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MEx groupinsidecaveIn the beginning of October I had the honour to host 4 Estonians and be their adventure guide in La Cruz, Banderas Bay and Sayulita, west Mexico. It was a full 4 days full of adventures, magic and challenges. I would love to make a little summary of this soon. So stay tuned.

After that I started to prepare for the volunteer work with Organic StretchingTM and in the end I got 5 volunteers and my days got filled with it as well with StretchDance in the Sea in La Cruz (6 classes all together per MEX anuliisOSweek). I keep a journal and it is really  exciting to see where things go and how it develops.

Now the new move is ahead of me to Sayulita, the surfer’s paradise in Mexico. After that I am kissing the unknown again… and loads in between. Sayulita is called the ‘magic town’ so I am ready for the magic for sure!

The kindness and flow continues and I am stepping more into my own heart and flow from there.

StretchDanced the Storm away!

docutrailerpalmtreeEvery time I go to the class I think maybe I should prepare more. Then the voice in me tells – no. You can just go and improvise and take contact with the group energy and enjoy the flow. It will turn out like LILA – the divine dance of the micro and macro cosmos inside and outside of you. Most amazing is that it does! Every single time!

Yesterday evening I got the message that the tropical storm is heading towards us and probably it is going to be be like 3 days of really bad weather. I had planned to have my StretcDance in the Sea class in the morning. So I tuned in to the storm energy and said, if it would love to express itself, could it come up like around midday not earlier? With that in mind I went to sleep.

vabasukeldumineI woke up and it was really rainy. I went to check it and it was all cloudy but not much of a wind. So I decided to go. I tuned in to the ocean and asked it to deliver a warm current to the spot where we usually have our class. So I got to the beach and wondered if there is someone else brave showing up and yes, one of the mermaids was. She was fully prepared with the equipment.

We said our usual aloha to the ocean and then our toes touched the water and it was really warm. Outside temperature must have been around 25 C, inside it was around 35 C for sure. Wow. What a surprise. So the magic had worked!

We got in and put our snorkels and masks on and saw the bottom. Wow the water was clear! During the first exercises I observed one bigger fish, who was actually checking his breakfast but i guess we were too big to bite. In between the waves were coming in and I was swimming in the clouds. It was a very mystical and mysterious feeling.

Throughout the class one movement after the other presented itself and we got more and more relaxed went deeper and in between it was almost hard to speak as we got so relaxed that it felt like the left side of the brain was turned off completely.

Doing the classes or courses outside in the nature is the most amazing classroom one could imagine. The outer reflects the inner. Today we could hear the symphony of the raindrops getting into the water and also some birds flying and the ocean and the water was very warm and felt almost like an embracing mother. Everything was so humble and it literally felt like the ocean and the nature were bowing down to us and to our dance. There was something magical in the water and in the air. Unusual. Not describable.

We got out exactly one hour later and it was much colder outside than inside, usually it is the other ways.

Then my wonderful human mermaid said something to finish up as we were expressing gratitude to each other in this playful classroom. She said that when she travels away she can still do the moves and it can remind her of me. I thanked her of being the brave mermaid coming out to play as it is always nicer to play together with someone than just alone.

The storm did not reach to our location today and in the news it said during the night it had ‘dissipated.’ One should not think one can order weather, but what if we could? What would happen then? 

Tell me about some of your ocean experiences. What is it you love about this ocean university, what has it taught you? 

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Thank you for reading and sharing your comments, Aloha Crystal

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Bicycle adventure in Mexico

BB1jungleToday, after I had worked online for several hours, I felt my body was ready for a new adventure. I got some directions how to explore more of my neighbourhood. So off I went around 5.30 pm. The weather was not too bad. What I mean by that is that it was not too hot. It was actually cloudy and really ok temperature. September is the hottest month over here, so usually it is around 45C  every day during the daytime.

The first part of the road was like in the jungle movie. Big trees, overgrown on the sides, and then this long green grass on both sides. The first stretch was without any pavement, later on it was paved, so I could enjoy my bicycle ride.

BB4junglehousesJust after maybe 1 km I got to the first houses of Nuevo Vallarta, where the big hotels have been recently built one after the other snaking by the ocean side. One hotel is bigger than the other. The road was wide and very well done, so for the bicycle, it was a paradise. It seemed to become happier and happier as the time went buy. My eyes were enjoying these views of these beautiful houses by the road, hotels and loads of palm trees, alleys and all kind of other exotic trees. It is so lush and green right now as we have been having rain almost every night. In addition some thunderstorms and lightning.

BB2bicycleThe road was continuing for a long long time. So I did something what I did a lot when I was a kid. I just picked one road and wanted to see where it went. So I just followed it until I could not go any more. As it was a little village it was not a problem, because all the roads ended somewhere. But this one continued long. I think it must have been around 45 minutes later I was in the very end of it, as I could not go further.

BB9mayanpyramidAs the prize for my long drive I saw this little Mayan temple and the pyramid. On the side of it I saw many banana trees with their bananas on. I remember some of my first times in Hawaii, when I discovered how bananas grow and also how the whole ‘big plant (because it is actually not a banana tree)’ will be cut down as the bananas are ripe. So I even did some videos of these to archive the precious moments of meeting the bananas. You see, as a person from Estonia, it is a very precious moment indeed.

BB13plumeriasThen I turned back and even found one or two trees with plumerias. In a way it was a bit sad to see all these big hotels and developments. Nothing seemed to be done in cooperation with the nature. Of course I do not know all the details, but it seemed so. What about small cute Mexican style clay houses? Or ecohotels? I guess over here the thought goes where the masses go. I hope it will change one day.

