New year resolutions are out!

I am standing with excitement in front of a new year.  Feeling like a child that is counting down for her birthday expecting new gifts and to have a very good time. The reason I am feeling this way is because I know that I have practice very hard this year so I can harvest the best tings the next year. It is not only about visualizing and affirming that only good things are coming your way, but also being conscious that the previous year was a practice period that will allow you to do better the next year.

Celebrating new years have to be seen as an evaluation of your practice period during the previous year. It must be a moment to reflect on everything that happens. Everything that makes you laugh and everything that makes you cry and learn. Be thankful for each and every situation that you have experienced because they are meant to prepare you for the next ones to come.It is not about sticking to the old but just stick to the lessons to avoid doing the same mistakes and to work effectively toward excellence the next year. 

Don’t take them for granted. Don’t be caught up in the celebration mood, the bling’s, parties and the noises of the world. Take a time of peace; take a time of quietness to connect with yourself.

Don’t go along with traditions and just make new year resolutions. Go through the previous year first, deal with the unfinished business, take notes of the lessons learned and determined what will be the next step. Your life is a journey, a continuous growth process. If you set new goals every single year without checking with your inner self and the results of your practice period,you will discontinue your growth process ending living a life based on the opinions of others. It is true that we have to move on and let go of old situations. However it is very important to make sure we get the message so we will not do the same mistakes again. I invite you to try these steps for a mindful and prosperous new year.

• Seek a peaceful moment, be quite 
• Reflect, evaluate to reshape 
• Put your thoughts on a paper
• Pray/ meditate to connect with your inner self
• Visualize your dreams for the upcoming year
•  Make a plan to continue the growth 
•  Affirm positives things
• Be thankful 
•  Celebrate 

 Happy, Prosperous and Mindful Year ! -MAC-

The One in the mirror

How many times a day do you look at yourself in a mirror? But, do you really look at yourself? Do you really try to find that one in the mirror? Do you look through your image trying to find your higher self? How often do you really pay attention to the one you are looking at in the mirror?

When we truly look at the one in the mirror we can find our self, discover our fears, and confront our pain because we look beyond the image. We are looking to our soul looking deep in our eyes.

Paying attention to the one in the mirror can help us realize that even when we are busy, helping others, supporting others, putting others first, we have to make our self a priority in our life.

Sometimes we reach a certain point that makes us feel exhausted.  That moment we just feel emotionally, physically and mentally tired. We have tried to keep our self together but we are internally broken. Heartbreaks, deceptions, failures and hard times have destroyed our self-love.

It becomes hard to look at that one in the mirror. It becomes difficult to look in those eyes and confront that pain. However looking in the mirror to find the one into the mirror, to find yourself is necessary. Only when you dare to look at yourself and look beyond the image that everyone see, only than you are able to find yourself back.

It is important to find yourself back because you are the only one responsible for your own happiness. No one else is in charge or is responsible to make you happy. It is you, that one you are looking at in the mirror. Try to find out who you are, how you feel, what would make you feel happy. Try to find that strength in you, that beauty, that confidence and that love in you. If you can’t find the true in yourself, it will be an eternal search without result looking for it somewhere else. All the answers you need will arise from within.

Making yourself responsible for your happiness will allow you to enjoy your journey filling it with activities that makes you whole and satisfied. Don’t feel guilty for choosing you. By being happy and at peace, you can be a light and a blessing to others. You will be confident to share love and compassion.

When you look in the mirror make sure you are not just looking to an image. Make sure you are looking to your soul. Make sure you are smiling from within and make sure you are at peace with yourself. 

Let's Talk About Hate

We love to talk about love, we try to promote the positive and make the world a better place by focusing on the good instead of what is less.

It is an ugly truth but still a lot of people prefer to cultivate hate instead of love. They always see the negative in every picture. We don’t want to focus on the negative but they exist they are everywhere and they contaminate the world with their bitterness and misery. Hate will always ends in spiritual and physical diseases.  It is pretty normal that sometimes something or someone irritates you so much they make you explode. We need to understand that we are human and that is normal. So when you are  feeling that way don't try to hide it ! feel it , express it and let it go! I am not talking about that kind of feeling. I am talking about a feeling that goes beyond a moment of imbalance. I am talking about the ones that get stuck in that condition of anger and always make their out-most to see the negative in each and every situation.

