"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
~ Albert Einstein

Psychology recognises that each person without exception is born with an innate desire to love and be loved; to feel wanted and valued.

�?Identity = The condition of being oneself and not another.

�?Personality = The visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others.

February 1982. "John" is several weeks from birth, yet he is fully conscious within the womb. He will not come into the world with any predetermined views or judgments about the world, his place in it or which football team or religion he will follow. In the womb John is at peace and one with everything; it is the source of his own universe and love - his identity - because his mind is attuned entirely with his heart centre. Only when he emerges and experiences his new environment does he become aware of himself as a seemingly separate entity. It is his judgments and beliefs about his new reality and his place within it that will shape his personality.

As John grows older, his views and ideas about life increasingly conflict with those of his parents, his main source of love, and he quickly discovers that their love flows with conditions attached ("Do this and I will love you." "Do that and I won't."). John's parents feel compelled to create him in their own image, as their parents did to them and so on down the generations. They believe it is their duty to groom John in their own experiences of the world - to "save" him from the mistakes which, they perceive, obstructed or held them back in some way.

John's parents, therefore, don't give him the freedom he needs to explore his unique identity and to make his own mistakes from which to learn, grow, and be true to himself. Instead, in setting out to rescue him, they end up smothering and thwarting John with their own beliefs and ideals. Problems arise because what they want for him does not equate with who John, at heart, feels he really is. His personality starts to conflict with his identity; the essense of who he really is.

John's growing mind absorbs information like a sponge. He can only evaluate life from what he perceives or experiences from his environment, and so he believes and internalises everything he is told about himself ("You are bad/ugly/not good enough/not popular/etc."), and makes value judgments based on his interpretation of what he witnesses and experiences around him. Together, these core beliefs and judgments form a huge range of dysfunctional thoughts from which John's reality is shaped.

"Many of us are still clinging to notions about our strengths and weaknesses that have been absorbed from parents, peers and other authority figures. For example, a teacher's observation that you were 'hopeless at maths' might have been accepted by you, seized upon by parents and siblings, and subsequently becomes part of your personal mythology."
- Anita Chaudhuri [Psychologies]

Instead of encouraging a balance of virtues that every human being subconsciously aspires to, John's world emphasises masculine traits like competitiveness, aggression and winning at all costs over feminine values like compassion, empathy, intuitiveness and creativity. In changing his natural self-expression to feel loved, at ease and accepted in his conditioned environment, his personality adopts modes of behaviour that go against the grain of his identity; re[flex]actions against the shame, guilt and anxiety he is effectively programed to feel about who he really is.

These reactions create barriers of fear that sever the connection between his mind and his heart centre, giving rise to the ego; a monotonous, judgmental voice inside John's head which deceitfully reinforces all the negative programing and fear-based choices and decisions - lies and illusions - that he will ever make to justify his separation from his identity. The ego thrives on fear and deceit and can only exist independently of his identity/heart's source of love and truth, so its survival depends on John's personality not knowing that it is imprisoned by the mind's fears and neuroses. It does this by conditioning John's mind into believing the very things that his heart does not recognise as truth, causing him to dislike and deny aspects of his true self. Anything that contradicts the ego is instantly filtered from his mind, and he automatically erects yet more barriers of fear around his heart centre. As John's ego grows his identity diminishes, and he comes to believe that his ego is who he really is.

To boost his shrinking self-esteem caused by the diminishing connection to his heart centre, John derives external power instead by controlling his environment through force by making others feel inferior or manipulating situations to his advantage. Life becomes a constant power struggle as John goes from being open to closed at the pressing of any button that triggers a fear-based association with a past experience stored in his subconscious; the repository of all thoughts and impressions, both conscious and subliminal, that have shaped his life since birth.

The ego is all about control. Only when you are free of ego are you truly free...

 

 

"[Return to Oz] talks about the problems of the homogenisation of the gay community and people losing themselves in self-deprecation, then losing themselves in an escape that's not a positive escape. It's a retracting from reality."
~ Baby Daddy [Scissor Sisters]

Self-expression, individuality and diversity became virtually outlawed at the height of the North American commercial scene's acceptance of crystal around 2003, where its use went hand in hand with a fascist-like mentality that embraced an exaggerated, thug-like hyper-masculinity; worshipped the grotesque distortions of steroid and human growth hormone abuse; and drawled in a stunted, monosyllabic vocabulary. Where those that dared to remain spirited, self-expressed and distinctive from the caricatured conformity of the robotic herd were rendered invisible by cold, empty eyes that neither registered nor acknowledged their existence.