BB7palmsLater I got to another road, which I also wanted to check where it goes, but they had guards there and seemed it was more closed. So I turned around. On one of the corners there were some local Mexicans and they were all waving to me after I shouted HOLA and one of them even said out loud:

‘Hey pretty lady!’

I must have missed one of the turns as I looked at the houses and these looked very strange. So I thought, it is not so far, so I can just bicycle back by the side of the road.

BB18bigroadThat is where the ‘real adventure started.’ I guess maybe my masculine side got a bit tired of me just having this long slow stroll with the bike, which felt like driving a Mercedes, so comfortable. So I get to the main cross and the traffic lights are difficult to understand. there is no clear understanding which light is meant for who. So I tried to figure out and of course started to move exactly where it turned for red for me. Luckily I could stop (in the middle of the road) and get going when all of the cars had passed. 

So I got to the main road and thought there must be some kind of side shoulder or side road. I tried to cross the main highway (both ways 2 lanes) and that was a challenge. It must have taken me around 13 minutes or so to get to the other side as the traffic was very heavy.

So I got to the other side and even if the shoulder is like 4-5 meters wide and you even have the strong yellow line strongly painted close  to the edge, so that the cars should see it clear, there were many cars which passed me so close that I swallowed hard.

So I tried to get as close to the side of the pavement as I could. As it is a total anomaly sight over here to see a white girl driving a bike with very short shorts as well, I got lots of cheering up from most of the cars. Would never happen in Estonia.

Then the next thing came up. One of those side roads which looked nicer and quieter were full of hidden dogs on the side. So they could jump into your bike any moment and then ‘take a little bite ‘ of your leg… I had 2 wild dogs like that coming towards me. Then I stopped so suddenly they got shocked and then I shouted at them some really rude words in Estonian and they were totally shocked and ran back. Works every time. Wow.

So in between I was not sure if I was going in the right direction. I checked some of the buses and they had the sign to Bucerias, so I knew I was on a right track. Then I could see some of the familiar buildings – Wallmart, soon came Mega. I was surprised that there were not so many cars out there, but as it is a national independence day today here in Mexico, everyone is celebrating at home I guess. So I wonder if it would have been more cars as usual would I have been run over then? 

In the end I just got so into the zone of that danger (my hands even shaking in between) that I almost passed my turn. I happily got to my side of the road and cruised into the community feeling like I had passed some kind of Mexican test or something. Feeling proud of myself. 

Then I thought to make a little bicycle round in the community, but first thought to check on the new neighbours – a female couple. They were home, kindly offering me their amazing salads and we were talking stories about ourselves, Mexico and life. It was so nice. We were just so on the same page. They showed me their backyard and the development project which was going on there. That looked really good. They are a Canadian couple who are here in Mexico for good. I admire people like that, who just come and change like that! We also shared some fun stories about Mexican time!

I must have spent more than an hour there. I got home, had a nice cold outdoor shower, fed the cat, who was so happy that took off right after. I myself had another additional bite to sit down and write this.

It just works for me to adventure a little bit every day. Find new places and give my body some new possibilities to move and discover new ways.

This morning I did Organic StretchingTM and the topic for today was ‘multidirectional movement’ and I had a nice session on the floor. I guess what happened was that I also got that ‘multidirectional’ into my bicycle trip. I got back home safe and was totally multidirectional.

Now the body is tired and feels like I would love to go to bed early tonight. Early for me is like midnight (usually go to bed around 3 am). I even thought of starting to have these morning bike rides every day. I will see what the body says in the morning for this. As during the day it gets so hot, it is impossible to move.

The body was happy, the mind was happy and the elements were in total balance and also got some social input, which I have had quite a lot this week. During the last 3 days I have adventured every day – Friday the PV trailer filming. Saturday the eco community visit and today the bike. I have also discovered I am most effective when I have some adventures and then work again. Too much of the same does not really work for me. I am happy to get it confirmed over and over again.

Tell me about you and your adventures? 

When was the last time you adventured?

Do you have your weekly, daily small adventures?

Would you love to adventure with me one day? 

Check out the Hawaii adventures. Still some spots available!

Check out the nice gallery of the journey!

Adventures from January till August 2013

My last newsletter from my old newsletter system went out 6 months ago. I was in a chaotic vortex and I needed a lot of cleansing. Now I have my new targets in place and here you have one part of my new newsletter. The new newsletter gets out through a-weber. If you have not yet left your email (leave it on the first page of the website on the right side) it is about time to do that as I share some real nice tips, advice and blog entries in my newsletters.

Summary of the activities and adventures

January till March – London

aablogwingskyI stayed in London to check out new possibilities for my new base in the world. I made several courses for the locals and participated in some of the bigger ones done by others. London as a city was fascinating, almost overwhelming, but living there on that particular moment did not really work. Maybe I lived with people who I was not supposed to? Maybe the timing was wrong, but all the sings where showing on this direction. I got very sick and had to travel to Mexico to get my health back on track. It was interesting that from London the ticket to Cancun was cheaper than the ticket to Estonia. The choice was not hard to make.

March – April Mexico, Cancun

picasa crystalnewmexicoI healed myself through the sun and the ocean and got my body back in shape in 2 months time. At the same time we started with a new online course for 6 months called Ettevõtlusjooga (business yoga) with my new cooperation partner. I joined with several of other projects, to get the foundation for my new life in order. One of these was to visit an event of 5000 people in Chicago, which gave me a lot of inspiration for the future. I worked mostly on the online project and prepared for the courses in Estonia.

May, June Estonia and Mexico – Puerto Vallarta

mirror  theoryI did many Access Consciousness® courses and worked on one to one clients and made bigger conclusions and sum ups of my life in Estonia. In the end of June I adventured back to Mexico, this time to the west coast. I participated in Organic StretchingTM Teachers Training, which was wonderful. After the course I decided to stay longer, to get my body and being more into balance.

