Empowerment

Today I am sitting outside on my patio, ocean breeze to fill my lungs, the steep mountain before me is filling my gaze with wonder.

Our Mother Earth is a powerful force of beauty, strength and resilience. I am in awe of just feeling the sun on my skin, the wind on my shoulders, the earh beneath my feet, and the vast sky above me.

All of the words written above is a pure reflection of my experience from a day a couple of weeks ago.

I was honored to be a part of a retreat with the theme of EMPOWERMENT.

Today, is a day of reflection and absorbing what I experienced during that day.

What does Empowerment mean? What does Empowerment mean for you?

The word Empowerment was not just a theme for the retreat yesterday, its was also an intention that the participants would walk away from the retreat and feel Empowered.

Do I feel Empowered?

Yes, I actually do. I am sitting here writing again. It has been six months since I last wrote something publicly. So hitting the letters on the keyboard with my fingertips, I feel that a new version of me is coming back. As I hear the clicks while typing, my heart is right here, right now. That is how it always have been when letters become words, words become sentences, sentences become a paragraph etc. I am in the now with my heart, and I feel the life force lit up from within. A light within me that has been too dim for too long. By writing, I am me again. I departed from writing for awhile, and that was the same thing as to depart from myself.

I have been writing since I was young, and that is a way for me to channel both feelings and thoughts. Writing is a part of who I am.

As I stopped writing for several months, a part of myself died. A vital part for me to feel truly alive.

To feel present in the now, experiencing feelings of purpose and inner strength, is to feel truly empowered. For me.

I feel an immense joy while creating words, and I feel that I am capable of doing it. The words and my message though is for you. If I can reach you with my words, heart to heart, then I have done something to make us all feel the empowerment of being a community.

For me though, EMPOWERMENT comes with the feeling that we are creating connections with love.

Connecting is love.

Love is connecting.

What can be more EMPOWERING than to feel the EMPOWERMENT of love?

Love for creating our own life.

Love for one another.

Love for Mother Earth.

Love for one self.

I am doing something right now with love, joy, purpose, and that makes me feel Empowered. What makes you feel empowered?

At this very moment, I am creating connections through my words. Connection with You, who are reading it.

If we can connect, then we all feel Empowered.

Empowered to carry on with a peaceful heart and mind.

Empowered to never loose the curiosity for growth.

Empowered to believe in ourself.

Empowered to support and believe in others.

Empowered to live with our hearts open and our armor off.

Empowered to choose connections with love.

Empowered to seize the day.

Empowered to be compassionate towards others, and one self.

Empowered to dream and step by step make the dream our reality.

Empowered to dare to love.

Always.

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Full Moon Meditation βœ¨πŸŒ•βœ¨

About 10 days ago I posted this (see below) on my personal FB page. Even if the days have gone by, I believe the message is still relevant ... the effect of the moon affects us for about 2 weeks prior, and then two weeks after...βœ¨πŸŒ•βœ¨

FULL MOON MEDITATION βœ¨πŸŒ•βœ¨

Tonight it was all about sitting still, receiving and to listen ...

The Full Moon is in Pieces β™“οΈπŸŸπŸŸ... fish go deep, deep ... They search for the meaning of life ...
WHAT GIVES YOUR LIFE MEANING?

Tonight I had to dare to take off my armor and be vulnerable - so I could "find myself" again πŸ’œ

By concentrating on my breathing,  my heart expanded and the magnetism from the Moon pulled on every string to show ME who I AM at the core. 

It was a time of letting go of what does not serve me anymore: habits, situations and relationships. All in the spirit to listen to the pure me. 
Not to continue acting accordingly to please others, only to loose myself. 
But to let my heart, spirit and body be in alignment in the deepest depth.  

Tonight was full of emotions, difficult presence, and at the end heartfelt inner peace. 

Thank you so much Jessica , for suggesting to meditate tonight. To be gentle with myself, and to hold MY heart close to MEπŸ’œπŸ™πŸ’œ

So on this mysterious moonlit night I will say goodnight with a question (that I heard from Jessica Vesterlund) for all of you:

WHAT GIVES MEANING TO EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE?

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Full Moon Meditation

Setting my intentions for today's Full Moon ...

I received some powerful questions from THE Jessica Vesterlund ... and now I need to sit quietly and listen inwards.

The answers will come ...
Those answers will be my intentions for tonight's Full Moon Meditation βœ¨πŸŒ•βœ¨

The common thread with all the intentions are:

*What is your strength and how can you show that you're standing in your own powerful truth?

*Step out with your mind-heart-soul in alignmentπŸ’œ

THAT is the TRUE YOU❣️✨

FEEL it - LIVE it - BE it βœ¨πŸ’œβœ¨

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Real Life

What comes to your mind when you read the title "Real Life"? Of course it will mean different things for different people, but I am curious of what it means to you!

For me I had to take a long break from the internet over the summer to be able to fully live and experience the "my" Real Life and I'll try to explain what that meant for Me.

To begin with it was not a voluntary or even a conscious decision, but a necessary change for me due to medical issues.  It was more or less an order from my neurologist to be off-line for a longer period of time. My brain, nervous system and my whole body needed to rest. My body needed to rest from electronic devices.

I might not be able to fully explain was Real Life is, but I can tell you a few things it is not.  Real Life is not social media, and the reasons are many.  A lot of us (including myself) post pictures and messages when life feels good, or I should refrace that to when life appears good.  Because what do we know about what is behind the smile of someone at a perfect looking vacation destination?  We know absolutely nothing. Everyone is fighting a battle and maybe in that picture the battle is forgotten for a moment, or well hidden.  Our battles are all different in severity, some are fleeting and some are there to stay.