From Calm to Self-Love: The Inner Gem with Almira Adam

In this episode of 7 Years in Saudi, I reconnect with Almira Adam, founder of Adam Ki Jewellery. During Covid, I was overwhelmed and searching for obsidian to soothe anxiety. Each visit to Almira’s shop at Symphony Mall felt like a balm: her jewellery, her presence, and her instinct to guide me toward stones that matched my emotions.

Almira shares her path as a Bosnian, a Saudi wife, a mother, and an entrepreneur, and how resilience and trust reshaped her life. We talk about the emotional language of gemstones, the calm that comes from creating with natural materials, and why self-awareness is the real starting point for healing. We move from overthinking to trust, from worry to presence, and from protection to self-love. We also touch on kindness, giving, and passing beauty forward to our children and future generations.

This conversation is a gentle invitation to slow down, listen within, and let beauty become a daily practice of self-love.

Chapters:
0:05 Welcome to 7 Years in Saudi
3:00 Meet Almira Adam
5:53 The Power of Gemstones
8:50 Almira's Journey and Wisdom
10:49 Connecting Emotions to Gems
11:58 The Art of Jewelry Making
15:57 Healing through Self-Awareness
22:42 The Role of Trust in Healing
27:16 The Importance of Kindness
35:52 Navigating Life's Challenges
42:53 The Journey to Self-Awareness
44:46 Overcoming Negative Emotions
46:29 Finding Peace within Yourself
51:37 The Impact of Self-Awareness
54:55 Embracing Change and Joy
1:00:01 The Legacy of Love and Kindness
1:06:45 Conclusion and Future Connections

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Episode One to a 7 years Journey in Saudi. this is the beginning to a story to whoever wants to know how I freed myself and to feel radiantly joyful. i am a mother, a coach, a hypnotherapist and I master the art of Reprogramming the subconscious mind.

Chapters

• 0:05 Welcome to 7 Years in Saudi
• 3:00 Meet Almira Adam
• 5:53 The Power of Gemstones
• 8:50 Almira's Journey and Wisdom
• 10:49 Connecting Emotions to Gems
• 11:58 The Art of Jewelry Making
• 15:57 Healing through Self-Awareness
• 22:42 The Role of Trust in Healing
• 27:16 The Importance of Kindness
• 35:52 Navigating Life's Challenges
• 42:53 The Journey to Self-Awareness
• 44:46 Overcoming Negative Emotions
• 46:29 Finding Peace within Yourself
• 51:37 The Impact of Self-Awareness
• 54:55 Embracing Change and Joy
• 1:00:01 The Legacy of Love and Kindness
• 1:06:45 Conclusion and Future Connections

Transcript

Chapters

0:05 
Welcome to 7 Years in Saudi

3:00 
Meet Almira Adam

5:53 
The Power of Gemstones

8:50 
Almira's Journey and Wisdom

10:49 
Connecting Emotions to Gems

11:58 
The Art of Jewelry Making

15:57 
Healing through Self-Awareness

22:42 
The Role of Trust in Healing

27:16 
The Importance of Kindness

35:52 
Navigating Life's Challenges

42:53 
The Journey to Self-Awareness

44:46 
Overcoming Negative Emotions

46:29 
Finding Peace within Yourself

51:37 
The Impact of Self-Awareness

54:55 
Embracing Change and Joy

1:00:01 
The Legacy of Love and Kindness

1:06:45 
Conclusion and Future Connections

Long Summary

In this episode of the "7 Years in Saudi" podcast, I had the pleasure of reconnecting with Almira Adam, a multifaceted individual who encompasses the roles of an artist, mother, businesswoman, and a source of profound wisdom. Our conversation delves into how our paths crossed during the tumultuous COVID-19 period when I was on a quest to find an obsidian stone. My interest in lithotherapy and gemology came to the forefront as I sought this particular stone to help manage my overwhelming anxiety during those uncertain times.

Every visit to Almira's shop in Symphony Mall felt like a balm for my troubled mind. Surrounded by her exquisite jewelry and gemstones, I found a sense of calm that eluded me elsewhere. Almira’s ability to connect emotionally with her customers is remarkable; she seems to sense the energy of those who enter her store, instinctively guiding them toward the stones that resonate with their inner selves. Through our dialogue, Almira reflects on the healing properties of gemstones, sharing her belief that each stone chooses its owner, much like how we may discover our own paths in life.

Throughout our discussion, Almira articulates her journey as a mother and entrepreneur while drawing from her personal experiences of overcoming adversity. As a refugee from Bosnia who lived through the challenges of war, she shares how her perspective on life shifted through resilience. She emphasizes that emotions are nuanced and complex, and that understanding is key to transcending negativity. Her insights underline the importance of self-awareness, trust, and the transformative power of love—both in giving and receiving.

We explore deeper themes of vulnerability and anxiety, especially as they relate to motherhood. Almira candidly discusses her early days of motherhood filled with constant worry and how this overwhelming concern was intertwined with her lack of trust in the universe. It’s a poignant reminder that even the act of worrying can stem from love and protectiveness. By reframing her worries into a sense of trust, she found pathways to personal peace, which she graciously shares as a tool for others navigating similar emotions.

Moreover, our conversation covers how Almira’s passion for creating jewelry not only serves as a business venture, but also as a means of expression and love. She finds joy in the creative process, which in turn cultivates a sense of inner calm, and it’s this tranquillity that she passes on to her customers when they interact with her creations. We discuss how the process of creation, alongside the use of natural materials such as gemstones, fosters a connection to nature and oneself, allowing for a holistic approach to well-being.