July – August Mexico – Mexico, La Cruz, Bucerias

* In the middle of July I got the idea to make a documentary about Pat Henry and Organic StretchingTM.picasapatmemovdinner Magical events started to happen and I got offered 3 houses to take care of and in addition two volunteer proposal editors. It has been a hectic and powerful work we have done all together. Now the local filmmaker joined forces in addition to another one coming from New York. How lucky am I?

mermaid pond* In addition I started StretchDance in the Sea lessons, which have had really powerful results for all the participants, including myself. I did not only lose weight, but also everything and everyone else, which was not supporting me.

* I stepped out of 2 bigger systems, which I felt did not support me any more.

* In cooperation with others from all over the world two amazing new websites were developed:

www.cyrstalralaksmi.com

and the Estonian version:

www.crystalralaksmi.com/eesti

crystalralaksmiandwritersgroup* I met up with many new people and foreigners, who shared with me their trust, generosity, kindness from their whole heart. They did not only share their hearts with me, but also their homes! This is very unique!

* I got invited into some new global clubs, which may influence the world big time!

* I got back to my divine path and back in my zone!

I am really grateful for everyone who has crossed their paths with mine and contributed to me to get closer to my inner path so I can contribute more to the world and myself as well. Thank you, mahalo!

StretchDanced myself and others into new Universes within a month!

In the end of July of 201SDfocaltext3 when I had gone to the ocean almost a month every day of the month as the ocean was also so warm (35 C), the ocean started to converse with me and I got a message to start a StretchDance in the Sea class. My mind of course came out with thousands of reasons why I can not. So one by one I walked it through and got a flier or two together, posted it to most places around the area and told everyone I knew.

Everyone who came, knew me personally. So not much to do with social media here if you are not really known it seems. So you have to be the invitation to people organically.

Lila was the first one to show up on the first class. She kept showing up as lots of interesting stuff kept happening to her one time after the other after the sessions in the ocean. So cool I thought.

There were classes where the only person showing up was ME. It did not make me feel bad, as it would have been back home. Now I took it as a chance to just play with me, discover new moves and just get more ‘flesh on the bones’ for the next class. That was a huge shift in the whole energy. 

 

mermaid pondMore people showed up one by one and I loved it more and more, including more and more elements from all the water years since 2009 when I started to have fun with people in the water. You see, I can not really call it as ‘work’ because it is too much fun. ‘Work’ usually means something you hate. I love it!!!

I travelled here 1 month before I started to do the StretchDance and I participated in the Organic Stretching TM Teacher’s training.  After some weeks, I started to do stretches in the warm ocean water. It was amazing as when I also used a mask and a snorkel I was free to turn around and do movements I would never been able to on land.

It must have looked really funny from the shore. Looking for someone who plays with her toes. But I did not care. It was my playtime and all I cared was the play and exploration.

picasadiveplainalohaI got  in to the most impossible positions – which may have looked like a baby who got herself into knots and did not know how to get out of it again. I also discovered the fun of stretching out (as most yoga styles do) and stretching inwards (what Organic StretchingTM focuses on a lot). My body became happier and happier as it could finally move the way it never could before. It was like a child let loose in the sand box and was going crazy, as there was so much sand and so many possibilities to make the cakes out of it!

So what do we do in the class?

First we say hello to the ocean and ask for the protection during the session and enter it. Sometimes we also talk to the molecules to be the contribution to heal the pollution in the world’s pollution.

We ask the inner ocean to embrace the outer. And we start to say hello to our bodies, minds and spirits through different moves, which I firstly guide, but then let everyone explore what and where is their body willing to go. I have no limits, so whatever idea comes, I will support it and explore it to the core, as does the group.

We sometimes do sounds and sometimes through the snorkel. It looks very funny having some adults in the water facing down and mumbling something into their snorkels.

I incorporated everything I have ever learned or picked up from somewhere about the water sessions, body work and mind work and energy healing. In the end we did some work on the joints in the group and also more relaxing stuff also as a couple working in the water.

We can contribute so much to each other this way. Every time some new fun movements were like crawling out of my body as some small creatures coming out to play. 

I also felt that finally I was just doing something of my very own and did not have to think of the fact of doing something wrong as the ‘modality’ says or the ‘teacher’ does. I could freely explore and all of it was a value for me and others. How cool?

It felt like I was the sponge which had sucked in all the knowledge over the years and lifetimes and was all flowing out of me now one drop at the time. 

Throughout this month I had more magic pulled into my life  one by one – the inner masculine provided me with every tiny detail to make my life and flow simple with my projects, bringing to me new people and new ideas, new possibilities, providing me with 2 beautiful homes to work from and supporting my focus on working on the different online stuff.

It was really amazing. My body felt happier and happier, more relaxed, I must have lost more weight  and my bikini shape is all back again! All with no effort! I have even built some muscle structure I did not have before! My skin looks nice and smooth like a dolphin skin. I hardly had a day being crumpy again. As soon as I got it I knew, it is time to go to the ocean and do my dance again.

So it is not all about how much you move or even how you move, but how smart you move and how much do you listen to your body and how present are you in your body! I love the ease in it as I got so tired of working out pushing myself to the limit and not enjoying it at all.

In the later classes we incorporated the mask and snorkel into the classes. With the mask you can do turns which you would not without and with the snorkel you can breath in some extra air, which will create more alkaline body inside out, which means you relax more. When you relax more, you can receive more. The moves and stretches can go very deep when you do not have to worry about the water getting into your nose or mouth.

