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The VALUE of caring for SELF so you can CARE joyfully for others.

22/6/2022

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Hello fellow Human Family Member,

How are you managing to navigate these fascinating and crazy times ?

Learning how to balance your energies ( Self Regulate ) in BODY-MIND-EMOTIONS is so important right now. There is a lot going on in the outer world views ( news ) that can take you off centre and trap you in a perpetual state of fear thinking, worries and anxieties about the future if you are not paying attention to your inner well-being and making it a priority.

" You can't be sick enough to help a sick person be well ."

Balancing your use of technology and time spent on devices with dedicated daily self care routines, time in nature, bare feet on the earth and mindful breathing practices are very much required to calm ones nervous system to release the build up of tensions, over thinking and feelings of overwhelm in the mind, the body and emotions.

" Self care is not a luxury " anymore on earth, it is a necessity ! ! !
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YOU ARE WORTHY OF WELLNESS.

YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR REAL WEALTH.

IT REALLY IS A QUESTION OF WHAT DO YOU VALUE MOST WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE . . . Do you know what you core values are ? If not, why not ? 

So much of the way we have been taught about life is backward to how life actually works when working in harmony with itself. These times are showing us where we are functioning way out of harmony with ourselves, this planet and one another and thus why much change is required in our thinking, speaking and behaviours. 

Life is a inner game that gets reflected back to us from the outside. To change the outer, you have to make changes on the inner first. The example often used is it is like looking in the mirror. You have to smile first in order for the mirror to reflect your smile back to you and the same is true with your sad unhappy face and so on . . . !!!

Knowing The Deeper WHY of what we do can take us through the challenging moments more gracefully with faith and a greater sense of purpose. 

One of my big WHY's to being dedicated passionately to supporting and teaching people in the values of promoting self care for over a decade in Hanmer Springs via my M.V.M. Holistic Day Spa & VL Wellness Retreat is because I know that truly cared for people care for others naturally, it is innate to whom we are. This philosophy and understanding is something I introduce to my students as the foundation of my 50hr certified Holistic Intuitive Massage Trainings.

" The key to sustainable well-being is balancing caring for self and caring for others. "

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Hats off to all Parents during these years. 

Cared for parents through a good massage, yoga session, nutritious food, time in nature to slow down and reflect, nurturing conversations and gaining empowering wellness tools will care better for their kids ( the next generations of thought leaders, artist, carers and inventors etc ).


The simply truth of it is, when parents and people in general feel cared for and are going off a 'full cup of balanced inner resources and reserves' they will have more energy, patience, tolerance, enthusiasm, presence, joy, peace, creativity and playfulness to offer the immediate family and extending out from there to the greater human family via daily interactions of all kinds.

When parents reserves of energies are depleted they become tired and out of balance, they will display short attention span and possibly more abrupt temperaments. Life begins to feel more like a burden to get through than a joy to live and share together, even the fun things can seem like another task to get done and ticked off the never ending list of "TO DO's".

Parents can become more serious, distracted, fearful and have underlining hidden anxieties about life, their ability to cope and begin to loss hope. They can become simply reduced to just surviving day by day by doing what they think they have to rather than feeling free and supported enough to actually do what they enjoy doing.

To children ( & we all were one at some stage ) , parents are like gods. Children are super tuned in and sensitive to what is really going on in their parents thought, feelings and behaviours and what gets role modelled to them. The connection is more a translation of feelings ( energies ) rather than just words spoken.

Often what may be played out in a child has more to do with what is hidden and yet unacknowledged within the psyche of a parent. A child will most certainty pick up a parents underlining anxiety. While a parent may have learnt to cope with this, a child may not and thus display this anxiety in a more pronounced way that it cannot be overlooked or ignored.​​

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This is why it is not just your physical health that you need to care for these days, it is your mental and emotional just as much, if not more.

REMEMBER . . .

In our greatest challenges often emerges our greatest clarity, truth, discernment of values, healing empowerment and a inner strength ( capacity for resilience ). All the best books are written with these kinds of recovering heroic stories lines interwoven into them. 

In the words of Yoda from Star Wars " May the force be with you " and guide you gracefully with wisdom, courage and grace through these next few months and years.

​YOU ARE VALUABLE BEYOND MEASURE. 


Amen ​

Mary Jo Halligan. 
V.L.R. & M.V.M. & V.W.A. Co-director. 
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Take a virtual seat and enjoy this powerful life practice. You are welcome !

16/6/2022

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A tool for your wellness toolkit. Get a pen and paper and follow my lead below. 

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Remember that transformation happens when you take action within your thoughts, words and actions. Follow along and do the practice, give it all you got full out and you will reap the rewards.

Write in the comments or / and your own personal writing journal.

Q: What do you most need currently to support your life ?

If you could consider and answer this in 4 ways.

You can choose to do two lists one for your own personal self and then a optional second one to focus on the needs of others.

“ you can only help others sustainably to the degree you can help yourself sustainably “

Break it down into 4 sections or paragraphs.

Physically ?

Mentally ?

Emotionally ?

Spiritually ?

If is time to become more clear on your own needs and that of one another so that we can receive more support where required most.

Thank you for taking a moment to consider your response and writing it down.

The vibrational universe responds to clarity and clearness of focus within your thoughts, words and actions.
In knowing clearly what you don’t want, helps you to become much more clear on what you really do want to experience.

Consider your responses in the positive focus of what you really do want and are ready to now receive more and more of into your life and for those around you.

For example experiencing a illness and feelings of exhaustion and intense discomfort in body - mind - emotions makes one simultaneously really desire and appreciate greater vitality, well-being, calm, peace, connection and balance.

If you can focus on the path of least resistance to your current circumstances and start working towards that which supports your well-being with better feeling thoughts and emotions, instead of focusing on the sickness and feeling of lack and regrets all day.

Then before long you will notice as you think more and more better feeling thoughts about yourself and your life and body etc you begin to relax into the journey with more trust and openness and acceptance and less and less resistance, worries and doubts. You open yourself to learning new sustainable well-being and lifestyle knowledge and start getting more inspired about the possibilities available. You start to move away from that which brings you down and move more towards towards that which lifts you up.

You even get excited at the real potentials for how things will begin to change in your life; with new thoughts , new lifestyle habits and the discovery of how you can respond to life circumstances instead of reacting unconsciously out of a primal fear for survival and a old habit of worry for the future.

All you really have to do is focus on and commit to that next step and then the next and the next.

Before long you are feeling more steady on a path that is enhancing your life instead of depleting you.

Yesssss , You are worthy of this. 

If your thoughts are full of all the things you don’t want, then I advise before you do the above list to first Empty out your mind of those thoughts by writing them all down before you do a second list as per my invitation and instructions above.

Emptying your mind of what you don’t want. 

Write down Question A: What am I now ready to release from my life experiences; from my thoughts, beliefs , body, mind and emotions ; from my inner speak and conversation with others ( everything that brings you down and makes you feel powerless and helpless , unworthy , lacking , everything you are so genuinely done with ) .... you fill in the gaps.

Write and write until you empty them out of your head ( old hard drive ) and make room for the clarity of writing your second list of what you are now ready to receive more of into your experience in body , mind, emotions and spirit. ( uploading the newest latest available hard drive so too speak ) .
You got this

Give it a go and let me know in the comments how you found it.

Come back in a month and let me know what has changed and improved in your experiences.

Namaste.

Mary Jo.
VLR co-creative director.
Harmonious well-being facilitator.
Transformational LIFE coach.

www.VibrantLiving.co.nz
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The real sickness is Fear, Stress, unresolved Trauma's and a distrust of the authentic SELF.

16/6/2022

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Masking up has become the new norm for many in N.Z. but is this really normal to restrict your airways because your mind is fearful of a consequence you were told to fear. Or is this the sickness of old trauma's begging to be healed ?
​Aaarrrggghhh, if this Industry pictured above does not seem so wrong and a pure distortion to what truly empowers and supports natural well-being in body, mind, spirit and emotions in harmony with self, other and the natural world. 
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I have to remind myself that some ... yikes too many for my liking, actually believe firmly in it and ones belief is powerful thus the placebo effect !

I know all about the power of beliefs after been brought up in a Catholic Irish culture. When I was a child I picked up the belief that I was sinful, unworthy, not good enough and never getting to heaven unless I went to confessions regularly to repent for my sins. I learnt to judge myself so harshly within my own mind. The voice of my inner critic is still something I am working with to tame, soften and become more gentle and loving toward my own tender heart. 

My favourite analogy of why people have such different thoughts and perspectives currently about what is true and false in the world is we are tuning in and listening to different radio stations ( With different frequency and perspectives and thus perceptions / beliefs on life ). Read more about this topic in my Blog here " We only regret the chances not taken ". LINK HERE.
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Nature is my favourite source of well-being. Nature does not judge. Nature helps us to rebalance body, mind, soul by calming our nervous system and all systems to work more harmoniously with one another just like a loving compassionate Creator GOD Source of life intended. Go into nature to replenish your SOUL.
I do often wonder what the heck is been fed on repeat into people’s minds to enact such a slow torture upon oneself and loved ones. I can't help but ponder these things when I watch people self inflict themselves with wearing a restriction breathing apparatus that limits the flow of oxygen and the healthy exchange of CO2 out of the body by willingly covering the mouth and nose. No doubt to appease and fit into society as a good citizen or so they think. My interpretation is little girls and boys in adult bodies still desperate to do everything right in the eyes of mummy and daddy so as to not get in trouble and get the gold star of approval. Of course, the difference is that mummy and daddy has become NZ mummy, smiling, self appointed" one source of truth " PM & Daddy Govt / Military complex. 

