Essential Power

My biggest fear turned into a beautiful blessing

Be the best in school, excel in uni, get a great job, save money, be safe, never risk, life is tough, always be prepared for the worst, this is mine not yours, you gotta earn what you want, God only helps those who wake up early and work hard, your efforts will pay off… I could go on an on with these narratives which have been engrained by society and family and have ruled my life. I have lived my life petrified to find myself in this scary world without a dollar in my bank account. Money has always meant success, freedom, power, status, happiness.

I have never been into fancy things nor have I every felt deserving of anything unless I worked freaking hard for it. Basics were the only things allowed; a roof over my head, healthy food, travelling, surfing and working on my spiritual awakening is really all I need. But at what cost?

Do you know how many times I have NOT enjoyed surfing (my favourite thing in the world!), because I am worrying that I may be wasting my time as I have so much work to do? First comes hard work, then you may be rewarded with some fun, always within reason, and never over indulge, as you gotta go back to “reality” and hard work.

I grew up in a family who taught me austerity and hard work. My dad always used to say: “I will give you a roof, food and education. You gotta work hard and earn the rest”. By the time I was 14 years old I was fed up to hear “No, you can’t have that”. My dream was to learn how to surf, so in order to buy myself a wetsuit and a surfboard I spent my three month summer holiday working at a bar. I would work 6-7 days a week for 12 hours, starting at 5 pm and finishing around 5 am, to earn about $20 per day. I learnt that hard work would always get me where I wanted, just as my father had taught me.

At 18 years old I left home to go live in Hawaii for six months with $300 in my pocket, ready for lots of hard work. Then soon after I moved to Australia, where I juggled uni with 3-4 jobs to pay for my life expenses, education, visas, travels, and all. I wouldn’t spend time or money on parties like every other uni student would, and would only allow myself to buy seven apples for the week – only one per day. Work work work was my life motto.

From a very young age I knew I was on my own so my savings became my one and only safety in this world. Very soon I had built up my savings to over $30,000, which was ALL the money in the world for me.

I also believed that anyone that didn’t have money to do the things they wanted was either lazy or stupid. For the first time in my life I found myself in that situation in November this year, when I was unable to attend a course at the Oneness University in India because I didn’t have the money for it.

About a week ago, I attended a Oneness Meditation in Northern NSW, where we were guided through an Obstacle Removal Process. At the start of this evening, Janet (the Oneness Process Facilitator) had asked me why I was not attending the January course in India (similar to the one I missed in November), and my only reason was related to lack of money. The obstacle I asked to be removed was a financial one: I didn’t have enough money to go to India, and I was so afraid to be in this world with no money.

We used this Ganesh Yantra during our process; it is a powerful tool that removes life obstacles.

During the process I got a strong Divine message saying: “At least you have the money for the flights to go India, buy them and watch miracles unfold”. I went home to tell my husband I needed to spend the last $1,500 we had to buy my flights because I had a really strong calling that I couldn’t explain or understand, but I just knew I had to be there. He agreed and off I went, flights booked. All I needed now were $5,000 to pay for the course by January 1st. I went to my altar and prayed, instantly receiving another strong Divine message: “Reach out for help and allow yourself to receive.” “Oh no” I thought… “that must be crazy, I have NEVER asked for help to anyone, it’s so wrong, what’s everyone going to think about me…”

I had to give in to all of those fears, so I set up a crowd funding campaign and shared it with all my family and friends. To no surprise, I received no replies from any of my family members except for one angry phone call from mum expressing her and my father’s disappointment that I have asked for money when I am actually a smart scientist who should be working hard instead of thinking of going to India…. Aha! This is exactly where all my fear was coming from!

Staying strong and peaceful through this process of seeing how my entire life has been ruled by this one huge block… I finally found myself with no money – exactly what I had feared my entire life! During the first week I was having fun with it seeing how far our pantry would go with out buying a thing. I got really creative using every single bit of the foods we had at home. A few days later our fridge broke, our food was spoilt and I lost hope…

Very soon, donations started to come into my crowd funding from people I didn’t even know, others I hadn’t seen in a long time, as well as people I never really expected. Every single one touched my heart with so much gratitude and hope.

This has been such a humbling experience, making me confront my fears, cultivating my hope for humanity, and strengthening my connection and trust with my Divine. Suddenly my biggest fear turned into my greatest blessing; feeling oneness, allowing vulnerability within me, being in a state of deep gratitude, and seeing this pattern dissolve within me. I now feel part of a huge universal family, so connected with my fellow human brothers and sisters.

Essential oils have really helped me through this time of extreme vulnerability! Wild Orange is the oil of Abundance, encouraging us to let go of scarcity mindsets and reminding us of the limitless supply found in nature. Arborvitae is the oil of Divine Grace, helping me surrender and feeling peaceful through this process.