As we continue to delve into the nuances of life’s challenges, Almira eloquently captures how awareness and mindfulness are essential for maintaining balance in an increasingly fast-paced world. She encourages listeners to pause and reflect on their environments, choices, and emotional states, reinforcing that self-awareness is pivotal for healing and growth. The dialogue emphasizes that understanding our emotional landscape is not just about combating negativity, but rather about nurturing love, compassion, and kindness towards ourselves and others.

This episode serves as both a reflective conversation and a call to action for anyone feeling lost or overwhelmed. Almira's journey, her insights about gemstones, and her approach to life’s challenges ignite a flame of hope and self-love, reminding us that we each have the power to create beauty and calm within ourselves, regardless of external chaos. As we conclude our chat, Almira highlights how kindness and the simple act of giving can profoundly impact one's own happiness and the lives of those around us.

The essence of our discussion encapsulates the belief that life, with all its uncertainties, is a canvas to be painted with love, understanding, and the shared experiences of our human journey.

Brief Summary

In this episode of "7 Years in Saudi," I reconnect with Almira Adam, an artist and entrepreneur, to discuss our shared experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, including my search for an obsidian stone to ease anxiety. Almira highlights her ability to connect with customers through gemstones, as well as her journey as a Bosnian refugee who emphasizes resilience and the complexities of emotions. We explore her creative process in jewelry-making, the importance of mindfulness, and how to transform worries into trust. This conversation serves as an empowering reminder of the power of self-awareness, kindness, and love in navigating life's challenges.

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Transcript

Speaker0

[0:01]Assalamu alaikum, bonjour, welcome to 7 Years in Saudi podcast.

[0:05]

Welcome to 7 Years in Saudi

Speaker0

[0:06]Today, we are going to meet a very special person, again, Almira Adam. Who is she? She's an artist, a mother, a businesswoman, and a wise, wise lady. How did I meet her? It was years ago when I was living in Kuwait, exactly during COVID time, and that moment I was in a very big need of finding obsidian stone, this stone. And the reason of that is that I was looking for something because I went into lithotherapy and into gemology as I years ago I studied the structures of the gems because I it was really passion of mine and it still is and looking after this.

Speaker0

[1:06]Stone made me meet Almira her shop in U8 in Symphony Mall and I noticed in this very troubled time because I wasn't an exception in that time. I felt overwhelmed. I felt a huge peak of anxiety that led me to find all the therapy techniques that I learned and that I offer now.

Speaker0

[1:35]And I noticed one thing that I couldn't deny. I noticed my state of peace. Each time I went into her shop, I felt at peace. I felt calm. And all the emotions that I was feeling at that time just disappeared as if with her stones with her jewelry with her wonderful beautiful design of jewelry I simply felt myself again.

[3:00]

Meet Almira Adam

Speaker0

[3:00]Elmira, when you see her jewelry, you will find the shape of your heart. So, without further ado, let's start right away and let you meet with Elmira. Hi, Elmira. How are you?

Speaker1

[3:18]Hey, hi. Fine. How are you?

Speaker0

[3:20]I'm very good. It's nice to have you on the podcast today, Seven Years in Saudi. As I just introduced you, I was saying that the reason today I was so happy to meet you is because each time I met with you, my heart had instinctively and intuitively known that I will meet someone who has a clue of what's my heart vibrating. As if you knew what was the color of my heart or what was my inner gem, the metaphor of what's in my heart and that always made me feel, at peace because i.

Speaker1

[4:10]Had no

Speaker0

[4:11]Story to uh make up i had no mask to dress with so you accept me as i am so that i give to you and um maybe you can explain to me how how you do that.

Speaker1

[4:29]How i do that first thank you for inviting me for this um morning podcast and i am so glad that we reconnect again and I just want to say that your words really touched my heart now because you know when someone feels that peace when it's around me that gives me like a feeling of asking myself why is that because is Is it because I work so much on healing myself and you can feel me? Is it because I have similar life circumstances like some other people being a mom, going through all the things, being also a businesswoman, living in the Middle East, learning new languages, understanding new cultures, and at the same time, taking care of my family, my children, and at the same time, living or working a job that I love. And that's gemstones. And that's where we met.

Speaker0

[5:53]Yes.

[5:53]

The Power of Gemstones

Speaker1

[5:54]That's where we met. and how I feel about, I think people are the one who give the energy to me. It's not people because some people, they say they are negative people and they are positive people. I always look at the positive side because negative people have a reason to be negative. This is my belief. And positive people also have a reason to be positive. Because behind negativity and positivity, there is always a story, which some people may not understand it. But me I always give a time to understand why someone is negative or giving a negative vibe and I always take a time to understand why somebody is so cheerful joyful so playful because sometimes in my practice because I do this work for many many years Sometimes the most joyful people are the most sad people.

Speaker1

[7:08]Sometimes the most people who hide their emotions, they always play with a smile, with understanding, with joy, with being very flashy about their life, are the loneliest people in the world. Or sad people which they cannot express their message back. And sometimes the most negative people which I met in my life are actually, when you summarize their negativity, they are very, very, very fortunate people.

Speaker0

[7:45]How do you mean fortunate?

Speaker1

[7:46]Because sometimes people have so much, but they focus on negativity.

Speaker1

[7:54]When you understand what they have been through, you understand that's very little comparing to someone else. So their negativity is actually their own fortune. How I give peace to the people, being through a lot in my life myself, knowing that I came from the country with the history of war in Bosnia, and I was involved in a war when I was a teenager, so being a teenager and having a war in my country and being a refugee in foreign countries and being married, of course, in Arab countries and learning other cultures, other traditions,

[8:50]

Almira's Journey and Wisdom

Speaker1

[8:41]other languages and adapting to the new environment, which was another challenge for me. Then being in my own business, which I choose what I love to do, and then challenging with the business, of course, you know, we go through a lot of challenges. Then having children, it's one of the biggest challenge in the life, so I can somehow relate to the mothers,

Speaker1

[9:17]To not only mothers, to women, let's say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can relate.

