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Life Lessons

10 THINGS TIME HAS TAUGHT ME

1. Most of our life is spent chasing false goals and worshipping false ideals. The day you realise that is the day you really start to live.

2. You really, truly cannot please all of the people all of the time. Please yourself first and your loved ones second, everyone else is busy pleasing themselves anyway, trust me.

3. Fighting the ageing process is like trying to catch the wind. Go with it, enjoy it. Your body is changing, but it always has been. Don’t waste time trying to reverse that, instead change your mindset to see the beauty in the new.

4. Nobody is perfect and nobody is truly happy with their lot. When that sinks in you are free of comparison and free of judgement. It’s truly liberating.

5. No one really sees what you do right, everyone sees what you do wrong. When that becomes clear to you, you will start doing things for the right reason and you will start having so much more fun.

6. You will regret the years you spent berating your looks, the sooner you can make peace with the vessel your soul lives in, the better. Your body is amazing and important but it does not define you.

7. Your health is obviously important but stress, fear and worry are far more damaging than any delicious food or drink you may deny yourself. Happiness and peace are the best medicine.

8. Who will remember you and for what, become important factors as you age. Your love and your wisdom will live on far longer than any material thing you can pass down. Tell your stories, they can travel farther than you can imagine.

9. We are not here for long but if you are living against the wind it can feel like a life-sentence. Life should not feel like a chore, it should feel like an adventure.

10. Always, always, drink the good champagne and use the things you keep for ‘best’. Tomorrow is guaranteed to no one. Today is a gift that’s why we call it the present. Eat, Drink (or don’t) & Be Merry.

Donna Ashworth

From ‘To The Women: words to live by’

https://amzn.eu/d/boCNeID

#growingolder #women #inspiration

#ageing #wise #wisdom #menopause

8th Monkey

Put 8 monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling. Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable.

Soon enough, whenever a monkey attempts to climb the ladder, all of the other monkeys, not wanting to be sprayed on, set upon him and beat him up. Soon, none of the eight monkeys ever attempts to climb the ladder.

One of the original monkeys is then removed, and a new monkey is put in the room. Seeing the bananas and the ladder, he wonders why none of the other monkeys are doing the obvious. But undaunted, he immediately begins to climb the ladder.

All the other monkeys fall upon him and beat him silly and he has no idea why. However, he no longer attempts to climb the ladder.

A second original monkey is removed and replaced. The newcomer again attempts to climb the ladder, but all the other monkeys hammer the crap out of him. This includes the previous new monkey,

who, grateful that he’s not on the receiving end this time, participates in the beating because all the other monkeys are doing it. However, he has no idea why he’s attacking the new monkey. One by one, all the original monkeys are replaced.

Eight new monkeys are now in the room. None of them have ever been sprayed by ice water. None of them attempt to climb the ladder. All of them will enthusiastically beat up any new monkey who tries, without having any idea why.

That is how traditions, religion and ethnic profiling get established and followed.

Think twice before following a tradition, religion or negative ethnic profiling. It would make more sense if you get your own understanding to it!

-Author Unknown

Childhood Lessons

“My parents beat me when I was a kid and I’m not traumatized,” says a male alcoholic whose partner reported him for physical abuse.

“As a child I was punished a lot and I’m fine,” says the man who complains every time he makes a mistake.

“When I disobeyed as a child, my father locked me in a room and for that I am grateful to him today,” says the woman who suffers panic attacks and fear of tight spaces.

“My parents forced me to attend an apprenticeship in this profession, where I make a lot of money, and for that I’m very grateful,” says the man who can’t wait for Friday because he hates his job.

“When I was little, my parents made me sit at the table until I ate everything,” says a woman who doesn’t understand why she struggles with eating disorders.

It’s time to break through the generational trauma and become aware of our past patterns. It is time to be compassionate to ourselves and our children.

A child learns to solve problems through conversation, if we solve conflicts in the family this way. If problems with threats and penalties are solved, one day it will act the same way.

A child learns compassion when we are compassionate towards them.

A child learns to listen to others when we listen to the child, when we are interested in how they feel and what their world looks like.

A child learns to believe in himself if we believe in him.

We don’t have to raise our children, we have to lovingly cultivate them. ❤

Women’s Sacred Power

“You are no longer raising your own family, the menstrual cycle has seized, and you are transitioning into what it means to truly be in your Sacred power and Sovereignty. In the last 5000+ years we have been severed from the Feminine Lunar era as we abruptly entered into the Masculine Solar era, and here the true wisdom of menopause is hidden and even shamed in order to keep women from their power. This is the culture we have been steeped in. And yet all women know deep in their bones, there is a mystery they are biologically and spiritually linked to.

What isn’t spoken about is that since the beginning of time, the SHAMANS were really the MEDICINE WOMEN, honored for holding that holy space between the physical and the spiritual, the seen and the unseen. Medicine Women continuously healed individuals and communities through sacred communication with the Earth, with the Divine, acting as that holy channel between the portals of life and death.

Why have women been so denigrated and devalued? Simply because this very inherent power in women that has been persecuted and horribly condemned for the last 5000+ years, has posed a threat to the power of the domination cultures and their need to control all aspects of life, including the land. But the time has come… all that is changing now… as we awaken to the true Essence of Feminine Consciousness and the holiness that exists within us, within the land and within all of creation.”

