GUILT, ANGER, FEAR, JEALOUSY and other “negative” emotions are not just some random annoyance we need to get rid of. They are indeed very valuable because they show us our own as well as other peoples boundaries. They also show us that we need to take responsibility: We can either choose to respect and accept these boundaries from now on or we need to create more space for ourselves so we will not have to transgress these boundaries anymore. The choice is ours to make. We should just never ignore, suppress or otherwise disrespect our own and/or others feelings for it will only result in more undesirable experiences for all involved.

These last three months have been more than challenging for me in all aspects of life. I have been going through endless cycles of  releasing pain, anger, fear, guilt and other emotions we usually classify as negative. There was no way around it and I’m still not done. But today is the day that I want to celebrate my freedom.

I want to celebrate  the freedom to accept and honor my own feelings and boundaries. I want to celebrate the freedom to communicate these emotions so they can be resolved. Through keeping them hidden from ourselves and others we only make them grow and grow and grow until they erupt which usually ends in serious damage. And I want to celebrate the existence of my boundaries because they show me, just like a riverbed does for a river, which is the right direction to flow and which isn’t.

So if you  have also been going through experiences like this lately, celebrate with me. Yes, celebrate, because these emotions are really just helping you to respect yourself and others and in the end will empower you to live the life you came here to live on our beautiful Mother Earth.

Blessings to y’all

with much love and gratitude

Yamile Yemoonyah

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I know, I know, you must be sick and  tired of hearing about my snail and slug obsession all the time

But I just can’t help it. These little beings are really fascinating to me. Since Snail Spirit has become my teacher and guide some years ago it just keeps crawling in front of my camera and it shows me where to find it’s shells so I can make beautiful jewelry. But instead of a new snail story, I will just let you enjoy the image above and then revisit the posts I already wrote about my favorite creature on earth:

-the first post about Snail Spirit contains a really beautiful photo I took of a snail shell which seems to emanate light from inside the shell.

- number two is a photo series dedicated to slugs and snails which used to grace the slide show on the Kabai33 front page.

-and  the third post shows the Snail Spirit Earrings I created from snail shells I found in nature and gives you three lessons I learned from Snail Spirit.

Enjoy!

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Q’Orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher (born February 11, 1990) is an American actress and singer, of Indigenous Quechua and Swiss heritage. She has never pumped a gallon of gas in her entire life and drives a Honda FCX, a fuel cell vehicle. She creates bags from recycled materials as well as her own clothes.

But her main cause is her fight for indigenous rights in Peru.  At the moment her non-profit organization Youth4Truth is raising money to supply the indigenous peoples in the Amazon who try to protect their lands from oil drilling, mining and logging companies, with cameras to document their cause. Just two weeks ago they were met by a  violent response of the Peruvian army who started shooting at the protesters, including men, women and children. 25 people died. To make sure this does not happen again, the rest of the world needs to be aware of what is going on and cameras will certainly help.

She even dedicated her Young Hollywood Award to the protesters and their leader Alberto Pizango and then flew to Peru to see what was going on with her own eyes.

A few years ago she had already once been to Peru and was shocked to find that oil companies where dumping their waist in the local rivers which is also the only water supply the indigenous people in the area have.

Q’Orianka uses every opportunity to speak up for the rights of indigenous peoples. Here you see her at the International Forum on Globalization where she highlights the importance of indigenous issues to all humanity:

Please support Q’Orianka’s YouthforTruth organization by donating here! Also, follow her on Twitter for more updates.

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photo by William Kallay

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The Photo:

Red Flower Room is a photo I took of a flower on my parents’ Christmas dinner table. It was a quick  shot and there was  no real planning involved. It turned out beautifully anyway. And so I learned again that I am on my best if I do things intuitively.

Intuition:

Intuition is usually associated with the sixth chakra and the color purple and this is absolutely true. However, if your lower chakras and especially your root chakra is out of whack, your upper chakras will never be able to function properly, no matter what.

The Root Chakra:

The root chakra is all about grounding and it’s color is red. Problems with this chakra include past life traumas, disconnected ancestry lineages (either physical, psychological or spiritual), negative clan karma or ancestors that died but are stuck on this here as earth-bound spirits who need help to cross over into the next realm. These problems can manifest themselves in a myriad of forms from bodily pains to psychologically unbalanced behavior and especially in all kinds of trust issues.