This year has been HUGE; all about confronting my biggest fears. With a warrior-like attitude, I have honoured my heart and soul purpose, letting go of many choices I had done in my past, and patterns which do not serve me any longer.

I am now open to reach out for help, I am open to receive, I am ready to be part of our One and Only Universal Family.

If you feel inspired to help me attend the Journey Course in India this January, you can do so through my crowd funding or directly by contacting me.

As a gift to you all I leave you with this beautiful video I hope will inspire you to a state of gratefulness.

I am deeply grateful for you, and all that is. Much love to you all xx

Lifestyle

A miracle that changed my life forever…

Back home in Chile, during my last year of school I was sent to the psychologist’s office because I wanted to study conservation of the environment, instead of engineering, medicine or law. I was constantly warned by my parents and teachers that if I didn’t graduate with a “serious” degree from a prestigious university, I would be a failure. It was the only way of life… Meanwhile, I had huge dreams to change the world and make it a better place.

Fast forward a decade and I am in my home in Australia reflecting on how I thought I was rebelling against everything I got taught in Chile, but actually realising how I nicely obeyed the programs they had very successfully put in my brain, just in a different way. I did everything to follow my passions, running away from my country, moving to Hawaii and then to Australia, where I followed a very “successful” career in Environmental Science. I was at the top of my class all through university, even though I was juggling many jobs in between study in order to pay for my life, visas, and university in Australia. I had always been taught that life was meant to be hard, and so I created it that way, always putting 1000% effort and leaving very little space for Divine grace. After graduating with so many awards, I was offered various scholarships and jobs at prestigious research centres, which made me think I was really succeeding in life, and made my parents very proud.

In 2014 I got a PhD scholarship with enough funding to perform the study of “my then dreams”. I would be going to really remote surfing locations in Indonesia and the Maldives to interview local communities about how surf tourism was affecting them. Do you know how my EGO felt when I met people surfing and got to tell them I was there on an all-paid research trip for my PhD?! Most people had worked all year to get ten days of holidays surfing in these paradise dream locations… Everyone looked at me with huge WOW on their faces!

Here we are in the with the local surfer boys that we met whilst on my first field trip to the village of Katiet inthe Mentawai Islands of Indonesia. — Hanging out with the local surfer boys that we met whilst on the first field trip to the village of Katiet in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia.

But when I left these wonderful places I felt an emptiness in my heart. I had a bunch of amazing experiences and stories of hope, but I had to go back home to analyse and contextualise my findings in academic frameworks. Academic work is based on publishing research findings in journals which mainly academics ever read… I essentially had to strip off all the excitement and document facts which I knew wouldn’t ever have any positive impact on these communities that had opened themselves to me. Quite quickly it all turned from the most exciting thing of my life, to a very meaningless and selfish job.

My husband and I had been praying for something more meaningful in our lives. We were getting sick of the daily grind, just working to pay our bills and go surfing to another beautiful place around the world. We knew that we didn’t come to this world just for that kind of life and that there were really BIG things we were meant to be doing. We just needed some Divine help because we really couldn’t figure it out. At the end of June 2016, some friends introduced us to dōTerra essential oils and we were instantly struck with excitement by thinking about how many people’s lives we could impact with these little bottles of pure magic. Our lives were about to drastically change!

In September I went back to Katiet Village to get more interviews with the locals. Every time someone sat with me to tell me stories about their life experiences I felt like I was in debt with them. How would I repay that precious hour of connection and story-telling they had gifted me? It was at the end of one of these interviews that an opportunity to give back to this community presented, and changed my life for ever…

Phillip is right in front of me. I met him last time I was in Katiet Village in 2014 and he helped me a lot throughout my fieldwork, especially translating so I could communicate with the locals that didn't speak any english. — Phillip is right in front of me. I met him last time I was in Katiet Village in 2014 and he helped me a lot throughout my fieldwork, especially translating so I could communicate with the locals who I couldn’t speak any English with and introducing me to many of his friends.

Phillip asked me if I could come with him to see his friend Ian who was really sick. Ian is a local of Katiet Village who used to work at the surf camp we were staying at, driving small fishing boats to transport guests and supplies around the island. For the last three months his leg was getting worse and worse every day. He had been to three different hospitals to get help, and the only solution they had given was to amputate his leg. With the climate of the tropics, things could really only get worse, so cutting his leg was his only hope for survival. He really didn’t want that so he would just go back to his home at the Village and wait.

Ian's leg healing with dōTerra essential oils documented through photos. — Ian’s healing with dōTerra essential oils documented through photos that have been sent to us by Ricky via Facebook, another one of our friends that lives at Katiet.

