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INSPIRATIONThe Barber's Daughters create content jewelry- jewelry with meaning, message or purpose. Engraving words of inspiration into semi and precious metals can be used as grounding agents or touch stones. In a world overrun by sensory overload, its easy to forget our 'whole' self. The inspiration of The Barber's Daughters is to provide tools for people to connect to their intangible beauty and strength. The inspiration is to create work that helps us shift our thinking from our head to our heart where we make better decisions.The significance of The Barber's Daughters moniker comes from growing up in a small village on the ocean coast of Cape Breton, Canada where a person's name doesn't mean much. Whose child you were means everything. As a design line this name invites everyone to be honored as someone's sons and daughters. G's INSPIRATIONIf you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace and beauty in this world.The living world is not 'out there' somewhere, but in your heart. Life is a miracle every moment of our existence. Shared sentiment expressed in these excerpts from Paul Hawken's commencement speech to Class of 2009. AMULETSmeaning "means of defense/shield". Almost every culture and religion have a representation of an amulet. Our goal is to create amulets that will act as a reminder to strengthen your truest and highest path to happiness.MALAS108 beads?There have been many questions over the years of WHY 108 and it comes from the power of 9s - in making malas we follow a power of 9s when dividing malas. You will see malas made of 18 beads, 27, 36, 54, and 108 - and at other times so wrist malas made me made of 21 (for Tibetan Buddhist) and 99 or 33 (for Muslims) - still the 9 appears in the form of a 3 at times - 3x3=9.
Swami Muktananda explains it perfectly, clearly and precise when describing the heart as the source of the infinite and our connection with the divine and God. From the heart there are 108 MAIN nadis (veins) that go from the heart to all the extremities and after reciting a mantra 108 times you have purified your body. In this way a meditator can see the importance in reciting mantra. In Ayurvedic Medicine they talk of the 108 MARMAS. Marmas are vital points in our body where muscles, bones, joints, arteries, and nerves meet creating the vital flow of life. Planets and Houses: In astrology, there are 12 houses and 9 planets. 12 times 9 equals 108.  |