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From Confusion to Clarity

 

You have to be very clear with people without healthy boundaries. They will constantly misread, misinterpret and make assumptions because they lack clarity due to their energy not being purified, and having too many other people’s energy in their space. Maryam Hasnaa

 

Clarity allows for better decision making, doubt and fog is lifted. Clarity may not mean that we know exactly what our next move may be. What it may provide is a level of certainty that everything will work out as it is supposed to.

Clarity pushes up to embrace the uncertainty around us in a more confident manner. We are able to find a level of calm, to remain grounded knowing that even though the world seem to be in a level of turmoil, you know and accept that whatever happens after, you will be able to handle it.

I am clear that I am a child of the Most High and with that comes all of its perks.

I am clear that I don't know everything and I don't have to, I can leave room for the mystery, the unexpected and the unknown because I know who I am.

I am clear that  life moves in cycles so there is a time and place for everything.

I am clear that I can expected the unexpected and handle it.

Peace

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Starting Something New

“If you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback. If you have constructive feedback you want to give me, I want it... But if you’re in the cheap seats, not putting yourself on the line, and just talking about how I can do it better, I’m in no way interested in your feedback.” Brene Browne

Starting something new can be challenging, doing something different to what you normally do can be challenging, doing something in a new way can be challenging. Living a different life can be challenging.

There will  be self doubts, there will be internal noise, there will be people giving advice and many times unwanted advice, there will be critics and keep backs. This is par for the course. The question is - how will you respond?

I have learnt that the best response comes from a space of knowing who you are

knowing what pisses you off

knowing how sure you are about yourself

knowing that there will be failures to learn from along the way

knowing what your boundaries are 

knowing what brings you joy

knowing that divine guidance will never lead you astray

To know this, you must be willing to be wrong, to listen, to be right, to be the only one, to say no and to piss people off. It is a process.

It takes time and an open mind!

Peace

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I Commit to

Today I honor my Commitments to myself andothers, despite my feelings. Seven Stones Leadership

 What commitments have you made for and to yourself?   commitment is that which helps us stay  the course even when it’s very uncomfortable.

I commit to:

1. Eating healthy foods that nourish me

2. Having clear boundaries and communicating them to those around me

3. Self Awareness  through learning, remembering and honoring who I am.

4. Weekly exercise and movement of my body

5. Saying what I mean even when it is difficult.

6. Self Care and Rest

7. Loving myself unconditionally

Would Really Love to hear your list of Committments

Peace

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Balance and Choices

 Your Service to Others Shouldn't be a Disservice to Yourself 

I have some choices to make. I have choices to make on how I  now show up in the world. I must make choices on how I serve. Service and servitude are not the same. Be mindful when you start making choices from a place of servitude only.

I listened to a talk yesterday on Freedom. 

What does freedom mean to you? 

Freedom for me is the ability to choose our thoughts, words and actions. 

Never underestimate the power you have to choose.

You can choose your thoughts, your words and your actions - whatever the circumstance. Some circumstances come upon you without your input however, in the response to it, you do have the ability to choose how you respond?

I thought about my power of choice in determining how I want to show up.\

Do I want to show up and live by default and continue to make the same choices? Or do I want to execute my ability to choose keeping in mind that there are always consequences that follow one's choices 

Keeping in mind that we are always open to making another choice -  no choice is final.

Peace

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Letters to Self

 

Slow movements are intentional, powerful, and intelligently considered.  Yung Pueblo 

I started a ritual in 2012 where I wrote to myself. I would write a letter to myself to be opened in following years. In 2013, I wrote a letter which was to be opened in 2021. 

In 2018, I wrote one to be opened in 2022.

I opened the letter due to be read in 2021 yesterday....  there so many mixed emotions.

This letter stated my desires and intentions for my future at the time.

In 2012, I had no books, my desire was to share my story to someone, anyone who could learn and heal from it. In March 2021, Now What will be dropping. Book number 4! 

In 2012, I decided that life had to look ad feel different in specific areas such as finance, intimate relationships, business, spirituality. I can safely say that I feel different, no longer feeling hopeless about what my future holds, no longer at war with myself and others, just a feeling of peace and self responsibility.

I did not achieve everything the letter said that I would but I am mighty proud of the person that I have become. One where I know that challenges will come, and I am enough and equpped to handle the unexpected. Everything else can flow from there

Peace 

From now until January 7th

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Writing the Wrongs

 Thank God the life I was once creating fell apart. Maryaam Hasnaa

During 2012, I believed that my life was in a complete shambles. I was unemployed,  my savings were all gone, I was fighting with everyone I knew and even those I did not know, if not openly but sometimes in my mind. Fighting others in my mind was particularly challenging for both parties as I was angry and when they appeared in front of me I took my anger out on them and they had no clue why. That anger showed in in many forms.

