The last days have been a total chaos for me.
I have made a choice.
To change and step up.
To once again open my wings which I have kept closed for a while.
Being scared to die.
As I flied once so high!
Is that the moment when you fly out from the nest and do not believe you can fly?
All the doors which have been opening, just closed again?
So you sit there in total darkness.
Nothing moves.
Total Silence.
Emptiness.
Free fall.
.
.
And whatever move you do,
everything goes against you or stops or runs away.
So you look for the answer.
As you have been told it comes from the outside.
You have to do something.
You have to act somehow to take action.
The solution must always be outside of you.
But what if in the darkest darkness
In the deepest depth
In the biggest storm
You just sit down
And look inside?
Maybe the biggest key –
the solution
lies in you –
in the silence –
in the moment –
while the chaos and storm whirls around you?
What if the light in the end of the tunnel is
actually inside of your core being?
Waiting to be discovered?
So that you would stop to look outside
and stop to believe that someone else knows
what is light in the end fo the tunnel for you?
What is best for you?
What to do or act?
And if you are the light –
Where is there to go?
Written in Mexico, Cancun, April 18th
Daily Archives: 11/08/2013
Luck or Choice – that is the Question!
Humans are not meant to stay all the time the same. We are meant to grow. Jump out from our boxes and comfort zones and start to take steps, even if the danger is going to be out there.
Before coming to Chicago, I checked the weather forecast. It was all warning for big storms, tornado and thunderstorms and flooding. I was sure that my flight will be cancelled, but then I stopped for a moment! Wait a minute, I did not even buy the travel insurance as I chose not to have that experience! I corrected my thoughts and aligned it again. I also did some talking to the molecules of the storm. You know we are all magicians and we can do that! So the results?
The whole trip went well, no problem, everything perfect. Just a bit bumpy landing.Is it luck or a choice? It is up to you choose!
My hostess was amazing, a true aloha person, one step ahead at all times. I was treated with a grilled salmon and an amazing fresh salad. On top of it, the desert was 2 bits of organic chocolate, how did I really get so lucky!
So it is all flooding here in Chicago and we hope everyone gets to the event on time! This is my first deepdiving into Empower Network and I maybe should have taken my mask and snorkel with me? Or I just hold my breath! Superexcited!
Ask and you will receive!
Wow, my first event with Empower Network is now behind me. I ran out of words!
I share first what my whole journey coming here to Chicago has been like and what it has done to me and hopefully it will inspire you to do and be whatever you choose without any limits!
I have had problems with asking for help or money for years. For me it was equal of saying –I do not manage my life and I am weak. So very many times, I did not ask. I stayed in my pity and felt a failure. I know many people do that. But what if you would not? What would happen then?
1 week ago I joined Empower Network. 4 days later I came to the Chicago event by getting money for the travels through donations from friends all over the world! I arrived despite to the fact of the flood and bad weather. I got here. I took contact with a local friend, who offered me accommondation. How can it get better than this?
The first day was amazing, there was so much to take in, 5000 people – all kinds of cultures, nationalities, backgrounds. The event got going so much that it finished 2,5 hours later. I missed my train back.
There I was sitting in one of the hotel lobbys and asking in one of the women’s group for help online. 5 minutes later, there came a call from 2 women: Greta Marie Campagnolo Lisa Burnham to share their room with me. As the other days it was also very difficult with the transport, I stayed for 2 more nights!!! How amazing is this? What a gift!!
For me this was something amazing. I have not felt such kindness and such care for a long time. How amazing is this? I sent out a call and 5 minutes later, I was offered a kind solution? I was empowered – they were empowered. The task for the night was to see a dream and before falling asleep I thanked them for gifting me a dream. In the lobby I could not have slept at all.
It reminded me that this same morning I suddenly got 2 tickets in the chase of one, as the tickets were sold out. I saw someone having problems with the ticket in the registration and donated the other ticket to the registration crew in case it was needed for someone. So what goes around, comes around! Be careful! It is dangerous to be kind!