"The message of Jesus was always to ignore the stereotype, the label, the identity - in order to observe the soul beneath how a person actually behaves. One of his most famous parables was that of the Good Samaritan, a man who belonged to a group despised by mainstream society. But it was the despised man who did good, while all the superficially respected people walked on by."
~ Andrew Sullivan [Gay writer and activist]

Gay America's cancerous crystal culture, like the corresponding rise in unsafe sex and the senseless, futile aggression of enforced masculinity, is the manifestation of internalised homophobia taken to a new extreme of self-loathing; one that is, perversely, transforming healthy, vital young men into decaying, withered husks; the very antithesis of the sought after aesthetic ideal. Meth has flourished and prevailed amid a climate of disempowerment, fear and denial. One that has prevented a lost generation of gay men from summoning the courage to speak one simple truth: 

"Guys, we need to take a long, hard look at ourselves, because if we don't change the way we think and behave - and unless we start looking out for ourselves and each other - then very soon our community will implode and we will end up destroying ourselves."

It may not have come to this in cities like London, Cape Town or Amsterdam, yet, but Tina is sure as hell working on it...

Of course, many gay men do live happy, contented lives away from the gay hubs while others dip into the scene and occasionally use drugs solely to enhance already positive mindsets and pleasurable experiences. Many gay men drawn to the escapism of the scene, however, use drugs specifically to break down their invisible mental barriers and be liberated from their fear-based ego boundaries, enabling them to communicate in social situations and stimulate an intimacy with others that they would otherwise find almost impossible to achieve. For such individuals, as the high wears off the heart centre clamps shut again and the mind's negative chatter kicks back into gear as barriers of fear snap back into place.

"I think addiction is a spiritual disease. The inclination to use drugs, at least for me, came out of a feeling of not belonging - not being connected to some feeling of wellbeing... Our intention when we use drugs is to communicate with God but because we're not spiritually equipped to do that, we're damaged when we try that shortcut. It's like a child seeing a beautiful flame and wanting to touch it, not knowing it will burn them."
~ Patrick Moore [Author of Tweaked]

Drugs are a catalyst to heightened states of mind and consciousness that are accessible naturally but which few possess the calmness or patience necessary to reach without. They provide a potentially fatal shortcut to the heart centre's authentic power source hidden beneath the addict's armour-plated barriers of fear. Socially excluded and marginalised gay men especially crave the interconnectedness and escape from reality that drugs provide a short cut to, but using drugs to quiet the mind and anaesthetise psychological scarring is akin to applying a Band Aid to a festering wound that won't heal; the underlying issues resurface when the high wears off. From feeling confident and invincible whilst high, the rest of the time the user's behaviour ranges from aloof to arrogant to self-righteous as he confines himself to the inner prison of his mind's incessant, negative chatter, which crystal meth exacerbates more than any other drug.

A fearful individual, detached from his heart centre and positive feelings, identifies solely with his ego-driven thoughts which seek only to isolate him and deprive him of love. 

Effectively he functions like a computer: he plugs into external energy sources; thinks logically based only on the information he has been programed with; his behaviour is cold, mechanical and calculated; and he can't begin to comprehend anything that cannot be perceived with his five discernible senses (sight, smell, sound, taste, touch). He has fallen for the ego's deceit: that he is separate and alone, a grain of sand in the universal scheme of things, and so his survival is driven by an ultimately endless, empty and meaningless quest for external power in order to be noticed and validated.
Instead of going within to find the truth, perfection and completeness he desperately searches for outside of himself, he deludes himself into believing that he can quench his emptiness and achieve constant peace of mind by striving to be even more competitive, ruthless and controlling - actions which serve only to amplify his unhappiness and depressive state of mind.
 
By contrast, someone whose personality is aligned to his heart, or soul, is in tune with, and guided by, his feelings, or sixth sense: the psychic connection to a profound sense of peace and purpose. An inner knowing that he is already complete and perfect as he is and that his existence is as meaningful as anyone else's; only his experience is different. His sixth sense imbues him with intuition and empathy which navigate him through life's maze with minimal effort and maximum return, as if guided by a higher power. Big houses and fast cars are nice accessories, but objects are not the key to his happiness and fulfilment.