Their negative attitude toward the world and their self, have nothing to do with us but it is interested to analyze why people chose to hate instead of love. Some people are not even conscious that they are harming their self. Hate is a poison you give to others but you are the one who is dying. Maybe by confronting those with this matter will make them choose to change because sometimes they are not even conscious about their toxic attitude. Or it will help us to understand them better and show compassion. 

Childhood

Most of the attitude we have are originating from our childhood. The environment we have been raised in ,the attitude of our surroundings, some traumas or the lack of love and affection from our parents. We are a reflection of what we see every day as a child. That will become our reality and behavior or our inner struggle. If we grew up around people that think, speak and behave negatively and that are complaining the most of the time, probably you will adopt that same attitude without being conscious that it is not right. Until we decide to detach and to change. The willingness to change is already a huge step forward. To take this step we need to be open we need to confront our self to take the decision to change other wise it will become an inner struggle. 

Hidden Weakness

Have you ever say, I can’t stand that person! I hate the way she talks, she looks or she walk? Let me tell you something, there is nothing wrong with that person. It is all about you and your hidden weakness. Sometimes it is difficult to understand, but the person we hate reflects our inner struggles. Those people get your attention and trigger your thoughts of hate so deep because they are confronting you with a true about yourself that you are hiding from. We are often afraid to look at our self, to confront our self. That weakness that needs to be handled will hide so deep that we will not even notice it. It happens that when we met people with an attitude that can confronts us with our hidden weakness, we can react with hate.

Insecurities / Lack of confidence

The most dangerous haters are the ones with lack of confidence or with insecurities. They live their life comparing their self with others, thinking that the other is better, complaining about what they have, and feeling inferior because they look up at someone that in their eyes is better. They pretend to be someone they are not and constantly needs approval to feel good with their self. These kinds of persons are building up insecurities instead of self-love, because they will be constantly disappointed. And the absence of love will make space for the presence of hate!

How can we drive out hate?

Like mother Teresa used to say; “ Not all of us can do great things, but we can do little things with great love". There is where we need to start! Doing things with great love. Only love can drive out hate

Start practicing compassion instead of judging, start loving yourself, discover the great person you are, build a relationship of trust with God and yourself. When you are truly fine with yourself, there will be no space, no opportunity, and no sense to think or feel something negative.

Just love and be open to be loved.

Trust your inner wisdom

It is time to become conscious about the beauty of the power that flows in each of us. Once we can discover this, all the pain, envy, disease and sadness will disappear.

We need to understand that everyone has the power to create their own opportunities in life.

No one is taking your chance or opportunity away. It is the attitude you take toward life that will make the difference. 

We all have an internal voice that tells us once and once again to believe in our self, to listen to our heart and that nothing is impossible when we believe. But it occurs often that when we have to prove our self that we really believe in our self, we forget to trust in our amazing power. We feel defeated and we doubt that we have the power to triumph. If we don’t understand the power we all have within, we will limit our self to experience it.

Sometimes it is our ego that distracts us from the focus. It distracts us to connect with our internal force. Be aware of this, and listen to your inner voice.  Be still, be quite and discover your power.

If we can realize the true about the power we have inside, how powerful we really are, we will definitely stand still for a while and we will make better use of this gift.

We have the power to transform, to love, to heal, to overcome difficulties and to be infinite happy and whole on this world.  It all starts with that power! The power of our beautiful true self that can ignite the world, that can activate feelings and passion that can change and save a whole nation.

While we are looking for answers outside like in people, material things and illusions, our true self wants to talk to us and want to show us our great worth. 

The power within is the fuel that help us to recover from the deepest deceptions and overcome our biggest fear and obstacles. This power gives hopes and nurtures the passion to fight for our dreams.

This power will tell you to get up and continue when you fall. It also helps you to be open to understand when to accept the help of others and will also guide you to prosper.

