Count your Blessings

Count your Blessings

Do you know what it’s like when you feel so blessed that all you can do is smile in silence as tears of gratitude roll down your face? I know you know what I mean.
These last days have been of this specially blessed kind. I won’t bore you with the details of each day, I’ll just use today as an example… an example of how simply sweet Life is when we allow it to serve our YES.
I have come to the beach on holiday with Diva and Samuel, whom I am blessed to be the mother of, having been offered a week which I was at first reluctant to receive! When I accepted I was even offered the petrol and highway toll as well! As I live life in such a fulfilling way each day, and as my kids have already had at least 3 weeks of beach holidays with their grandparents and fathers, I figured we didn’t really need a holiday. That was of course my mind’s chatter, because in reality there is no limit to what you can receive when you just let yourself be graced and served by life, as I said before. This week is clearly a beautiful practice of receiving and celebrating in gratitude, overflowing with the Love of Being.
This morning we went to the beach and played together, enjoying the sand, the sea, the sun… and so on and so on… In the afternoon, after a relaxing nap, we went shopping. The kids needed a few things. When we got to the counter to pay, there was one shop assistant right there, free to receive us, while on the other side there was a queue!
Then we went to the supermarket. Right at the entrance there was one single shopping cart, waiting for us. I had not planned to go to the supermarket on Sunday, because it is usually very full, but I had not planned to go to that particular supermarket either, I didn’t even know it existed! It wasn’t full at all… So much so that when we got to the counter, in the middle of all of the queues, there was a totally free cashier. I even asked if it was open, because it seemed almost surreal that there was no one there, with the queues right beside it! I needed to charge my phone, and had planned to look for the cash dispenser to make a payment, when at the counter there was a sign saying “charge your phone here and receive a prize”. So I paid for the shopping  and the phone and still received a game for the children.
Ah, but I haven’t mentioned that right at the moment when I was questioning myself about my capacities of materialization this song started to play on the shopping center’s speakers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq-NShfefks (it goes like this: “I’ve got the magic in me…”). I smiled. My Essence has its own magical way of speaking to me and always makes me smile… sometimes even laugh out loud in the middle of the street and other times it brings me to tears as well… the tears of gratitude I told you about…
While dinner was cooking and the kids were playing together, I went for a walk right down to the beach, and speaking of magic, wow! Such a breathtaking landscape. The sky was a mix of golden pink and reddish hues mingling with the first night’s dark blue. The soft sea was a glowing fluid of golden perfection. The birds scoured the sand for any precious leftovers from the day’s holidaymakers and flew around, playing with the air. A few people were also enjoying this paradise scene here and there. It was such a fulfilling gift, my heart was filled with awe.
When I arrived back home, feeling complete, blessed… as I was going up the stairs, there was a wrist band just lying there. It had smiles and hearts and suns and stars and the words: love, friendship, family, happiness, on it. I gave it to Diva, who offered to wash the dishes…
It is the small things that make Life grand and the people who cross our paths that make it worth living… giving, receiving… BEING.
Thank you!

By the way, if you haven't seen Madagascar 3, I highly recommend it. It's such fun and carries the very profound message that nothing is impossible when you believe in your passion and choose to LIVE :) The children invited me to the movies and we all ended up having immense fun. Thank you again!

Crenças

Crenças

Ontem sentei-me um pouco a ver um filme, perguntando-me sobre o que estava eu ali a fazer, pois que o filme, que até era uma série, já ía a meio e eu não conseguia apanhar o fio à meada.
Nisto, um dos personagens sai-se com esta afirmação para uma das outras protagonistas do filme “sim, magia, tu tens magia. Sabes o que é engraçado? É que toda a gente passa a vida dizer que quer magia nas suas vidas mas depois nem sequer acredita que ela exista! Ora como querem vê-la e tê-la?”
Ri-me de mim para comigo mesma e percebi porque estava ali sentada. Só e simplesmente para ouvir aquilo. E porquê? Porque em boa verdade o que conta mesmo é a CONFIANÇA que temos na nossa capacidade de manifestar essa magia de que ele fala, de aceitá-la, de vivê-la, de sê-la.
É giro que as pessoas no geral ainda se questionem sobre o facto de sermos nós que criamos a nossa realidade, quando o que vêem ao olharem à sua volta são inúmeras realidades diferentes, tantas quantas pessoas que conhecem ou observam. Todos vivem uma realidade diferente, ainda que com nuances similares dependendo da cultura em que se inserem.
"Então porque é que me acontecem coisas que eu não escolhi?" Ora, porque não escolheste! A questão é que quando não fazemos escolhas acerca da nossa realidade, acerca do que acreditamos ser possível e verdade, ser apropriado e aceitável… etc… etc… etc… as coisas simplesmente escolhem por nós, acontecem aleatoriamente, porque fazemos parte do tecido comum da consciência de massas e temos em nós todas as crenças e padrões necessários para que as probabilidades dessa mesma consciência de massas se manifestem na nossa vida.
Quando, por outro lado, paramos e vemos que crenças e padrões queremos manter para nós, aceitar como nossos e quais já não nos servem mediante o que queremos experienciar nas nossas vidas, começamos a fazer escolhas conscientes e a atrair outro tipo de potenciais e probabilidades, consoante o que realmente queremos. Deixamos de ser ovelhas do rebanho externo, e passamos a ser pastores do nosso próprio rebanho interno.
Da próxima vez que te acontecer algo que te desagrada e perguntares “porque é que isto me está a acontecer a mim?” a resposta será sempre “porque acreditas nesse tipo de vivência” e assim atrais para ti o que te parece ser real na vida. Não importa aliás, se é bom ou mau, o que importa é que crês nisso em alguma parte de ti.
Simples :)

