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Love never changes

Good day peeps! Sharing my reading for today! 

I will know love when I realize...the world as I know it begins and ends with love......Love never changes. It remains constant and available in an unlimited supply......Imagine yourself surrounded by it, embraced and protected by it, free from all harm for just a moment. When your defenses fall away and your heart opens, you've got it. Love is right where you are, wherever you are, in this moment -- Love is available to you right now. Will you be available to love? Can you be? Are you open to receive it?Until today, you may have believed you had to FIND love. Just for today, hold thoughts and images of love in your mind. When you can be love, move in love and see love in all things, you are living in the truth of your soul. What could be more fulfilling?Today I am devoted to thinking loving thoughts, seeing love in all and giving love to all. ~~Iyanla Vanzant, "Until Today", 

A better what?

Decide what you want- Jack Canfield


I'm tired this week, it's been one of the  weeks when I am raising the vibes because I just want to say to heck with it all! I know what my triggers are, and that's important to know what ticks you off because you can then recognize and take steps to get back on track!
So why am I tired? The year started off with me in El Salvador and as part of being there I had some great "me" time! And in that time I signed up for about four programmes - self help programmes. You know the types which are supposed to "make you better"  To me, somehow in my mind I think that I have to always be a better person. This week I'm tired of it! I think I will just be me!

So I sat down and thought about it, I asked myself what is it really that I want? A better what? What ow why  am I searching for a better personality? Ok I told you I was tired so therein lies the rant!
But on a serious note, I'm advocating being your highest self, your best self, I'm advocating knowing what your triggers are. What I am saying it the continual searching and beating up on yourself is non! Start where you are and know that is ok! It is ok to also want to be your best self but it's not ok to judge and beat up and force it! Flow, surrender and know you are doing the best that you can.

I know deep down that I am a good person, why is that not enough? Well there is a 100 million question that triggered the rant!

I still haven’t a clue what being penetrated by consciousness is supposed to mean, but I’m pretty sure that happened this week when I walked on the beach or when I bit into the sweetest watermelon that I have eaten in months. I still get a ton done and make decisions quickly. I have focused vision, my life purpose is still the most interesting thing to me and since it’s about helping others express their life’s purpose.

What I do feel, is deeply loving and committed and a lot less interested in how I fit into the so called norms of this life. I’ll step up to handle things  with the same kind of decisiveness that’s always been there, but with a little more compassion and now I have started asking for help which is a big step for me, or support or holding in return.

Do I need to be better? Sometimes. Does it matter? well maybe not. It's all good!
Peace!!

Excerpt from New Book Nyabo(Madam) - Why are you here?

Show up As Yourself Affirmation: I let go of all limitations
Journal Entry 7 : So these stereotypes, it gets me every time! The hungry and starving native! Oh please! There is so much food here, it seems as if everyone grows food and takes care of animals in their backyards for consumption. Sometimes too close for comfort. Like the two big as hell pigs that live next door that I am sure eat healthier than I do. I swear I saw Among giving the pigs avocados this morning! But the smell, well if I ever thought about eating pork having lived next to these two pigs those thoughts has been truly banished. Today I am going shopping to  get cable TV! To all those who thought that I would be in a hut in the bush somewhere buried well I got news for you...


Look out for the new book dropping soon Peace!

Challenge some of your beliefs

“where you are. is not who you are. – circumstances” 
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt 



I always had this idea that yoga was boring, don't even ask me how I came to that conclusion, and I never even gave it a try, just formed a conclusion and ran with it! How many times have you done that, taken what someone else has told you as gospel before even giving it a try or investigating it, do you know how much fun and life events I have missed out on because of taking other people's opinions, definitions and perceptions without doing my own investigation of my truth?I decided to stop that when one of my teachers said " stand guard at the door of your mind" and " challenge your core beliefs, ask it some questions, explore and investigate it"Life has been so much sweeter since then! I have started doing so many things that I never even thought about doing! Going to so many places and events and meeting some awesome people!Anyways, back to yoga, I really dig it now! I see so many changes in my body, my breathing my approach to my other activities like running and boxing and I really dig the teacher, she's a good lady and friend and just a super duper teacher, seems like she was born to teach yoga
I went this morning at 6am and so happy that I did!Do something you have never done before, challenge some core beliefs you may be totally surprised at the results!
Peace!

Creativity keeps the world alive

creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. I've carried the shame of being a ‘creative’ since i came to the planet; have been asked to be something different, more, less my whole life. thank spirit, my wisdom is deeper than my shame, and i listened to who i was. i want to say to all the creatives who have been taught to believe who you are is not enough for this world, taught that a life of art will amount to nothing, know that who we are, and what we do is life. when we create, we are creating the world. remember this, and commit.” 
― Nayyirah Waheed




Yesterday the book store called me for a meeting, I love them, they are super duper lovely! I thought it was good timing as the book is due out soon and I want to do a few events there as well
But to my surprise, they presented me with a cheque! I tell you, I was happy as ever, not in my wildest dreams I ever thought that this journey would take me to all the places that I have been, good and not so good, but I know it's all good!

So just thought I would share that to say, do it, do the thing you feel you need to do and let it go!
The Universe got ya!
Peace

Take the path..

