Dear Friends,

I welcome you to my fourth Newsletter.

I have made a fantastic discovery thanks to my beautiful Italian friend Kerry Governato in Sydney. Kerry introduced me to Aura Soma (www.aura-soma.net) and I am “blown away” with it. What fascinating oils Aura-Soma proposes us! Kerry offered me a birthday present and she didn’t know just how much she gave me: a new way of dealing with life issues, anchored for several decades in me and clearing themselves via a few drops of this magnificent health and well being oil, reinvented by Vicky Wall, now deceased.

What strikes me is that the healing comes simply: without pain and with elementary lessons displayed in dreams. I invite you all to try it out. It’s quite undemanding, a bottle of Aura-Soma costs you about $50, you use a few drops a day and that’s it, the rest is up to you and your healing. So, in summary: priceworthy, ready to use, and impressively efficient.

If you like colours or are otherwise into colours, you will adore these oils: the colours change as they mix and separate! And more: after a few days of you using the product, the mixture can change its colour as the bottle becomes “you”: the oils clear what you don’t need anymore. Purely astonishing!

Colours are so important in our lives, aren’t they! Think for a moment of the colours you like, think of the colours you don’t like and all the possible combinations of both.

There are not only colours but shades of colours, half colours like bluegreen, yellowgold, aquamarine, etc. It’s endless, like the universe. And so are we: we have infinite opportunities to be, to grow, to self-destruct and to heal. Sometimes we need help for it, a little or much.

Most of the times we look after ourselves and we are by and large good at it. At other times we reach out and ask for help. That’s part of the healing process and, at other times yet, our friends just happen to know when we need a little extra something.

I own a Colour Tarot pack, which has mesmerized me since I bought it, well over twenty years ago now. I don’t use it for my readings but it has the power to teach me a different way of looking at the world.

There is also a book I read about at the same time with the beautiful title “Live a better life and heal with colours” by Andree Schlemmer. Andree teaches us to use colour vibrations to our advantage. Remember my tale about the carpet weaving in India? (2nd Newsletter).

Have you noticed that at particular times in our lives we choose different colours? How suddenly we go darker, lighter, brighter or more into pastels?

My understanding and my limited experience of Aura-Soma make me think that it follows us into the meanders of our psyche. It seems to lead us exactly to those places where we need mending, understanding and/or leaving behind. It is at least interesting to note that Aura stands for “a subtly pervasive quality or atmosphere seen as emanating from a person’ and Soma stands for “body”. So, it seems that this product composed of oils, herbs and crystal essences acts on our body via our aura or energy field around us. We do know that the aura contains colours, some of them existing in our physical world and some not. We all heard of psychics who can see these colours. You understand now how finely tuned the Aura-Soma products are. I invite you to “give it a go” and you may find a teacher near you if you decide to learn the technique for yourself. My new friend Paula Milner whom I met on my last visit to Broome (dpmilner@iinet.net.au) has space for new students and she can guide you if you have needs that don’t cover her teaching.

It is so peculiar, isn’t it, how colours enter and exit our lives. We have sayings about them, too. “It’s all dark around him” I heard a person say about another, we “get the blues”, “we colour up”, we say “true blue” about certain people, others can be “green with envy” and “colour is a gourmet meal for the eye”, that child is as bright “as the sunshine”, and so on.

And surely you have your own colour and healing stories to complement the discussion.

All this talk about shades, shadows and colour makes me think of the diverse angles from which we view a situation, look at a person, deal with a problem, and take in the scenery or the world. Now our talk becomes philosophical yet again. Everything, absolutely everything depends on our perception. Our standpoint, our lookout position and our way of viewing the environment are crucial.

Isn’t it the same with what we call “truth”? There is no truth, I have so often said. Why? Because I know that there are as many truths as there are people. So, what about justice? Courts of law? They exist for us to use, to respect or disrespect. Unfortunately, we manage to misuse them on occasion and, at other times, we leave them to professionals who believe in them more than we do. This consideration leads me to introduce the story for today.

The story for this Newsletter is from a book called “The Day my life changed”, a compilation of stories told by simple people who adjusted to life-changing situations in their lives. I chose this particular text because its author illustrates clearly that you can look at a critical situation from different sides. Anna accepted to draw lessons from it. I was attracted to the plain style and the clarity in vision this young woman had. (I have shortened the story to its essential message).

BY ANNA

I spent some time in jail when I was twenty. It was so ridiculous. I was in a crowded bus coming home from work and had to push my way past this guy to get out. He had a big rucksack on, and seemed to be getting in my way almost deliberately. Then as I left he pushed me.

As soon as I got out of the bus I realized that my purse wasn’t in my bag.

Immediately I realized what had happened. I jumped straight back on the bus before the doors closed and started shouting at the guy. He looked nervous as soon as I got back on.

I confronted him. He shouted back saying that I was crazy. I asked people to help me and asked the driver to shut the doors. No one helped me! What are people like?

The guy tried to push past me and I pushed him back quite violently. I can look after myself. I look quite small but I go to the gym, work out and I am strong.

He just shoved his way past me and ran. I chased after him and managed to trip him and he fell outside on the street.

I was absolutely furious, I reached into his jacket and there was my purse! That was my biggest mistake. At that moment someone ran out of a house and told me the police had been called.

I waited and I was in a daze. I thought they were coming to take him away. It didn’t occur to me that they were coming for me.

But that’s what happened. I was arrested for assault and battery. In court he said that I attacked him for no reason. As far as the law was concerned I had made an unprovoked attack on him. It’s incredible, but I ended up in jail for a month.

I won’t tell you about my time in jail. It wasn’t great but it wasn’t the worst. I survived, that’s all I can say. When I came out I had lost my job, and my boyfriend had moved out and disappeared. It was dreadful. My whole life felt like it had been pulled out from under my feet.

I had to start all over again, and work my way up from nothing. In one way it did me a favour though. I had been working for a low wage. Now I found it really hard to get a proper job, so I did whatever it took to get from where I was to a point where I could set up a business for myself. It took years of hard work, but I got my finances under my own control again.

I have mixed feelings when I look back. It is something that defined my life. It was completely unfair, but in the end I learned a lot about myself.

As for the photo in this Newsletter, I chose colours with unusual extensions, but you knew that! The illustration is a photo of a wax colour life reading, done for me by John Sutton (john@johnswaxart.com) at the Liverpool Fair (NSW) a few years ago.

Much love to all

Mariana
www.mariana-amar.com