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We do all experience and meet challenges in our life, some meet more than others and we can just hope, that we are able to handle the challenges, as each of us meet in life

When I look back at my life, I see a lot of positive experiences, which make me happy to think about. Some times have been more fun than others, that is life

I got my kids very early in life and I did never regret to get them, even it was early and more life experiences might have helped me in many ways. I have two adult kids, the first just before I became 20 years old and the second three years later. I have been young with my kids, which has been good in some ways, because went they became teenagers, I still did remember, how it was to be a teenager myself. Not easy…

I have been through many great times, but also times as I could live without. I do know, that all of this have made me to the person, as I am today, but I could still live without these. I have had many times, where I wished, that I had more guidance and support, than I had back then, but what doesn’t kill us, makes us usually stronger

I haven’t been to good to find the best partners, while I was younger. Short time ago, I got to know, that I have been an idiot-magnet sometimes, which I today easily only can agree about. I think and hope, that I now have learned by my mistakes

When we meet idiots, psychopaths, sociopaths etc. then it is not possible not to be damaged in different ways. These kind of monsters, they are not humans – I deny to call them humans – they destroy everyone and everything, as they come close to and unfortunately, they are not always easy to spot up in front, then it would be more easy to avoid them

I did meet this kind of monsters and several of them. They have damaged my soul very much and I have worked very hard and still do, to be healed from all those years

For many years, I have had interest in alternative ways of living, healing, gemstones, meditation etc. In the beginning I worked with these things on and off, later I found out, how much I feel, that the gemstones have helped me in my healing, why I continue to use them in many ways and for some years also to create jewelry with

When I wear jewelry with gemstones, I can feel their power. They can never go instead of a doctors visit, when this is needed, but they can support our healing beside the doctors work

Today I do meditations daily, sometimes several times daily I do also use gemstones, while I meditate, specially when I send healing thoughts to other souls in need. I know, they support me to send, what is needed

Last year I went vegetarian again, which I did not regret. I feel so much better in my body and mind after this. I do yoga, both in a class and at home and this help me to get into a better shape and helps my body to heal too

There are many ways, as we can go, when we wish to heal our wounds from earlier in this life. I chose personal development by many reasons, most of all to learn myself to know, to learn my own limitations for now, then I had something to work from and could see, how far I come day by day

It was a big challenge for me to move to Spain, which I did 4 1/2 years ago. I have been much alone, specially in the first years here, where my Spanish was almost not existing, which makes it difficult to communicate with anyone, when I rarely met people, who were able to speak anything else than Spanish or Catalan

In these first years, I really got to know myself at positive and less positive ways, found my strength after some while and the will to survive, live and enjoy my life. When you are much alone, you have a lot of time to think, which I also did and I got to know myself so well, that I also found out, that I needed help for healing my soul

I read a lot, communicated online with people, read more and got to learn, how I could help myself to heal. First of all, I needed to find out, what to heal from, because there were several reasons. Then I learned, that by forgiving first myself, for at all to let anyone hurt me, was first step. Next step was to forgive the monsters, as did hurt me. This step was the most difficult to come through, until I found out, that I didn’t need to forgive their bad acting, which are not possible to ever forgive, but “only” their existence as being monsters and not humans. I found this as the most difficult, as I have ever learned to do in my life, but after I did, I found out, that I got many energies released from my soul. Today I feel more free than ever before in my life

When I found out to forgive, not for them, but for me, to find my freedom to live, this was the best, I ever have done for myself

Now you know a little more about, why I love to work with gemstones and their energies, they have been priceless in their support for me.

