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23/2/2018

OPERATION #lovingpeta Day 16,17,18 actually I can’t really remember what day I’m up to!

OPERATION #lovingpeta
Day 16,17,18 actually I can’t really remember what day I’m up to!
But isn’t that great? I haven’t felt this deeply relaxed in a long time…I start to ‘do’ something and then my whole body just says NUP we are not done relaxing yet kid, so just stop what you’re doing.
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For the first Xmas in ages I wasn’t on Facebook, Insta, Voxer, Email, nuthin….it felt a little bit weird I must say, but kinda good too, actually reeeeaal good and guess what? The world did not stop turning because Peta Bastian took some time off!
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Todays oily bff is: Aromatouch I love you - you amazingly nourishing soothing calming relaxing essential oil you! Just a couple of drops mixed with my massage oil and lovingly rubbed on the back of my neck and shoulders each morning, afternoon and evening - yummmmm. Thank you!
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19/2/2018

OPERATION #lovingpetaDay 12,13,14,&15

OPERATION #lovingpeta
Day 12,13,14,&15
Update: RELAXING is definitely good for this woman, so relaxed that I haven’t felt compelled to be on social, which gives me more time to be with my small people💖
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But I just wanted to let you know that - yes I’m doing yoga nidra, no not everyday, yes I’m loving myself and I have this new inner voice that is so much kinder, more gentle, she congratulates me, she sees me and loves me as I am - which is pretty awesome really.
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Bffs with essential oils - Clary Calm & Passion, feminine, earthy, spicey, beautiful🌸🧚‍♀️💜
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19/2/2018

OPERATION #lovingpeta Day 15 (I’ve decided this is the day I am up to)

OPERATION #lovingpeta
Day 15 (I’ve decided this is the day I am up to)
Not gonna lie....I came home yesterday after being away staying at my Mum and Dads in an idyllic REST-haven of a glorious house on the river, with a pantry full of food, clean floors, tidy lounge, comfy couches, bright sunlit indoor courtyard to eat lazy lunches in, a clean shower that throws the water at you in soft full drenching drops, a Mum that cooks all of your favourite food and is nearly as funny as I am, a Dad that fills my car up with petrol and my winny-wiper water with a dash of detergent (that empty light has been on my dashboard staring at me for weeks!), magnificent sunsets, walks along one of the best beaches in the world, happy kids jetty jumping and playing with their cousins, great food, coffee, lying in bed till midday reading books....
Then I walked into my house and I could fell all of my good joo-joo drain out of me as my heart sank....UGH!
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It was the smell that hit me first - stale with a distant hint of old bin that should have been emptied a week ago mixed with the musty scent of dog and cat.
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Then it was the darkness, the house we rent is an old one that is naturally dark with wooden floors and fuck-awful velvet peach drapes on the lounge window.
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Next I see all of the dust on the shelves, the dirt and scraps and fuck-knows what else on the floor mixed with cushions, beam bags and empty cracker packets and pop-sticks scattered and strewn about.
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Nec minute as I’m surrounded by 5 suitcases that are not unpacked yet, full of 20 hundred zillion loads of washing for me to do - I hear kids complaining that they are hungry, tired and ‘where’s my iPod charger?’
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So I move through into the bedrooms part of our not-so-cute-little-house feeling more and more claustrophobic as even they are full of scattered toys, un-made beds and a new aroma of stale/damp towel and I realise that I am not breathing and I am THIS CLOSE TO LOSING MY SHIT!!!!!
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I walk into the kitchen (thankfully this is at least clean) and try to collect myself as the rising panic has me gripped by the throat with wide wild eyes searching around for the best next step to take as I feel a distant screaming in my head, so I absently start to move about picking up cushions, opening suitcases, sweeping up the worst pile of debris in the lounge, opening windows, putting on every diffuser I own with an uplifting deodorising citrus blend and my mind is racing from this point to that part to this way and to that with thoughts of ‘OMFG we have to move house immediately’ to ‘maybe if I just chuck out everything and start again’ to ‘don’t be stupid you can’t afford a whole new house of furniture’ to then getting on gumtree to find a second hand couch that at least isn’t ripped, with great chasms that once you sit in you can’t get out of... ‘Right found one, so now where am I gonna get a trailer from to go pick it up and take all this other stuff to the dump....’ at this point I step outside to get some fresh air to be greeted by 3 chooks who’ve escaped and consequently shat everywhere, dead pot plants, leaves piled high, old boxes that we tried to grow herbs in, old broken chairs and I feel the stinging of tears trying to burst out of my eyes and I walk into the kitchen where my wonderful husband is making pizzas to feed hungry kids and I announce in a voice that’s a little too high with an edge of manic “just popping down to grab a bottle of bubbles - can I get you anything?”
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I get in the car and start driving with clenched jaw, stalk into the grog shop, pluck out my drug of choice (a nice Pinot Noir Rosè) jump back in the car grab my phone ready to ring someone to cry and complain to when I suddenly stopped myself took some deep breaths and fully stepped into the place of being a ‘witness’ of myself in that moment, no judgement, just noticing all that was going on within myself, and instead of my inner critic chiming in with ‘you are such a shit house wife, what a fucking loser’, my new #lovingpeta compassionate voice began to softly speak soothing words to me ‘oh I see what your doing, I recognise this, that’s ok hunny, you’re ok babe, you don’t need to go down this rabbit hole do you, no, ok so it’s absolutely ok to feel this way and I get it - your environment is important to you, a beautiful environment is relaxing for you, soothing for you, supportive for your inner being to be in a place of clam, creative flow. What if, just what if you could give yourself two weeks to do a bit of a tidy up and spring clean or hey why not even the whole month of January to potter around and slowly but surely create a beautiful environment for yourself, pot some new plants, take down those fuck-awful curtains and yeah you’re right those hazardess couches have got to go but everything doesn’t have to happen in the next 48 hours does it?’
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I felt myself come back to my centre and I even had a smile to myself, phew! Crisis averted and as I drive back home and walked back inside the filth-hut I was filled instead with hope, possibility, calm, reassurance and I could suddenly see and feel what the next best thing to do was - sit down with my huz and a nice glass of wine to chat about how his day was and slowly begin a plan of attack (albeit a casual soul-supportive plan of attack) on how I was going to start loving my house and my environment by cleaning it, revitalising it and caring for it - much the same as I’ve been doing for myself.
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ps I only had two glasses of wine not the whole bottle
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pss I’m going to pick up that couch from gumtree this afternoon!!
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Oil that I used in my diffuser - Arise - a beautiful new blend from the Yoga Range.

