Powerfuliving

Beautiful words on natural healing from María Sabina a Mexican healer and poet and one of the great figures of American shamanism.
Wishing everyone a wonderful week.

“Heal yourself with the light of the sun and the rays of the moon. With the sound of the river and the waterfall. With the swaying of the sea and the fluttering of birds. Put love in tea instead of sugar and drink it looking at the stars.
Heal yourself with the kisses that the wind gives you and the hugs of the rain. Stand strong with your bare feet on the ground and with everything that comes from it. Be smarter every day by listening to your intuition, looking at the world with your forehead. Jump, dance, sing, so that you live happier. Heal yourself, with beautiful love, and always remember ... you are the medicine. "

The Power of Heart Meditation
Research at the University of Kassel in Witzenhausen, Germany, in 1997, showed that it is possible to produce visible light from the chest area under certain conditions. The first condition is that the meditation technique must be heart-centered. Secondly, a specific person with an actual need must be identified as a receiver of the transmitted light. Under these conditions, a sustained light emission of 100,000 photons per second was measured, where only the background count of 20 photons per second was observed without meditation.
Published 2005,
Physics
Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine Journal Archives
This means someone who meditates on their heart center and sends love and light to others emits an amazing 100,000 photons per second, 5000 times more than the average. Numerous studies have also shown that when these photons are focused on love and healing, their frequency and vibration increases creating powerful healing positive change.

The Power of Thoughts and Words
Appreciating vs Complaining

Words like everything else in our world are a form of vibration, that is why they seek similar vibrations and bind together to create a very powerful force. We can see this as the result of the thinking of entire cultures that becomes very powerful indeed. Our thoughts , words, intentions and beliefs are part of what we, as human beings, are creating. When we complain we are sending more energy to what we are complaining about, increasing its vibration, making it even stronger and the situation worse.
We have the power to create the opposite effect by learning to think and speak with loving, kind, compassionate and caring thoughts and words. We can change the vibration to a higher frequency and create more good, more love and more kindness in our own life and in the world.
The challenge is to listen carefully to your own words and see if they match the kind of world you would love to live in. If they do not, then begin to work towards a positive change. Your change has to come from you--from within you. This will have a ripple effect on everything and everyone in your life. With our thoughts and words we can appreciate all we have, we can create the more Love, Joy, Peace, Beauty and the Universal Compassion we seek for all living beings, ourselves included.

The New Reality ......
Dealing With So Much Change

Are you able to accept the changes in your life right now with the way things are unfolding?
How are you copying?

As members of HAD (Hands Across the Divide), we are inviting all women to join us in our next online
Storytelling workshop where you will have an opportunity to share your story.

Through this process, we are creating a safe and empowering space for women of all ages, from all communities on the island and abroad, to share their story, to be truly heard and seen in a safe and supportive environment.

Facilitators: Rita Hadjigeorgiou,
Sue Lartides and Katie Economidou

Email : [email protected]
by Monday 13 September.

Acknowledging Our Journey

From the moment we are born to this very point of our life, we call the present moment, we have gone through many many changes, physically, emotionally, mentally. Some of these changes may have been challenging, some may have pushed our limits to help us expand our awareness and understanding.
Acknowledging, respecting, accepting and most importantly deeply loving who we are today, this version of ourself in the now and the life journey that has shaped us, allows us to move forward.
It has been said that we cannot truly love ourself without loving the journey of our life. It is the stepping stone which helps us make better choices, choices that honor and respect the person we have become. Each NEW moment is a precious part of this journey, let us make it beautiful.

We are inviting all women from across the island to join us online in the Cyprus Storytelling Project.

As a member of Hands Across the Divide, I am happy to co-facilitate this project with Sue Lartides and Katie Economidou.

Experience first hand the power of women coming together in a safe space of openness and acceptance.

The Core Success Questions Model

Based on the book 'Key Coaching Models' by Stephen Gribben

A very big part of coaching is to open the way for the person, team or organization to reconnect with their best qualities and successes. This process allows you to explore with powerful questions how to build greater confidence. If you can connect with past success stories you can apply the same to any other situation you want to bring about similar or even better results.
Here are some key questions from the core success questions model:
Think about -
Your best ideas
Your best focus
Your strongest intention
Your best strategies
Your strongest connections

How have all of the above helped you get successful results in the past. How you can apply this knowledge to a current situation you would like to succeed in.

Shine your light.

I am so happy to have facilitated a workshop on Heart Connection for HAD (Hands Across the Divide) with a wonderful group of woman from all over the island, coming together online, sharing, creating, loving, connecting to the heart.