Enjoy your life – while you still are able to

Irene

 

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Love & Life


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Love has many different kind of definitions and we do all use the word Love in different ways, because we are different in mind

For one, Love can be the most important in life, if this person can be able to love one another more, than their own life

For another, Love has other definitions

I feel, that the most important must be to love one self, before we are able to love another soul with an open and honest heart. For me, this is some of a place to reach

I find it also very important to teach our kids to love themselves and that they always are worth loving. No matter, what they do, they are lovable. Sometimes we need to show our kids the way, which often works much better, than only by talking about it. Don’t be scared to tell and show your kids the way, then learn much more by, what they see, you are doing

We do all learn by life and learn by own experiences. We do acts, as are not the best choices, but they are ours, we own them, and we are responsible for these choices. If we are acting in less good ways, the only one, who are able to change this, is one selves

We are only responsible for our own life and can not blame others, if our life is going in a way, as we don’t wish it to. No one can read our thoughts, even many would like them to or even expect them to do so. Then we need to look inside and find out, which way will be the right one for us and then ACT at this. Everything else is just dreaming…

As I have mentioned before, life is, what we make out of it. Live out your dreams, don’t ever expect others to live out your dreams. No matter, how old we are, it is never too late to do something to change our circumstances. We just need to find out, what is most important for us in our life, then think deeply about this and find out, what is needed to do, for being able to change, so we can live our life, as we – until now – only have been dreaming about

Any relationship should be build at mutual respect and a kind of love. Without mutual respect it is difficult to build any kind of healthy relationship, whatever it is as a lover or a friend. The more long time, as we know each other, the more we get to know about each other. Something are very lovable and other things not

It is different, how we are developing inside a relationship. Either we are developing in same direction and the love are growing day by day, which is wonderful, when this is possible

In many relationships, we are developing in different ways, either because of job, more or new education, friends or interests. While we are young, the world seems to be open and full of possibilities. It is not always easy to choose the right path and other we change our path several times, before we find out, where we wish to stay and live in this life. While all this is going on, we can look at our friends and see, some are staying where they chose to be for many years ago, they are still there, others has been changing their path many times and some have still not found their way of life yet. When we are in a relationship for love, we do still learn new every day, if we wish to and sometimes we do develop in each direction by time. One day we might find out, that this relationship is not, what we would like it to be. We are now too different and might also have different ways of living our dream life. This can end up with a break in the relationship, which often will be the best of all involved, even there are also kids involved

If we wish to teach our kids to live and stay honest to themselves, we do also need to do exactly the same to ourselves. This is also, what they learn by and to stay in a relationship only because you have kids together, is often a bad solution

We wish all the best for our kids, this is also why, we need to teach them to live our life in love to ourselves and I don’t mean this in an egoistic way. If we teach our kids to love themselves, they will be strong enough to choose for themselves later in life, to live in a healthy and loving relationship and don’t stay in a place, where they are not able to feel alive any longer

I have been changing my path many times in my life. I have followed my dreams many times, not all went well, but I learned a lot by this, which I can use to take better choices for the rest of this life. I hope by this, to have taught my kids to live a loving life, where they are able to develop themselves and no one are allowed to stop them in this. To live and love with mutual respect

Irene

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Love & Hate


We send a lot of energy out in our world every day, whatever we talk, write or think, all is energy

I find it important to think deeply, before we send our personal energy out, because all we do send out, will come back to us again – in one or another way. Karma talks and who wish to ask for anything negative for themselves?

In this time much are happening in our world and if we choose to talk, write or think with hate or anger, we actually feed our enemy instead of doing, what could help us reach our goals

Bless your enemy, send them positive thoughts, send them love, wish them well, you don’t need to do this personally, just send all you can imagine of positivity and you take away the weapons of your enemy

When we send blessings to souls, as we don’t wish to have, where they are, they will receive all our well wishes and thoughts. This can lead them to find another place or way to live. This change souls to receive so much love

Imagine an old and often not happy person, we do all know or see this kind of souls. Try to treat this person with kindness, smile and/or say hello, when you meet them, give them a flower or something else, listen to them and show them love and empathy. Soon they will change their behavior, because nothing is so strong and healing as love

Hate kills everything and love embrace everything, how do you wish to live?

