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February 2, 2018
Possibilities
In every moment, every possibility is available . . . if not from the material realm, then from the massively abundant dark-matter, or pre-matter. These are the stem-cells of matter; you open their possibilities by opening your beliefs, and reducing your doubts. With doubt, you will struggle, and push, and you may achieve your goals with great effort. Faith on the other hand, uses the leverage of your beliefs, employing the entire supply of these stem cells, to achieve your achievements with ease. Belief is always a mixture . . . it's your imagination mixed together with what you claim is reality . . . this forms what you 'believe' . . . is . . . or can be real. What this reality is -- for you -- then establishes another opinion; draws a new conclusion, and produces an even deeper belief
Guru Singh
Anytime I approach anything it is with the belief that it is possible. I dwell in possibility. And what that really means to me is when I go in to something, when I start something, I go in despite the fear, the doubts, the uncertainty, knowing full well that whatever happens it is useful! That is not to say that I am not disappointed, especially the situation turns out differently to what I want.
Sometimes what we think we want is really not what we need. But we want what we want and that is all there is to it!And to get what we want we do whatever we think is required, sometimes at the expense of many situations.
But what about the possibility? What about believing in doing our very best knowing that whatever happens and how it turns out is happening for us not to us? This is where the faith and belief comes in. Possibility cannot be a part of the equation without faith and beliefPeace
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Anytime I approach anything it is with the belief that it is possible. I dwell in possibility. And what that really means to me is when I go in to something, when I start something, I go in despite the fear, the doubts, the uncertainty, knowing full well that whatever happens it is useful! That is not to say that I am not disappointed, especially the situation turns out differently to what I want.
Sometimes what we think we want is really not what we need. But we want what we want and that is all there is to it!And to get what we want we do whatever we think is required, sometimes at the expense of many situations.
But what about the possibility? What about believing in doing our very best knowing that whatever happens and how it turns out is happening for us not to us? This is where the faith and belief comes in. Possibility cannot be a part of the equation without faith and beliefPeace
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February 1, 2018
Taking a Rest
Life will work for me when I realize...I am totally, completely and fully responsible for what goes on in my life!
One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it! As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone or something else, you are not taking responsibility for your life. Sure, things happen! It is absolutely true that the
re are situations, circumstances, social constructs and common elements that can and do affect you. It is your responsibility however, to determine HOW and HOW LONG they affect you.
Iyanla Vanzant
January kicked my arse! I mean it literally pushed me outside every single comfort zone, every single space I considered safe, every single one! I lterally feel tired, like I ran a half marathon. I love the fact that I am still here, I am still grateful for it all but my oh my, I feel tired! So I am going to take a rest
What does taking a rest mean? It means to stop the over thinking and over analysingit means to stop the people pleasing and set some boundariesit means to be realit means literally resting and meditating moreFebruary has begun and I intend to not be butt klcked no matter what!
Peace
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January kicked my arse! I mean it literally pushed me outside every single comfort zone, every single space I considered safe, every single one! I lterally feel tired, like I ran a half marathon. I love the fact that I am still here, I am still grateful for it all but my oh my, I feel tired! So I am going to take a rest
What does taking a rest mean? It means to stop the over thinking and over analysingit means to stop the people pleasing and set some boundariesit means to be realit means literally resting and meditating moreFebruary has begun and I intend to not be butt klcked no matter what!
Peace
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January 31, 2018
Show Up Anyway
Consistency will establish habits that will carry you through the days when life happens. Chomwa Shikati
Showing up, I think it's half of the story. Showing up ready is even more than half of the story. Every day in every way when we show up and show up ready it contributes to becoming the person you are becoming, the goal that you are going towards, the dream realised.
And sometimes showing up may be messy. it may be uncomfortable, it may be different - show up anyway!
The key is doing your absolute best in the moment!
Showing up may mean leaving some stuff behind, it may mean no, it may mean setting boundaries, it may mean being true and authentic, it may mean stepping back, it may mean taking a rest, it may mean giving up somethings and some people
Show up anyway!
Everyday we are being called to show up! Are you ready?
Peace
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Showing up, I think it's half of the story. Showing up ready is even more than half of the story. Every day in every way when we show up and show up ready it contributes to becoming the person you are becoming, the goal that you are going towards, the dream realised.
And sometimes showing up may be messy. it may be uncomfortable, it may be different - show up anyway!
The key is doing your absolute best in the moment!
Showing up may mean leaving some stuff behind, it may mean no, it may mean setting boundaries, it may mean being true and authentic, it may mean stepping back, it may mean taking a rest, it may mean giving up somethings and some people
Show up anyway!
Everyday we are being called to show up! Are you ready?