This month I truly became a mermaid. After one of the classes I had this spooky experience. I walked out of the water and it literally felt like I moved from my mermaid tale to the legs. Like the moment my legs touched the ground, it felt like it turned into two legs. I truly believe into the ‘swimming ape’ theory, that all of us actually are water creatures. We have just forgotten it. StretchDance in the Sea has awakened my inner mermaid and not only, also my inner and outer fairy tales!

This class explored also the newer ways to facilitate knowledge, where every person is their own guru, and the main facilitator is just the guide in the space, holding space. All the outer circumstances – like Mexico as a location, which should be the platform for the crystal and golden energy as well as the warm ocean water (usually around +35 C) and the sun and the warmth in general  as well quite gentle ocean conditions (protected bay in the Banderas bay) all contributed to the amazing dance outside and inside of us which could create some more magic.

Our bodies were finally turning into symphonies where the inner magic strings were played in harmony.

Every time the faces looked wider and happier after the class. I felt so good. So what I basically did – I just held space and created some guidelines what to do. Everyone got so many different ways to look at themselves or their lives anew and create it as they would like.

One of the times one of the participants had her dog getting a surgery back home while we were doing the class. Out of nowhere we had this amazing dog coming and playing with us and also being very protective, when we disappeared into our snorkels, he came to check on us. So we sent some healing energy to her dog having an operation.

After the class was finished, which took usually an hour, I felt deep peace, relaxation and total presence. My whole body was soft. There was 0 stress. My life was flowing again. Tensions were gone from my body and my vocabulary.

mermaidsstretchingLila Osborne, the first amazing participant in the class is a remarkable woman and her name is an important message, coming to my life for a year now. (Check out her blog by clicking on her name).

First of February in 2012 me and Katrin Haiba (another amazing Estonian lady, who lives in NYC) – we had a nice sea goddess ritual in the very same ocean spot where I have classes now.

We were living on Katrin’s boat for some time – called LILA, which in sanskrit means ‘Within non-dualism, Lila is a way of describing all reality, including the cosmos, as the outcome of creative play by the divine absolute (Brahman).’

Lila, the boat, was previously owned by Pat Henry – a brave woman who circumnavigated the world alone with the very same boat and whom I got to know through her book ‘By the Grace of the Sea’ and her ‘Organic Stretching’TM classes and through Katrin’s connections. Almost 1,5 years later I came to participate in the Organic Stretching TM Teacher’s Training and start my new playful journey to the Mother Ocean and myself.

I have been wanting to create my own modality and have had loads of ideas, but this has been really beyond my imagination – the outcome of creative play by the divine absolute indeed. The modality which is a system without a system where everyone is on their way HOME to themselves if they have lost the way.

This I feel is just the beginning. I am so grateful to Katrin Haiba for inviting me here last year. I travelled from Hawaii and was not really willing to receive this location so well ( I missed Hawaii,BI a lot). Now I travelled from Estonia and it was a complete opposite. I was ready to receive everything. And I have and more to come! I am also super grateful for all the mermaids who came to the classes and everyone who helped me walk on land like an angel supporting and providing some magic every step of the way! Mahalo and Gracias!

The dolphins in the bay from  a sailing trip here with Marie and Leonard on Mi Casa boat. 

Lilas video testimonial after a month’s StretchDance in the Ocean on the 2nd of September  2013.

Peta, another participant shares her experience after one of the classes on video. 

Let me know if you have had some wonderful experiences in the water and if you would love to join the StretchDance classes in the Ocean or even better, invite me to your community  to invite you to the playshop of these discoveries! Go to my contact me page to initiate contact and leave your wonderful comments and stories down below! We mermaids love to play, whether it is fishes in the sea or words on paper!

Hawaiian Healing Technique Ho’oponopono is your magic key to your Freedom!

loveuplumeriasToday, I will write about one Hawaiian healing technique which is very ancient and has helped millions of people in the world, including me.

These times we are now facing – full of turmoil, chaos, violence and so much drama in the world would benefit greatly from this amazing  Hawaiian technique!

I share first one article which I found online, written by Joe Vitale and share his vision and experience with the Hawaiian forgivness  technique.

You can click on this video and let it play while you read this article.

HO’ OPONOPONO

Joe Vitale

Two years ago I heard about the therapist, who healed a whole department full of patients,  who had the criminal background, as well as the psychic disorders. What was fascinating, was that the therapist managed to heal them even without meeting the patients.

Psychologist, who did some research on the patient’s files, looked inside of himself, to find the reason, how he had created that particular disease.

When I heard about this first time, I thought this must be some kind of a city legend. How could someone heal someone else, by healing yourself? How would anyone, even the best self help master manage to heal a psychopath with a criminal background? 

This was completely non understandable and not logical, so I just left the story. One year later, the story came back to me. I heard that the therapist had used the Hawaiian healing method, called ho’oponopono. I had never heard of it, but I could not leave the story this time. If there was any truth in it, I had to get to know about it.

I understood about the ‘full responsibility’ situation, where I am responsible for what I am thinking and doing. Everything outside of me, is not up to me. I think most people see ‘responsibility like that’. We are responsible for our actions, not for someone else – but seems that is not the case!

Hawaiian therapist, who healed these people, taught me about the full responsibility from another perspective. His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. 

Our first phone conversation took almost an hour. I wanted him to tell me the whole story of  him working as a therapist. He explained that he had worked 4 years in the local state hospital. The department, where the psychopaths with the criminal background were held, was dangerous.

Usual story with this was the following. Psychologists left their positions just one month after they started working there. Many of the employees were on sick leave most of the time or just left work. Most people walked in the department leaning against the wall, being afraid of the patient’s attacks. This was not a very pleasant place – whether to live, visit or work.

Dr. Len told me, that he did not meet any of the patients. He just read their files in his office. While reading, he worked on himself and the patients started to heal. Couple of months later, the patients who had to be tied up before, could walk freely. Others who had to take loads of medicines did not have to do that any more. The others who seemed to be impossible, could be signed out. I was astonished.

