Maximize the flow of energy in your home

If your home and office energizes, balances and relaxes you - you'll feel healty; inspired to create success and you'll have great relationships in your personal and professional lives. That's the power of Feng Shui. It is referred to as "The Cause and Effect of Energies in the Environment on you.” True happiness has nothing to do with wealth, and it's not fleeting. It lasts and permeates everything. It is a feeling that you experience in your body, mind and soul, where you bring your dynamic energetic presence into. So the old saying that you are what you think (or anything you absorb as a matter of fact), could equally be called: You are what you inhabit, or "You are what you see!" Obviously, your home is a reflection of who you are and the choices you make. If you then change both your personal and your home's energetic state, you work on two levels of good fortune at the same time. You change the human luck by changing your thoughts, feelings and actions and you change your earth luck by changing the feng shui which is the expression of your thoughts, feelings and actions in your home. Once you raise the energetic vibration of your emotions and your mind, you will attract more positive situations in your life. Start by decluttering and cleaning up your mess and you will get out of any dense energy waves.

Remember, everything in your home including the floor plan, furniture, materials, colours and artwork — influence the flow of active and passive energy in the Quantum field.
If the home is decorated in beautiful, harmonious colours, with your favorite art and objects around you, it will become an impressive, creative environment that is a flow of living energy.

These waves act much like the brainwaves produced by your own thinking processes. Because an environment is a flow of living energy, you could say that
a home has a consciousness,
a mind of its own, an identity & spirit It takes time and study to understand these laws that lead to positive changes, but once you understand them, it just takes practice and discipline to create better human luck for yourself. Try it out for yourself...

Artwork by Annett E. Bank @ Brighton based online gallery Positive Vibrations

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Colourful treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).

Colour. We delight in a rainbow, sigh at a sunset, luxuriate in the rich colours of our homes, clothes, special spaces. Our eyes gravitate towards saturated colour like moths to the light. No coincidence, considering the entire spectrum of colours is derived from light. And no surprise, really, that seeing, wearing or being exposed to colour- whether in the form of light, pigment, or cloth- can affect us at levels we are only just beginning to understand.

Lack of Colour Causes Depression

How we "feel" about colour is more than psychological. The last decade has proven that lack of colour, or more specifically, light, causes millions to suffer each winter from a mild depression known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Because of the complex way in which exposure to various colours acts via the brain upon the autonomic nervous system, exposure to a specific color can even alter physiological measurements such as blood pressure, electrical skin resistance and glandular functions in your body. And they most certainly can affect how you feel on a day-to-day basis. By decorating your home in light, warm, yellow-orange colours, one effectively replaces natural sunlight, enhances their spirit, improves their health & ultimately expands their consciousness!

Color Therapy and Your Aura

Colour therapy, also known as chromo therapy, is used by alternative health practitioners who use colour to balance energy wherever our bodies are lacking, be it physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental. Your aura is just an energy field that surrounds you, there are different layers in it, and in each layer, there are different colours that may be used for clearing and rebalancing your energy field. Knowing what colours are in your aura brings you closer to your spirit. If you can consciously bring that out, you have more advantage in clearing and healing your life; it's really just another layer of knowing. By installing healing prayers into it the individual pieces, the artist Annett E. Bank marries her love for inspiring people and making the world a better place, by creating work that is uplifting and healing at the same time. When working with clients for their custom designs, she tunes into the emotional space they want to be in, and recommends the colours according to their needs.

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A poem by Cyndi Lauper....

You with the sad eyes
don't be discouraged
oh I realize
it's hard to take courage
in a world full of people
you can lose sight of it all
and the darkness inside you
can make you fell so small.
But I see your true colors
shining through
I see your true colors
and that's why I love you.

So don't be afraid to let them show
your true colors
true colors are beautiful
like a rainbow
Show me a smile then
don't be unhappy, can't remember
when I last saw you laughing
if this world makes you crazy
and you've taken all you can bear
you call me up
because you know I'll be there

And I'll see your true colors
shining through
I see your true colors
and that's why I love you
so don't be afraid to let them show
your true colors
true colors are beautiful
like a rainbow.