It is tempting to go listen to some mainstream media channels ( MSM ) but frankly when I do, I find it so non-inspiring, low vibes and so blah blah talking heads and mouths pieces for multi billion ~ trillion dollar corporations whom have there own both fascinating and disturbing vision for earths future and humanity. In short it simply does not resonate with my inner being and personal experiences of what uplifts us with vibrant health and well-being. 

We become what we think and fill our heads and bellies with. So discernment is key in these times to be aware of what is happening and yet not get too caught up in it that it effects one in a non helpful disempowering way. 
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The extend of the Trauma and DisTrust of ones natural innate SELF and how this gets translated to how one views and relates to their bodies. 

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Some around Nz have been spotted driving with doubling up on the masking and taken to the new style of wearing them on the chins. What Steve my Hubby jokingly refers to as wearing their winter chin warmers.

We got to keep our sense of humour with all of this. When we laugh we are out of the stress response and our hearts are open and it allows a good oxygen supply and exchange to the cells. That is definitely what I love about my cultural upbringing. Irish people have a great sense of silly daft humour to keep the laughter and lightness going ( the 'craic' as it is called in Ireland ) . I really do believe nowadays that this is what got our Irish  ancestry through a very harsh history at times and the introduction of a harsher version of the Roman Catholic Religion that infiltrated the land and subdued the people away from their natural abundant connection with the land, the fairies, the pagan ways of been attuned with the elements in more Celtic times. 


Least to say it is beyond bizarre for us wellness joyful folk and natural aligned healers ~ harmoniser of body mind soul choosing vibrant living to witness this source of what we perceive as an induced and for some more prolonged trauma on the body-mind-emotions-spiritual connection. 

Definition of 
trauma Resource LINK. 
1a: an injury (such as a wound) to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent
b: a disordered psychic or behavioural state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress or physical injury
c: an emotional upset

To gain more insights and compassion for childhood Trauma and how that creates the dysfunctions within society, please take the time and make a donation towards watching the movie documentary. LINK HERE or / & listen to this Ted Talk. LINK HERE

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When you realise the power is truly within your own psyche, mind and chosen attitude and approach to life and living, it transforms your life and you stop giving your innate power. self esteem and well-being away. You stop needing to fit into systems that simply don’t support a free flow,  abundant, joyful, loving, harmonise humanity.

I asked a guy in the cafe in Kaikoura the other day how he was finding his most updated one. You know the one that looks like a penguin beak . He said he was finding his breathing more restricted and harder to breath because it was fitted more securely on the face around his mouth and nose . I left him with this statement as a joke in all seriousness ‘ what are they trying to do to us ( humanity ) trying to either turn us into penguins or robots. He laughed and I smiled and  walked away.

So kind
So F__ked up I say !

The benefits to healing your dysfunctional upbringing: Stories from a wonderful dysfunctional childhood which would become my greatest teacher of awareness, healing, discernment and authenticity once healed. 

I just happened to get a head start on all of this from a young age that helped shape whom I am today and the journey taken to get to here to know what I know deeply regardless of what others think or say. 

I grew up in a very dysfunctional way with both parents on a concoctions of medications for years. My younger brother once stated " we were not brought up, we were dragged up". Wow I thought , is that true as I still believed we had it pretty good compared to how I knew it could be after living in 2 children's homes from age 3yr - 6yrs. 

Both my parents were on many different kinds of medications and some of these were for the side effects of other meds. 
A few years ago before my father died, I read out to him on one of my visits, the small print that came with his medications, such small print that even if he wanted too he would not be able to read it. It listed the side effects of the medication. He stated after I completed reading out loud to him this list of side effects to his meds  " Shur they are all the reasons I am taking them in the first place ". Thankfully, as cranky and angry and harsh speaking as my father could be at times, he still had a endearing sense of humour. 

My Mum died 30yrs ago when I was 14yrs old when the meds she was given in a locked up psyche ward did not mix well together which brought on a sudden heart attack or so the autopsy revealed. When the lawyer finally accessed her medical files from the hospital, the lawyer told my father that part of them seemed to be missing.  Thus the family never took this further.

Personally I did not want to get involved in a Court battle of whom and what was at cause of my mothers death. I knew in my heart I needed to heal myself so I did not head down the path she did that landed her in the mental hospital shortly after I was born with postnatal depression. A depression that went from bad to worse with the only solution offered been different types of medications and electro shock treatments. Back then, there was no readily available services to support and educate on the needs for quality nutrition for the brain and nervous system, especially when a person is under excessive stress ( carrying and given birth to a baby ) and the stress of fearful negative thinking and living in an environment that felt unstable and unloving.

What creates fearful thinking ? Well at the core it is feeling unsafe, unprotected, unsupported, incapable, disconnected, confused, distrust, rejected and unloved. ( i.e past & present unresolved traumas ) . 


So witnessing much at a young age gave me the awareness and determination that I needed to find a better way to support my well-being and personal empowerment in life if I wanted to live a more happy joyful healed existence. I knew somehow that I would need to discover how to heal what ailed both my parents physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Thus, has been my journey the latter 20yrs, beginning with attending my 1st Hot Yoga class when I was 21 or 22yrs. Later it was really my travels to India and other places that really opened my mind and heart to the possibilities with meditations, healing modalities and been introduced to the traditional Hatha Yoga styles and living more authentically from your spiritual nature daily. 

When I was 27yrs old I had gone to my allopathic Doctor in Jersey, located in the Channel Island off the U.K.. He was such a lovely Doctor and tried to do his best for me and had put me on a second round of antibiotics. Half way through taking them, I had intense pain in my gut and my intuition was strong that the medication was not working for me and I needed to find something else asap. That was the day I booked my 1st alternative practitioner appointment and invested 50 U.K. pounds into my healing. That was a big deal for me as I grew up on a free medical card in Ireland and was not used of paying money to invest in my health. My culture has taught me that we kept that for alcohol in Ireland LOL. That was a real turning point on my empowering healing journey and I have never looked back and have had no need for taking medications in 17yrs. I even replaced the paracetamol tabs I use to take on the 1st and 2 days of getting my menstrual cycle with practicing meditations. It is incredible to feel how meditations and releasing resistance to the flow of life and the flow of our natural cycles can release the intense discomfort / pain / cramps and reset the body-mind to well-being and ease. Basically I learned to replace the resistance I had with more and more acceptance each month with the help of meditations. To our bodies and cells which are responding to every thought and felling we have this is profound and thus the miracle of healing is found. 

Over the years I also learnt to invest my money and resources of time, energy and commitment into the discovery of my self knowledge with trainings, self care practices and exploring natural healing modalities and approaches for body, mind, spirit and emotions. Through that, like many other passionate wellness peeps with fascinating stories of personal transformations, I ended up having invaluable experiences and resources to share with others and created my wellness biz in 2010 with launching Mountain View Massage day spa, 2015 Vibrant Living Retreat with hubby and 2017 Vibrant Wellness Academy to train and certified my own students in Holistic Intuitive Massage. ( LINK HERE ) 


Thus why I am so passionate about Self Care ... no more self sacrifice peeps !!! You and those you love are worthy of empowered wellness and living well. " You can't give what you ain't got " ! ! ! Care for self so you can refill your cup to full and overflowing and naturally extend this caring and love to others. That is how is really works in a sustainable world.  Resentments, bitterness and regrets all add to the dis-eases in a body. These emotions reflect where a person has not believed they have had the right or self worth to care for themselves or be cared for and follow their own hearts and passions and joy.

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WHAT IS REQUIRED TO TRULY HEAL AND WHY MANY WON'T CHOOSE THIS  ? 


You need to reclaim radical self responsibility for your life and lay down the victim, shame and blame games for self and others. Thus why many will not choose that path as it does take dedication, daily focus, making life changes, a willingness to forgive the past and having a strong desire to empower yourself with sustainable health and trust in a friendly universe, friendly earth, friendly humanity and most important of all a friendly body that you live in that houses your spirit on earth.

On this planet for many it can feel like going against the grain of family and friends if you really put your own needs first, especially if you have lived your entire life putting everyone else first and neglecting your own sacred self. Thus is it any wonder that part of your psyche is enraged which may express in sudden outburst of anger, sadness and a feeling of being lost.

It does take some courage, a deeper desire for change and building a healthy self worth. Sometimes it is actually concerns for how other people will respond to you that troubles you most if you actually put yourself first. You may fear letting people down or you may also be greatly attached to having people relay on you and your skills that you don't want to give that role up and focus more on your own needs. In this case it is developing a greater self value and self worth that is required to commit to self care and  more self love. 
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IS THERE A RIGHT OR WRONG CHOICE ? 

Each to there own of what one chooses ! As we advance in our Soul learning on earth and resolve our own issues and heal the unhealed  so we feel more whole. We develop a deeper compassion for self and others. We understand that everyone is on a unique soul journey of their own choosing and whom are we to judge another. This is also a reflection that we have released and resolved our own inner judgements and separations with our own self and psyches. 

In short there really is no right or wrong choices. However there is choices that creates very different kind of experiences.


Each is on a individual journey and a larger collective humanity one. The fork on the road just so happens to be more  apparent these days to two very unique looking types of earthly human experiences that are available to each one to choose. One is moving towards living in greater SOUL BODY MIND embodied harmony with the natural world and our own inner nature. The other is moving away from the natural world, body awareness and into a more ungrounded / disconnected from the earth and digitised synthetic version of reality.  