This was not all.The changes influenced everything else as well. The employees wanted to come to work. Constant change of employees and quitting stopped. In the end they had more employees than patients, as the number of patients decreased and all the employees started to work again. For now this department is closed.

Then I had to ask a million dollar question:

‘So what did you do inside of you, what caused the change in these people?’ He answered: ‘I just healed this part of me, which they had created,’ he said.

I could not understand. Dr. Len explained, that in order to take full responsibility, it means you have to be responsible for everything what you have in life, as it is there – it is your responsibility. 

So to say – the whole world is your creation.

This was too much to swallow. To take responsibility for your own words and actions is one thing, but to take responsibility of all the actions and words what is in my life, is another thing.

Though it is true that if you take full responsibility for your life, then all what you see, taste, touch or experience whatever way, is your responsibility, as it is in your life. These would not exist, if these would not be part of the projected outer world. The problem is not in them, but you. In order to change them, you have to change you. 

I understand that this is difficult to accept, and to live accordingly. To accuse it is much easier. I understood while talking to Dr Len, that healing and his ho’oponopono healing method actually means loving yourself. 

Watch this little video here – what to do when your problem will not let go here: 

‘If you would love to change your life, you have to heal your life. If you would love to heal someone, even a criminal with psychic problems, you can do so by healing yourself.’

I asked Dr Len how he did heal himself. I wanted to know exactly what he did, when he looked into patient’s files. I just repeated: ‘ I am sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you’, he explained. I could not believe that was all. ‘That was all,’ he said.

Seems that self loving is the best way to develop yourself and if you do that, you can also change the world around you. 

I will bring an example how that works. Someone sent me an email, which made me upset. Earlier I would have dealt with it by working on my energy centers and trying to be reasonable to that person who sent this email.

This time I decided to use Dr Len’s method. I started to repeat: ‘ I am sorry, please forgive me, I love you, and thank you,’ not addressing it to anyone particular.

I just tried to activate some love, to heal something inside of me, which had created this situation. One hour later I got the response from that same person. He apologised for the last email. Remember: I did not do anything outside of me, for him to apologise in front of me. I even did not answer to his email.

Just simply saying ‘ I love you’ I had healed something in me, which was created by that person. Later  I participated in a seminar by Dr Len about the  ho’oponopono. Right now he is 70 years old and he is respected as a shaman grandfather and he has pulled back from active life. He loved my book  (‘The Attractor Factor’).

He said that when I develop myself, the vibration of my books will rise and everyone can feel it when they read it. Shortly: if I do that, it will happen to my readers as well. I asked him how is it with the books which are out there already.

He said: ‘These are not out there somewhere,’ once again astonishing me with his deep presence. ‘These are still inside of you.’

To conclude. The outer world does not exist. It would take a whole book to explain this technique in full detail, as it deserves. So for now it should be enough to say, that in case you would love to change something in your life, there is only one place where you can turn it: it is inside of you. If you do that, do that with love!

Divine Creator!

Father, Mother and Child as One…

If I and my family, my relatives, my ancestors have insulted you –

your family, your relatives or your ancestors in our thoughts, 

our our words or actions, 

from the beginning of the time till this moment –

we ask your forgiveness!

Let it dissolve, break free and cut away all the negative memory blockages, 

energies and vibrations and transform these into balanced light.

As it is said, it is done and cleared. 

I am sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you!

Ho’oponopono

Ho’oponopono – Morrnah’s Prayer

Morrnah SimeonaSpirit, Superconscious, please locate the origin of my feelings,
thoughts of (__________fill in the blank with your belief, feeling, thoughts________).

Take each and every level, layer, area and aspect of my being to this origin.

Analyze it and resolve it perfectly with God’s truth.

Come through all generations of time and eternity.

Healing every incident and its appendages based on the origin.

Please do it according to God’s will until I am at the present. Filled with light and truth.

God’s peace and love, forgiveness of myself for my incorrect perceptions.

Forgiveness of every person, place, circumstances and event which contributed to this, these feelings thoughts.

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Please share with me if you have any similar stories and if you have experienced the Hawaiian healing technique?

Would you be interested to adventure to the birth land of Ho’oponopono with me this winter and practise it there and even meet some of the local kahunas (local healers)? Read more about it here!

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IMGP3873Happy me in Hawaii, after taking a course in Hawaiian healing techniques with the local Kahuna Harry Jim

How long are you going to postpone your dream life?

Desktop20Do you have moments, where you tell yourself, ah, I will do that tomorrow? Or later?

And then a day goes by, a week, a month, a year…. and you have longer and longer piles of ideas which will never be a reality! They will remain into a bubble state, unless you choose something different.

We are so good to find reasons why we are not able to do or choose something. I must say I feel like I am perfect on that sometimes! What about you?

kyllusmartI asked what is one of the reasons I hold myself back, because I am the only person who can keep me back. One of the answers I got, was that I am afraid of the failure. I have had so many small failures recently, that I did not want to create any more.

I wanted to really find out what it was, so I took a break here on the blog as well. I do not want to do anything I do not like to do, as I know this does not have the energy I would love to share.

But what is a failure? It is the conclusion our mind makes, according to what we define as a success. So if your results do not show what your mind was looking for, you conclude it is a failure. This is a judgment. Wherever we have a judgment, we can not receive – whether it is money or energy or ideas. So I have done loads of work with my judgments about myself this last week through different courses I facilitated myself and strated to create again! Got loads of generative ideas, choices and results!

universumMy challenge has been that I have had my own company for 6 years and have done loads of sales and marketing myself, spending many many hours daily by the computer. At some point I got so tired, I could not do anything online any more. I burned out. Totally. I did not delegate. Because wherever I did, it was another failure for me. I lost trust in people. In between I did not trust the Universe and did not let God be God. Then buttons like this would have done good for me!