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Music by singer: Cyndi Lauper
Artwork by: Annett E. Bank

How to attract love through sensual Art

Improve your life with the power of Feng Shui and bring about romance, renewed sensuality, or even a new partner... Feng shui works with the energies of Yin & Yang and if applied correctly, it not only works wonders, it also helps you to create a home environment that supports the life you wish to live.

A key element of feng shui is creating a smooth flow of chi (positive energy) through your space. Chi likes to move through your home as though it were a gentle breeze or a meandering stream. Where it is blocked, the energy becomes stagnant--like a pond choked with algae and fallen leaves. You are likely to feel blocked in life, and your energy and enthusiasm for matters of the heart will be low. Balancing and correcting the chi of your bedroom helps encourage and invigorate romance. Here are some quick and easy ways to improve your love life by improving the energy of your home. Bring romance chi into the bedroom - be sure to place romantic imagery in these two key places in the bedroom: the wall opposite the foot of the bed (where you naturally look when lying in bed), and whatever area of the room you first see when you enter.


Beautiful, romantic artwork is always good, as are fresh or silk flowers and anything in pairs (such as birds, cherubs, candles, or decorative pillows). A round mirror is also good for the bedroom, as the shape signifies completion and unity. Look around your home for whatever says "romance" to you, and find a good spot for it in your bedroom.

2. Clarify your intention and make a collage of images that symbolize your perfect relationship, and place it where you will see it every day. If you are already in a relationship, invite your partner to make a collage with you, to represent your intention to build a joyful and loving future together.

3. Make room for love
If you want to attract a new romantic partner--or move a casual relationship closer to commitment--make sure there is space for that person in your home. Look at your closets, shelves, and dressers, especially in the bedroom; if they are all filled to capacity with your own stuff, make clearing some room for your current or future partner a priority. Aim to free up 25% of the space in your bedroom for someone else's things. When you are done, take a moment to visualize your loved one's belongings finding a home there.


4. Remove inappropriate imagery
The images with which you surround yourself can have a powerful effect on your love life. Feng shui clients who complain of difficulty finding romance often have surrounded themselves with images of a person alone.
Inappropriate imagery includes anything that represents solitude, loneliness, aggression, hard work, conflict, or disagreement in any way. That old photo of your Dad when he was in the army may be a treasure, but the wartime energy it carries doesn't have any place in the bedroom; find another place to keep it.

5. Remove old relationship energy
Go through your home--especially your bedroom--and remove anything that reminds you of past failed relationships; this could be an ex-boyfriend's old sweater you find in the closet, photographs of you with a previous partner, a gift that reminds you (unfavorably) of a giver with whom you are no longer in love--anything that reminds you of a love that went bad. No matter how incurable a romantic you may be, do NOT keep old love letters anywhere in your bedroom unless they are from someone with whom you are still blissfully paired up.


Clean up your bedroom
When your bedroom is cluttered and untidy, the energy in there will be low and slow. Clutter is a sure sign that chi is stuck, so roll up your sleeves and clean the place up if you want to jump-start your love life. Ring a bell, shake a rattle, or clap your hands loudly around the room to clear out old, stale energy.

7. Open the door to love
Make sure both the front door of your home and the door to your bedroom open easily and completely. Doors that stick, squeak, or that only open partway because of all the stuff stored behind them are blocking the flow of romantic energy and opportunity into your home. A loose doorknob on your bedroom door could mean you're having a hard time "getting a handle on" romance; get out your screwdriver and tighten it up.

8. Create a path for chi
Walk slowly from your front door to your bedroom, pretending that you are a gentle river of chi. Look for any areas where furniture or other belongings are stopping or slowing the flow of chi, or where chi is diverted away from the bedroom to other areas of the house. Clear a path so fresh chi can find its way to your bedroom and nourish your love life. Make sure all the lights along this route are working, replace any burned-out bulbs, and be alert for dark or dingy corners where you can increase the energy by adding more light.

9. Move your bed
If one side of your bed is against the wall, the person who sleeps on that side may feel confined or disempowered in the relationship. If possible, place the bed so there is equal space on either side, so you and your partner can find equal enjoyment in the relationship. The ideal position of the bed will be on the opposite side of the room from the door, but not directly in line with it. If you can't see the bedroom door from the bed, hang a mirror where it will provide a reflected view of the entry.

