I WILL CONTINUE TO GROW TOWARD THE "SUN"

Some time ago I realized that is no longer necessary to keep pretending. Gone are the days in which I was falling into the trap of trying pleasing everyone, now I can shout it from the rooftops, I'm not willing to play a different role than myself!. Gone are the days of sadness and feeling of not fitting in anywhere, so they fell into the trap of acting to be accepted, but as I say that's over.

At this stage of my life, I intend to be true to myself, not to fight against my feelings and my way of thinking, just to please the other person. It is difficult, especially when I realize that I'm only in this "adventure" (you can always get advice from someone, something that will definitely be of great help), but they are my decisions that ultimately determine my future.

Many times I feel as if this just happened to me, I'm a misunderstood and when I try to talk to someone of the topic, they look at me with weird face. I try to downplay it is something a little frustrating, because in a way, I feel a prisoner of my own thoughts, unable to share them, except with a few mates.

Is this really true, or there will be someone else who feels the same?

“I will continue to grow toward the "sun" and while within me, my roots will continue to strengthen and accepting my true identity”.

LET IT GO...

Watching this picture, I realize how complex nature are and how complex we are. Actually rarely I get to thinking about it, just because I think I see as something natural and do not pay attention, until I see things like that, so simple, but as I say so complex, so delicate. I think in many ways we should learn from Mother Nature, take the example of all the lessons they provide.

It is true that most of the time I can't interpret the message she tries to show me, but luckily the few who I decipher (always under my own interpretation), are highly enlightening, make me feel that I am on the path I want to follow. A path that will take me to wonderful places, places that can not always be seen with the eyes, "where my inner voice" is the muse of my inspiration, a mentor, compassionate and fair, with a firm hand guiding me through becomings of life. We coexist at different levels, but we are "one", where unconditional love is our alliance.

I have much to learn from this little wonder (Taraxacum officinale or Dandelion). He lets the breeze take part of it without caring, knowing that it lets go, its seeds are ready to fly away and settle in new places. But this only happens when the seeds are fully ripe, ready for their long journey perpetuating the miracle of life. That's when the bud opensleaving them exposed to gradually take their characteristic spherical shape (this ensures that the breeze can detach them all) letting it take them so peculiar transport route. But sometimes not all can come off as easily, it seems that oppose some resistance and will need a slightly stronger breeze to be transported, but eventually they achieve their purpose, it's a matter of patience and waiting for the right time.

This is the example that I propose to follow, try to focus on control and understand my emotions and thoughts, know me better. Continue to mature as a person and continue working it all in depth. when I have "assimilated" and "accepted" I will let my mind like the bud nearly ripe, open and let all this energy gone with the wind. I am sure that all these good intentions, thoughts and emotions, will travel over time until the most remote places and come to form part of the collective consciousness. This way they will reach new hearts and minds, leaving my legacy of peace and love in each one of you.

Do not mean this to sound as if I were a pastor, a speaker or something like that, but that's how I feel it. I also say this because this is not a gift that a few possess. We all have the ability to transmit Our legacy to give the best of ourselves and let impregnate our world completely, not just restrict ourselves to the human race, but rather to each and every one of the components of living beings and whole planet, thereby all our essence will become part of the more subtle plane called collective consciousness, which in turn will become part of cosmic consciousness. Making this world a better place.

Are you willing to give it your best?

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY

Seems like just yesterday when I walked through Central Park, enjoying the landscape and tranquility. But while I'm back home, I left behind all the green (the place where I live is a very arid area, with little vegetation), when I looked around me, I remembered that integration is possible, a green lung in the middle of the city!. There are many examples of integration between nature and man, not enough in my opinion (but I'm glad to know that there will always be people interested in this integration and continue to keep that purpose in the future).

This is what I'm trying to do, integrate my spiritual side to my everyday life. Continue to expanding my particular “synapse” to the ends of my being.

Spirituality in the way I see, it is a state of life, a state of mind. This state of mind at least in my case is steeped in "love", I feel is the most energy akin to my being. Funny, but again I see that everything is connected, that one thing leads to another and improving any aspect of my life, all other "facets" will improve simultaneously.