What I learned from this is – never underestimate one act of kindness, as you never know when you gonna need one as well. Asking for me is not any more an act of poverty or weakness, it is about the courage to tell out loud what is it you need or what has happened. I just wonder what would the world be like if everyone would do that!???
Not only did I get a bed to sleep in, I even got to borrow the T shirt from one of the women: with a Inner Badass message! Wicked eh?
It is all about reframing it!
During the weekend Empower Network Event, Chris Record, who is the leader of the team Take Massive Action shared his ideas how re-framing helps to go through challenges and problems.
I agree. This morning I started to come back from Rosemont to Grayslake, and found out that I just had missed the train and the next one was about to come in 3 hours time. I walked to the first hotel lobby, sat down and wrote some blog posts, as they did not have free internet there. I had really fun, being surrounded by all the people leaving after the event and writing at the same time. I re-framed it!I got to my next train station in Praire Crossing and came out that all the trains, which pass within the next 3 hours do not stop in the next particulat stop where I had to go. So what else to do? I walked into the nearest Photoshop and asked directions.Ask and you shall receive! She would have given me a lift, but was a bit busy.
The owner was really nice and even printed me the map. There were also no taxis either. The walk took around 1 hour 45 minutes. The weather was good, sunny, and even though here in U.S.A there are no pavements for pedestrians, I made my way back. When people see someone walking by the road here, my local friend said that the police may come and ask what is the problem, as everyone here are driving the cars.
But i enjoyed my walk after almost sitting 8 – 10 hours a day during the event. There was no sign to the train station either, so I luckily met 1 person on the street and could ask where to turn.
I got back to my location safe and felt gratitude for the adventure and that I re-framed the experience. The old me would have started to selfpity myself and feel bad, I felt good for having had the adventure and a walk, even though timewise it took me as much time to get from another part of Chicago to here almost the same time as from Mexico to Chicago. But if one of your assets is time, it is no problem. It is all about re-framing! Who knows maybe all my challenges can help someone in the future as I share that as my story!
Check the video of reframing here
Talking to the stranger
I sat down at the airport and there I saw a young man holding a hand on a woman and telling her things. The connection, energy was very sweet, powerful and close. When he left I asked her if that was her son, and she said no, it was her son’s friend who was so kind and drove her all the way to the airport (3 hrs drive one way). It was like 02.30 am. I asked more about her and she shared that she is just about to divorce and going to see her family in New Mexico and stay there to calm down for some weeks. Then she asked me where I am at and up to. I told her that I have been in a very challenging place and now taking my steps to get back into my own power and had an amazing weekend in Chicago with loads of people and world leader’s. She listened carefully.
Talking to each other, our eyes got wet, there was a connection, energy. Total strangers, who had just talked out of the blue like 10 minutes. We talked about our dreams, our challenges and our dreams and needs. How amazing is that?
I personally feel that the energy and connection I have to myself is totally different after this weekend. Something totally shifted in me and the depth and presence which has come from it is mindblowing. I feel that I am finally deepdiving on land. I will give this woman my card, and if she chooses to, maybe I am so lucky to see her at some later point in my life and share more who knows?
Never underestimate a talk to the stranger! As you never know what may come out of it. Maybe even a new friendship or new miracles! I do not even know the name of the woman, but she touched me with her being and presence. I am so grateful for her openness sharing something so vulnerable as the divorce can be. I feel gifted, by the touch of her being tonight. The presence. I believe in her. I told her so. I told her that she is an amazing person. Her eyes got wet again. Sometimes a kind word or two is all what can make your day or night. She made mine. Thank you stranger!
How to follow the signs?
I had an interesting incident in Chicago Midway airport. I had to go to the toilet and tried to find it real quick, I looked at the signs on the walls and could not see one of them, so went downstairs, which took me much more time. The sign I needed was more up, so if I had looked more up I could have saved some time. Sometimes in life you need just this little to find your way.
Then I thought how amazing is this, as this is often happening with many people in life as well, that we look for signs and then miss one of it because of the stress or not being fully present? What would it take for us to always follow our signs directly, so we get where we would like to get with full support and ease right away?