Peace
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January 30, 2018
What is your Definition of a Good Person?
The relationship between guilt and forgiveness may surprise you.
Guilt is actually a twisted or manipulative way of seeking forgiveness. It is the belief that if you inflict suffering on yourself for your choices, another will forgive you for them. This is belief keeps you in pain because only you can forgive yourself. Maxie McCoy
Sharing lessons from Maryann Hasna
I have experienced a lot of abusive, toxic energy in my lifetimes because of the imaginary identity I was trying to uphold of being a “good person”. I believed surely this was the path to true awakening. What a lie. So grateful for those truly unwell people I had contracts with who I have let into my heart and even my home. They really opened my eyes to the bullshit that sometimes can go along with being a spiritual seeker. How we seek or search for a ways to prove our “goodness”.
There can be a desire to be in service that is projection of the spiritualized ego. From this place there is a constant need to prove worth, that you’re a “good person” and “specialness”. Somehow you’ve been “chosen”. When the desire to create an identity of being someone who is here to serve, can be released, that is when you can truly be innocent, not attached, without agenda, simply available for whatever wants to be expressed through you as you.
I dropped the good person expectations and removed all toxic people from my life over the past few years. I changed my phone number recently. I unfollowed a ton of folks that I didn’t find inspiring. Sure there was a little bit of self judgment and guilt left but not a ton(which is healthy). . I walk the path of Oneness.
Yes it is a practice. I’m always generally happy to do the work. I am simultaneously more open and loving AND absolutely more discerning than ever. I am quicker then ever to trust a stranger and to cut someone off who causes me harm. I’m the kindest person in the world until I’m not. Emotional manipulation is one of the most subtle ways that we allow others to cross boundaries.
I used to be easily manipulated by people who are suffering, who felt lost, abandoned, helpless.You can still honor your boundaries and at the same time know that on a subtle level you are one with all . It’s the identification with the roles we play that create attachment. These worldly attachments create blocks to even greater cosmic energy. I don’t believe in good or bad people. I believe in awareness. Awareness is a neutral state, non-dualistic. It is not positive or negative. Not light or dark. Not good or bad. Either way it’s all God.
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Guilt is actually a twisted or manipulative way of seeking forgiveness. It is the belief that if you inflict suffering on yourself for your choices, another will forgive you for them. This is belief keeps you in pain because only you can forgive yourself. Maxie McCoy
Sharing lessons from Maryann Hasna
I have experienced a lot of abusive, toxic energy in my lifetimes because of the imaginary identity I was trying to uphold of being a “good person”. I believed surely this was the path to true awakening. What a lie. So grateful for those truly unwell people I had contracts with who I have let into my heart and even my home. They really opened my eyes to the bullshit that sometimes can go along with being a spiritual seeker. How we seek or search for a ways to prove our “goodness”.
There can be a desire to be in service that is projection of the spiritualized ego. From this place there is a constant need to prove worth, that you’re a “good person” and “specialness”. Somehow you’ve been “chosen”. When the desire to create an identity of being someone who is here to serve, can be released, that is when you can truly be innocent, not attached, without agenda, simply available for whatever wants to be expressed through you as you.
I dropped the good person expectations and removed all toxic people from my life over the past few years. I changed my phone number recently. I unfollowed a ton of folks that I didn’t find inspiring. Sure there was a little bit of self judgment and guilt left but not a ton(which is healthy). . I walk the path of Oneness.
Yes it is a practice. I’m always generally happy to do the work. I am simultaneously more open and loving AND absolutely more discerning than ever. I am quicker then ever to trust a stranger and to cut someone off who causes me harm. I’m the kindest person in the world until I’m not. Emotional manipulation is one of the most subtle ways that we allow others to cross boundaries.
I used to be easily manipulated by people who are suffering, who felt lost, abandoned, helpless.You can still honor your boundaries and at the same time know that on a subtle level you are one with all . It’s the identification with the roles we play that create attachment. These worldly attachments create blocks to even greater cosmic energy. I don’t believe in good or bad people. I believe in awareness. Awareness is a neutral state, non-dualistic. It is not positive or negative. Not light or dark. Not good or bad. Either way it’s all God.
Last Day to Download the I DeClare
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January 29, 2018
Take the Premium off the Control
B
ut health and wellness aren’t about being perfect or being ok all the time. It’s about taking care of what needs caring for, so that we can get closer to what moves in us. It’s about having an array of choices that we can access at any given moment.