Speaker0

[9:24]Yes, and...

Speaker0

[9:28]But the reason I had stumbled upon you is my need to find this black stone because I knew about lithotherapy, about gemology. I have studied gemology years ago and I was passionate about gems. And I was looking for this black stone because it was like an anchor for me to feel protected, to take away the negativity that I was feeling a lot. It was just before COVID time and before I was again pregnant.

Speaker0

[10:07]And when I remember very accurately, when I came to your shop, even if my life was at that time very difficult as many, many, many around the world. I mean, COVID was like an exhaustor of sadness, of anxiety, of a lot of very uncomfortable emotions. And all the fears came out, I remember that when I came to your shop, it was just like everything disappeared. And it's not one time. I experienced feeling a lot of frustration, anger, and coming to your shop, everything disappears again.

[10:49]

Connecting Emotions to Gems

Speaker0

[10:44]And I go back, and I remember feeling so lonely. And I'm meeting with you, and you find exactly the word, as if, and you are showing me, for example, another stone. This one.

Speaker1

[10:59]What?

Speaker0

[10:59]Yeah, do you remember it?

Speaker1

[11:01]Yes, this is from our store.

Speaker0

[11:03]Yes, and this one is particularly...

Speaker1

[11:06]Exactly. Quartz, yes.

Speaker0

[11:09]Yes, in French we call it flesh d'amour.

Speaker1

[11:12]Yeah.

Speaker0

[11:13]It's the arrow of love.

Speaker1

[11:15]Yes, yes.

Speaker0

[11:15]And you hand me this as if you were knowing what I was feeling. And this is also an anchor for me Because when I am feeling I need love I need to feel affection I need to clear, the overwhelm. I take this one and it feels so good. So, somehow I'm observing that you have found the language to link emotions to a type of gems.

[11:58]

The Art of Jewelry Making

Speaker1

[11:50]Yeah, yes. I can read nowadays because I've been working with them over 20 years. When a customer enters to my store their story I already knew what they want maybe on on there is no many people know much about stones but when they tell me when they enter to the shop and when they they open up to me I perfectly knew that what this is the stone they have to take and I suggest I never force anyone because i believe and it's a true the real stone is after you not you are after that stone there is a reason that stone pick the owner okay the any stone that you have right now that stone wanted you uh that stone wanted to give the the energy of that stone to you No one else could have that obsidian or that tourmaline or that quartz because, as you know, we cannot manufacture stones. It's only one.

Speaker1

[13:07]No, if you go to the nature, you can find two same obsidians. You cannot find two same turmalines. They may look similar, but they are not the same because they belong to one big huge rock. Yeah. You know, so when the stones in my store, I always believe, and this is very easy for me to say that, I don't have to be a sales lady in my shop to my jewelry. They go by themselves because the stones and jewelry find their honor. And that's very interesting about stones. If you wear gemstone jewelry, there is no mistake with it. It is creation of a God on you.

Speaker1

[13:59]And what always makes me so when I started to work with gemstones I was looking searching for anything that can help me to lift me up but to be a natural way I am very much aware or self-aware of caring of myself naturally i am not a person who will go to take a medicine for feeling good i want to try to find something that is out there in god given so i try to have a better food i try to have a better time with myself i try to do some like a physiothic massage let's say

Speaker1

[14:45]Aromatherapies I went to some kind of Meditation classes I went to learn how to Properly prepare a meal For me nutrition wise To improve my health And I reached to the gemstone I called it My first touch was like, I was amazed not about a rock in my hand, but by the color. Yeah. And I understood that even color can help me. Yeah. And then I start my journey. That's the moment that I said, I love to work with this. Yeah. And how can I now share this happiness and how I feel when I hold a rock in my hand, how to share this with other people? That idea came to start to work and making a jewelry of it. And it's been a long time now, maybe 13 years.

[15:57]

Healing through Self-Awareness

Speaker1

[15:49]But I never, ever in my life doubt for a second my job, my profession, and my life call.

Speaker0

[15:57]I'm very much into science. So this is why I went to study gemology. And what I discovered about gemstones is that they have an inner world, an inner life. and we discover them by knowing what are the inclusions. We classify them by how they react, the refraction of the light. So it's the perfect metaphor about every human being. And you said it so beautifully, there is no mistake. No, and there is no mistake, and there is no two same stones.

Speaker1

[16:44]No, no.

Speaker0

[16:45]And third thing is beauty. What attracted me into studying the gems, and what is attracting you with designing a beautiful piece of art, because this is what you are doing. You are celebrating something so beautiful and you are making a piece of art like painting a beautiful painting. It's beauty. Beauty is what I discovered has a real impact on our brain. I don't know if a real scientific study has been made on what is the impact of a gemstone on your physicality, on your emotion, etc. I mean, in terms of hormones. But it doesn't mean that the science didn't focus on that, that it doesn't have a positive effect. And what I observed is my reaction emotionally when meeting, when buying a piece of jewelry in your shop and just seeing how you are, just watching you, okay, this lady is super calm. This lady is super calm. I want to feel like her. What's her secret?