One of the reasons why I joined Empower Network, was that I felt that they have many of the shortcuts and toolboxes which may go through things with ease and joy and glory. I would love to create more time for everything I feel I could contribute to people and the world.

So all you need is a choice! What is it you choose? To postpone things forever?

Or TAKE MASSIVE ACTION NOW!?

Henry Ford said: 

Whether you think you can or can not  – you are right!

Chris Record from Empower Network said you can not make excuses and money at the same time. Money is just an idea away. I agree.

Just two days ago I decided I choose something different. Stepping into my power I chose to create some events, one of these was a meeting with people in a spa, inspiring them to be in the water in a different way like mermaids for example. One of them had a fear of depth. I have developed a technique where people can go through the fear in a very short period of time. I helped this person to step through this within 15 minutes. The smile, the energy and joy she had, was so overwhelming, but so powerful, that it took my breath away! Time flew, 2 hours felt like 20 minutes. For me it is a sign that I am doing something which is part of my WHY here on Earth.

Also one very important thing for me is the place. The place where I live, work and play has to inspire me. If it does not, then I have to follow the energy and go to where it does.

One day I went to the cafe, and none of the plugs had electricity in it… So I left.

Today I followed the energy and went to the cafe where I felt inspired to work and got done loads of work within 2 hours, like in my office, being in a cafe surrounded by people, happy energy and support.

In conclusion, do whatever it takes to stop you to have your dream life now! Do whatever your guidance tells you! It never lies!

If you need some ideas how to do that and would love to choose a shortcut toolbox, let me know here!

Mother’s Day

I am always sad when people tell me about their mothers and tell me how they hate them or how terrible they are! I just tell them, lucky you, you at least have one! My mother died years ago and we do not even know how and why. My mother lost her parental rights when I was 12 years old, because she drank too much.

IMG_03731I became a mother when I was 19. I gave birth to a baby boy Sander in 1997. He is now 16 and he has been the very reason why I am still here on planet Earth. The moment we broke up with his father, was very challenging for me. At that point family life was all I had and losing that, was like losing life for me. I promised to keep it up and make a better future for me and my son Sander. I have kept my word and working on it every day to build up a life of our dreams and never giving up! I inspire him to think outside of the box and create his own reality!

I got two higher educations from Norway and South Africa and have traveled several times half way around the world and become an empowered woman who knows her purpose and her why and moves step by step towards new targets every day.

I am so grateful for my son that he chose me to be his mother. I have not certainly been the perfect mother, but we have learned a lot together, we have traveled quite a lot together and had fun quite a lot together. What else is possible now? He is finishing his 9th grade and  I keep my fingers crossed for his final exams!

aa sanderdrives mercedesJust one week ago, I took him with me to testdrive a new Mercedes ML350, which costs 110 000 eur. The face on him while driving it, tells it all! The manhood what came out and the feeling he got was touching base with the abundance he truly is! Thank you for enjoying my crazy ideas and challenges. Love you Sander! I am also working now every day to make more choices in order to spend more time with Sander.

aasanderritimersedesHere my son Sander and my sister Riti enjoying the sun with the brand new Mercedes ML 350.

Would you like to hear more, how to make more time to spend more time with your loved ones, your son, your sister or whoever is your family member and choose the life and luxury you fully deserve?

Ask me how! I have many tools and possibilities for you!

How to change your life into an everyday birthday?

aaa kissing the korstnapyhkijatI discovered that it was the 7th of May. My birth date, or as a ‘landing date’ as I called it.

My son called me and asked: ‘Mom, is it your birthday? Which one? Your landing date or the other one? I guess it does not matter, as you live your life like it is a birthday every day!’

I said it is the landing date – meaning the moment I was born into this body. I changed my birth name to Crystal Ra Laksmi in 2009 and it has another birthday, when I got the new name and also when I got my new aura (AuratransformationTM). It felt for me that my parents missed my right name when I was born.

This day was unlike anything else. I got calls, pictures, wishes like never before. I got a special visit from a woman on my birthday reminding me where to go and what to do next and I had a surprise book written about me to me in my email box and one of my best girlfriend made a surprise and showed up just suddenly together with my sister.

aa saladaWe went out to eat the salad first, then to another place to eat some sweets and I ate another salad and to the Estonian cafe called Chicago, where I got my birthday fireworks. On our way there I stopped people on the street and asked them what is their wish for my birthday and I gathered 11 amazing birthday wishes! To have a purpose, to not complain, to have loads of children, a good husband and a nice life, even gold and the menue from the Universe.

aa fireworksThen back to walk on the streets and to the street mucisian with the magic. It was amazing how different it was to have a birthday full of empowered people and their support and wishes. Amazing! Thank you so much!

So how to change your life into a constant birthday? I have a magic solutions! Ask me!

 

Birthday present – a shortcut!

aacrystalbirthdayI had the most amazing birthday in Tallinn, Estonia with my loved ones!

In the very end of the day, me and my two girlfriends we started to walk in the old town of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. We started to go up.

I started to tell the story about the shortcuts and how taking shortcuts actually is an amazing thing, as then you will find people who take the shortcuts as well, you will have more time for fun and the rest. How amazing is this?

While I talked about it we started to go up Lühike Jalg (Short Leg) street. There is a legend, that Tallinn is limping, and it is because we have two streets – one is Short Leg, other one Pikk Jalg (Long Leg). So we heard some guitar music and it was so beautiful and mystical. Unbelieavable.

