A mind affair. 

Lets go exploring.

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"I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings."  River Phoenix 


It seems we all chameleon like. We morph & become a part of our surroundings. In a way, I find that kind of scary. . .

We all need a sanctuary.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

The other day a gorgeous friend of mine was disheartened by a failed relationship.

She realised how important it is to live your "true self." Show the world who your truly are. 

"After all, the one person you will always have to live with ~ is yourself."

Be patient.

Don't make any decisions in a state of confusion.

Be still.

Ask questions, then feel your answer.

Be sure.

Have the courage to walk away.

Your body is built for walking.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

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Natural women are 
the most beautiful women.

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Thoughts become things.

You can't expect things from other people, only yourself. When you yearn to be loved by someone, love if often not drawn to you. The only way to draw love to yourself is to experience self love first.


"The moment you expect something in return, love dies."  Ryuho Okawa

Life is better when you have a passion.

What are the things you most enjoy doing?

Do them. Do them all the time.

Stories are a metaphor for life.

They make us question truth, find truth & they solve or create those unanswered questions we all carry around in our life backpack. As put marvellously by JK Rowling: "Unlike any other creature of this planet, human beings can learn & understand without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places."

They way you live your life crafts your story.

Everyday I live my life I am generating a new chapter of my life’s storybook. I want my storybook to live on, do good and most of all I want it to matter. Early on in my piece, my father, a worldly character, filled my mind with curiosity and induced me to question my purpose and my reason for being. Inbuilt in my subconscious was a flame, a purpose, a responsibility – I had to make a difference and I had to make the most of my time here. The chapters of my book continue to be filled and one day the book of my life will end. I want others to enjoy my storybook, be a part of my storybook ~ even after I am gone.

Every story is important. Even the small ones.

Imagine an article is written about your life in a magazine just after your death. What was your story? What have you been remembered for? How did your story make people feel?

Tell your story well. You never know who is listening.

If you don't quit, you will make it.

Whilst reading "Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit," by Sonia Choquette something struck a spark of strength inside of me. It struck me what it meant to have a courageous heart and an unwavering focus on a fixed goal. The author delves into a detailed experience of being in the wild & in close proximity with a mother lion who leads her 5 cubs to a water hole. Even under threatening circumstances ~ a range rover, a spot light and a group of people crowded around her, her focus was fixed, her path was set and she would not shift her glance to her potential harmers ~ not even once. She needed to get water for her cubs to survive. It was her goal to look after her cubs and nothing would disturb her.. nothing dared.

This is what it means to be lionhearted.

Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa were lionhearted. These remarkable individuals had an unwavering focus on their goals. They didn't know how they were going to achieve their goals but that didn't matter because they knew they were going to achieve them. Nothing was going to get in their way.

When your head, heart and focus are fixed on higher intentions, nature aligns itself with you. You create a seamless vibration of power & protection.

Love my news.

When romantic partners disclose positive news, how the other reacts matters—a lot, according to Professor Shelly Gable. "Reacting in a positive way not only reinforces bonds, but it also shows that person that in negative times you'll be there." Gable has found that an "active constructive response" ~ is the only positive response. Couples whose partners respond in any of three less positive ways are at greater risk of calling it quits down the line. The four typical approaches are listed below. Your partner comes home, beaming, and announces that he just got a great promotion at work. You could react with:

1. An active constructive response. "That's great, you've earned it, I'm so proud of you!" followed by questions. This conveys enthusiasm, support, and interest.


2. A passive constructive response. "Great job, honey!" then shifting to the next topic. Like dinner.


3. An active destructive response (what Gable dubs "finding the cloud in a silver lining response"). "Wow! Does this mean you'll be working later hours? Are they going to be paying you more? I can't believe they picked you out of all the candidates." Just generally deflating.


4. A passive destructive response. Can take either of two forms: "Wow! Wait until I tell you what happened to me today," which is very self-focused, or, "What's for dinner?"—ignoring the event altogether.

Some information provided by Linsay Lyon

lets make a bit of that 40%

You can thank your parents—in part—for how happy you are; roughly half of human happiness is genetically determined. Another 10 percent comes from your life circumstances, like how happy you are with where you live. What can give us a lasting boost is how we think and behave; about 40 percent of our happiness is under our conscious control. Practicing acts of kindness & savoring positive things, like your morning pastry & a hot shower improve your long term happiness. Positive thoughts become habitual.

There is something positive to be found in absolutely everything, all you have to do is find it.

Some information provided by Lindsay Lyon

promise yourself every day

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature you meet.

To give so much time to improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds.

To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side, so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

~Christian D. Larson, 1912~

bb: blonde & bikinis

Brigitte Bardot was the ultimate sex symbol in the 1950's & 1960's & still influences how women present themselves today.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

In the midst of her stardom she was suicidal. She had no purpose. As she grew old, she refused plastic surgery, aged gracefully and dedicated her life to saving animals. She found her purpose. 

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself...

i like you i like you

People tend to like a person who expresses liking of a third person. People make the reasonable, if not logical, assumption that someone who likes another has an overall higher baseline of liking people than someone who dislikes another.
Some information provided by Joachim I. Krueger

follow your heart

We all encounter moments of indecisiveness & often find it hard to make the right decision. A lovely man in America recently sat me down and shared with me a Buddhist theory~ our hearts are our second brains.


A simplistic way to find your intuition & make the right decision is to follow your heart. To find your intuition, recognize the front part of your skull is where the majority of your interpersonal communication is taking place. Imagine hundreds of strings drawing down your busy thoughts from the front part of your mind & resting in your heart. The right decision will be felt when you put your thoughts into your heart.


It takes a while to trust your intuition & do what you "feel" is right instead of what you "think" is right. It takes practice and confidence.


Try following your heart the next time you are making a decision. Keep a record of the outcome when you followed your heart or followed your thoughts.


I guarantee you always make the better decision when follow your heart.

pheromones ~ your secret scent

A pheromone is a hormone-derived messenger, which not only influences sexual behaviour, but behaviour in general. Some people have a 'conflict of pheromones'.


Odorless pheromones are secreted by many animals to attract mates. But they're also synthesized and marketed to consumers as potions to increase sexual attractiveness.


To test whether these potions helped people find romance, "20/20" sent sets of 20-something male and female twins to a speed-dating event and gave them each a scent -- one twin in each set received a scent containing Cutler's pheromones. No one knew who had what.


They went on 10 dates each lasting five minutes. The daters then filled out forms stating which of the people they would like to see again.


At the end of the night we tallied the results: Nine men wanted to see Sarah again and five men wanted to see Bridget again. As for the guys, 10 women were interested in Dave and only six women were interested in Paul.


Sarah and Dave were wearing the pheromones.

Paris Hilton knows. She added them to her latest perfume.

Some information provided by ABC News & Louise Ganey

birds of a bent feather flock together

Everything that is holy and good starts out as symmetrical. This is because we live in a mathematically elegant universe, which is almost perfectly symmetrical. Everything ghoulish is bent out of shape (asymmetrical). Because, for example, in humans, your inner emotions and feelings eventually bleed through to your physical body and so your eyes and mouth and your overall face shape are gradually bent out of symmetry over the years. Your mouth slopes or your lips go thin and so forth.


If you pretend to be nice while inwardly being rather vile you can hold the pretense of symmetry for a while but eventually your inner state bends you to show the truth. And that carries you away to where others are that are equally asymmetrical. 


Birds of a bent feather flock together.
Some information provided by Stuart Wilde