Speaker1

[18:14]The calmest, well, I may say that when I feel in peace, when I feel really calm, although there are many storms in everybody's lives, it's first i believe it's that i'm doing working on things that i love that's the the the starting point if you work if you are in any profession and you don't love it or you are not in you are there just because you have to be there you will never feel calmness yeah so i i first feel calmness because I work what I love to do. That's the first thing. The second thing, as I said, when I start to create my jewelry, when I start to create bracelets, earrings, necklaces,

Speaker1

[19:08]When I start just to start my day, I am very lucky that in front of my desk or my table isn't let's say laptop or lots of electronic things as there are a lot of stones a lot a lot of beads a lot of different kind of shapes of nature so when i start my day i this is what all already calmed me down because i start to touch natural earth element then when i start to look at the stones in front of me ideas come to my mind and i start to create and design the things that when sometimes i end finishing one let's say necklace i'm so proud of how it's good how it looks how actually sometimes i am like i'm saying to myself let me keep this for me like or let me recreate one for my store or okay I can give that to the store to someone you know like but I'll just love it and this calls me this makes me happy makes me in peace then when I am

Speaker1

[20:32]When I am in process I feel that when you start to do something and when you end of your idea or design like an artist when he starts to paint he doesn't know what he's gonna do It's not a very clear picture for him. He may do, let's say, an art forest, but he doesn't know if it's going to be one tree or it's going to be like a whole mountains or forest. That's same in jewelry. I really don't know when I start, how I'm going to end. When I finish I feel so calm and happy and proud how the

Speaker1

[21:20]Peace look like and I say to myself like you made such perfect peace that I didn't even believe that I know how to do it if you can understand me that's something that makes me so calm so happy, so in peace because I am always daily working on something. I don't know what will be outcome. Sometimes I don't like outcome, but most of the time I do. I'm very happy with what I created. And then I'm so happy, so calm, so relaxed in whole process. And when the customer comes to my store and it's happening on a daily basis, and when someone recognized that what I have created it is so beautiful or so wonderful.

Speaker1

[22:13]That gives me, it's like something hits my head to the point that I couldn't even imagine being unhappy.

Speaker1

[22:25]It's like I'm so happy, I'm so joyful, I'm so calm, I'm so in peace. I have a friend, she cooks very well. And when she do a cookie and she share it with me and she ask me, how is it?

[22:42]

The Role of Trust in Healing

Speaker1

[22:38]And I say, I never try nothing more tastier than your cookie. Her whole face shine I mean she made 3000 cookies but the moment when I told her that this is the tastiest cookie I tried changed all her physics she immediately started to feel so happy I think I pull the energy of my joy calmness and happiness from the things I do that's what I do as my profession however as you said we work constantly on ourselves we have many other things to do we need to take care about food environment friends society family our look our sleep time our hormones our everything so everything is connected but i will go back it's the best things Do work and stay in focus and spend most of the time in the things that you love. Yeah. Then you will feel very calm.

Speaker0

[23:52]I was sensing that you had a recipe to give me about how you managed to transcend all the negative emotion into something beautiful. So I hear you said, first thing you do, you focus on doing what you love to do.

Speaker1

[24:16]Yes.

Speaker0

[24:16]Second, actually, and this is also what I found in your shop, if you remember, this is my most powerful anchor to earth. So I hear you when you take away all the phones, all the computers, all the frequencies, all the disturbance from the electronic devices, because they are electromagnetic devices. So, we are, as human beings, we vibrate electricity.

Speaker1

[24:52]Yes.

Speaker0

[24:53]Right? And not feeling, are magnetic, are from a magnetic field. So, all this is like you clear the environment. That's the second rule. And you put yourself next to elements of nature.

Speaker1

[25:11]Number three.

Speaker0

[25:12]Number two. Yes. You put yourself close to an element of nature. So it's like going into the middle of a forest. You are with a tree. You are into something that has the frequency of nature. This anchors. Third thing, when you create, you have the intention of giving love. Because when your friend is seeing that you're so happy eating her cookie, even if she did thousands of them, she's happy because she loves you. That was her way of loving you. Yes. So when you craft your jewelry, it's for you a way of loving people.

Speaker1

[26:07]Yes. Yes.

Speaker0

[26:09]Which in my uh experience what i understood and honestly why would we do why would we make kids at the first time because it's so hard it's so hard we it is so hard physically it is a big job but we keep on doing it so at some point there is a much higher reward to it because giving love is maybe why we breathe every day and if we are cut from this opportunity to give love maybe this is why loneliness is so much detrimental to people because they have no occasion to give love yes.

Speaker1

[26:55]And to receive

Speaker0

[26:56]And to receive but you are not giving this so you don't receive But you start by giving.

Speaker1

[27:06]Yes.

Speaker0

[27:07]And when you give it, you can see how much people love you.

Speaker1

[27:12]Yes, yes, thank you.

[27:16]

The Importance of Kindness

Speaker0

[27:17]I mean, before I say, I was just going in your shop to buy some jewelry, we didn't spend time, etc. But there was a feeling that something came, I felt it in your products.

Speaker1

[27:32]So those three rules,

Speaker0

[27:34]Putting aside that what you said, that this is your recipe. And lifestyle is important. Eating well, sleeping well. This is the basic things. But your recipe are those three points.

Speaker1

[27:49]Yes. This is the recipe for keeping you calm. Because as we start with, let's say, if we go back to the being mothers, and your program is more focused on helping mothers and understanding, because being a mom, we are all prepared biologically to be a mom. When born as a woman immediately by just coming to this world you are already prepared by as you growing up let's say to age 12 or 13 or 14 you are already developing biologically to be a mom but mentally we never been taught how to be a mom physically we know yeah but mentally Mentally, we never had, like, being a mom biologically comes naturally, but mentally, it's not a natural process. Being a mom is something that requires a lot of dedication, a lot of dedication. And one program, I had, of course, growing up, my kids are now grown up boys. They are not anymore kids. They are already like in their 30s. Okay.

