A Beautiful Life

Take the time each day to appreciate

Take each moment and create

Choose your thoughts with care

Choose your words with love

 

Find the beauty that surrounds you 

It is everywhere you look

The trees, the sky, the eyes of the one you love

Look within, for you are wise

 

Take a moment, take it now

Find the love, find the joy

You are love, you are joy

Share your smile, share your heart

 

-Cristina Alfaro

 

Today is a beautiful day, feel the energy of the sun and the trees, and feel the fresh air cleansing our souls. Reach out to people that you love, tell them how much you appreciate them. The more you radiate your love, the more love comes your way. We never know how much time we have to share our joy and our lives together, so take the time today to reach out to someone - to many and let them know how much they are loved. You will be surprised at how beautiful your day and your life changes. Namaste :) 

 

Do What Feels Good

If we follow our inner guidance system, we will always be doing what feels good. I use the image in my head of swimming upstream against the current or flow downstream with the current. When making decisions, take a moment to do a gut check, do you feel as if you are swimming upstream or downstream. Flow lovingly with life, and when there are rocks in the river just flow around them. Your inner guidance system is always correct. This is a challenge when we think about the rules and regulations that we try to live by in life, but if you follow that simple imagery, you will lead yourself in the right way. 

 

Making your decisions with a good and loving intention, then checking to see if you feel like you are trudging your way up the river or nicely flowing with it will help guide you into making the choices in life that make the most sense for you. Take the time each day to sit in quiet with yourself, and ask your source for help. Source can be whatever you call it, God, the Universe, the Divine....whatever you believe in. Have a beautiful day friends, much love sent your way, always. Namaste :)

 

The darkest of time, then the wash of love

I sat in the dark

Telling myself this can not go on

I saw my heart in thousands of pieces

I had no courage to change

I had no courage to stay

I had no courage to go

Sitting in the dark 

I was alone

Fear was all there was

When there was nothing darker 

A light appeared

The whisper that everything will be ok

The feeling that love was around me

The words were clear yet they were not words

The words were energy

You are loved

You are enough

You are the change

The depth of despair I had never known

The depths I would never see again

Yet I will never forget

That was where I needed to be

To see the beauty of what light was

To see words as energy

To feel love wash over me

I am the fortunate one

I found the way

I found the courage

It was never gone

It always remains

Shine the light

For all who need it

For you

Radiate love

- Cristina Alfaro

Living your life on purpose: Starting NOW!

Many people have asked me what I do in life that I am so happy? There is no magical answer, or two step process that I can tell people on how to live their life joyously. But there are many things that I do, the first being I live my life on purpose. I consciously create the life I want to be living in my thoughts. I think about how I want to feel, what kinds of people I want in my life, and I dream without limitations. I surround myself with positive thoughts, affirmations and I do my best to find the positive in everything. 

 

The law of attraction is this: whatever you give out you attract. Think about that....think about your thoughts, what thoughts are you sending out? Are you sending out thoughts of stress, worry, anxiety and negativity? Or are you sending out thoughts that are from appreciation, love and abundance. Thoughts are energy, feelings are energy, YOU are energy. Send out the energy of what you want, but as if you already have it. Let me give you an example: I will be successful, abundant and free of stress. One small change in that statement takes it from wanting it, to being it: I am successful, abundant and free of stress. I am, two powerful words. Wayne Dyer wrote a book discussing this concept, the I am concept. When you say it don't say what life is, say what you desire life to be. You have to live and feel the life you want before that life becomes what you are living. 

 

Everything starts as energy within before it becomes the energy that is what we consider reality. Practice your I am statements, and watch them throughout the day. As Esther Hicks and Abraham say, set off your rockets of desire, then allow the universe to answer it. I am love, I am successful at everything I do, I am living a joyous life, I am living life on purpose, I am creative, I am free of stress, I am loved, I am doing the work that I love & I am generously compensated for it, I am increasing my income every day. Practice this, start living your life on purpose. Start in your thoughts and be consistent with it, every day & all day be conscious of what energy you are sending out, for whatever you are giving out you are creating. Namaste :)

 

Vulnerability & Joy

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”  Brene Brown

I am so fortunate to have a partner in life who gives me the space to be vulnerable, who loves me more when I am the most vulnerable - when I am silly, fun and living joy. He is there to hold me and be there with me when I am going through times that seem overwhelming, he doesn't just hold me though, he holds my hand and leads me back to authenticity and embracing myself whole heartedly. I think about this a lot, that the more vulnerable we are with each other the deeper our spiritual connection is and the more love we feel. It is scary to be vulnerable, because we have all been betrayed, shamed or humiliated. And for so many, like me, who struggle with thinking we are enough it is scary to think that you expose yourself to the possibility of being betrayed. But it is when we are authentic, and when we expose ourselves enough to share who we really are that we experience the greatest love and joy. It is a conscious choice to start being vulnerable, but without the dark we would never understand the beauty of light. Have a beautiful day, be authentic, and share love with the world. Namaste :)

Step in the arena and say yes to life!

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

I am currently re-reading Brene Brown's book, The Power of Vulnerability (a MUST read for all), and she mentions this piece in her book. Such a moving and inspiring piece of writing. Step in to the arena of life without fear of failure, for if we don't dare greatly we will never know success nor passion in life. I step in to life each day reminding myself to be vulnerable and to be authentic in the way I present myself to others. Of course it is fearful to step out and show your authentic you, but once you do life becomes passionate and joyful, and you are stronger because of it. People want to see the authentic you, that is the person that shows passion, and empathy and so much love. Be you, dare to be authentic each day, Dare to live greatly! Namaste :)

It is still a beautiful world :)

“Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be.

And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.”

Max Ehrmann - Desiderata

I love this piece of Desiderata, it is so profound. This really speaks to everything I see life to be, through all the challenges, life is beautiful. Our job in this life is to experience joy. With joy you can love, and you can experience all that is good. Max Ehrmann spoke of this in the 1920's, how insightful he was. We are all a part of this expansive, loving and beautiful universe, each and every one of us. Make it your goal today to stop and look for the beauty, and look around to see who shares a kind smile with you. Smile back, and share your positive energy with the world. Remember that in challenging and sometimes dark times you are a child of the universe, be cheerful and strive to be happy.

I am happy.
I am one with the universe.
I am love.
I am limitless.