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The Mindfoodie

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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25.01.2022 By remaining strong in our heartspace, we open up to a much better mindset and way of life. No matter what challenges we may face... Keep BEing the love & beautiful spirit that you ARE. Nic x... #heart #mindset #themindfoodie #love #spirit #innerpeace #gratitude

25.01.2022 Don’t allow your fears to overcome you. Trust in your Spirit, and it’s wisdom. Talk aloud to her. Choose your own path. Keep open to divine love within that leaves no space for toxic patterns that no longer serve your soul.... Beauty by design. A creator ever creating. Keep BEing the love and beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #creation #connection #transformation #trust #spirit #themindfoodie

24.01.2022 When we step into a place of love, there is nothing else like it. Love, to be in full bloom in our being, must be woven with gratitude. Love in it’s essence is who we ARE. It is not in anything outside ourselves before we recognise it in us. Let love into your thoughts.... Dark spaces. Look at your fears, and touch them softly. Hold your gaze, and speak - I see you. Thank you. I love you. You have taught me so much, and in turn I’ve learnt to be grateful. It’s time to let you go. I let you go. I let you go. So it is. Keep love as your compass. Ride the waves and the flow as life carries you. Know a skilled sailor is one who keeps her eyes on the stars & horizon, her heart calm & steady, and her feet firm at the wheel. Keep BEing the love & beautiful sovereign Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #love #spirit #gratitude #themindfoodie Image: Soldier crab pile I found on my beach walk, Bribie Island, Sunshine Coast, Australia.

24.01.2022 With so much rapid change all around us we still have the sovereignty of our inner world. You choose what to grow inside your own body, mind and spirit. You have, and always have had this power.... You may have bought into stories, timelines, past lives, belief systems, educational programs, religious dogma, or ancestral karma that told you otherwise. Like me. Like most of us. However, that is where we are at. The great unravelling. Timelines and dimensions are merging, shifting, shaking. Use whatever tools you can to channel your energy and lift your vibrational frequency to positivity, clarity, peace, love, harmony, happiness, joy and freedom. If you have experienced dark nights of the soul, and are fairly integrated, perhaps it’s your time to give to another soul struggling with theirs - just by offering your heartspace and listening compassion. Remember, it’s not your responsibility to save another, only offer support where you can. As much as our clear minds are important in this coming shift into a greater Aquarian age, it’s important to remember our intellect and mind can become disconnected from spirit if not integrated through love in our hearts. I have used and still use these on the daily, as the work is truly in each moment we are in, just to get you started on a reminder to keep up the good work you are doing too. Meditation. Nature. Healing therapies. Notes on mirrors to check in with thoughts. Mindfulness exercises. The list goes on... Let’s grow something new and beautiful together! Keep BEing the love and beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic #thoughts #sovereignty #integration #growth #healing #consciousness #themindfoodie

24.01.2022 Letting go. Dropping deeper. Breathe... When we surrender... Our hearts open wider.... In so many ways The learnings of this year have been so. Prying open That which may be stuck. Uncovering That which needed to be seen. Our minds have needed Stillness Perspective Awareness Connectedness. Gathering of new. Ways of BEingness. Ways of SEEing. As we feel our way Tasting the air. Our senses alive... Hearts wide open A quiet knowing. Letting go of our fears We step forward together. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you are. Nic #heart #connection #creation #embodiment #dontbeafraid #spirit #themindfoodie #anahata

24.01.2022 ON AUTHENTICITY "In facing loss, the people we have worked with realized that love is all that matters. Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us. They've stopped looking for happiness 'out there'. ... Instead, they've learned how to find richness and meaning in those things they already have and are, to dig deeper into the possibilities that are already there. In short, they've broken down the walls that protected them from life's fullness. They no longer live for tomorrow, waiting for the exciting news about the job or the family, for the raise or the vacation. Instead, they have found the richness of every today, for they have learned to listen to their heart. We are not unhappy today because of the complexities of life. We are unhappy because we miss its underlying simplicities. The true challenge is to find the pure meaning in these lessons. Many of us think we were taught about love. Yet we do not find love fulfilling, because it's not love. It is a shadow darkened by fear, insecurities, and expectations. We walk the earth together yet feel alone, helpless, and ashamed. Watching those who battle illness makes it clear that to see who we are we must shed everything that is not authentically us. When we see the dying, we no longer see those faults, mistakes, or diseases that we focused on before. Now we see only them, because at the end of life they become more genuine, more honest, more themselves -- just like children and infants. Are we only able to see who we actually are at life's beginnings and endings? Do only extreme circumstances reveal ordinary truths? Are we otherwise blind to our genuine selves? This is the key lesson of life: to find our authentic selves, and to see the authenticity in others." Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler: Life Lessons. Keep BEing the love and sovereign beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #authenticity #love #spirit #connection #compassion #kindness #themindfoodie #whatmattersmost

23.01.2022 Blessings to you and your loved ones at this time of often quiet reflections amid chaotic celebrations for others. For many, the holidays are tinged with sadness or ache. Others loneliness or isolation. Perhaps fear or worry.... Wherever and whoever you are, I want to remind you of the most beautiful gift you are to this world. You are a creator. Remember that, even though you may not feel the beautiful light you have inside, it is part of you, regardless of the heaviness or numbness you may feel. Sending you warmth. Gentleness. Love. Soft gentle touches on your skin, and a whisper to remind that this too shall pass.... Feelings are not permanent, and you, dear One, are eternal. Radiant. Wise. Even when you may scarcely believe it. Know your Spirit knows. It is waiting for you to remember. So much love, and thank you dearly for your connection. I have always been humbled by the beauty, wisdom, joy and insight so many share-through this platform that brings us together in a way beyond the digital-from all places on the planet. I am grateful to be connected to you. Keep BEing the LOVE & beautiful Spirit & GIFT that you ARE. Nic x #christmas #love #gratitude #connection #themindfoodie

22.01.2022 As I move between homes each week, waking up with my Mishka is so much sweeter. He’s the most squishiest, loving, affectionate dumpling of a cat I’ve ever adopted. His wet pink nose rubs on yours, certain you are another of his kind, and plonks himself regularly front centre middle of my keyboard when he’s sure I’ve worked enough for the day, or nibbles my mouse fingers gently until I stop.... I’ve loved every single cat I’ve had since I was a little girl dearly, but this striped boy is right up there with love and deep fondness. You’ll either get this kind of love or you won’t, and if you do, you know how much better life is with our cat-people. Keep BEing the love and beautiful Spirit that you are! Nic & Mishka #catlove #tigerstripes #connection #animallovers #themindfoodie

22.01.2022 A free spirit is not bound by this, that, matter, materialism or opinion. They sing, dance and flow on the wind - for they are at one with it. They are nothing and everything - void and expanse. Even space and time does not confine or define them. For they are pure energy itself.... ~Rasheed Ogunlaru~ Keep BEing the love & beautiful spirit that you ARE. Nic x Thank you to my beautiful sister @x.iamempress for this devine image. #themindfoodie #freedom #spirit #venus #wild #energy

