How true is this expression, from any point of view…how many meanings it contains!

If we get back to our beginning in this world as human being made of flesh, the BELLY BUTTON is our first source of NOURISHMENT AND UNION with our mother.  The origin of COMMUNICATION to GIVE AND RECEIVE…. Impossible not to take this into account! From this perspective, it is obvious that we all are the belly button of the world, the first SELF-GIFT OF RECOGNITION TO ONESELF.

The belly button of the world

As soon as  we identify our WORTHINESS, irremediably our EGO comes into action, something like our dark side, the one that cuts the wings of our DIVINITY and puts in doubt the authenticity of our importance. I give you the following phrases as an example of what can invade our mental space, in the attempt to stop us from embracing the full happiness, that we deserve as a natural right.

The little voice starts off like a gun machine and says things like:

…”who do you think you are…”

…” you are so full of yourself…”

…”people will talk bad about you…”

…” it is better to be less outstanding…”

…will you be able to live with so much envy around you…?

…” you will be left all alone…”

Stop thinking

It is time to STOP THINKING like this…Mindfully we put a STOP to it, big like a house, before it becomes too late, before we get stuck in a LOOP, where the monster with seven heads makes us sweat buckets and a massive FEAR takes over us.  Read this for your inner side and repeat it in silence “ALL THIS IS JUST A MERE MENTAL FABRICATION AND IT DOES NOT EXIST…I ONLY CHOOSE THOUGHTS THAT MAKE ME FEEL GOOD.”

Just realize how we started this post and where we have arrived so far….   To this I add transcendence to that FIRST CENTRE OF VITAL ENERGY.

I insist, there are a lot of important matters going on under our belly button.  Everything that affects us has an impact there.  It connects us to our EMOTIONAL AND SEXUAL SELF.  It is the activation´s centre for our WILL, OUR INTERIOR STRENGHT AND  DETERMINATION TO START ANYNTHING.

Taoists consider it the SECOND CHAKRA. The following qualities are attributed to it:

  • Be our own HOME.
  • WATER is the essential element associated to it. Water is the beginning of our reality, the substance in which we cradle in the maternal womb for nine delicious months.
  • Just life´s chances; even though, those who know me a little bit or a bit more, are aware that from my point of view nothing happens by chance…My favorite color, ORANGE, appears like a flag, symbol for this second energetic centre.
  • Symbol of FLEXIBILITY, FLUIDITY, CHANGE AND ADAPTACION.

The unusual idea

We could go on till the infinite and beyond, but I believe it is a virtue to know when to stop, to keep it interesting and not becoming heavy.

Now I would like to share with you how the unusual idea to write about belly buttons came to my mind.

Power to imagination!  I better write it down, because I am not even able to understand consciously the connection or disconnection that my neurons have activated by looking at the heart of the rose, shown at the beginning of this post.

I was staring at the nucleus of the rose and I took a picture. I was enjoying the perfection of the various layers of its petals, when suddenly, the image of concentric circles came to me, you know, those circles that take form when you throw a stone in a pond.  From there the expression…” the world´s belly button”.

Well…Holy madness!…I am not sure who is happier…the one who is sane or mad…

Everything starts with oneself

I would like to end this post by playing around with the pejorative or negative association usually made and well known “ to be the world´s belly button”. EVERYTHING STARTS WITH ONESELF and by looking at your own belly button, taking care and energizing oneself. Of course, naturally! How can I possibly respect you, my dear friend, if first, I do not respect myself?

SHARING IS LIVING, I always say it and I repeat it again and again, from a healthy SELFAWARENESS I nurture myself and retro-nurture from myself first, then, I share…THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO SHINE AND LET SHINE.

I really wish that the first thing you do every morning is to LOOK AT YOUR OWN BELLY BUTTON, GRATEFUL FOR YOUR OWN DIVINITY. THANK YOU FOR BEING SO GREAT AND IMPORTANT AS I AM.  ?

Noche y Día

Today I pay homage to the beginning, the GENESIS, that first day in which God started HIS MASTERPIECE OF THE CREATION. It can be God, if you believe in it, or any other ENERGETIC AND SUPERIOR POWER that better resonates with you or you identify yourself with. 

Night & Day

Back then, the earth did not exist yet…everything was a DEEP SEA, covered by darkness.  This is how everything started, dividing THE ROTATION´S CYCLE of the earth into DAY and NIGHT, and by so doing, establishing an ORDER AND A CONCERT…This is how everything begins…introducing the DUALITY in this PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE.  

This is how the earth with its ROTATION´S movement, leaves half of the terrestrial globe illuminated during the DAY thanks to the SUN, while the other half, has a rest in the DARKNESS of the NIGHT.

As an inhabitant of this planet and in the same way of any living animal or vegetable of this kingdom, we base our existence in relation to these movements of LIGHT AND DARKNESS to SYNCHRONISE our system, what in everyday life, we commonly call, the BIOLOGICAL CLOCK.

Circadian rhythm

The cycles of SLEEP AND WAKE, known as well as the CIRCADIAN RHYTHM, defined by light and darkness, are PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND BEHAVIOURAL changes, perfectly orchestrated and forming a marvelous symphony with the MOVEMENTS OF THE EARTH AROUND THE SUN.