Be aware of this power and nourish it each and every day with the holy spirit of God. Let this force be the light for your life and give it the opportunity to enlighten others. Let this power shine during your darkest moments. Give yourself the opportunity to be your own hero. Give yourself the fair chance to be who you really are. 

That humble feeling we call LOVE ......

It is wonderful when the path of two people crosses each other and their feelings reach certain level that will concludes in the ultimate experience of love and ecstasy. That humble feeling that burns and sparkle impulsively out of your chest. That is a genuine feeling that the most people dreams about and wish to experience at least once in their life. But this feeling does not always culminate in a beautiful love story with a happy ending. How to react, how to accept this situation, how to overcome this pain and move on?

First of all it is important to be sure you did your outermost to make it work.  Love flows naturally and without anxiety and stress, but it is also fair to fight for what you want. Express your feelings; be real with yourself and the other person. This may help you to understand and own your feelings. Be conscious that your feelings are your responsibility. Don’t start claiming and demanding the same from the other person.

It is also important to be realistic and understand the limit and accept when someone doesn’t feel the same. That doesn’t mean you need to automatically stop having feelings for that person. But it becomes your responsibility to start the process of letting go and move on. Be aware of the limit! Don't cross the line between doing your outmost and losing yourself. 

Realize that it is not easy to clear your heart and thoughts. It is not easy to delete the experiences with that person from your life. It will be a process that needs time and proper healing.

Embrace the pain that you are feeling. Try to understand why you are hurt, why you are feeling that pain. When you understand why, it will be easy to accept and release. Give yourself time, but avoid putting yourself in the victim seat.

This is the perfect moment to believe in how amazing you are! Put yourself first and remember that you deserve the best. You deserve to be loved, you deserve happiness and joy, you deserve someone that loves the genuine person you are. Don’t claim that love and attention, know that you deserve it. If it is not given freely by the person you think you love, let it go and let it flow.

Enjoy the feeling of being in Love because it is part of your journey. Embrace the feeling no matter the situation your love is experiencing. But love yourself first that is the key! Trust your inner wisdom and keep loving !

Why do we choose to be victims of the famous box?

Carry yourself far beyond the boundary line of your common experiences and into a realm of thought in which you are not accustomed to dwell. - Napoleon Hill-

Limitation is an illusion! But still the most of us persist in making that illusion our reality. Even though we grow up listening that sky is the limit (now a day not even the sky is the limit), few of us truly believes in this statement.We choose to live in boundaries limiting our self emotionally, spiritually and also professionally. We believe in only what we have been taught. We grow up with a certain patterns and we persist to build up our lives following that perception. Choosing to live such a life will make us victims of the famous box! Being a victim of the box is making a living that is illusionary secure and comfortable, avoiding risk, but the most of the time living unhappy and taking decisions based on fears and the opinion of the crowd. But most of the time, this turns out to be far of what we really want. This will limit your creativity, dreams and most of all your potentials. It is sad but true that many people are still living thinking in a box.

But why, why do the most people choose to be a victim of the famous box? Or are we forced to live such a life? In this blog I would like to put on the spot some reasons why most people choose to settle in a comfort life without living beyond expectations and limitations making them a victim of the box.

Left vs Right side of the brain

Our way to look at life and take decisions depends also on the consciousness of the use of the left and right side of the brain. Your left brain is the intellect that calculates, figure things out, analyzes, and comes up with the most logical choices for you. The left brain most often overthink and reanalyze everything and leads you to decisions that are common or like you are “supposed “to act. While to right side of the brain represent the intuitive side that feels and goes beyond reason and analysis. Your right brain is sensitive to love and emotional about things that are important to you.  The right brain will always lead you passionately to your purpose.

Our Convictions

Our convictions are shaped mostly by the way we are raised by our parents, our environment and education and also what we have experienced through our life path. This has a huge influence on our perceptions; how we look at things, how we react and the way we think. When we stick strictly to these convictions we are not able to open our minds to look things differently. This may leads to a lack of imagination to create your own reality.