Gratitude from the heart
How amazing is this? I spent an amazing evening with my two very amazing Estonian goddesses in Chicago, Sirje Press andHelbe Lume and got to go to the Estonian sauna with them and enjoyed the best amazing meal ever! And on top of it got driven all the way to the airport in the middle of the night, while Sirje stole almost 3 hours of her sleep time for me. Gifts like that are amazing and never to be forgotten! Thank you, your contribution is so valued!
Throughout the whole trip, I experienced miracle after miracle and it has been so amazing to be grateful for every single one of them! How blessed can we be and how much more can we create and attract, if we also count all our small blessings – I wonder! I am so grateful for all the women who donated money for my trip in Chicago, my amazing hostesses in Chicago: Sirje Press and Greta Campagnolo and Lisa Burnham and all the fun time we all had together! I am stepping myself into a new sisterhood and womanhood time and it is so amazing! Thank you, thank you! How lucky am I?
I feel how every step with gratitude opens up more and more doors for me as well as more opportunities create itself with ease and abundance and I feel again that my world cares about me as I care about me and I have got back my vision and targets where to move to. I am so excited, so full of life and totally empowered! This event and the whole adventure which took almost a week of my life, gave me my life and my fullfillment back to me! Gratitude arises from the bottom of my heart to the world and every quantum particle being part of creating this! Thank you!
To have a life and build a business with Empower Network
Today I would like to share my experiences in Empower Network and also invite you to investigate more! For me it has been really real and continues to be so!
I joined in the middle of April in 2013, my sponsor is an amazing Canadian woman Greta Campagnolo, a mother of 5 kids and she has been a total kick ass for me. Thanks to her support and other women in the SuperWomen group and my friends in the world I got to go to the EN Chicago event and experience a new beginning with 5000 other people from all over the world, including all the top leaders in the network. I made magic happen basically every step of the road together with people who empower and believe in me.
Watch this video to get the vibe from Chicago event here
In addition I would love to thank Elizabeth Wood, Liina Remmel, Mark Myers, Eve Härmson, Sirje Press, Helbe Lume, Lisa Burnham, Tiina Liimandi, Sander Kruusement and so many others for believing in me and supporting me taking massive action!
For me Empower Network seems to be a platform, which Dave Sharp and Dave Wood have made to empower people and helping them to create a sustainable life on all levels – uniting spiritual and self development inspiration with top secrets in internet, online and offline marketing and advertising, plus motivation and inspiration and how to self dicipline and keep things on track every single day.
Would you like to have a location free business, or more time to be with your family, or more money to take care of your family? I have the secret 3 steps formula for only 25 usd:
Check it out from this video here!
Read one of the blog posts here about talking to the stranger:
http://socialmediabar.com/talking-to-the-stranger
Why did I join Empower Network and what is the value for me?
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High business ethics (100% commissions, donations for charity, client support, team support etc)
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Super support from my sponsor Greta at all times (practical questions or personal motivation)
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Human values (family, time, care, depth, abundance, helping etc)
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Possibility to earn lots of money if you are consistent
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Highways in online or offline marketing, what you can also use in your own business
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Simple structure of the business – easy and quick results
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New supportive friends and girlfriends who believe in me!
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Being part of different FB groups and constant flow of new information (massive)
The women’s group has been amazing as well is the main team called Take Massive Action, where very many of the top leaders are part of!
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New targets and support to achieve these
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Discipline and commitment training
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The leaders inspire to be who we truly are and this is real
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Constant inspiration and motivation
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To live in your own power
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Experiencing freedom and independence
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Experiencing easyness
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Can learn technical skills and sell it at the same time with ease (not agressively)
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To contribute to others and see them succeed
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Everyone is welcome, does not depend on your age, race, cultural background or faith or health condition.
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An opportunity to cooperate with my son and inspire teenagers to take their financial reality already into their own hands (he is 16) and become an example while learning and creating new values for ourselves and others.
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You can start with as little as 25 USD!!!