It is very difficult to believe that such perfection does not obey a SUPERIOR BEING, the perfect HAND OF A CREATOR.

Let us do a small exercise of personification, just for fun. Let us imagine the NIGHT and DAY are TWO YOUNG BROTHERS…both moving in cyclic and constant movements, both of them hand in hand with their OLDER BROTHER: TIME.

Spaces of time

From the beginnings, it has been primordial for the human being to measure time… Initially they simply measure the day observing the duration of the sun in the sky and differentiating it with the night for periods of darkness, in which, the only visible light was that of the shining stars.

During the cloudy nights, man, in the attempt to avoid living in the absolute darkness, through the intervention of another natural element, managed to create light by using FIRE.

The first WATCHES measuring time were those of fire. After those, came the ones made of SAND, then those made of WATER… During the EVOLUTIONARY NEEDS man developed and used his ingenious abilities…relatively…If we stop and think about it carefully, we will realize that everything WE NEED CAN BE FOUND IN OUR MOTHER NATURE AND IN ITS PRIMORDIAL ELEMENTS.

These elements would not be useful to give us the time, but to measure SPACES OF TIME. The evolution carried on and with the new advances the MECHANICAL WATCHES  appeared in the XII century…Moving on with the process, we will reach the precision to measure the time of the times, a funny redundancy here.

Capture and control the humans´time

What I really want to point out, is the almost OBSESSIVE IDEA AND DESIRE TO CAPTURE AND CONTROL THE HUMANS´TIME, a phenomenon directly proportionate with the technological advance and creating a greater obsession to CONTROL TIME.

WE are so obsessed with it, that we FORGET TO LIVE and enjoy fully the NOW, which, by the way, is the only concrete reality existing. And this is how we spend half of our life running after the arms of the watch, to live again A PAST THAT IS ALREADY GONE, and therefore unredeemable…We spend the other half moving the arms of the clock forward…foretelling AN UNPREDICTABLE FUTURE …something like a CRAZY INVENTION OF OUR FORMIDABLE THINKING HEADS, on this occasion, trying to catch INXESISTENT FUTURE EVENTS

Present …now

Let us give it a PAUSE…A moment of reflection… What would happen if we were told that in 10 minutes the party is over?  I do not know what you would do…Me, I would try to retain the best perfumes, the best flavors and pictures of everything that is around and share them with any person next to me…this would make me HAPPY…IT WOULD MAKE MY HEART BEAT WITH THOUSAND EMOTIONS…A vision comes to my mind: BOTTLING UP ALL THE BEST, wanting to store it in THE MEMORY OF MY DNA…like reaching the FUGGITIVE MOMENT OF THIS LIFE´S EXISTENCE … something like the AIRPLANES´ BLACK BOX…Who knows, maybe someone will find it in a far future, and will be able to describe those rare but amazing instants, that create the PRESENT …NOW.

With an OPEN HEART, ALL OVER THE WORLD, I FILL MYSELF WITH THIS MOMENT AND I GIVE INFINITE THANKS.  ?

milagrosa agua

Just water…nothing more and nothing less…That LIQUID ELEMENT so BASIC, yet integral part of our life. I have always been a fervent supporter of its NATURAL POWERS.  My jar of water and I, are like siamese twins, inseparable. People say it does not taste of anything…to me, it tastes like glory, like PURE LIFE, AN ESSENTIAL PART of my being. It is a living element, so alive on its own, that there are experiments showing THE WATER‘S BEHAVIOUR. 

Miracolous Water

MASARU EMOTO is a Japanese scientist dedicated to the study of this miracolous ELEMENT OF THE CREATION, who states, that in the same way we talk to plants, when we are talking to the water, using BEAUTIFUL WORDS AND FEELING POSITIVE EMOTIONS, we are adding an EMOTIONAL PLUS to the way we feed them; and to the internal structure of water, we add an EQUILIBRIUM AND FORM OF GREAT BEAUTY.

On the contrary, if we transmit A NEGATIVE EMOTION to it, we can observe under the microscope, that the VIBRATION AND THE SHAPES of the water’s particles show an unbalanced and chaotic structure. 

Lively energy

Many of you would ask : what do I want to prove with this? The answer is clear: everything around us is LIVELY ENERGY and for this reason, we feel the ECHO of its surrounding. We are VIBRATIONS resonating into the universe.  

Does this sound familiar to you? “…I don’t know why, but I like this person less than that one….simply VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCY…nor better, neither worst..some people love Kiss FM more, others Onda Melodia…The same happens with people…This is why some people disappear from our life and others start to appear..It is very curious, observe this.  

Essential for our life

Going back to the element we are dealing with, I remember there is a business which is totally focused on offering DIFFERENT TYPES OF WATERS…I must admit that, to be catalogued as an element which is ODOURLESS, COLORLESS AND TASTELESS,  there must be much more about it, that we would have thought. It is undeniable, water is ESSENTIAL FOR OUR LIFE and that we are made with more than 70% of it.

Let us wake up ladies and gentlemen, we come from the sea… our TEARS ARE SALTY and my apologies, in case it may involuntarily sound rude, even our mucus is! 

We HAVE BEEN GESTATED DURING NINE MONTHS IN AMNIOTIC FLUID, the composition of which is quite similar to our SALTY BLOOD PLASMA and this last has a salt’s content quite similar to SEA WATER.

