ISSUE 2
April/May 2016
Check Your Health With BIO-SCAN Expert & JUICING
SIX MONTH P L A N
for longer hair with protective
STYLING
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BOOTH WITH S H A R W H I T E © Copyright 2016 V-Refreshed Lifestyle Brand. All Rights Reserved
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Tara Smith t a l k s about her Vegan hair products Mary Martin London’s
Fashion tribute To Dav i d B ow i e
SCALP CHECK BY D R J O Y C E LY N J O H N
CONTENTS
SPRING IS FINALLY HERE. BRING OUT THE BAGS
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EDITORS NOTE
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6 MONTH PLAN WITH PROTECTIVE STYLING
VERONA WHITE Editor In Chief SHAR WHITE
Contributor - Vocal Booth
MEN CRY TOO
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TJ
Contributor - Love & Relationship Advice
TARA SMITH TALKS VEGAN PRODUCTS
MARY MARTIN
Contributor - Fashion
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WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU EATING? BIO SCAN AND DETOX PROGRAMME
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WORDS OF WISDOM
TRICHOLOGIST; THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SCALP SCRUBBING
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TJ THE LOVE COACH
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Contributor - Hair Therapy ERRAN WARDEN Contributor - Healthy Living TARA SMITH Contributor - Hair Health ETHEL GONDWE
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RELATIONSHIP ADVICE
MEN’S FASHION
COVER
PLACES TO GO: BARBADOS
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ADVERTISING SPECIFICATIONS
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DR. JOYCELYN JOHN
RISING STAR
GADGETS
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VOCAL BOOTH BY SHAR WHITE
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MARY MARTIN LONDO FASHIO N’S N TRIB U T E TO DAVID BOWIE MML ‘s m other wa s a dress maker, b ecause s he found more eco it nomical t o sew for h daughte er rs
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EAT YOUR HAIR HEALTHY
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Editor’s Note her collection inspired by Cecil the Lion and David Bowie on page 23. Fashion and a
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great image is important to the Asian market view Vrefreshed photo shoot with our pring is in the air, so goodbye dark evenings and hello brighter days. Welcome to the second Issue of Vrefreshed Magazine. In this Issue we are
concentrating on the health of your hair and how to look after it from inside out on page 5, also on pages 16 Dr Joycelyn John talks in dept about the importance of a healthy scalp. Tara Smith has been a sort after hairstylist for over 20 years and she talks about her Vegan Hair Care line on page 8. Meanwhile while we sort out our hair Award winning Fashion designer reveals
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stunning Chinese model on page 30. Our Vocal Booth expert is currently on tour with Eric Clapton and Joss Stone but she still finds time to advice you on how to maintain yoour voice, read her advice on page 19. Read TJ the Love coach advice on attracting the right partner in your life.
Enjoy the beautiful spring weather with Vrefreshed.
Be Blessed....Vrefreshed.
Verona White Editor
6 MONTH PLAN WITH PROTECTIVE STYLING BY VERONA WHITE
T faster.
here is no one way to make your hair very long or extremely fast fast (unless you count hair extensions, of course). Daily maintenance is the key, try these tips to help your hair grow
Write down your hair growth plan down and measure and monitor your hair every two weeks for six months. Coconut oil is very good for the hair, it can help with defrizzing, it can be put on the hair overnight and then you can wash it during your morning shower.
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. Massaging the Scalp
Massaging your head can help stimulate the blood flow to your scalp, which helps nutrients get to your hair follicles more quickly. Our head is not massaged on a regular basis but it can help the follicles wake up
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. Wet Hair Massage
While you are washing your hair, massage the scalp with your fingertips, starting at the back of the neck and moving around the hairline. This is another way to stimulate the follicles.
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. Get Trimmed
Keeping the ends of your hair freshly trimmed will not only let the hair look better while it grows it, will help it grow a lot quicker.
