This weekend I am full of fix in the new and old premises, we are taking care of now because we have closed on Sundays because we can not drill and mess when there are customers here.

So I write this post in advance, because since next week is half a week (due to holidays on Wednesday woop, woop!) I thought I would merge them into the same "business week" so you can read about 1.5 weeks at once next Sunday instead :)

I thought instead of dedicating this post to a new topic - meditation and healing!

Imbalance in his neck chakra
I have always seen myself as a person who meditates in everyday life and therefore does not need "real meditation". More and more I have realized that this is not true. You know that I have problems with fever and throat infections all the time (this week again, sigh) and by chance when I googled I saw that I may have an imbalance in my throat chakra.

Do you believe in that?

I'm pretty "fluffy" and believe in a lot, but I really don't see it as a flume but as a science that has not been proven (or publicly) yet. There are no companies that benefit from people being able to heal themselves with thinking power.

Stand up for yourself - Imbalance in the neck chakra can be due to several things, but a common reason is that you do not stand up for yourself, which was very apt for me. If you want to say one thing but do not, that energy can get stuck in the throat and create an imbalance that can lead to throat infections, hoarseness, etc. In my case, this happened because the other party did not want to communicate even though I asked for it, which led to me could never explain me, defend me or stand up for myself and my opinions. When you do not communicate, it creates a thousand unnecessary misunderstandings and non-problems. Instead, you begin to analyze the other person's behaviors and create your own fabricated truths about why a person does as they do, because you do not have the whole picture. I felt incredibly depressed, misunderstood and simply trampled on and walked around all the time with a feeling that I was forced to be dumb.

My throat problems started exactly the period when I started being treated like this, it feels weird if it was just a coincidence?

I first thought that I felt bad just because I did not like the situation I was in. It was only when I realized the feeling of relief from standing up for myself (if even a little) that I realized that the shoe was squeezing even there. When I said the words ”now I have given and given and given and just tried to do the right thing all the time for your sake, but now I take no shit anymore!”I immediately felt several kilos lighter both mentally and physically. Then I realized that the problem was not only in the physical situation but that I had not been nice to myself who had let me be trampled on.

Care - Grief can also get stuck in the throat and create imbalance. Now I may sound quirky (?) But I also think it's a small lump of grief in my throat that did not come out properly when three of my cats died in a short time. When my mother passed away, it was socially accepted to be sad for several weeks in a row, even though I still feel sad every day, it is at least processed grief. Now I do not compare my mother with a cat but when a cat dies you have to cry for a while but then you have to go to work the same day and get over it in a week. But for me, it was really an emotional trauma that must have stuck in my throat.

Focus is more important than intelligence
Another important reason to meditate is to learn to relax. We work a lot with Tommy from Peragenda.se and when he said that "focus is more important than intelligence", I felt he put his head on the nail. He talks a lot about how distracted you get today with a phone that flashes with new notices, emails that pop up and you are constantly connected. Then you really do not become efficient and above all, I do not think it is particularly useful.

I do not remember who but it was a lecturer who was a guest in the Success Podcast who said that the best trick of success is to sit on a chair and just sit. For example. a quarter in the middle of the working day. The point was that when you are in "production mode" you do not get thoughts that are important to process during the day, e.g. problem solutions etc. For these thoughts come when we are relaxed and if we do not take a relaxed sit-on-a-chair moment in the middle of the day, when do the thoughts come then? When we go to sleep of course! How many people do not start thinking about such things just when they go to sleep? It is quite logical when you think about it.

I tried to meditate one evening a week after a working day that was not very busy really but it required some planning and there was a lot to keep track of. And it was scary how hard I had to relax, despite meditation music in my ears, I lay comfortably in bed and really tried. But my brain suddenly started thinking of something completely different until I actually gave up completely, put on an episode of Friends and fell asleep to Chandler's jokes that I heard a thousand times and still laugh at.

The most difficult thing is not to be ambitious and work hard for many hours, the difficult thing is to work unfocused and efficiently and then be able to relax when you are done.

Healing & meditation
I would really like to go on professional healing but first I will meditate a little alone. I think I get more out of a healing if I have gained some experience myself first. Teach me to relax myself.

The first thing I did was apply a lot of self-healing and clear my neck chakra and tested this right away, but quickly realized that I need to start on step one - learn to be relaxed first.

Now I have meditated a few times and can already start to include some healing tricks in the meditation. Nice when you make progress fast! Last Friday I meditated for 43 minutes and even though it was not a monk-mindfullness right away, it still felt like it was a fairly successful meditation.

An aid I have started with (borrowed from Annika) is Muse Meditation, a headband that measures brain activity and is connected to an app with different sounds that you can choose. The purpose is to learn to relax quickly, how do I get relaxed? You can choose different weather to listen to, e.g. a beach by the sea. If you are stressed / up in laps, it is like a storm and big waves, but when you become relaxed it becomes a calmer noise, the sound of rocking water and if you are really relaxed you will also hear birds chirping. I have never had any birds and Miska got 7 the first time he tested haha.

It will be both a rewarding behavior at the same time as you get confirmed when you do the right thing.

This is how I sit and meditate, sometimes I'm up in the attic though. The headband, headphones and sleeping mask for the eyes because I want it completely dark.

If any of you have experience of healing and above all neck chakra, you are very welcome to write tips to me! I devour everything! Now there will be an end to fever and throat infections !! :)

Have a nice Sunday everyone!

Hugs are ♥

My Sunday post is a day late, sorry about that! Last week contained a blissful mix of tasks and many "big points" on the to-do list that are finally checked. Wihoo!

The old salon is largely emptied, or yes now I exaggerated a bit but compared to what it looked like before, it is basically emptied now haha. And the summer schedule is nailed and opened and I am in phase with everything I need to do before we can take a vacation in 1.5 weeks!