Speaker1

[29:19]God bless them and God bless all children all over the world. But what happened one time, I'm like, of course, I spent my time raising my kids as a very worried mom. I am like a protected mom. And this comes also, if you know, people from Balkan area are moms are very into their family. We are very family oriented. But I just wanted to say I watched one program and I had the difficulties mentally to understand why I'm so much worried, why I'm so much stressed, why I'm so much thinking that something may go wrong or my kids going through some certain difficulties or are they well, are they sleep good. Sometimes when they were very small, like teeny babies, I would come to their room just to feel, are they alive? I mean, they are okay, but I was so worried to feel the breath.

Speaker1

[30:25]Because I was never prepared that mentally what to do with these small creatures when they came to my life. And one program I was watching in my home country language, and they asked questions in a studio. And they said, what do you lose from your life when you have kids?

Speaker1

[30:50]So many people called the program and they said, we don't have enough time, we don't, we lose our sense of patience. Some people, they say, we lose our time for ourselves, we cannot anymore think about what we want. Some people, we are losing our mind with the kids. We are losing our money, we are losing financially, we are losing even our marriage, because many marriages destroyed by when they have a child. So there were many, many, many, many things.

Speaker1

[31:38]Then the professor, he said, I remember very well, then he said, all those things are, yes, he agreed with all those things. But there is some words, I may not know it very well in English, but there is, you know, when you have a sense of no worry about anything inside you, you're like, you don't worry about anything deeply, in a deeper level. If you are having money, it doesn't big a deal. If you are having a good job, it's not a big deal. If you are moving to country to country, it's not also a big deal. If you may not graduate from university, it may not be a big deal. You don't worry about a lot of things. If you didn't eat well, you may not worry. But when you get a child, your sense of worriness starts. The sense in the brain, the brain, it's like you start just to worry.

Speaker1

[32:47]You just worry. You worry for just existence of that person. Even if he's 50, you worry. Yeah. And worry, it's a very deep emotion. Very deep. That's a very tough one. When you are constantly in a sense of worriness, your things and your health can be shaken. Because you now worry about something that is not in your control so my difficult time was understanding when I was going through emotional difficulties why I am going through this so many emotional difficulties and then I realized I worry so much and then I realized that if I worry that much, why I worry this much? Why? And then I realized that I do not trust God that much. Okay.

Speaker1

[33:56]I mean, if I am that much worried about my children, that means that I do not have enough trust that everything will be okay. So my healing start with releasing worry and trusting more in the process. And that's when I felt so lightened up or let's say not in one month, that's a very long period if you ask me. It took me many years because as you know my kids doesn't live with me for the past 12 years. So I had to work on healing myself from being so much worry and understanding that I have to change worriness for trust. And then I start to trust the process. And trusting the process helped me to feel calm, to always, whatever happens, I trust higher force. It's for good. Yeah.

Speaker0

[35:04]Your recipe made you reach this point.

Speaker1

[35:09]Yes.

Speaker0

[35:10]When you focus, it's amazing because you have this instinctively intelligence to ask yourself the good question. At some point, you had faced this awareness, okay, this is the emotion. I'm aware that I am too much worried.

Speaker1

[35:30]Yes.

Speaker0

[35:31]Now, in a standpoint of where this has came from, it didn't matter to you because you are, first thing, you are aware that, oh, this is too much worry and it's impacting my life.

[35:52]

Navigating Life's Challenges

Speaker0

[35:43]Second, this worry comes from a lack of trust, which is absolutely logical, right? You don't trust because you cannot control everything. And then you apply your recipe. As a therapist, we know that, for example, when someone has faced traumatic events, your emotion, it's like you are living in a house where there is a big snake, huge snake.

Speaker1

[36:18]Yes.

Speaker0

[36:20]And you don't know where it is. it's going through the walls and he can sneak in in your bedroom so you know it so simply you cannot live in this house you need to abandon the house and you become homeless, So when you are homeless, God forbid, but you can, I never experienced it. But can you imagine having no house? If you don't have a house, you cannot have a job or how do you live? How do you cook? I mean, it's constant survival mode. It's like you are in the nature outside, not speaking about the shame of being homeless, not speaking about the worry, the stress of not knowing where you're. If you live in a cold-weathered country, you might die because it's too cold outside. If it's too hot, you might die because it's unbearable. People have a house, so they can rest.

Speaker1

[37:24]Yes.

Speaker0

[37:25]So with this traumatic event, and obviously you had faced them.

Speaker1

[37:31]Yes.

Speaker0

[37:32]I mean, war.

Speaker1

[37:34]Yes.

Speaker0

[37:35]Anybody who lived the war, you might die anytime soon.

Speaker1

[37:40]Anytime.

Speaker0

[37:41]Anytime. And you told me that you lost dearest people in your life.

Speaker1

[37:47]Including my father.

Speaker0

[37:48]You lost your father at a very early age. When I experienced myself being a mom, I had this light coming up of anxiety, of worry. How am I going to protect this baby that I love so much? and I'm feeling the worry, but I don't know why. And I don't know how to do it. Two, calm this down.

Speaker1

[38:15]But it's better to catch the snake in your home than you go to the unknown outside. Exactly.

Speaker0

[38:26]Absolutely. So the best way is to face the reality. Now, a snake is a snake. Metaphorically, he hides all the time because actually he is more afraid of us than we are afraid of him. And we can use weapons and we can bring help to a snake.