Red Flower Room Meditation:

To heal your root chakra  you can simply imagine yourself sitting inside a red flower. It is sun down and you can feel the flower getting ready to close it’s petals around you. Make yourself comfortable in this red glowing, soft and comfy place and listen closely. Do you hear it? A faint sound emanates from all around you. Getting curious, you follow the sound and press your ear against the velvety petal walls from where it seems to come. Now you can hear it more closely and you recognize what it is: It’s the water that comes from down below the earth and is sucked up through the roots and then delivered to all parts of the flower to nourish it with minerals and other substances it needs to thrive and survive. You smile as you lay down again and fall asleep knowing that the roots of this flower make it possible for you to be lying in such a beautiful Red Flower Room.

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About a month ago I finally created a Fan Page for Kabai33 on Facebook (if you aren’t a fan yet, head on over and check it out!). During the process I learned some things I would like to share, as I know that some of you will find this information useful.

1. Create a Fan Page:

First things first.  If you don’t have a fan page yet, go and create one now! Fan pages are a great way to promote your Creative web Biz.

2. Set Your Username:

Facebook finally implemented urls based on usernames. Most of you will have set the url for their private profiles already, but you might not have done it  for your fan- or business page yet.  Both can be set here. Please note that you need to have 100 fans before you can get your url. If you don’t have that many fans yet, proceed to step three first.

3. Page Badge :

A simple Facebook badge can be found on your page admin screen at the end of the right sidebar . Click the badge link and you will get a snippet of code to copy and paste. You can see an example in the sidebar of my Facebook profile. A second badge and guidelines on how to and how not to promote your fan page can be found here.

4. FanBox:

A more interactive way to promote your page is the new Fan Box which can look as simple as the one you can see in the sidebar of my blog (under ‘join me’) but it can also include your latest updates (pictures, videos and all) and also display your fans (see below). To get one go to your page admin screen and find the link in your right sidebar under ‘promote your page’.

5. Facebook Marketing Solutions:

Facebook Marketing Solutions is fan page run by Facebook employees that ‘helps (brand) marketers share with users and create movements on Facebook’ .  They provide news and info on how to market your brand on Facebook. Become a fan to get updates!

6. NetworkedBlogs:

NetworkedBlogs is a very useful application on Facebook. It will import your blog feed to your private profile as well as to your fan page  and into the news streams of your friends and fans. In has it’s own tab which shows your latest blog posts and will let people follow your blog right inside Facebook. See it in action on the Kabai33 Fan Page.

7. Twitter for Pages:

Another app I use is ‘Twitter for Pages‘ by Involver. It adds a tab to my page which displays my last 20 tweets. However, it does not update your status (unless you pay), so if you want to do that you should also get the official Twitter app which will do just that.

8. Live Stream Box:

During the 2009 US Presidential Inauguration, Facebook tested a new feature that let people share Facebook status updates and comments side by side with real-time streaming video on CNN’s website. Now this feature is made public. The  Facebook Live Stream Box is easy to install and takes just a minute to set up. You can include a Live Stream Box anywhere on the Web, or within your Facebook Page, or a Facebook application.

Both Justin.tv and UStream.tv have developed apps to help you do this. You will have to apply to use the one by UStream but Live (byJustin.tv) is ready and as easy to use as any other Facebook app. Check it out!

9. Find more apps for your page:

To find more apps that work on fan pages (not all do) go to the application directory,  click on ‘all apps’  and then on ‘pages’.

10. Facebook Ads:

Promote your page with Facebook ads. To do so you only need to go to your page admin screen and click the green  ‘promote your page’ button in the upper right hand corner. This will take take you to a screen where you can input a title, body text and an optional image (default is your page profile pic).  For more info go to the Facebook Ads Help Ceter.

11. Don’t forget to become a fan of Kabai33 on Facebook

This post is part of the Kabai33 Creative Web Biz Series by Yamile Yemoonyah.

Nature Spirits are all around us but most people are not able to see them. We do however all benefit from the gifts they brought when incarnating here on  Mother Earth. They  inhabit the bodies that produce our oxygen and medicine (trees and plants) and they also inhabit the bodies that we refer to as animals but who are really our brothers and sisters.

All of them have been on their own journeys through the universe and it’s innumerable dimensions just like we have. And therefore they have a lot of stories to tell and great amounts of wisdom to share. We just need to listen more closely and they will teach us lessons we could never have learned on our own.

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Today  I am happy to announce the official launch of my Kabai33 Nature Spirits Jewelry Collection!

All the pieces you see here (and more) are now available in my Handmade Jewelry Store at the Kabai33 blog.

They are all made of organic materials like wood and snail shells that I found in nature. I painted them with eco friendly colors and a protective varnish.

