WE ARE FREE TO BE OURSELVES

..we must accept all of ourselves in order to be whole..

..let your heart be open..

and make plenty of room for ALL the parts of yourself..

..the parts that you are proud of..

and the parts that embarrass you..

..the parts you reject and the parts you love..

..they are all of you..

..you ARE beautiful..

..when your heart is full of luv for yourself..

...then you have so much to give other people..

xxx

'I DON'T FEEL LIKE IT'

..feeling like doing something is not always the best reason for doing it..

..not feeling like doing something can also be limiting..

..it can be very liberating to just go ahead and and do what needs to be done..

..whether you feel like it or not..

..and when we do what needs to be done..

our feelings..motivation and energy change anyway..

..don't always let feelings be your guide..
..you'll be surprised how many good things come out of..

doing something you don't feel like doing!

have a good weekend..

and don't be afraid to do something you don't feel like doing x

FABULOUS FRIDAY...

..wow its been a week since i blogged..sorry guys.. assignments due..

..anyway want to share parts of a poem i lurv by Oriah..

..the invitation..

..it doesn't interest me what you do for a living..i want to know what you ache for..

and if you dream of meeting your hearts longing..

..it doesn't matter how old you are.

.i want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love..

for your dream..for the adventure of being alive..

..i want to know if you can be with joy..mine or your own..

if you can dance with wildness..

..i want to know if you can see beauty even when its not pretty ..everyday..

and if you can source your own life from its presence..



..it doesn't interest me where you live..or how much money you make..


i want to know if you can get up..after a night of grief and despair..

weary and bruised to the bone..
..and do what needs to be done..

..i want to know if you can be alone with yourself..

and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments..

..i want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow..

or have you become closed for fear of further pain..

..i want to know if you can disappoint another be true to yourself..

..i want to know if you can live with failure..

yours or mine..and stand on the edge of of the lake and shout to the silver moon "Yes!"

..it doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here..

i want to know what sustains..from the inside.. when all else fades away!!

..i want to know who you are..

and what makes you the person you are..

because that will live on when the beauty fades..

the money disappears and people move in and out of our lives..

looking at these things in others.. opens us up to leading a more meaningful life..

..have a lovely weekend x

MASKS

WE ALL WEAR MASKS..

..recently i had the pleasure of attending a gorgeous girlfriends 'masquerade party'..

..it was such an amazing night..

..i was looking at some photos last night and it prompted me to think about..

..the masks we wear..

.. regardless of who we are and at different times of our lives..we all wear masks..

..people wear masks to conceal their true identity..hide their emotions..expose their true feelings..

sometimes they are worn to gain or secure friendships..

..we may even wear a mask because we do not want people to know the truth about us..
..most people wear masks of 'composure' to protect themselves from judgement or to feel safe..

..we can mask a smile and be hurting on the inside..we may not want to do it..but we feel it's the right thing to do..

..we mask the ability to make others think we will gladly do something..

..when we really don't want to do it..

..some people even wear multiple masks and switch them for different people in different situations..you can see through those masks..the person who is lovely one minute and totally indifferent the next..

we shouldn't hide truth behind the mask..

..we can learn to live with the masks people wear..

..and it's one thing to wear a mask in front of your boss..your clients..your colleagues..strangers..

..but we need to remove our masks in front of our loved ones..

..even if it means hurting them..

..it's far better to hurt for a moment than keep on that mask for an eternity..
..love is not faking your identity for someone..we don't want people to love the mask..but the real person underneath..

..after all it's hard work keeping that mask on for a long time x

THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY..

..i am sooo ready for the weekend..

but quickly before i run out the door..

had to post this...

..have a Fabulous Friday..

x

FRIENDSHIP

FORGIVENESS...

..we go through life hurting others as well as being hurt..

and forgiveness is necessary..it is the most demanding of all the qualities..

..it also THE most important!!

..forgiveness allows us to say.."I hate what you have done..but we need to move forward"..

..it is irrelevant whether they 'deserve' to be forgiven..

..you forgive to release yourself as well as the other person..

..forgiveness does not condone what was wrong..

..yet it shows us that everyone makes mistakes..



..when we hurt others..ask for forgiveness unconditionally..

..an apology is worthless if we do not back it up by changing our behaviour..

..accept other peoples apologies unconditionally..don't make them suffer more to make you feel better..

..remember..the sun rises on the just and the unjust..

..forgiveness benefits you more than the other person that has hurt you..

..to be perfectly honest..i used to believe you could forgive but never forget..

..now i know..to truly forgive we MUST forget..

..forgiveness allows us to live in the present moment..

to learn from the past as we leave it behind..

..there is power in forgiveness x