Asa Rodriguez's Blog, page 8
March 27, 2023
Flowing…
Overcoming fear
Adversity is part of nature. Accept that fact and you’ll grow much stronger. Most of our frustrations, anxieties, mental health problems, even physical illnesses, come from the resistance to this great truth.
Your mind must flow with what is, accept, welcome what comes. It is better to accept and learn for a better version of you than to fight and suffer to remain the same. The only outcome of resistance and denial is fear.
Fear makes you lose confidence in yourself, control of yourself, and respect for yourself. Why then fear at all?? Why not train your mind to do away with fear, so positivity and intelligence can grow instead??
March 24, 2023
What drives
No excuses
The mind adapts and converts itself according to our acts, to our habits. So, never say that you can’t change, or that you are too old and set in your ways, or that you are simply surrounded by the wrong influence.
Our habits drive us, especially the smallest ones, the ones most of us ignore. But what creates character in a person, what creates our whole persona, is our habits daily. So, take a good look at your personal habits.
Self-inquiry is key
Ask yourself: Where do I want to be years from now?? What do I really desire to become?? What are the steps I’m taking now to be the best version of myself tomorrow??
Too many complain now-a-days. Many more wish and pray. But just a very few among us actually take an inner look and create new and better habits.
March 20, 2023
The wisdom in pain
Born to be great
Learning is not child’s play, because we cannot learn without pain. Pain means being confronted in your beliefs. Pain means accepting failure. Pain means carrying your past until you observe it carefully.
Pain means leaving those unhealthy addictions and adopting a different lifestyle. Pain means many things. But remember that what we do with that pain makes us better human beings, or destroys us in life.
And what we do now, echoes in eternity. We are born to be great. And so, to be truly great as we grow up, we are required to learn from our pain. This requires us, of course, to leave our comfort zones.
March 17, 2023
Is it so…??
If someone disturbs you, annoys you, or is constantly making you uncomfortable, then stop and ask yourself why is bothering you so much. How is it really affecting my daily living??
How is it really hurting me?? Is it really interrupting my life and my activities?? Or is it just my ego attaching itself to what somebody else does?? Am I being overdramatic?? Judge yourself and find out the real root of your anxiety and frustration.
Do not let your mind remain proud and vainglorious in this. Do not just say to yourself, “Oh I’m not doing anything wrong here, but it is all somebody else’s fault and annoying attitude!” Be more than this. Take a good and meditative look into yourself.
March 13, 2023
To get through it
Strong & Firm
One of the most attractive and successful traits to have in life is confidence. No matter what you go through, you must believe in yourself. Belief in myself is what got me through breakups, and deaths in the family, and financial troubles.
Because the fact is that terrible things are going to happen in life, unexpectedly, whether we want it or not; however, if we believe in ourselves, in the capacity to get through it, in the ability to re-build and triumph in the future, we then become strong and firm before any problems we may have.
Committed to your purpose
And there needs to be a vision, a purpose, a goal, in order to believe in yourself and get through whatever life throws at you. Our minds have to seize this positivity and vanquish all negativity, and with this comes the commitment to keep going.
This commitment is paramount. You have to train your mind to let all the worry and frustration go, so the strength to keep moving forward emerges and stays where is supposed to stay in order to bring you clarity and passion to desire to be better.
March 10, 2023
That Devil…
The Dream
Man has been put in a box, forged, molded to be something he’s not. ‘Eat the same things most people eat, because the ad says so and they taste good. Concern yourself only with working and making money, so you can consume and become like the rest…
‘Get married and have lots of children, because that is the “normal/way to love” you have to obey. Seek daily addictions, identity, groups in the world, so you can feel whole and loved by the rest of the cogs. You must choose a religion, a god, a prophet, choose a side to become another worshiper, because only sides hold the truth and direction you need.’
Time to Get Up
And it goes on and on with the performances of the ignorant clowns. And if you do not join in this, then something’s wrong with you. It is not normal. But beware, this is the box, which has structured your mind. Of course, you don’t see it, you deny it even. But, wake up from your slumber, I say! It is time to get up from your cushy dream.
March 3, 2023
Your mental health
It requires from you full honesty
If you struggle with depression, or anxiety, or any negative pattern of thinking. If you sometimes feel unworthy, or less than another, or somehow unable to reach certain goals or dreams for yourself. Ask yourself why this is.
But seek the real answer. Don’t blame your genetics fully. Or your childhood fully. Or your surroundings fully. Human beings tend to look outwardly for answers to their issues–from their doctors, from drugs, from genetics, from other people who suffer the same issues, etc.
It requires from you full independence
And that’s what, unbeknownst to you, makes you addicted, and adds to your feelings of inadequacy. If your mind seeks answers outwardly, it becomes dependent on what’s out there. Always.
It becomes an addiction, an obsession, a source for you to seek excuses for your own lack of health. Don’t deny this. By denying it, you are making yourself worse. By denying it, you are dumbing yourself down and neglecting yourself.
It requires from you real change
By neglecting yourself, your psychological and emotional issues grow bigger. So, they grow bigger. You deny some more. You keep seeking answers on the outside.
You keep suffering with no health. And then, because of all this, the cycle continues, your DNA and your subconscious patterns never change. So, avoid yourself all that nonsense. Seek the real answers. Not out there.
February 24, 2023
The greatest
Free from attachments
The greatest attribute of a person is friendship. Because friendship means honest communication, great patience, the willingness to understand. Because it comes from an open mind, and such is a mind not attached to its own beliefs and opinions.
Any attachments do you harm, without you noticing perhaps. Any attachments make you addictive, irrational, biased, and it takes away your capacity and willingness to accept and even care about the experience of the other person.
February 20, 2023
Ready
What it takes
-Nothing is more attractive than self-acceptance: To allow yourself to forgive your past, your perceived failures, the injustices done unto you, the less evolved person you were back then.
-Nothing is more empowering than self-belief: To give yourself room to breathe, to stop labeling yourself this and that, to push yourself to be more because you seek to evolve into the best version of yourself.
A person who does this becomes what he/she is supposed to become. This person is ready to take on the world with strength and confidence, knowing that all that is truly needed cannot be taken away from him/her by whatever happens in the roller coaster of life.
February 17, 2023
Being loved…
Growing up
First, no one deserves love; but as an adult love is something you gain. You gain it by leaving your past hurt and opening your heart to new people. You gain it by learning to be kind, generous, respectful with others.
You gain it by being patient and not impulsive with others. Because if you won’t let go, you cannot move on. And if you won’t leave your comfort zone, you cannot explore something new and better.
And if you won’t see yourself and people in a new light, you cannot gain happiness and love. If you won’t accept your demons and stop fearing them, you cannot embrace your angel and live with joy.
What it is
In short, it is about moving on and learning to love, always in better ways, always towards freedom. The baby is born and for that he is loved.
But growing up means maturing and learning that love requires you to always evolve and learn, which requires the best version of yourself. Because only the best version of yourself will get true love and happiness in life, as only the best version of yourself will understand the words I’ve written here.