In the competitive, chaotic, judgmental maelstrom in which American culture and globalism thrives, is it any wonder that people's feelings/sixth sense rarely get a look in, or that millions are dosed up on legally  prescribed but dangerous antidepressants? Anyone can aspire to the so-called "American dream", but at what cost? By changing your body shape with steroids and HGH? Resorting to plastic surgery? Or setting out to aggressively compete with anyone and everyone in the deluded belief that overcoming the multitude of pressures 'out there' will somehow make you happy and fulfilled? In doing so, however, the multitude of problems 'in here' continue to go ignored and that empty void within aching to be filled grows ever louder.

The only way to overcome the illusion of fear and to feel complete, fulfilled and truly at peace with yourself is to reconnect to your heart centre and its unlimited and unconditional source of authentic power - love. Which means commencing the process of rediscovering the person you have always denied existed: the person you really are...

 

Those who grow to accept themselves and love who they are develop a zest for life, and value most of all the things money can't buy; new,
meaningful experiences as opposed to objects that soon lose their shine.

They find that life has purpose, clarity and meaning, and doing what they love - their passion - becomes their prime motivator. They also begin to consider how their lives might benefit others rather than seeking constant self-gratification and comfort in every situation; such as high-fliers in financial institutions who re-evaluate their lives, follow their feelings, embrace life with a renewed sense of confidence and "downshift" to put their quality of life first. Their fears around not having enough as they compete to keep up with the Joneses dissipates, and doing what really interests, inspires and fulfills them fuels their joy for living. This may involve turning a hobby or a passion into a living, and include an element of giving selflessly instead of taking endlessly. Life fills with purpose instead of feeling manic, trapped and mundane, and no longer are they too tired, jaded, miserable and burned out to enjoy it.

"Materialistic pursuits are not a path to sustainable happiness. A mass of evidence shows people who have
more materialistic goals are less happy than those who focus on intrinsic aims such as relationships or personal
growth."
~ James Montier [Global equity strategist]

"Paradise syndrome" is a condition experienced by those who have acquired every possession they want but still aren't happy. Contrast this depressive state with the New Economics Foundation and Friends of the Earth's 'The Happy Planet Index', which measures the happiness ratio of 178 countries based on various factors. The survey places the self-sufficient South Pacific island of Vanuata, population 200,000, first and well ahead of competitive, consumer-driven industrial nations like the UK (108th) and the US (150th). "People are generally happy here because they are satisfied with very little," was the response of Vanuata's local online newspaper. "It's a place where you don't worry too much." The UK and US also trail behind Libya, Gabon and Azerbaijan where family, community and only essential material possessions are valued most.

"The ego/mind constantly seeks control and gain... It seeks successes by whatever yardstick it measures that illusory goal. Happiness is always around the next corner, so it strains harder to achieve its goals. At some point, the illusion breaks down and the opening for the start of the spiritual quest begins."
~ David R. Hawkins [The Eye of the I]

You can only accept and love yourself when you let go of the fear that clouds the mind, fuels the ego, and separates you from your heart centre.
 
This entails commencing the process of releasing the pain and anguish - emotional blockages - which give rise to fear and helplessness. Drug-free ways to break free of the chaos and disruption of the outer world and cultivate an awareness in the heart include meditation and yoga; activities which transcend and silence the mind's internal chatter and induce a state of stillness and wellbeing. But, like drugs and alcohol, they offer only temporary reprieves. Identifying, dismantling and letting go of each barrier of fear, and the pain and guilt attached to it, means going within and confronting that pain head on.

"We're all afraid to talk about what happened to us when we were ten years old... But the answer to that fear isn't to hide. It's to face the past. What I'm trying to tell people every day is to open the door and let the past in. You won't be swallowed by the past - you will be healed by the light that pours in."
~ Oprah Winfrey

Fear and denial hold most back from prising the lid off the past in order to release the demons and move on. So much easier and "safer" to expend energy immersed in the manufactured distractions of the outer world; video/computer games, surfing the internet, gambling, work, eating, drinking, shopping, movies, television, spectator sports, celebrity trivia, working out... When done to excess these become addictions: empty, fruitless pursuits that anaesthetise the pain but prevent our emotional and spiritual evolution. External pursuits entered into for the sole purpose of keeping the mind focused externally rather than the pleasure of participating are quick fixes that prevent us going within and realising our true potential.