I stopped in front of the street musician, who was a sweet Russian man, I put him some money and asked if he had some birthday songs for me. He did and we danced with one of my girlfriends. We were about to leave after the song when he invited me to listen to one more. I stepped over the edge and wanted to sit by his side. He stood up and offered me his place where he was sitting. It was amazingly kind. He had made this little strong pillow to sit on (on the stone).

So I sat down, he started to sing, my girlfriends were watching and the whole place turned into a magical wonderland, like in the bubble. I did not understand the words, but tears started to run down my eyes and it was so powerful, that I could not stop crying. So he finally stopped and was thankful, gave me a small kiss and a hug and good bye. We took the steps up and got to the Long Leg.

aabirthddayshortcutOnly after we got down to another street I understood how I had talked about the shortcuts and how we had just taken one and experienced the most beautiful instant magic walking on the Short Leg (equal to a shortcut)!!!

Would you like to experience more shortcuts? Empower Network is one of my shortcuts! I have never made any money on online marketing business and I have already made some money. So this is working, it is a shortcut to your sustainable financial freedom in life and not only!

My other shortcuts are AuraTransformationTM, Water therapy, Access ConsciousnessTM, Organic StretchingTM, tantra etc. Ask me more about these techniques.

Here is a little video memory, done by me dear girlfriend Tiina Liimandi. Thank you all who showed up, it was so much fun!

There is always sun above the clouds!

aablogwingskyThis trip back to Europe has been an amazing gift. Firstly I got seated by an amazing woman Katrine from Den-mark and in addition to a French woman Goenka, both like my twin sisters in many ways. What a synchronicity!!

I got guided to that particular side and told that it was there the seat D is located. So I trusted what was told and sat down. Later came Goenka and I told her to go to the other side. She did. When the food was coming, I got the vegetarian meal (which I also remember that I ordered) but came out later did not go through. So what happened was that I got Goenka’s special vegan meal, and she almost was left with nothing. The man on service managed in the end to get her all kinds of stuff, so she ended up having a gourmet meal with loads of extras. She did not resist or anything, just accepted whatever was happening

aasuperwomensittingKatrine spent 3 last months in Central America going from one farm to another, working in different places and exploring the countries. She seemed to be filled with sun, fun and knowledge of herbs and local knowledge. How amazing is this? She beamed of calmness and peace. We shared our ideas of different ways of living and that we could live outside in the warm weather and eat the amazing fruits straight from the trees.

Goenka is a woman from France, who has spent the last 20 years in India and Asia learning and absorbing different kind, especially on the spiritual ways of living. She even invented some new dance forms and massage.

I have also been practising a spiritual approach the recent days that ‘the world is a mirror’ as you look at it and as you give out, so will it give back to you, and it feels it is literally so on every field. Try it out yourself! So I thought, how amazing – I am walking around, saying the words: My world takes care of me and I get the vegetarian meal which I did not order and get to sit on the ‘wrong’ seat.

Do you believe in coincidences or what is this actually?

The metaphysical and material world dancing?

And who are we?

Depends on what we choose! Kings or queens or victims of our circumstances?

So at one point Katrine said, I love it when you fly with the plane, you can be sure, that up there is always sun, up there above the clouds! And I just felt that everything what happened was actually a message, that this knowing may change circumstances around us.

aasuperwomenIt may create a tune, a vibration, so that if something does not quite go exactly how we planned, we can actually just remind ourselves about the sun above the clouds and forget all about the clouds. And then just like that magic happens!I introduced them to the superwoman ideas and my shirt as well!

So hope to see them in our superwomen team!

Mahalo Mexico!

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2,5 months ago I escaped to Mexico. On the right hand side you see on the picture how I looked the first day when I got here. I looked pretty bad. Exhausted of fights, being in fear and not being able to create and live my dream life because of many limitations I had stupidly chosen and created in my life. I had got myself so stuck that there was no way out. I thought so.

Luckily with the help of friends I got to fly to Cancun. It took me 3 weeks to get my health back on track (coughing and lungs and high fever) and to pull myself together again took almost a month. My core turnover and breakthrough happened thanks to Greta Campagnolo from Canada, my sponsor in Empower Network, who totally believes in me and is a total kick ass woman, who kicked me so far that I managed to get donations around 1000 usd to get myself to Chicago and experience other 5000 people with me there.

picasa crystalnewmexicoOn this picture on your left, I am all balanced and happy, 2,5 months later, because of the right locations and right people and business choices I did. It is very important to listen to the inner guidance! That is one of my keys to the success!

In Mexico I worked a lot online. Every day I worked online and to heal my body, went to the local beach, in the very end I had some trips to Tulum Mayan ruins and also to Akumal turtle bay. It was an amazing experience to finalize my stay.

What do I love about Mexico?

The first time I was in Mexico was last year in Puerto Vallarta, where I stayed with my friends on their sailing boat, after that with a local family in Sayulita. It was a time full of adventures and challenges, but I really loved it. This time I got many new business ideas and also some of them are already giving fruits and if I keep it like that, will create my new sustainable future step by step.

aablogsolI love Mexican people. They are humble and creative and innovative, they do not complain, even if they do not have money or luxurious place to live. The whole village here is full of small enterprises and they all must function, as they are all opened all the time! I love the way they focus on their food and how many variations they have. I love how they take care of their family. I love the kindness they have. I love that they are dedicated whether it is a family or bills to pay or business to do. I love that there are good public transports to every possible place here.

Anni Sennov has said that Mexico is the golden and crystal energy platform for new time energy. I truly believe so. I felt so good here, much better than in London or Estonia. I love the laid back fishing village life and that everything is simple. For a climate refugee a perfect spot.

aablogsayulitaThe costs are 10 times or more cheaper than in London and maybe 2-3 times cheaper than in Estonia. To have the sun and an opportunity to go to swim in the Caribbean every single day is a jackpot itself! I lived with a Mexican family and it was nice and quiet place. The family was very helpful and always there if I needed something. How lucky am I? My dear friend Veronika Osawe invited me to this family as she stayed with them for some time herself. There is so much abundance here, especially in the nature.