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Women get totally empowered in EN, there is a special SUPERWOMEN group and we have daily hangouts and keep uplifting each other daily no matter what is happening without any jealousy, gossiping or judgments
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You can be you – you can wear what you want, have a background you have and look as you like!
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You do not have to have the numbers to be valued! You are valued by your actions and mindset! So step into your power and kick some ass!
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If you do not believe in you, there are thousands of others in EN who do. Once you have connected to them, you may start to believe in yourself as well and even create some miracles as I did and continue to do so!
- All the failures in my life so far, have been the stepping stones for my future successes!
If you are interested to find out how it actually works, let me know! I will explain more!
Questions I would like you to answer before you take contact with me would be:
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Do you know how your dream life would look like?
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Do you know what is your mission on planet Earth?
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What is stopping you to live your dream life?
If you would like to join, let me know, I can help you in the process. I would suggest to join first and then start to recommend it to your clients, friends and family. But only for those people who are willing to change their life and take full responsibility of their life into their own hands!
This is the first kind of network where I feel like really fired up and passionate about, as the values really resonnate with me. I also love the way it is built up and how you can make money with it and create sustainable income streams. I would like to form an amazing strong team, and dedicate for targets like travelling to Denver in the end of July with the whole team in 2013!
In my team I would love to share loads of spiritual knowhow I have experienced and gathered within the last 13 years from all over the world, how to make it all work even more for you. I am starting from the same platform as you and on that level we are equal!
There is so much fun and cool stuff going on all the time, different kind of contests and inspirational stuff in En – so you will not be bored for sure!
You can also invite your spouses, partners or children into the business. I am going to invite my son into this and I am very excited about this! If you have children under 18, they can join, but only with their parents.
The business is in their early days, so to join now means loads of more opportunities later not least the money and new value!
All the possible earnings are dependent on the personal effort and person’s charisma and courage and choices and may vary from person to person!
If you feel inspired and would like to change you and the world, pls let me know! Welcome to the team and congrats that you choose to make the change in your life, in your universe! I can not wait for us to hang out in some of the most amazing paradises on this planet and have the fun beyond of our wildest dreams!!!
My personal email is crystalralaksmi @ gmail.com, ask for more!
And join the Prosperity Expansion team!
Talk to you later!
With aloha mahalo to you, Crystal Ra Laksmi
Are we all travelling places to meet ourselves?
I worked throughout almost the whole night online, and got to bed quite late. I decided before going to bed, that I am going to have an adventure and leaving early next morning.
Morning came and I felt the laziness in me wanted to take over, saying: letssleep some more! Maybe TOMORROW we go for a trip???!! Does that sound familiar? I knew that today was the day, so I got myself out of bed and got ready. I travelled to Tulum, where there is a national park, Mayan ruins and amazing beaches and even more so amazing people.
I presumed, that there would be a straight street going to the beach from the central part of Tulum. Just trusting that I got off there. I got the map and started to walk in the direction towards the ocean, not really thinking. Sometimes it is really good if you are not thinking.
What happened was that after 10 minutes or so I realized it was a bit wrong direction. I tried to ask locals, but noone spoke English. So they just pointed in one direction. But I knew I had to check. Then I saw a woman coming towards me.
She looked very tanned, so I did not quite know how to talk to her, but I started in English. She is Julie Ann from Michigan and was just wandering around. She said she knows there is a local bus station somewhere and that she is going to help me to find it. So she just turned around and came along with me (this is btw pretty usual here).
In this adventure she finally found post office, as well another shop, which she lost out of sight and the problem here is that the whole place is so new, that they do not even have street names! In London I was pissed off as the street signs were really not on the corners of the street, but here no street signs at all!
Check out this video of her here
How amazing! We did not manage to find the bus station first, so she asked some locals, it was so real and so fun! Julie Ann is such a bubbly and happy person and how lucky am I to have run into her? She has been teaching Mayans for many years ago and also just recently, but now is looking for new possibilities. Finally we found the bus station. Next bus was about to come, but justin 1,5 hours later. But as it is in Mexico, if you start to move to one place, you may go to some other places in between as it is no hurry to get to your final destination. We then went to get some cold drinks and talking was so flowing and easy and natural. Like old friends.
