Compassion & Self-Realization - Compassion for Self-Empowerment

🌸 COMPASSION & SELF-REALIZATION 🌸🕊

What does compassion mean to you and how do you relate to this word personally? This quality can play an extremely powerful role in your life, helping you to live a happier, more fulfilling life. 🕊 

Today's Personal Power Life Coaching discusses this relevant topic:

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary: "Compassion = sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it".

It is a feeling of kindness, active sympathy, benevolence, being kind-hearted, and understanding. In buddhism it is considered one of the 2 qualities (Wisdom + Compassion) that must be developed to realize enlightenment: Compassion - “The ideal of practice is to selflessly act to alleviate suffering wherever it appears” [http://buddhism.about.com/…/basicbuddhistt…/a/compassion.htm].
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Compassion is an important quality for us to embrace not simply because Buddha, Patanjali, the Dalai Lama or another great sage said so. It comes down to the basic quality and feature of living humanely, lovingly and with heart in this world. We can also begin understanding Compassion by knowing its opposite - heartlessness, selfishness, egotism, despotism, cruelty, harshness, hate, intolerance.
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One of the effects of compassion is that we adopt a more “unity” and “oneness” consciousness or mindset. That is, when we practice compassion and are mindful of it in our lives we are empathetic to others’ plights and tribulations and appreciate that what can happen to another could very well happen to us. We open our heart, communicate sincerely, with integrity and live with more love, light, joy, ease and wellbeing. We feel deeper gratitude for our life and see many more of our blessings; we realize there are others less fortunate and that we can help in any small way without necessarily needing to take physical action. We can be compassionate when we simply project love and positive energy through thoughts, intentions and wishes towards XYZ.

These realizations ground us (down-to-earth) and bring us closer to the univeral, timeless Truth of being a part of the shared human collective - we are One, instead of one person, nation or group being superior or inferior. We are all human beings and we are going through the human life experience together and individually; no one is better than another person nor beneath anyone else. We are all one people, one race and all experience the same basic human needs to exist and coexist.

🐘 How can you practice more compassion in your daily life? 3 Helpful Tips:

1. 🏳 Be Aware, Open Your Eyes - We can start by awareness of what is compassionate and what it is not. What does it mean to you?🏳Look around you: Your environment, home, workplace, relationships, how others interact and notice where there is an opportunity to be compassionate, kind, caring, helpful or understanding. Often times, people use ‘being nice’, empathetic, sympathetic as synonyms for ‘compassion’.
2. 🏳 Self-Compassion - Be compassionate with/towards yourself, and then towards others. This means not judging yourself or being hard on yourself. Throw perfectionism out the window and celebrate the good work you are doing and the positive steps you are taking. Appreciate how far you’ve come along your own journey and the several ways you have changed for the better, and even if you cannot find too many ways that you’ve improved then acknowledge your willingness to do better and be a better person than you were yesterday. You always have the chance to change and you can do so with your intention and the empowering energy of self-compassion.
3. 🏳 Compassion Towards Others - Consider extending to others the benefit of the doubt rather than jumping to negative conclusions. Avoid criticizing or judging others. Understand that they are going through their own journeys and are doing the best they can. There is one NLP Presupposition summed up as follows: “People make the best choices possible with the information and resources available.” Although we might be inclined or habituated to judging someone else’s behavior, weakness, attitudes, or whatever other aspect you disagree with, we can practice compassion by understanding that they are doing the best they can, perhaps they do not know any better way and this is the utmost they can do at this time.

Practicing Compassion is incredibly important in today’s day and age - both for individual wellbeing and society at large.

Given our global societies evolving and industrializing at faster and faster rates there is more automation, computerization and more sources of immediate gratification and short attention spans. Our amazing technological progress has enhanced convenience in our lives yet it has also generated some degree of being dissociated and numb to real tragedy, violence and suffering around the world and in our local communities. The more we are exposed to “fake suffering” through movies, TV shows, commercials, video games, music and mass media overall the more sensational it is (violence, suffering, etc.) the more it serves as entertainment; as some become desensitized, there is less impact when real calamity occurs and thus people are unable to actually be the compassionate beings we are by nature. As to whether Compassion is inate or not, we need only look to the babies, and we too we once these same beings - kind, gentle, innocent, compassionate beings who can continue evolving as such when given the opportunities to grow up safe, positive, nurturing environments.