Alicia Garza
You are here not to do something, but to be something! we have this thing in Western Society where we put on premium on control, we put a premium on knowing, which is it’s like almost a sin not to know, not to have it mapped out. The mapping of the thing is to create capacity within you to move forward, you get too attached to the plan! It’s not about the plan, our activities are never about the thing itself, it isn’t what gets created it’s who we become in the process of the creation, when you check out of here you don’t take any of your creations with you. We are here not just to do something but to be something! Know what you are, not just who you are! You don’t have to know where it’s going all the time to know that you are heading in the right direction. You are trying to see it through your lens and you can’t, you don’t know everything, see it with different eyes, have faith and act like you know. A lot of times you don’t see it is because you are trying to manipulate it, get ahead of it and be in control. Just act like you know and stop trying to control it, to control everything.
Peace
You are here not to do something, but to be something! we have this thing in Western Society where we put on premium on control, we put a premium on knowing, which is it’s like almost a sin not to know, not to have it mapped out. The mapping of the thing is to create capacity within you to move forward, you get too attached to the plan! It’s not about the plan, our activities are never about the thing itself, it isn’t what gets created it’s who we become in the process of the creation, when you check out of here you don’t take any of your creations with you. We are here not just to do something but to be something! Know what you are, not just who you are! You don’t have to know where it’s going all the time to know that you are heading in the right direction. You are trying to see it through your lens and you can’t, you don’t know everything, see it with different eyes, have faith and act like you know. A lot of times you don’t see it is because you are trying to manipulate it, get ahead of it and be in control. Just act like you know and stop trying to control it, to control everything.
Peace
January 26, 2018
Home Bound
Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.”
- Charles Bukowski
After a productive week in St Kitts and Nevis, the jouney has now come to an end. Homeward bound I am!
The lessons, the love, the sharing, the experiences have been eye opening and fun.I always leave a new place feeling full of promise and hope because I see first hand that people still care about one another, that they still care about their communities, that they want to do better for themselves, their country and their familiesThis is the sentiment that I left with, I am excited about all they are going to create and execute and I give thanks to be a part of it!
Peace
- Charles Bukowski
After a productive week in St Kitts and Nevis, the jouney has now come to an end. Homeward bound I am!
The lessons, the love, the sharing, the experiences have been eye opening and fun.I always leave a new place feeling full of promise and hope because I see first hand that people still care about one another, that they still care about their communities, that they want to do better for themselves, their country and their familiesThis is the sentiment that I left with, I am excited about all they are going to create and execute and I give thanks to be a part of it!
Peace
Doing it for the Love and not the Likes
Stop feeding your doubts
with questionable news sources and social media gorging
- Danielle La Porte
Social media plays an important part in the world at the moment, whether we want to admit it or not, and certainly whether or not we like it or not.We are able to reach others in so many different parts of the world, to share our stories, our journeys, our happy moments, to market our products and ourselves to spread good news and of course there is a flip side. The alter ego's, the searching for validation, the reaction to bully's. I have found myself paying attention to the social media in quite a number of ways, so much so, that it started becoming the first thing I look at in the morning and last thing at night. Some of the times I also find myself arguing with or at my phone because of some of the content that I see I also sometimes find myself comparing what I do to what I see - and we all know comparison is the thief of joy
So I decided to make some changes! Turning off the phone at bedtime, not checking it as soon as I wake up on the morning! Leaving the phone off the dinner table whilst eating and not not not comparing myself to the perfect pictures and definitely definitely not "counting the likesw"
Peace
Social media plays an important part in the world at the moment, whether we want to admit it or not, and certainly whether or not we like it or not.We are able to reach others in so many different parts of the world, to share our stories, our journeys, our happy moments, to market our products and ourselves to spread good news and of course there is a flip side. The alter ego's, the searching for validation, the reaction to bully's. I have found myself paying attention to the social media in quite a number of ways, so much so, that it started becoming the first thing I look at in the morning and last thing at night. Some of the times I also find myself arguing with or at my phone because of some of the content that I see I also sometimes find myself comparing what I do to what I see - and we all know comparison is the thief of joy
So I decided to make some changes! Turning off the phone at bedtime, not checking it as soon as I wake up on the morning! Leaving the phone off the dinner table whilst eating and not not not comparing myself to the perfect pictures and definitely definitely not "counting the likesw"
Peace
January 24, 2018
St Kitts and Nevis Day 4
no effort is ever wasted, although some paydividends later than you think.
Do not imagine that you "wasted your time" because something didn't turn out right. There is no such thing as "waste" in the Universe. Everything -- everything -- yields benefit. Neale Donald Walsh
As I wrap up my time here on this very charming island, I reflect on the lessons - of course! Something one of the fisherfolk said yesterday came back to me this morning as I was reading, I shared part of the reading above, by Neale Donald WalshHe said yesterday " I just did not want to come here and waste my time" How many times have I said that about things that I do, people I am to meet, and places to be?I must admit, this same phrase is on repeat in my head. And then he said it, I was on the other side of the comment, so it not only resonates, it put me in a position to see that saying it about another is really a tad bit arrogant!