I said to Phillip “we are no doctors but we may have something to help your friend!” To be honest I was quite nervous, we had got our oils two months before and were definitely no gurus. When we first met Ian I was terrified as his leg looked horrible and he was tired, every one around him felt hopeless. We had a quick chat to try and find out what the cause of this was but no one really understood what was going on. We rushed back to the surf camp on a motorbike so we could consult our “Essential Oil Bible” (aka Modern Essentials Book) for the best oils to use for healing wounds, fighting infection and regenerating the skin. Excited we had the oils that were suggested in the book, we started studying how we should mix them up, calculating percentages and ratios of drops. After finally deciding on a formula, we made up a magical potion with Helichrysum, Frankincense, Basil and Lavender essential oils in a spray bottle topped up with Fractionated Coconut Oil. We prayed that this potion would completely heal Ian’s leg and allow him to go back to his normal life asap.

We rushed back to Ian’s home to give him this spray bottle with a big label that said MAGICAL LEG HEALING and told him to spray it on the wound at least three times per day. We also gave him OnGuard Beadlets for him to take twice daily to boost his immune system – we knew we couldn’t go wrong with any of these! We told him to drink lots of coconut water and keep his leg up, and also avoid drinking, smoking and sugars. After a week or so we went to say goodbye to Ian and see how he was healing. Good news for us, he was nicely healing and had finished everything we gave him so we refilled the bottles with the same potions. The rest is history!

ian-happy — Look at him walking around happy and healthy! His friend Ricky messaged us through Facebook and passed on Ian’s message: “Thank you so much, without you my leg would have never got better like this.”

I came back to Australia and decided my new mission in life is to share dōTerra essential oils full-time and so I have recently quit my PhD. I realised how one connection with someone that has no idea about these amazing bottles can change their lives forever. I have no more time to waste, I am on a mission to be a vehicle of healing through these magical essential oils to as many souls that I can connect with in this life lime.

Ian, I am truly honoured to have been the vehicle of these essential oils for you, allowing such miraculous healing in your life. I will be forever grateful to have crossed your path!

Lifestyle

Welcoming dōTerra in our lives

This post is just a gratitude post towards dōTerra and their pure therapeutic grade essential oils that have changed our lives and our friend’s.

Not only we are getting rid of all chemicals (yes, all of them) in our house but we now have a powerful and safe support to our wellbeing.

dōTerra essential oils help us boosting our immune system on a daily basis, balancing our mood, soothing our skin, making us breathe better at night, cooling us down when needed, giving us focus when we have work to do, calming us down after a big day and so, so, so, so much more!!

We will keep you posted about our experience that so far has been mind blowing, and my best advice is to ASK US about essential oils and how to improve your life with them.

Personal growth

Discover your inner child

We live in a world where most of us are unaware of our true power.

What if I said that all of you can be whatever you want, have whatever you want, be constantly happy and do only what makes you feel good, even helping others? Most of you wouldn’t believe me. Last week’s version of myself wouldn’t believe it either. I mean, I would believe it with my mind, however it wasn’t something that I was applying on myself. I have been on a spiritual path for years, which has led me to have a fair bit of intellectual knowledge about life. This is great but it has been useless for a long time, because even if I was preaching and giving advice to everyone, I wasn’t be able to apply this knowledge or “secret” to my life.

What changed?

I was doing a Oneness Relationship Process in the Gold Coast when something came out clearly, and for the first time I could see something I have never seen before: my inner child.

I have seen and realised that there is a child inside us; scared, crying for attention. This child has been overtaken by our ego that leads us to a selfish, unhappy life, where we find ourselves constantly doing things we don’t like, going to a work that doesn’t fulfil us, stressing out because we want to do many things and have everything under control. This looks like a pretty standard life to me, and now I see why there’s so much suffering in the world.

That child I saw was me. My real self, my soul, my heart…it was just the real me. What I realised after that vision is that I don’t love myself, and I have proof of this because my inner child wasn’t singing but crying. In this world full of judgement and brain washing it’s really hard to love oneself. Most of you may say: “sorry to hear that, but I love myself”. My question here is: Are you sure? Are you truly, deeply sure?

I wrote on the mirror of the bathroom: I LOVE MYSELF, I ACCEPT MYSELF BECAUSE I AM PERFECT EXACTLY THE WAY I AM, I AM AMAZING. My life changed in that moment when writing those words, I promised my inner child that I will always look after him, I will always listen to him and make him laugh, I will nurture him because he is the most precious thing I have.

I felt happy, grateful and with lots of energy. I will keep doing my inner work to discover my ego games, my fears, and the beliefs that put a bad filter between me and the reality. At the end of the day, the choice is mine, and I choose to take responsibility for myself, for my emotional and physical health, for my thoughts that will create my life.

I wrote a set of LIFE RULES with the help of my wonderful half Daniela and i will share with you:

Love yourself at all times.
Acknowledge the miracle, the perfection and the power in you.
Nurture your inner child at all times.
Watch who is driving you at all times. Your ego or your inner child?
Let your inner child overtake the mind at all times.
Free yourself of mind created rules, and doubt everything.
Remind yourself these rules at all times.

I hope you all discover your inner child and start living by your inner child’s rules, not by your ego’s.