Hi! I’m a Vancouver-based holistic healer who loves thinking about the world around me through the lens of the chakras and then writing about these thoughts.
Contact me, Nina Shoroplova by email with ideas and questions about this site.
I write about my energetic healing modality – Whole Health on Purpose – here.
Here’s an inspiring quote from Michelangelo, 16th Century painter and sculptor:
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
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This is similar to Marianne Williamson’s very famous quote:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
? Marianne Williamson, Return to Love
Do you network? Are you a networker? Personally, I find that networking is the most tried and true method of reaching out to people so they learn to know and trust you. I’ve been a member of BNI Spirit for the last 18 months and I can understand why BNI has become the number one business networking organization in the world.
Next week, I become our chapter’s vice president. That means I’ll have more statistics to enter online so our visitors and potential members will understand that we’re only small in size – we’re huge in our business referral values and in our spirit. Come and enjoy the difference at BNI Spirit.
The Hellman’s Real Food Movement site has a great search engine to find local food, wherever you live in Canada. I started looking at this site because I watched the video linked to the word Hellmans here: Hellmanns. Click on it to view the video.
I did a search for Vancouver and retrieved this list:
Donalds Market
2400 block East Hastings
Naniamo and Hastings street
Vancouver, BC
East End Food Co-op
1034 Commercial Drive
Commercial Drive & Napier Street
Vancouver, BC
t: (604) 254-5044
w: east-end-food.coopeast-end-food.coop
Kitsilano Farms (Community Shared Agriculture)
P.O. Box 46897
Vancouver, BC
t: (778) 232-1458
w: kitsilanofarms.comkitsilanofarms.com
Organic Acres
Granville Island
Vancouver, BC
UBC Farm at the University of British Columbia (Community Shared Agriculture)
6182 South Campus Road
Vancouver, BC
t: (604) 822-5092
w: www.landfood.ubc.ca/ubcfarm/csa.phpwww.landfood.ubc.ca/ubcfarm/csa.php
West End Farmer’s Market
1100 Block of Comox Street across from Nelson Park at Mole Hill
Comox St & Thurlow St
Vancouver, BC
t: (604) 879-3276
w: www.eatlocal.org
e: info@eatlocal.org
I just wonder how real is Hellmann’s mayonnaise?
Have you ever passed by Roedde House at 1415 Barclay Street in Vancouver’s West End. Or perhaps even taken one of their Sunday afternoon tours?
On Sunday February 26 between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., you will have the opportunity to join a small group of visitors who will have tea, a tour, and an Afternoon of Parlour Entertainment, as per the turn of the century. I don’t mean the turn of the 20th Century into the 21st; I mean the turn of the 19th Century into the 20th. Roedde House was built in 1892 by the Roedde family from Germany and they lived in it until 1927; Nina Shoroplova’s and Jill Knight’s program covers music that would have been played as parlour entertainment during those years.
Here is one such piece sung by Nina Shoroplova accompanied by Jill Knight: “Vilia”.
If you’re interested in attending this concert, contact Roedde House:
As I say in my Whole Health on Purpose website, I’ve just finished reading a lovely book by Raymond Moody called Glimpses of Eternity (© 2010 by Raymond Moody R., MD, PhD and Paul Perry; published by Guideposts).
In the last chapter, Moody lists all our senses and this is a list I want to capture.
First in the 3rd Century BC, Aristotle (according to Moody) listed our five basic senses:
Science has then expanded our touch sensation into
and added
Dr. Moody then adds our supernatural senses
To this list of extra-sensory perceptions, I would add
What a fabulous list of senses!
I can personally attest to having had a clairolfactory experience, when I smelled the scent of roses after having a healing session. When I learned that the only rose in the room was the artificial one on a shelf, I was certain that rose oil had been spilled in the room. It hadn’t!
Nina
Everything’s new again, including you and me. Happy New Year in 2012. May you receive all you expect for yourself.
As I look forward to the year ahead, I am also appreciating my own growth in 2011, especially through the new work I am doing as a holistic healer. This past year has been very exciting.
