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- Waking up this morning, I smile.
24 brand new hours are before me.
I vow to live fully in each moment
and look at all beings with eyes of compassion.
Ah, gosh, good morning.
This quote helps me be mindful throughout my day,
and one of the first things I do is look in this mirror
to remind myself that I'm still here, and I still got it,
still got it. (laughs)
my philosophy for skin is that good skin starts from within,
so I like to start my day with this sparking water, 9.5,
really keeps me hydrated.
This is my favorite glass to drink out of.
It's actually a wine glass,
but I'm more of a water girl,
and it's pretty funny because
it's like while I'm drinking it,
I'm actually flicking people off.
I love you though, so it's okay.
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These are my babies.
We have Buddha, Mijon, he's like the model.
Buddha is like the chill cat,
and Grammy is somewhere around here.
She's my baby, she's the girl, this is Grammy.
I love that they purr.
I've heard that purring is actually like healing,
a healing vibration.
All three of my cats were from fosters that I've had,
and I just fell in love with them,
so I was like I have to keep a few of them. (laughs)
(kettle whistling) Okay my tea is ready, yes it is.
I like to start my day with a nice hot cup of tea.
I like to collect mugs.
Let's see, I think I'm gonna go with cup of happy
because I wanna be happy today.
I also collect teas, gonna go with this Stress Relief,
Yogi's my favorite tea because of the little sayings
that they have on, compassion will make you beautiful,
that's very sweet.
I try to stick to teas more than coffee
or anything that has a lot of caffeine in it,
especially when I'm singing.
Throat Coat is my favorite tea for when I'm singing.
My Menuka honey, I can't have my tea without it.
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Okay, this is my studio, and these are my instruments.
It took me a while to understand
that one of my purposes as an artist
is to help aid people in the healing process,
and so I've just been studying how sound
can be a form of a healing,
and I'm incorporating these healing instruments
into the music so that I can really put
that intention into my music to heal.
This is one of my favorites,
this is a crystal singing bowl in the key of C,
which helps balance the root chakra, okay,
you can only play this if you have a pure heart,
so let's see if my heart is pure today.
(bowl hissing)
It's not pure today, hora.
(bowl humming)
Yeah, you feel that.
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A few months ago, I started doing readings on myself
and others, ooh, okay, I've never gotten this card before.
I don't know the cards by heart yet.
I'm still in training.
This book, Tarot Made Easy, will help me understand
why I got this card for the month of March.
My question had to do with love (laughs)
like they usually do every month.
Okay, "You wish things weren't so hard
"and/or you want to become less emotional or reactive."
Wow, that's very true.
"And to be able to cut off or throw off
"anyone and anything that could elicit
"a negative emotional response.
"You will experience a lot of vacillation
"in matters of the heart and will be looking
"for the right approach or the right mate,
"or you will have so many things on your mind
"that love will be the furthest thing from it."
Wow, okay, alright, I hear you, I hear you.
Really it's just like guidance for the month.
I have five decks, I have a tarot deck,
a goddess deck, an animal deck, an angel deck,
and affirmations that I do daily.
I sort of just speak my questions directly into the deck
as I'm shuffling them.
I just sort of put that energy into the deck.
Well that reading was pretty intense.
I have a lot to think about,
but right now I'm gonna wake up Nami, I let her sleep in,
we're gonna get her day started.
Thank you, Elle, so much for waking up with me today.
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