Personally I am aligned to creating technology that harmonises with our true human nature and enhances that in alignment with the recognition that we are SOUL incarnated beings on earth. That life on earth is gift to celebrate and enjoy and expand ourselves through. Not something to take for granted, make a burden of, destroy, take advantage of its resources for more profit and control or to simply turn our backs on from sheer apathy through lack of faith, connection, love and an addiction to suffering through lack of self worth and self knowledge. 
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FEAR, THE GREATEST VIRUS ON EARTH & OUR GREATEST SALVATION WHEN YOU FACE IT HEAD ON. 

It has been wowing over the latter 2 years to witness the power of the fear porn openly displayed around most areas of NZ.

Then there is those special places where people have had enough and stopped wearing or enforcing them on others.

Woohoo for those beginning to super seed the fear and distortions and reclaim self dignity again and choose living in the here and now more FULLY ALIVE.

The greatest fear  people are running from and trying to escape is death, change and transformations.

For any of us could die tomorrow but why put yourself on a torture table getting there. Is it worth it really !!!!


You can die suffering all the way to the grave or the crematorium as many would have you believe is perfectly normal to accept or you can die happy and satisfied with your life as you found the courage to face your fears, , humble your ego and choose to trust more in your true self ( heart -soul nature ) and thus have no regrets.

FORGIVING THE UNFORGIVABLE ~ SPEAKING THE UNSPOKEN TAKES COURAGE & A SURRENDERING TO THE HEART. 

Forgive them Father ~ Mother ~ God ~ Earth ~ Nature for they know not what they do when they turn there backs on you and hand their immense power over to a different kinda of narcissist altered egoic power claiming itself as the one source of truth.

" What you resist, will persist " ... I am so aware of the truth of this statement.  Life these days is a delicate balancing of been so fully aware of what is a NO for my heart and what is a YES and then focusing on the YES to the best of my ability while been attentive to my continuous healing~harmonising journey of body-mind-soul moving through a huge collective AWAKENING and shift of
​ consciousness on earth.
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However we must not stick our heads in the sand either. The HEALED is in fact that which has had the light of consciousness and acceptance upon it. It is becoming aware of what you were not aware of, acknowledging what had not been acknowledged, accepting that which had not been acceptable, expressing what has been repressed,  loving what cries out in the middle of the night to be felt with more consideration and caring for that which has felt rejected and abandoned. This is the healing, this is the awakening, this is the journey home to DIVINE LOVE & WHOLENESS. 
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Picture : Mary Jo & Steve . Taken before one of Steve's endurance races at the top of Golden Bay, NZ.
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" Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you respond " ... and wow has life ever been gifting up the goods and challenges on managing those responses.

I/ We / YOU learn so much about ourself and each other by becoming aware of how I / WE / YOU react unconsciously and respond more consciously to circumstances and events etc

Divine Blessings upon ALL and please please for the love of GOD and all that is GOODNESS don't lose your sense of humour over these times. 
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Compassionate Joyful Loving Blessings on all paths walked on earth.

Namaste 

Mary Jo
VLR co-creative director and well-being facilitator. 
www.VibrantLiving.co.nz

Book a Quantum Wellness Retreat with us at VLR or Quantum Hypnosis Healing Session with Mary Jo in person or on-line. 
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Let's Talk DETOX - the keys to unlock your well-being.

4/4/2022

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DETOX : The art and science of ancient and modern day knowledge for you that is pure self empowerment. However it has to be experienced to really be understood. 

Lets talk DETOX my Vibrant Living friends. 

The natural Key to unlock and enhance the renewal of your well-being

1. Detoxification is the way to create natural health by releasing overload of toxicity physically, mentally, emotionally and even spiritually by releasing old karmic contracts in your soul.

2. Detoxification allows the digestive system to completely rest, clear out and the organs to cleanse deeply old toxins.

3. Detoxification gives your body ~ mind ~ emotions and all bodily systems a rest to renew. This is a profound opportunity to rebalance naturally in accordance with the bodies own divine intelligence blueprint you were born with to break down and rebuild cells harmoniously and efficiently and effectively.

4. Detoxification is a opportunity to release and let go and reset what no longer serves you in your life currently. E.g. old ways of eating, thinking and patterns of acting or reacting.

5. Detoxification brings renewal, a clam clear mind and clarity to move forward with renewed confidence and a deeper self trust within.

6. Detox helps to release the build up of harmful stresses in the body that creates imbalance of hormones and chemistry and thus supports the body to rebalance these while being out of the stress response.
Detoxification is nature’s way to stay healthy, wealthy and wise. It resets your nervous system and thus every system to well-being living.

7. Yoga is actually a artful form of detoxification. This mindful movement ( asana ) and deep breath awareness practice ( pranayama ) helps to remove toxins, stagnation and lethargy from the body mind. By stretching the body and muscle fibres and tissues, more oxygen can get into the cells and carbon dioxide out. The oxygen also helps break down lactic acids. Yoga also smooths and supports the resets of the nervous system and this effects every other system in the body to return to homeostatic.
Meditation helps with the mental mind detoxification by calming down the over active thinking and reactionary mind or ego.

8. Daily Journalling helps to release the over load of unacknowledged, unexpressed and suppressed emotions in a healthy safe way and creative way.

9. Choosing daily oracle cards helps to open up communication and connection with your spiritual nature and guidance team. This delights the heart and reaffirms that you are loved, held and supported unconditionally in unseen / unrecognised ways as well as seen / recognised ways. It renews hope and faith and encourages the asking for support and being open to receive more into your life with ease and grace.
@ Vibrant Living Retreat in Hanmer Springs

Our next 5 night Detox Wellness Yoga retreat is happening April 26th - May 1st. ( 5 nights ).

Please note we will close our VLR retreat and day spa May 2nd - June 3rd. ( no bookings available over this time , apology in advance for any disappointment ). 

We will re-open with our next Detox Wellness Yoga Retreat over Queens birthday June 3rd - 7th. 

Both of these detox retreats above will be offered with a mixture of raw detox foods, smoothies, juice fasting and water fasting.  However we adapt to you and your needs and you can do more or less of the above depending on what you prefer. 

More information on what is included in our detox retreats and the accommodation options and pricing available.
Go here https://www.vibrantliving.co.nz/wellnessretreatpackagespr...

We are currently taking bookings for both of these retreats. EMAIL 
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​Mary Jo & Steve & Magica from Dogie Heaven. 

www.vibrantliving.co.nz

Book a Transformational Quantum Hypnosis session with Mary Jo via Zoom .  More info LINK HERE.
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Many people book a Quantum Healing Wellness Retreat and do a detox altogether and this is advised for best and sustainable results long into your vibrant glorious future. ​
Book Quantum Wellness Retreat LINK HERE. 

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Making friends with death (s) , to truly live.

19/5/2021

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I want to die and why it is a healthy thing. 

Let me share with you about embracing death fearlessly so that you can allow yourself and those around you to truly live freely and vibrantly. 
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You would never think that smiley happy looking face of mine would be thinking such a thing, surrounded by my two beautiful friends I share wonderful resonant connections. I want to die !
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I / We are living the dream. It is true, I AM living my best life each day, I am a Queen living my heavenly life ( reality ) feeling very spoilt and ecstatically delighted most days by how magical life can be.

I AM blessed beyond measure and yet a part of me feels I am full of shit and know nothing.

A part of me is exhausted of the old ways of being a human on this planet via the egoic persona limitation, conditions and separation games. That part wants to die along with the old earth consciousness.

She needs to allow herself to die; to surrender and release the remainder of resistances, attachments and inner battling of right / wrong / good / bad / have / have not’s / and so on.

This is required to allow even more of my true authentic self to shine on through this earthly personality and body.

I am done with the old version of me that learnt to fit into a system of inauthenticity and survival.

Even though I have learned to reduce and manage my duality symptoms considerably to once upon a time. I just can’t keep going on anymore in the same old patterns of self doubt , self denial, self disgust, feeling the distortions within my self esteem, lacking self trust, holding back my inner voice, believing a old story that I am shy and that people don’t like or welcome my light, fear of my own power as light , feeling awkward to freely express divine love and safe enough to receive love freely, self judgements, giving air time to the inner critic ( wounded past self ) , playing into avoidance of situations and circumstances that may cause me to feel the unwanted pain of rejection , abandonment, non-acceptance or feeling too much / too little when I am being my true authentic spontaneous creative expression.

That part of me must give way now and surrender to a deeper part of me that trandsends time and space.

That part of me is being strongly invited NOW to surrender her little egoic will and align to thy will of my higher self ; deeper expansive self ; the true authentic self ; the essence of whom I am before I came into this body and whom I will be when I transition from my biological body.

The old aspects of self must die to her old ways of acting & not acting upon inspired ideas, of expressing & not expressing inspired thoughts and words as they are not serving my divine mission ( passions ) and intentions for this lifetime anymore in these new energies and consciousness to move into the fullness of potentials awaiting to be realised.

So my friends I invite you to not shy away from the death of your old self as perceived through a old paradigm of references points, distortions, conditionings, traumas, ancestral patterns and identity hats.

Set yourself free ! ! !

Your true value, worthiness and empowerment’s is beyond measure.

Death is not so scary when we make friends with it.

Death is truly part of the natural evolutionary nature of life. Each night we go to sleep we allow that day to die and the next morning a new day to be born and then lived. There is all kinds of death like that of a relationship, a job and body image. The cells in our bodies continual die off to be broken down and renewed. 