15/2/2018

OPERATION #lovingpeta Day 9,10 & 11

OPERATION #lovingpeta
Day 9,10 & 11
So on day 9 I fell asleep during Yoga Nidra, then on Day 10 - I lay on the couch watching cricket after watching Billy at a basketball carnival but I didn't do my yoga nidra and today for Day 11 I did my yoga nidra first thing this morning before I got out of bed. I cannot tell you HOW much nicer I am being to myself after only 1 week of this beautiful practice.
So I saw this video pop up in my feed on Friday last week and I’ve just now watched it because I Love Gabby, but I haven’t tuned in with her for quite a long time - in fact I still remember the first time I watched one of her talks and i was like WOAH! I fucking love this woman but what hit me even deeper was this KNOWINGNESS of - that is what I want to do - talk on stage to people about real life stuff and ways in which we can be conscious co-creators of our lives. So this particular video is so very poignant for me right now (so of course it popped up in my feed right? Cos I needed to hear it) I love everything that she has said here but most of all I love that she tells of how she gat’s out of alignment too - cos as I said the other day - we are all human xx
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Fave oils today Clary Sage and Litsea in my diffuser and an aromatic cupping with Peppermint Oil to help keep me going so I can cross these things off my to-do list and get on with RELAXING over Christmas.
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12/2/2018

OPERATION #lovingpeta Day 8

OPERATION #lovingpeta
Day 8
I missed a day
I didn’t do my yoga nidra yesterday
But I’m ok with that. I’m totally ok with it because#fuckperfect and I’m embracing #lovingpeta by CHOOSING to be kind to me.
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I can and I will be #lovingpeta #nomatterwhat
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As a side note I had a totally productive day#gettinggolddone and #makingmagichappen so that I can power down and relax into the festive season with my small people and my love and my fambam knowing that my oily tribe are feeling loved and looked after too and my 2018 will start smoothly!
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Wintergreen - the oil of Surrender and Clary Sage - the oil of Clarity & Vision have been my bffs today.
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11/2/2018

OPERATION #lovingpeta Day 7

OPERATION #lovingpeta
Day 7
This Yoga Nidra stuff is DEFINITELY working! So many things in the last few days that would have had me spirally out of control running down the street with arms flailing screaming like an idiot, but instead I’ve been like super cool, calm and collected dealing with it like a MOFO pro!

Todays support oils have been PastTense - the headache relief blend and InTune - the focus blend applied to the back of my neck - they work and I smell amazing!! #winning

Thanks to my awesome friend Fiora for this kick-arse image!

