Missing you a little extra today.

“Relaaax” 💙

Can’t remember how many times my coach reminded me to relax during the survival swimming lessons. Finally conquered one of my biggest fears and another one ticked off my bucket list!

Treading, gliding, back floating & 15ft jump na may halong kaba ✅ Proud of you, self, kahit duwag ka pa rin. 😅🤗 Experiences are coming in. We’re learning and growing.

Big thanks to my wonderful coach for being so kind and patient. 💙

Have you ever had a dream that doesn’t seem to align with God’s plans?

It’s been four years since I went to an open call audition for the Waitress musical at the Opera Haus with a music sheet of 16-bar Sara Bareilles song in my hand. My weaknesses were revealed right in front of me when I didn’t get in. Maybe my purpose wasn’t really to sing there, but God gave me the grace to let go.

Disappointments are here to help us remain humble and slowly give way to greater things if we find the courage to grow.

Happy New Year! Press on. May all your dreams come true. 🤍

Thank you, Lord. You are faithful! ❤️

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Life is beautiful.

You are beautiful. 🌼

Thank you for being so so patient with me. So many times I stumble and get swayed by my emotions, but you always choose to understand. My heart is at peace. I couldn’t ask for more.

Surrender—what an amazingly powerful word. It often engenders the thought of weakness and cowardice. In my case, it required all the strength I had to be brave enough to follow the invisible into the unknown. 💛

The Surrender Experiment

🌊 My personal experience is that aligning one’s will with the natural forces unfolding around us leads to some surprisingly powerful results.

🌊 Stop reading, talking, and thinking about your mind, and just do the work necessary to quiet it down. The required work was equally unambiguous—meditate.

🌊 It was just the quiet experience of pain. No complaints, no mental dialogue about what to do about it. There was simply awareness, completely at peace with what it was aware of.

🌊 When my mental voice had something to say, I now had a choice—pay attention to the voice or keep focusing on the inner flow of energy.

🌊 Be so open and connected to the feelings you are having.

🌊 The pain and turmoil within me were beginning to subside. But the yearning for the absolute peace and silence continued to burn in my heart.

🌊 This was another one of life’s lessons I never forgot: the joy of helping people.

Let go of yourself and something very special will follow. The seeds of a great experiment are being planted.

🌊 Everything in life has something to teach you and that it is all for your growth.

🌊 Somehow, deeply touching experiences kept coming from the most unexpected places.

🌊 I had proven that I was capable of deeply surrendering if life presented me with something I really did not want to do.

🌊 Surrender—what an amazingly powerful word. It often engenders the thought of weakness and cowardice. In my case, it required all the strength I had to be brave enough to follow the invisible into the unknown.

🌊 I knew it to the core of my being.

🌊 “How would I know what life was capable of doing if I was always in control?”

🌊 My heart center was learning to open.

🌊 Yoga is the science of channeling all energies upward until they merge together at the highest point—Oneness.

🌊 It all happened by surrendering to the flow of life… The best I can say is that I let go of myself and allowed what was meant to be—to be.

🌊 My vow to surrender to life required me to see where this would lead.

🌊 My experiment with surrender had taught me to always be present in the current moment and do my best not to allow my personal preferences to make decisions for me.

🌊 Formula for success: Do whatever is put in front of you with all your heart and soul without regard for personal results. Do the work as though it were given to you by the universe itself—because it was.

🌊 I am so grateful that surrender had taught me to willingly participate in life’s dance with a quiet mind and an open heart.

🌊 To understand the next wave of growth, it is important to understand what was going on inside of me.

🌊 I stand in awe of how life unfolded so perfectly to provide us exactly what we needed, exactly when we needed it.

The relentless practice of letting go of myself in order to fully embrace what was unfolding around me was having a profound effect on my spiritual growth.

🌊 By aligning myself with life’s outer flow, the beautiful, inward flow of energy was naturally strengthened.

🌊 The act of letting go of one’s self-centered thoughts and emotions was all that was needed for profound personal, professional, and spiritual growth.

🌊 As long as I was willing to accept the purification power of life’s flow, I kept coming out on the other side a transformed person.

🌊 The more I let go, the freer I became.