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. Vitamins
Make sure you have a well balanced diet. This is very important for healthy growth of the hair. The hair is always affected first if anything is going on in your body. So regular check ups.. Keeping your blood pressure regulated, making sure your blood iron levels are normal are all key factors to healthy hair growth.
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. Condition, condition, condition
Shampoo takes all of the dirt and grime out of your hair and scalp, while conditioner replenishes nutrients that you hair needs to be healthy and shiny. If you really need to skip a step, ditch the shampoo every V REFRESHED MAGAZINE Issue 01- Feb/Mar 2016
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You really don’t need to shampoo every time you wash your hair. once in a while. You really don’t need to shampoo every time you wash your hair.
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. Less of the heated tools
Intense heat alters the shape of your hair but if it is used too often with heated protectors it will slow down the growth of the hair. Use your dryer, curling iron, and flat iron less, and when you do use product to shield your strands from harm, Tara Smith, Nexus and Design Essentials have products to protect all types of hsair
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your hair at night times.
Jojoba oil
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ojoba Oil used every week helps with natural moisture balance. It makes the hair smooth, soft and strong if used religiously every week. If you have dry and rough hair this oil is a perfect remedy for nourishing your dry and brittle hair. This oil is non sticky and gets absorbed easily into the scalp and Hair. Use as a hot oil the best results. Another secret remedy which will help grow your hair is ‘milk’ because it hydrates the scalp moisturizer is your hair and stimulate hair growth. Take one cup apply it into the Roots and tips of your hair leave it for at least 5 minutes massage it in and let it penetrate into the scope and after 5 minutes shampoo your hair and Style. There are many secret remedies to fast growth of your hair the main thing is to keep your scalp hydrated keep it massage and you will have healthy hair. Please email Verona on info@vrefreshed for any other information regarding hair growth
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Tara Smith talks about her Vegan hair products
Who inspired you? Vidal Sassoon, Anita Roddick my Mum and Dad. They just kept me going. Why did you decide to start your own haircare line? I started the vision of my own hair care line 7 years ago, i have not looked back. I have kept my vision in place and decided that I wanted to create something that my clients wanted and eventually what everybody wanted. The real reason behind starting the line is with many actors and actresses I worked with they wanted more natural products, and the ones that I used I never found that they delivered what I needed them to do, so with my hair care line with one application you'll see an instant results.
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Is the hair care range suitable for all hair types? Absolutely, it's for all ethnicities. I developed these products with the environment in mind. They are eventually and gluten free and free from harsh toxins. I do not believe i have to harm the earth or animals so all the ingredients are carefully picked out.
Photo Credit: Iris Abdukareem Make-Up Jessie Barker
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ara Smith has worked in the hairdressing industry spanning over 20 years she has worked with Marisa Tomei , Demi Moore , Lucy Lui, Rosario Dawson and many more, she has lead hairdressing teams in movie sets working with directors like Quentin Tarantino.
What is special about Tara Smith Hare Care range?
beautiful bird on the cover. I've always been told I'm a free spirit so it represents freedom.
Tara Smith products cater for all hair types, TSHC have four shampoos and conditioners which will cater for all hair types. There are four styling products, my disclaimer is, I’m bringing it back you can now wash your hair every day, whatever the condition is.
Your hair is very nice, how do you get your curls so bouncy?
The newest addition to the hair care line, the thickening /voluminous cream has peptides in, these are normally used in face creams to lift the skin we have adapted this after being clinically tested the result came back that it made the hair 110% more volume, Using this product, when the hair is blow dried it has a memory and leaves the hair in shape all day. It also strengthens the hair reducing the breakage and if used regularly.