By practicing feelings of kindness, love, understanding, patience, and giving others the benefit of the doubt, we cultivate more wellbeing within us and then we can extend it others. Alternatively, if you have a hard time loving yourself and are your own worst critic yet easily feel compassion for others, then nurture the quality you extend to others and direct those loving, positive, warm vibes towards yourself! You deserve your own love. Indeed, this is fundamental to living your greatest, most joyous life possible. It starts with awareness and compassion.


I invite you to watch the Life Coaching Video that inspired this post: Compassion & Self-Realization - A Tool for Personal Power :

How can you be more compassionate in your daily life? Share your messages and energy of love, light and compassion - you may be pleasantly surprised at the increased peace, happiness and positive experiences that unfold in your every moment.

Thank you for your time !
With Love, Light & Gratitude,
Jennifer Personal Power Life Coaching Http://bit.ly/pplcjen

Gratitude List - November 11, 2016 - Health is Wealth & Love is the Blessing

Gratitude List - 11/11/2016

Dear Lord, Thank you for so many blessings in my life and the life of my loved ones.

• Thank you for our amazing health, wellbeing and vitality - thank you bc we are generally in perfect, amazing health!
• Thk you for a wonderful night's sleep and my comfortable bed.
• Thk you for our heating system which warms up our home so very well in this winter
• Thk you Lord for my computer here at home where I can type my documents and essays with ease and comfort
• Thk you, Lord, for my easy breath, healthy lungs, organs and all vital parts and components of my body - Thank you, Spirit, for my perfect, lovely and salubrious, abundant health. Health is truly an irreplaceable wealth - the source of life itself.
• Thk you for our electricity, water and clean water to drink, wash with and clean.
• Thk u for the greens drink this and every morning which I can consume easily; it helps and supports my digestive health and optimizes my overall vitality and wellbeing. It's marvelous.
• I am so grateful I can read and connect and tune into the Tarot Cards - it is fun, magical and I receive guidance, and communicate with, my Higher Self and Soul Self and Guides
• Tk you, Lord, for our meditation this morning. I am grateful to my own special Self bc I do meditate each morning and I do my breathing and the nasal cleansing which helps me open my 3rd eye and spiritual centers.
• I am extremely robustly tremendously grateful and thankful, Lord, for the all the love and light in my heart.
• Thk you, Lord, bc my parents have good work, as do I, as does my brother, and we are compensated so very well for the work we do.
• I am so so so extremely tremendously and incredibly thankful, Spirit, bc I do the work I love to do, that inspires and uplifts me, connects me to my Soul and fulfills, nourishes and replenishes my spiritual, physical and mental bodies...and I do this work daily for the people I love and who love me back, and I am so very well paid for it - I am so very well financial compensated for doing the work I LOVE to do and itself is an incredible blessing that is beyond words.
• I am so remarkably blessed to be in a loving family and I love and appreciate this, God. I am so very thankful for our loving family, sincere, natural and open. This is beauty of God's creation.
• I am so thankful and grateful for all the lovely people in the world who share their spiritual gifts helping us others also align further and get more clarity and more inner balance and peace so that we can harmonize with our Soul's intentions. 
• I also set my intention to be completely self-loving and I am so thankful for this too! IT's wonderful to know that now I fully and totally do approve and validate myself. I am self-resourcing, self-fulfilling and self-complete and self-balancing...All the love is within me and God is always, always, always with me. I choose to open my pathways to connect with Source continuously and to be aligned with my Soul and to be Love, feel Love and let all the Love in. 

Thank you. Om,  Peace,  Love Shanti

"Life's Most Precious Jewel", Poem by Jennifer Arcila

Life's Most Precious Jewel

Poem by Jennifer Arcila

A day like this has never been explored,

I feel joyful and grateful; I am happy and free

I know all is well, Lord,

Your blessings fully present here in me.

Blessed is each day with hope, faith and renewal

I intend to be the love and peace - in this one cannot be frugal.

My intentions are sincere with a heart of non-refusal,

I will forever embrace the day as a rare and precious jewel.

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Peace, Love & Light :-)

Happy Life to All

How God Loves - Poem by Jennifer Arcila (Nov. 2, 2016)

How God Loves

I love you -Yes, I do!

I love you - Yes, it’s true!

Do you know how grand you are?

You are born of Source, You are born of Love

You are born of ecstasy,

My divine and artful inspiration, 

A unique and utterly sublime creation.