22.01.2022 As one 80 year old friend of mine shared when I asked him how he was - said, I’m fabulous! I woke up today. It really put things in perspective. We may be 19 or 80, but none of us truly know the time we have on this planet. I, like you all, have very human moments and feelings of doubt, fear, confusion.... Sometimes we question one little issue at hand, other times our worries could be alphabetically catalogued, we may carry the weight of the world on our shoulders. The truth is, we are not truly in control of much, most of the nature of this world and dimension is illusionary, other than our own sovereign spirit and nature - the living world. I listened the other day to a talk on quantum physics, and the professor stated that perhaps around 5% of our human perceived reality is actually true! #takeamoment We are born and die in this beautiful body that functions for us as long as it can in this lifetime. Our spirit, ever eternal, continues on as it always has. So, next time you beat yourself up, tell yourself some bullshit story, or start to shift into past should haves or future projecting - rather than this very waking moment, take your time. Meditate on your breath. The heart that beats in your chest. The sensation of the air or sun on your skin. The smells of the world around you. The sounds of nature, the outer world. The beauty in you and all that surrounds. Marinate in that a moment. Then, you are ready to begin. Again. Keep BEing the love and beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #wakeup #moment #themindfoodie #meditate #mindfulness #connection

21.01.2022 Get grounded. Spine or feet on the earth. Out of your head & into your HEART. Let nature hold and guide you. Centre.... Surrender to spirit. Trust in this guidance, knowing all is one. Keep BEing the love and beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x

21.01.2022 "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright... Nature, & the connection of our spirit to our beautiful Earth is so important, now more than ever. It creates peace and grounded-ness amongst the energy of so much fear and uncertainty. It is the most real thing there is. So many moments of magic in nature these past 2 weeks visiting my birth land. My roots. They are the forests, lakes, rivers, creeks, waterfalls of tropical North Queensland, Australia. Where everything in nature is vibrant, fragrant, green & alive. Where the water leaves your skin soft and clean. Where the air is perfumed, earthy and rich. A place that will always feel like home. These are lands of the traditional owners of The Atherton Tablelands, & are 7 tribes. I’d like to thank them. Bar Barrum People of the area around the Walsh River and to the west of the Wild River; Girramay People of the Kirrama Area; Gugu Badhun People of the Wairuna/Lamonds Lagoon area; and the Jirrbal People of the Koombooloomba, Ravenshoe and Herberton areas; Malanbarra and Dulebed People of the Gillies Range area; Mamu people of the Millaa Millaa area; Ngadjon-Jii People of the Malanda and Topaz areas; Tableland Yidinji People of the Kairi, Tolga, Tinaroo and Lake Barrine areas; Wurrungu People of the Gunnawarra/ Goshen area. So beautiful to walk on country after 10 years. Medicine. #earth #nature #spirit #australia

21.01.2022 Water is life. Medicine. Spirit.

20.01.2022 "May your consciousness be lifted upwards through the tree of life within yourself until in the brain it blossoms forth as the lotus. That rising from the darkness of the lower world, lifts its flowers to catch the rays of the sun." ~Manly P. Hall Equinox blessings to you! ... Spring here in the Southern Hemisphere, and flowers are EVERYWHERE. Yesterday I hiked up the mountain with my love and at the end, picked a bunch of the most fragrant blue lotus flowers whilst getting more than a little muddy doing so. No mud no lotus, right? We began our journey doing a tree healing on an ancient fig struggling with a few issues Cute little green tree frogs around the dam were the BEST surprise despite the dry! Millions of dragonflies, (Paolo’s totem) and blue lotus and native water plants flowering. 3 different types of native bee hovering and visiting. (My native animal totem) It ended with a delicious swim to refresh our dusty tired but happy selves. Asked Spirit to send some quality rain soon #equinox #spring #lotus #nature #themindfoodie #consciousness #manlyphall

20.01.2022 I cannot think of a more important spirit animal messenger than the frog right now. These gentle creatures are reflective of the harmony of their environment. Frogs do not thrive in toxic surroundings, and are one of our first animals to warn us of things are out of balance and are in need of cleansing in the air, land or water sources.... The frog as spirit animal or totem reminds us of the transient nature of our lives. As symbol of transition and transformation, this spirit animal supports us in times of change. Strongly associated with the water element, it connects us with the world of emotions and feminine energies, as well as the process of cleansing, whether it’s physical, emotional, or more spiritual or energetic. The symbolism of the frog appears in many traditions around the globe. This animal is generally associated with the water element and its cleansing attributes. The frog is symbolic of: Cleansing Renewal, rebirth Fertility, abundance Transformation, metamorphosis Life mysteries and ancient wisdom How could we tune into the nature and energy of these little creatures to teach us what we need right now? Keep BEing the love and beautiful Spirit that you are. Nic x #greenfrog #nature #animaltotem #spirit #themindfoodie I captured the beauty of these little guys on a morning hike, aren’t they the sweetest?

19.01.2022 Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. Just as a lotus flower springs from the mire to bloom splendidly, the interaction of the cosmic breath causes the flower of the spirit to bloom and bear fruit in this world. Morihei Ueshiba... A splendid morning hike with a reward of so much beauty gifted from nature, including this spring fed pond filled with blue lotus flowers. Always full of native & European bees and playful red, blue, green and golden dragonflies, butterflies, green frogs...it’s a magical place. We watch the insects dance for some time, mesmerised. The perfume from these flowers is beyond worldly, I resist the temptation to pick more than one, as the bees are so happy bathing in their pollen pillows. Heaven on earth. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #lotus #nature #connection #breathe #themindfoodie #nativebees #australia

19.01.2022 I adore cooking. I usually start by visiting the garden, creating the dish in my head... Knowing what’s in season to me is key for optimal flavour and nutrition of the food I cook and share. Eating seasonally is also kinder on our budget for things we need to buy.... I’m a classically trained chef, have worked in the field of natural medicine, healing and nutrition for over 20 years, but I cook intuitively, and if you cannot taste love in the food I’ve cooked, well, I’d rather not cook at all to be honest. Energy transference is so potent when we prepare food. I’m sure you relate to this yourselves. The heart warms and the belly feels nurtured when one eats a meal cooked with lovingness. The simplest broth becomes the strongest medicine when the intention of the cook is to heal and nurture those she cooks for. In these tumultuous times, it is ever more important to become more purposeful, mindful and loving in our smallest daily actions and service. Giving lovingly to one another, slowing it down...finding the sacred in the simple human tasks and movements. Allowing more grace, beauty. Keep BEing the love and beautiful spirit that you are... Nic x Note: Fragrant Sri Lankan curry ingredients perfuming the kitchen with curry leaves, lime, coconut and freshly ground spices. #cheflife #mindfulness #love #themindfoodie #lifeisbeautiful #simplicity

19.01.2022 When we are in balance, our life flows. Our heart & mind connect. Our Spirit knows. Venus in Libra soothes my soul. I need her lighter touch...... Her nudging to create harmony. Where I need to grow. This sweetness... The world needs so much right now. To soothe frayed nerves. Weary hearts. To rebalance the scales. Restore hope, peace and beauty. Unity. Starting with us. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic #balance #harmony #venus #themindfoodie #unity

19.01.2022 You are the source of love. What we hold within us... Our light Our lovingness ... Our compassion Our ability to see the light in others... It’s our super power. This time of year can be incredibly difficult for so many. For some it reminds them of grief, loss, sadness, anxiety, deep loneliness or heartache. It is a time where we need to pay a little more attention to those around us...check in, connect, reach out. Sometimes those times truly can mean so much to others who have lost their brightness, where your heartfelt connection is a reminder they aren’t alone.