We can reach very far with kindness, much more far, than we just think

If you are feeling hate all the time, you are going to kill yourself by this, if you choose to live in love instead, all your world will change, even you think, this is not possible. Try it out and you will see, but do it with a honest heart

I believe in being positive and live in happiness. I don’t need to go outside to find this happiness, I find it inside myself by being grateful for my life every day:

When I wake up in the morning, I feel grateful to get another new day

I have a loving family, even we live far from each other, we are never far in mind

I have a home, where I love to stay, not all are so lucky

I have 3 wonderful animals, as give their love every day

I have a fair health, as I do what I can to improve daily

I can afford to eat healthy food every day, which I really appreciate

I have much more to be grateful for, so just mentioned the most important

Do you live in love or hate?

Irene

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Sodalite


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Sodalite help us to express ourselves in ways, where we can have challenges. I have used Sodalite to exceed my own limits, when I have felt myself locked in situations, where I was not able to react appropriate. Then I place the Sodalite either at my throat or at my third eye (between the eyebrows) and lay and try to concentrate and listen to, what ever comes up with help from the Sodalite

Sodalite belongs to the Throat Chakra and are also used at the Third Eye Chakra. It help us to release feelings like fx. fear and guilt or other feelings, as we can wish to get rid of

When I feel unbalanced and need help to be able to express my feelings, I use Sodalite as a help. Either I sit and hold it or keep it in my handbag, if I’m going out to speak in public and feel nervous etc. It helps me to do this without any fear

Sodalite is also good, if we feel pain in our throat, let it lay at your throat or down your pillow in the night and it use to help me to feel better next day

Enjoy your day

Irene

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Inspirational Afternoon


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Sunset in Spain

I had a great experience today, while I visited Facebook. Usual I only stay there for few minutes, but today I left after 2 hours, which were amazing 2 hours

I received a message about to join a Live Broadcast with H.H. Dalai Lama, as was sent from Milan, Italy in (for me) this afternoon, for many other in our world, in the morning

Dalai Lama was speaking about many interesting topics and ended up with answering questions from the people, who joined in there

It was a special experience to see Dalai Lama express his thoughts about our world and what he meant, that we all were able to do to join the goal for peace. He called this century for the Century for Compassion, which I found interesting

In here at WP, I find that we are good to show each other compassion and support each other in the most positive and beautiful way

Dalai Lama also spoke about many topics and I will not mention all here, just what I find important to share with you right now

We should promote Peace & Harmony, which are possible in several ways

Dalai Lama mentioned, when we practice Harmony and find our goals, the Compassion will be reachable

When I think about this and compare with my wonderful blogging friends in here, I think at all of you, as the reason for, why we are blogging and in same time also, how great and strong community, as we create in here

We are many, who are doing our best to be the best version of ourselves each and every day, practice love and send healing thoughts out in our world, which also end up with the Oneness, as Dalai Lama also mentioned. That we need to understand, we are all one, even we are different of skin, political view and religion

We are all equal livings and need to act like that, to respect all other kind of life, no matter, we can’t make money or profit in any way at them. We do all have same right to be here and no one are more than others

Instead of placing ourselves or others at a pedestal, we need to come down from there and be one with all others. This will reduce the distance between us and we will be better to relax and feel the Oneness

Tolerance is needed, no matter what kind of souls, as we meet. We do all have a past, with something we can feel good about and other things less good

To become more whole souls, it is great to remember, that a healthy mind and a healthy body help us to find Calmness and maybe also our purpose in life

What do you think?

Enjoy your day

Irene

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Life


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Full Moon seen from my garden

When I look back at my life, I see a lot of experiences, some very good and some less good. We need to experience both to appreciate a good life.

I have never wished to end up my time in this life with regrets. When I come so far, I hope, that I will be able to say; Yes, you did try a lot in this life and you did learn much, but there will be no regrets.

Without having the courage to do something different, it will be difficult to develop ourselves. Sometimes we need to just jump out, where we don’t know, if we will drown or we will raise again. I will not say, this always have been easy, but it was never boring and without these experiences, I would not have been the soul, as I am today.

