looking after your own energy, to make sure you are the best version of yourself, on your path. Maintaining a healthy energetic field is your sole responsibility and a lifestyle choice, but here are a few of my favourite methods, which I have often share: 1) Use the power of the nature around you: walks, teas, smudge the house/yourself and burn some incense 2) Meditate whilst focusing on your heart 3) Express yourself through movement: dance, run, swim... simply move 4) Salt bath or rinse with salt water from the neck/shoulders down. Always remember: - As you cleanse, you create space - You can heal - Be gentle to and with yourself - Choose your own narrative - Stay in your power
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Canva design | May 2022Some may say it’s just that knowing without any evidence. Something you just know but have no clue how exactly you got that to those conclusions in first place. You just feel it in your gut.
Intuition helps us a lot on our daily lives. It helps us distinguish what is better or worse for us. And true intuition is far from bias. We notice a bunch of things and unconsciously, so intuition is that sense of knowing or perceiving something without actually understanding why you know it. The idea of intuition is becoming more and more discussed in the workplace, in business management and decision making. We are much more than just our 5 limited senses. We are wired into interconnectivity that human life is far too basic to comprehend, despite its magical complexity. Somehow intuition can be defined as our inner knowing. We all can learn how to increase our intuition, or to be more connected to our inner knowing, in our personal lives and in business. A lot of people can learn how to psychically interpret results from many tools, such as tarot cards, runes and others, but intuition is something extra that can help those psychics. People can also learn how to be good at corporate business, and intuition is again that extra layer that can help a business to grow and be more successful if only in tune with it. So using intuition in the workplace can be very powerful, as it gives you the feeling that you can make powerful decisions that support the best interests. Why use intuition in business? It’s a great tool to identify a problem rather than ignoring that something’s off. It also helps you to take decisions that feel right, rather than the standard “looks good” decision making. It also helps you to recognise opportunities which allow you to develop business, rather than getting stuck into thinking that they might not be right. If you want more fast decision making, then listen to your intuition to support you. How to develop and use intuition in business? A good way to start practicing and developing your intuitive is to go with your first hunch. Trust and listen to this inner voice of yours. The more you do it, the more your system will be wired, signaling your nervous system and therefore your cognitive intuitive language. When you need to make a choice, tune into your body. Imagine taking a choice and just observe what your body feels. Then, chose another option and allow your body to feel. Also, ask yourself: which option feels better in the body? Which option is more relaxed or tense? Use your body’s visceral reactions for decision making! Let go of any pressure of the need to be right and release the need to control. This means that you should work on knowing yourself, which is the most powerful tool for anything in life. At work, it becomes significantly important, as you need to know what you stand for. Have you ever asked what are your values, believes and deal-breakers? Remember... Using intuition in the workplace helps to have clarity and power, making it a great tool in the business tool belt. Start by using it in your life too. Once you truly do that, you’ll see that you’ll automatically start doing it for business as well. Photography by Susana Andrez McKie | Beach, Portugal | January 2022Does feeling connected make us more resilient, happier and with a stronger sense of wellbeing?
It’s no longer a rocket science that practising mindfulness and meditation makes us feel calmer, grounded and more acceptant. When growing up in my home town in Portugal, people who meditated or were involved with mindfulness were either a group of people who decided to step away from general society, or were very religious or were just civilians often labelled rebels and anarchists. I was part of that parcel. Sure, my extravagant teenage cloth wearing helped to brand me as such, but that shouldn’t matter: if you meditated and focused on things that wasn’t part of people’s routine, they immediately set you aside and secretly admired you. Today, everyone talks about meditation and mindfulness everywhere in the world. And society has changed and developed. Feeling connected, that moment when you are part of all, and the all is part of you, is one of the most magical feelings I have ever felt in my entire life. And one thing is to know about it, the other is to feel it. Despite being a spiritual person, I am also a very practical & pragmatic individual, so for me, I need to test, experiment and if something doesn’t work for me, I ditch it, but I am aware it might work for someone else. To those who are not as practical as me, I urge you to desire feeling this amazing oneness in you. Go and work a way to make this happen to you! Just like any goal, it requires dedication, even if just using the law of attraction or any other you prefer or feel more inclined to. If there is one thing the covid-19 pandemic should have taught us is that we all depend on each other. What one does affects another person, and so on. Being connected can happen in many ways, and it makes us feel better, and shows us that we are not alone. And even if we are, we have so many communities around us worldwide: technology makes everything closer. If it ever fails, we’ll always have ourselves and our souls to connect to each other in this or other realms through different ways and methods. Have you ever felt connected to the moon cycles or to the sea, or a beautiful tree? This is because everything around us is alive and we are all connected. If we learn to appreciate the beauty of it all, and learn with it, we soon understand more benefits of feeling this connectivity that’s reliable on our own magnetic field. Learning from others makes us more resilient, and having a positive attitude contributes to it as well. It all leads to an enhanced sense of well-being. How can you feel more connected? Meditate! Every day: during a walk, a short trip to the supermarket, a shower, etcetera. Meditation doesn’t have to be static, it can be done in movement. Breath! The one thing we keep on forgetting. We take it for granted all the time, but if for once you focus on it, and find ways to be in touch with it, you can gain the power of decreasing you blood pressure, your stress, your anxiety and even increasing excitement. No time for breathing? Before sleeping, set 1 minute to just simply breath and listen to it. Express yourself! Through body, mind and soul. Do arts and crafts, go for a jogging, complete a sudoku activity, try something you’ve been meaning to try for long time… Expression involves putting yourself out to the world and universe. This is a very important thing. If you don’t maintain your professional network, don’t expect people to constantly flood you with job offers. The same goes with you expressing yourself. For those who have never felt oneness, there are some cool activation ways of doing it, but you’ll need an expert to do this activation for you, provided your soul is ready to receive it. Sometimes unfortunately, it’s just not the right time for the person. But even though oneness might not be felt, one can still look after themselves and their well-being. The same techniques described above apply. I would suggest adding a few: Do something for someone else! Volunteer, donate some clothes, give food to a homeless person… Do something for yourself! I know a lot of you sometimes do so much for others, but little for yourselves, so now it’s the time to do something for you. Have that bubble bath you have been constantly postponing, eat that ice cream you have been meaning to try for ages, just simply sit in quiet and read a book… Do a list of why you are amazing! This one might be hard for some, but trust me: you are amazing at so many things and have an amazing soul and light, so go ahead and write it on a piece of paper, on a board, wherever you prefer. And last but not least, there are times when we all need to speak to someone, open up for a talk, have someone who listens to us. And that is okay. Sometimes we also need help, and that is also okay too. Be the amazing person you already are! Photography by Susana Andrez McKie | Furadouro Beach, Portugal | January 2022 Do we have complete free will or are we just fated to go through what has been proposed to us?