The Ice Cream Choice

The Ice Cream Choice

I had a Conscious Breath workshop here with the theme of Silence. It was a beautiful experience for all of us and as usual we had a magic gift. Well, actually the whole fact that we’re living and experiencing is a gift…
My friend Janine said she was going to have an ice-cream at the end of the workshop, because she felt like it and asked who wanted to as well. Three people chose to go. They got in the car and drove to the nearest café. They chose their ice-creams, savoured them and enjoyed it. At the end, they went to the counter to pay but… they had already been paid for! Everyone was dumbfounded. What had happened was that out of the blue, a friend of one of them had decided to pay for their ice-creams, even for those of the people he didn’t know, and then he’d left without needing approval or recognition. And so it was.
The funny thing about all of this was that during the workshop there was a lady who was asking questions about manifestation, about something she had read in a book that said that we send out the energy or whatever that attracts things to us, and was asking if I believed in this, because she felt so overwhelmed by the rest of the world and outside influences acting against her that she couldn’t possible see how she was the one attracting all of this. As the workshop was about Silence, I chose not to go into a long conversation about this subject but I did say that yes, we do shape our reality according to our beliefs and choices – or lack of choices, most of the time! Several of us told her we had many concrete examples of manifesting our conscious choices daily. We gave her just a few, and just half an hour after she had been asking – BOOM – there was a clear and very tangible example.
Ah, life is grand, when you truly choose to live it ;)

O Céu Estrelado

O Céu Estrelado

Hoje apaixonei-me pelo céu estrelado. Parecia que nunca antes o houvera visto, este céu tão cintilante. Parecia que nunca antes houvera sentido o seu aconchego e abarcado a real grandeza do seu tesouro.
Não sei o que se passou mas a verdade é que não consegui tirar os olhos do céu estrelado, deixando-me envolver por ele como se dançássemos apaixonadamente ao ritmo da brisa noturna… uma doce balada de amor, só eu e o céu.
Não sei como explicar-te, mas a verdade é que naquele momento deixou de haver Céu e Terra, o Aqui e o Ali, o Longe e o Perto… as estrelas brilhavam como pirilampos ao alcance da palma da minha mão e eu só sabia dizer “amo-te, céu estrelado, obrigada por brilhares assim”.
Depois apercebi-me que na mesma medida em que eu finalmente alcanço e abraço a grandeza preciosa do céu, alcanço e abraço a grandeza preciosa de Tudo o Que É em mim e em toda a existência, simples e cintilante como uma estrela que contém por sua vez todo o universo em si mesma.

