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Anointing Oil: To Quiet a Racing Mind

✨ For when your thoughts race in circles and spend all your energy before you even have time to take action on any of those thoughts.

🌿 1 part California poppy, Eschscholzia californica. To sooth the mind.

🌿 1 part Chamomile blossoms, Matricaria chamomilla To relax the mind.

🌿 2 parts Lemon Balm, Melissa officinalis. To bring sweet thoughts.

🌿 2 parts Passion flower, Passiflora incarnata. To quiet a racing mind.

🌿 1 part Rose petals, Rosa canina. To bring familiar comfort.

🌿 0.5 part Rosemary, Salvia rosmarinus. To target the mind and memories.

🌿 1 part Yarrow, Achillea millefolium. To staunch the flow of thoughts.

🌿 Apricot kernel oil

✨ Steep the (dried) herbs in enough apricot kernel oil to cover the plant material by an inch or so for 4-6 weeks, then strain out the plant material, and you have a shelf-stable anointing oil for candles or your body (external use only.) Apricot kernel oil will go rancid in about a year, so only make as much as you’ll use up! You can further preserve your oil with vitamin e or other skin-safe preservative.

✨ Alternatively, you can make a magical powder from the herbs to use in spells that way, if you’re not into oils.

✨ When I use an anointing oil on my body, I place a drop on my forehead, heart, stomach, hands and feet. ✨ May this bring you peace of mind and some quiet ✨

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Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

— Alice Walker, Living by the Word

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Getting Multi Hours

Lets say you’re an online independent provider. You currently do 6 appointments a week at $300/hr for $1800/wk. You make lots of money but you’re starting to get burnt out. Your friend, Michelle, does 3 appointments a week at $250/hr for $1700/wk. She’s charges less than you, but she’s also working a lot less than you do while making almost the same amount. How? Extended appointments.

For most, extended appointments are things providers appreciate when it happens, but most don’t know how to market themselves in order to get more extended appointments.

1. Your image

You have to have photos that show you’re capable of being taken out. Lingerie photos are great and all, but do you have any photos in day dresses? In evening wear? How can someone take you to a restaurant if he’s afraid you might show up in 8 inch clear heels, a 7 inch miniskirt and a bralette? Especially if you’re young, you have to show that you can dress up and look for the part.

2. Your words

Does your entire website text talk about sex? Whether direct or indirectly, tweets and blogs and websites that focus on how sultry and sexy you are isn’t going to inspire a guy to want to hang out with you longer than it takes him to bust a nut. If you have passions, whatever they may be, fold them into your website. Tweet about them. Let your clients know that there’s more to you than La Perla and Chanel. Don’t go political, but in general activism is a great way to show you’re more than just a warm body. If you want men to see you as more than sex, you have to show it.

3. During the sessions

Many clients may book a 1 hour session, with the intent of booking longer in the future if things go well. As well as being a vixen in the bed, you have to appeal to these men’s minds. This is the perfect time to convert a client from a one hour guy into an extended appointment man. Offer up some wine and conversation, get to know him and figure out what he likes. I once had a client who was a runner and spent forever always talking about it. I got him a $20 Milestonepod to track his pace and he was so excited about it that he asked me to go grab lunch and what was supposed to be a 90 minute session turned into a 3 hour session. And from then on all our dates included food or events and were at least 2 hours. All it cost me was listening and $20 of effort.

4. Get Creative

If you have clients that are afraid of being seen in public with you, find a way to spend more time together. A client of two years had a standing 3 hour biweekly date where we watched silent films for most of the session, laugh talk and order room service. If a client can’t do certain things, figure out a way around them, figure out what it would take to get him to spend more time with you.

Takecare,

From Mari With Love.