TO TRULY LIVE one must truly embrace death and die again and again and again .

To truly live one must become more familiar and comfortable with the full cycle of LIFE which is birth, life and death. When we avoid death at all costs we become fearful of change. Change is natural and truly nothing stayed the same.  Can you see that this is the insanity that eventually makes us prisoners to our self imposed restrictions and resistances to the nature of truly living and embracing each experience of life for its full potential to be realised.  This is a continuous cycle and evolution which enriches the soul incarnated as each one of us on earth living a human life. Life is a gift and through the misguidedness of our egoic mind we have turned into a great burden and suffering living in fear, avoidances and distrust. 

So I celebrate death and I celebrate life and living and birthing anew with you.

May we know and accept that it is ok to openly grieve our loss without shame or apology.

Grief is important to be felt to truly honour the death process . So welcome those tears as much as you welcome laugher and smiles as they honour the life that has been lived and has brought you to these new moments of self awareness, inisights, surrendering, clarity, reevaluations, adaptation , desire, peace, creativity, passions and eventual readiness for something new to resurrect you into greater heights of possibilities and fulfillments.

News alert : Suffering is optional.

“ What you resist will persist “ and has to lead to pain and exhaustion until I / U / WE finally surrender the little will and fighting for ones limitation for a deeper and greater will that holds a much bigger vision of whom we are becoming.

Beyond and through the sadness, grief, anger, frustrations, rage, and sense of deep loss is pure unbridled joy and deeper expansions of unconditional love and fresh new inspired creativity awaiting us to allow it into expression.

Namaste.

The light & the dark dualities within me acknowledge these same extremes and polarities playing out and looking for resolutions and harmony within you.

Beyond these contrasts of creations there is a unified field. Zero point field.

I’ll meet you there.
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Amen

I AM THAT I AM

To go deeper into embracing the ego death and what prayer really is and how to pray in a way that transforms your experience. Please join myself & Eileen Meyer as we dive into these topics and more in this wonderful authentic conversation. VIDEO LINK HERE or find the video just below. 

#compassion #EmbodiedPresence #gentleness

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Celebrating & reviewing 6 years of Vibrant Living Dec 31st 2020. Plus wellness tips for your success in 2021'.

28/12/2020

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Please find at the bottom of this blog our Video chat we created on New Years eve Dec 31st 2020 at VLR or click HERE. 
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It was 6 years ago that Steve & I agreed to sign the lease for the property at 88 Rippingale Rd, in Hanmer Springs. At the time it was called Albergo Lodge and had been running for 10 plus years as a exclusive B&B lodge accommodation. 

We heard through the metaphorical grape vines of Hanmer Springs that the lease may be available due to the previous lease holders being unable to make the business work for them and wanting to sell the remaining of their lease onwards. 

I recall having a phone call with Steve from the Sunshine Coast of Australia in November 2014' where we individually expressed feeling inspired and excited to look into the possibilities of purchasing the remaining lease hold of 6 years. We had a dream to run our own wellness retreat together and this seemed like a potential golden opportunity to get to do this. 

To cut a long story short it did not work out for us to gain the lease in the following weeks, however we did end up registering our 1st ever company name Vibrant Living Ltd. Then in November 2014' we had the news that we must move out of where we were living, renting and running my Day Spa business at Mount Charon Place, as the  2 storey house had been sold. 

At the time there was no rentals in Hanmer Springs we could find, so we ended up staying in a friends little Sleep out in her garden and a few days later managed to organise renting a unit in one of Hanmer Springs Motel's for a few weeks.  Over that time Steve continued to work in his trade as a builder and I spent much of my time feeling like I was on an emotional roller coaster ride. I felt part of me just wanted to put my backpack on and leave Hanmer to travel and feel free of all responsibilities. However a deeper part of me which I will refer to as my heart and soul was urging me to take greater self responsibility for my life and energy. In essence it was my time to be open to believe in bigger dreams coming into fruition and my abilities to expand my horizons and develop new skills and capabilities. Eventually after a few more rounds on the emotional roller coaster rides my ego surrendered more deeply into a healthier self esteem to receive the wisdom and guidance of my heart and soul.

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Views from Vibrant Living Retreat courtyard.
Another aspect of my reality at the time that really helped was being in communication with the Landlord of 88 Rippingale Rd. Beat whom had taken back the property from the previous lease holders and was running the business mostly alone attempting to get it back onto its feet and deciding himself what way to move next with it either to sell  the property or to re-lease.

After some conversations he agreed to myself renting one of the rooms in the Lodge building from him to take my own massage clients in. I was familiar with the room as I had done a few treatments in it over the years for the previous lease holders Jo & Linz. We were very fortunate that we had a good relationship with the Landlords as myself & Steve had rented a house from them for 4.5 years not far from Rippingale rd in Hanmer Springs over the previous years. Some clients may recall when I was operating Mountain View Massage days spa from  my home located at 10 Lochiel Drive. 

It was working with my clients over those weeks that really helped me get more centred and balanced in myself and realise a few things. At the time I was not very good at coming forward for myself to ground and balance myself each day.  However working with my clients I had to get myself together to focus and hence put my worries, overwhelms, doubts and concerns on the back burner at least for the few hours that I was working with my clients. Funnily enough it was these hours with my clients that became what I like to call my saving grace. During these times I was willing to re-centre in my heart and I allowed my heart to guide my hands and my communications with my client more intuitively.  Often the advice I would give others, I knew was exactly what I needed to hear and to heed. In a way this was a indirect way to listen and receive the guidance and deeper knowing of my heart and soulful wisdom. 
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I recall one day after a treatment walking back down the hall when my lovely lady client said to me  " It must be so good to be you and helping people like you do ".  I just nodded and smiled but inwardly I did not feel how great it must be to be me. In fact in that moment I felt more of a fraud and an emotional mess underneath and outside of working with my client. However her words stuck with me and I pondered on them and took them to heart. I wondered what it may feel like to experience how great it was to get to be me and do what I do, I wondered what it would be like to receive this blessings into my heart and feel good on the inside about whom I was and really receive on a deeper level experiential the acknowledgment and appreciation for the well-being services I provided.

Then one day it happened and I had the great epiphany ' the greatest joy of my soul is divine service '.  From that day I felt more relaxed and easy about everything as if my soul had taken the reins and I ( my ego ) was just going along for the adventure being taken care of by something greater.

Thus I got myself off the emotional roller coaster ride and instead felt centred and held in this simple and profound truth I had uncovered within me. Following that moment of immense clarity one thing led to another and just before Christmas 2014' myself and Steve ended up signing the remaining 6 year lease to take over the property at 88 rippingale Rd Dec 31st 2014'.  The landlord Beat agreed to stay to train us up the 1st couple of weeks and a good job too as it was the busiest time of year.  Thankfully Steve took to learning how to make the breakfasts and cleaning the rooms while I  was busy seeing my massage clients and rearranging the day spa into more of what I envisioned. 

What I forgot to mention is that before we signed the lease Steve was looking into doing a Painting apprentice in Christchurch in the new year as he had been looking to get out of building due to a back injury and losing his passion for working in that kind of environment. He really did not know if he would be full time needed at the property. I recall asking him at one point if he could tell me how many days he would be available to help with the business so I knew if I needed to find some extra help.

Those months were a challenging time on our relationship as we were trying to find our own way and unsure what our futures held individually and together. In a way we had to let each other go like setting a bird free from a old worn out cage and trust that if it was in each others highest good, choice and joy we would fly together even higher and if not we would bless each others paths with unconditional love. 

Thankfully within weeks of taking on the business  I overheard Steve telling our breakfast guest about how much he was enjoying cooking the breakfasts and running the B&B and that he did not miss building one bit. Over those months and possibly a couple of years Steve was certainty tested if he did miss the building work as many of the Local builders came knocking on his door to see if he was after any work. He had a good reputation in building by then in Hanmer Springs. I witnessed him again and again turn down the offers until the message was received and they stopped coming in.

However his skills certainty never went to waste at Vibrant Living as he made many improvements and did the general maintenance and painting jobs. Steve loves gardening also and has done wonders with the gardens. Over the years he added a beautiful veggie garden and area for our organic happy hens and ducks.  He is very interested in the Permaculture way of growing and planting and has a composting system in place. 
​​We do our best to live and run our business as sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible. 
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It was May 21st  2015' when we officially launched our new name and signage as Vibrant Living Retreat. We were delighted with our new name, logo and signage. We had a wonderful launch party at the retreat to mark the occasion and invited people to stop by and take a look around, enjoy drinks and nibbles, music and enter a draw to win prizes. 

Over the years we transitioned out of the exclusive B&B focus and more and more into what we really wanted to do which is the inclusive Wellness Retreats, Spa Escape Packages and Holistic Day Spa treatments.

This got started off by offering Yoga Wellness Retreat packages and then into a more Detox Focus with detox meals and Juice Fasting Retreats. Then we added in a 2 or 3 night Quantum Wellness Retreats which includes a Quantum Healing Hypnosis session. All our retreats packages include AM & PM Yoga & Mindfulness / Meditation session plus a midday wellness coaching session offering practical tools for body, mind, emotional and spiritual health and well-being.

Personal empowerment is a key ingredient of all that we offer. Both Steve & I love being part of and witnessing people transform before our eyes over their stay with us and leave feeling inspired, renewed, empowered and enthusiastic about life, living, health and wellness.