10. Don't work out in the bedroom
When you exercise in the bedroom, or store your sports equipment there, you bring the energy of hard work and exertion into your romance space. Do you want your relationship to feel like a tough workout? If not, move your workout stuff somewhere else; your relationship is likely to move along more smoothly.

The Power of Art & Healing

The key ingredient for transformation is the courage to jump into life! Nothing can come to you unless you invite it...Just as we need the darkness to see the light, noise to recognise silence, fullness to understand emptiness, we need ugliness to appreciate beauty, and need the ego mind to become conscious of our being. When we grow up we begin to compete with others to proof our self-worth, thus experiencing both success & failure. When we experience victory we feel strong & superior, when we experience defeat we feel weak and inferior and begin to struggle with our initial self-centred attitude that the world should evolve around our needs and give us what we need. Our wounded ego then keeps us small and fearful, and unfortunately most people live in this state of wounded ego-mind that has a poor self-esteem/image, that is full of negative and self-defeating thoughts and emotions. They see themselves as victims and life being a struggle. When we don't receive unconditional love we think others are against us and we begin to shrink. Our wounds inhibit us & cause our energy to leak out. Healing is the antidode and that painful process that is necessary to close these holes. Remember, in order to transform coal into a diamond, great pressure, pain and suffering are absolutely necessary. In this way suffering helps us to learn the needed lessons to grow in intelligence and consciousness. Because unless we suffer, we don't see the need to come out of suffering. Therefore we must be willing to embrace our painful wounds face them, accept them and take full responsibility for them. We need to forgive those who have hurt us and learn the lessons that where contained within that experience. It is important to be aware that all experience is neutral and in order to heal fully we must be willing to let go of all our believes, conditioning, judgements, negative emotions (jealously, greed, envy etc.) and allow our old ego to die. Our physical bodies are full of suppressed pain that keep us from seeing that we are infact already perfectly powerful, beautiful & extraordinary! However, with forgiveness and understanding of the needed lesson, the pain, sorrow, regret fear, anger and blame that we've experienced as a consequence of trauma are transformed into compassion, forgiveness and gratitude...and our energy is restored into wholeness. When we feel whole, our life becomes more creative and joyful, and we become more relaxed, present and content. But for that to happen we need to fix our personal problems first and make correcting our mind pattern your main priority in life. Feel what you feel. If you feel depressed, feel it, look at the physical and mental reasons and then release it. Do not stop until you are successful. You are the only one responsible for everything in your life. A person must be happy within him/ herself. No other being can make you happy if you are not already happy. Our biggest enemies are really our greatest teachers, without them we would not know our fears and hate. That is how you know it and then transmute it. Everything that you'll ever need is already within you. Be aware of it and apply corrective applications. Always move forward, never give up. Consciously remove all victim mentality, abusive thoughts, low self- worth, need for insulation and feelings of lack. Each person on earth must gain control of his/her own minds to find out who and what they truly are within Godmind and teach others to do the same.

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Experience the joy of Being!

Some say that we are not here to be happy. They insist that life was never meant to be easy; reclaiming our spiritual Self is not easy, as we are here to learn, to grow, to evolve, to love, to serve—in order to fully experience the joy of your Being! We need creative play in order to achieve that. It is an opening to our very being and a simple, intrinsic human need that has been the ultimate casualty in the battleground of our neurotic productivity. Western culture sees productivity as the ultimate virtue, and idleness or creative play as weakness or a character defect. As work gobbles up our lives, we fail to relish and live in the moment, and we’ve forgotten the sheer delight of play.


To really savor life, we must indulge in this most intrinsic need. So remember to trust yourself and your feelings. They will tell you what you need to be happy and fulfilled ...not the media! When you live life to its fullest, you are a constantly developing work of art. Start by asking yourself: What is most important to you in your life? What are your deepest values and beliefs? Give yourself time to explore these questions and notice what comes up that touches and inspires you most deeply. Put your entire being behind it and inviting divine guidance to help you with this. Vibrate excitement, happyness & joy!