"Once you see the reason why you're doing things, it's not a pretty sight. There's always some sort of insecurity... Addiction is never something you want to do. You do it to kill your insecurities or to feel better about yourself. Those were the answers I got and I thought, 'My God, if I have to do this stuff to feel better
about myself, I ain't nothing.' I want people to see me as I am."
~ Mary J. Blige

Crystal meth has fueled an epidemic of sex addiction among gay men whose energy has been diverted from their true purpose.

No amount of bath house or cybersex can ever satiate the empty void of the meth abuser's addiction. Because he continues to convince and delude himself that his addiction will eventually overcome his emptiness, his quest for more and more partners spirals out of all control.

"Some feelings are so painful that we cannot feel them at all. We only feel the emptiness of their absence; a hole in the heart. I couldn't accept myself or fully experience my own emotions because I was raised in an environment that denied my true, gay identity, and in a household where emotions were dismissed.
  "I've spent much of my adult life keenly asserting my individuality, while on an unconscious level I'd been programed to despise my true nature. In managing this conflict, like most addicts I was extremely controlling.
  "But you cannot make up for unmet childhood needs by bullying people in adult life. You cannot sate this legacy of need with drink or drugs. I was trying to fill an emptiness that could never be filled by those means, so was always left dissatisfied.
  "The void is filling now, as I discover ways to make recompense in the present for the deficit of emotional nurturing I carried from the past. Recovery is surrender; relinquishing attempts at frantic control and turning internal conflict first into an uneasy ceasefire, then into lasting, increasingly stable peace; very different from the temporary relief and denied feelings of addiction."
~ Paul Bakalite [Positive Nation]

Whatever the reason or excuse not to go within, until emotional pain is confronted head-on the ego continues to influence all decisions and judgments, sabotaging our happiness in the present while shackling us to the past. Letting go of each self-inflicted barrier of pain, however, gradually reveals the love, light and abundunce of authentic power and creativity that has always resided within.

Healing through therapy is big business, particularly in the States. The therapist, counselor or psychologist listens attentively while the patient recalls past events that led to him imposing protective mechanisms, and the patient is encouraged to identify the underlying reasons why each defensive barrier was erected to establish how and why the ego tricked him into, effectively, living a lie. Only when the patient can see clearly how he has limited himself by allowing the separation from his authentic power source is he ready to let go of the fear, pain and guilt associated with each emotional blockage, and move closer to his heart centre.

Forgiveness is the only effective way to release pain and let go of attachment to the past.

If you can't forgive but continue to harbour resentment
towards the people or situations that led to you
erecting each barrier of fear, then you become a victim mannacled to the past. And if your past is one anchored in misery and unhappiness, more of the same will surely follow if you maintain the same, rigid set of beliefs, judgments and principles that keep you stuck in the same groove, going round and round in circles.

The first step in forgiving others is forgiving ourselves, because it is our guilt, fear and dislike of ourselves
which make us attack others for displaying the faults we wish we could banish from our own personalities, such as John bullying the classroom loner. It is then that most people feel the need to forgive their parents most of all for imposing their beliefs and ideals on them, particularly during their formative years. Heartfelt, unconditional forgiveness that is similarly reciprocated triggers a seismic shift in consciousness; a breakthrough that shatters a chain of repetitive conditioning that may have endured for generations as all barriers and tensions literally melt away, allowing the love to flow unimpeded again.

Releasing mental pain can result in a cathartic outpouring of emotions like anger and tears as the pressure caused by the build-up of emotional blockages and negative energy is swept away. Healing is like peeling away the layers of an onion to reach your core and discover who you really are; tears will flow, but as each layer of pain is confronted, forgiven, and the guilt and anger released, the judgmental voice of the ego fades into silence. This process gives way to a liberating transformation of mind and profound sense of peace and lightness as you reconnect to your true source; love. When guided by your feelings and not controlled by the ego, you become a balanced,
grounded, heart-centred person.