Speaker1

[38:50]Like what's it doing now? Yes, exactly.

Speaker0

[38:53]So there is no point of living outside its own house. We need to gain back power of our house.

Speaker1

[39:03]Inside.

Speaker0

[39:03]Inside of us. Only there we can find peace.

Speaker1

[39:08]We just need i say for everybody just be more self-aware yeah just be more because don't go through your life not knowing like a like a machine like a robot let's be a more let's pause we live in a very fast life pace let's pause nothing is gonna happen we have 24 hours you just need to take it easier on yourself why be self aware of everything that happens to you and you start slowly to understanding that trust me simple thing which may be silly for some of your viewers, if you, let's say, were polyesters,

Speaker1

[40:04]Polyester material, it can give you a hard time because it's a pure nylon, cannot breathe, and at the same time, your biggest organ is your skin, and at the same time, you're covering your biggest organ, which is skin, your skin can't breathe. For let's say, a person goes to work 8 a.m. And comes 5 p.m. So, whole day, you may want it to be joyful and happy and calm and stress-free, but you are completely packed yourself with a garbage bag. Imagine, like you just packed yourself with a garbage bag, your skin didn't breathe. You were maybe sweating a couple of times, your organs had to work to take out the liquid from your heat of the plastic.

Speaker1

[41:04]You may need more water, you may feel you need to go to more toilet. It your physics your body feels you're not comfortable even and you may even develop the smell of your body because you are wearing a plastic so some people go through life not even aware what they put on themselves by by what they are wearing and of course that's very silly small point but it can really be a big thing in in your healing process yeah and why because if you are self-aware that's my personal opinion you will start to it's like a self-awareness is like as i said before puzzle you start to be aware of what you wear what you eat with who you socialize what you work where you go how you use technology what

Speaker1

[42:02]You watch what you and you create a puzzle you put all those puzzles together in let's say let's call it a heart puzzle and that heart puzzle is you yeah and then you never allow any of these puzzles to go out yeah if you feel comfortable with it yeah if you feel that some needs to be changed work on it but you have to like a house you cannot build it from top you have to start it from the from the bottom mindfulness mindfulness it's a it's a it's a for me the

[42:53]

The Journey to Self-Awareness

Speaker1

[42:43]first thing to be a normal human being normal just start point Self-awareness. You need to start to work on everything, on every single thing you even have at your home.

Speaker1

[43:00]Your home, your things you touch, your plate you eat, your food you serve, your products you buy, your environment, your air you breathe, your jewelry. Why I always emphasize on jewelry? Why? Because it's much better for you to wear a stone than plastic. But you don't even realize that plastic touch your body all day long. And you even can develop allergies in your earrings, in your, I mean, that's why natural, that's why I always say, go with the natural things. The industry now in jewelry works to put one gemstone and then put many, many others, you know. So you may find a lot of, it looks beautiful, but there is no gemstone there because it reduces the cost and it looks beautiful. But that's why I always say to the people, if you want to choose to wear, wear natural things, choose a gemstone. It's much better for me as I see that you put on your table stone and jewelry on yourself and gold and you put the stones near to your computer. That means that you are already aware that you do not want unnatural things to the human to be associated with you. So, healing starts with awareness.

Speaker1

[44:29]You just need to be aware of everything.

Speaker0

[44:32]Of everything. And thank you so much for that. You know, because now I realize that when we are so much—and this is what brought

[44:46]

Overcoming Negative Emotions

Speaker0

[44:43]me to your shop. I was so much overwhelmed. At that time, I didn't start my—I was about to start therapy. I was about to start the therapy that really has changed has been a game changer but the first step was this awareness and I found it, Looking after obsidian.

Speaker1

[45:05]Ah, yes.

Speaker0

[45:06]Because my head was so much full of rumination, of negative thinking, overthinking, overthinking. Because this is the process. And when you worry, you overthink.

Speaker1

[45:19]Of course.

Speaker0

[45:20]And when you overthink, and then you start imagining very bad scenarios, and you start feeling it, and then you will put yourself into this loop. I mean, you can imagine living in, being in a water and with sharks around you, you can feel it, you can feel the worry, you can feel the fear. And that's detrimental because you're going to flood your body with all the cortisol, all the bad hormones. You're going to shoot your health down. You're going to lower your immune system. And then if there's a virus who comes, good luck. good luck to uh to handle it and this is it you are the entry point you are the awareness.

Speaker1

[46:08]You are you are because when you came to the shop you're already aware yes thing has to be changed imagine as i said stone pick you yeah as you said now you mentioned one word

[46:29]

Finding Peace within Yourself

Speaker1

[46:26]fire in the head and the warrenness and exploding like this. Obsidian is a lava stone. It's a volcanic explosion of the volcanic eruption. So when the lava cools down, it's a fire in the earth. Imagine yourself fire in you. When you were maybe looking for obsidian, you were already want something to just cool you down. You were exploding. Yes. You were like a And even when you hold obsidian, it's kind of cold. It's not a stone. Actually, it's volcanic glass. When you went to the shop to look for some help, maybe not even knowing what you will find there, you were already aware. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker0

[47:17]My body was aware. My mind wasn't aware. I couldn't say at that time, because emotions are so subtle. I mean, there are so much. It's a foreign language for humanity from what I saw. Because if we were that good at being aware of our emotions and saying, oh, I feel this, I feel this, that would be really much less problems on Earth. But the body knows.

Speaker1

[47:52]It gives you signals. It makes you sick. Yeah. It makes you sick.

Speaker0

[47:57]Yeah.

