Month: April 2013

Commitment to Myself – Through My Monthly Periods

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by Aphra Heron, Product Development, Cosmetics Industry, Melbourne, Australia

A few weeks ago I attended an Esoteric Women’s Group presented by Natalie Benhayon, open to women of all ages. The theme of the event was “Nurturing the Woman Within” and it was to launch a new Period App called ‘Our Cycles’.

This App is designed for women to be able to track in detail their monthly, natural body cycles. It has a range of different functions making it appeal to a broader audience, even stretching to men, and also other than women who maybe are just trying to get pregnant. Continue reading “Commitment to Myself – Through My Monthly Periods” →

The Choice between Poison and Inspiration

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by Leonne Sharkey, Brisbane

My Experience of Competition and Comparison Between Women

At the women’s group last month, Mary-Louise Myers, a presenter on Women’s Health, spoke briefly about the competition and comparison that occurs between women. I knew immediately that Mary-Louise had stirred up something big that I had not allowed myself to really feel before. Of course I have always been aware of the competition between women, but I always thought it was something ‘out there’ in the world, ‘just the way things are’ – something that I was affected by, but in no way responsible for.

I love people, I really do. Most of my closest friends are women and I truly love and appreciate them. I cannot imagine deliberately trying to hurt another person, let alone those closest to me. I want nothing more than for myself and others to be living wonderful lives full of true love and joy. So you can understand my alarm when it dawned on me that I had never pondered the way in which I had personally compared myself to, and competed against, the women in my life. Continue reading “The Choice between Poison and Inspiration” →

Nurturing According to My Body’s Rhythm

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I have always understood ‘nurturing’ to be something very lovely and honouring that I do with myself – like having a bath with my favorite essential oils… or a bubble bath and maybe some candles and plenty of space and time to be with myself in a lovely and relaxed way, enjoying the warmth of the water around me.

Recently I went to an Esoteric Women’s Health (EWH) event presented by Natalie Benhayon: it was an inspiring presentation about Nurturing and being aware of the cycles and rhythms in one’s body. Natalie introduced something that I have never before truly heard or understood, even though it may have in the past been mentioned many times: that sometimes a bath with your favourite oils, bubbles or settings etc., may not actually be nurturing. Continue reading “Nurturing According to My Body’s Rhythm” →

From Sensitivity Lost – To Joy in Finding the Real Me

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by Nicole Serafin, Tintenbar, Australia 

As a child I was very sensitive and could feel what was ‘going on’ with people; I sometimes found this quite overwhelming. I also found with lots of people that there was little honesty in how they were actually feeling (in regard to their situation, for example), as though they were withholding from expressing what they actually wanted to say; or even at times that there would be an ‘underlying message’ to words spoken / actions done. I didn’t understand why people just didn’t say what it was they were actually feeling… Continue reading “From Sensitivity Lost – To Joy in Finding the Real Me” →

Feeling Truly Sexy

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by Priscila, UK

My idea of being sexy had always been something that would be seen as sexy, something that would be projected outside.

I grew up in Brazil and being sexy was normally associated with an image of the body. Sexy would be considered a beautiful woman, a body with curves, a toned body presented in a provocative and seductive manner, in provocative and seductive clothes. That was my concept of ‘sexy’.

This morning I had an experience that changed this meaning completely and forever. Continue reading “Feeling Truly Sexy” →

Our Cycles – Period and Full Moon App brings ‘Rebel Without A Cause’ Home

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by Lucy, Sydney

Four weeks after Sydney Esoteric Developers Women’s Group (EDWG) 3rd February 2013 and Our Cycles –Period and Full moon App Presentation

We had an Esoteric Developers Women’s group in Sydney recently where we were discussing the possibility that the pressure we felt to fit in at school was still with us even though we left school many years ago. It was a ‘tumbleweed’ moment and then a dawning realisation that there were many areas of our lives where we were still trying to fit in – around the school community, in the office, with our friends, with our families.

I found myself sitting with, what we decided, was a group of ‘rebels’. As we shared our stories of life with each other we found we had each rebelled against what we perceived to be society’s and our family’s expectations on us in one way or another. We had rejected what we were told life should be, only to make up our own picture of what life should be and then create ourselves into a group of rebels searching out other rebels! Continue reading “Our Cycles – Period and Full Moon App brings ‘Rebel Without A Cause’ Home” →

The Mystery of the Migraine and Me

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by Francene Cartaar, Australia

Have you ever felt you were going a little crazy? – well, I have. My world shook in September 2001 when I started experiencing migraines with such force and power that I felt like my head was going to split open. This was the beginning of a decade of searching for answers and cures. Each time I would ‘plant’ myself on the table of a doctor or health practitioner with the belief that they could ‘fix me’.

Then I had an appointment with Serge Benhayon at Universal Medicine about 3 years ago. As well as being eager and nervous at the same time, I must confess to going to the appointment with the hope of being ‘fixed’ and ‘told the answers’. Never before had I experienced a consultation like this. Continue reading “The Mystery of the Migraine and Me” →