The Spirit of God dwells in you, a sacred union to now renew,

Through you and around you. We are One, ever true

Remember this, my dear, albeit no small feat,

In this awareness, in consciousness - we frequently meet.

In everything you do

and all things gone through,

I always have been and always will be with you.

# The End #

Personal Maxims - Things I Know To Be True

Good morning!

Happy & great morning to you :-D

It's a beautiful, blessed and magnificent new day. New adventures, magic and love are here upon us. I'm really looking forward to this day's unfolding. It has already begun in a magnificent and fun way. Awesome! Sometimes words are not enough to completely encompass and transmit our feelings and that is OK. At times it is better to simply FEEL and let it be without trying to narrow it down into verbal, written form.

Whenever you catch yourself in a moment of bliss where you are feeling a lot and somehow you don't find the perfect words to express what this means for you, just let it be and simply FEEL IT. Allow yourself to bask in that emotion, that beautiful feeling, that experience. You will set this more deeply into your memory and psyche and allow your heart and soul to connect more deeply with the moment.

Some moments are too exquisite and God-like to shape into human form and language. 

That's special and when you experience such moments realize that you are blessed.

Things I believe & know to be true:

• God is my strength
• God's love, strength, and grace makes all things possible.
• Everything happens for a reason.
• I love to love.
• I love to be at peace.
• Things are always working for me.

• We deserve to be happy.
• Gratitude is the key to happiness.
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• We all want to love and be loved.
• I am always in the right place at the right time.
• Things happen at the right time.
• We all like and seek clarity.
• I don't need to know how things will work out; I trust they will.
• I don't need to know why things happened as they did; some things are not for me to know and that is divine.
• Soul Mate Love is my destiny.
• Trusting feels good.
• It feels good to move forward.
• It feels good to Connect.
• People want to be appreciated, recognized and understood.
• Love makes all things possible.
• True Love starts within, with our Self.
• Thoughts create reality.
• Mind is a powerful ally; our mind has unlimited potential.
• We are more powerful than we think.
• I am more than I appear to be. The strength and power of the Universe rests inside of me. (From "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" by Robin Sharma)
• When your heart and soul truly, deeply desire a dream, the whole Universe conspires in your favor to make it a reality.
• We want something because we think that in the having of it we will feel better.
• The purpose of my life is to live in joy, peace, love and appreciation.
• Laughter is powerful medicine.
• Mother Nature has healing powers for the heart and soul.
• All things take time; patience is learned over time.
• Every day in every way I am getting better.
• Life keeps getting better and better.
• The universe is always providing signs; just pay attention.
• If it feels like you have to try too hard or it's just not easily working out, and it takes you away from being yourself and feeling good - let it go, it's not for you.
• I am responsible for my happiness, nobody else.
• I am not responsible for anyone else's happiness.
• I am whole and complete; everything I need to thrive and succeed exists within me.

Good morning! Happy Tuesday - March 24 :-)

Good morning, gorgeous! Thank you, God, for this resplendent new day. It is filled with promise, magnificence, magic, true love and glorious energy.

Today is a day unlike any other and that is simply awesome and amazing.
It is my dominant intent to be powerfully focused on my joy, vortex and well-being. To notice all those wonderful things I admire, enjoy, appreciate, and find delightful.
I love to laugh, I love wonderful friendships and delightfully intelligent, soulful and stirring conversations.
I love connecting with a gorgeous handsome guy...where we are both feeling each other (i.e. "I'm really feeling you right now) ! That's fun :-) .

I really appreciate my work, my colleagues, my location.

I am in the right place at the right time; my timing is divine. It is all in God's hands. There are some things we cannot explain and in those cases I choose to let it go and let it be. I don't need to explain everything, I don't need to understand everything...Some things are not for my understanding and I am at peace with that.

God works in mysterious ways and the Source knows the cosmic, magical way that all of our lives are unfolding in profoundly beautiful, synchronous and miraculous ways.

We are all like members of an orchestra - an ensemble generating a glorious symphony that runs on and on and on...producing different notes, beats and harmonies at each millisecond.

I am in the right place right now - I am exactly where I am supposed to be. Each day gets better and better, and every day in every way I am getting better.

My daily goal is to improve 1% in any area of my life where I am focused on developing. My fitness, nutrition, my thoughts, work performance, reactions, ideas, inspired actions, contributing more to my/our community through positive videos and posts. I love doing this.