I used my working curls shampoo and conditioner, as this has the rosemary extract in it , which gives my curl it's moisture as most of us know with curly hair it can get very dry. This week I will use my 'Feed the root' 'Shampoo and conditioner which will strengthen my hair. My philosophy is the hair is like a plant feed the root you will optimise good healthy hair. I put my basecoat zero serum, this is a must for every hair type of hair, then put my thickening cream on the roots to give it a lift, just apply a little bit of this around the
Can children use your range of products? Yes I have a shampoo which is called gorgeously gentle shampoo. Our ingredients are very gentle and contains plant extracts aloe Vera and chamomile. What does the feathered bird represent as it is pictured on all your packaging? Well I did not test my products on animals so i thought i will take the audacity and put a
crown of my hair. Where can Vrefreshed readers buy your products? They can purchase it from www.tarasmith.com. You can buy it from the blue mercury store in the USA
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standing health challenges and weight problems through cleansing, detox and applying age-old natural health principles. As the editor of this magazine, I like to make sure that everyone who is being featured says what they are going to do, and that they deliver what they advertise. I heard all the stories from other people and I watched all the testimonies so I thought let me try this thing out. To my surprise I saw things that I did not know was going on in my body, which made a lot of sense. Erran is very passionate about his clients and although you may be horrified, he reassures you that he can help your body get back into balance.
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and individual health profiles, you will certainly notice a change. A lot of research has been put into these products to ensure you have the best nutrition for your body. When you have done your scan and gone through your programme that has been advised by your adviser your life can be prolonged and the benefits you can benefit from doing this life saving scan from is listed below.
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IF YOUR HAIR IS NOT WORKING FOR YOU, FOLLOW V REFRESHED ADVICE FOR BEST RESULTS.
Words of wisdom Verona White gives you the next drop of inspiration
Unity is Strength. Unity is power. Unity is unbreakable. When we come together to achieve greatness, nothing can come between us. As we link and hold hands, supporting each other together we become one. As we feel each other’s pain, strengthening one another with words and prayers. United we stand together. United we cry together. United we all go forward together. Division has no room in Unity. Division is a selfish man’s cry, Division is the weak mans answer. Unity embraces the multitude of our differences, it accepts and nurtures, it combines and blends. When we have unity we achieve victory, we find happiness, we find peace and most of all we get results. ‘A team will ignite a dream’
TRICHOLOGY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SCALP SCRUBBING THE IMPORTANCE OF A HEALTHY SCALP & HOW TO AVOID SCALP & HAIR DISORDERS BY HAIR HEALTH & VITALITY CLINIC
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he Scalp is the skin on top of the head, excluding the face where hair grows in both male and female.
The skin is a mirror of the internal environment. The reactions of the skin to abnormal conditions will be determined by the basic anatomy and physiology of the skin. Any change in internal conditions is likely to reflect a change in the tone of the skin elasticity changes can lead to increases in the production of and flexibility. The factors that govern the colour of sweat or sebum, leading to skin infections. the skin are: •
The dilation or construction of the capillaries
that regulates the amount of blood flow. •
of sebum, increasing the sebum production of cortisone from the adrenal cortex.
The amount of oxygen bound to the
haemoglobin, the more oxygen there is
in the Cortisone has a similar effect to male sex hormones
blood the brighter red the colour. •
Nervous tension can increase the production
When the amount of haemoglobin in the
blood is decreased, anaemia sets in and the skin becomes paler.
on the sebaceous glands, thereby increasing sebum production, excess oiliness may lead to itching, scratching followed by an infection. •
A simple rule of thumb is that that when all
the scalp is affected by a problem, suspect a systemic At the skin’s
normal pH of 5.5, the skin has
problem that reaches the scalp via the circulation of
antibacterial and antifungal properties. Internal
blood anaemia, hormonal imbalances etc. Whereas
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During the winter the dry heat can cause
loss of moisture from the scalp which can lead to flaking and irritation. •
Frequent shampooing using a pH shampoo
and conditioner suited to your scalp and hair type helps to keep the natural pH of 5.5. when a problem is patchy and external causes have been ruled out the autonomic nervous system is involved.