19.01.2022 Whatever it is that is arising inside of you, whether it is in the form of thoughts or sensations or feelings or imagination, all of it is just like looking in the sky and seeing clouds or rainbows or lightning or stars. Everything is only traffic. ... Everything is passing. Keep seeing and confirming that all that you perceive are momentary in their appearances. Notice how they appear and then disappear. By not becoming involved in any particular phenomenon, you will spontaneously come to recognize your real place of Being. You are the presence that all of this is reporting to. Experience the flowering of presence, the power and the presence of presence. This will be the most important discovery, beginning today, and deepening as we go. This is the gift of having a human body: the consciousness in its human expression has this capacity to contemplate itself, to go back to its original completeness. ~Mooji~ Keep BEing the love & beautiful spirit that you ARE. Nic x Image: How beautiful is this orchid? Two blooms have popped open, and I feel like a small child waiting for the third to. #bloom #presence #connection #mooji #themindfoodie #consciousness #orchid

19.01.2022 You are immortal; you've existed for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are life, and life cannot die. ... You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself. ~ Don Miguel Ruiz Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #spirit #connection #life #nature #themindfoodie #donmiguelruiz

17.01.2022 To keep our mind, spirit and body as clear conduits for the voice of our Spirit/God spark inside ourselves, we need to be open to receive. Some of the best ways to integrate this connection is to keep daily practices of meditation, breathwork, nature, as well as looking after the body you are in - with movement, healthy food and sleep patterns. Regulate your nervous system by switching off tech, media and world drama. When we have the channel open to receiving messages, you ...may be profoundly surprised as the insights you receive in your quiet moments or sleep state. Start journaling what comes to you, without judgement. A great time to do this is upon awakening. Have you had any profound messages or dreams you’d like to share? Love to hear it in the comments below... Keep BEing the love and beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #dreamtime #visions #insight #intuitive #themindfoodie #spirit #carljung

17.01.2022 Kisses, most of us love them, preferably lots of them! They can be such an intimate sharing of love between any of us for someone we love, (lover, child, sister, brother) however, a third eye kiss-between the eyes, just slightly above on the forehead, with genuine connection, care and love for the person we are gifting with this experience, can be deeply profound. Deeply healing.... Have you ever noticed this type of kiss feels more intense, penetrating and loving? What makes it this powerful and how does it have an impact on our feelings directly? The forehead is actually where the ‘third eye’ resides. When you are kissed on your forehead, it touches your third eye/chakra, spoken about in many ancient texts and spiritual practices. The third eye connects with the state of higher consciousness. The third eye may be a reflection of how connected we may be to our own spirit, and our intuition. In a human body, there exists a gland called the pineal gland around where the third eye is located.It’s function is to produce melatonin that regulates sleeping cycle in our body. Meditating regularly is another way to develop our states of consciousness and connection too. When you next spend time with your beloved, try this gift for one another in a quiet moment, and see what sensations you notice in your heart space and body, and share with one another. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Love Nic x #connection #heartspace #love #meditation

16.01.2022 Enjoy the flow under the beauty of this full moon. If you can, find a body of water in nature. Allow her Spirit to speak to yours. Breathe in the beauty. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE.... Nic x #connection #water #spirit #fullmooninpisces #themindfoodie

16.01.2022 Following your own star means isolation, not knowing where to go, having to find out a completely new way for yourself instead of just going on the trodden path everybody else runs along. That's why there's always been a tendency in humans to project the uniqueness and the greatness of their own inner self onto outer personalities and become the servants, the devoted servants, admirers, and imitators of outer personalities. It is much easier to admire a great personality and... become a pupil or follower of a guru or a religious prophet, or an admirer of a big, official personality. That is much easier than following your own star. - Marie-Louise von Franz, The Way of the Dream. Keep BEing the love & beautiful sovereign Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #themindfoodie #sovereignty #spiritualjourney #followyourheart #beyourownguru

15.01.2022 What if our religion was each other. If our practice was our life. If prayer, our words. What if the temple was the Earth. If forests were our church. ... If holy water--the rivers, lakes, and ocean. What if meditation was our relationships. If the teacher was life. If wisdom was self-knowledge. If love was the center of our being. - Ganga White Into the depths we go. Venus in Scorpio. Keep BEing the LOVE & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #love #passion #youarelove #spirit #themindfoodie #venus #tantra

15.01.2022 You don’t have to have it all figured out. You can also change your mind at anytime. You can take a break & sit in the not knowing space too. It’s okay. Trust all will unfold as it is meant to.... Be gentle, be soft & fluid with yourself, and others around you who may be in this space. Keep BEing the love & beautiful sovereign Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #itsokay #begentle #goslow #notknowing #connection #mindfulness #themindfoodie

15.01.2022 Each of us has an ever-faithful companion-presence. Something that is always with us. Something that helps us live with inner integrity and depth, to see through the outer coverings of others and of the world to their purpose and core being, and to get over placing ourselves at the center of everything. This companion-presence is Silence. It never goes away. We go away from it, become distracted and forgetful, and lose the manners needed to nurture companionship with it.... We go away from Silence into the world of noise as if into a vast buzzing of insects, pushed to exist within the permanent irritation of dissonance. Our choosing to live in the noise of our thoughts and emotions within the incessant clamor around us happens almost without our recognition But Silence was here before anything else, and it envelops everything else. It is the most primary phenomenon of existence, both palpably something and seemingly nothing. Silence is prior to sound, not the cessation of sound. It is already present. If we drop into quietness just for a moment, we feel the presence of Silence as an invitation. The center of our bodily being is the organ for receiving this invitation from the Silence. As we enter the mystery of Silence, its presence resonates throughout the fibers of our flesh, while extending beyond the flesh to the soul inwardly and to the cosmos outwardly. Our body’s center is the necessary meeting point where the inward Silence of solitude meets up with the great Silence of Cosmic Wisdom. When we do not cultivate this meeting point in the right ways, we lose access to our soul, to the presence of the Silence, and to our individual place in the Wisdom of the World. Without Silence, we are lost and cannot get still enough to find our way back. Silence bears the wholeness we keep looking for while we do not know exactly what we are looking for. It is around us and within us. It goes to the deepest depths of the soul into the outermost reaches of the cosmos and continually unites the two at the centering place of a heart. Here we discover the power of re-creation. Here everything comes alive again is if for the first time. This secret and this mystery are so revolutionary that all who aspire to commercialize the world conspire to bury the secret in the noise of the world. And intimation of the strength of this mystery causes us to run to that noise, though we are not conscious that we are doing so. ~Robert Sardello from Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness Keep BEing the LOVE & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic

15.01.2022 I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... Water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.... ~Clarissa Pinkola Estés Blessings in your blooming. Keep BEing the love and beautiful sovereign Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #nature #bloom #springiscoming #spirit #themindfoodie #clarissapinkolaestes

15.01.2022 There’s so much story in our pain, heartbreak & healing. It takes up so much energy, we often forget to imagine a life beyond it. A world where we may become unrecognisable to past versions of our selves. In how liberated, joyful, happy and content we feel.... As much as it’s important to heal, to do our work of clearing trauma, shadow, story... So it is to create our new. To use a broader, more vibrant palette of colours than we have used before. Painting brush strokes in our mind that dance within each spectrum of beauty & possibility. Your life is only as you imagine it is Keep BEing the love & beautiful sovereign Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #creation #healing #beyond #spirit #themindfoodie

15.01.2022 Feeling this full moon in cancer on her way? Old stories, dogmas, beliefs are fading, should we choose to release. The softening, revealing and healing of our inner and ancestral feminine, the mother, the child, the maiden. ... How can we nurture and be kind to ourselves and close loved ones more at this time? Luna in cancer may bring up emotional vulnerability & feelings for many, so choose carefully who, where and what you give your energy to around this full moon as many may find this time overwhelming and a culmination of this year’s challenges, especially if they have been bottled inside or repressed-the time is perfect to release lovingly, rather than projecting or drowning our pain in alcohol or mind alterers. If you find old hooks and thought patterns arise and challenge your inner home landscape-observe them and kindly release. Use the words... Thank you. You no longer serve me. It’s time to let you go. I let you go. Let you go. I let you go. Repeat twice more If you’d like a healing release session with me, bookings can be made via PM from January 4. I work with clients in person or I can offer remote sessions wherever you are in the world. The main healing modality I use is Holographic Kinetics, Dreamtime Aboriginal Healing, but I also use in my coaching and business sessions other modalities including Neurolinguistic Programming and Hypnotherapy, depending on the issue at hand. Blessings and love to you. Keep BEing the love and beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #connection #listen #release #spirit #themindfoodie #fullmoon #luna

15.01.2022 The music right now can be loud, chaotic, confusing, harsh. Or, we can flip the switch. Turn off the programming. Tune into our own favourite channel. Break it down.... Drop the notes you don’t need to play. Trust in the flow. No symphony is written in one day! Listen. Get quiet. Everything is going to be okay. Keep BEing the love and beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #themindfoodie #flow #listen #intuition #bestill #meditation #spirit

15.01.2022 The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat. Tears. The Sea. ... Sweat: Move your waters. Stretching, exercise hot yoga, sitting in a sauna gets your body to sweat. Our pores are ports (portals). Our waters detox by carrying out toxins through these ports/pores. We release cortisol or stress hormones and create endorphins or feel-good hormones. We boost our immune system, increase our blood (flow). Tears: Certain chemicals, depending on why we’re crying, are released in tears. When we hold our emotions in, we send the chemicals and emotions back down our body. It’s not flowing, stagnant and these blockages can manifest into physical illnesses(dis-ease). Our waters need to flow with ease. That’s why they say you need a good cry, cry it out or just let it out. Tears of joy enhances our well-being. The Sea: The ocean heals us on so many levels. Physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually. It soothes and clears our minds. The sound of the waves has a calming effect on our nervous system. The ocean cleanses and heals our wounds both physical and emotional. It’s rich in (MAG)nesium. Getting into the water creates a meditative stage. Every time you get into the water you notice your breathing pattern changes, your heart rate changes. Breath is air and air is water in a different form. Sitting on the beach and feeling the billion grains of sand through your feet and your fingers, all around you. You look into the ocean and realize how vast, immense and timeless it is really gives you a sense of perspective. Do you sea how deep water can go? There’s so much to learn from her. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit sovereign spirit that you ARE. Nic x Photo: Late night blissful swim & frolick under Luna at Peregian Beach, Sunshine Coast. #ocean #tears #sea #connection #luna #release #themindfoodie #spirit #nature

14.01.2022 No matter where we turn, there is unraveling... All that we have known, been taught to believe... is somewhat in question.... or asking for deeper reflection. Truth always seems to find it’s way to the surface. Starting in our hearts, our own integrity is the first place to begin to seek answers.... Keep BEing the love and beautiful Spirit that you are. Nic x #themindfoodie #awareness #consciousness Artist unknown.

14.01.2022 The outside world is a little hectic these days... When we stop, drop into the rhythm of our breath... Feel our bare feet on the earth... It all falls away.... As intuitive spirits, our bodies are effectively antennas for the vibrational frequencies around us. If we do not tune inside daily, our own inner compass can become distorted and lose direction. As we collectively shift - your inner stillness is your temple. No matter the storm, you will flow through it with greater peace, clarity and knowing if you hold this connection. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic #themindfoodie #innerpeace #stillness #spirit #meditation #connection

13.01.2022 Divide & conquer. It’s the oldest trick in the book. So why do so many of us fall for it? It may be what politician/puppet you vote for...if you wear a masq or not...get a vax shot...the shaming, blaming, extremism, the polarity, the anger, the division.... It’s as clear as day to me. The fear this year is the real issue. Our attention and focus is depleted when we fight amongst ourselves. It lowers our IMMUNITY. With ALL the collective creative intelligence we have as human beings, we have the capacity to adapt to challenges and changes together. To have meaningful debates without anger, blame and fear projection. It keeps us small, controllable and unable to see the bigger picture when we are locked in fear. So. Now, more than ever, we must meditate daily. I don’t care if it’s an app you listen to, chanting mantras, or laying on your mat after stretching your body for 10 minutes to silently still your mind. A calm focused human BEing is less stressed, can adapt to change and challenge better. Now, more than ever, get daily time in nature (even if gazing at the sun rising or setting), eat nutritious food, drink water, get quality sleep, drop the cigarettes, reduce/eliminate alcohol (an anti-depressant), reduce/eliminate coffee (increases anxiety) & for goodness sake, switch off the news! Do the healing work you need to help you with lingering issues of mind and spirit you no longer wish to hold the weight of. It’s time to let go. We need strong, resilient, balanced human BEings. Ones who refuse to play the same old script that’s been used since time began. Keep BEing the LOVE & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #nofear #focus #balance #meditation #humanity #consciousness #rise #themindfoodie

13.01.2022 When you have an ancient heart And a childlike spirit You must feel deeply yet go lightly. The sea carries secrets yet still moves freely.... ~ Victoria Erickson Keep BEing the love & beautiful spirit that you are. Nic #freedom #spirit #ocean #connection #meditation #consciousness #themindfoodie

13.01.2022 Rise and shine lovers. Dust off those fears. Look in the mirror and tell yourself- There’s no day like today! To speak up.... To show up. To share. Rise in love- In all that you ARE. The beauty. The raw. The magnificent. Despite what others may think, Hold space for yourself. Radiate. You looks so beautiful on you. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic #rise #authenticity #themindfoodie #vulnerability #lionheart #newmoon