Then it continues this morning - the Universe is always right on time! Neale pops up as my reading and says "no effort is ever wasted and do not imagine that you wasted your time"
Everything yields benefitEverything is usefulIt's all a matter of perpective
Give full effort, show up and know it is of use!Peace
Do not imagine that you "wasted your time" because something didn't turn out right. There is no such thing as "waste" in the Universe. Everything -- everything -- yields benefit. Neale Donald Walsh
As I wrap up my time here on this very charming island, I reflect on the lessons - of course! Something one of the fisherfolk said yesterday came back to me this morning as I was reading, I shared part of the reading above, by Neale Donald WalshHe said yesterday " I just did not want to come here and waste my time" How many times have I said that about things that I do, people I am to meet, and places to be?I must admit, this same phrase is on repeat in my head. And then he said it, I was on the other side of the comment, so it not only resonates, it put me in a position to see that saying it about another is really a tad bit arrogant!
Then it continues this morning - the Universe is always right on time! Neale pops up as my reading and says "no effort is ever wasted and do not imagine that you wasted your time"
Everything yields benefitEverything is usefulIt's all a matter of perpective
Give full effort, show up and know it is of use!Peace
January 23, 2018
St Kitts and Nevis Day 3
There are two types of easy. Quality Easy and Cheap Easy
We are choosing Quality Easy - resides on inner strength and trusts the timing of things. Over time Quality Easy gets comfortable saying No and willing to walk away and let it go.
Cheap Easy is a sucker for a discount, frequenly in a rush a bit desperate and scrambling for a result - Danielle La Porte
The first ferry was the plan, leave the hotel at 7.30am to get to the terminal by 745am to board the 8am ferry- Ferry's are not my favourite mode of transport. I walked with my open mind and willing spirit
I met someone who I was introduced to last year while I was here in July, we remembered one another-did some small talk while we waited to board. I wanted to get on that boat first so I could have chosen my seat, as far away as possible to the motor! No luck with that, I had to settle for the middle seat and pray for the best! 45 mins to another island!
I made it, puke free and ready to roll
The facilitation session was fun, I love doing this, so grateful for the opportunity to share in other's dreams and goals
Nevis was happy that we came, they showed up, they were engaged - and to think we were worried that no one would have!
Give thanks
Peace
We are choosing Quality Easy - resides on inner strength and trusts the timing of things. Over time Quality Easy gets comfortable saying No and willing to walk away and let it go.
Cheap Easy is a sucker for a discount, frequenly in a rush a bit desperate and scrambling for a result - Danielle La Porte
The first ferry was the plan, leave the hotel at 7.30am to get to the terminal by 745am to board the 8am ferry- Ferry's are not my favourite mode of transport. I walked with my open mind and willing spirit
I met someone who I was introduced to last year while I was here in July, we remembered one another-did some small talk while we waited to board. I wanted to get on that boat first so I could have chosen my seat, as far away as possible to the motor! No luck with that, I had to settle for the middle seat and pray for the best! 45 mins to another island!
I made it, puke free and ready to roll
The facilitation session was fun, I love doing this, so grateful for the opportunity to share in other's dreams and goals
Nevis was happy that we came, they showed up, they were engaged - and to think we were worried that no one would have!
Give thanks
Peace
January 22, 2018
St Kitts and Nevis Day 2
The ability to achieve what you want in the outer world is always a direct reflection of the abundant state of your inner world. In the vedic tradition, wealth is equated to the life energy you express. In order to increase wealth you must increase your life energy. You may begin by asking how much life is being expressed through me.
Maryam Hasnaa
I am in St Kitts and Nevis a lovely island in the Caribbean close to Antigua and Barbuda. I am here to facilitate a workshop on sustainable livelihoods using seamoss - seamoss - well I really don't know how to describe what seamoss is but it makes wicked drinks and is supposed to be a superplant as it is good for your skin as well.
The group so far have been so accomodating it makes my job so much easier and so much more fun!
I never take these opportunities for granted seeing a simple way of life, seeing how others want to improve their station, learning from others! Give thanks
Peace
I am in St Kitts and Nevis a lovely island in the Caribbean close to Antigua and Barbuda. I am here to facilitate a workshop on sustainable livelihoods using seamoss - seamoss - well I really don't know how to describe what seamoss is but it makes wicked drinks and is supposed to be a superplant as it is good for your skin as well.
The group so far have been so accomodating it makes my job so much easier and so much more fun!
I never take these opportunities for granted seeing a simple way of life, seeing how others want to improve their station, learning from others! Give thanks
Peace
