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GOD/GODDESS HAPPINESS HARMONY HEALING HEALTH


FREEDOM


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DEAR FELLOW ADVENTURERS


TIME – DO YOU have enough? Do you have enough money – or energy, health or love in fact? If not, or if you have too much s#*t or drama in your life, you’ve picked up the right magazine. There are answers here aplenty – answers for a quick fix or longer term – from both the advertisers and the articles. I’ll leave you to explore the cornucopia of solutions the advertisers have to offer. I’ll tell you about the articles and the way many of them just fit hand and glove inside each other. I could claim to be a clever editor who just planned all these coinciding articles, but I didn’t – not in my forebrain at least. I follow hunches and my intuition, and the Universe provides the building blocks – most often as emails in my in box. If this is the first time you’ve read this


magazine, note that I’ve used the word Universe here as a ubiquitous word for the big G-word – yep, God. Don’t drop the page in fright now. I know that a lot of people have been put off by that word because of their experiences within the family or organised religion. You can let yourself get over that, you know. In fact, you can let yourself get over anything and everything by changing your mind, your state of being and your self-talk. Again, the articles and the advertisers in these very pages can help with that. A.C. Ping’s amusing and insightful article on drama syndrome really underlines the damage that negative self-talk


does, and this is reinforced in a few other articles as well. If you’re a regular reader, you may


wonder why we’ve suddenly incorporated new topics in this issue, and they will be repeated and added to in future issues too. I was first introduced to fashion as an art form by my then assistant Melisa Gray-Ward about a decade ago. Indeed, I am pleased and proud to welcome her now as our new Fashion Editor. Because I have a plump body I had


always been scared of fashion (just like I used to be scared of the G-word too) but Melisa opened my eyes to its sheer artiness. Then in January this year Amaresh Wardha introduced me to his amazing fashion photography and he suggested I consider fashion for LivingNow. I sat with it one night in a meditative state and suddenly saw how we could cover fashion in a LivingNow way, with a difference. Having reached that conclusion I went to bed, dog tired, but the moment my head hit the pillow the word ‘fashion’ jumped into it, followed in quick succession by the other F-words on the list you see above. The next thing all the H-words jumped into my head too. Slightly annoyed, because I wanted to sleep, I realised that I had a heap of words from two proximate letters in the alphabet, and mouthed that all I needed now was a G-word, and of course I quickly saw that


the one and only word that needed to be there was THE G-word, as spirituality or consciousness were not covered in the other two lists. Because the G sits in between the two lists of more mundane topics, it is quite significant as the fulcrum for the whole magazine. Yes, Spirit is the reason I do this


magazine – because I absolutely know that if we had more Spirit in our lives we’d have less s#*t. Speaking of that, there’s an article in this issue in which Catreeana reassures us that we can stop the stuff from happening by learning to create what happens in our life, and we do this by becoming more conscious of ourselves, and we do this by… hmmm… this is getting circular – we do this by reading and attending to the teachings and practices we come across. Let’s change the subject – money –


most people need it. Rik Schnabel gives us some hints about how we might increase our earning capacity: “… when you grow or improve your value, you grow your attraction and therefore your wealth. Imagine an iPhone without apps ... and you get a sense of what I’m talking about here.” O-oh, he’s on about the same stuff. Read on a bit further and you’ll find that he’s saying that you are the real source of money and that it is you that has to increase your personal value. Helen Ferrara agrees with Rik when


she suggests we look at ourselves as the real gift of life, “The sense of contentment and abundance that comes from accepting oneself as a gift is incredible, and so is the sense of peace.” Sense of peace – same idea as


cultivating stillness, which Steve Denham suggests is the way to ‘make time’ in his breathtaking (pardon the pun) article on time: “You can learn to breathe with awareness in any and every situation or moment of your waking life, and, in the stillness that flows from that, respond to life’s demands and situations with a new sense of balance, clarity and meaning.” This magazine is free in various


outlets. If you’d like to order copies for your business, email us. If you’d like to subscribe to have one posted to you personally, we offer yummy subscription prizes. See the ad on p.30. Finally I’d like to welcome Madonna


Melrose as our new Beauty Editor, and to thank my wonderful team, without whom I would not be able to produce this magazine.


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