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A few years ago I was home alone and suddenly I felt like I was directly connected to my Embera ancestors (an indigenous people from Colombia) and I could feel all the suffering and struggle they had encountered throughout the ages. which made me very sad.

But after a while I also realized their strength and accomplishments: They never gave up to fight for the right to be who they are and to follow their own way of life without giving in to the global mainstream culture.

Indigenous cultures from around the world are the keepers of  knowledge that is of importance to all of  humankind: how to live in balance with nature, how to heal in a holistic way and how to communicate with the spirit world.

So here I want to show you 10 pictures of ten people belonging to ten indigenous tribes from around the world. Please take a moment to honor these peoples who have preserved so much knowledge for all of us.

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Papuan man from Papua New Guinea (photo by Eric Lafforgue)

Karo bride from Ethiopia (photo by Helga)

Embera woman from Colombia (photo by Anselmo Mantovani)

Kuna Women from Panama (photo by Rita Willaert)

Sami people from Finland (photo by Helga)

Koori Men from Australia (photo by Wayne Quilliam)

Nuba man from Sudan (photo by Rita Willaert)

Massai women from Tanzania (photo by Mayalika)

Ainu woman from Japan (photo by Todd Stradford)

Samburu Warrior from Kenia (photo by Helga)

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Tree Spirits are known among all cultures and are often described as the beings that keep heaven and earth apart. The World Tree has it’s roots in the earth and it’s crown resides in heaven.Therefore they are natural interdimensional messengers and have some lessons to teach:

HONOR YOUR ANCESTORS: Picture yourself as a tree and you will see that your ancestors are your roots. They have gifted you with the talents they developed over generations and generations. These talents are your tools, with them you are perfectly equipped to do what you came to do here on this beautiful planet.

FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS: Always follow your dreams and reach for the stars in heaven. Only then your soul will be able to reach higher dimensions as your dreams are really the road map to your life.

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THE DETAILS:

• Orange Tree Spirit Ring is made from a ’slice’ of a tree branch that I found in nature.

• It was painted with eco-friendly colors and  a coat of protective varnish.

• diameter: 3,5 – 4 cm / 1.37 – 1.57 inches

• one size fits all (adjustable ring)

• Also available in YELLOW, PINK, BLUE and GREEN

• Orange Tree Spirit Ring is part of the Kabai33 Nature Spirits Jewelry Collection.

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€20 / free shipping

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Flowers  are on earth what the stars are in heaven.

People of all cultures around the world have always known that flowers attract beneficial spirits and shamans therefore often use them in rituals and ceremonies.

Flower spirits, who often show themselves in the forms of elves and  fairies  also have the ability to teach and assist humans in the healing arts and deserve much respect for this!

To surround yourself with flowers will bring happiness and healing into your life.

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THE DETAILS:

• Green Flower Spirit Bangle is  made od solid wood and was  painted with eco-friendly colors and a coat of protective varnish.

• decorated with 8 hand painted flowers

• diameter: 6 cm / 2.36 inch

• Also available in BLUE, ORANGE, YELLOW and PINK

• Green Flower Spirit Bangle is part of the Kabai33 Nature Spirits Jewelry Collection.

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€18 / free shipping

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Snail has been one of my spirit guides for a few years now and I have learned lots from it’s wisdom. So now I am happy to bring some of that snail medicine to you:

TRANSCENDING POLARITY:  Snail is male and female at the same time. It can produce sperm and eggs and is therefore not bound to polarity. Snail embodies the yin/yang energy in animal form.

THE  GIFT OF SENSITIVITY:  Snail is a being of very high sensitivity. Therefore it easily receives messages from the spirit world and functions as a messenger between the worlds. Embrace your sensitivity and you too can help bridge the boundaries of polarity.

HOME IS WHERE YOUR HEART IS:  Snail does not have a house to return to at night. Snail carries it on it’s back wherever it goes. To access the house it just has to retreat within. We can do the same. To retreat within means entering the holy temple of your heart which also is your true home.

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THE DETAILS:

• The Yellow Snail Spirit Earrings are made from REAL SNAIL SHELLS that I found in nature (already empty of course).

• They were painted with eco-friendly colors and  a coat of protective varnish.

• diameter: 2-2.5 cm / 0.78-0.98 inch

• Also available in BLUE, PINK, PURPLE and GREEN

• The Yellow Snail Spirit Earrings are part of the Kabai33 Nature Spirits Jewelry Collection.

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€22 / free shipping

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