Meaningful Monday February 25

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Are you nursing a Grudge or Two?

As you prepare for spring, you may be thinking about throwing away old things, cleansing your home or cleansing your body by detoxing.  These are all things to consider and execute, however, it may be a good time to cleanse emotions too.  If you are holding on to anger or old pains, you may want to ask yourself if you are nursing a grudge or two.  The following is an excerpt from my book, Meaningful Monday’s (pp. 92-93):
Nursing requires commitment, self-sacrifice, constant concern and attention.  When we are caring for someone we worry, even when there is no need to.  When we have a grudge, it’s like an illness, an irritation, a pain, a sore, or an open wound that has not healed.  Nursing a grudge is like trying to heal a cancerous sore with a band-aid.  It may be out of our sight, but it will not get better unless we address the sore with proper medication, rest and recuperation.
A grudge is like a festering sore, if left alone it will just continue to get worse.  We may have to nurse our grudge by performing surgery.  Surgery of a grudge is:

  1. Accepting that you are ill.
  2. Realize that you are suffering.
  3. Knowing that it may hurt before it heals.
  4. Believing that you owe it to yourself to feel better.
  5. Allowing time, treatment and God/Goddess to do its job.
  6. Knowing that it is human to feel pain.
  7. Throwing away the old bandages and forgiving yourself for taking so long to seek healing.
  8. Setting you free to heal and feel well again.
  9. Knowing that if this happens again, you will be better experienced and equipped to allow healing to come easier and quicker.

Here is a remedy that will balance emotions, end nervous exhaustion and improve sleeping habits:
4 drops of lavender oil
2 drops of bergamot oil
2 drops of lemon oil
Burn this in an aromatherapy lamp/oil burner.

Have a forgiving Meaningful Monday!

Proverbial Inspiration

“Be careful of shooting arrows, you might shoot your best friend or yourself.”

MERINDELOGUN 1:2

“He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.”

PSALMS 7:15

Cleansing Bath
Take a cup of water, hold it up to the sky and pray for the blessings from heaven, then pour some in your cupped hand.  Pass it over your head from front to back while you bless your head and ask for the divine energy of the universe to empower you.

Please visit my online store, Shop Yeyefini, to purchase my DVD, Making Baths and Spiritual Washes with Herbs.  This is a comprehensive DVD that will assist and guide you in the proper combination and use of herbs.  You can also purchase a copy of Meaningful Mondays and my first book, Household Guide to Yoruba Spiritual Wellness TODAY!

Let me know how I might assist you in learning about the powerful tools you can utilize on your journey to connect to Spirit.   Please contact me (1-888-419-5848) for your personal consultation/reading or to inquire about the many ministerial services I offer.  To sign up for one of my available classes, please see, upcoming events and purchase and enjoy a number of my healing products and powerful DVD’s at Shop Yeyefini,  Please also remember to join my mailing list so that you can get information about ongoing specials, classes, events, and new products.

Preparation for the Fall Equinox Fast 2012

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There are a number of things you will need to consider, purchase, and prepare yourself for the Fall Equinox Fast.
1) Check with your health practitioner or Doctor to see if you have any chronic illnesses before going on a 5 day fast.
2) Prepare yourself mentally by clearing up any extra stressful or demanding work during this time.
3) Clean your house of any major clutter. This will bring a calming environment during the fast. (more…)

Teaching Tuesday

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Thank you for joining me on my Teaching Tuesday Blog.

 Over the past 16 years Though the Self Empowerment Workshop(SEW) I have been successful in empowering many people and profoundly changing their lives . Here is a a testimonial from one of the graduates of this process. I was given permission to use it as a tool to  encourage you also to go on this wonderful journey know as SELF EMPOWERMENT WORKSHOP….Beginning June 15 th 2012 for 7 days!!!!!!!

Classes for this amazing event will be available on skype or in person beginin Jan 28th…Please post here on my blog for further information

“The  Self Empowerment Workshop (SEW),  created and developed by Iyalode Yeyefini Efunbolade, Director of the International Institude of African Studies and Knowledge (IIASK), and President of Yeyefini.com/Balanced Living has had a profound impact on my life.

Moveover, in examining its benefits after eleven years, I have discovered the advantages of going through thhis process prior too initiation to the Yoruba Priesthood. Prior to my going through SEW in the year 2000, my life felt stagnate and incomplete. Although it had been twenty years since my initiation to the Yoruba Priesthood, I did not feel that I was fulfillling my purpose spiritually. I was therefore ready to begin the journey to  me  with the SEW Process.

There was sixteen weeks of class and excercises in preparation to the six day ritual.  During the six days, there were activities that put me in touch with the spirit of my ancestors and that enabled me to go within and examine my dual self (inner/outward self).  The process forced me to pass the intellectual mind to spirit and discover, not only the  real  me but old emotional wounds that needed healing; wounds such as feelings of abandonment, internalization of negative challenges and lack of confidence in self. I was also compelled to acknowledge the shadow, dark hidden side of myself.  In accepting the truth of my self-discovery, I was able to begin to cleanse the wounds with self-forgiveness and heal them with unconditional self-love.

It has been seven years since I went through Rites of Passage.  In retrospect, I find the (SEW) process to be an invaluable precursor to the priesthood initiation for three reasons. Firstly, SEW Forces one to trust  spirit  and allow oneself to risk and experience the mysterious abyss. For only then can the Spirit of God work through you.  Secondly, the process allows one to get in touch with ancestral pain and heal their energy. They (ancestors) therefore become a valuable aid in the praying and healing of others.  Finally, the third benefit of the this process, prior to initiation, is that the process enables one to discover and empower one’s  sacred  place with, where one meets and feels connected to God on a regular basis and at any time. This ensures a means to refresh spiritual power. Although, the SEW process represents to me a major life changing process, it is only a seed for self-empowerment.  With the continual care and nurturing of ritual, discipline, and self-love is armed to deal with challenges of life.”
Ashira Toshiwe, SEW Student