It is my heart's wish to be the best me, the fullest me and to be totally in the flow of my life to realize and express my full potential; and this is a manifestation of God's greatness through physical body, spirit, words and thought.

I live my life with purpose and passion; I am the joyful leader of my life.

 

It is my desire to make a lasting contribution to our/my world community and to help others improve their own lives by generating messages of positivity, enthusiasm, well-being, abundance, joy, elation, travel, adventure, exploration, reading and enlightenment. These messages of positivity will enhance the quality of every listener's thoughts to yield a happier outlook on life, more self-love, raised energy vibration and overall fun and appreciation for life as a miracle.

In turn, I open myself to receive great abundance of joy, love, success, prosperity and long-lasting health. I joyfully open myself to receive more loving support from those around me who can raise me higher, support me, motivate and inspire me, and encourage my greatness within. I joyfullly open myself to true long-lasting love with a happy partner/co-creator; I joyfully trust life, I trust myself, and all the loving people in my life. I release old fears and trepidations and allow myself to fully enjoy the flow of a happy, dynamic, fun and awesome life, now and forevermore.

I am a powerful magnet for inspiration, inspired action, love and wellbeing; happy, life-long friendships and partnership; success, abundance, peace, joy, expansion and happiness.

Life is an exquisite journey of magic and love, one step at time. 

 

Seychelles: Praslin Island (2015)

Seychelles: Baie Lazare - March 2015

 

March 22 - Positive Aspects & Reflections

Thank you, God, Source, AH, for this fabulous, fantastic, amazing, awesome, incredible and lovely, love-filled day!

I am so grateful for this new day and fresh beginning. I want to be a powerful focuser of empowering, beautiful thoughts - it is my dominant intent to focus on the things that are pleasing, lovely, beautiful, pleasant to behold and which resonate with higher vibrations. I choose to focus on the things I like and would like to embrace further in my life.  I am noticing what I like and appreciate.

The answers will come if you will only listen.

Direct your appreciation to your self, your inner being. Getting into the Vortex through appreciation.
Gratitude for so many wonderful blessings here and now!

Quiet your mind and be open to receive the messages and signs from the world around you; the universe.

I've opened my heart to new love; like a flower lifting its petals upwards and outwards, ready to thirstily imbibe the droplets of love, connection and happiness. A dream fulfilled.

New ideas and intentions from Joel Osteen's sermon:

- Pay attention about who you're spending your time with; those closest to you will rub off on you.
- Are you soaring with eagles, inspiring, visionary people? Leaders and people of integrity, positive ideas and influence.
-  People with positive responses to situations, positive ideas and insights; interesting topics to talk about. Who are these people in my life?
- Character, integrity, faith, spirituality, growing, developing
- Don't spend your time with people who bring out the worst in you; spend time with the people who bring out the best in you...those who inspire you to rise to new heights - an excellent spirit!

Why High Expectations are Powerfully Good - Merry Christmas!

Good morning, beautiful world, beautiful life, 

- Beautiful Expectations - 

They say [who is they? ;-)] we should have low expectations to avoid being disappointed when a given situation, person or reality does not match up to our expectations.

However, I personally love having high expectations and to anticipate the best possible. It makes me feel grand, it reminds me of God's greatness, that there is abundance of possibilities and of my self-worth. It reminds me that I deserve the best I can imagine. If I can see it with my mind's eye, I can generate it in this time-space reality. I think Earl Nightingale was the first to state this in "The Strangest Secret." Listening to this text was the catalyst to transform and improve my life into a more magical, creative, powerful and fulfilling life experience [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaHDCcUcmc0].

High expectations strikes me as striving for excellence, seeking to fulfill the great human potential which is already untapped as it is. It feels like aiming for the stars, being your greatest self and coming closer the fullest expression of God and the Universal greatness for generation and creation.

On this special day of gratitude, joy and love, I've been noticing several manifestations of high vibration. Just when you let go and let God, without controlling the circumstances can you experience the realization of a desired object.

It seems like sometimes, in some cases, the key is to let go, be easy with it and let the course of life take over. We don't have to oversee or manage all the elements, all the time, in all sectors of our life. We can only do our best and for me, I ask for the wisdom and accurate intuition to know when to take action and when to step back and take it easy.