Of course there are experiences, as I would like to have been without, but that is life, whatever I liked it or not. I did grow by my mistakes and I learned not to repeat the same mistakes, so now on to the next…..

Some young people have a dream about creating a family and maybe buy a house and live there for their lifetime. This life will also give challenges, just in another way. These people often wish to live close to family and friends and don’t have dreams about seeing and living in other places in the world or doing a difference in our world. They are satisfied with this kind of life, which is good for them.

Other young people have big dreams about traveling and living different places in our world. Work several places and maybe one day also create a family far away from everything well known to them. They don’t have the feeling of belonging only one place, but wish to challenge themselves to learn new all the time.

Even we pass our youth, it is still allowed to have dreams and who is to tell us, that these dreams are not possible? Only ourselves.

Sometimes life decide for us and maybe we were not awake to make better decisions, while we were young and maybe also more naive. We don’t need to give up our dreams, even they will demand some hard work and life-changing acts by us, before they can come true. It is not impossible, it is all about, how much do your dream means to you? Are you willing to do, what is needed to do, to be able to live out your dream? If not, your dreams are utopia and not realistic.

If you really have a dream, why not do your best to live your dream?

Many years ago, when I started to get problems with my health, I started dreaming again. I dreamed about, how I would love to live in a place with much sun, nice temperatures and not so ice-cold winters. This could maybe be possible, when I became old enough to be a pensioner, I thought.

Destiny showed up, before I thought this possible, actually many years before usual age for being pensioner. My health became worse and I have had my part of heavy challenges in life and together this made me in need to become an early pensioner.

Few years after I became a pensioner, my dreams went from being dreams to a possible reality. My economy was secured for surviving, almost no matter where I would like to go. I lived inside EU, where there are rules for the inhabitants about, where it is allowed to move to and in same time bringing your own pension.

As you might know, I chose to move to Spain. It was very different for me and filled with lots of challenges. I didn’t speak Spanish, but other languages, as I thought could be usable until I learned Spanish. New experience – not many Spanish people are speaking more than Spanish. So I had much new to learn.

Today I live here without a very good Spanish, but I’m learning all the time. So no matter where in the world we are living, there will come challenges. Some people might call this problems – but I prefer to call it challenges. For me this has a more positive sound.

To stay positive also in the middle of challenges, help so much to keep up the good mood. Nothing is eternal, tomorrow will be a new day with new experiences, if we wish to – of course.

Irene

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Good intentions


Short time ago I did deside to try being creative and wished to create a calendar for a very good friend.

Then I downloaded a free trial of a program to see, if it was worth buying.

I found photos from this friends website to use in the calendar and thought, when I did insert those photos, that they would be placed in total size, but NO they did not, the program cutted the photos in places, where I absolutely not wished them to cut.

Unfortunately I sent the calendar directly to my friend from the program without being able to see the mistakes, before I sent.

I bought new glasses just before Christmas for reading and I needed long time to get used to those much stronger glasses and had problems for long time to see very well. I suppose this was the reason, that I didn’t see the mistake.

So even we can have the best intentions to be good friends and wish to spread happiness, sometimes it goes wrong. One thing, as I learned by this was to check again and again, before I send anything to avoid mistakes in my gifts.

Irene

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Movement again in Spain


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Sunrise in Spain today the 31. of December 2015

It is a while ago, since I wrote a more personal post. I have been busy with planning my future, while I still try to live in the moment, which I find being a big challenge.

As I have wrote about before, it is not easy to be the renter of houses here in Spain. I can’t just live in one place for longer time, because of the rules with the contracts and because of the conditions of the houses, as I have been renting here.

Now I have found another place to live and will be moving last in January 2016. I have started packing and cleaning out, what doesn’t serve me any longer of my material things. I give away so much as possible and the rest I place beside our trash for others to take, if they should need it.

