Six Mornings of Soul Nourishment

 & Higher Connection

1. Meditation – Methods, Madness and Mandalas
2. Manifesting & Co-Creating – Personal Solutions for Designing & Living Your Ideal Life
3. Soul Mates – Who Are They and Where Can You Find Them
4. Soul Purpose – Reincarnation, Past Lives & Karma
5. Guides, Angels and Your Higher Self – Your Relationship with Your Spirit helpers
6. Dreams - Remembering, Understanding & Interpreting

Metaphysical Mondays will be a personal experience for you, where you get to ask questions and get answers regarding what’s happening in your life, this is not just a broad level discussion and it’s because of this that I will be capping the attendees at an intimate number. 

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“I LOVE and approve of myself, I love and APPROVE of myself, I love and approve of MYSELF” – Louise Hay

Have you ever used affirmations?  

Have you ever repeated positive reinforcements to yourself?  

Have you ever done affirmations but then gave up because you didn’t see the results you wanted?  

If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, rest assured that you are not alone and if you are feeling a mild irritation or disquiet around the topic, once again you are not alone. I’ve actually seen people roll their eyes and sigh at the very mention of Affirmations.  

So what’s the real story with this highly acclaimed metaphysical staple?  
Is it really just about thinking positively?  
Are you required to put yourself out on a limb and risk disappointment if “they” don’t work?  

And whhhyyyyyyy are people still going on about them and how great they are?  

Well, like most of the truly powerful and singularly satisfying things in life, there are a couple of key elements to assure you of affirmation accomplishment.  

One of those essential elements is this:  

It’s not enough to just say the words, repeating something verbally will only get you so far.   Whatever you say (and I mean everything you utter during your day) programs your unconscious mind to seek out that experience and you also put out to the universe a message of what you want more of.

This can be very good, if your words reflect what you actually want to experience (beware all those who talk about something being a pain in the neck!)   However, in order for you to experience results, when using affirmations or not (I personally would go so far as to say that everything you say is an affirmation of your desired outcome), your vibration or energy must resonate with the words.

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 It’s not enough to just say the words,
repeating something verbally
will only get you so far.

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So what does this mean?  

Let’s take a common example. If your affirmation is centred around being in a loving relationship you need to first move into the energy of a loving relationship because this energetic connection is the dynamic that drives and supports your affirmations.  

Before the dream partner arrives? Yes.  

How can you create the energy of a loving, mutually supportive, creatively encouraging, hand holding, stone-skimming relationship when currently it’s just you, the cat and trips to soft furnishing stores?  

You create it by being that loving partner to yourself, by asking yourself who you need to be in order to attract that type of relationship into your life and then make the appropriate adjustments and changes.

Remember, the quality of the relationships we have with others are a direct reflection of the quality of relationship with have with ourselves.    

If you treat yourself or speak to yourself poorly, by your language and energy you will attract more of the same into your life. If you treat yourself reasonably but speak negatively to yourself you are out of alignment. There is a mis-match and you will attract whichever of these experiences affects your energetic state most strongly.   This is very important. Your emotional, energetic, vibrational state is the primary catalyst to your experiences in life and the success of your affirmations.  

Your words can say one thing, but if your energy says something else the result will be hit and miss at best.  

So, let’s say for example your heart-felt desire is to experience a loving relationship, you could use this affirmation “I am now ready to accept and embrace my divinely blessed relationship, I am love and love constantly surrounds me”.  

You can notice how these words make you feel.
You can notice what sort of energetic state they place you in.
You can choose to notice all the examples of love in the world around you.
You can practice loving kindness towards yourself.  
You can at the same time use your words of affirmation.  

The result of doing all of these things is that it places your energy vibration in alignment with your words of affirmation because you will be marrying your physical world creative energies of your lower chakras, with the spiritual higher intelligence of your upper chakras through the gateway of your heart.    

If you would like to share your experiences and success stories about using affirmations please post them here. They are inspiring and encouraging and I’d love to read them as I’m sure your fellow IntuiChic Living friends would too.

Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with Caroline Hook of Women Winning @ Work fame, to have a chat about the power of harnessing intuition at work and when enriching a career.

What was initially to be a quick catch up turned into something far more substantial as the depth of intuition as a critical career and business tool began to unfold.

This audio is our first introductory chat which will be followed up with a full Webinar in September and details of that Webinar will be announced closer to the date.