Here is an NLP Exercise for you:

Take a look back on your daily life experience. Begin to take stock of all the moments when you have been pleasantly surprised, when you have received something nice that you weren't expecting, or you were expecting X and it manifested even better than you anticipated.  For instance, you turn the faucet and water gushes out, or you put the key in the car ignition and the car purrs awake, or you turn the stove on and soon enough you're cooking up a meal. Countless things in our daily life that easily work; without thinking much or at all, you expected something (through habit) and received it immediately.  We just forget this happens.

The power of this exercise lies in amplying this expectation to other moments when you expected something - perhaps a successful meeting, a party you would enjoy, or a meal with friends you'd delight in, or a trip home to see your family - these are on a larger scale and there is also a positive expectation it would/will happen.

Take it one step further and extend the expectation, possibly to reaping more financial abundance,  love-filled relationships and friendships, better feelings more of the time.

Put all these moments, memories and future visualizations into a glass container.
The container started out small and as you raised the level of experiences and expectations the container perforce expanded, grew taller, wider and more robust. 

Notice how this magically robust container is now overflowing, its contents diverse and widespread, touching on all 5 senses and the spiritual, emotional, physical, financial, professional, romantic, relational, educational, etc.

This is your container. Notice how all these expectations have built on each other and are synergistic, swirling in this amazing, sturdy and ever expanding vessel. A veritable forcefield.

Consider how all these expectations are REAL and authentic; they have really happened. Don't they remind you that you have always received more than you expected?
And doesn't it indicate it will continue to be so? You have not conscientiously applied yourself to create these moments and yet they have always been the case. Let your subconscious appreciate this.

There is more momentum in this growing vessel; a life of its own, guided by universal forces and energy.

It must be so.

Keep adding to your vessel, notice what is happening right now in your life - everything that's going right - that is part of your mega container.

Augment the expectations and they, too, will join this attractive and powerful forcefield.

Consider how your life would be different moving forward if you continue to raise your expectations, knowing that you do indeed get what you expect?

Sky's the limit.

Happy Holidays!!! Peace & Blessings xx
i love you all <3
God bless xoxo

Always the right time to be Thankful

I wrote this email draft (below) to myself back in June 2014 and as I've cleaned up my inbox recently I came across this gem. It seems like I wrote in a moment of deeply felt inspiration and joy. Now I'm bringing it to the light of day :-). It's always the right moment to be thankful and it always feels good.

Working with NLP and Coaching I've learned about the power of language and to be aware of Meta Model language violations with terms like: Always, never, all and everyone.

However, rules have exceptions and this is one of them :) Gratitude will always make you feel better and improve your outlook on life.
Love you all,
xx

Written between June 8-15, 2014

Dear God,

Thank you so very much for absolutely everything! THank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you so much for our wellness time, thank you for my lovely friends at work, and outside of work;
Thank you for this delicious tea, thank you for my flexible, strong and beautiful, sexy body;
Thank you for my mother, father and brother; thank you for my family and their support and love;

I'm so grateful for the fresh air, the safety of living in Dubai

The beautiful apartment in which I live
thank you for all the money and abundance in my life!

Thank you for my parents and brother in good health;

thank you for all my wonderful ideas and creativity.
Thank you for the delicious food I have at my disposal at ALL times; thank you for the interesting, enjoyable and fun conversations I have with my colleagues and friends. Thank you, so, so, so much!

Thank you for the SMILESSS :-) I love smiles and hellos and good mornings :)

Thank you for my amazing JOB, thx for my wonderful, awesome BOSS

Thanks for my computer at home and at work - thanks for my seat in this spacious and well-ventilated office.

Thx for my privacy and calm seating here where I am - I can focus and also observe the hallway activity if i want.

Thx u for my bed, AC, kitchen, bathroom, running water; drinking water, coffee, my decent and respectful neighbors.

Thank you for my location living in Dubai and my neighborhood Dubai Marina.
Thank you for the opportunity to meditate, to have time to myself; time to be at peace, thanks for my peace of mind.

Thanks for my decent and respectful boss - my wonderful understanding colleagues;

Thank you for the interesting, enlightening, fun and exciting times and experiences I've had with each one of my past Boyfriends - those experiences have all expanded my self-awareness, self-knowledge, and understanding - it is more life experience.

Thank you for all the wonderful, loving, affectionate, thoughtful and sweet kind men and guys I've met and known - there are wonderful examples of good, upright, reliable and loyal, caring men - so, so wonderful.

Thank you for my creativity - and for my ability to ask.

I don't need to know HOW - just need to have FAITH.