Nicola An's Blog - Posts Tagged "self-help"
A Whisper of Positivity
If you are weary, scared and shattered, I hope this can help:
Acknowledging that there is Oneness,it's impossible not to empathize, it's real frustrating, affecting a feeling of being so powerless. I've been trying to make every tragic news fall on my deaf ears but the more resilient you are, the more you get pushed and the last straw is when the "opposite of the light" is well aware of your weakness, it takes one incident to eventuate your fall. Sometimes the way to the light is quite wobbly, I won't sugarcoat spirituality.It is a SILENT BATTLE UNSEEN. I know that some of you can comprehend, and some only read this with immediate confusion and even a flicker of unfavorable impression;nevertheless,I believe that we all dream of salvation, redemption, peace...of heaven even here on #earth because we all have hopes and goals,chased or ignored.It is our purpose to look forward to happier beginnings so we can go back to paradise we've been told we came from and only when we choose the good, do the good and SEE the good can we return HOME.If you want to consider the "bad", yes! It's the "opposite of the light" taunting and daunting you so you will surrender to its darkness but please, this is the best moment to look at things as the Higher Power's test how adamant you are when it comes to fulfilling what drives you to reaching your higher self!Just because it's not safe anywhere doesn't mean you stay shut and immobile, get out, the world is for adventures.Just because they say the end is near doesn't mean you end your quest for bliss, every single day is full of forever! Just because people punish and kill doesn't mean no one can be trusted and no one deserves forgiveness, an act of strong compassion always makes a HEART beat. Just because atrocity is rampant and viral doesn't mean TRUE LOVE is hard to be found, what isn't easily attained is always worth the fight!
Do not decorate your own deathbed by giving up living.Remember that everything is a test of FAITH.
-Infinitely, Nicola An
Acknowledging that there is Oneness,it's impossible not to empathize, it's real frustrating, affecting a feeling of being so powerless. I've been trying to make every tragic news fall on my deaf ears but the more resilient you are, the more you get pushed and the last straw is when the "opposite of the light" is well aware of your weakness, it takes one incident to eventuate your fall. Sometimes the way to the light is quite wobbly, I won't sugarcoat spirituality.It is a SILENT BATTLE UNSEEN. I know that some of you can comprehend, and some only read this with immediate confusion and even a flicker of unfavorable impression;nevertheless,I believe that we all dream of salvation, redemption, peace...of heaven even here on #earth because we all have hopes and goals,chased or ignored.It is our purpose to look forward to happier beginnings so we can go back to paradise we've been told we came from and only when we choose the good, do the good and SEE the good can we return HOME.If you want to consider the "bad", yes! It's the "opposite of the light" taunting and daunting you so you will surrender to its darkness but please, this is the best moment to look at things as the Higher Power's test how adamant you are when it comes to fulfilling what drives you to reaching your higher self!Just because it's not safe anywhere doesn't mean you stay shut and immobile, get out, the world is for adventures.Just because they say the end is near doesn't mean you end your quest for bliss, every single day is full of forever! Just because people punish and kill doesn't mean no one can be trusted and no one deserves forgiveness, an act of strong compassion always makes a HEART beat. Just because atrocity is rampant and viral doesn't mean TRUE LOVE is hard to be found, what isn't easily attained is always worth the fight!
Do not decorate your own deathbed by giving up living.Remember that everything is a test of FAITH.
-Infinitely, Nicola An
Seasons
"The whole world is not entirely weeping, you shouldn't be despondently groveling,
this is just a season passing by;
The mere sadness --this is just the withering of the leaves, not the death of the trees,
You are supposed to grow tall
you are still about to be plentiful" -Yours infinitely,
Nicola An
this is just a season passing by;
The mere sadness --this is just the withering of the leaves, not the death of the trees,
You are supposed to grow tall
you are still about to be plentiful" -Yours infinitely,
Nicola An
"Cleaving"
Looking at old photographs, I feel entirely estranged from a familiar time. It’s like I was always borrowed by something against my will. Bleak skies and suffocating pitch-black walls I can picture out making me cringe. As I see myself now, a fresh painting with warm colors that every loving smile I wear can emulate the sight of the sun peeking at dawn, all those old photographs are such a distant,forgotten dream. Although I may ask again if we really do forget because after all,we’re made to live through our memories but just because we’re haunted doesn’t mean we should be scared.
Becoming isn’t about putting on a new self but rather, unveiling your true self. As far as being spiritually grown, I am well aware of what I was and what I still am. Sure, I have forgiven the ways I had punished myself and understood the wounds that had to teach me my biggest lessons, nights and mornings have gotten along well with me, still and serene in between and that I have learned to dance despite the unpleasant music I sometimes have to face, there come those moments when I feel awfully alone, I sit down with the same emotions calling me out as though the little devil that used to feed me lies is creeping up again, and yet for what must be a poking miracle, I can easily brush off that unwanted presence and see the brighter reality in a single blink. I know that I can be the old me and at the same time, different form that person.
You, recognizing the slave and the master in yourself can be achieved when you allow this awakening to take over all that you’ve ever been. There will always be an aching in you, hunger and loss will still greet you venomously that you may feel your past resurfacing-- this total relapse gobbling you bit by bit.
See? Like always, you fall and break but the good news is you don’t pick up those broken pieces anymore to collect and keep them but to immediately throw them away. You are both inside and outside of yourself, the one who breaks and the true Self that watches and patches up everything for you.
Remember this whenever you feel alone.
-Nicola An
Becoming isn’t about putting on a new self but rather, unveiling your true self. As far as being spiritually grown, I am well aware of what I was and what I still am. Sure, I have forgiven the ways I had punished myself and understood the wounds that had to teach me my biggest lessons, nights and mornings have gotten along well with me, still and serene in between and that I have learned to dance despite the unpleasant music I sometimes have to face, there come those moments when I feel awfully alone, I sit down with the same emotions calling me out as though the little devil that used to feed me lies is creeping up again, and yet for what must be a poking miracle, I can easily brush off that unwanted presence and see the brighter reality in a single blink. I know that I can be the old me and at the same time, different form that person.
You, recognizing the slave and the master in yourself can be achieved when you allow this awakening to take over all that you’ve ever been. There will always be an aching in you, hunger and loss will still greet you venomously that you may feel your past resurfacing-- this total relapse gobbling you bit by bit.
See? Like always, you fall and break but the good news is you don’t pick up those broken pieces anymore to collect and keep them but to immediately throw them away. You are both inside and outside of yourself, the one who breaks and the true Self that watches and patches up everything for you.
Remember this whenever you feel alone.
-Nicola An