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Steve serving up some breakfast goodness at VLR.
Over the years Steve has definitely become the wellness chef at Vibrant Living and has inspired many with his beautiful juices, smoothies and plant based meals. What can I say he looks pretty darn cute in his apron too and many women have wanted to take him home or enquired if he had a clone to take home. Steve has this amazing gentle grounded presence and kindness about him and people generally feel very relaxed and at ease in his company. ​
Another aspect to our success with Vibrant Living has been the wonderful team of travellers and therapists over the years that have been with us and helped to co-create daily life with a interest in wellness and a willingness to grow and transform along with us. 
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Open and authentic communications is very important in any aspect of life. We definitely found that practicing good communication where everyone gets to speak and be heard really helped the overall harmonious daily running of the business and enjoyment of the retreat lifestyle. This then translated to the over all vibe of the environment and those first impressions when people walk in the door. A common statement we have often heard over the years is things like " I love the peaceful feeling here " or " I feel the relaxation just walking in the door ". 


So all in all it has been 6 incredible years of learning, growing and co-creating a business that in turn got to serve 100's and 1000's of more people over the years with our well-being location and services.

Then 2020' came along and a curve ball got thrown up into the air called lock down which took us into a new growing awareness that it maybe time for us to move on from Vibrant Living Retreat to have more time to relax into the flow of new creative explorations and adventures of heart, body and soul calling our names. 

For Steve it is definitely having more time focused on his endurance cycling events and cycling movie ideas. As for myself Mary Jo I am been guided into more public speaking creations that guide, empower and support the greater consciousness awakening journey underway for many on earth. After our March-May 2020' lockdown I got the inspired hit to create 'Stories of awakening' WebTV video series and absolutely loved the experience and getting to connect and talk about consciousness while sharing fascinating authentic stories.  That seems to be a place of excitement for my heart. However with getting so busy with our business again by June and July this started to fall more and more to the side lines of my daily life as I had less time and motivation along side the running of my business to give it focus. 
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Click to be brought to my Youtube Stories of Awakening Play list.
I do intend to continue on with facilitating my Vibrant Wellness Academy holistic intuitive massage & facial trainings in and around New Zealand and Hanmer Springs. I am excited just to take a couple of months to travel around N.Z. and have lots of free time to explore in nature and follow my heart. I am pretty confident lots of new inspired ideas will come my way once I have more free time to be available to them. Hence feeling the strong urge that this is the time to sell Vibrant Living Retreat & Mountain View Massage. It would bring us so much delight and joy to pass on what we have grown to new people that are passionate about it also and has a vision to improve upon what we have developed. I see so much potential still to be tapped into for the right people with the right skills and attitude. 


So that is where I will leave this 6 year Story for now.  I hope you enjoyed the reflections. Thank you for reading and coming on the journey.

As we step into 2021 we invite expressions of interest to purchase our business on a new 9 year lease with 2 rights of renewal 3x3x3.


If this opportunity sings to your heart, body and soul then please email us with the subject title EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR VLR BIZ  to our email info@vibrantliving.co.nz and we will forward on information for you to review with our business broker. 


We intend to support the transition to be easeful, joyful and mutually win-win for all involved. We want to see new people thrive by taking Vibrant Living Retreat & Day Spa to the next level if they choose too. We believe in operating in the paradigm of business and harmonious living which is based on the values of open authentic communications, co-operations, collaboration, co-creation and supporting a wonderful win win resolution for all involved. 


In 2021' and beyond fulfilling success is going to be far more related to who we are being and how we contribute to others rather than how much we are doing and getting from others. 
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So with that, signing off with much LOVE & BLESSINGS for your year ahead into 2021'.  I will leave you with some wellness tips and guidance for 2021'. 

Guidance for 2021. 
Follow your heart as best you can and take good care of your BODY-MIND, EMOTIONS & SOUL.

Take time each day to connecting more deeply with your inner truth so you can trust your gut feeling and guidance to guide you step by step into some new territory for humanity over these coming years.  

Focus on the glass half full and reach for the solutions rather than getting stuck on the problems in your mind and hanging out in fear, worry, constriction and overwhelm. 

Get out into Nature as often as you can, breathe deeply and keep your heart open to the possibilities.

Spent moments dreaming and imagining and feeling into your bright future NOW. 

Practice gratitude daily as a way to focus on the abundance of your life already and remind your body and mind to stay out of excessive stress and accept all is well in this NOW moment. 

Affirm " I AM SAFE & PROTECTED WHERE I AM ".

" I TRUST MYSELF & I TRUST LIFE TO SUPPORT AND PROTECT ME" 

" I EMBRACE MY ENTIRE BEING WITH LOVE AND COMPASSION " 


Namaste beautiful HU-man. 

Infinite DIVINE LOVE & BLESSINGS. 
Mary Jo, Steve & Magica ( Our Dogie ) ​​

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Grab a cuppa and Join us on VIDEO.

Join Steve & I on the video below as we reflect on our 6 years of VL, Steve's Endurance Cycling & Awakening ( Personal Empowerment journey ), Mary Jo's Stories of Awakening WebTV series inspiration in 2020' and realising it was the time to sell our Business in 2021' and support new people whom love what we have grown and developed over the years to take it over and take it even further. 

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The Keys to TRUSTING YOURSELF and why you don't.

19/10/2020

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When someone speaks from the heart it carries a energy frequency that will resonate within you and leave you feeling touched and uplifted somehow, maybe even bring a tear to to your eyes or a smile to your lips.
When someone speaks from the preconceived ideas and presentation of carefully designed persona’s with its agenda of communications from the mental mind construct ( more left brain ) , it has little energy and usually will leave you feeling flat ( unenergised ) , frustrated ( even angry ) , confused, powerless and disenchanted.
Why is this ?

Because the heart carries a powerful electro magnetic field of energy ( the torus field ) . These are carrier waves of frequencies not unlike musical tones that transmit a vibrational energy that directly communicates with another persons heart and cells. You feel it , the resonances !
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This is why it is so important to take time to be with oneself and to make friends with ones ability to feel again in your body and discern your own feelings from that of others.

The language and sense of feeling is our greatest biofeedback system we have that communicate to us from the environment outside of us and within us.

At a young age for most of us we get educated to negate our own feelings and this creates a deep distrust of the natural self. Instead we learn to take in information from the people around us ( parents / care givers / friends / older siblings / teachers etc ) and align with their truth rather than trust our self and the truth we feel. Of course we must learn and grow and be guided. However for true confidence one must know and trust ones own inner truth to navigate ones life successfully.

Over many years we become more and more disconnected from the natural biofeedback system of the body and environment. Instead of going there for our discerning of communications , we get trained ( educated ) to go tap into the developing filling system of information which gets inputted into the left brain over many years and from many books for a understanding of truth not so unlike a computer hard drive system.

The issue with this , is that it is not going to be our clarity of truth in any now moment. It is going to be someone else’s that we made as our higher truth. A opinion of truth from another time that may be completely unrelated and even unhelpful in the bigger sense to what is occurring in the present moment. Consider for example ‘worrisome thoughts’ as one of the most unhelpful and stress producing tools for dealing with daily life.

We learn to overlay a past moment of educated understanding ( learnt thoughts and behaviour ) into a present moment instead of actually having the natural capacity to be attuned to the bodies biofeedback system to discern what resonances with our own deeper awareness of our own truth beyond just mental thoughts ( left brain analysis ~ computing ). Of course it is wonderful to utilise the left brain linear analysis processing and qualifying of information to support the expression and strategic actions which aligns with your own inner truth compass .

This in today’s world is what is creating so much confusion, overwhelm, anxieties and depression. People have become so disconnected from themselves and their own inner truth compass .
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The fact is most people don’t actually trust themselves and would rather hand over that responsibility to a so called expert with letters after their name instead to tell them their truth; how to think and how to feel. i.e. there is a good reason why marketing company’s invest billions and trillions of dollars on behalf of big corporation branding into advertising campaigns world wide ... because it works !!!

You can do all the research in the world about any topic and it can be helpful , however what does your heart and gut ( solar plexus ) ultimately tell you about a given situation or what step to take next in your life ?

A Truth will always feel lighter and brighter ( expansive ) . A lie will always feel heavier and darker ( contracted ) . The trick is to tune in and then to trust and that is the most challenging for us humans.

This is the bigger issue of our world. People are trained out of trusting themselves at a young age.
How to remedy this situation ? It really is simply and yet the mind will come up with a million and one reasons and distractions not to do it.

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Remedies to trusting you and your bodies biofeedback compass again.
  • Spent time with yourself and get to know you again, befriend you; body, mind, feelings, spirit and consciousness.
  • Slow down and Spent time in nature. Take moments to listen to the birds and look at the trees the colours , the shapes , the textures , the leaves , feel the sun on your face and gentle wind on your skin etc
  • Get your feet barefoot on the ground and feel the earth below your feet
  • Discover a form of prayer and mediation that works for you. Prayer is where you set a clear intention of what you are aligning with NOW and meditation is opening up space in your life and mind to receive ( magnetise ) more good. As humans we are usually for the most part better at giving than we are at allowing ourselves to truly receive. We have been trained in so many ways that we have to earn our worth, love and living.
  • Declutter mental thoughts : journal down your thoughts no matter what they are or however silly , depressed , angry or manic. Get them out of going round and round your head . You will discovered underneath them there is way more clarity, peace, comfort and ease.
  • Move your body to get the energy moving and pent up tensions, anger, stagnation’s and anxieties released : Walk , run , bike , yoga , hike , dance , laugh
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I trust you found this helpful and insightful.