I will come to live in an apartement, close to where I live now, usual used as tourist apartement in July & August, why I also need to move again in last in June. It is okay with me and I hope to be ready to go to Germany in that time.

I will get a balcony out to the Mediterannean Sea, from where I can see the Sunrise and have sun much at the day. I’m specially looking forward to photograph some great photos, while I enjoy my morning coffee out there 😀

2015 has been a challenging year for me. Much has happened, best of all I have found myself again after long time, where I was without knowledge of how I wished to live my life.

I have been thinking a lot to find my dreams and to find out, how to realize these dreams.

This year I have found new way to create jewelry and opened one more online shop, this time at Handmade at Amazon, from where I got an invitation to open a shop, which is a big challenge and an even more big job. This is okay, it is fun to try something new and to jump my own limits. This can feel scaring sometimes, but I grow every time, so good enough.

I hope to be able to write more at my blog in the coming year and also show more photos of the beautiful area in Spain, where I live. This is some of my new goals 😀

Wish all of you a Happy New Year and thank you very much for your friendships in this year 😀

Irene

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Beauty & Life


Not so many days ago, I enjoyed my coffee outside at my terrace in the afternoon, which is still possible, just I find a sunny place. I sat and looked at the few flowers, which still showed sign of life and decided to photograph those for you to see.

We can be lucky to have sun and warm up to 16-18 C. – 60-62 F. around 3 pm now where I live in Spain. In the night we have around 0-4 C. – 28 F. which feels cold in a not isolated house. The houses here are builded to keep out the sun and warm and I agree, they do this almost too well in the winter time.

A little message to my new followers:

I do follow many blogs, more than 800, and among those also many authors, because I like to read not all lecture, but specially books about positivity and personal development. I enjoy reading poems and posts, when they are about life and not only religion and/or extremism or violence.

I respect what every you choose to write about and I do visit your blogs to see, if I can find something to like too. If you don’t see my likes, shares or comments, don’t misunderstand anything, we just don’t share interests.

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I believe in life and I’m not religious. If I should try to explain you about my ideas, you will need to think about Tibetan Buddhism. I believe in love and peace. War has never done anything good for humans. The only place where all of us can meet is with love and mutual respect. Also no matter you are a man or a woman, we are all equal. We do all have the right to live. I do also believe, that animals have a right to live and be like animals are. They are not dolls, they don’t need clothe, only enough food and a lot of love. I see animals with beautiful souls, often more beautiful than humans souls, because they are not destroyed in same way. They don’t try to predict to be something as they are not. Animals are very honest and we can learn a lot from them, if we are open to learn.

We do all come in here with each our life experiences. Some we are willing to share and others not. This is okay, why not? No one are forced to tell anything, as they don’t wish to or are ready to talk about.

By my experiences I see life a little different than many others do. It is okay, we all have our own experiences and I hope that we also learn by those. I don’t pretent to have the rights answers and I hope to learn new every day, for what I’m open.

I don’t think, that heaven is up in the sky or hell is down in the fire.

I have lived in hell in this life, survived and found my way back to life, why I neither think, that hell can be other places.

It is up to ourselves to create our heaven here, live in peace with each other and take care of our nature. No one will come and do this for us, we need to kick ourselves and just go on. We need to remember to live – every day, one day it will be too late. I don’t wish to stay close to say goodbye to this life and then have regrets. I do my best to live out my dreams, no matter how crazy they can seem to be for other people, they are not crazy for me and this is, what is important to me.

I do my best not to judge other souls, but I’m also a human and need to learn a lot. The best for me is to have the intention of not judge other souls. I don’t know anything about, how they feel or what they have been through in their lives.

We need to support each other in best possible way, to be encouraging to others and remember to smile, also to a stranger, maybe we make their day or maybe they smile back and make our day 🙂

Irene

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One-Liner Wednesday


Forgive yourself for ever allowing others to hurt you

Irene

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One-Liner Wednesday made by Linda, as you find here:

One-Liner Wednesday – A Cup of Cheer

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