-Love is the key to acceptance and acceptance bring you love back into your life.-

(This could be extrapolated to any other thought, feeling or emotion)

SPIRITUAL SYNAPSES

Creating spiritual synapses

Since I started to work my inner world, joining points, working situations and assimilating the content learned, I created a kind of spiritual "synapses". (Leaving aside the cognitive synapses). This spiritual synapses is more subtle, barely unexplored map, some areas I start to know them, something better, especially the "acceptance". But most of the spiritual map remains a mystery, almost unexplored areas. My knowledge expands as ramifications that inevitably will connect me with new situations, especially with emotional and transcendental nature. Personally I think this kind of awakening that I'm experiencing (I do not think an enlightened, much less) is something inebitable. I'am sure that when the critical mass is reached, this same awakening, spontaneously will emerge from a along the entire planet. 

"I'm curious to know where it will take me all that."

Now I feel that at least in my case, all this knowledge is expanding in all directions equally, as an intelligent system, seeking to find the next piece I have to understand and assimilate with the highest priority.

We are all connected in some way, we are a "collective consciousness" and all the "individual" think or do, affect to a greater or lesser degree in this great "hive mind". So I try to take care of all my actions and thoughts, raising them to love, peace, and of course to the "unconditional acceptance."

This kind of network, the contrary to confuse me, inspires me confidence and peace of mind, because it is for my own good.

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." 

Buddha 

AMONG THE CROWD

"Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.' "

Srikumar Rao

I GIVE THANKS

I give thanks for being alive another day, to be able to enjoy all the wonders that nature provides me. And all those beautiful things I'm finding that during the passage of the days.

 I thank also to continue working on this project and for the inspiration that gives me my "inner voice" and my other great tool, my camera, in recent months has become an extension of my body. Has been commissioned to show me life from another perspective and awaken my creativity. Without this attraction that I have to the photography I think this project would not be possible, or it will look a very dull and flat way.

 We all have ways to try to be inspired, some people meditate, others go for a walk, or while cooking some people feel that "spark" which shines brightly in their minds and makes it possible almost as if by magic, synchronize everything for a while and creativity arises, this state of peace and clarity of mind where all these amazing ideas emerge, who were buried under the amnesia which causes us daily routine.

 As I mentioned in my previous posts, this illusion that makes us feel that our lives are scheduled for the second, since we wake up until we go to bed, can be controlled or eliminated.

 But in 90% of cases, who prevents us to change that routine that we perform every day of the year, like an obligation?, nobody stopping us, we ourselves that we stuck to live this routine.

 Acceptance also means "accept" that we can all "change", that we can express ourselves and despite everything, we put the "rules" in our lives. Personally every time feel less afraid and day after day I try to be more "I" and less "they"

 Thank you all for visiting my gallery and my blog, without you none of this would also not be possible!.

EVEN THOUGH LIFE SURPRISES US WITH DIFFICULT TIMES

Even though life surprises us with difficult times, when we pass some of those moments don’t allow to be embedded in our minds as if they were hundreds of sharp spikes, this will only would cause in us pain and unnecessary worry. I know it's very difficult, but you must be aware of the situation and prevent the fear and confusion take control of our lives, if we give permission, this would become a total chaos. One way to compensate the situation would give the "problem" the necessary importance and accept what happened.

"If you pass your hand in the same direction as spikes, the less likely you hurt yourself, but if you pass your hand in the opposite direction of the spikes, the damage you do to yourself will be much higher".

 By this I tell you, even letting things happen and take their course, it is likely that during your way you can be hurt, but much less than if you refuse and oppose resistance to everything that happens to you in your life. This would be an unnecessary waste of energy, don’t you think?

It's time to take the upper control!

UNDER THE SKIN

"What is truly interesting about each of us, is hidden under the skin, under the shell that we constantly charge, if we had not that shell, we would all be equal."

We live in a planet full of life, nuances and contrasts. We are all different, but we all have something in common, we have come to this world to learn and try to do my best. All decisions we've made throughout our lives, from the most mundane and insignificant to the most difficult, have led us to where we are now.

In my case, for better or worse, all these decisions have led me to realize that I have to work among other things the "acceptance", I have to learn to accept the consequences of those decisions. Acceptance and forgiveness is the only way I can move forward with my life, freeing me from this false "guilt" and the sense of living a life that is not for me.

I strive to live my life as best I can, so I decided to continue my journey and my learning. 