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It is very important to schedule a Scalp health
check to avoid any long term scalp conditions. Scalp conditions are conducted and thoroughly examined by a qualified Trichologist at our Hair
Oiliness cause by excessive androgens
Health & Vitality Clinic ( www.hairloss-trichology.
some oral contraceptives, hyperthyroidism and
com) where an agreed treatment plan is carried out
zinc deficiency can all aggravate this condition.
which consist of Scalp assessment, diagnosis and
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Peri-
Follicular
inflammation
is
often
present with genetic hair loss in men and women hence a healthy scalp is important to reduce this inflammation. •
Alopecia areata the mast cells around the
hair follicles are in excess anti-histamines can aid this condition. •
prescribed treatment or a maintenance programme at our discreet private clinic. We thank you in advance for taking the time to read the article and we welcome any concerns you may have.
Article by: Joycelyn John Consultant Trichologist IAT WTS GNWC AMAE
Scalp flaking is a cosmetic or excessive
oiliness
problem that usually affects both sexes
between the ages of 18 to 50. It is caused by yeast Malassezia normally on the scalp along with scalp redness around the hairline and increased itching. •
Scalp problems are common with people
with oily scalps or who have a genetic predisposition to scalp flaking.
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EAT YOUR HAIR HEALTHY
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air needs nutrition we need to eat a balanced is it in conjunction with iron foods you can find diet to get moisture into our hair and scalp. this in blackcurrants blueberries sweet potatoes oranges and pears. First of all we need protein we need this in order to form the shape of our Hair called carotene you OMEGA 3 get this from fish eggs nuts and lentils. Your body is unable to make this healthy fat so this is vital that you included in your diet you can IRON find omega-3 in salmon herring trout mackerel This is very important because it provides the avocado pumpkin seeds and walnuts omega-3 is proper Cell functioning which provides oxygen. found in the scalp and also provides the oil that This can be found in red meat chicken and fish kale keep the hair and health scalp healthy. lentils broccoli and leafy greens. VITAMIN A VITAMIN C We need this for the condition of the scalp. If there This vitamin absorbs the iron so it is vital that this is a lack of Vitamin A it will result in a itchy scalp you can find vitamin A foods in carrots pumpkins and sweet potatoes. ZINC If you have low levels of zinc your hair will grow very slow and you will have lots of dandruff you can find zinc in oysters crabs and liver. VITAMIN E Vitamin E acts like a sunscreen to your hair you can find it in abundance it within nuts. BIOTIN Biotin is usually created in our intestines. So it would be there if this isn’t produced you couldn’t find biotin in egg yolk soya flour whole grains and yeast. I hope your hair grows really healthy if you have any questions please do not hesitate to email me on info@vrefreshed for any other information regarding hair growth.
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Vocal Booth By Shar White
Eric Clapton’s V o c a l i s t S h a r W h i t e gives you TIPS
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har white has been in the music industry for nearly 3 decades, Shar started out singing in church choirs and at age 17 she went on to be signed by Jive records becoming label mates with R Kelly, Britney Spears, Billy Ocean and Will Smith, Shar worked and wrote with well renowned producers Hula and Fingers who produced the ‘Summertime’ hit song for Will Smith and Jazzy jeff. Shar’s Career has taken her from strength to strength. She has now been a vocalist for guitar legend Eric Clapton for 13 years and continues to be apart of his band. She is currently on tour with the beautiful Joss Stone, and has also toured and recorded with Bryan ferry, Eurythmics, Roxy Music, Steve Winwood and Annie Lennox to name a few!!..
Shar White
5 STEPS TO IMPROVING YOUR VOICE Always do vocal warmups this eases your voice into your song
Watch out for her long awaited solo Album coming soon.