We talked some more and then got the information that the bus what I waited for does not go to where I needed. So we went back to the main street and looked for the small minibuses. So she spent all this time to get me safely to the bus. How amazing! Thank you! Sometimes it literally feels we have human angels walking on Earth!
I asked her if she is on Facebook or if she has a website. She has not, but we talked some more. On our last 10 minutes she started to talk about her talents, about her ideas and the whole lot what she has already done! I got a blinking light in me. To help her to make her own website and also introduce her into Empower Network, God she would rock in the women’s group like crazy! I told her all that, we exchanged cards and she was agree that something needs to be done. So we are going to meet tomorrow and she is going to show me one other amazing magical place and even make us some lunch. That is what I call a real cariloha! Wow!
My day around the ruins was amazing, the views, the colors, the ocean and the day was just superb. I felt myself totally in my element, all the negativity, doubt got cleared out. For me it works really easy, during the day I adventure, which very often is also the field work as in anthropology for me, as I get loads of ideas during my adventures, plus loads of connections and during the night I work online. Two Swedish people passed me and I stopped them, started to talk in Norwegian and it was a nice group! Next time, I have my card in handy!
I also thought that it was amazing that I adventured alone, as when you are alone, you are wide opened. I basically followed my heart and got to see Tulum from a totally different point of view and got possibly a new friend as well.
The Mayan ruins, will need some extra time in the blog, will write more about it in some of the coming days. I also love the video shooting, it is just so much fun. My creativity just kicks my ass!
So to finalize!
- What if every morning there would be no Tomorrow to postpone things to and you would CHOOSE IT NOW instead?
- What if you would do a little discovery of the unknown every single day?
- What if you would talk to strangers every day? (I am excited about this to try out more in Estonia, wohoo! (they usually freak out))
- Would talking to strangers contribute to you and your business(es)?
- What would happen if you would follow your inner guidance istead of going from A til B?
- What if each one of us is a contribution to the other in ways we can not even imagine?
- What if life can be an adventure and fun all the time?
I hope you have fun, wherever in the world you are, and let me know if you feel inspired by my blogs and videos and if you have some questions how to have an adventurous life location free as well!
Cariloha from Mexico, Tulum, end of April 2013.
If the door is closed does that mean I am not supposed to go in?
That was something I used to believe. I had seen these different invitations to Empower Network in different places. It was like a blinking lighthouse and at one point it started to blink very intensively. I just started another online business project and worked with it for hours every day, sometimes even 20 hours behind the computer. The results were very slow to come. I lost my motivation step by step.
One evening I started to talk to Greta Campagnolo from Empower Network and ask more questions about it, like how it works and what it means. She explained. First time after a long time there was the person in the other side of the world, who actually talked to me and on the personal level. Listening, caring, supporting and motivating me. So I said, I am in. What do I have to do next? I went to the payment page and whatever card I tried, it did not let me in.
The next day I called my banks, they checked and said it is all good. So I called to the EN technical support. They said, that if I am not in the country, where my card is issued, it may not allow me to make the deal as a security set up for the card.
So what else is possible? I contacted one of my girlfriends back home, we went in to my account through Estonia and still the card did not work.
I was about to give up. Then I talked and asked Greta what else is possible and we found a solution! So after 2,5 days we finally got me in. She invited me to the first Super Women Team hangout in youtube and that was so cool, to see women from all over the world talking, motivating and supporting each other. So I saw it in action, it is not only about money and who is best in getting the biggest sales, but the human connection is the core key!!!
Even though they had just had the meetings for 2 months it felt for me like a community of women who have been good friends for years. There was no competition, no jealousy, no judgments, no feeling that someone is less than the other or superior to each other. I could not believe it. It was for me like Paradise on Earth!
