In 1995, while living in London, I joined a healing circle and a psychic development circle. I learned how to meditate, give hands-on and long distance healing and receive messages from the spirit world. The next few years I was into personal development and crystal healing and balanced my life between jobbing and partying (as you do in your early twenties!) and my spiritual studies. I knew all of this worked but not how.
After a seven year stay in England I moved back to my native Germany and after a few years started working in tourism, as a children's entertainer, which was very much fulfilling my desire to travel but 6-7 days working weeks and long hours were not very supportive of my spiritual development. My love for crystals stayed and I practiced meditation when I found the time and energy to do it without falling asleep.
In an attempt to settle down I moved to France in 2007 to work in a large theme park. But stress due to the nature of the job, unsociable working hours, physical work often including being all day on your feet outside no matter what the meteorological conditions were taking their toll on me, I developed a block of creativity and spirituality and found myself unable to paint and worse, to meditate and eventually became severely depressed.
While I had suffered from bouts of depression before, this was the worst one I had, since I could not even meditate to make me feel better. I was suicidal and could not find the right medication to help me, nor could I get any help and support in form of therapy in the French health system, which I had not to pay out of my pocket, which was pretty empty being on minimum pay and losing part of my wages due to being on sick leave for most of the summer of 2009.
While visiting my family in Germany my best friend gave me a copy of a book that has changed a lot of people's lives, including mine - The Secret. I learnt that life was not happening to me, but that I was the creator and could change it. It was the first time I came into contact with the law of attraction, or at least heard it being named. And suddenly I understood how crystals and healing work and all those books I read made more sense to me - it was not someones philosophy of life but a universal law! I also quickly understood that The Secret was just an introduction, and I started studying more.
I read books by Abraham Hicks, Napoleon Hill, John Assaraf, James Allen, Joe Vitale, Charles F Haanel and many more, and listened to countless teleseminars with speaker like Gregg Braden, Jo Dunning, Lisa Nichols, Dr. Bradley Nelson and many many more!
I am still studying and developing myself, and I got the guidance to share my journey, so this is how this blog was born.
I left my job in the theme park, worked for nearly a year on a river cruise in the south of France where I 'm currently living until the wind changes and take off somewhere else, just like Mary Poppins!
Love, light and joy,
Anya