I was not wrong at all, when years ago I used to cure my kids’ colds and coughs, exclusively with lot of PHYSIOLOGICAL SALINE SOLUTION…Back then, I had no idea about its benefits, but my intuition was reluctant towards the use of ANTIBIOTICS and EXPECTORANTS suggested by the paediatrician.

Exactly like water does…

At this point, I just make a PERSONAL REFLEXION…and…as it usually happens, without even realising it, some MENTAL IMAGES popped up…How would life be, if only we could develop the habit to let it FLOW NATURALLY? Exactly like water does…without OBBLIGATIONWITH GRACEFULNESS AND GREAT SIMPLICITY…almost WITHOUT PRETENSIONS…able to go where the path leads…without holding back…IN A PERFECT ORDER, LIKE A CONCERT…always able to make its own way.

Water is a source of life

After this moment, when I was almost living in a day dream, I am going back to pay homage to my favourite drink (a glass of good wine, now and then, is always very welcome as well…)

Time for a little bit of history about our origin. WE COME OUT FROM THE DEEP SEA. Our first predecessors and living creatures take us back milions of years, when they originated in a MARINE HABITAT. 

THERE IS NO LIFE WITHOUT WATER…WATER IS A SOURCE OF LIFE. After all this…if our own BLOOD PLASMA contains a high percentage of SEA SALT, it would be a great idea to add a small quantity of sea water to our jug of tap water and RE-BALANCE OUR INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT.  

If you decide or not to do it, my dear friend, my intention was that together, we could get as close as possible to the so many and curious things that MOTHER NATURE offers us.

I end this post in an unusual way but …I hope you will enjoy it! 

MEDITATION

Sit down or lay down if you prefer. Close your eyes. Let us submerge for a moment in our beginning. Let us go back to the comfort of the maternal uterus.

Let us go back to our original element, water. Water that hugs us, makes us feel warm and receives us…The temperature is perfect, we cradle in that element of infinite love, the beginning of the PURITY AND PERFECTION OF OUR BEING.

Everything is CLEAR, CALM AND PLEASANT…FEEL IT…Stay for as long as you like, let your soul decide intuitively….FEEL SAFE…turning around and around in harmony …EVERYTHING IS PEACEFUL…EVERYTHING IS LOVE. ?

Jugar vs Juzgar

Somewhere, in a place…I am unable to recall now, I saw a drawing…What really impressed me, was the question written at the bottom of that drawing; AN IMPACTING REFLECTION…it said something like this “At what stage of our life, did we stop being PLAYING CHILDREN and become JUDGEMENTAL ADULTS”?

Impacting…is it not?   But it is so real as it is now 20.00, nighttime and I can see it through the window, from behind my desk.

Playing vs Judging

I remember when I used to take my children to the park, enjoying observing THE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND INTERACTIONS of THOSE LITTLE PEOPLE.

From a young age, THE FFELING OF BELONGING TO A GROUP is almost INSTICTIVE, so inherent to the human race as breathing is. From our very tender age, we PUT OURSELVES FORWARD and we form our own IDENTITY through the interactions we establish with those around us.

Thinking animals

The SMALLEST we are, THE PUREST and this is why we can find more affinities to the ANIMALS´ behaviors…At the end of the day, we are THINKING ANIMALS…are we not? 

I make myself clearer: an animal defends its territory, its cubs and fights for its survival. In the same way, when we are just kids, the younger we are, the more this attitude can be appreciated, we slap the one who tries to take away our favorite toy, but at times we are able to LEND OUR HAND to that, who is crying because he fell down or because another colleague took advantage of a moment of distraction and snatched his yellow lorry, simply attracted by the shining color of that toy.

Well, during that afternoon in the park among sand, swings and slides, my mind came up with the following question “When does it happen exactly, that we, adults, start to DAMAGE AND CONTAMINATE those minds, almost divine for their SIMPLICITY AND EASINESS and transform those small adorable people into JUDGEMENTAL MACHINES?

Emotional bagages

I am not going to discover anything new under this sun. It is quite useless to point out that we transmit this from GENERATION TO GENERATION and I suppose that we use the monosyllable “NO” as the star of the party and we apply it to every child´s movement, from the begin of the beginnings, without even realizing and with our best intention of course, but almost in a compulsive way.

We give ourselves plenty of reasons to do so, and with tenderness, but through an AUTOMATIC BEHAVIOUR, we discharge our FRUSTRATIONS, OUR RIGIDITY AND FEARS on those small souls, who absorb everything like sponges and start filling their EMOTIONAL BAGAGES with weights.

Emotional healing

I insist and emphasize again and again, that the best INHERITANCE we can leave to our children is OUR OWN EMOTIONAL HEALING. As we are energy, we can contribute directly to THE HEALING OF OUR FAMILY´S TREE.

Therefore, we can go back and RE-WRITE those events we lived with FEAR, WITH PAIN OR STRESS, neutralize them in our MEMORY and by doing so, we can revisit those moments with a different perspective, much more favorable than before.

Exercise of courage and willpower

At the end of the day, it is an EXERCISE OF COURAGE AND WILLPOWER, something like taking off onion´s layers, till you reach the core.  That VIRGIN CORE, even though is very well hidden, is waiting to be rescued and taken back to see the light again.