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10/2/2018

OPERATION #lovingpeta Day 6

OPERATION #lovingpeta
Day 6
What makes you feel safe? This is a question I have asked myself and posed to my leaders that I work with in order to start that process of understanding what it is we need to feel safe. Safety is one of those foundational needs that we have as humans in terms of keeping physically safe but what makes you feel safe to feel, to dream to desire, to ask, to receive, to believe, to love, to experience joy, to be empowered, to be honest, to speak out, to show up, to play, to laugh, to sing, to dance, to be-you-to-the-full?
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When I asked myself this question a few years ago I realised that one thing that helps me feel safe is being organised and on time, my friends and family will most likely laugh because traditionally those have not been my strongest qualities!! In fact I can quite easily sabotage myself by trying to fit too may things into a 10 minute space of time, like hang out the washing, eat breakfast, clean three sets of teeth, check my biz back office, write a quick facebook post and listen to Voxer messages as well and then wonder why I am yelling at the kids to get in the car “quick, quick, quick!!” and flying out the door cos I’m 10 minutes late, feeling hot under the collar, and anxiously thinking Fuck now I’m late for my 9 o’clock call…blahblahblah… sound familiar? Talk about feeding a limiting belief of ‘not good enough cos ya can’t even get anywhere on time and you always let people down by being late’
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When I started working more consciously with feminine and masculine energies within me (the yin and the yang) as well as universally and in others I recognised that being organised was a structure to help me, rather than to hinder me. For a while there I resisted the masculine energy cos I thought of it as constricting me, the killjoy of the party, the ‘sensible boring one’. When we talk about masculine and feminine energy the feminine is the creative, intuitive, feelings part of us (the Being) and the masculine is the structured, organised, logical thinking, planning part of us (the DOing).
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But I’ve since learned and experienced that the masculine structures ‘hold space’ for the feminine to swirl about and dance and play and dream and get inspired and connect intuitively. Yet the feminine can only really be this way when it feels safe.
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So I realised that acknowledging and becoming friends with the masculine energy within me would actually allow me to be even more in my feminine flow as it would free me up to have space to BE. So for me learning the art of being organised and on time became a focus.
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It’s an interesting dance though and in my efforts to befriend my masculine energy I had swung out of Full on Feminine Vibe into Full on Masculine Vibe quite unconsciously (until a friend that I respect and trust pointed it out to me when I was asking for advice on something). I had completely gone into the DO-DO-DO and not created any room for the gentleness of just Being in the flow. There was no balance. I was on FULL ALERT and juiced up to the eyeballs on GOTTA GET SHIT DONE LIKE YESTERDAY LET’S MOVE MOVE MOVE!!!!
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Now don’t get me wrong it’s a really useful energy to activate the ol’ masculine getting shit done, but when you press that button ON and gaffer-tape it to be ON like 24/7 the system starts to short circuit!!! Something I prefer to say is ‘let’s make magic happen’ so that I can draw in all my energies and that of the universal vibrational energies and draw what we desire in doing the actions necessary whilst being guided by our intuition. But with all that gorgeous knowledge I still found myself unable to STOP doing all.of.the.time and just BE, welcome to centre stage The Worn-Out Woman Peta.
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If you haven’t already guessed I’m all loved up today and feeling all philosophical, I’ve just finished my Yoga Nidra practice using Frankincense (the King of Oil with a very ancient masculine energy that calls to your heart to remember the truth) and Lavender (Lady Lavender with a feminine energy that melts away the harshness and soothes the she-wolf) as my gorgeous essential oils to go even deeper into this practice of getting my RESTING on and I am feeling beautifully blissed, un-rushed and connected to me which is a great place to be #lovingpeta
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9/2/2018

OPERATION #lovingpeta Day 5

OPERATION #lovingpeta
Day 5
The first day I started my Yoga Nidra practice I was like a desperate she-wolf who needed her Yoga Nidra cave (but worn-out woman Peta didn’t know it) and I just couldn’t seem to find 20 minutes to myself. But I was so bloody determined to get my RESTING on that I grabbed a 20 minute window when one of the kids was down the street playing with his mate and the other two were doing their thing and the hub was still at work so I thought “RIGHT! This is it!”
So of course the kid down the street came back with his mate and they were yahooing (not a crime really except when the she-wolf is trying to DE-STRESS instead of being in DISTRESS!!!!) Anyway I digress, there I am trying really really hard to stay zenned (side note here - I’d already been challenged with the audio download not working and not having the right app to download it in so trying another only to wait for it to download and then tell me this file is not supported! I mean seriously???? I don’t really buy into the whole Mercury Retrograde thing of all technology grinding to a holt but I was starting to question it…) Anyway, another tangent I know, I’m the queen of Tangents I bloody LOVE them.
Anyway, Billy walks into my room ‘Mum, Mum!!!’ and I rise up like that crazed she-wolf searching for the pause button on my audio download trying to breathe deeply and stay ‘in the moment’ only to be told something that I can’t even remember cos it was that important and I wildly look at Billy and semi-growl MUM IS M.E.D.I.T.A.T.I.N.G!!! I swear to god any zen I had flew out of my ears and I ended up saying fucking on the out breath and hell on the in breath.
So as I ‘progressed’ from Day 1-5 in my book I read that sometimes it’s a good idea to make a sign and teach your kids that this is a time for mum and to respect that when the sign is on the door they can’t come in. So bless their cotton socks - cos that’s exactly what I did and then I think it was day 3 or something when I heard Sampson answer my phone (he’s the kid who can’t let a phone ring without answering cos this is = to a fate worse than death), anyway he answered my phone and I heard him say “mum can’t come to the phone right now cos she’s meditating” !!! Fuckin love those kids!!!
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