Listen to the Way You Think and Speak
Positive Emphatic and the Subconscious Mind

Most of us know the concept of positive thinking. Very simply it is to focus your thoughts on what you do want, not what you do not want, what you can do, not what you cannot do, what you like, how you actually want to be and what you want to happen.
For example 'I don't want to look foolish' is a negative statement. ' I want to look as if I know what I am taking about' is a positive statement. To the conscious mind it implies the same thing. The subconsciou, however, does not understand implications especially when we think we confirm something with emphasis. Here is an example 'I am determined not to fail' This is actually a negative statement even though it is emphatic, whereas, 'I am determined to succeed' is totally positive and carries an entirely different message to the subconscious which is only objective, that is it can only work on what actually is. It has no understanding of what is not. If I say 'do not think of a red car' you probably brought the image of a red car to your mind. This is because the only image the subconscious mind can have is the object of the statement. It is important to give our subconscious mind clarity to support us in what we want.
So going back to the emphatic statement ' I am determined not to fail' focuses on the word fail, whereas, I am determined to succeed ' focuses on the word succeed. The more we can put into positive emphatic form what we want, the clearer, the stronger the message to the subconscious mind. We can take this further and create our own list of positive emphatic affirmations to support us in what we want to achieve.

Self Expression
Discovering Your Truth

How important is it for each one of us to speak our individual truth. Our truth is different from every other person, it may be similar, but not the same. Have you ever noticed after attending an event or lecture, that for the same experience, people had a different opinion from yours.
We all filter words and thoughts that come to us based on our own personal perspectives, so we see and hear different 'truths.'
If you have difficulty with expression, or as may be true for many, you may not even know who you really are, and would like to express your truth, JOURNALING is a powerful tool for self discovery. Sit somewhere comfortable and be completely truthful in what you write, say it like it is for you. If you are hurting, allow that hurt to come out, if you are angry, allow that anger to come out, be who you are. The point is to be authentic so that you can trust yourself to be truthful on the pages of your journal.
In this way you begin to give yourself permission to be you, to speak your mind and to voice your truth. The pain, the anger, the sadness flows from you to the paper and is a great way to bring about relief and self discovery.
Based on the work and the book 'Truth Heals ' by Deborah King.

HAPPINESS
Giving up "When" for "Now"

Take two pieces of paper. On the top of one write "I will be happy when ...." and on the top of the other write "I will be happy if ....."
Take some time to complete each question as many times as you can.
This will help you understand how many conditions you have set for yourself, that you are often waiting for people and events to happen before you can be happy, before you can start smiling.
This moment, this day, this life only happens once. Today will never happen again.
Let us choose to live today in the best way possible, choosing to find joy, choosing to smile, choosing to be grateful for all the good that is in our life, focusing on the good, appreciating, having humour, laughing, loving, sharing.
Taken from the book "Happiness Now" by
Dr Robert Holden, here is a beautiful passage:
What are you waiting for before you give yourself fully to the world? More support maybe? More confidence? More authority? More opportunity? More qualifications?
Can you see that....
While you wait, happiness waits,
While you wait, love waits,
While you wait, peace waits,
While you wait, freedom waits,
While you wait, opportunity waits,
While you wait, the world waits,
While you wait, we all wait.

FORGIVENESS and RELEASE

Here is a beautiful ancient blessing, created in the Nahuatl language, spoken in Mexico. It deals with forgiveness, affection, detachment and liberation.
The more you say it, the more you find inner peace.

“I release my parents from the feeling that they have already failed me.

I release my children from the need to bring pride to me; that they may write their own ways according to their hearts, that whisper all the time in their ears.

I release my partner from the obligation to complete myself. I do not lack anything, I learn with all beings all the time.

I thank my grandparents and forefathers who have gathered so that I can breathe life today. I release them from past failures and unfulfilled desires, aware that they have done their best to resolve their situations within the consciousness they had at that moment. I honor you, I love you and I recognize you as innocent.

I am transparent before your eyes, so they know that I do not hide or owe anything other than being true to myself and to my very existence, that walking with the wisdom of the heart, I am aware that I fulfill my life project, free from invisible and visible family loyalties that might disturb my Peace and Happiness, which are my only responsibilities.

I renounce the role of savior, of being one who unites or fulfills the expectations of others.

Learning through, and only through, LOVE, I bless my essence, my way of expressing, even though somebody may not understand me.

I understand myself, because I alone have lived and experienced my history; because I know myself, I know who I am, what I feel, what I do and why I do it.

I respect and approve myself.
I honor the Divinity in me and in you.

We are free."