Because, Is not life a continuous decision-making?

RADICAL ACCEPTANCE

“Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance.” 

Tara Branch

AS THE MOSSES AND LICHENS...

 As the mosses and lichens are slowly populating what is supposed to be inhospitable places to life, acceptance and understanding are gaining ground in my being.

Cling tightly anywhere, no matter where it is, from a stone, a tree trunk, or even submerged in water, just accept what will become their future "home" and will not stop until is completely covered, filling of life and transforming their environment.

Well, something like that is what is happening to me, acceptance is not only changing me, is also changing all around me. But aside from being a personal perception goes far beyond.

Eventually you see the people around you are changing and act differently, it's like a chain reaction, for each change that happens, there is a consequence and so on to infinity.

These changes might close some doors, but may also be the case that open another door that was closed and bolted.

Who knows?, the point is that I'm looking forward to open all those doors, no matter where they take me.

ACCEPTANCE DOESN'T MEAN RESIGNATION

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Michael J. Fox

DAY 6 THE HANDS

The hands are part of our identity, not only because it can identify through them, but because behind every hand there is a story waiting to be discovered.

Depending on how damaged they are, those hands can tell us if that person has worked hard, in some cases even to figure out what kind of job has or had that person and even can give us clues about the personality of their "owners".

If the eyes are the mirror of the soul, the hands are the "creators" of our world as we know it, were in charge of painting, to hold, to write, to caress and even show us that we can also speak without words.

Thus, agreements such as covenants and future friends, as well as reconciliations or dismissed are sealed with a handshake, but also use them to show empathy and shared accomplishments, even the most effusive and spontaneous celebrate it "bumping those five".

But they also allowed us to defend and protect.

What I can say from my hand?, I think it's one of the few parts of my body that I have not abused, the reason is simple, it is a body part that is always exposed to prying eyes and working facing the public their care and image are essential.

I accept my hands, but I apologize for the damage received and for all that they may receive in the future.

Thank hands, for allowing me to write this text!

What stories hide your hands?

-I love my hands and accept them without prejudice. -

DAY 5 THE LEGS

Today it is the turn of my legs to the gear that impels me every day, tireless workers that keep me upright all the time I need, thanks to them  I can run, jump, crouch, I even play. As might be expected, is another part of my body that I did not care enough, even claiming me some attention. Honestly I ignored them.

There are no more excuses, it's true when they say, "the body is the temple of the soul" and it is time to honor the quote and take care of my body as it should be.

This is not a game and my well being is essential!

My legs need me, only I can take care of them.

Now is the time to love my legs, pay more attention to them, listen to them when they need something. It's time to apologize for the damage taken by all the bumps and falls, for having hurt them, by the scars and for not properly protect them from the sun (here where I live the sun is relentless). That is why I apologize to my legs.

I am beginning to accept them, although this is something very difficult for me, but I'm willing to do. I do not know the reason, there is nothing wrong with them. It's something that I have to go deeper and find out the reason for this resistance.

-beginning to accept my legs-

DAY 3 BECOMING AWARE

I still want to further deepen over the acceptance of my physical body, it will take me a while but I'm willing to hire me thoroughly and slowly discovering "my secret".

Since I started this project, I keep mulling over my head, I'm starting to tie all these thoughts going through my mind, that will gradually taking shape, but not easy.

"But there is no turning back once you start this adventure, everything charges a different meaning"

I realize that to accept myself, such acceptance does not come alone, on the contrary, acceptance is a host of other factors.

In my case, feel, love and forgive, play a very important role if I want to accept myself.

To do this, I plan a little exercise, I have to take to follow my path to self healing.

Each new day, I will focus on a different part of my body, I will feel it, forgive it and ultimately accept it. Depending on the perceived sensations (those who also write), it may take more than a day with each of them.

"Now it is time to be aware of my body"

-I love as I am without prejudice-

A brief introduction

I decided to start a small project, it is the first one I take, now I have the tools to carry it out (I have some more time and mental peace.)

The project will be focused on the "acceptance" in the broadest sense of the word.

I'll try to post a photo every 2 days for 2 months initially. I think it's a great way to become aware of what is really important in my life and continue evolving at all levels.

This is something that I really wanted to share with you all, I hope you enjoy this humble project as much as I will!

A hug!