When the heart guides your thoughts, life fills with purpose, meaning and clarity, and the ego can be called upon in situations where it can be used in a healthy, productive way.

People who have never cried, grieved or been encouraged to listen to their feelings, especially those indifferently conditioned by their environment to be "real men", store up a pressure cooker of negative emotions in the subconscious which literally gridlock the mind. Pent-up stress can manifest as rage, anger or violence at the pressing of any button that activates the memory of an unresolved, painful experience, and often leads to careers in the military or participation in contact sports which legitimately permit the expression of repressed anger. Individuals fortunate to express their feelings and emotions freely from birth avoid aggressive situations, and always look for peaceful solutions to the problems life throws their way.

All too often, people wait until the point of death - when they no longer have a need for their ego boundaries to hide behind and so are able to speak from the heart - to forgive others and express their love. The effect of not having the opportunity to forgive others due to sudden death can have a traumatising effect on those left behind; on 9/11, for example, those trapped in the burning towers felt an urgency to phone their families and express their love before they perished. They knew they had nothing to lose in doing so.

Stress and tension caused by unhealed pain and emotional blockages - negative energy - feeds off vitality, prematurely ageing and decaying the body.

Unhealed pain creates toxic emotional blockages which ultimately manifest physically as diseases (dis-ease), like cancer or osteoporosis. All bodily diseases are related in varying degrees to emotional blockages. Positive-minded, forward-thinking HIVers, for example, tend to remain fitter and healthier far longer than HIVers whose fear and sense of hopelessness about their condition places an intolerable strain on an already compromised immune system.

"It always amazes me how many people think a cure [for AIDS] already exists and is being suppressed by the powers that be in a ruthless attempt to protect the billion dollar revenue garnered by antiretrovirals in the richer nations."
~ Robert Fieldhouse [Positive Nation]

Western civilisation is conditioned to accept that all healing must come from synthetic medications as opposed to the clearing of emotional blockages aided by healthy diets, natural and alternative remedies and physical therapies which offer long-term solutions with immediate benefits. Cure isn't big pharma's overall intent, with many drugs offering only short-term fixes with long-term harmful effects. Treatment is far more lucrative than finding the cause and purpose of the physical and/or mental imbalance, and big pharma uses its financial might (the global drugs market is worth $600 billion, of which the US accounts for half) to pressure governments to suppress alternative solutions.

This corrupted approach to health has resulted in millions in the West being dosed up and dependent on cocktails of poisonous antibiotics and medicines which kill more Americans each year than heart disease. Deaths from prescription drugs rose from 4.4 per 100,000 of the American population in 1999 to 7.1 per 100,000 in 2004, representing a jump from 11,000 people to almost 20,000 in just five years.

"The FDA continues it's never ending assault on doctors and researchers who provide alternative, proven remedies for all kinds of medical problems because there will be no tolerance of any cures not sanctioned by the big pharma companies who peddle death and depend on repeat customers."
~ Devvy Kidd [Newswithviews.com]

As well as the key to good health, positive, vibrant energy is key to maintaining a youthful glow and vitality into middle age and beyond; the so-called it factor that radiates from below the skin and manifests as self-confidence and genuine sex appeal. At 40, a face is a reflection of a person's cumulative state of mind; positive, grounded people continue to radiate youth, while close-minded, negative 40-year-olds look old, tired and haggard.

The radiant glow of self-confidence will attract and magnetise others of a similar resonance into your life because like attracts like. By the same equation, low self-esteem repels confident people but draws others lacking in self-worth into your life, and among whom crystal meth easily preys. Confident people emit an aura of wellbeing, purpose and grace that motivates and inspires others, triggering in them a desire to heal too, and leaving those who are unwilling to change their negative behavioural patterns and thought processes behind.

Acceptance is the key to respecting and loving yourself. It is the process of becoming your own best friend by avoiding addictive behaviours and external distractions; of getting to know who you really are in moments and periods of quietness and solitude by dismantling each of the negative, self-limiting thought patterns that clutter the mind and make you seek power through control and force.

Only when you are able to unconditionally accept and love yourself are you ready to unconditionally accept and love others for who they are.

How do you know if you are getting there? When you can look someone fearlessly in the eye and sense a connection to a warmth within. When you are able to receive and honour a compliment instead of rejecting or denying it. When you begin to see life from a higher level of awareness and knowing, as if a filter - a veil of illusion - has been lifted from your mind's eye...