This is a million dollar question that some of us have thought about. Yet, no set in stone answer. Whenever someone asks me for a tarot reading, I always say that what’s going to come/show up is the tendency of the current energies projected in the future. One can change it as they wish, as long as a lot of other interconnected things and people shift as well, as we are all One. However, what I have been experiencing for 2 decades of tarot reading is that there is not a real big shift between what is proposed and what happens in real life. I have personally been experiencing that too. And this doesn’t have to be daunting. It’s amazing and transformational in a way that if we are already aware that it's going to be really cold or a rainy day, we can take a warm jacket or an umbrella with us, gear up with some cosy waterproof boots or decide to dance in the rain to celebrate Mother Nature’s gifts. Achieving happiness with what we were proposed to be, do and have, depends on us, and what we decide to do with what has been given to us and written in the stars. Christianity abolished witchcraft and fate predictive methods, giving a much easier and lighter approach to the future of each human. But do we actually hold that much free will? For many years, I’ve been challenged to try obtaining percentages of what we can and cannot control. The more people I listened to, and the more I studied, the more I understood that it’s a pointless task. If we have a “promising” birth chart, we will eventually have a tendency or at least curiosity to dwell and practice gratitude journals and the law of attraction. This will eventually lead to having “more free will”, as the person has already been sketched to be open to this. The great thing is that no matter how awful the stars and planets might be organised on the moment you were born, you can always find a way to balance it all, overcome the challenges and find the life you truly want, via your free will. It’ll be interesting though, to find out that what you truly want has already been setup by the universe, your karma and consequently your astrological birth chart! Despite being a pointless task trying to quantify how much free will one has, I feel that each time I work with my gifts, my challenges, my desires and my gut feeling, I manage to build what I want, and I guess that can be called law of attraction. The importance is to be aware that everyone has the power to learn how to juggle between the hard and good aspects of their lives and “fate”. When you do that, you create/co-create, you choose, you decide, you live! You can choose to learn with everything around you. You can choose to live and allow life to flow through you, focusing on what truly makes you happy and on how you can overcome a challenge and turn it into something positive. Learning a way to increase consciousness and awareness plays an important role. This way you’ll tend to always want to develop yourself further and the more you work towards it, the more you create! So go ahead: create your own fate! Photography by Susana Andrez McKie | Gunthorpe Street, London | February 2022Nowadays there is loads of information readily available online regarding numerology, special days and the portals it opens up.
Repetitive numbers that constantly appear to you and other symbols like feathers, butterflies and others, are known to many as being signs and messages of the universe, a guide, a dead relative or even angels and portals. For many years, better to say, almost 2 decades, I have seen 22, 222, 2222, far too often for it to be a mere coincidence. And in this year of 2022, we had 2-02-2022, 20-02-2022, and today 22-02-2022. That's a lot of 2's! Today's portal 22:22:22, is known as the double of the 11-11-11 portal! So if you are sensitive, or curious about the unknown or just "skeptically open" to read more about this type of things, get ready! If you see these numbers various times, lucky you! These are messages being sent and you are connected. If you don't see these numbers coming at you in every corner, but wish that was the case, worry not! Somehow the memos are reaching you in a different way. After all, we are unique, each in our own way. Here is a summarised text about common repeated numbers some people see too often: 1111 - follow your intuition, spiritual awakening, stay grounded in the present moment 2222 - right place-right time, each end brings a new beginning, have faith 3333 - maintain equilibrium between mind, body & spirit 4444 - the universe is protecting you, rewards from hard work 5555 - a positive change is occurring 6666 - take a step back to rethink/listen to your inner voice, healing energy 7777 - release all fear & look forward with excitement, spirituality and wisdom 8888 - you are in harmony, stability, work for what you want to experience 9999 - time to start a new journey so wrap up lose ends Well, some might be asking "Yeah, it's 22-02-2022, but what should I do?". My answer is: Whatever the hell you want!!! People who follow my work are aware that I am not conventional, neither follow the "standard guidelines". I follow my gut and instinct, which can sometimes, eventually, overlap with the "guidelines". 22-02-2022 (22:22:22) offers you the opportunity to start following your intuition, developing internal practices that make you happier, attributing more value to family and to the environment of your home. It boosts the ability to manifest and it's a great time to work on emotions and blockages, linked to water and earth elements, which are dominant during this portal. This is a great opportunity to start expanding your connection with yourself and others, even if there is a strong sense of disruption or that things seem to be falling down. Use this opportunity to release and manifest. This is your chance to reborn! And so it is, Susana |
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