1. Abandon your comfort zone
2. Immerse yourself in nature
3. Cut the electronic umbilical cord
4. Discover the voluptuous art of painting
5. Get rid of the chains that bind you
6. Positive Thinking leads to success and well-being
7. Bike, bike, bike
8. Life from the Heart
9. Love your work!
10. Eat & drink right

What we are looking for, we already are. If you open yourself up and allow free movement of love in you life, it will happen within you. If you restrict yourself, hold yourself back and move into denial, you will be suppressing the energy that is coming in, and you will create disease. This is going to effect the men, more than the women. The male thought pattern of being logical is past - it is time to try something different. Does that mean that men are going to have to express their "womanhood?" Yes, that's exactly what it means.

Men are going to have to move out of the masculine dominated world role and into a more nurturing role, not only with Self but with everyone else. It will be a tough lesson for men, because of all the out-of-balance role models that they have been exposed to and had to put up with. They need to be more in balance. We have to make the effort. Again, it comes down to intent. A lot of the men on our world are going to be leaving - transitioning. The reason for this is that the majority of men are full of self-imposed isolation. They have shut themselves down. Men need to allow energy to move through their bodies like women do, otherwhise they are not going to make it. They will have brain aneurysms and heart attacks. If you are not in a space of love, then you are in a space of fear.

The return of the Divine Feminine

What it means to take your power back

Start to love yourself first...

... and then you take responsibility for yourself and your whole life. Most of you know already that you are the creator in your life, that you created everything in your life. You choose your parents, you choose your school, you choose your mate, which is everything in your life - maybe not out of the mind but your souls chooses. There is nothing bad outside. Everytime you say 'my family, teacher, government etc. is so bad...you are giving your power away.

Because then you are saying, it was not me who created that, but him, or her and then you give 'the other' your power. And you are making a statement that 'the other' has power over you and did something that you didn't want. But this is not true, it's a little trick from our ego & fear. Just accept every situation in your life the way it is and try to see its perfection, then you can create everything! And you can re-create everything , it doesn't matter what it is. First you have to go into your heart and there you get the honest and truest answer.
Then just decide to say: No, I am absolutely not willing to accept this situation, I want it in another way and then just GO FOR IT & DO IT!

Ask yourself what do you want and then do it... If you are in your heart and really take your power and responsibility back then you can create only good things -even if it initially doesn't look so good- it will be. It's logical: love can only create love = healed, good things. Remember, if love doesn't make you feel comfortable and shows you pain, it helps you to heal and free you of this fear and pain. So first go into your heart - do something good for this world and for yourself, for earth, nature. And then you take your power over yourself and your whole life - imagine! You now have a situation which really brings you out of your way.

Everytime you complain about something, remind yourself of the fact that: 'Hey, I created this situation!' Then say: I want to change my life and take my power. I want to be really responsible for everything that is in my life!' And then you can change everything. Sometimes we think that we are limited, that we have only this right, or that opportunity, or can only work in this job etc. The important, interesting thing is, why have we've chosen it? Why have we've created that, or why has God brought this situation into your life? Your Soul wants to show you something. You can find out what it is by asking your heart, or your angels...but first you have to accept it and say: Yes, I have chosen that.

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One big illusion - and the whole world if full of illusions - is that you have to have an education, but always ask yourself who is telling me that? Who gives me these rule, who wants to have power over me? Your family, the government? Most of the time these people are afraid, and because of these fears they are trying to control everything. They limit to what you are meant to do; to wear, to eat etc. The whole world is full of rules - about DOING things in a certain way. If you follow that, your heart is closing down, because the heart makes the rules, it tells you where to go and what is the best thing to do!

Ask yourself: Do I really want to do it? and if your heart say, NO don't do it because there is nobody and no human who gives you some rules, or who has any power over you. It doesn't exist! There is nobody who is allowed to tell you what to do. It is just God - and he/she won't tell you what to do, because he just loves you. Even your parents, yes they did a great job, they gave you life, but you are not responsible for your parents. Your parents are not allowed to tell you what to do! It is just not true. You are a human being, divine light and love.