Please share the link with friends and family and encourage greater self awareness and self empowerment. 

Creating a more harmonising world begin's with each person's well-being and balance in body, mind and soul.

Vibrant Blessings
Mary Jo 
Vibrant Living Retreat & Day Spa Co -Director 
www.vibrantliving.co.nz 

Blog Author. 
Wellness Coach & Facilitator. 
Inner Alchemy Guide. 
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Lock Down 2020 - Educational & Insightful Videos for Connecting the Dots for HUMAN EmPOWERment. Seeing beyond the veils of illusions to the bigger picture.

2/5/2020

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Before you go any further with this page and the information that these video interviews below reveal. I want to remind you that we are all going through an incredible evolutionary phase on planet earth currently. With Billions of people across the Globe in over a 100+ countries being asked to stay at home. There is no doubt something big happening and it has many layers of truths to it which can seem confusing, unbelievable and shocking as each one gets revealed to us and yet the more we can integrate and reflect upon the information , the more actually things start to make more sense as more and more pieces of the bigger picture comes together.  

Regardless of the layers of truths that are being revealed by many courageous, professional and caring people across the globe describing some of the toxic layers, inconsistency, mis-information, unsafe practices, negative agendas and behavioural patterns of the biggest corporations and an elite 1% power structure hidden deep in the shadows behind it all.

I want you to also realise that this time has gifted more and more people the opportunity to step back from stressful busy life's to reflect, connect more inwards and come to realise organically ones deeper and truer values beyond what one had been conditioned into believing and this is truly magnificent ! 

It is important to have the courage to face some uncomfortable truths behind what ails us as one collective humanity and become aware to some of the deeper issues within the systems that is adding to the rising health crisis and now a economic crisis.

We must first be very clear on what we do not condone and has our NO vote because otherwise we can be seduced unknowingly into a trap that we would not choose if one had all the information presented clearly.

Through great clarity being understood however uncomfortable at first, we can then move forward very clear on our YES vote. This clarity is very important to reach so that each person can focus resources into that YES vote with confidence, vitality and creativity.

Hence this is part of the reason I awoke at 4.30am this morning with the strong guidance to get up and collate this information that we at Vibrant Living Retreat have been exposed to and getting educated on over the latter weeks. The intentions is to make it easier to access for those whom is interested to dive deeper and learn what is potentially really going on behind the scenes and the bigger agenda attempting to unfold if we do not wake up and simply say NO.

Over the lock down period many of these videos posted below and peoples platforms that share this kind of OPEN SPEECH information has been censored and taken down from social sharing platforms such as YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK, VIMEO. 

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Ultimately in my heart of hearts I know that the potential of this intense chapter of our evolutionary cycle on earth is to AWAKEN humanity.  It is time on the planet for humanity to become a more highly evolved and higher consciousness collective family that care for self, one another and our earth home in equal measures.  In essence it is time to live our life's from a higher state of unconditional LOVE and less and less from the states of survival, stress, fear, lack and disconnected mentality. 

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It is time for people to awaken to whom they truly are beyond the egoic identity to realise that the power is within to change, balance and heal oneself and hence change, balance and heal the world. 

" As within, so without " 

" As you believe, it is giving onto you " Jesus 

" Be the change you want to see in the world " Gandhi
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Please scroll down and allow yourself be guided to which video to watch 1st. Usually it is the one that stands out for you the most and you feel more drawn to it so please trust that inner guidance. 
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Please make sure to get plenty of time in nature in between watching this content below to ground and attend to your self care and allow a integration period. 

AND most of all ​" Take what is helpful and leave the rest "  ! 

" Knowledge is power " Albert Einstein


However keep in mind that Einstein also stated that 

" Imagination is more powerful than knowledge ". 
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Dr RASHID BUTTAR 14min
​Click on the picture below to be brought to the page to watch this video by Dr. Buttar. He is from the USA and had to move to New Zealand due to the controversial information he was sharing publicly. Many of Dr. Buttar videos which were on Youtube has been censored and taking down. He is not alone many others have had the same experience due to increased censorship and control of free speech when it goes against the mainstream media narrative. 

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IS CORONAVIRUS A PLANDEMIC? EXPOSING THE TRUTH BEHIND AMERICA'S COVID-19 STRATEGY
Activist & Former Medical Researcher Dr. Judy Mikovits
As research director of a CFS research organization Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI) from 2006-2011, Mikovits led a research effort that reported in 2009 that a retrovirus known as xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) was associated with CFS and may have had a causal role. In 1980, Mikovits was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry with a specialization in biology at the University of Virginia. After graduation, she went to the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, where she developed purification methods for Interferon alpha. Mikovits has gained attention on social media for promoting her ideas about the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. She does not believe that a vaccine is needed to prevent COVID-19, and claims that the coronavirus was “caused by a bad strain of flu vaccine that was circulating between 2013 and 2015“. She also claimed masks will “activate” the virus and reinfect a mask-wearer over and over.​

Plandemic Movie 25 min.
​ This documentary that has been taken down on multiply media platform.

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Dr. Judy was Interviewed by London Real presenter Brian Rose -  May 2020

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Here is a LINK to some disturbing information in this article about the impact that Vaccines have been having on children in Indian and Africa HERE 


April 17th 2020. 
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Perspectives on the Pandemic | Dr. John Ioannidis Update: 4.17.20 | Episode 4

April 24th 2020. 
COVID-19 Briefing: Current Quarantine Approach Wrong Based on Science | Dr Erickson & Dr Massihi Pt1


Videos with 2 WOMEN RESEARCHERS ASKING QUESTIONS.  ( NON-SCIENTISTS ) 

They started to ask NEW questions that no one else seem to be asking and doing the research. These ladies take it upon themselves to deep dive and it is shocking what they uncovered which raises many more questions  . . .
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This content is not comfortable to watch if it is your first time been exposed to this kind of alternative truth to the main stream version. However it is important for true human empowerment to see what is not working in ones life and in humanities best interest in order to step forward confidently in a new direction with greater clarity and certainty. 


London Real T.V. interviews with Doctors exposing their science and experience in relation to CoronaVirus and Covid-19 and much more. Due to censorship by certain social media platforms London Real has created a FREEDOM platform to share FREE SPEECH interview uncensored. 

Dr . Bruce Lipton ~ Biologist and Epigenetic's expert speaks about CoronaVirus & Cancer in these 2 interviews.  

Youtube Video with Bruce Lipton. 
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Click on picture above to be brought to London Real TV. webpage

Dr Rashid Buttar / Dr Andrew Kaufman 

These Dr's discuss what they know as factual information in relationship to there understanding and research into CORONAVIRUS and CONVID-19.
It is not what main steam media has presented according to these two Doctors, in fact far from it. 
So the question is WHY ? For what reason ? What advantage ? What agenda ? 
WHAT IF FEAR IS THE GREATEST WAY TO CONTROL & DIS-ORIENTE PEOPLE. FEARFUL PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET SOME PEACE OF MIND, NORMALITY AND SENSE OF SAFETY RETURNED.
​FOR EXAMPLE THEY WILL SAY A BIG YES TO BEEN VAXXED
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V.1 Scientist Greg Braden    /  V.2  Dr Joe Dispenza

2 Scientists talk about the potential that the CoronaVirus is presenting for humanity to come together in recognising the solution and super power of LOVE and UNITY.
​TOGETHER WE STAND TALL ! 

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 2.5 hr Interview with Brain Rose and David Icke. 
David Icke as a man years ahead of his time was ridiculed harshly for his seemingly far fetched ideas about the world. This is not the case currently with 10's of Millions of people watching his videos. He has spent 30 years researching and writing books about this current time we are in now and 'connecting the dots' of the bigger agenda for humanity. An agenda which he claims has been in the making for decades. 

Get a cuppa and watch 2.5 hr go by very quickly with this engaging content presented by this passionate researcher who has gone beyond caring what people think of him but not gone beyond caring for what could happen to humanity if they do not 'Awaken' to what is unfolding and state a firm NO to the agenda. 

2.5 hrs Brain Rose  and David Icke
​Their 2nd Interview over Lock down. 

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3hr Interview May 3rd Brain Rose & David Icke . 3rd interview over lock down.

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It is becoming more apparent over the 'lock down' period that the bigger agenda for humanity by a small elite number is making it appear essential for the masses to take vaccines in order to be feel safe , have needs being met and to be part of the greater society.  

Educate yourself on what is in Vaccines and the dangers.
​Discover this 9 part in depth series created in 2017 and updated in 2020. Here is part 1 & 2. 
It is becoming more and more a challenge to find this information unless someone passes a specific link onto you.
Please share these links and information with others that they could assist.
All 9 episodes can be found at this site. 

Episode 1. Created 2017 

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Episode 2. Created 2017

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Bonus Episode 8 : Created March 2020

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Bonus Episode 9: Created March 2020

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VACCINES: Article by Children's Heath Defence about the impacts that Vaccines have had on children in Indian and Africa LINK HERE 

VACCINES MOVIE: A good resource exploring the connection between Vaccines and the growing rise in Autism. See the movie VAXXED HERE

This time of Humanities Grand Awakening has been known
​ by many tribes and ancient ones around the world for 1000's of years. 

Watch TIME OF THE SIXTH SUN Movie to learn more about this wisdom. 