In the middle of it all, I have had time to both plan and organize a surprise party as well as we had last Saturday, many balls in the air now! ;) But after all the events I planned for the company, this was an incredibly easy match haha!

Cleaning of the old premises
This with emptying a 367 sqm large room that is full of stuff in just about every corner, it has not been an easy match!

We did a lot before the move but then we have been "on parental leave" with Annika and then the chaos in the old premises has remained untouched. We needed a break :)

There was really a lot left, a big mix of rubbish, things that are too nice to throw away, things that we can store at home and things that can be saved in the new room. Even though we cleaned a lot before the move, there were still whole closets and drawers that we still did not have time to go through at all.

So three days a week we have been there and advised!

Here I have just emptied a bunch of closets and collected the worst rubbish heap. The first priority was to empty room by room so that we could put all things in the "same category" e.g. "This we can take to the new premises" etc.

The feeling when a room is completely empty, so it's so nice!

For example. we had fabric in the entire staff room (both walls and ceiling) to get a cozy feeling. Probably 15-20 curtains in total and all were pinned together with small pins. It took time you must believe!

We do not have time to sell more and there are lots that are too nice to throw away. So we announced that we are giving away everything for free, just to pick up. But we quickly had to cancel it when we were contacted by a charity flea market where the money goes to retirement homes to do fun activities etc. And they wanted everything!

So it felt much, much better actually! That our old stuff becomes a good thing ♥ Many followers wrote and wanted to pack stuff anyway, but every gadget we would give away to someone else was indirectly that you take money from elderly care haha, suddenly things got a completely different value!

The summer schedule is open!
On Tuesday, the last details for the summer were finally nailed down and our schedule is open August now, just to book! :)

I saw in my booking schedule that I wrote a remember-note in March "Time to open up as many summer times as possible before midsummer and market that people should book in time. This is how we reduce stressed customers (like last year) before midsummer :)“So good haha!

Just before midsummer is our most fully booked time of the whole year and many people think that you are out in good time if you book a week in advance, but in the summer it is not so. So last year we had some gaps in the schedule the weeks before midsummer which could have been filled if people had known that it was fully booked later :)

Event fixer
Since we are away on my friend Frida's birthday, we surprised her last Saturday! At first I surprised her at her house with presents and make-up help, so at first she thought it was the whole surprise and that we would just go out and eat at a restaurant. So I made her up and smiled before we went to the real surprise party!

Here is the make-up:

It had gotten dark outside so we had no good lighting, but glitter and smoky in brown and rosé it became :) Here she is completely unaware that her closest friends were right now gathered in an apartment further away with disco lamp and fine dining, and still she already said "I have never been so surprised" hahaha! ♥ It was hard to keep mine :)

As I said, there was very poor lighting in the living room, but I still wanted to take the opportunity to do some advertising for one of the gifts she received from me - Sunglasses from the brand Macapa in the model Palmiera Rosé Gold that Miska sells on Macapa-sunglasses.com! They are so beautiful! :) I long for the holidays when I get to inaugurate mine!

She also got the pants as a gift from me, they were bought at Zara :)

Preparing the final touches in the new room
The final touches in the new salon have had to wait because the staff had to stay in the room for a while to know exactly how they want shelves, furniture, etc. That is hard to think of, you have to test!

So this week we have had a long document with pictures, questions and checklist of all the last things to do. What do you want? What do you not want? Where do you want it? etc :)

Our plan was to be finished this weekend but the time was not enough, but the hope is that everything will be nailed down before we go on holiday in any case. Then you have a little more peace in the body!

Here I am with the list that the staff is commenting on. You can have your very own chat for each point, so heavenly smooth! However, my cat Viktoria thought that my colleagues got too much attention;)

Collect makeup
When we go on holiday, I always "work to catch up" with makeup posts to the blog in advance, so that the flow rolls on as usual anyway. It is only then that I realize how much makeup I actually do. 3 a week sounds a bit, but when I calculated on Monday that I need to do 15 make-ups before I go 2.5 weeks later, it's a lot! This then includes all make-up that is published now before + during the holiday weeks.

So a lot of time is spent in my photo studio this week :) But there may be some product tips post as well, I do not think I have time to do make-up every day.

Here I sit with the computer and prepare the posts at the dressing table immediately after I have finished my make-up.

Valentine's Day at the salon!
I was sooo so happy when I opened Instagram and saw Creative Makeup's newly published Insta Story! At our staff meetings every other week, we usually decide things like "soon this holiday will come, ideas on how we can decorate / celebrate at the salon, who buys it, who fixes it" and so on. But now we have not had a meeting after moving and baby.

So last Wednesday I told Annika and Miska "we should buy Valentine's Day candy for the waiting room tomorrow“But we were not going to the salon so it became an unnecessarily large project.

So I open Insta Story the next morning and see how nicely the colleagues have fixed with both sweets and decorations and even non-alcoholic bubble for all customers ♥ They are the best !!

Here is Ida standing and popping a bottle of bubbly! :)

Here you have no problem to sit and wait right away;)

So really good! I was really warm in my heart when I saw how they fixed and donated!

Beauty guides
Speaking of good colleagues, Malin has been really good and published lots of new beauty guide posts in our web shop!

I have "checked" these this week as we usually say when I sometimes change the text because what I wrote in the blog (which Malin copies the posts from) does not fit into the webshop etc.

Here is an example of what it looks like in the webshop now if you go into the eyeliner pen paese linea Automatic Eyeliner - Creative Makeup:

Further down on the product page you will find make-up where I used the different pencils.

You will find all my beauty guides here!

But now it's Monday again, I work from home and the to-do list is as long as usual so just roll up my sleeves again! :)

Have a fantastic start to the new week everyone ♥