The Games we Play

The games we play

Yesterday was a really special day. So special that I had the intention of writing my blog post but the day ended only today… so here it is!
I would like to share something very special with you. It is called Integration of Aspects, or in other words New Energy Psychology and it works wonders in people’s lives.
Here is a clear example of that. Barbara is 15 years old and she has/had a fobia of Spiders. It is not simply a fear – when she sees a spider her body reacts by shivering and she becomes so frightened and tense she has to leave the room where the spider is.
She has been living at my house and as it is in the countryside there are many spiders all the time! Funny thing that she would come exactly here! Each time she goes into a funk about a spider both her mother and I always tell her “some day you’ll just have to choose to overcome that fear if you want to live at peace with yourself. It is possible to get past that fobia, whenever you are ready”.
Yesterday morning Barbara came to me and her mum and said “I’m ready, let’s do it. I choose to overcome this”. I was so happy for her. She didn’t stop asking when we were going to get into this until we did it! Determination and courage. A lot of it. And she’s got it :) Yes, a lot of courage, because it isn’t easy to dive into painful situations of our past and really look straight at them fearlessly.
The process of integrating Aspects is not hypnosis, or regression - it is Integration. First and foremost it is necessary to dive deep into the clear calm space within us where our Essence resides and be aware of our Isness, of the pure Compassion that lives in the core of us, which allows us to be completely free from judgment, a simple and easy flow of constant love, no matter what, a calm knowingness that all is well in the here and now moment and that our true wisdom goes way beyond all of the stories we have lived through our experiences with each other here on Earth. This is essential to proceed with the integration of a traumatized Aspect. An Aspect means the same as a role, or part of our personality, from this or any other lifetime. It is a human part of us we create to perform a certain role. We have thousands upon thousands of Aspects. Most of them just come and go, performing their tasks with no effort at all. Other parts of us become traumatized by some kind of painful experience that is lived while these parts are performing their purpose. These parts then become disintegrated. There are many of these, some more, some less, but all of our reactive buttons derive from disintegrated Aspects. I shall not explain here how the whole process goes, but simply put, the person is lead to see where the trauma resides, while always remaining aware of his/her presence in the here and now, feeling the traumatic experience, yet not getting lost in it. This allows the Aspect to express itself, and to be invited to come “back home”, to the Essence where it was first created, within oneself. In this place of peaceful calm knowingness where the brightness of our Essence receives all of our parts, the pain of the experience starts dissipating, the illusion of the story which was lived becomes clear so that it can be released as simply what it is, an experience, but not the essence of who we are. As these traumatized Aspects dissolve into the lake of Isness that we are, they leave with us only their “treasures” – the pure nectar of what they learnt and gained from the experience. This could range anywhere from pure love, to courage or determination, or creativity, or serenity, or joy, or sweetness – whatever. Integrating these hurt parts always adds more to our true power and potential because the stuck energy that was lost in its dysfunctional story is set free to be reused as pure consciousness.
Well, we did it, Barbara and I and after this integration I took her to a spider for her to feel herself. She said “it’s just an insect! It doesn’t bother me.” And it was as simple as that. Now she’s free from this fobia, and of course much freer to live her life with ease and serenity.
So much energy was released in this that out of the blue we all started dancing and enjoying our afternoon and before we knew it we were changing the house around, cleaning, moving furniture, changing colours and curtains and other decorations, moving and creating a whole new environment just for  the sheer joy of setting energy in motion.
It was indeed a very special day and though I can share these few words here with you, I can only write a small fraction of the true magnitude of how we all felt.
I wish you a warm welcome to moving stuck energy so that life can flow freely and bring you all of your dreams at once. Can you take it?
We ask, and ask, and say we want this and that, but if it all suddenly happened, would you be prepared to receive it?
I ask you this question because it has happened to me many times… Asking and choosing and choosing and asking and then realizing that the only obstacle between me and what I truly choose to manifest is my resistance to letting go of certain games of lack, smallness and limitation. If I let go of all of them who will I be, what will happen, who will remain in my life and who will leave… etc etc etc?
A warm Hug
T. C. Aeelah

Encontros Instantâneos

Encontros Instantâneos

De certeza que esta magia que vou partilhar hoje também te acontece muitas vezes, por isso não é nada de novo. O que pode ser novo é a forma como a recebes e celebras. Eu cá fico híper feliz quando manifesto estes encontros instantâneos e soluções inesperadas!
Tenho andado a pensar ligar a um amigo com quem vou fazer um CD de Respiração Consciente. Ainda hoje de manhã pensei fazê-lo mais tarde. E eis que o dito rapaz me aparece à frente. Boom! Simples :)
Logo ali combinámos várias coisas, nomeadamente que ele falasse com outro músico e compositor que tem o estúdio onde vamos dar vida a esta criação espontânea. Entretanto ele já falou também com o músico, que adorou a ideia e eis que estamos com a criação a rolar… Apenas porque aceitamos brincar os três com algo que nem fazemos ideia como vai ser, não há plano. Apenas título, que será revelado quando estiver pronto para poderes ouvir e desfrutar.
Acontece-me muitas vezes isto de me aparecerem as pessoas com quem preciso de falar à frente. Mas sempre que me acontece não deixo de celebrar e agradecer essas dádivas de conexão, sabendo que tudo o que é apropriado me aparece no caminho, conforme escolho conscientemente por onde quero trilhar, mesmo sem saber como. Basta ir caminhando, um passo de cada vez, firme e certeiro.
Outra coisa gira que partilho aqui é que ás vezes há seres humanos que nos desafiam a paciência, que querem jogar jogos connosco que nós não queremos jogar com eles. Nestes casos há que manter a Presença, ser Compaixão e saber ser pro-ativo em vez de reativo. Há casos em que é bem difícil tudo isto, mas é o caminho para a Serenidade e Harmonia connosco próprios e com quem queira aceitá-la. Hoje pedi à essência de uma pessoa com quem não quero deixar de ser pro-ativa, mas que teima em jogar jogos dos quais não participo, que se fosse apropriado, e dentro da minha escolha de simplicidade e harmonia na vida, algo fosse feito para que eu pudesse respirar fundo e ganhar mais uma boa dose de paciência. Escassas horas mais tarde recebo a notícia de que essa pessoa vai estar fora uns dias! Ora diz lá se não é magia? :) Quando mantemos o coração aberto e livre de julgamento, as portas abrem-se e as coisas acontecem sempre da forma mais apropriada para todos.
Olha, sabes que mais? Desejo-te um pote de magia para dourar o teu dia!

Esta é a capa do meu outro CD que está à venda... é só dizer que queres um ;) Tem 5 temas: Compaixão, Largar, Aqui e Agora, Escolhe e Cria, A Paixão de Ser

Memories

MEMORIES

In the timeless space of our hearts

Sweet memories abound

Cherished they are

And bring back feelings profound.

Keep a few here, and yet another few there,

Spread them out with your breath,

Hear them sing from your core.

Just memories they are,

Just echoes of our very soul,

Pieces of existence puzzled together

Into a profuse tapestry of all that IS.