Diction Exercises! You can do your voice scales
Vocal booth expert advice on singing is this:
1. Don’t hurt your voice A common mistake for those of us who haven’t had a teacher when learning to sing, is that you don’t
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get the technique right. The big difference between your voice and other instruments is that you can end up hurting your voice big time if you do it all wrong. Be very gentle with your voice.
If you want to sing a beautiful tone you wouldn’t want it to be very airy and end almost instantly?
SINGING SHOULD NEVER HURT! Take this with you and you’re halfway there. If you try sing a song and it hurts, you’re doing something wrong. Don’t continue at this point because it will hurt your throat and vocal cords. Stop instead and examine what it can be that you’re doing wrong.
Pitch control, Nice ending on all tones, Tone improvement, Relaxation, Volume I suggest working with your support by having your hands to your side every time you start singing for at least 5-10 minutes to see that you’re actually using it.
The support also will also help you with:
2. How to use your support when 3. Get to know your voice like an singing. instrument. Put you hands against the side of your body just underneath your ribs. Try coughing or singing an sss-sound. Feel how the muscles move your hands away. The support should be used in all singing. The difficuties with using your support is that it should be a constant resistance . To understand this we have to understand why we need our support in the first place. How does it work? When you make a sound or sing a tone air comes up and your vocal cords vibrate. What your support do is that it stops the airflow so that all air won’t come up at once. That’s why it should be a resistance and almost constant. PAGE
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Singing is an instrument just like a guitar, piano and a drum kit. Imagine someone telling you that you was born to play the guitar and haven’t trained to play it. To become a great singer you have to train your voice. This can be done in so many ways. The point is that starting to see your voice as a real instrument will give you wisdom. 4. Improve your pitch and ear This can not be forgotten or ignored. Many people don’t train their ears because it might seem boring or hard.
Ear training can be fun if you want it to be. The best singers in the world have great ears and that’s why they can sing so beautifully. Ear training is all about listening and analysing and I suggest you to do some ear training exercises everyday for 10 minutes or so and you will improve everything in both your singing and your ear. 5. Learn the basics of guitar or piano
therefore they are perfect for singing. The advantages you will have by learning the basics of any of this two instruments are: You will begin to understand how music theory works. You can play and sing a song just by yourself It will be much easier to compose
This is not something absolutly critical I hope this helps , enjoy your wonderful to become a good singer but it will voice. help you in so many ways. Both guitar and piano are instruments with great chord advantages and
Shar x
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M
ary Martin is a fashion designer with a difference, she is a designer with a fun no boundaries character, and she chose to express that through her exquisite designs. When Meeting Mary Martin London she is very bubbly and makes you laugh while in her company, she is an absolute joy to be around and through each of her collections there is a story to be told. Mary started in the music and acting industry and also managed her singer/songwriter daughter Celitia Martin before embarking into the fashion world. MML ‘s mother was a dress maker, because she found it more economical to sew for her daughters out of 13, while Mary's mother was sewing Mary watched her and adapted her sewing skills and later on in life Mary took it to a completley different level in her career. Mary started to sew for her family and friends then decided to do her own fashion shows, in the UK, Mayfair, South Africa, Ghana and soon Nigeria. Her flamboyant designs has caught the eyes of many making her designs an Internet sensation. Cecil the lion broke the hearts of the nation and also Mary's and she expressed her feelings through this dress. Mary has also achieved V REFRESHED MAGAZINE Issue 01- Feb/Mar 2016
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For more of Londons designs
Mary Martin please visit
many awards included Mercedes Benz African Fashion week where she was honoured, Beffta awards honoured again as best fashion designer, International Female designer of the year at IAA(International achievers award) Her most recent collection was revealed in London Fashion week hosted by Duccio Zambini which was inspired by David Bowie. David Bowie was timeless, ageless, sexless and one of the best fashion Icons in the world. Again Martins speech is shown through her designs and she certainly wowed the crowd and made headline news through her eye popping designs. PAGE
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WHY DO I ALWAYS END UP WITH THE SAME TYPE OF PARTNER?