Rent the entire Time of the Sixth Sun Movie HERE
Enjoy lots of free Embodied Realisation content with Geoff and Linda on the Crimson Circle Website HERE

Once you are empowered with the knowledge the next step is to realise that a open heart of LOVE & COMPASSION is the greatest super power there is on earth and through out the universe. 

The more we disconnect from the lower vibrations of fear and separation and connect into the higher vibrations of LOVE & UNITY ... we come to know and feel and trust that all is truly well.

We are NOW co-creating what many have been calling a NEW EARTH and 5D consciousness. 

BEing the solutions starts with self love and self care. 

" The bright future is the past healed ". 

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I trust you found this information helpful and ultimately empowering on your awakening journey of authentic inner power. 
United we must stand for what we know to be right in our hearts. 

Remember Einstein said " Knowledge is Power " and then he went onto say " Imagination is more powerful than knowledge ". Everything began in someones imagination. So take plenty of time to relax and reflect, knowing what you don't want to create. Now refocus and enjoy dreaming and imagining the wonderful world you do want to create and add your energy into. This is true creation and living a more highly evolved  consciousness.

This is our collective evolution. We are right in the epicentre or cross road ( timelines ) of choices. What will you choose ? What will we choose collectively ? Will it be to close our hearts and live from more FEAR and separation or open our hearts and live from more LOVE and connection ? 


Vibrant Blessings of EmPOWERment & LOVE. 
Vibrant Living Team 
www.VibrantLiving.co.nz

​Namaste 
​Mary Jo 
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5 Key Ways to Boost Your Immunity in Body, Mind, Emotions from the Wellness Coach.

9/3/2020

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Empower yourself with wellness tools for body, mind and emotions. 
It is said that in every life crisis, problem or challenge the solution is also present and to be discovered. However in order to access the solutions you must acknowledge the problem with clarity and then open up to the discovery of the solutions by shifting the focus to access the creative flow of inspired new thoughts and ideas. This is why it is important to keep your mind and your heart open and positive to the possibilities.

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The 2020 big C virus ! How to boost your immunity so it is no biggy for your cells to adapt to.
Immunity boosting practices for the PHYSICAL BODY :
  1. VITAMINS & MINERALS : Eat well for your body by making sure you are getting plenty of vitamins and minerals. One of the best way to do this is to include lots of organic vegetables and fruit. Add in some extra greens and orange juice over these few next months for vitamin C & D. Don't forget to get lots of sunshine when ever possibly for your vitamin D uptake also and just because it makes you feel amasing. 
  2. WASH HANDS & SURFACES: However no need to get OCD on it, just relax and enjoy creating a clean organised space around you. 
  3. EXERCISE IN WAYS THAT ARE FUN: out in nature. Surround yourself with nature as much as possible. A great idea is to have plenty of plants inside your house as these naturally clean and filter the air around you.  Nature and laughter is both great medicines, both cost you nothing only your willingness to engage them. 
  4. FROM FOE TO FREIND MEET YOUR BODY : Make friends with your body; nurture and love it in every way. It is your sacred temple and vehicle that takes your spirit around this planet to experience your daily life via the 5 outer and 5 inner senses. 
  5. ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE: Practice Gratitude Daily for your body and cells. Acknowledge the health and vitality you have in the HERE and NOW. Bless your body, bless your cells, bless the water within your body.  Gratitude is one of the most powerful wellness and life transformational tools there is. Do not under estimate its super power. 
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Stretch your arms up high and feel the good vibes. Experience the MIND-BODY connection in this simply movement.
Immunity boosting practices for the MENTAL BODY: 
  1. BE mindful of what you allow to enter into your ears and subconscious mind that affect your mindset and thoughts. Turn off from listening to negative and over dramatised media that triggers fearful thoughts of doubt, distrust, worry, anxiety and a disempowering lack mentality.  Tune into media sources that you trust that simply deliver the latest factual news or perhaps better to read from a source on the internet. Be discerning when you have the information that you need. Drama can be addictive and this is why so much resources is put into this kind of media to raise the ratings. 
  2. Focus on that which creates a more positive and life affirmative thought process. Taking time in nature is one of the most powerful ways to calm the mind and nervous system. Journal your thoughts down daily to get them out of going around your head. Read the book called "The Artist Way"  for inspiration to ignite creativity if you believe you are not creative and cannot access creative new thoughts and solutions.
  3. Direct your thoughts daily by repeating affirmations or mantras that resonant with you. We highly recommend at Vibrant Living Retreat investing in the Louise Hay " 365 day  Power thoughts"  book. 
  4. Tune in to information and knowledge that is shared by people that inspire you. People who live with passion and joy in what they are doing are living from there authentic soulfully aligned truth. These people generally exude natural health and vitality because the majority of their thoughts are not stressful and instead are very life affirmative, genuine, regenerative, caring and supportive. 
  5. Stay away from negative, judgemental, stressful and draining communications. Care enough about you to honour your bodies needs regardless of what others may think about your choices.  What your dominate thinking is about you and your choices is what really matters to your health and well-being ! " Every body cell and there is trillions of them is listening to your every thought and the energy  frequency it emits " .
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Eckhart Tolle a teacher of the power of the mind thoughts and living in the present. moment.
Understanding the Emotional Body 
There is a lot of information currently about the mind - body connection. However what is often left out of the equation for sustainable and empowered health especially in mainstream medicine is the importance of the emotional ~ feeling body and how it effects health and wellness.

The emotional body is 'energy in motion' running through the body as different chemical compounds and broadcasting electro magnetic fields of communication.

Each emotion or feeling has a vibrational frequencies of resonance. This magnetises 'like frequencies' to it or another way of saying this is 'like experiences' to it.  This is why it is so important to become emotionally intelligent though understanding and becoming responsive and responsible towards the feeling body. It is your SUPER POWER TO CREATE THE LIFE & WORLD YOU PREFER so it is well worth getting to know it better. Become friendly with the many landscapes and expressions of the emotional body, begins to become aware of how your thoughts and the definitions you have in your subconscious mind about them directly effect the emotional body and its expression via the chemistry created in the body. Thoughts and feelings are interconnected, feelings and thoughts are interconnected  ! 

Natural and sustainable health requires the balance and harmony of the emotional body, the physical body and the mental body. 


The greater healing in our planet and humanity requires the resolution of many old emotions that have not been dealt with before now for various reason and are held in the cellular structure. 

Every child in its innocence display's various emotions until they learn which ones are not acceptable, valued, encouraged, appropriate or worst they got punished or ridiculed for expressing them.

When a healthy emotional understanding is experienced it allows for a greater awareness and capacity to shift focus and choose different emotional states or frequencies to attract and magnetise different kinds of life experiences in your life. This is true empowering life creation.

Living this way is a reflection of starting to access a more highly evolved, awakened and empowering consciousness.  Cultivating a  healthy self esteem and self value via ones thoughts and daily attitude is a required aspect of this.  It often requires a journey of healing and transformation especially if one took on very negative ideas and beliefs in childhood about oneself, others and life or perhaps suffered abuse and neglect and came to misguided and disempowering conclusions about ones worth and value in the world. When this happens the heart builds up walls around it to protect oneself from these harsher feelings and emotions and in an attempt to not feel them and the pain ever again. However in the longer term these 'heart walls' ( Book Recommendation " The Emotion Code " )  are what creates a barrier to receiving and exchanging love and care more openly with trust and ease. 


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The heart is known as the emotional centre of the body. The heart has been discovered to emit a stronger electro magnetic field of energy than the brain does.

Immunity boosting practices for the Emotional Body : 
  1. Embrace your emotional body stop pushing them away and making them and you wrong in your head for having emotions. Instead discover a healthy way to express your emotions by writing them down, speaking to a trusted friend or book a session with someone that is skilled in that kind of support; healing , resolution and release work.
  2. Move the energy into motion via the free form expressions of Dance, Art , Music, Singing Tones, Healing Modalities, Hypnosis session, Massage, Yoga,  Being in Nature, Exercises that you enjoy. Basically anything that creates a healthy flow of expressions of the energy into motion. 
  3. Welcome your emotions rather than resist them. " Where there is movement their is improvement " Emotions are like water and when that water is held behind a dam for too long they become toxic to the body and eventually must lead to chronic ailments and dis-ease.  When you really get to understand your emotions you will realise just how connected body pain and emotional pains really are.  That is why by releasing stuck emotions can release body pains and heal dis-ease, even long standing chronic pain. Especially long standing chronic pain as the stuck emotions are at the core of the dis-ease and hence why it never got healed and resolved. 
  4. Trust your feelings. This takes practice and will naturally happen over time once the water or emotions that were trapped behind the dam wall begin to move in a healthy expression again.  Keeping with this water analogy to understand emotions. The move the water flows in its natural way the more it becomes purified, clear and increases natural health and vitality. 
  5. Having the courage to face and breathe through your biggest imagined fears and uncomfortable emotions with practice will uncover your deeper and truer nature as joy.  " Joy is love expressed " AND " passion is joy expressed ".  Have the courage to follow your joy and live your passions. However be aware that if you feel stuck on this then you most lightly have stuck emotions that are holding you back from listening and trusting your innate and most authentic free self. You are your greatest investment and equity so be willing to do what ever it takes to get you unstuck because you are worth it ... right ... !!! 
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​Vibrant Blessings of HEALTH & EmPOWERment. 
Mary Jo 

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The POWER of STORY; THE POWER of WORDS.

26/2/2020

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I write this Blog as husband Steve and VLR co-director is living his other passion which is endurance cycling.  