13.01.2022 TWENTY SPECIAL SECRETS 1. When two people meet, the prize always goes to the one with the most self-insight. He/she will be calmer, more confident, more at ease with the other. 2. Never permit the behavior of other people to tell you how you feel. 3. Pay little attention to what people say or do. Instead, try to see their innermost motive for speaking and acting.... 4. Any friendship requiring the submission of your original nature and dignity to another person is all wrong. 5. Mystically speaking, there is no difference between you and another person. This is why we cannot hurt another without hurting ourselves, nor help another without helping ourselves. 6. When we are free of all unnecessary desires toward other people, we can never be deceived or hurt. 7. You take a giant step toward psychological maturity when you refuse to angrily defend yourself against unjust slander. For one thing, resistance disturbs your own peace of mind. 8. You understand others to the exact degree that you really understand yourself. Work for more self-knowledge. 9. Do not be afraid to fully experience everything that happens to you in your human relations, especially the pains and disappointments. Do this and everything becomes clear at last. 10.The individual who really knows what it means to love has no anxiety when his love is unseen or rejected. 11. If you painfully lose a valuable friend, do not rush out at once for a replacement. Such action prevents you from examining your heartache and breaking free of it. 12. Do not be afraid to be a nobody in a social world. This is a deeper and richer truth than appears on the surface. 13. Every unpleasant experience with another person is an opportunity to see people as they are, not as we mistakenly idealize them. The more unpleasant the other person is, the more he can teach you. 14. You can be so wonderfully free from a sense of injury and injustice that you are surprised when you hear others complain of them. 15. We cannot recognize a virtue in another person that we do not possess in ourselves. It takes a truly loving and patient person to recognize those virtues in another. 16. Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself. 17. There are parts of you that want the loving life and parts that do not. Place yourself on the side of the positive forces: do all you can to aid and encourage them. 18. You must stop living timidly from fixed fears of what others will think of you and of what you will think of yourself. 19. Do not contrive to be a loving person: work to be a real person. Being real is being loving. 20. The greatest love you could ever offer to another is to so transform your inner life that others are attracted to your genuine example of goodness. Source: Twenty Special Secrets, from ‘Mystic Path to Cosmic Power‘, by Vernon Howard

13.01.2022 Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything. ... We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know. ~Pema Chödrön Allow for space inside you. Quiet moments. Keep creative, allow for magic. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you are. Nic x #adventures #magic #connection #transformation #themindfoodie

13.01.2022 You may be surprised just at how much wisdom already lives deep inside you. You are the son or daughter of life. A descendant of many. Ancestral wisdom.... Wisdom of your own Spirit. Wisdom through the elements of the spirit of the land you walk on. The air that kisses your skin. The fire that warms your heart. The water that quenches your thirst. Walk, speak and be as so. Keep BEing the love and beautiful spirit that you ARE. Nic x #wisdom #knowing #intuition #spirit #themindfoodie #being #ancestors #eagle

11.01.2022 Cure yourself, with the light of the sun and the rays of the moon. With the sound of the river and the waterfall. With the swaying of the sea and the fluttering of birds. Heal yourself, with the mint and mint leaves,... with neem and eucalyptus. Sweeten yourself with lavender, rosemary, and chamomile. Hug yourself with the cocoa bean and a touch of cinnamon. Put love in tea instead of sugar And take it looking at the stars Heal yourself , with the kisses that the wind gives youand the hugs of the rain. Get strong with bare feet on the ground and with everything that is born from it. Get smarter every day by listening to your intuition, looking at the world with the eye of your forehead. Jump, dance, sing, so that you live happier. Heal yourself, with beautiful love, and always remember ... you are the medicine. " Advice from Maria Sabina, Mexican curandera (medicine woman) and poet. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #connection #knowyourworth #intuition #themindfoodie #selflove #spirit

11.01.2022 Let your heart guide the way. The heart of a lion, leo, a gateway of love is open. Listen. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE.... Nic x #lionsgate #heart #courage #love #wisdom #leoseason #themindfoodie

11.01.2022 There’s a special kind of energy here. The air, sounds and earth is different. It speaks. This is day 1 of the Rezinate Light retreat in the beautiful Byron Bay hinterland, just one of the views from my workspace, a beautiful open kitchen where I can chat to our gorgeous guests, and cook devine nourishing healthy meals for the next 3 days. As our wise and grounded facilitators Debbie & James Pask take our group through a deep, transformational healing journey, they are loving...ly held by the sacred space of the land of the Bundjalung people. Keep centred in the days ahead. As we dive deeply into the shadow of the dark new moon in scorpio, it can unearth pain, anger, deep hurts, wounds, truths. Be kind to yourself and others. Watch your words, your tone. Seek some solitary time in nature. It’s time to let the past story go once and for all. It’s not yours to hold anymore. We are making space now for new timelines. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic #retreat #nature #byronbay #healing #themindfoodie #trees #australia #newmoon

10.01.2022 It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering. Osho Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE.... Nic x Jacarandas in bloom on my morning walk #jacaranda #flowers #beyourself #beauty #themindfoodie #nature

10.01.2022 No human being who is in their centre can be hypnotised. That's what needs to be remembered. No human being who is in their centre, who is being guided, who is close to their intuition, who is a sharp, critical apparatus, who has got a sharp sense of judgement, can ever be manipulated. ~Michael Tsarion... Keep centred, meditation, nature, nutrition, hydration, sleep, exercise, seek help if you need but stay in your spirit, your centre no matter what. Believe the new timelines that you and others are creating are for a pure positive, and so it shall be. If we choose NOT to consent the games, fear paradigms or manipulations of others, then so it shall not be. We choose. It’s up to us. Keep BEing the love, and sovereign beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x Yes! #awareness #consciousness #observer #masshypnotism #themindfoodie #spirit

09.01.2022 My eyes never tire of this view. Northern NSW & Byron Bay beaches are truly some of my favourites. After a little bushwalk, the ocean almost engulfs the horizon, rising to meet the headland. We were wowed by the rare sight of a whale, dolphins & seagull feeding offshore in a school of fish and seaweed cluster just offshore. We meditated as a group with my friend & brother, James Pask, as part of the @rezinatelight retreat, held in this area several times each year.... Finishing off with a cool swim in the clear ocean, I felt utterly grateful to be alive. Here. Now. Thank you to the traditional custodians of the land. The Bundjalung people. For those interested... James also holds Your True Nature weekends, helping you tap into the Spirit of the land & nature through the living world around you. He has an amazing online Living Spirit program available to tap into nature and universal law through the quantum fields wherever you are in the world. Truly important key knowledge, more now than ever in the current climate! PM me if you are interested. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x