It is a GO BACK IN TIME, with care, with confidence and with TONS OF WILLPOWER, a regression to that moment, when we were THE LITTLE BOY OR THE LITTLE GIRL PLAYING IN THE SLIDE, ENJOYING ONCE AGAIN LIFE, READY TO LEND THE HAND TO WHOEVER may need it, with the ADVANTAGES OF OUR OWN EXPERIENCE… if I put my hand to close to the fire I know I will get burnt; so when there is a MUTUAL RESPECT, I HELP YOU, but when this is not the case, I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST…but I prefer to go on with my journey.

There is another way to see things

There is another way to see things as everything depends on the EYE OF THE OBSERVER.

If I manage TO LOVE MYSELF ENOUGH, so to avoid judging myself, I will be able to CONSIDER YOU IN THE SAME WAY I DID WITH MYSELF, my dear friend. I may possibly disagree with you, but I WILL NOT JUDGE YOU

DO YOU WANT TO PLAY WITH ME?  ?

Vamos a contar mentiras…tralará

We start this new post with a scene that took place in my CHILDHOOD. A real story like life itself… I am pretty sure that many of you would have lived a very similar experience in your own skin.

Let us tell lies…ta ra ta ta

I must have been about 6 years old or so…We were at our family beach house…My parents decided it was the perfect moment to have a swimming pool, because we were able to swim and there was enough space to build one over there…hooray!  What a happiness …I still remember that childish feeling of ENJOYING IT IN ADVANCE WITHOUT ANY DOUBT.

Well, let us get on the job now…my parents spoke to a contractor… The swimming pool drawings…the material…the dimensions…this and that…and voila! The swimming pool was already cemented…If my memory does not betray me, I think it was May… The contractor was going to leave, totally satisfied with his work, but before going, he pointed out something very important, just at the door… “Right…it is all done, but we need to leave it for a couple of days, so that the cement will dry properly and then we will give it the finishing touch…it is very important that during this time it does not get wet, not even a drop of water …”

The next day started with such a heat… I went out to play in the garden after having eaten a delicious toast with olive oil and a cup of cola-cao (I can remember it so clearly because I used to love it so much…)  and there, I found my father with the water hose in his hand “refreshing the swimming pool…”

Innocence

That same day in the afternoon, we went out again to play in the garden and half of the swimming pool was dismantled… “What happened daddy…? …Well I do not have a clue my darling…this is exactly what your mother and I were talking about…We have already called the contractor and asked him to come here urgently and explain what is going on…we cannot possibly understand this mess…”

The contractor arrived with a very concerned face, looking at the swimming pool half destroyed like a sandcastle. While he was trying to come up with any potential explanation he asked: “are you sure the work did not get wet; not even a single drop of water…? “

That was when I answered with total INNOCENCE AND HONESTY, typical of those who have NOT BEEN CONTAMINATED YET…” “Yesterday I saw my daddy watering it a lot, using the hose exactly there, yes…”

Ooh my Gosh…what a storm I had just started, without even being aware of it!

Sincerity

I am totally sure, that at this stage, you have already connected to some similar events stored in your mental archive… You cannot imagine what I would have given in that moment to be able to put into practice the ability of “bewitched” and disappear in a blink from the face of the earth.  My father ´s expression said it all…without saying a word…but meaning “I am going to deal with you later on…dear daughter”

Well, against any possible positive outcome, check out what came out…the least expected took place…The contractor burst out laughing in front of my SPONTANEOUS AND SINCERE COMMENT…My parents could not act differently either, they joined in as well and WE ALL RECOGNISED THE HAPPENINGS OPENLY LIKE CHILDREN DO.

My father recognized that he thought it was a good idea to refresh a bit the work because it was very hot and he has noticed some small cracks …The contractor SYMPHATISED quickly with my father and added “do not worry, it is not a problem and I can fix it easily…I was much more concerned I could not find an explanation for it…that would have been a real issue…”

Courage

This eased a lot my father reaction later on, and he only told me: “it is unbelievable…you cannot not keep your mouth closed, not even under water…” Only years after that event, I understood how uncomfortable my father felt in the situation, when I spoke out with that CHILDISH SINCERITY…Even though I must admit, that now I feel very proud of myself and of my COURAGE, not only because I said the truth but because I faced my FEAR and dared to contradict the AUTHORITY, meaning my father. 

In line with this story, “how often do WE TELL LIES TO OUSELVES AND WE BELIEVE THEM…?  Maaanyyy….and this does not mean we are liars.  There are situations that trigger our loop of FEAR and especially SOME AUTOMATIC BEHAVIOURS.  At times that HABIT is so deeply rooted that the AUTOMATIC PILOT simply takes over. In other circumstances we are more aware of it and this is when we can manage to PUT IN ACTION A DIFFERENT BEHAVIOURAL PATTERN…Yes, until it becomes once again natural as the ones we used to have.

 

INVERSION OF THOUGHT-PAUSE-INVERSION OF BEHAVIOUR-DIFFERENT RESULT.

I repeat the same over and over to every person who needs my support in their CHANGING PROCESS.

Believe in our ability to change

Why is it, that, when we order some food online to be delivered to our home address, we do not doubt even for a second that OUR ORDER WILL BE DELIVERED and on the other side when we should BELIEVE IN OUR ABILITY TO CHANGE, WE ARE FULL OF DOUBTS?