Fear

Why are we still talking about the box? The  human being is living struggling with 7 basic types of fears; Fear of poverty, fear of criticism, fear of ill health, fear of loss of love, fear of loss of liberty, fear of old age and fear of death.  These seven basic fears can hold a lot of people in suppression throughout their lives. No great enduring success can be achieved by anyone until he has mastered all seven.

 I would say get rid of that box! Now a day we should dare to dream, dare to believe that everything is possible and that there is so many ways to achieve your goals. Nurture your mind with positive words, read books to broader your knowledge and acquire new perspectives, surround yourself with people that support you and help you to look at the possibilities that the world is offering you. See the bigger picture, take actions and embrace change. When you find yourself limiting yourself tell yourself “My dreams are as big as possible, and as perfect as the Universe and the love of God”.

The Beauty of Patience is freedom...

Writing this blog I reflected on my own journey struggling with patient attitude ,until God puts me through a situation that I had no other option than to wait and trust. At that moment I realized that patience is a gift and that God somehow put you into situations that force you to develop this attitude. During this difficult moment I decided to take use of this opportunity to learn and grow. I learn that having a patient attitude give you peace of mind. But this is only possible when you live spiritually conscious

The quality of patience is being bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complain, loss of temper, irritation or the like. We can reach this state of mind only when we realize that living with this ability will truly set us free.  Patience is a great tool we can use to show wisdom toward situations that presents in our life. Everything we want to reflect to the world starts with consciousness and the ability to confront our self to make transformationpossible. Also in this case we have to take a look to our self to first understand why we are impatient and how we can unleashed this gift Father God gives us.

It is important to reflect on moments we feel that we are losing our temper or feeling irritated and why we feel this way and in which situations we are not able to show tolerance.

To deal with the core of this we need to reflect and detect the origin of our feelings and reactions. Sometime things that bother us or irritate us of another person or situation are linked to our weaknesses or internal battles.

Being attached to our expectations may also block our capacity to tolerate and being patient. We can be free by being conscious that we can only control our own mind but not the results and others minds. Stop assuming and stop judging, having a mind that is open and attached to noting will benefit you. This will help us to understand that we all are flesh and blood we are human beings. Something can be normal to someone but unknown or not logical to others. We learn something new every day while there are still millions of things out there that we still don’t know and it is all okay.

Developing self-love gives us the ability of compassion and a mind free of judgments.  Connecting with your higher self will teach you that everything happens for a reason. Having patience shows us our maturity to deal with situations we encounter on our path. It shows that we have learned to accept things we cannot control and give the opportunity to God to make things flow in the best direction.

Being patient doesn’t mean we have to accept things that cross our values but it reflect your ability to deal with the situation with wisdom, trust and tolerance knowing that everything will come out for the best. Patience is a gift you will give to others while you will enjoy the benefit which is peace of mind.

Pray, meditate, connect with your soul to envision a life of freedom and you will discover how beautiful it is to have patience.

The Perfect first love !

This is just a reminder how important it is ...

Many motivational speeches, books, films teaches us to love our self. This is definitely the most important thing to do. If we want to share love, help others empower others we have always to start with our self. No one is able to provide, or share something that they don’t have. If you want to be loved you have to give love in order to receive love. But if you want to give love you have to cultivate that love from within and the only way to do this is by loving yourself.

It sounds easy and somehow logical that someone is supposed to have self-love. Unfortunately people can be easily influenced by circumstances, disappointments, heartbreaks and this may lead that people will feel they are not worthy and lose that self-love. 

How to keep that unconditional love for yourself? 

Attitudes of happiness, joy and knowing what and who make our heart sing and embrace life will help us to love our self. When we suffer disappointments is the heart that suffers. To heal our heart we need to do forgiveness, prayers, meditation and release old hurts. Many times we are afraid to confront our self to avoid remembering moments of pain or deception but this is sometimes necessary.

We need to stop for a moment and accept our feelings so we can release that pain. What we do often is deny that feeling pretending that nothing is happening and that everything is fine but that pain is still living inside. This may block the energy of love that flows within. Unconsciously this may lead that we lose that love and kindness that makes who we are.