07.01.2022 As the world rumbles, lightening flashes of change, volatility and observations that sometimes take our breath away, we only really have one world we have any control over. The rest, we know is in a state of flux. There are challenges may knock on our door, or come flooding through our very home. However. Our Spirit is our very own.... NO ONE but you has authority over your spirit unless to choose to give that away. Watch your thoughts, words, actions now more than ever. You don’t need guides, angels, aliens or any other being, so quit giving your power away to it. Those old days and saviour ways are done. Tune into your spirit in your daily habits of BEing. You are sovereign. Give your spirit the honouring and acknowledgment it is waiting for. You decide how, but be aware that nature is a place where she connects you to your inner stillness as easily as you can with a few focussed deep meditative breaths. Connect to your tribe, beloveds, care and reach out for one another and avoid divisive interactions and conversations right now more than ever... These only weaken us and add to the storm. Without our fear fuelling it, we will see the clouds start to dissipate and more beauty & hope on our horizon. Trust. Your knowing deep in your heart. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #calm #themindfoodie #change #consciousness #awareness #spirit

07.01.2022 I am here to love. So, I suggest to you that we have quite an agenda on our plates. We come together in order to quiet our minds, to open our hearts, and to develop a stance, a perspective towards life that allows us to be effective actors on the stage of life.... The process of removing ones mask, mask by mask, piece by piece, to truly dissect all that has been constructed. To perceive, not only the constructs of each individual illusioned mask, but the masterful lies rapped around how desperately I "need" you to see me. (No, I need to see me) This process can be overwhelming. The question that plagues the process for me is...who am I really and am I worth it. The clue isn't in who I am, but who I'm not. And Yes I'm totally worth it. Our Journey is towards simplicity and quietness, to a kind of joy that is beyond time, a journey where we leave behind all our models of who we are." ~Ram Dass Keep BEing the love & beautiful sovereign Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #masks #spirit #love #connection #illusion #ramdass #themindfoodie

07.01.2022 The best oracle of your life is you. There is no guru, teacher, spirit guide, alien being, shaman or magical elixir that can tell you the answers, or give you anything you cannot right now this very moment, access yourself. That is part of awakening.... Realising each one of us is sovereign, and instead of relying on external sources of power, we can instead work together in unity as equals. It doesn’t matter how many books you’ve read, workshops you have been to, university degrees you have, medicine men you’ve visited, temples you have worshipped in. Spirituality is not equal to a resume. Wisdom is not gained by old thinking. It’s gathered by willingness to listen. Always learning. Spirit just is. Spirit is in ALL living things. It is a rhythm. The same one that plays to the beat of my heart, the waves that rise in the ocean, dance in the dragonfly, it plays in the wind, the grass, the earth, the sky, the stars. The universe mirrors that which she sees, she hears music that has been for millennia. She has observed countless creation & destruction cycles. Patterns. Wondering. When the world of humans will see, observing past patterns. Changing future cycles. Remembering Lore. Remembering Love. Remembering each action has an equal and opposite reaction. And so, the pendulum swings. Listen. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x PS: I adore Astrology, most particularly evolutionary astrology. Such a great reflector of cosmic currents shone in our collective & individuated paths. A fantastic tool for illumination. #themindfoodie #spirit #universallaw #stars #alignment #listen

07.01.2022 "If you eat, eat with love; because what you eat is God. If you walk, walk with love; because you are walking on earth, sacred ground. If you bathe, do it with deep devotion, with love and respect for your body, since this is not your body, it is the body of God; it is His temple. ... So, the little things in life that had no meaning will begin to have immense value. And when the little things start to have meaning, they are no longer small: you turned them into big things. It’s up to you to live a small and insignificant life, or a great life: if you live without love, you will live a very small life. If you live with love, through love, you will have a great life, because love makes everything great. Love is the philosopher’s stone: anything it touches is turned into gold." ~Osho THIS. Life is sacred. Create the love & life in all that you are and do. Magic appears everywhere... Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic #love #beauty #spirit #osho #themindfoodie #sacred

07.01.2022 While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. Angela Schwindt My children have been my greatest teachers. How to expand my love the most.... How to stretch & pull my ego the most. How to reflect back my energy the most. How to open my mind the most. How to free my spirit the most. They have been my truth tellers. My wisdom keepers. My beloveds. Not of my possession, only of my space-holding. One I didn’t always get right. I’m so grateful. Thank you for choosing me to experience beautiful you. Julia, Caleb, Lauryn. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #children #wisdom #inspiration #themindfoodie #love #spirit

06.01.2022 The more I delve deeply into my spirit and working with others who are doing the same, we come more to the realisation of the layers of self acceptance. It often brings us to a state of more quiet inner calm, gratitude and a certain level of humility in knowing that others have this unique journey of their own to go through too. Often we may choose to swing into judgement, self-armoured and polarised behaviours with others about right and wrong ways of thinking or doing on ou...r journey... Many of us may feel triggered, and especially in a time of so much noise and fear based thinking. When feeling challenged by a truth in opposition to yours, why not get curious? I’m not saying you need to agree, but understanding another’s why can be more uniting than divisive. You may be surprised you have more in common than you think. As long as we follow the universal law of do no harm to others, we need to be open to realising that the world is full of many truths at the same time. That there can be more options of truths than just one... It’s a time when the chasm of divide is by the day shining it’s growing seam. We need to realise that the other we judge is only an aspect of ourselves we judge, for we are all connected. Not everyone will meet you in the same energy, and that’s okay. Letting the conversation go is also an option. However, remaining kind and in our centre while listening to another’s view in opposition to yours is completely possible-it starts with just one to melt another’s heart mind barrier for emotionally intelligent dialogue... Let that be you. Keep BEing the love and beautiful sovereign Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #truths #judgement #connection #emotionalintelligence #openmind #openheart #spirit #weareone

06.01.2022 There’s nothing more beautiful than connecting with another who is connected to themselves. If we could see beyond what our eyes tell us, and tune in to FEEL, open our hearts and give energy to this opening, would we connect and act differently? In a world where shiny veneers, lack of empathy and untruths are becoming the normal, many of us are hungry for sincerity, honesty, and deeper connection. Compassion.... To experience that we’ve got to be that. Resist the instant fix, the fast food menu of connection and living that is temporary, shallow, avoidant, or ego petting. Dive deeply into yourself, beyond where the light reaches. Dare to feel around in the darkness. Dare to feel around in the shadow of another. Observe without judgement, acknowledge what you find. Get curious. Watch what happens when you do. Watch what shows up in your own world, and inside your own heart... World change starts inside us. Keep BEing the love and beautiful spirit that you ARE. Nic x #themindfoodie #connection #authenticity #shadowwork #spirit #openyourmind #openyourheart #mercuryretrograde #depth