Speaker1

[47:58]It makes you sick because if you are having so many bad emotions, you will be very slow in doing things. You will have a hard time to breathe enough. Your oxygen will be less. Your body will always be prepared to fight. Yeah. You will have maybe blood pressure high, maybe sugar developed, higher sugar in the body. The body is preparing to fight. And there's no clear picture of who the body is fighting with. It's with your mind. And your mind is in your body.

Speaker1

[48:37]So you don't have enemies outside of you. You have enemies in you. What we have inside the body is controlled by your brain. If the brain doesn't send the message, the other things will never work. So if you, for example, develop a low immunity, all the sickness, all the disease, many women develop, go through, you know, they actually now, I read one article, the cancer is side effect of cancer, isn't very bad food and stuff. It's a stress. Stress. It's a stress. It's a definitely yes, of course, if you are stressed, you will go for a pack of chips, you will go with a noodle pack, you will go with something quick, easy, you may even go for a whole chocolate, because your body is telling you, you're too stressed, give me a little happiness. And then brain tells you, okay, maybe a pack of chips will help, while a pack of chips will give you more stress later on. Maybe someone goes let me have a drink and then later on you will have effects of that maybe someone say let me take a cigarette and I will be better but later on you will see effect so the brain is actually just asking a way to survive you

Speaker1

[50:02]In the whole process if you are really self aware of what is your enemy it's only you you are your own enemy you have to understand the feelings why in a relation something is wrong why when you are let's say unhealthy why you are wrong why your children is not a way let's say you don't want the children be your way but let's say why you have a problem with the child you have to understand why you have a problem at work well you have to understand what is really going on to solve the problem. You can't just blindly go through life. And to know what is wrong, you must be aware.

Speaker1

[50:49]You will come to the point that you will feel even you will be very enlightened in the company of friends. Some people will say, I enjoy that company. Enjoy that person coffee. If this person doesn't come, I'm not coming. You got me. Because the energy will be felt. Even your aging will slow. Aging process is slow. You can see a woman in her 50s, her age can be a reflection of her life. Even you can see a woman aging. You can see her having a lot of Botox filler, everything. You can fix the facade.

[51:37]

The Impact of Self-Awareness

Speaker1

[51:38]Inside, you will know. For one minute, you will know. because there is nothing you can fix inside. You can make any house beautiful from outside, but you will be very scared to go inside. Self-awareness is very important. You have to start eliminate everything. It may affect your peace. And it's not people.

Speaker1

[52:06]Usually, you know what the people do? They say, I'm not going to talk to this friend, I'm not going to answer this message, I'm not going to talk to this person, you know, or I will not give any more attention to my boss. It's not that. It's not a people. It's you, again. You need to watch out what you are wearing, what type of chemicals you are using, what you are eating, what you are doing to your body. Do you exercise or not? What type of jobs you do? I can't, I will tell you something. And also, it depends on character, personality. Let's say I'm a person, I would never stay 40 years and the job I don't like. I can't. That's me. Some people, they stay. They just stay. They see no solution. They see no solution. They prefer to be unhappy than to look for solution. Ah.

Speaker0

[53:10]So, the strategy is to tune with your joy. What makes you joyful?

Speaker1

[53:18]Yes. But you have to know there are people unhappy because that's their choice.

Speaker0

[53:27]Exactly.

Speaker1

[53:28]That's their choice. And you can't change that. You can't change. You can talk. You can have therapies. You can give advices. You can wear wonderful jewelry. You can do whatever. You cannot change because people have choices. Let's say, if I am not happy where I live, look how big the world is. Choose to change. It's never late.

Speaker1

[53:53]You know, let's say, I don't love my job. Okay, you don't just go home and be unemployed. Work in how to change that. You know, let's say if you don't like friends that you maybe socialize every day, don't just disappear. You try to choose maybe different social activities. Maybe you want to visit some, let's say, sports club, maybe some art club. Maybe you will be busy with some painting. Maybe you will go piano classes. Maybe you will do some, maybe you will come to my shop to do nice jewelry because you can do your own necklace. You got me. You choose to withdraw from that by your choice. Yeah. If you don't, if you feel that your body isn't fine, you know, like you are overweight or you are underweight or it's your choice to change that.

[54:55]

Embracing Change and Joy

Speaker1

[54:51]You just decide it's a decision away from being happy. Decision. And this is, people are, routine gives you this feeling of going with the flow. I advise everyone to jump in uncertain. Jump, just jump. You will find so much joy in uncertainty. True.

Speaker0

[55:16]And thank you so much for all these, this wonderful wisdom. Really, I love it. We all have the choice. That's absolutely true. I understand. Thank you for that. I understand that there is the difficulty to make people choose is self-awareness. And this is what I wanted people to see with you today. That's true. Okay. It's like you open a book and you want to change. You see that your life is not good. You're a mom. It's not going good. and everybody tells you go for this book do this do this do that okay this is information that goes to the model but for in my experience for.

Speaker0

[56:04]If we cannot, if we didn't reach a goal, it's not because you are weak or you don't want. No. Being aware, going to your shop was the starting point in my healing process. I'm telling you this, I have goosebumps. Your shop was the starting point of self-awareness. So I believe And I'm happy to share that with All the people who follow me And who will stumble upon this episode I hope they come to see you Because And you can Actually Anybody in the world can buy from you It's not because You are in Kuwait, You already have clients All over the GCC You told me that you have a lot of clients In Bahrain In Saudi You have been married with a Saudi person, so you know very well, you love deeply Saudi.

Speaker1

[57:02]Of course, of course, it's my country. Exactly.