Love yourself by accepting and embrace who you are. Think positive about yourself; affirm your beauty, your potentials and abilities every single day. Don’t compare yourself to others instead enjoy your uniqueness because diversity is beautiful.

Take care of yourself, play with colors and spice up your life. Treat yourself like a royalty with your thoughts, physically and spiritually. You are a gift to the world; the most precious and perfect one. Be conscious about that and always love yourself. 

Enjoy the Journey! It will takes you to the most exited destination...

What does it mean to enjoy the journey 

Any situation you may encounter in your life happens for a reason. Moreover some circumstances may hurt you so you can jump out of your comfort zone to become stronger and wiser. This is why life has to be considered as a journey. A journey that takes us to the most unpredictable situations, show us different points of views and help us to discover experiences that give us the opportunity to learn and grow.  Only If we take the time to really enjoy each moment of this journey even the good moments as well the challenging ones ,then we are truly living.

This means that we should pay attention to each situation and try to live consciously because everything happens for the reason to take us to another level.

How many time of your life did you already waste by living without a purpose? By living to survive each day? Living a life to satisfy others? Being someone that reflects what the society wants to see? And totally forget to enjoy your journey? Life is about leaving footprints, not only existing but meaning something to yourself and others. But sometimes we focus too much on the results and forget to learn from the process. This happens in families, careers, relationships etc. We get attached to the expectations of the results and runs into the risk to suffer a disappointment.

We forget to enjoy the simply little things that give us satisfaction, that teach us something that will lead us to a successful life.

Wake up before you die without playing that music you have inside. Stop putting your inner voice on silent, stop existing but start living.

Start by discovering yourself  

Who are you? Why are you here? What do YOU want?  Every human being is here for a cause. We just can’t live without a cause. By determine your cause you will give your life a direction. Stand still for a moment and ask, am I living to reach my highest potential?  Am I doing what I am really called to do on this world? Or do I live to meet the standards of the society? Now a day with so many influences around the world, it becomes easy to dwell on the uncertainty and confusions that may lead you to lose yourself.

It is really important to define who you are, discover your passion and the reason you are here so you can truly live without wasting any potential.

Meditation is a very great  way you can use to help you to connect with your higher self. This will help you to listen to your inner voice that always will tell you the true about the real you. There are a lot of books that will guide you in this process. Meditation is a process that you will patiently learn step by step till it becomes a habit that will provide you with a lot of benefits like inner peace and success. 

To make out the best of your life you should live consciously, be yourself , discover your purpose and enjoy the simple little things... Enjoy the journey 

Be Inspired - MAC-

Sometimes people seems to be scared to be alone. Maybe we think that when we are alone people may think that no one wants to be around us, that we have failed in our life, or because we think we are not worthy.

Some people tend to panic when they are single, or when they just went trough a breakup.

Worst of all they tend to start thinking that they are incomplete.

This is mostly thanks to the paradigm the society we are living in creates for us. But it is not necessary true that the worst stage of our life is when we are alone. 

Being alone is amazing!

Being alone is part of the journey , it is an opportunity of gold to meet with the most important person of this world which is YOU. 

That moment in your life you have so you can know yourself better without any distraction, you can embrace your own company doing the things you like, enjoy being you, learn and grow by experiencing new things, empower yourself and others and become a better YOU!!

Give your inner voice a chance to be clearly listened to.You can create miracles when you can listen to yourself. Give yourself the opportunity to have new visions, to choose the direction of your life and discover your life purpose.It feels amazing when the things you are doing in your life are align with your passion.
Be the star of your life and not the co-host of your destination !!

Being in a relationship is a blessing!

God want us to be in a constant relationship with him and others, but first we have to learn to love and value our self.Once you cultivate that love from within, no one can dim your light that will shine bright to the outside. 

Being in a relationship is not about winning a race or accomplishes something but it is a precious moment in your life to share the best of you with others.

Don’t rush into any toxic relationship just not to be alone. You are too precious and valuable to harm yourself. Take your time to make up your soul…