06.01.2022 A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves.'' ~Edgar Casey~... I talk about love a lot. I know I am love. We all are. However, I won’t lie, loving again and again after our heart breaks open, well, that’s one of the hardest things. It’s so tempting to push back through revealing our deepest darkest layers with another, and finding another who wants to do that with you, who feels like a best friend, who you can laugh with, rejoice in nature’s beauty, and who is also a lover, I don’t feel is so common as we get older. There’s no such thing as perfect, I know. I’m far from it! I have had moments of rebelliousness, fear, hesitation rise, that I haven’t felt in me for a long time. The mirror that is relationship shines light at very different angles. It exposes. I also have had deep gratitude, love, joy, playfulness and trust too, unwrapping me slowly. Love is all around us. She’s in nature, in others. We have many soul mates, from friends, to sisters, brothers, even daughters, sons. Sometimes we just may be lucky enough to find it in a partner. We are coming home through these connections, ultimately....to ourselves. Keep BEing the love and beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #love #shadow #soulmate #themindfoodie #vulnerability #relationship Beautiful Bribie Island

06.01.2022 How we can shift or allow ourselves to be shifted. Energy, frequency and what we allow to resonate in our mind, bodies and spirits has a ripple effect. Ask who is dictating the collective narratives through media, government, pharmaceuticals, technology, corporations and how they can play with this to herd humanity into a world they choose so very easily. Ultimately it’s the archaic age old story of power and control. They have mastered the art.... The new war is one of the mind. Choose to not buy into collective fears, ride the waves, remain conscious, aware and contribute to a different vibration and consciousness. Practice daily meditation, keep centred, aware, sovereign.

06.01.2022 This to me, is an image of healing. It represents so much that is difficult to articulate concisely without dropping into story, and the past-which is no longer. It is one that I observe, and know that no charge of this remains in my energetic field. It’s a picture that speaks of how far we have come. A new phase.... Those who are closest know this, as you too traveled with us. I’m proud of these 3 beautiful, strong, emotionally intelligent, funny, kind, independent, aware humans we created. It is because of them, this is possible. They have been our teachers. They kept me humble. To do better. To keep learning. To open, share, listen. To deeply heal to free them, in freeing myself. To love them in this life, including their sweet loving partners, truly brings me so much joy and gratitude. A feeling of priceless richness. Love, and all that surrounds love-in-motion...is who we are. It is our natural state. When we open our hearts, do our inner work, forgive, unbind stories, and let go, release... The creation of miracles you never dream of, do unfold. That’s what, after all, as a collective - we are here on this planet for. Keep BEing the love and beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #love #family #peace #lovemykids #gratitude #healing #peace #themindfoodie #release #fullmooninaquarius

05.01.2022 Keep your heart soft Sink into your breath... Close your eyes.... One breath... Another...... Take your time. Allow your face to relax.. Another breath... Your jaw relax... Another breath... Your lips part... Another breath... Your body relax... Another breath... Your heart beat more slowly... Another breath... Your mind let go... Another breath... Slowly... Another breath... There you sit. Your heart free. Your mind at ease. Recommended dosage: Several times a day, more often if required. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you are. Nic x #openheart #openmind #breathwork #heal #themindfoodie

05.01.2022 Stillness. So integral to everything. Quietness within. Where the magic begins.... Start your day with a little, or a lot. Set the tone, the vibration for everything. Keep BEing the love and beautiful sovereign Spirit that you ARE. Nic x #meditation #stillness #connection #vibration #consciousness #themindfoodie

03.01.2022 "You don't have to fix anyone's problems. You don’t have to save them, heal them, or get them to take on your favorite metaphysical beliefs, theories, and techniques. Just be there with them so that they feel felt and understood. Bear witness to their own organic wisdom as it recalibrates, reorganizes, and emerges. ... Listen. Not only to their verbal narrative but to the somatic story as well. To the secret, sensitive language emerging from their heart. Bracket your beliefs and systems for a few moments. Attune. With the poetic beauty and power of your mirror neuron system, enter into the miracle we-space with them, so that they feel felt. I'm with you. I'm here. I feel you. I understand you. Be midwife as a new story is woven with new cloth, one that is majestic enough to contain the immensity that they are. One that is updated in real-time, integrated, spacious, flexible, translucent, and kind. Extend to them a soothed nervous system, a sanctuary of presence, a field of permission where they can go through their experience without any pressure to heal or to meet some hidden agenda in order for you to stay close. Resist the temptation to teach them. But instead, reach them, finally, by way of the circuitry of empathic immersion. It's going to be difficult to do this if we are out of touch with our own unlived life with the unmet grief, the unheld sadness, the unmetabolized rage. If we have disavowed these visitors including through our endless metaphysical theories and beliefs: it will just be too unsafe to enter the vessel with eyes and heart open. Of course the mind has such a hard time with this. It just can't believe it. What about my theories and techniques and spiritual beliefs and all of it? I must convey it all and show them. But the body knows. The heart knows. The holy nervous system knows. The Other whether outside us or taking internal form is not in need of new information, theories, or spiritual beliefs, but needs and wants and longs for you your nakedness, your tenderness, your raw unfiltered being, your love." ~ Matt Licata Keep BEing the love & beautiful sovereign Spirit that you ARE. Nic #connection #listen #themindfoodie #spirituality #love

03.01.2022 The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. ... So he kept his children close to nature’s softening influence. ~Luther Standing Bear May you keep close to nature. Allow her to soothe your mind and spirit as the world gets louder. She holds, nutures, grounds. Reminds that we are part of her. That our separation is illusion. Keep BEing the love & beautiful Spirit that you ARE. Nic x Image: my beautiful daughter @juliajahnavi on a bushwalk with me at Mt Glorious, D’Aguilar National Park. So proud of the work and study you do Julia-your knowledge and passion of the environment & our care of it, I deeply admire. Keep going

03.01.2022 Are we done yet? With division? Greed? Disharmony? Hate?... Shaming others who do not share our views, values or opinions? Spreading fear to gain power, control or influence? Disrespecting the environment, and in turn the plants, water sources, and animals for which we are innately part of? Allowing power outside our own being to govern our thoughts, sovereignty and intuition? Are we awakening to the realisation we need to look inside for the answers and change our own ways to contribute to the collective energy, rather than expecting change to happen without our participation? We have such an opportunity to shift things around. Light one another UP. Instead of tearing one another DOWN. Observe your language, thoughts, feelings. Listen deeply. Practice each day small gratitudes. In breath, through meditation. In your body, through yoga or physical exercise. In nature, through earthing, grounding connection. In love, through feeling through your heart and intuition. Ask yourself... What am I going to create, transform, and risk for a world that is different, more harmonious, loving, and unified? And-if this is something you are already doing... Thank you. Keep going. Keep BEing the LOVE & beautiful Spirit that your ARE. Nic x

03.01.2022 Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate, and their pack. They are experienced in adapting to constantly changing circumstances; they are fiercely stalwart and very brave. ~Clarissa Pinkola Estés... I love being a woman! So grateful for my mother, grandmothers, aunties, sisters (blood or other) my new little niece & 2 beautiful, conscious, aware daughters I have in my life. Blessed AF. Photo: @laurynaislinn & me #motherdaughter #sisters #woman #themindfoodie #consciousness