BY TJ THE LOVE COACH
making your love choices from your love programming. Your love programming does not take place on a conscious (thinking) level. Whilst your conscious mind may be judging or blaming your choices in partners, it is your love programming that is actually generating these choices on a deeper, subconscious level.
Have you ever wondered why you seem to keep attracting and dating the same type of partner? I don’t want to say the “wrong partners” as I believe that in every dating and relationship experience there are lessons we are meant to learn. When you stop growing you start dying! Part of my role when you seek my help as a Love Coach is to help you raise your awareness, not just of what you are looking for in a Soul Mate, but also to identify patterns and programmes that may be contributing to your partner choices so far. So it is important when thinking about what you want to attract in a partner to first go a bit deeper and examine what and who you have been attracting in terms of love in your life so far. A large part of the love choices you have made so far are based on what I call your “Love Programming” Did you ever feel like you made love choices that satisfied you on one level, but on another level, you instinctively knew that they felt wrong or even toxic, almost with a knowing that this person was not good for you? You may have been able to justify these choices to a point, both to yourself and others but perhaps there was part of you that felt divided or torn, a nagging doubt or voice that often resurfaced. If you have had this kind of experience, you were probably PAGE
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Research suggests that more than 95 per cent of our behaviours can come from the unconscious, or the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is where all the information about what has gone before in your life is stored. On one level it is there to protect us. It analyses and stores what is safe and what is dangerous for us, so that we know for next time. This works up to a point, but if we have received skewed messages about love and relationships, then these get stored in our unconscious too. For example, we saw our mother in self-sacrificing patterns with our father, or we saw a philandering father who we blamed as breaking up the family and yet we find ourselves repeating these behaviours or attracting these into our lives, despite ourselves. To enable you to recognise how you may have been operating from your love programming, there are a number of indepth exercises in my book “Get Ready For Love” that lead to identify significant traits that you want to attract in a potential Soul Mate. You can then compare previous partners to
see who you actually have been attracting. Some may already be obvious to you ie someone who constantly cheats or does not work however some may not be so obvious until you take a closer look.
to be issues with loyalty, faithfulness, honesty and emotional availability with the partners this person is attracting. In the areas where there are no patterns ie supportive, kind and boring these are not analysed as part of the individuals love programming.
Here is a very brief exercise that can help you take a quick overview of these traits. You would need to carry out the full exercises in my book for an in-depth look into your Soul’s Mate and potential matches vs Love Programming but this brief exercise will give you an idea. BRIEF LOVE PROGRAMMING EXERCISE Using a piece of paper or an online spreadsheet list the name of 4 previous partners List 5 good attributes you might want in a partner as part of the list and 5 negative attributes you have experienced in another part. Now Score each person out of 10 against how true this attribute appeared to you (with 1 being not true and 10 being totally true).
The yellow highlights negative patterns that this person is attracting in partners and the green the positive patterns. As we can see in this example this persons patterns indicate that they are generally attracting non-volatile partners who are financially generous and work hard however there are distinct patterns that these partners are also frivolous with their money which causes friction in a relationship. Their also appears
As highlighted previously, our early life experiences can cause us to make love choices that aren’t necessarily supportive for us. With many of my female clients, love programming can often be traced back to their relationship with their father or father figure. If this was a woman I was working with I would look at these from the viewpoint of her relationship with the father figure in her life…he was probably distant, emotionally unavailable and spoilt her with “things” rather than time or love and this she has learnt to expect as love. Many attract the same type of partner subconsciously in order to attempt to fix the pain or void experienced with love whilst growing up. Once you have identified your own Love Programming both positive and negative take a look at those that taught you how to love, parents and older siblings and recognise what consistencies you yourself have adopted. Once you identify these you are already 50% towards changing them as you are empowered to stop yourself repeating your love choices via your love programming and make better conscious choices in the partners you are willing to attract.
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