You, and nobody else has to decide what you want to do. Do it your way. You can just go and quit your job, you don't have to have an education, etc. You don't have to get up at 6 o'clock, just stay in bed. It is so important that you really do your own thing. Let's take the example of insurances. They are selling you "safety". So what you say if you buy into their fear mongery is: Dear insurance, please take care of my body, my car, my house and if something happens you'll say: Ah, thank God, I have an insurance! But maybe it was the best thing that this car was broken, because it showed you that there is something broken inside yourself. Otherwise it wouldn't have happened to you. Life is just perfect. There is only love, so how can there be something that is not perfect. You say: Oh no, it's not perfect because i am so ugly and it reminds me of my fears & insecurities. But then you just connect with this fear and accept it and love it... until it is turning into pure joy!

What's it all about? Times are changing. The situation here on earth is changing. At the time of Atlantis we took all of our soul into our body; we where just living our life's plan. Although we were connected to our heart, we weren't listening to our heart, we were more in our brain and started abusing our power.
Now in 2010 it is really possible to go into your heart and life out of your heart and its possible to create out of your heart. So don't be afraid of your power, it's understandable -you are becoming like God now, you are getting creative! It's normal to be afraid of learning - but you must try again and again and again until you'll achieved what it is that you truly want. Don't give up! It's really important. How else can you learn it, you can just learn by doing. The child is not stopping to learn: adults try something - then they fail - and then they'll stop. And then they'll never do it again. Enjoy the fear, enjoy the power - embrace it, it's divine. There is nothing else than divinity. God forgives you, so you have to forgive yourself & everyone else for everything. The period of Karma is coming to an end now, because we are going into Oneness, we are going into light. So the bad and the good melting into one. Now it's possible to delete all your Karma, if you like to. If you feel you have something you feel guilty about, than ask your angels to burn your Karma for you, because now it's time to get onto a new level. What a fantastic time we are living in! The dualistic world is over, we are moving into a time where there is no Good & Bad, so there is no use of Karma anymore. Be as a child, enjoy life and play! You can now create your life to be the best life you've ever had - it's very easy! If you want to, you can sleep, or eat, meet your friends and chat, sing, dance the whole day and night...whatever makes your heart really happy! Whatever brings you the most love and shows the most joy in your face? Which is the most beautiful situation that helps you the most? What do you really like doing? Feel it in your heart and then do it right away!

There are no rules - there are no limits. There is nothing that stops you, only yourself. It depends on whether you give it permission, or if you don't. If you take responsibility/ power or not. It's just a decision. Even if you want something in one moment, you can choose a new way in the next. Why not just live an easy life? Why not have a lot of fun in your life-why not? Sure, you can still work hard and feel very guilty about everything, and fight a lot - you are really free to do what you want to do in every part of life. The government has no power over you if you don't allow it, just tune into this energy of Oneness and live in the new earth. If you are around people who are unconscious, i.e. they are not really realizing what they are doing and have bad thoughts all the time, you will not like to be with them - so don't do it. If you have people around you that make you feel sad, what's the sense of that? Everything that you feel most comfortable with - that you really like & love helps you to be in your heart. This can be your favourite colour, crystals, music...just picture this: how do you feel if you listening to your most favourite music, or when you eat your favourite meal? You feel comfortable, you feel safe, you feel good, you get a sense of enjoyment. It's that easy. Imagine you are looking at your favourite picture - a picture of a situation that really touches your heart and if you look at that, you are in your heart. Have a look around your house and garden, if you find anything that you are not sure about having in your space ... throw it out! Buy a new item & make sure you buy your favourite one!

There is no sense to live in surroundings, or with things that you don't like. They just take energy away from you. Do you like your life, I mean do you really love it? Imagine a scenario where people ask you: "What do you do?" and you say... "Nothing". "So what are you doing?" you answer: "I am living. I enjoy life and try to love everything and heal it." And they say: 'What? It's not possible!' .... 'Yeah of course it's possible, everything is possible. If you are in your heart & enjoy everything, life gives you everything you really want, it organizes everything. So, what do you want more? Do you think you can live like this until you are old, even if you are 60, or 70? Yes, of course. Why not. Nobody and nothing from the outside can give you safety, only the heart can. It doesn't matter how old you are, which education you have, what kind of parents you have, which language you speak, in which country you live.

All you need to do is to Say: YES to life.