03.01.2022 The Dreamtime is the new Awake. On country. Nature. In community 4 days. Grateful for the wisdom of the Grandmothers at Elders Mystery School.... Heart OPEN. So many tears. Thank you Auntie Mulara Thank you Grandmother Wynn Thank you Auntie Bangarra Thank you Uncle Stephen Thank you for my love. Thank you for my fellow sisters, brothers. I love you. For holding space. For all our daily openings. Stripping back. Stripping away. Naked. Baring all. Our feet in the earth. Sacred fire, transmutes. Faces lifted to the cosmos, to the sun. How much love can you take? Dreamtime cards: Waterfall : Release River : Movement Eagle : Observation

03.01.2022 Be around those who crave new galaxies in you. The light through your veins. Poetic science. Wider vision. ... Gentler strength. The moon in your chest. Gravitational pulls. Possibility everywhere. Stars in your eyes. Expanding horizons. Something wild. Something fervent. Something stunning. Something divine. ~ Victoria Erickson Artist:Unknown Be kind. Be intentional. Creational. Passionate. Heart open. Speaking your truth. Speak with love. Nic The Mindfoodie #stars #alchemy #dreamtime #connection #universe #love

02.01.2022 Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love. ~Osho~... On this morning of the 11/11, I first woke up beside you, and to experience that another year later, I feel blessed. So much has changed inside myself. Layer after layer after layer. Stripping away our skins of self protection, unearthing old deep hidden pains in our hearts to heal, discovering new depths through trust and vulnerability. Opening. Opening. Opening. I love the small moments. The way we share gratitude for so much beauty, joy, adventure and love in our lives, that it amplifies and gives only more depth... Compassion. Understanding. To find a soul you can grow with is a beautiful rare thing. So glad I’m growing as love, there beside you. Blessings Paolo. Much love, Nic

02.01.2022 I don’t know about you, but the recent Netflix doco, My Octopus Teacher, had me in tears. There’s no doubt we haven’t touched enough on the wonders to be found & protected on our beautiful planet, most especially the ones in water. The depths of the ocean are a powerful draw for researchers, experienced divers, and photographers alike. ... The vast bodies of water which cover over 70 percent of the planet’s surface are still being explored and documented. Lured by mystery, blackwater photographers dive at night into icy, pitch-dark depths. Taipei-based photographer Wu Yung-sen has been deep sea diving and photographing marine life for four years. On a recent blackwater diveunable to see the bottom and surrounded by impenetrable spacehe chanced upon a rare larval Wunderpus octopus. A stunning image captures the encounter; it shows the delicate and transparent baby octopus encasing its own brilliantly red brain, a sight few ever witness in the wild. The Wunderpus octopuscalled Wunderpus photogenicus, literally meaning photogenic wonderwas only first officially described by researchers in 2006. The animal is still understudied compared to other octopi. The species lives in the coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean south of the Philippines. Ref: www.mymodernmet.com #octopus #wuyungsen #ocean #photography #beauty #environment

02.01.2022 Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth... as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, a new level is about to be revealed. ~Alice Walker I couldn’t have said it better. Love yourselves in your growing, shifting, transforming. Be gentle. Go softly. Keep BEing the love and beautiful spirit that you are. Nic x #growing #unknown #transformation #begentle #bekind #connection #spirit #themindfoodie

02.01.2022 Don't sing me an anthem Cause you don't know the words Words are hard to remember When they mean nothing at all To the hearts who still are waiting... For their voice to be heard Don't sing me your anthem When your anthem's absurd We might have been born here But we're not young and free We weren't born yesterday And only liberal by degree This land may be beautiful But it cannot be called fair So don't sing me your anthem Till we've learned how to share We are the lucky country Where anyone can win If you were born to the right family And have the white coloured skin So don't sing me my anthem Cause the words can't be felt What's pride in your country Without pride in yourself? Lyrics by Tiddas. Much love to my Australian brothers and sisters, and the spirit of our land, First Nation People, and ancestors who have endured so much disrespect and pain. I’ve watched with horror just this year alone, so many Aboriginal sacred places destroyed with little recall, and a week our political leaders choose not to honour your flag for NAIDOC week, shameful. To me the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island flags should fly in every political office in this country. Our First Nation People never conceded sovereignty. They still do not. If one chooses to educate themselves, read some real history, a bit about Eddie Mabo or Bruce Pascoe perhaps, you would, like I did, or sit and LISTEN to elders, you will awaken to a new way of seeing. One in which most of us older generations were not taught in school. I feel deeply emotional about these matters. Grief is woven into so much of the energy of this land, and healing needs to happen, starting with listening, respect and acknowledgment. Much love. Nic x #alwayswasalwayswillbe #aboriginalland #australia #respect #naidocweek

02.01.2022 I use an expression, " Let the mind ask the question, let the heart give the answer." And the mind and the heart merge as one. You come to know that they were always undivided. ... There Never was mind. It was always the Heart. Just a little dance here or there and you know the Heart is everything. It is Everything. ~Byron Katie Artist Chie Yoshi Keep BEing the love & beautiful sovereign Spirit that you are Nic #heart #mindfulness #spirit #ariesmoon #themindfoodie #heartcentered

01.01.2022 Wisdom is through our HEARTS. With this solstice and the astrological alignments happening, the third chakra lessons will have to be learned, the easy way or the hard way. If we are collectively stupid, the lessons will be learned the hard way, with warped third chakra attitudes and an egoist drive to play God, till this approach backfires and fails. Anything which goes against nature is bound to fail. As we are an integral part of nature, if we turn against her and try to d...ominate her it is similar to someone shooting themselves in the foot. The intelligent masculine will learn to open to contradictions through meditation. By so doing, he will become wise. He will learn to use his power in service of nature and of the divine feminine. This will bring him deepest peace within and without. As we evolve our consciousness, we will collectively shift to a 4th chakra (Anahata) state of being. The 4th chakra is aligned with the element of air. The colours are green or pink. The lesson is to live in love, nurturing, empathy and compassion. It is a positive polarity in the feminine and a receptive polarity in the masculine. Women are offering a gift to the masculine through this chakra. When this chakra is in a warped state of being, generosity and love will be absent. Such persons will become cold blooded and lack empathy. This is why the term ‘reptilians’ is used to describe those people who appear human but who do not act with human values. Such persons use and dominate others by instilling fear in them. They commit acts of violence towards living beings with no remorse. To reclaim humanness, our society needs to open to and surrender to the 4th chakra in its natural state of ‘being love.’ As we evolve collectively into 4th chakra consciousness, we will create a world based on love, embracing the feminine approach towards life, an inner knowing that love is God and God is love. As this reclamation of the feminine manifests, it is essential that we simultaneously use our consciousness to manifest a healthy masculine. The healthy masculine does not happen by repressing qualities inherent in testosterone which fuels masculinity, such as muscle strength, high libido, territorialism and competition. Rather, these qualities need to simply be directed to being in service of nature and of feminine qualities of love and compassion. - Ma Sarita.

01.01.2022 Trust the unfolding. Keep grounded. Allow fears or doubts that arise to pass... Allow your human senses space and stillness, connection with nature. Talk to your Spirit, & know...it knows.... Keep BEing the love and beautiful spirit that you ARE. Nic x #spirit #humaning #connection #themindfoodie #awarenesss #itisok