I reached a crossroad when I felt as if I was stuck in the same place, that feeling sucked so I decided that I did not want to feel stuck every day.

I chose to accept my responsibility in the role I played in finding myself where I was

This included: 

How and if I set boundaries, if I enforced them

Playing small

Not showing up authentically

Ignoring the signs and my intuition

making decisions out of fear

People pleasing

Not taking responsibility for the role I played 

The biggest shift was in how I felt, how I wanted to feel. And what I was willing to do

Everything started with a thought. A feeling

So, how do you want to feel? What are you thinking?

Peace

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Journey to Authenticity

 Being totally identified with the need to be right is the main cause of  conflict in relationships, we do not create more harmony by convincing others of what is right but mainly by being in harmony with ourselves so we don't have to make others wrong to be at ease - Evolve Daily

As we journey towards authenticity, an extremely important lesson I have learned is letting go of the need to be right all the time, letting go of the need to, letting go of the need to  prove that I know, and to make others feel that they know very little - we say it here "put people in their place" 

One of the markers on the path which led me to reflecting on why I felt the need to be right or prove others wrong came from seeing a line in the Course of Miracles that says "Do I want to be right or do I want to be happy?" I interpreted this to mean that if proving  that others are wrong leads into strife and no peace then is it worth it to be right? Is there a real need to prove to anyone that we are right or that we know? The truth needs no defence. 

When we know who we are and feel comfortable in that space, the need to prove, to show off to others what we know and our worth is gone. Happiness will not depend only on what others think of you.

Harmony comes from the knowledge that all is well and all will be well. It comes from knowing that we have free will to choose again and to take every day every opportunity with grace.

Peace

For 2021, the Journey to Unconditional Self Love begins with Authenticity.

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Peace

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Journeys

 “Good riddance to decisions that don't support self-care, self-value, and self-worth.” Oprah Winfrey

The beginning of a Journey throughout the next twelve months. How do you intend to show up? How do you intend to be, knowing that there will be so many factors that are out of our control. If it is one thing that I learnt is I get to choose how I respond to what is in front of me.

I can choose to respond out of habit or I can choose through mindful thought and action.

I can choose to look for the lesson or I can choose to blame and project.

For 2o21, I choose to be mindful, to be excited, to be intentional, to be authentic, to be grateful.

For 2021, the Journey to Unconditional Self Love begins with Authenticity.

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Peace

From now until January 7th

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Thank You

 2021 is approaching. I want to say thank you to the Universe

Thank you for the lessons

Thank you for the blessings

Thank you for the challenges

Thank you for the opportunities

Thank you for the reminders - some gentle, some not so gentle

Thank you for being shown what priorities are 

Thank you for being open and willing

Thank you for acceptance 

Thank you for the guidance

Thank you in advance for what is to come

To all of you, blessings for 2021 and onward. I wish you and your family joy, love, abundance and peace

Peace

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Energy Never Lies

 I hope you know the difference between when what you’re feeling about someone is judgment or discernment? Maryham Hasnaa

The word discernment has been popping up in my life over the past few weeks. Confessions on the Journey, I have been asking myself ,am I using discernment or am I judging? 

Discernment is the ability to listen to the guidance within, it is picking up of energy that is off minus the judgement. Discernment comes from a place of peace - there is no anxiety in the mind questioning what is to be done or not done, there is no guilt. Discernment is not concerned with any external approval and validation. We have to practice discernment, it comes with time, practice and most importantly surrender.

We humans, what we want, when we want it. When we are being guided to do something, or to make a decision that goes against what we want, we resist. We drown out the voice of discernment. This is where judgement starts shouting. Its difficult to drown out the noise of judgement. Judgement comes from fear. Fear of not getting the very thing we believe that we want. Judgement looks at the external and focuses outward on what others are doing, saying and how they are showing up. Personal responsibility is almost at zero. We blame, we play victim, we give up our power.

Getting still, acceptance and facing the truth helps with discernment. This is hard because it may go against what we feel we want and living in the world with others who have relinquished their gift of discernment, we get sidetracked by listening to them and caught up in the world.

Self doubt, over self consciousness and ego all drown out discernment, they latch on to judgement.

Trust me, when you become in tuned with your true self, and discernment is one of your guides, you will not even feel the need to explain your decisions to anyone. You just trust that you are divinely guided whether the decision makes logical sense or not.

Energy never lies. It only reveals. It is up to us to listen.

Peace

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