I have been intensively chatting to Greta for some days now. I do not know all the details yet, but it feels for me that Empower Network is for me like coming home. I have spent years to support others, build platforms for them and almost always been left empty handed. First time I felt someone was contributing to me and believing in me. Wow! Is it really possible that it is not all gone? The world needs me? I can share my story? Wow? Someone is actually listening to me?
I sat down and thought what was that all about?
I understood that in the journey of the macho masculine woman I had turned to, I was doing my first steps to be fully vulnerable to ask help to get in, to allow the help to get to me to get in. For me it was a no option before. For me asking help was always a sign that person did not know how to manage their lives or too weak to take action. In my case none of these were my reasons this time, but it was still very difficult for me to ask for help. But I did. Not only one time, twice and even the third time.
I am now fully stepping out from the NO CHOICE Universe and I am STOPPING IT and stepping into my power and taking my own life, my own financial reality’s remote control into my own hands! If you would like to contribute to that in my life and in yours, read more and check the video and ask me more how to join!
I wish myself good luck, as I feel I am in the beginning of something very big and that I can break all the limitations I have ever had and create a more sustainable life for myself and my son and the planet Earth. Happy people can change the world with ease and joy and empowerment! Where you have empowerment, people are who they are so that abundance and glory follows by magic!
This blog entrance is from Mexico, Cancun, Mid April 2013
Do not ask for a miracle, become one yourself!
I decided yesterday that I am traveling to Chicago for the Empower Network event this weekend, as I am stepping UP and back into my power! Wohoo! I still do not have the whole amount of money, but I have made my choice and taken some action steps (like finding a place to stay and some part of the tickets), so the rest can come and create the miracle from my inner core!
I am doing two things here. Firstly I jump and take the leap, trusting my heart’s call and secondly I risk, by kissing the unknown, not knowing exactly how to get all the pieces together yet. I stay in the question, and I am ready to recieve and allow the Universe in all its aspects to contribute to me, because I know I am totally finished with trying to make it all by my own. I am ready for the SHIFT TO HAPPEN! The contribution to flow in from people, possibilities, work, ideas etc.
I understood that the miracle is not something outside of me, it can just be me by having a new choice!
I understood today also that in order to create a new future, I should go through and adjust my 4 V’s.
I call them 4 V’s as in my home language these words start with a letter ‘V’.
- Viewpoints (Vaatenurgad)
- Values (Väärtused)
- Needs (Vajadused)
- Shadows (Varjud)
I understood that these are the main building blocks which have been holding me back from my own power.
1.Viewpoints – a victim mentality, not good enough, I do not have this or that and because of that I have no CHOICE UNIVERSE etc. As we know what you think, you create! So what if not only me, but everyone would throw these out of the window, what would happen?
2. Values – I figured during these last weeks, that my core values are EMPOWERMENT AND INTEGRITY AND AUTHENTICY. So what would happen if I totally embrace these qualities? Would I attract similar people into my reality? Would they support me on my path?
3. Needs – the ability to talk about my needs and ask for what I need, especially if it is for help, like asking for money has been very challenging for me. What if I also change that? I just say out loud what I need? Being courageous for taking care of my needs and find the ways to do it!
4. Shadows. As this society has brought us up with the knowing that shadows (all the negative and hidden stuff) is bad, we act accordingly. I feel it is the time where the shadows come out and ask for more attention and integration. They are asking for the embracing touch and presence. In the world of polarity I am now learning how to dance with my shadows and not feel bad about it. I am still learning how to do it so that people would feel invited to come to the exploration with me, not to run away.
With the simplicity and complexity I truly am, the dance of polarities and elements, I am now fully stepping into my power to become the MAGIC I TRULY AM, because where there is a will, there is the way. Would you like to become a miracle yourself, pls ask me how!
Entry from mid April 2013, Mexico, Cancun
[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’][/author_image] [author_info]Crystal Ra Laksmi (36), originally from the birthland of Skype – Estonia – but a global citizen circling around the globe on her orbit to bring forth transformation and share her experience how everything is possible if you find your voice and start to use it and stand in your own power while creating your dream life![/author_info] [/author]