Today FEB 26th Steve is currently nearing the completion of cycling the length of New Zealand from top to toe on his 3000km TOUR AOTEAROA cycling event. He is doing it in record time and inspiring many other riders, those that are tracking him across the globe, his wife, family, community and all at VLR. 

When he is away from VLR for an extended time, I also seem to go on my own epic inner journey. Through this I come into deeper levels of awareness and realisation of the immense gift of Steve's steadfast presence, unwavering support, unconditional love and joyful dedication in my life for over 22 years and within our wellness business for the last 5+ years. 

What can I say, I just get inspired and my heart opens even more into the
LIGHT & TRUTH of  unconditional LOVE. 

This divine authentic love wants to be expressed, shared and set free from my heart and soul, so this blog was born to capture the moment and the story when inspired to write. 

I like many find Steve to be a beacon of inspiration with his capacity to dig deep and believe in himself, his ability and follow his joy.
That which sets the soul on fire.

It is shared with LOVE & with the intention that it may engage and ignite something deep within you; something you have longed to ignite and affirm in your life. 

OR perhaps can offer a few ray's of hope, relief, peace, courage and light in the days, weeks, months and even years ahead. 

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Steve wrote this for moi, Mary Jo many years ago. Now I revamp and regift it back to him as he completes his epic 3000km T.A event.

The Power of STORY. 
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Everyone has a Story and here is some of ours
​pre Steve's endurance cycling times.

In the earliest years of myself and Steve's relationship, communication was not so easy for either of us.

​I had a greatly defended heart and was so afraid of so many things deep down. I spent many years on reflection with an underlining anxiety and overwhelm within my situation. My life was mostly consumed with attempting to appear strong on the outside to avoid being hurt, abandoned or rejected. 

I use to be very over responsible in my attitude in an attempt to modulate the extremes of emotions being thrown all over the place in what I came to realise was a intensely dysfunctional home life. Plus I had been sent to live in two different children's home's between 3 and 6 years of age. ( BLOG HERE ) 

From 6 yrs of age I started to become the peace keeper in my family, the one to attempt to make things ok for everyone. I was strong for others at the expense of my own needs being met. Heck I did not even know what my needs were as I had buried and learnt to disallow them so much.

When Steve & I met at 16 and 17 year old, we were both pretty shy and awkward in our own respective ways. We met at a night club between our two towns on the west coast of Ireland.  We went to different schools at the time.

I recall we were both feeling a bit lost in the Irish drinking culture and educational system. Steve would have much rather been training for Soccer and Gaelic football teams. For myself, however the alcohol
 did offer some much required reprieve to ‘let my hair down ‘ getting out of my mind for a bit to go have some fun. In fairness back then, the drinking culture in Ireland was pretty fun with family, friends and the local communities all hanging out in the pub together often after going to Church. 

I had known from a early age that I wanted to get out into the world to travel and see different ways to live. Deep down I just felt there had to be a better way to live  life that was easier and less of a struggle, However I had no idea what that was as it was just a gut / heart feeling at the time.

Steve and I became boyfriend and girlfriend for a few months in our Teens. I really had no idea how to be in a sincere relationship at that point in my life,  so we ended it after 8+months. I went to college to study Industrial design and I  joke that Steve went to the Pub for three years . But not the entire truth of course as he also took a 3 yr apprenticeship in carpentry. Then at 21yrs he had his first opportunity to leave Ireland with a friend and go live and work in Jersey which is one of the Channel Islands, a small island between England and France. 

Even over the years I was in collage and Steve was doing his apprenticeship we would keep in touch sometimes and end up seeing each other out in different night clubs around our home towns.

When I finished college a group of friends invited me to go with them to visit Jersey in the summer months with the hope of finding work. At that time getting accommodation on the Island was a challenge so I ended up giving them Steve as a contact person. By the time I got there Steve and his roomie Dave were sharing there tiny bedsit with a few of my collage friends. Steve had even got with one of the girls and I had been with someone else in Collage for many months. It was certainly not my plan, however it did not take long before Steve and I managed to magnetise ourself together and I never did use my return ticket to fly home to Ireland that summer. I Stayed in Jersey with Steve and apart from splitting up for a couple of months that same year, we have been together ever since 22+ yrs and married for 11 years.

We lived
primarily in Jersey from 1997 to 2007' before leaving there and travelling to N.Z in 2008'. 

In our 20's a lot of fun was had living on what felt like a paradise Island compared to where we grew up in Ireland, a place where no one asked us what our plans were for our life's as really we had none except to travel and discover more about life and who we were.

We had lots of some fun times drinking and party on the weekends and working different jobs during the week. We started to save some money to go on extended travel adventures to Asia over those years and bit by bit we kept expanding our life experiences and perspectives. It was in 2003' in India that Steve and I got to experience our first authentic and traditional 10 day YOGA RETREAT and 10 DAY SILENT MEDITATION. Truly there is no going back after that .... as we began to come to know more experientially about the mind - body - spirit / energy connection. We became more aware of how things effected the body and mind and how the mind effected the body. We became more aware of reincarnation to represent the birth, life and death cycle that is a integral
part of the Indian culture and spiritual traditions. 

Even in India on our 1st ever Yoga retreat, Steve made getting into the posture of head stands look so easy and graceful compared to how I got to experience it. On the 10 Day Silent Meditation retreat sitting for 9 hours a day,  he took to it like a Budda or at least that it what it seemed like to me. 

On our return to Jersey, it was challenging for us both to try to marry the eastern body-mind-spiritual aligned ways we were discovering with the western ways of keeping the job to chase the $$$ to indulge in the pub culture / nightclubs on the weekends. India had a deeply profound and transformational effect on us both. It certainty gave us a much wider perspective on life and humbled our hearts and minds in many ways. 

In generally drinking copious amounts of alcohol never suited Steve , he use to get sick as a dog afterwards and really suffer in his hangovers. On reflection it makes sense as Steve really has been a natural born athlete. He just could not find a way to truly express and excel in it especially as a teenager and 20’s.

A few months before Steve rode his 1st Tour Divide in 2017 which is a 4400km race across the united states he decided to quit alcohol. He had never considered to do this before then. He had a little alcohol when he returned to Ireland after his race and then after that pretty much none since. He says he does not like the feeling anymore and would rather feel the clarity and clearness of when he is riding his bike. His biking has become his greatest meditation. 


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Steve and Mary Jo 2019.

THE POWER OF LOVE in words. 
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To Heal the wounded insecure heart. 

In the earlier years of our relationship one of the ways that Steve managed to communicate and bypass my heart defences, unhealthy relationship with my own emotional body and negative mental storyline’s was in gifting me a simply piece of paper or a card with a few poetic lines he had written. Within these simply lines, this man of few words ( back then ) would capture and communicate such a depth of soulful clarity that they would pierce right through the shields and I would feel so utterly seen, heard and recognised in the truth of my inner being beyond the stories of my mind and the pains of my emotional body.

In essence Steve seen me deeply and more truly before I was ready to see and accept myself. Now that I have walked my healing path and become the empowered healed healer of LOVE & LIGHT once more that I AM.  It is my delight, honour and joy to bring forth from the depth of my true authentic being and reciprocate the love and support to Steve. It is my delight, honour, joy and compassion to extend this LOVE and LIGHTin words, story and heart to those that may feel as I once did. 

I dedicate Steve's poetic LIGHT FILLED words he once gave to me, now to you. Please share them with someone you think it may inspire to also feel seen, loved and appreciated for whom they truly are beneath the challenges, the darkness, the anxiety, the concerns, worries, fear or depression.


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​If you ever wonder why I share as openly and authentically as I do ? It is because I know how it feels to deep down feel utterly alone, unsupported , unlovable, rejected, abandoned, unsafe and unacceptable for whom you truly are.

I want you to know you are not alone and I want you to remind others they are not alone either. For I recall that being the greatest pain of all to feel within my own inner prisons I had created to protect my heart from feeling the harsh world around me .

What I have learnt in my healing transformational experience this lifetime and from that of my soulful wisdom from other incarnations is this; that which we shine the light of awareness and fully acknowledge ( no turning away from in denial or avoidance ) does not own us anymore, we own it and that is empowerment. 

Then with sincere forgiveness, acceptance and unconditional love we can transform all of what was once termed as negative / dark or abusive experiences and energies into powerful compassionate presence and brilliant wisdom that knows no bounds or limits within the soul, body and mind. There is then no need to repeat these patterns and experiences again, it is done and completed  !!!


We stop running from the thoughts or trying to numb the feelings of those 'scary monsters' and 'ghosts' in the closets and under the floor boards trying to come forward within our respective psyche's'. We air those suckers out and return them to the light of consciousness !!! WOOHOO. 

We return them to pure LOVE .

We come to realise we are powerful beyond measure and we move beyond egoic fears.

We realise deep down at our core that we are Consciousness / Spirit / Energy living a human experience.

And that experience can be weaved into a new storyline on a new stage of life.

And so it is. 
   Amen.
      Hallelujah. 
           Praise us all ! 
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That my vibrant friends is a story about the power of returning to LOVE.

The most important is SELF - LOVE and SELF - ACCEPTANCE within. 
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For we can not sustainable give what we do not have in abundance within. 

SELF BELIEF & FAITH comes far easier to those that feel self love and acceptance ! 

Self Love is to feel Self Connection. 
In self Connection is to know connection to all life. 

Then you know in truth you are never alone. 
For you are always connected to life. 
AND
You Thrive. 
​
Infinite Divine Love, Joy & Grace 
Mary Jo 

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