Right now though, you can listen to the first audio here:

Caroline Hook from Women Winning at Work Chats with Maria Last

If you want to participate in the full webinar or if you want to find out more about what Caroline and the team at Women Winning @ Work have to offer you, you can visit their website at http://www.womenwinningatwork.com.au/

In the meantime, as always, here’s to your intuitive success!

You are so much more than your physical body.

Your spirit expands to a vastness our limited minds can hardly perceive of.

If you are feeling restricted by your physical surroundings, including your body, if you are breaking through new ground in your life, if you are stretching yourself beyond your old limits and are apprehensive even though you know it’s for your benefit, try this:

For this exercise give yourself about half an hour, on your own, undisturbed.

Lie on the floor but keep your head and body aligned so you don’t fall asleep.

With conscious awareness, clear intention, give your sprit permission to expand out from your body into whatever shape, size, colour or vibration it would like to. You can simply set the intention without any parameters. Your spirit’s intelligence will take over.

You can know, and trust, that it will once again come back to comfortably house your physical body once again when you choose to come out of the exercise. Your spirit/soul is connected to you in a way that can never be broken.

The change you can experience on completion of this meditation exercise will be that your spirit has had ‘free run’ and the opportunity to connect with that part of your spirit that always resides outside of you in source.

In essence, the whole can stretch and re-adjust itself and then return to rest at home once again with a clearer vibration, a stronger connection to your higher self and rejuvenated energy to support the physical you – the human who is following the path of spiritual experience.

Nurturing your spirit, nurtures you.

When you are ready, and you will know when that is, gently come back to awake,  ground yourself and give yourself a couple of minutes before re-entering your day.

Caution: Don’t think about this too much, it’s un-necessary and will hinder the process. Allow your spirit to do whatever it does and allow yourself the time to rest.

I’d love to hear about your experience with this exercise, please post your comments below or share with your friends on Facebook and Twitter. Sharing is caring.

Huh?

What a silly question!

It can be ANY length, or even ANY short for that matter, depending on what you make it (excusing the poor grammar of course).

And that’s just the point.

Depending upon your point of view, perception or those famous filters we’ve spoken about before (The Camera Adds 10 Pounds) that ’string’ could be twine, knitting yarn or even the most beautiful gossamer thread and it could range in length from a miniscule micro dot all the way to stretching to infinity and beyond as Buzz Lightyear would have you believe.

The truth is, nothing has meaning except the meaning we give it and this began at a very young age and continues to be true until the day we leave this world.

Everything we experience in our lives we attach meaning to. Whether it is the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Lindsay Lohan’s impending stint in the “big house” or the smile or frown of the barista at your local coffee house; the meanings we give to our experiences have the power to shape those experiences and all that follow it.

What is good?

What is bad?

What is right?

What is wrong?

How are those meanings affecting you?

What if there were none of these judgements and instead we simply observed our world and experiences as an opportunity to learn something about ourselves, another person or the planet we live on; and through this learning we became even more enlightened wise souls. That wouldn’t be such a bad thing, now would it?

We are all entirely unique individuals and have all been given the gift of free will and choice. (Yes, it’s true, I do love shining a light on the power of choice, how keen your observations are!) And on the subject of choice, most people love to have choices, yet some would say that too many choices are overwhelming and they’d rather have fewer. For them, having lots of choices means it is going to be hard to make a choice, and yet, another person might relish the thought of being submerged in such an experience. Neither is right or wrong, they are simply meanings given to circumstances and those meanings can help or hinder us, support or stunt us.

The meanings we attached to objects or events in our lives, determines the level and quality of the experiences we have in our lives. Therefore it is very prudent to consciously observe these events and defining moments to assess their true meaning for you, not just on fast assumptions and casually attributed meanings. Due to the often fast paced nature of our modern society, you may choose this to mean that it would take you time to become consciously aware of the true worth of something which would require you to slow down; or you could make it mean that because you are accustomed to moving at this swift pace you can easily adapt to incorporating this level of conscious awareness into your life with ease.

It’s your choice. It’s your meaning.

“The more challenging a situation appears to be means
the more scope for creativity I have”

This is something I’ve made a challenge mean. Who’s to say its right or wrong?? It works for me which means I’m sticking with it.

So, what does all this mean to you?

Is it a good time to ask yourself these questions?

• What new meanings would you attach to the things, people or events in your life to better support you?
• Are the meanings you attached to those things in the past still relevant for you today?
• How do those meanings take you closer to or further away from your dreams?