My many clients have been very special to me, because they have invited me/allowed me to know who they are at soul level, entrusting me to carry out an Initial Soul Profile and Clearing or a space clearing or a relationship reading and clearing on their behalf. I have built my website – Whole Health on Purpose – to display the many readings I now offer and I’m especially thrilled with the beautiful testimonials I have received.
Here is a set of affirmations that will benefit each of us as we move into 2012.
Dear Divine Source, All That Is,
Help me to align with Divine Love by knowing and loving myself as a unique expression of Divine Spirit, experiencing the challenges of life on Earth in a physical body. Help me to accept the challenges I face, whether in my relationship with myself and others, my work or career situations, or my ability to achieve my goals, by appreciating that these are challenges I set myself even before I incarnated into this lifetime; they are also the opportunities through which I can grow.
Help me to align with Divine Light, by wondering about the meaning of life and by seeing the Light in others. Help me to utilize my intuition and my faith in my own Higher Self while making decisions that cannot be made only through logic and rational thinking.
Help me to align with Divine Truth by knowing that each of us can stand in our own unique Truth and that Divine Source accepts all perspectives, all approaches, and all choices.
Help me to align with Divine Abundance by always seeing the glass half full and by seeing the opportunity that each situation presents. Help me to see and know the gift of the present moment. Help me to know and engage with the abundance of love, joy, and peace that is available to each of us at any time that we choose to be aware of it. Help me to be aware of my abundant gifts that are mine to share with others to increase the abundance that is everywhere.
Help me to align with Divine Power so that I know I have free will at all times to make choices that align me fully with my highest path and purpose. Help me to know that, if I do not like the consequences I am living through, I am a free agent to make new choices that will reap the consequences I desire.
I wish you all you wish for yourself in 2012. May Divine Source shower you with love, light, truth, abundance, and power, and may you grow into the exquisiteness of who you came here to be. Here’s to an increasing awareness of love, light, laughter, and learning in your life in 2012.
Nina
Negativity is not a presence of something bad; negativity is an absence of love. It’s an absence of the positivity of love. Just as darkness is the absence of the electromagnetic energy of the visible radiation of light, so negativity is the absence of the positive magnetic energy of love. Fill a void of negativity with love and there will be no more room for negative feelings and thoughts.
Inspired by Rhonda Byrne’s The Power.
Nina
Even though I haven’t blogged for ages (my daughter and son-in-law are expecting twins and they’re moving – need I say more?), I just couldn’t miss this opportunity to join in the 11-11-11-11-11 excitement.
Have a wonderful, peace-filled day, this Remembrance Day, and be sure to see the Divine in every person, every animal, every plant, and every flower around you, and to connect with the continuity of Divine Love and Healing that is available to all of us.
Nina
Imagination, insight, intuition, and inspiration all come from Divine intelligence, which is evidence of our spiritual connection to Source through our third eye chakra. Did you notice that all these gifts start with either im or in? 
And even our gut instinct is intuition coming into our physicality through our solar plexus chakra, just above the waist. Gut instinct is a knowing that comes from deep inside ourselves.
The ego, on the other hand, the source of our human decision-making abilities, uses feedback mechanisms from the body’s information sources – hunger, thirst, greed, excess, hot, cold, competition.
Where Divine energy can unite us into inclusivity, the ego works on separation and exclusivity.
Invite imagination, insight, intuition, and inspiration into your life and just watch as your horizons expand and your world becomes more spacious.
Nina
The rest of Canada often refers to British Columbia as the home of the fruits and nuts, the laid-back West Coasters. So, it came as no surprise this week when a new store moved into the ‘hood, here in Vancouver’s West End – Ayoub’s Dried Fruits & Nuts store. I dropped to see what was cooking on Friday – nuts tumbling in the drying oven – and what was on offer – every kind of nut and seed and dried fruit. A great selection.
I bought 400 grams of mixed fruits and nuts and am enjoying sampling them. Mmhmm!