Credit given to Lena, a Chrystal Child from Switzerland
Artwork by www.annett-bank.co.uk

'True Colours' - portrait painting retreat at Hawkwood College

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Hawkwood College is a residential centre for holistic adult education and personal development.           An integral part of the Hawkwood mission is to bring people together from many streams of social, artistic and spiritual learning and to honour its founding anthroposophical impulse. www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk

If you live in the UK, then you are probably aware of popular TV series like 'How to look good nacked', or 'Faking it'. Today's society seems to be obsessed with self-improvement entertainment programmes, and better still, people are actually willing to expose themselves & come forward to make positive changes in their lives infront of a national audience. This is very impressive to say the least.

 It is my understanding that we are here on this planet to evolve and to release blocked energy - meaning that we have to face our own dark, ugly, inner shadow which plays out physically in the outer world as confusion, resentment, disease, doubt, hypnosis and pain. We have chosen that in order to help us end the 'Duality Integration Game'  to come out of separation and return to Oneness as divine creator beings! This is not normally known and we need to accept first that they are an aspect of us... then look at it objectively for for what it is, before finally releasing the situation and taking control over our lives. For that to happen we need to give up all victim hood, forgive everyone who has ever hurt us and trust ourselves intuitively in order to start loving ourselves & others unconditionally again.

A lot of new age teachings nowadays talk about the importance of using guiding imagery and repetitive affirmations to bring about such a personal transformation. You might have heard of various principles such as creating a 'Vision Board' and writing down an 'Ideal Life Letter' in the 1st person to yourself to help define your goals and visualize positive outcomes that will help manifesting your idea of an empowered life. Painting is one way of achieving that & also an amazing tool to attain a maximum of self-awareness through which you can increase your reality

Day 1
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17:00 - 17:30    Introduction
17:30 - 18:00    Life coaching questionnaire
18:00 - 19:00    dinner
19:00 - 20:00    create a collage/ vision board, using affirmations
20:00 – 21:00   write your ideal life letter "What do you really want?"


Day 2
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9:30  -  11:00 am   photo session in pairs
11:00 – 11:30 am  break
11:30 – 1:00 pm    selection of images/ identifying your colours
1:00   -  2:00pm    lunch
2:00  -  3:30pm     warm up sketches / painting techniques
3:30  -  4:00pm     break
4:00  -  5:00pm     developing composition


Day 3
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9:30  - 11:00 am  start on final portrait
11:00 - 11:30am  break
12:00 - 1:00pm    painting
1:00   - 2:30pm    lunch
2:00  -  3:30pm    finishing touches
3:30  -  4:00pm    exhibition

Beforehand:
- complete an astrology report (astrodienst) and Pamala Oslie's aura colour test @ www.russellrowe.com to evaluate your dominant emotional, physical and mental colour personalities.

- bring magazines, old photographs etc. for vision board collage
and digital camera, props and clothing for photo shot;
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You are a powerful being, beautiful and extraordinary!

It's time we set clear goals for ourselves and our world. We need to establish balance and harmony with our bodies, our lives, with each other & our surroundings in order to build the beauty of our true selves. It begins with improving our world and for that we must learn to improve our conditions, our character, our deeds and to be honest with oneself. Ask for strength, courage, faith, guidance, healing—whatever you need. How much of your will are you going to put behind your request? Just a little or your entire being? You are here to be happy, to learn, to grow, to evolve, to love, to laugh, to serve—and to experience the joy of your limitless Being! ...simply put, when we learn to build our goals and intentions on the positive emotions - we are healing our world!
Here are a few things you can do ...

• Be love 
• Quieten Your Mind     
• Detox your body & mind with lots of time in nature         
• Use steam, sauna, charcoal, clay, raw food, herbs, bark, wheatgrass          
• Create a low stress lifestyle
• Have lots of lush plants to absorb electromagnetic radiation      
• Eat spiritually-blessed clean healthy food/ pH balanced diet          
• Drink lots of springwater    
• Release Emotions     
• Overcome Fear
• stop watching TV
• Heal past trauma
• Eliminate limiting beliefs
• Lead a healthy physical, mental, emotional & spiritual lifestyle

Furthermore, beautiful art is having a big influence on the flowering of human consciousness. Remember, by introducing bright, vibrant, energetic feng shui colours to your home, you'll stimulate creativity and add lot's of positive 'chi' to your life! Additionally, in order to overcome any issues about yourself that are bothering you, you need to show the Universe exactly what you want. You must write it down and bring this statement to life with an inspiring image that illustrates your wish,
before releasing it ...