I do not think they use it all very sustainably (like the solar power etc). There is a bit of lack consciousness and seems that when people get things going, they stey pretty much in the same known area. But I love the business mindness what they have here, everyone is doing something, whether it is playing music on the beach, selling snacks or just driving around with a little food counter in the village or renting rooms. I have learned so much to open my eyes in a different way to see possibilities!

aamexicolifeI did not manage to travel so much this time here for several reasons, but I got back to my own platform, to my own power and started to believe in myself and got my health back on track. Partly the help was Mexico itself, its sun and the ocean and partly it was the Empower Network Chicago event, where I got myself back again. Plus all the amazing people who have supported me here, or online. Will be back soon! If you are lost as well and do not know where to go and how or who you are or are just confused, let me know, maybe I can ask you some questions, and by sharing my story, you could get inspired and live the life of your dreams as well. That would make me so happy! More than anything! To see others to succeed!

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How far do we get if we try to be like others?

crystaltravelslighth2RREntrance from the end of April, 2013, Cancun, Mexico

I am now packing my stuff to leave Mexico and the last day was too busy even for a blog, but will do some extras to make it up!

Yesterday I got a thought of how much of my life I have wasted because I wanted to be like others or to fit in or to do like others were doing in order for me to be recognized and accepted. How far did it get me? Not very far, I got stuck every single time.

After the Chicago event I have been stepping into my own power more and more with every single breath I take. Sometimes it comes up quite abruptly like a little child, who tries to crawl and then to stand up and falls and hits herself. But I am much better already.

I thought back of so many relationships where  I have lost myself exactly because I wanted to be liked or appreciated or accepted! And when  I lost myself, I felt contracted, small and several times almost got killed. All that urge was rooted in the uncertainty of myself being me.

What if noone will be with me if I am truly me?

That was my everyday question.

In Chicago I chose a personal commitment to totally stand in my power and step into it beyond my wildest dreams. Every day it has brought me more challenges, but I am learning more and more how to balance my life on all fronts. It has not been easy, but I am better with every step and enjoying my empowerment more and more!

One of the core keys I have discovered within the last days is to be me and let others be who they are.

Simple as that. But what happens most of the time is that we would like that others would think or act the same way as we do or that we change ourselves so that they would like us more. I have discovered that when people do not like me it is their choice and I do not fight with it any more. I let them be and go, and focus on people who empower me because with them I can be fully me and be accepted exactly as I am. It empowers me and makes me grow and expand without any limits!

What about you? How much energy and attention do you put into wanting the others to like you? In the core bottom it is all connected to the fear of judgment. If you take that away, let your barriers down, what would happen next? I do not know, try it out and let me know!

 

My personal experience with the AuraTransformation™

Photo by C.R.Laksmi – November 2017, Hawaii

I am happy to share with you an amazing modality which has completely changed my life.

I got my AuraTransformation™ in February 2007 and became an Aura Mediator™ in August the same year. I feel honored to have had the opportunity to introduce AuraTransformation™ to Estonia in September 2007. I was part of the Aura Instructor™ program from September 2008 to February 2010. I have done many AuraTransformations™ over these years all over the world and still enjoy the process very much. For me it has been the greatest and fastest highway to myself. It has not been a quick fix or a walk in the rose garden, but I am much more connected with who I am, where I am going, what I am doing with my life and how I am contributing to the planet and for the future generations! Continue reading

Birth of Crystal Poppins

During the last 2 years when I have been orbiting the world, not having a base, I have noticed some patterns.

Example 1

I stayed with a girlfriend. I did some of my energy and body processes on her, and stayed with her one week. Within a week, she had a new place to live, a new job and a new intimate friend!!???

Example 2

I stayed with a Mexican family for a month and a half. By the end of that time I did Bars for around 50 relatives (all for free to practice) and the hostess started to speak fluent English  by the end of my stay and started to translate my speaking to the locals. By the end of my stay, we cooperated with her and enrolled 9 people in the very first Access Bars Class I helped to organise!!!

Example 3

I stayed with a friend in London for two and a half months. I gave him ideas how to change his house (clear the clutter, put things in order, reorganize things). I noticed how his money was all over the place and how many money problems he had. I noted all these details and gave feedback to him. By the end of my time there, one of his client lists was full and had a waiting list, the second one got activated as well and more was coming in. He was more open to life, knew more about tantra and consciousness, changed his thinking and had new girlfriends. His son started a business venture which has already made both of them money. His son broke up with his previous girlfriend as I supported him as well, and met a new one who was much more suitable for him. My friend also won in lottery and got some new opportunities and clients every day. The knowledge I shared with him was worth around 10 000 pounds, the value he managed to manifest in money was around 8000 pounds. So this way, from Mary Poppins, Crystal Poppins was born! Thank you my friend!

Example 4

One of my last boyfriends who lived with me for a year and a half, I had to kick out of my apartment and out of my life in the end. Hooponopono. He was so angry and I was the enemy nr 1. Already in my studio, he and his mom started a club for handicrafts. In a year’s time they opened up a shop and built up a new business. He now travels the world, while the shop earns him money and value. Perhaps I was not so bad to him after all?:)

Example 5

I did some Access Bars classes here and there and more stories like this ended up in my mailbox, constantly! I stopped and asked myself. Wait a minute! This is Crystal Poppins!

You can find her services under the services link.

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Crystal Poppins having fun in the Hawaiian jungle

Never give up!

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

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?

chicagoplainThe 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!

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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.

chicagoeventstageIt 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?

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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