“The pain and turmoil within me were beginning to subside. But the yearning for the absolute peace and silence continued to burn in my heart.” 🌿

The Untethered Soul

💙 There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who hears it.

💙 You re-create the world within your mind because you can control your mind whereas you can’t control the world.

💙 True personal growth is about transcending the part of you that is not okay and needs protection.

💙 The only way to find peace and contentment is to stop thinking about yourself.

💙 To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them. The first problem you have to deal with is your own reaction.

💙 Yoga is about the knowledge that will help you out of your predicament, the knowledge that can free you.

💙 Create your thoughts in the state of awareness.

💙 The only reason you don’t feel the energy all the time is because you block it.

💙 “Chakras”, the heart is an energy center, and it can open or close. When you close your heart center, energy can’t flow in. When energy can’t flow in, there is darkness.

💙 All you have to do is decide whether you are willing to stay open, or whether you think it’s worth closing.

💙 Remember, if you love life, nothing is worth closing ever. Nothing, ever, is worth closing your heart over.

Experiences are coming in and you’re learning and growing.

💙 “Samskara”, a cycle of stored past energy patterns.

💙 What is the cause of these frequent changes in the state of the heart?—to the same stored past impressions that caused the blockages.

💙 You either try to push energies away because they bother you, or you keep energies close because you like them.

💙 Unending inspiration, unending love, and unending openness—that is the natural state of a healthy heart.

💙 Don’t make decisions based on stimulated blockages.

💙 You will get to a point in your growth where you understand that if you always protect yourself, you will never be free.

💙 Real spiritual growth happens when there is only one of you inside.

💙 Once you’ve made the commitment to free yourself of that scared person inside, you will notice that there is a clear decision point at which your growth takes place.

💙 Thoughts and emotions get stronger the more attention you give them.

💙 There’s nothing wrong with being peaceful and centered as long as you are releasing the energy, not suppressing it.

💙 This is the beginning and end of the entire path—you surrender yourself to the process of emptying yourself.

💙 Let all of your blockages and disturbances become the fuel for the journey.

💙 In order to grow, you must give up the struggle to remain the same, and learn to embrace change at all times.

💙 Look deep within yourself, to the core of your being, and decide that you don’t want the weakest part of you running your life.

Free yourself by finding yourself.

💙 If you sit within the Self, you will experience the strength of your inner being even when your heart feels weak.

💙 Inner disturbance—you must be able to sit quietly inside and face them if you want to see where they come from.

💙 Your attempt to avoid pain has created layer upon layer of sensitivities that are all linked to the hidden pain. Real growth takes place when you finally decide to deal with the pain.

💙 That is the pain being purified from your heart. Learn to enjoy that burning.

💙 Because you are not willing to approach them, you cannot see what is beyond them.

💙 In order to truly go beyond your model, you must first understand why you built it.

💙 If you really want to see why you do things, then don’t do them and see what happens.

💙 Spirituality is the commitment to go beyond, no matter what it takes. It’s an infinite journey based upon going beyond yourself every minute of every day for the rest of your life.

💙 This is the root of Self. You are not your thoughts; you are aware of your thoughts. You are not your emotions; you feel your emotions.

💙 To be free, to truly experience life, you must come out. The way out is through awareness.

💙 You have to really mean it when you say that you choose to be happy.

💙 If you want to be happy, you have to let go of the part of you that wants to create melodrama.

💙 If you want to be close to God, learn to be joyful.

Relax and release.

💙 Why wait until everything is taken from you before you learn to dig down deep inside yourself to reach your highest potential?

💙 You don’t have to change your life; you just change how you live your life. It’s not what you’re doing; it’s how much of you is doing it.

💙 Start using every day to let go of that scared part of you that won’t let you live life fully.

💙 It is scarcity that makes a simple rock become a rare gem.

💙 Your life will no longer be yours to waste; it will be yours to appreciate.

💙 Your backdrop is love. Your backdrop is openness, beauty, and appreciation.

💙 This is how you know something about God. You become one with Him.

💙 As you went deeper and deeper, you would start noticing a phenomenal thing—you are no longer judging.

💙 Where there used to be judging, there is now respecting, loving, and cherishing.

💙 You can’t offend the Divine One; its very nature is light, love, compassion, protection, and giving. You can’t make Him stop loving you.