The only difference is that, when we place an order online, WE PUT OUR TRUST IN A THIRD PERSON, in the second situation, IT COSTS US AN ARM AND A LEG TO PUT THE TRUST IN OURSELVES.

I keep repeating the same…over and over, to myself first, WE CAN LEARN ANYTHING …THE ONLY REQUIREMENT IS THAT WE REALLY WANT TO DO IT. ?

Simple as that. CAUSE  AND EFFECT.  They always go together. A perfect marriage that leads us to what we DESIRE or FEAR the most.

Are we conscious about  how we think? Have we pondered and realised that our mind is the most powerful machinery ever created?

Tell me what you THINK  and I will tell you how you FEEL

Let us go back in the past to Alan Turing, father of the theoretical computer science and precursor of  the ARTIFICIAL INTELLINGE.

Can you believe that everything started in the middle of a World War: on September 1938 Turing is recruited by the British government to interpret and traslate the  German codified messages through a machine called Enigma. The name itself reveals the concept of somenthing you cannot understand due to its ambiguity or because it goes beyond the logic perceived through our senses. 

I think therefore I am

If a man has managed to set up a machine able to think, using the same human mental abilities, would it not be correct to state that we can adjust and choose, at our own pleasure, any thought running through our MENTAL CORRIDOR?

In the exact moment you ARE ELABORATING YOUR THOUGHTS, you are CHOOSING YOUR EMOTIONS. A Jump back in the past and I find myself at the time of Rene Descartes and his famous reasoning “ I think therefore I am” This is how I summarise it, based on this post´s thematic : doubt about everything, especially what your senses show you through the body. Only if we doubt, we are able to find our truth; find your own truth well beyond the tangible world and once you have found it you will know it immediately because you will experience a great sense of  wellbeing.

The abilities to handle our emotions

We find the base of any techonological advance in the ARTIFICIAL OR INTELLECTUAL INTELLINGENCE. Any technological advance lacking EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OR A BASE OF IT, is pure MECHANISM. The abilities to handle our emotions, to express and balance them, are exactly those abilities that differentiate us from a computer.

What is Siri missing to be more human, for example? You would agree with me that it is possible to have a conversation with Siri and obtain answers which are fairly coherent.  The only and fundamental ingredient that so far has not been possible reproducing in it, is EMPATHY.  An immense word with an immense meaning:”from my ability to FEEL and  THE KNOWLEDGE OF MY EMOTIONS I can put myself in your place;you wear your own shoes daily but I can perceive where they are uncomfortable.

The truth inside yourself

Once you are able to glimpse the knowledge of your soul,then you will  be closer to find the CERTAINTY OF THE TRUTH INSIDE YOURSELF.  This is irrefutable and even though you can not prove it by logic, you can feel it and you know it is REAL. 

In order to be able to handle my EMOTIONAL DICTIONARY and to know the meaning of my MOODS, first of all I need to search in my conscience, HOW I am thinking and WHICH are the specific THOUGHTS that are occupying my mental space.

Thoughts and emotions

To make it short; in the same way that there cannot be day without night, so there is not knowledge of my EMOTIONS without an identification and a previous selection of my THOUGHTS.

Once we are able to correlate correctly  our thoughts and our emotions,then we will be in a very good disposition to act in the proper way with the person next to us.

A very important advice; let us not forget, we are very good at taking care of other people´s necessities before taking care of ourselves and this is not empathy, this is forgetting to sweep our home and run to sweep the neighbour´s home with the broom in our hand.

I am ready, as I am every day, to keep my SPACE CLEAN and free from any GARBAGE, I choose to vibrate high and enjoy the amazing wisdom of those people who vibrate even higher than me. These are the people that make me reach, with their example,the life of plenitude, we all deserve

Who you want to be now

Everything can happen by simply abandoning the old LIMITING  and castrating MENTAL HABITS. I ask myself why, since the world´s creation, it is so easy for us to live in sufferings and deprivations and  so difficult, at times almost impossible, to feel ourselves WORTHY AND WEALTHY.  I know by experience that THE MACRO-SOCIAL LABELS we carry are very well attached to us.  The great piece of news is that everything can be replaced… first we make it softer by soaking them in hot water with a lot of love, then we patiently wait for them to peel off and finally we let them go.

Take you permanent marker and write very clear in the middle of your heart. WHO YOU WANT TO BE NOW.

Are you ready to enjoy your presents?  ?

Imagine

I feel an immesurable peace when I listen to the words and the piano´s sound of this hymn to life: you are a dreamer…but you are not the only one…dreaming about living a life in balance and plenitude.  This is how John Lennon, a myth, a musical genius,  lived his life, in the same way he dreamt about it, beyond skin´s colours, frontiers or situations.   The  world´s  representative of the hippies sixtieth movement “MAKE LOVE NOT WAR

During my daily life there are many more moments in which I am at PEACE with myself than those I am at war.

