The way I look at the world now started with a changing within myself. Healing of myself and learning to love myself is what made me more compassionate to our planet which brought about the realization that I had to change the way I was living
Looking around at family and friends who were like me got me thinking that education was essential for change to happenWe need change both in our inner world and outer world, because the one reflects the other and when they are in harmony, that’s when we can create Heaven on Earth. Therefore my motto is: Heal Yourself, Heal the Earth and so create Heaven on Earth. So that is why I started The Green Power House
I started my working life as a nurse so I have always been interested in healing and working with people. I lived on various coal mine properties for 16 years and had 4 children during that time. We came back to JHB in 1997 and that was one of the times for great change within myself. I started taking my power back in the form of better nutrition, educating myself about how our thoughts affect our bodies, relationships and how that reflects in our environment. I became more spiritually connected, became a better mother, wife, child, sister and friend. Then I looked at what I was doing in my home, how wasteful was I and started reading articles that educated me, for example, what was happening when my garbage was collected – where did it go. I looked at how much power and water our household was consuming and ways in which I could reduce that. These and many other areas of my life needed re-assessing. And as I changed and put in place environmentally friendly practices I realized how better I felt about myself – I was contributing to making the world a better place, and that felt good!
As my children got older and started leaving home and my role as full time mom reduced, it was time for me to take what I had learned out into a bigger arena. I started thinking about what kind of work I would like to do. One day a guest on Oprah got me thinking. He was demonstrating appliances in the home that reduce power consumption. It was fascinating and I realized that in spite of all the work I was doing in my home there still was a lot I didn’t know. So the idea of creating an open house where I could showcase all the latest environmentally friendly technologies and products where people could come and see them actually working and be inspired to make change their own homes and lives. Along side that would be healing therapies to assist people on their own inner healing journey. So for me the two facets of life that I had experienced could be available to anyone interested in improving their lives and the health of the earth.
As this idea crystallized in my mind so the Universe opened up to me. The right house became available, through the ex-owner I found the company to transform the house into a Green House, my husband was in a position to help me financially and my niece returned from London and needed a job so she started working with me. Although there were many challenges along the way, it kept flowing and by 12th January 2009 we were able to open the Green Power House.
So now my dream is living and breathing. We are bringing Green Conscious Living out into open where people can see, feel and experience that living in this way is a beautiful way to live and the only way forward to sustain and nurture Mother Earth and ourselves now and in the future.