Speaker0

[57:06]And people will see on the link below how to reach out to your page on Instagram, your website, and they can find a way to connect with their own emotions within you. This is not from my therapy standpoint this is because i have studied the science of gemstones i know how to recognize a very good quality of gemstones and almira you you sell pieces of of art and people will start feeling i'm sure they will start feeling very good just connecting to their own hearts by going through your jewelry.

Speaker1

[57:56]Thank you so much. Tones are forever. Yeah. It may break, you know, like we are a people, maybe we may break our things because, of course, even the gold can break. But stones will never change the color if you don't expose it too much to sun. Of course, there is a certain stones that doesn't like to be out. But I talk about jewelry. So jewelry, the stone will never change. The shape will never change. The property of stone will never change. The stone itself as a source of the earth, it's never going to change. It's something that you can value for generations. It's never ending. It's never ending. Because why I love to work with gems and I work with pearls also, because I still have a pearl necklace from my grand-grandmother. What I am also proud of it is that this is not a commercial thing. This is something that is forever. True.

Speaker1

[59:03]It is forever. That makes, having the stones on your table, you can pass it to your daughter, to your son, to your sister. Yes. It may find their home. Yes. Even generations after generations. Even if you are not there, my stones, which I have at home, I have so many. They may return back to the nature.

Speaker0

[59:27]Well, you conclude this as I would have wished it best. It's true. When you learn how to navigate the storm of your emotions.

Speaker0

[59:41]And storms, you cannot control the weather outside. So we need to learn how to dance even when it's raining. We need to know how to shelter when it's super dangerous outside.

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The Legacy of Love and Kindness

Speaker0

[59:58]And that is the smell. That is the sense of resilience. And what you are saying with your beautiful poetry, as usual, is that when we discover our inner gem, when you become self-aware as you are giving this gift to all the people who come to you, you not only buy it for yourself, you are going to transmit it to your daughters, to your daughter's daughters, to your sons, to your son's son. It's a gift that will sustain you. The generation in the future. We are here not only to survive. We have this responsibility. This is what gave me wings to watch in the mirror what was not doing good for myself. As moms, we have this responsibility because we have the most important job in the world. We are bringing to the society, to people, to our neighbors, other human beings.

Speaker1

[1:01:06]And we want them,

Speaker0

[1:01:07]We want them to be kind. And kind people are just people who are filled with love. And when you're filled with love and you took care of the snake in your house, you're not scared anymore. You are relaxed. You are not scared of lacking anything. And you are not... Ashamed of yourself, you are okay with yourself, you will have the strength to be kind, because it needs strength to be kind.

Speaker1

[1:01:46]You know that you are absolutely right. Just like when you said a snake in the house, we need to be aware that not every snake is a poison.

Speaker0

[1:01:57]Exactly.

Speaker1

[1:01:58]Not every. We may see things that are scary, but they can be your friends too, you know? Not everything is poison. Let a snake be at home. It may not be that poisonous, you know? As a kid, I grew up in the forest in Bosnia, you know. I catch many snakes for their tail and roll them and throw them, you know. And we were not even afraid that they will bite us. And many of the things that I may not do today, I did it when I was a child, but I just want to say we have experienced a lot of these snakes at our home. They are not poisonous at all. They even just don't want to be with you sometimes. So the kindness, when I describe kindness in my life, when things start to actually even get better for me, there was a point when I started to lift a little bit and I understood that's the moment that I start to feel better.

Speaker1

[1:03:12]When I start to give, And I think giving is the kindest thing, form of a human being, giving. Giving, it's not only that you can financially support someone, it's not that. But when you give a kind word, when you give a smile, when you carry the bag, it's a kind of givenness when you carry the bike for oldery when you get up and the train or whatever we have here in bosnia train to oldery it's a kind of you giving something you're giving your comfortability for someone when you um when you are giving a financial let's say support for somebody less fortunate. When you, let's say, when you say, good morning, it's a giving.

Speaker1

[1:04:11]Because it takes energy to give, to say good morning. It's something you're giving. Giving yourself time to protest and to be kind enough to understand other side. Because we do not know people's lives, you know. We do not know what's going on in any moment. So just giving a kindness, kind words. Giving a piece of you small things can impact your day so giving is the biggest form of kindness just give out your podcast is the giving out to so many people who may hear this and receive it and you're gonna feel amazing about it and that person will understand maybe what's wrong with him in a better way So, you are already giving. Inshallah. Yeah.

Speaker0

[1:05:11]That's the intention. That's the intention. Almira, thank you so much. Thank you for your wisdom. Thank you for your beautiful love recipe, self-love recipe. So, you can find about the shape of their hearts. Yes. And I wish a lot of people will get to meet you so they can be in touch with the beauty they have inside of them, the treasure they have inside of them. I wish you a wonderful day and I hope we meet soon because...

Speaker1

[1:05:48]You promised my visit to Jeddah.

Speaker0

[1:05:51]Yes, Jeddah.

Speaker1

[1:05:52]I am coming soon.

Speaker0

[1:05:54]Inshallah.

Speaker1

[1:05:56]Bosnia is my home. I am Bosnian. This is my home. I live in Kuwait, and Kuwait is my soul. Yeah. Because this is country I live. And I have Saudi is my heart. Oh, my goodness. You know why? Why is my heart Saudi? Because my kids are Saudi. Yeah. And the biggest form of love, it comes from your heart. So Saudi Arabia as a country, it's my heart. I'm very often in Saudi as you know all the time I'm traveling I'm going to beautiful cities from starting when I have G to Daman, to Khuba, to Riyadh See you soon then

Speaker0

[1:06:43]See you soon.

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Conclusion and Future Connections