We need a new vision of an empowered female. We need more vibrant, stimulating, exciting art in this world that makes us feel good - art that celebrates our vital life-force and lights up our lives! Such art should combine power with gentleness and strenght with feminine beauty, as it will remind us of our original fluid, pliant state that is capable of easy sensual movement, expansion & interconnectedness.

Things we will be dealing with in the retreat:

1. how to conquer your internal war
2. learn to make peace with your body
3. create a vision of dynamic wellbeing
4. Receive guidance on artistic compositions
5. an exhibition of work to review your success

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Essentially, this weekend will be an introduction to the power of harmonious colours and forms, reflecting on spiritual awakening and the return of the divine feminine energies. Created in a fresh & fun way, this course will teach you how to balance your life through looking at your aura colours and astrological portrait. From that you will learn how to create an empowering self-portrait that reflects on your true self... guiding you towards self-love, self-acceptance and authentic being.
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Does it work...?
My own artwork is essentially a response to a life time of suffering and personal trauma and has helped me tremendously to see the light inside. My paintings gave me the incentive to re-sculpt my body, which I hated so much until then. I realized upon seeing an actual example of how I wanted to look like, that I can indeed attract this as a definite reality into my life! I now want to inspire others to achieve the same.

To be part of the next 3-day course, get in touch under info@annett-bank.co.uk. You can also check out: www.annett-bank.co.uk

Art for the Bedroom

Feng Shui is the art of creating a home environment that supports the life you wish to live. In feng shui they say: 'You are what you see', so if the images on the wall are lonely single and solitary - that's what you'll attract into your life.

Try changing your artwork so the images you hang are more romantic, paired, coupled & sensual - by your description & feelings - they should reflect what you want your love life to be like, so when you lie in bed and look at those scenes, that's what you'll attract.
Also, contrary to the common believe, it is Golden-Green Yellow, not pink as mostly assumed that is the colour of love. Yellow is the color of the sun and signifies longevity. This is immediatly followed by red, which is the colour of joy - joy transmutes into love. Remember the last person you fell in love with? They did so, because you had so much joy with them...















So here is what you can do to re-create this. Place powerful “energy enhancers" such as uplifting artwork around your home and before you know it, you'll feel better and start exuding the characteristics of a joyous, happy person...

Rounded shapes and the colour orange symbolize yin, the passive female principle and are implied in the curves of the female human body. Orange, is the vibrant blend of red & yellow and lends passion and understanding to you and your partner. Yang is the masculine part and represented as the light, active principle and the colour azure. Yin and Yang evolved from a belief of mutually dependant opposites that cannot live without the other. Whereas the Western perspective assumes separation and unrelatedness, the Chinese see it as evolving and cycling. There is neither right or wrong, but rather there is balance, transformation, interaction, and dependent opposition. Established Figurative Artist Annett E. Bank beautifully illustrates these ideas in affectionate artworks that reflect on this inter-connectedness of two already complete individuals; providing a holistic vision of harmony, unity and oneness between both energies.


It's always a good idea to clear your clutter, sort out your life and become silent and still through meditation and round, leafy plants & flowers in your living area. As a result, your home will be fun and pleasurable to be in- and your vitality enhanced!

• have pictures of love,
• tasteful nudes
• couples in an embrace
• or images of affection

The ideal colour for your bedroom is anything from ivory to mahagony, like blushy skin coulour. Green symbolizes life & love and is considered to be a color of freshness, growth and peace, which makes it ideal for bedrooms. Blue is the colour for wisdom, clarity and knowledge. And finally pink. Pink flowers enhance relationships and create a positive energy for both singles and couples alike.

In this way art helps you to achieve a harmonious flow of nourishing, sensual energy that invites you, lures you in, excites you -
yet calms you down at the same time....

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Unique Wedding Gifts

Consider this: spas, hair salons, fashion designers, bridal shops, etc. have long been a normal part in preparing you for the Big Day of getting married- may it be a straight, or gay wedding.