One final thing, I’m not sure who said this but I agree with them:

“Whatever you think, you’re right”

It’s been a few weeks since the last edition of IntuiChic Living, so what’s the problem? Why haven’t you been getting them? Have I just been too busy?   

Yes, I have been rather busy over the past couple of months but in truth, the main reason for the pause is because my computer has been doing an excellent impersonation of a snail having a nap. It’s in it’s senior years and is now sooooo slooooow that I could make a sandwich and fully digest it while waiting for the screen to refresh. (I’ve had a lot of sandwiches recently!)  

So, what’s the solution I hear you ask?    

I’ve ordered a speedy, stylish and soon to be delivered new laptop.  Hoooray!   I anticipate tweeting and posting it’s joyous arrival in the next 5-10 business days…  

While I’m on the topic of updates I’ll bring you up to speed with a few more intui items of interest.   Scroll on….

Intuition & Confidence @
The Australian Style Institute

Last month I was invited to speak about Intuition and Confidence at The Australian Style Institute.   It was a thoroughly enjoyable and rewarding experience all round. Each of the ladies participated fully in the experience and asked some really great questions during the impromptu segment at the end.   It’s because of these ladies and their open hearts and minds that I have included the opportunity for you to ask me any question you want about mediumship, intuition and being psychic at my two upcoming events.  

If you haven’t already booked your seat, you can do that and check out all the information about these events by clicking here.  

“Each time Maria speaks at our events she delivers more outstanding content that we can apply in our busy modern day lives.    

Maria’s knowledge, skill set and unique ability (though we’re learning from Maria that we all have it) brings a fresh and exciting perspective to learning, to training and to the delivery of information.   Not only do we love Maria but our clients love her too. They give us amazing feedback about their experience of Maria when she speaks at our events, she adds another dimension to training and a measurable value-add.  We will definitely have Maria speak at our events again, hopefully she will say yes!”  

- Lauren Di Bartolo, CEO Australian Style Institute

Do You Flip?

Have you seen the new video clips on the IntuiChic web site?   Now that I’ve mastered getting them on there and with the arrival my new uber fast laptop, there will be more to come. Not just announcements but also great information and valuable resources.  

I have to admit to being way outside my comfort zone recording them, I usually like to take pictures or videos of my surroundings and not necessarily of myself. Well after a few trial runs I decided to get over myself and go with being myself not what I thought someone on You Tube “should be”. The result is a more natural approach which I’m trusting is ok with you.  

Au$$ie, Au$$ie, Au$$ie

This week I noticed a distinct shift in the currency exchange rate between Australian and American Dollar values, (I don’t generally follow these things), and so I decided to do something about it.  

All products in the IntuiChic Store, including events and IntuiWorld, will now be processed in Australian currency in the online shopping cart.  

This may not make things quite as convenient for IntuiChic’s overseas customers who are used to trading in USD, and it may need to be reviewed in the future, however for now, I feel it’s a positive and ecological move all round.

Happy shopping!    

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There’s a man in our street living just a couple of doors up from our house who has a car. Nothing unusual about that except that this man and his car have been ‘fascinating’ me for some time now. Why? Because his car has a loose noisy fan belt and the fact that he has been putting up with sitting inside the squealing machine for half a year now clearly indicates to me that he must have the highest threshold for tolerance of anyone I’ve ever come across.

It was in December last year that I first heard the hideous screeching of this expired fan belt, like chalk on a blackboard, but a thousand times worse, as if the chalk were the raw nerve of a small child being dragged across tarmac. Every weekday morning for the past six months at approximately 7.40am this painful, excruciating sound of destruction moves slowly past my house. As it did again this morning.

I’ve gone through a range of  reactions – anger, intolerance, irritation, extreme cringing, more anger, dis-belief, accusations of disregard for others and even, I’m not proud to admit, a fantasy about the level III filthy look I’d give if I actually made eye contact as my neighbour passed by in his machine from hell.

Then something changed. No, he didn’t get it fixed. (This man has nerves of steel!)

It was Monday morning and as I was going about my peaceful, tranquil business (brushing my teeth) and I heard it AGAIN. I was just about to get into another round of ‘that is so annoying’ but then I realised that it must be around 7.40am and that meant I was a little behind schedule. I needed to get a move on. Had the squeal machine actually helped me??

Surely not. No. That thing brings nothing but misery.