-Leonor Murciano-Luna, Ph.D., “Menopause: Initiation of Sovereignty,” excerpt from our upcoming anthology, The Crone Initiation and Invitation: Women Speak on the Menopause Journey.

Painting by Liliana Kleiner

Understanding Power

Totally

An 18 year old in college, pledged to a fraternity and is subject to all manner of “test” just like an 18 in boot camp , humiliated and saturated in following orders as well as networking .

These folks who do not ask , do not tell become leaders , CEOs and representatives of our law . Who owe each other

A nation of men and not of law much and will change .

Implosion happening now .

Blessings & Peace ☮️

Dona Luna

Most of the people who make it through the education system and get into the elite universities are able to do it because they’ve been willing to obey a lot of stupid orders for years and years – that’s the way I did it, for example… Some people go along with it because they figure, “Okay, I’ll do any stupid thing that asshole says because I want to get ahead”; others do it because they’ve just internalized the values – but after a while, those two things tend to get sort of blurred. But you do it, or else you’re out: you ask too many questions and you’re going to get in trouble. ~Noam Chomsky

(Book: Understanding Power https://amzn.to/3dwz4rb)

Between

After a huge shift, powerful change, and a deep purge…we need time to integrate these energetic changes.

It will be Out with the old and receiving a lot of the new into the empty spaces.

A lot is happening within our systems and the void like energy we feel – not being able to know where we are, what we’re doing, what we should be doing, not being able to connect with our soul or anyone else , we feel all alone, confused, not knowing what the next step should be and we don’t know if we did things right or wrong.

Our ego is here with us and it is trying to convince us that we did something wrong because if we did it the right way around we should be feeling bliss, happiness and joy and because we are not feeling it, we surely did something wrong. No!

You didn’t do anything wrong, this is just the process of ascension and the void like feeling means your system needs a break because it went through a powerful deep and important change and before you can move further on this new level you’re in, you need to rest and relax and integrate the shifts.

And a lot of you are in this void like feeling right now because we have cleared a lot in July/at the beginning of August and we are preparing to upgrade to the next level right now.

So just relax and take it easy and try to not freak out in this way like feeling.

This is a time for you to learn to accept the stillness, nothingness of your soul.

The lack of thoughts, the lack of feeling any connection is basically this new level you are in. An upgrade. But it is so unpleasant for the ego and your human body because you are used to having thoughts with you all the time and you’re not always feeling well in silence.

divinefeminine7777

http://www.raisingvibrations.com.au

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Partentification

Parentification is where a child is forced or expected, to act as a parental stand-in from a young age.

Parentification is generally classified as parent-focused or sibling-focused and then either as instrumental or emotional. Parent-focused means you were primarily taking care of your parent. Sibling-focused means you were taking care of a sibling or siblings.

Instrumental revolves around practical responsibilities.

– Physically meeting the needs of your siblings or parent by feeding them, helping them get dressed, or bathing them.

– Being in charge of cleaning, cooking, or grocery shopping.

– Paying bills, budgeting, or being in charge of the family finances.

Emotional revolves around being forced to be an emotional support system.

– Listening to your parent talk to you about adult problems.

– Giving advice or comforting your parent over age-inappropriate problems.

– Mediating between your parents or family members.

– Being the one to make your siblings feel loved, safe, and protected.

#parentification

Relationship with Narcissistic be like ….

In every toxic relationship, there comes a point where you look at your life and think, “Not This”. It could be a fleeting moment of awareness during your morning shower or when you’re being subjected to yet another silent treatment or triangulation event. ⁠

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We all have “Not This” moments during the course of toxic relationships.⁠

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It’s during our “Not This” moments that we can choose to start planning something different for ourselves. We may not know what that will look like, but in the moment, it doesn’t matter. All we know is “Not This”. There is no turning back.⁠

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Or, after the dust settles, we may choose to “work on” the relationship because staying means less upheaval than leaving. At least with a toxic partner, we know what to expect. ⁠

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Getting out on one’s own is often a scary proposition, so we choose to stay in “Not This”, thereby setting ourselves up for a life of emotional ruin. You’ll look back on all the years you wasted and realize things haven’t changed at all.⁠

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But, every passing minute is a chance to turn it all around. I have several resources for you if you’re ready, or even if you’re just thinking about it…⁠

👉 https://linktr.ee/kim.saeed

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Xo (◍•ᴗ•◍)♡ ✧*。⁠

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#healing #breakinghabits #emotions #emotionalhealth #hope #selflove #emotionalwellness #narcissisticabuserecovery

Denied Energy becomes Demonic for you

Any energy that you deny becomes a demon for you. It becomes your inner tormenter. And you don’t get rid of your demons. You embrace them. Not indulge them, but embrace them. And if you embrace them in a way I am talking about, they no longer feel like demons. They are just energies that are available to you. They are just part of this whole spectrum of what it is to be conscious and alive and present. And everything becomes joined together back again. A mature emotional life is when all the different parts of yourself emotionally are joined back together. Nothing is put outside, nothing is denied, nothing is hidden. Nothing is unacknowledged. All brought together so that it can all come together.