So why not include striking art into your list of unique, elegant & memorable wedding gifts for the couple's new, contemporary home?


Much of today's art reflect on aspects of ourselves - it depicts what we like, feelings with which we can sympathize with, or concepts that ring true with our intellects. The overwhelming majority of people really like art and would want to give it, or receive it, if they found something really nice that they felt comfortable about buying. People want fabulous, colouful paintings that energizes their living space and reminds them of the idea of passion, not passion itself. So it is really no surprise that this simple lifestyle and home improvement is so important nowadays, when these things are perceived to be elitists and expensive.

However, when it comes to choosing a perfect artistic gift for the bride & groom, people are often at loss of where to start looking and are afraid to set foot inside either a contemporary, or traditional art gallery. Hardly anyone dares to impulse buy from artists they've never met, or whose work they are experiencing for the first time over the internet. They know what they like, but naturally, they prefer to see the artwork in the flesh before they make a decision to buy. In the end, most people opt for modestly priced decorative gifts, or even bargains, instead of buying a beautiful, original work of art that the people they'll give it to will cherish and enjoy forever.

So here is what you can do about it?

First of all, you should buy art because you, or the receiver loves it! If its value grows, that's just a bonus. Buying art is a touchy feely business, so check out any opportunities to go to private views and Artist's Open Houses - it's fun and you never know what you are going to discover. Art needn't be expensive. An exhibition is a great place to lose yourself and browse and enjoy the work without being obliged to buy anything straight away. Before buying a piece of art sleep on it if you can - it should have some sort of longevity and it needs to be personal to you. And finally, if it's meant to be yours, then you feel this spontaneous passion for it and keep thinking about it. That's when you need to get in touch with the artist!

You can view her complete portfolio online at www.annett-bank.co.uk
or contact the artist at: info@annett-bank.co.uk

Art that makes you feel better

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All spiritual teachings demonstrate to us that we need to find our true human potential – to strive to be all that one can be and recognize our own “true beauty” that emanates from within. It was from that notion that I felt inspired to transform myself not only physically, intellectually and in ethical terms, but also in psycho-energetically respect. As a typical woman I sought peace, harmony and cosiness and cared for all things sensual, especially since they were crudely lacking in my life until that point. I used this situation to my advantage and developed an artistic language that aims to ”ennoble” others to get the Creative Spirit’s idea of perfection. In my work I thus hope to inspire people to reflect on the experience of spontaneous joyful, mindful living that makes one feel good. It is my conviction that we need more art in the world that promotes health, positive energy and stability– art that calms you down, yet simultaneously lifts you up - raising your consciousness along the way. My work has all that in mind; it is very intriguing, warm and mature, and designed at the core to enhance one’s energy. Characterised with a great amount of sensitivity, musical rhythm and visual decadence it embraces dynamic movement with stillness.
I firmly believe that any piece of fine art possesses the qualities of its author and by using my own personal standards as an example; I have chosen to produce paintings on the subject of the expressive human being whose strength radiates from the inside out. The figures in my work therefore show a capability for balance, wisdom, purity of mind, tranquillity, control over one’s senses, fitness, goodness, truthfulness, light, poise and equilibrium.

When we are aware in these inner areas - predominantly in the psychic nerve system and the super-conscious nerve system - the cells of our bodies respond and we begin to look more refined too. Also, if a woman is going for perfection, she has to supplement herself with masculinity – meaning absorbing the best qualities that the best of men possess; in the same way as a man who is going on to perfection has to supplement himself with femininity - seeking the best of female qualities. When you manage to bring together these male & female principles into one single, successful artistic composition, the artwork will then be enhanced by a powerful ascending, actinic and contemplative quality.

Conclusively my paintings are about combining these masculine powers with feminine gentleness & male strength with female beauty - conveying a certain attitude that women possess a divine faculty of separating within mankind their good intentions from evil thoughts. In this way the artwork becomes symbolic for purification and heals the surroundings in which they are displayed in.

The artist Annett E. Bank works and lives in Brighton, UK where she can be contacted at info@annett-bank.co.uk, or 0044-01273205251. She currently completed 2 successful solo shows and can be seen again at the Affordable Art Fair in London later this year. All her current works and accomplishments
can be viewed at her website: www.annett-bank.co.uk