 

How the world sees you depends on how you see the world...

"Everyone, at some stage, finds themselves searching for that special person they believe exists who is 100%
perfect and will make them feel whole. If you find yourself looking for that person in order to feel complete, find yourself first. Or it will be a search without end..."

Being at peace with yourself means accepting and loving who you really are, perceived imperfections and all. Only then can you accept and love others with their perceived imperfections because no barriers of fear will be in the way to block your feelings, nor to will you to jeopardise or sabotage yourself or anyone else. As an authentically-empowered person you can share your newfound freedom with another self-realised person because love flows unconditionally between you.

People inevitably fall out of love if originally they were subconsciously looking for someone to fill an unhealed void within. Unresolved baggage hidden beneath the initial blinding glare of love always pulls up at the door eventually and the cobwebs and demons can only be suppressed for so long before they burst through to dissipate the love and sever the connection. For authentically-empowered people, it takes little effort to stay in love.

Focusing awareness on the voice inside your head that dictates your thoughts and actions - the ego - quietens and stills the mind and releases you from your internal prison.

Arrival at that place of stillness and serenity naturally makes you at peace with yourself and the world. No longer are you addicted to blaming others for your misfortune or to the chemical rush that arises when you make others wrong, and the thought of using force against another simply never arises. Maintain obsolete, out-moded values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and a self-centred spirit - by failing to see how the ego's familiar way of doing things ensnares you in a web of self-deceit and suffering from which you can't seem to extract yourself - and life continues to be filled with trauma and heartache, ultimately going nowhere and revolving around power struggles and the same old same old...

"If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you've always got..."

It takes a major shift in outlook and in the way you view yourself to create the change you need to move forward, but the key to change is to be the change you desire; if you want more love and joy in your life, you must project those qualities to the world in order to magnetise them back to you. A genuine willingness and desire to change at a deep level - perhaps precipitated by a brief moment of profound insight or clarity about an unsustainable situation - will show you vividly what needs to change. It is such an epiphany, or miracle, that many addicted to crystal meth profess to receiving in their darkest hour. Some speak of their soul being awakened; of a voice within offering hope and urging them to seek help, "Like a spiritual flash that changed the way I viewed myself..."

12-Step programs aid the addict to commence the process of accepting and loving himself by encouraging him to identify and confront the underlying reasons why he would willingly use a dangerous substance like crystal in the first place, and can provide a springboard from the blackest despair into the brightest light. Many have discovered an entire new dimension to their lives through such programs; a profound sense of love and respect for themselves and others and a state of mind which renders it impossible to even contemplate acts of self-sabotage, harm and destruction.

Lack of love and self-respect - fear - governs all underlying causes and triggers of addiction and self-destructive behaviours.

Ultimately, how we live our lives - whether, for example, we abuse crystal meth, have unprotected sex and/or place unpenetrable layers of armour around our hearts - comes down, simply, to choices. Heaven and hell are realities we create for ourselves here and now with the actions we take as a result of how we choose to perceive and react to people and events around us. We disempower and limit ourselves when we choose to be victims by allowing ourselves to be controlled and pulled along by external forces and events, blaming and judging others for where we are in the world while failing to take responsibility for our choices and actions. We empower ourselves and realise our infinite potential
when we choose to take control of and responsibility for our lives and become creators of our own destiny; when we make decisions and act in ways that are true to ourselves and harm no-one else; and when we realise that the cause of our problems and source of our unhappiness is not outside of us, but within.

Identifying and healing the causes of emotional pain is key to overcoming addictive, compulsive and obsessive behavioural patterns, and the foundation for spiritual growth.

In choosing to ignore our pain and being slaves to the ego, all thoughts and actions are referenced from past,
limited experiences and unfounded fear of what the future may hold, and meaning and purpose flow out of life in the present. In choosing to heal and reconnect to the heart and its unlimited supply of authentic power - when we align our personalities to the soul - life fills with meaning, purpose, clarity and joy, and each moment is created in the present moment, here and now, from a blank canvas; a space where that nagging voice no longer dictates our responses and actions, allowing us to freely and lovingly express our true selves and realise our purpose and infinite potential.