Imagine

Every work sustained through time with PERSISTANCE will produce its fruits. For good or for bad,  we decide the fruits we want to pick..and there is only one condition: we have to mantain ourselves vibrating in the EMOTIONAL STATE DESIRED: the equation is perfect and never fails..IMAGINE..imagine for a moment, A CALM MIND, pure LOVE..maybe some of you from your chair is thinking…this is not real..How is this possible?  My answer is my life´s  long motto “ everything is possible..if so you wish it to be”.  You can live in a wellbeing state where there is not any necessity to “ pull the rope..nor from one side neither from the other”

I am fantical about refrains and I strongly believed that in the POPULAR WISDOM you can discover THE ART OF LIVING WITH SIMPLICITY.  This is why I invite you to analyse with me, the following refrains that I am sure you have heard before:” it takes two to make a quarrel” such a real truth.  The same refrain can work for a SCIENTIFIC MIND as well as for an ARTISTIC ONE.

“It takes two to make a quarrel”

Here is the explanation for a scientific mind. Ladies and gentlemen let us consider the PHYSICAL LAWS OF TENSION:  I will explain it in a simple way; it is obvious that if we hold a rope, me from one side and you from the other, we create a TENSION, caused by the two OPPOSITE FORCES.  A physical result of the forces I excercise on one end and you on the other.  So far, I believe, we all agree; each one ENTRENCHED in his position, ready to pull the rope with all our strenght to win the prize and to feel satisfied with ourselves, showing the WINNING TROPHY OF BEING RIGHT.

am bored with fighting

Now let us analyse the same physical event from the perspective of a more artistic and intuitive mind: we get hold of the same rope, we start to pull it, each one on the opposite end, creating again the well known tension. As soon as we start to turn blue because of the EFFORT, one of us is illuminated and think mentally “ What is the SENSE of all this? Where is this taking us? In that precise moment, the same one decides to let the rope go and leave, to focus his valuable time on other goals which can bring him PEACE OR NOURISHMENT FOR THE SOUL.

Once he let go his end of the rope , inevitably he beats his opponent who receives a massive hit in the ass as a simple result of THE PHYSICAL LAWS  Fantastic!  You are totally right…but  everything depends on our PERSPECTIVE and the following popular refrain fits perfectly: “ you are totally right, keep my part of righteousness and enjoy the hit in the ass too…At this stage of my life I AM BORED WITH FIGHTING and all I want is to live in peace.

Bet everything on a better world full of peace

What do you think about this, my dear friend? Do you think it is possible to put into practice the messages of “ imagine by John Lennon” and  from our humble position, let go the rope of FEAR, the stubbornness and bet everything on a better world full of PEACE?

 

If we look OUTSIDE, the landscape is CONVULSED and if we focus on that convulsion we are only adding woods to the fire. Remeber that each of us is a drop of water  in the vastity of the immense ocean; each drop is worth the same: Do you want to contribute  with your INDIVIDUAL PEACE to the COLLECTIVE PEACE?  Be aware that, despite the circumstances we are experiencing, we are THE ARCHITECTS OF OUR OWN LIVES.

See the light, even in the most absolute darkness

It is always possible to see the light, even in the most absolute darkness. Imagine a very long and dark tunnel.. as in everything, there is a BEGINNING AND AND END  as it is in this world of POLARITIES; sooner or later we will see the light.  Why don´t you try to imagine that same tunnel and catch a glimpse of the light NOW before reaching the end of it?

You are the only one who decides which color you are going to use to paint your MENTAL HOME.

Immaculate white

I will share with you the color I have choosen. Here and now I paint my mind with an immaculate white, honouring my name and my INNER STATE. Can you believe that before I used to dislike my name! Now I love it, I love its meaning, I identify myself with that essence of PURITY AND PEACE which I feel every day in me. You have it too, in your inner side:

Are you willing to take the hand of your inner side every day?

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el jardinero fiel

The title may result familiar to you as it has been used before in one of John Le Carre´s books. The focus, of what I want to emphasize in this space, has got nothing to do with the plot of  the book I have just mentioned. This is another clear example of the prism everyone uses to interpret how things are perceived. 

I took this amazing picture last year in Regent´s park and as a matter of fact it has been the spark igniting  the inspiration to write this post.

The faithful gardener

This gardener ,almost having the semblance of a human being, is the criss-cross creation of an unending variety of plants, bushes and flowers. It stands in a hidden corner of this London Park as A CARING SOUL FOR THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM.

I have always felt vey much identified with natural spaces, and free when sorrounded by its beauty, apparently lifeless,but often inviting me through its quietness to take a rest or to slow down.

Movement and calm

I can recall very clearly those bicycles´ rides at the weekends. Every Friday we used to take the car and drive to the house on the beach without caring if it was winter or spring. I felt such a sense of  FREEDOM ; it is inmaginable. A total compenetration with nature. I loved to stop, get off from my bicycle all sweaty and feel that profound calm transmitted by the sorroundings.  It was like an invitation to STOP, after having cycled for quite a while, and be mindfully engaged  with those two emotions MOVEMENT AND CALM.

As the years have passed by it has become more clear, for me at least, that the time spent with MOTHER NATURE, were absolutely MEDITATIVE moments, especially towards my inner side; of course everyone has his own view about this.

I could stay and observe an anthill for hours; the ants´ behaviour, how they interacted with their antennae, their greeting signals and all the messages exchanged every time they meet one another. I used to follow their trail well beyond the sand, up to where it disappeared in direction of the grass.  An absolute perfect fusion between the ANIMAL AND THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM.