Ah, but what else could it be, what else could I make hearing that sound  mean? I started to wonder and smile…

The fact that I hear that un-Godly sound every morning means that I have once again had the privilege to wake up in a country where people have cars (and mechanics), I am listening to this overstretched fan belt from the comfort of my beautiful home, I have all of my basic needs met and many luxuries too, I have the love of treasured relationships and the most beautiful canine companion on earth, in fact too many blessings to count. That’s what that ridiculous noise means to me now.

It’s been five days now, the operatic fan belt is still ‘belting’ it out and I’m still smiling.

Here I am, delighted to be alive, grateful for everything I’ve got, and eternally optimistic about anything I can give.

Yes. I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again. Life is fascinating.

As Mothers Day approaches on 9^th May here in
Australia, many of us come to reflect on mothers;
who they are, what they mean to us and the relationships we have with them. Most of all, this calendar date usually brings to mind the ways we love them and how we experience that love.

These reflections foster an even deeper bonding of your connection with your mother, even if some experiences have not always been warm milk and apple pie. Spending quality time connecting to the energy of a mothers love is possibly one of the most nurturing and comforting experiences.

For me personally, a memory that I enjoy and that is still vividly clear is of me asking my mother to read aloud to me my primary school uniform list over and over, because I was extremely excited about going to ‘the big school’. The list was in the small drawer of her bedside table and because I had just turned 5 years old and couldn’t read it for myself I would ask Mam to read that list to me time and time again. Every time she read it to me, she joined in my excitement and said that the uniform sounded very nice, that I would look great in it and that I would do well. I felt filled with love because of her patience with me, joining in my excitement (to me she was just as excited about the bottle green tartan pinafore and gaberdine it as I was), and because of the confidence she showed me that I would not only look the part but that I would do well and soon be able to read that list for myself. All these years later I can still feel it, the gift is timeless.

There were countless times over the years that I experienced these types of feelings, and naturally other times when I was sulking about not getting my own way and asking why she thought she knew better than me (isn’t growing up fun!). But one of the questions I have always found intriguing and self revealing is why we choose our mothers?  

This understanding will not be new to many of you, so let’s accept for a few moments that we choose our parents, that before we incarnated and become physical human beings, we chose who our mother would be.   Every one of us chooses, every one of us had the choice and every one of us chose differently. Even if you have brothers and sisters, their experience and journey through their relationship with their mother will be different to yours. So, even though you share the same mother physically your experience, relationship and resulting growth will be unique.  

With this in mind as you reflect back on your life, what are the reasons you now know for choosing your mother?   When you were still energy, before being born, you had a conversation about whom you would choose.   What did you discuss? What life experiences and growth stretches did you ask to have in this relationship? Are you still experiencing those lessons and growth stretches now?  

What if you had a different conversation now, the other side of the conversation you had when you were pure energy before birth? What if you had a conversation with your mother, face to face or in meditation, where you told her how choosing her has enhanced and influenced your life and souls growth?  Can you begin to imagine the resonance of doing such a thing?

Maybe you would say, I’m so glad I choose you; I’m still not sure why I choose you but I’m accepting responsibility that I did; I’ve learned so much from you, how to be independent, strong and resilient; I’ve been challenged by you and I thank you for it; because of you I found out who I am; because of you I’ll never go to bed with wet hair and catch a cold…Maybe, you would just sit quietly and feel.

Ask yourself, what had you not realised before now?

Maybe you are pregnant, or have a young child, and you’ve been wondering about that spirits choice to come and live with you, to come and be loved by you, to come and entrust the shaping of their human experience to you? They choose you as their mother. Without doubt, you are that soul’s choice. 

From the very beginning, before your linear time, you have always had choice.

You decide. You choose.

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun” – Katharine Hepburn

Katharine’s height, physique and bone structure made her a highly compelling screen presence but off screen she refused to conform in any way with the prevailing image of the Hollywood starlet, so despite being a complete professional, letter perfect in her lines and totally researched in her roles RKO found her difficult to deal with because of this. Style was regarded as more important than substance but Katharine refused to be limited by the weight of others perceptions.

What did she do?

She bought the rights to the Broadway play ‘The Philadelphia Story’ and turned it into a hit movie in 1940, starring alongside Cary Grant and James Steward. The Philadelphia Story resurrected her film career and has been voted one of the top 100 American films of all time.

For the whole story on how perceptions can weigh you down and stop you in your tracks, click here

As a member of IntuiWorld you will:

• Open, activate and balance each of your seven chakras
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