Quality easy brings a sense of expansion to things. Quality easy is compelling—because when you say yes to grace, you’re saying yes to the natural flow of life. You lift your face toward the grace, like flowers lean into the light. D. La Porte


Life is the journey, most of us are impatient with the journey as if 'somewhere' is the life, but the life is the journey, that's all it is! Part of the journey is work, not all of it, the journey is not only work, work, work. The journey involves a level of trust and rest. Support will come your way, doors will open, people will show up, resources will be there but it will be daily. I'm stressing the daily, one day at a time!
You will have whatever you need every step of the way, when you need it. Just stay on the road. W get sidetracked with the petty detours.

Everybody has a path with their name on it, a calling, a reason for you to be here now it's just a different journey. All roads are going to lead to the God (whatever you want to call it, your higher self....) But this is your path.There will be different and many roads, and guess what? you do not have to travel on all of them. You don't have to do anything but be YOU! That road to yes, even though it looks like it is leading you r taking you away from your life is taking you into your truth, not your personality (YOU) your personality is not you! That path will take you to your power, your divinity, where you shine, the path will let you sleep at night, that lets you dream and think about all possibilities!

Take the path and let's meet in the field of all possibilities!
Peace!!

Doing a new thing today!

I'm off to the beach today, I have been attempting to go there for the past two days, there was so much rain and thunder yesterday that I turned back, today the sun is out in full force and I am going! Now the reason I mentioned this is that last week I was talking to a friend of mine and she said " You spend too much time alone in your head and sometimes out of your head, why not try something else"

I did not answer I just smiled, I wasn't ready to answer yet

So I met this lady from Canada who is working with me on the NiNa Programme for the past three weeks now until she leaves next month. This morning she sends me a message to come with her to yoga then to the beach. My automatic response was "Na, there's football on the telly, there's no way I am leaving my house" Then I thought wait, I  am going to the beach, how did she know that I didn't tell her!
After five minutes I remembered what my friend said about trying something new!
So in an hour's time I head to the beach with Miss Ana, trying something new! beach time with my new friend instead on just me myself and I!
Will let you know how it goes!
Happy Saturday!
Peace!

Raise your standards

People just act on the outside they way they feel on the inside  T.Mcmillan
You KNOW I’m all for Love. The unbridled kind. The pure, bright Love that melts it all to rapturous clarity. That. And… I want to Love with my eyes open — eyes on my self worth, eyes on my dignity, eyes on what I deserve.So I’m way less “accepting” of… way less. If I seem less tolerant, it’s because I am. It may look “less loving” on the outside, but my love of life and all the people in my life runs deeper than ever — and I express my love more freely than I did when I used to put up with more crap than I do.What are you “accepting” right now because it’s the ethical thing to do, or the harmonious way to go? Ethics, harmony, real love — so divine. So much goodness can go in the “healthy acceptance” category. But…What on your “tolerance list” is lifting your life up, vs. what’s weighing it down? What occasions of acceptance are expanding your being with love, vs. what’s making you quietly resentful? When do you feel freedom rush in because you’re accepting the way someone/something is, and when do you feel muffled? Love is a great complexity so it’s not always that black or white, but sometimes it is. Go there.There’s the now legendary story of Maya Angleou’s dinner party. A guest that she had invited made a racist joke. She asked him to leave. Unacceptable.Here’s the spiritual bottom-line: Take less shit. You want to be ethical and loving and harmonious? Love you and love your values of love. Revere your heart. Change the world by most excellently respecting your own ideals.
Raise your standards and the universe will meet you there. Thank you Ms La PortePeace

Life will accommodate you

Hang out with people you can easily adore, or at least respect. Danielle La Porte
One of my best teachers said "Life will accommodate you in any way you choose, do you know what that means?" I rushed to write it down because I thought it sounded so profound.
My grandma came to visit me and she sat talking and talking and talking ok honestly at first I was like "Lady you talk a whole lot you know?"  totally ignored me and kept talking and I decided to listen! "Life will accommodate you because you get to choose so much of what goes on in your life whether you chose it by default or not. Almost everything in your world write now, is life accommodating you and your choices, you feel me?"
"Yea mummy I do!"
Chew on that for a moment!
Then we started to talk politics and laugh!
Peace!

Discipline eliminates procrastination...

Have an idea, or two or three, about how to get more. Act on that idea over and over again Danielle La Porte




One of my daily requests to the Universe or prayer is for discipline, I have a note stuck on my wall that says, practice Discipline today!
I ask for discipline because in my mind it is a bridge to take me from where I am to where I want to go, it sends a rocket up my bum to act! and more than that to act consistently. Lately I have been noticing that I have been resisting against it, and I realized it is because I started associating it with something bad, something that I can be punished for. That then prompted me to look up some definitions of the principle of discipline and I found one that I am so loving and I dig it so much!! I thought I would share it with you!


"Discipline eliminates procrastination.
Discipline - repeated actions that demonstrate internal and external cooperation in alignment with a specific intention.

Discipline - not to be confused with selfishness, or self-denial.

With discipline, thoughts, and actions are manifested in an orderly and consistent relationship to goals and responsibilities. Discipline is evaluated by the question: Am I doing all I must be doing to realize my vision, without harming myself and others?" ( taken from the book Tapping the Power Within)

Peace!