Thinking and emotional animals

We are THINKING AND EMOTIONAL ANIMALS, so I openly ask you “ do you think you are taking enough care of YOUR GARDEN? What I mean is “ are you aware that we are all  the LOVING GARDENERS of our inner garden? I need to warn you immediately, this is a lifelong work; you know, WEEDS grow constantly..this is why our mission is to be the FAITHFUL GARDENERS of our conscience; we are the only ones responsible to keep our space beautiful, avoiding that anything that enters there can spoil it.

If you have a space, for as small as this could be, I can assure you that if you bring yourself to the art of CULTIVATING it, the gratification is instant.  The simple act to put your hands in the ground makes you get in touch directly with your essence, it calms you down, it gets you closer to enjoy THE FEELINGS THROUGH THE TOUCH. Touch the ground, cut the grass, water it, plant in it…by doing this WE LEARN TO TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES AND TAKE CARE OF OUR SPACE.

Nothing can harm us unless we allow it

Remember, nothing can harm us unless we allow it. Every situation that affects us, has been delivered by the skilled hands of a messenger who is telling us in a subtle way, to look inside ourselves.  The healthier we manage to keep our space the more POWER we have over our life.  A tree grows strong if it is free from any weeds .  CHOOSE the plants and the trees you like to decorate your home; select how you relate to your surroundings and the people you want to be part of it. In the same way you shower every day and get organised, take the rake daily and remove the little weed from your garden.The weed can appear small, nontheless it will always take some strenght and food away from the tree you love the most in your garden. Be FAITHFUL to yourself, learn to say with firmness “YES I like it and NO I do not like this”, go deaf to other people´s opinions, increase the volume of your INTUITION, your best adviser, and shut up everything else.

Become the best version of youself

Keep your space always spotless, make sure your garden is your pride and the example for all the other gardens.  INSPIRE anyone you can through the way you lead your life. Keep always in mind that living by example is the king of all kings. Keep your mover, your rake and your pruning shears always ready and transform your INNER SPACE in a GARDEN OF HAPPINESS AND LOVE, where only THE EVOLUTION TOWARDS YOUR PURPOSE reigns, with the aim to BECOME THE BEST VERSION OF YOUSELF.

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la música amansa a las fieras

Music is for me the soundtrack of life…  Music in any of its forms; just a few notes…organised in a particular order to create a MELODY, with or without words.

Possibly the most ancestral human FORM OF COMMUNICATION, able to put together in a simple DANCE the greates variety of people,  their expressions, their memories… creating an instant change in our PHYSIOLOGICAL RYTHM, modifying our MOOD, bringing peace to our soul…I definetly choose to live with music around me.

Music soothe the savage beasts

Man has coexisted with it since ancient times; proofs given by musical instruments like drums, timbales or lyre from the Mesopotamia civilization, which takes us back approximately 4000 years BC. Since the world´s creation we have coexisted and evolved with some type of music.. When we DANCE in group, we automatically feel that sense of BELONGING to a tribu, a sense of unity with our similars.

When we listen to music, being it consciously or not, we  start to produce and release wellbeing´s substances in our brain, in the same way we do when we sit in front of a delicious dish or a glass of  good wine. DOPAMINES spread in our brain´s circuit  making us feel  amazingly well.

There is a saying about music that I love very much and totally agree with. I am pretty sure you have heard this famous expression before: “music soothe the savage beasts” .. a mithycal saying which gives honours to a Greek musician and poet, Orpheus.  It is said he could play musical instruments with such a  mastery and delicacy, that he was able to transform  the most agressive BEHAVIOUR  in a blink.

Memories and Perceiving things

I could not say if Orpheus was practising MUSIC THERAPY just to soothe beasts or he would use it as well to soothe human souls.  Clearly I am not Orpheus. Nevertheless I have put into practice his technique every time I was driving with my two kids when they were younger and it was like a “holy hand”. In front of a possible fight between the two, good loud music in the car and in a fraction of a second everyone was singing happily.

If you love music as I do, I would ask you to listen carefully to any song that really inspires you…and once it is over, analyse why you have choosen that song and not another one…I am sure you will discover there are many more reasons involved in your choice than you could have possibly thought of.

Try with that song to reach EMOTIONALLY the deepest parts of your self, try to describe them , even if you manage only single words,; what does that suggest you?  Maybe you will realise that in some occasions, a simple music or a sequence of notes, is more than enough to trigger off some MEMORIES and PERCEIVING things you were not aware existed.

Feelings & Emotions

Music has the power to create FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS , is poetry without words, every single note has in it a cadence, a perfect sound in a perfect tempo.The sensibility to appreciate music can be learnt through practice. If you are not a born musician, you can learn to be a MUSIC LOVER.

Music makes part of my life very much, when I meditate while cooking, when I am having a shower. There are moments in which I keep my eyes closed to enjoy my senses while listening to a melody in tune with my MOODS.

