We Asked People at a Spiritual Fair to Give Us Their Best Tips on How to Become More Harmonious

Harmoni-Expo is Sweden's biggest spirituality and alternative therapy fair held twice a year in Stockholm. The fair draws all kinds: people who are seeking enlightenment, people who are already enlightened and want to share their wisdom, and people who are just really into magical crystals.

I visited the suburban sports hall where it was held to try and find ultimate recipe for achieving inner peace and balance.

Wandering between the stands offering aura photography, healing rocks, goji berries, chiromancy and orthopaedic shoe pads, I knew I had come to the right place. The spirituality was tangible all around me: in the perfect 80s hairdo of the guy who claimed to receive downloads from the '5th Dimension' in order to be able to perform psychic surgeries on people; in the 'healthy and protective' iPhone cases on sale; on the posters encouraging people to stop living like zombies.

Pehr Trollsveden – medium and tarot reader

VICE: How did you discover spirituality?
Pehr Trollsveden: I was three years old when I started to see spirits. Over the years I have completed a course in healing and meditation, and I am also educated as a reincarnation and spirit teacher. I also write books and read tarot.

What have your experiences as a medium and tarot reader taught you so far?To be present in yourself, not to judge people and to meet them where they are just right now. I can't decide what others should do. What I give them is just like a weather forecast: the coming months will look like this. But the decision what to do is always personal.

What is your way of bringing people into harmony?
I try to find the joy of life for those who lost it, and inspire them in their everyday life. The best way to reach harmony is to meditate: either with music, with mantras or yoga. That helps to bring your soul into balance.

The Lucky Rats Lady

VICE: You have a poster up saying ''everyone needs a little guy to talk to and a lucky rat''. Why do we need that?
Anonymous lady: Because you whisper your problems to the little figure, and he in turn will solve all of your problems.

What about the rats?
They bring good luck.

What is the best way to achieve harmony?
Happiness is harmony.

Annabella P – Healer

VICE: How did you get into healing?
Annabella P: I have never studied to become a healer – I got it as a gift. It was an older healer who passed it on to me in 2009. He guided me for two years. To be a good healer, you need to follow three rules: listen to yourself and the person you are treating, share love and believe in your power.

How has your healing evolved throughout the years?
I was healing for free before but now that I'm retired, I need some means to pay the rent. I charge 300 SEK, but only 100 SEK goes to me, the rest goes to an orphanage in the Philippines that I founded. Right now we are constructing a house for children from eight years up, cause that's often the age when they get kicked out from their houses and live on the streets, getting involved in alcohol and drugs.

What is the best way to become a harmonious person?
You need to listen, love and believe in yourself. To love means to not to be selfish and feel good with what you do with yourself. You need to listen to your heart and instinct. You need to believe in yourself. You should never change yourself and your beliefs. Me, for instance, I have no religion. I just have my belief – it is my guide, my power. I don't need a GPS when I drive – the stars and the moon lead my way.

Hwaqu – from the Church of Eckankar

VICE: What tip do you have for people seeking inner harmony?
Hwaqu: We are sharing the wisdom of the word HU [read: hyu], which is the song that represents the powerful name of God. It is the sacred name of God; it is the pure name of God. If you want to sing it, try to do it before you go to sleep. Just forget about everything else and relax. If something is bothering you, just try to think about something that cheers you up, it can be your boyfriend, your mother and then just sing: hyuuuuu… it takes you to a place of joy.

How does that help to me to become a harmonious person?
You know something: you just use it. For instance, if I ask you: do you like tea, what do you say?

Yes.
Why?

Cause I don't like coffee?
Why?

Cause it makes me nervous… I guess?
Exactly. It makes you nervous. So it is just about asking yourself and then you know. Just fill yourself with love. The harmony is joy. Forget about everything. By the way, do you live alone? Oh, you have a boyfriend? Okay.

Maria – bra-fitting workshop leader

VICE: How can good underwear help to achieve inner harmony?
Maria: Our products are both for body and soul. If you have the right underwear, your clothes will fit you well and your spirit feels better. We are here to help women. When I lead bra-fitting workshops I often talk a lot about self-confidence and harmony is definitely a part of that. If you have your breasts at the right place and your body feels good, you have more harmony for sure. Even if you have your own little insecurities, you can learn how to cover them up. Like me, for instance: I have a bit too much body here and there, but I can do a bit of a false PR with help of body shaping underwear.

At this point, Maria unbuttons her trousers and uncovers her belly; all wrapped up in shapely lycra pants.

How does your mission as a bra fitter fit together with your spirituality?
I am a bit medial myself. It is good to be open and curious. As a bra fitter I often show others how to choose correct underwear. And I do that on my own body, which means being naked in front of strangers sometimes. By doing this I have gained much more confidence and best of all: I often give a good example to the participating women. They start off very shy in the beginning, but in the end they flash their boobs directly in my face so I actually need to ask them to back off a bit.

Anders Wibron – sales rep from Qantum Protection

VICE: What are you selling? It looks like a bracelet you could get on some kind of rave.
Anders Wibron: Our products are based on the fact that we all have bio-energy in the body. All people and four-legged animals have the same basic frequencies. When we use electronic devices such as mobiles, they move into our electromagnetic field and send digital signals that go through us. Sometimes we do not have enough strength in our field to defend ourselves against it. Our product strengthens the human bio-energetic system. It is based on a technology discovered by James Clark Maxwell, who based it on the ancient wisdom from Greek mythology and today even NASA uses it.

In what way do these bracelets contribute to our inner harmony?
This hologram technology constitutes harmony on the cell level, through osmosis. It brings the electro magnetic balance to the cells and even one level deeper, on the frequency level. They help you to strengthen your aura and find the bio-energetic harmony.

How could I become a harmonious person?
The most important thing is to be positive, but down to earth, too. To be loving and caring, not only when it comes to humans, but also when it comes to nature.

A couple in purple – Summit Lighthouse

VICE: Could you introduce us to your religion?
Anonymous couple: It combines different religions: Jesus is equally important as reincarnation. The purple light comes down to us when we pray to the purple flame.

What does your religion say about finding the perfect harmony?
We believe the core of our existence is the three-folded flame. You become automatically harmonious if you find the balance in it. It exists in the three colours of the flame: pink means love, yellow means wisdom and blue means power. In the beginning the flame is like a tulip, but when you start acting, the flames blend together. So if you have the balance between love, wisdom and harmony, you'll get to the state of harmony in your body. You can strengthen your harmony reading the holy scripts, doing good deeds, baking good pastries, and painting pretty paintings. We have all different roles and places in this life, but no one is more important than the other. The person who cuts the grass is not worth less than a dentist.

That sounds very interesting.
It is not just interesting – it's true.