Music is an  essential part of the human being, of course OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING plays a big role in it too..I grew up with the constant music of an old record turntable.  I have always loved SINGING AND DANCING.  I still remeber with tenderness my music teacher, the long hours practising the flute at home driving my mother crazy ,who at times, could not avoid to protest and say “ my little angel, you are so intense with everything; when somenthing get into your mind it get stuck there and you carries on and on and on..until you finally get it…”

Be & Feel

I am very grateful I could receive all those inputs and live in sorroundings which stimulated constantly my ARTISTIC tendency to sing, dance, listen to good music. In some cases I even dared to compose some shorts songs and sing them to my kids when they were very small, holding them in my arms, while dancing. Their babies´ faces were initially showing surprise but then laughing in tune with the music…we were dancing up and down like in a roller coaster, feeling that tingling in the stomach, a sensation inbetween fear and joy..those butterflies´experience associated with falling in love or the impression  your heart is going to jump out of your chest..This is how I feel music, a pure exaltation of feelings running high.

Excellent music therapy, able to make us BE AND FEEL fully, without thinking. ?

¿Te acuerdas de mí?

So real like life itself. How many times have you been introduced to someone who said he/she has met you before and you DO NOT REMEMBER HIM/HER?…His/her name, the place you met him/her for the first time, who introduced each other..how embarassing!  In front of such affirmation and seing the person is so sure we have met before, we desperatly  acces our SHORT AND LONG TERM MEMORY, and any type of memory available, trying to find a way out from that uncomfortable situation. And the person goes on with total confidence…

”I remeber you perfectly”..on that occasion your hair were very long and straight…an eternity ago!  The total lost expression in your face betrays you and in that moment, with your best smile and absolute sincerity you reply back “ I believe you are mistaking me for someone else…I have never worn my hair that long..”  But the other person insists: I am ready to bet on whatever you want that it was you..let me focus on it and recall more details”

Do you remember me?

This scene can be very common and it can happen while you are  queuing at the restaurant´s toilet or as it happened to me, during a postgraduate seminar. What are the factors influencing our ability to REMEMBER OR FORGET?

The classification and selection is extremely wide. The only certainty is that we all have a point of reference: we classify and labell our situations based on the COLLECTIVE MEMORY, on something generic, to then filter it through more concrete aspects based on our SELECTIVE MEMORY.  I give you an example; when I refer to a table and recognise it as such, it is because I was taught, at a very early age, that any surface in a square, round, rectangular hexagonal shape and  supported by four legs, refers to the concept of what has been collectively defined as a  “ table”.

I will be more specific: if in my memory  the concept of  “table” is associated with family´s  reunions and those reunions were connected to PLEASANT EMOTIONS like happiness and love, it is very likely I will have strong positive feelings, not only with tables in general, but with those decorated and well presented.  This pleasant concept will be strongly related to a sequence of EMOTIONAL ATTIDUDES too ( tables-reunions-family/friends-sharing-wellbeing).

It is very probable that now you are asking yourself what a “ table” has to do with remembering or not remembering someone.. Well, as the human mind is very prodigious, the person who remembered me and saw me wearing long straight hair till the belt, was right.

Suddenly the information I was looking for in my mental archive was fully available in my memory…Gosh, Inma, this girl was right. The mental picture was now clear like the blue sky; a fancy dress party, in Madrid, ages ago and the topic of the party was the sixties.. a hippies´night. There, I was wearing long black hair till the belt, a wig…but of course it was me..!

Collective Memory-Selective Memory

I have always been eager to know the reasons and the whys of everything around me. I was a very curious girl and considered unstoppable for my parents, asking them questions day and night… Luckily this has not changed with the time, I am still the one and so I asked myself straight away  “Why did you not remeber it, on the contrary, you were denying it from the beginning”? The aswer was as fast as the question; “ I forgot about that period of my life simply because I had ASSOCIATED IT TO UNPLEASANT FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS and uncousciously I had storaged those archives deep, very deep down in my mind.  It is said that distance is synonim of FORGETTING..and  we may believe so, but there is always someone or something able to make us revive that moment. Without hesitation, I approached the girl who recognised me  from the beginning,  I gently tapped her on the shoulder to get her attention and told her “ now I remember ..we did meet before and yes I had long black hair, a wig though. It was me, even if I was dressed up in a fancy way it was still me.

Sometimes we manage to DRESS UP AND ANESTHETISE OUR PERCEPTIONS so much that we are able to live for real, moments that have never occured, in the same way we manage to bury others so deep in our hearts, that we could swear they never took place or we conveniently distort their memory.

We believe what we want to believe

The SENSES are always at our service but they are controlled by our central navigator, THE MIND,  which is so powerful, able to make us believe what we want to believe, transforming it into an absolute truth. The story, I have just told you, is the tangible proof of something I have lived personally.

When we are ready and it is the right time to dust those old memories, then there will be an event helping us to do it. It is like  placing a cosmic order from our SUBCONSCIOUS MIND: “dear universe, now I am prepared to store that situation I had almost forgotten in a proper way..the event itself is not so important as the way I felt; as the personal EMOTIONAL MEMORIES involved. Now they are cured and I have understood…so I am able to store them healed and healthy.

I close this post  with a riddle “ it LOOKS LIKE gold and IS not silver…guess quickly and tell me what it is. ( plata-no = plantain, a fruit similar to banana…plata in Spanish is SILVER, NO is used to form the negative NOT , ES = is (from the verb SER = to be)  so that PLATA-NO-ES translates into IS PLANTAIN)

Do you dare to put your absolute truths on trial?

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