A good listener

If I had to recall one of the many things my mother always told me that would be: JUST LISTEN!!!!

I always thought I was listening, in fact I listened to her so well that I would argue back, mom, I am listening but you are not listening to me.

The truth is I heard what she said, but If I could have enough wisdom to listen to her, I would have known that what she really was craving for in her life was attention and love.

Of course I couldn't learn to listen from my family because all of them were shouting to be listened, and If I open the view and see outside, in many big cities like Mexico city, everything you have around is only noise.

I was so fascinated by noise, that I made my final dissertation at University based on noise.

I had no clue how to organize my thoughts about it, but now I see what I really wanted to understand is what is inside noise. I was sure that If I could learn to see/hear through noise, I would be able to hear a lot of hidden messages or what I call now META-MESSAGES.

Today I am still training how to listen, there is so much to listen in so many levels and noise only encourages me to dig deeper :P

Massage is a great practice for listening. For me the best massages I have received have been from people who are good at listening.

Possitive thinking

Today I woke up thinking I wanna be the girl of my dreams :)

Surrender to love

Since I am in the business of helping people to relax, I also have to see what stresses people, right? Today is Valentine´s day and so I decided to explore it with fresh eyes and positive energy.

When I was younger I used to hate St. Valentines, like truly hate it, not only that I didn't care about it, but cheesy couples make me feel bitter, and seeing the sweetie -almost- brainless girls (I thought back then) receiving tons and tons of roses along the day just made me hate it even more.  Do you see where am I going? the problem was not the day, or the consumerism, but my perception of love. And what I hated the most was the lack of love in my life.

Through the time I open more and more to love and happiness, and not long ago I decided to surrender and completely trust in love. 

I started to discover that love is not an illusion but I can bring it to my reality, I understood that we don't fall in love but raise in love, I understood that love is the root of the self but for many reasons we keep it locked.

I have been asking people around me how do they feel about St. Valentines and many of them have rolled their eyes, some of them seem to have a war against it and some other simply don´t care.

I read this today:

"We may not all surrender to God, but to think of surrender as breaking our attachments to limiting ideas and finding the courage to be a trustee of love is quite freeing." - Sister Jenna

And I thought about all the limiting ideas we may have in regards of love that doesn´t allow us to hug or kiss someone in public, to not say you are amazing to someone else, but specially to not spread the love within ourselves, to not think so good about who we are.

I have found it challenging but I am committed to get the best out of the life I am in charge to live :)

I have found in massage a way to connect with love within myself . I love the atmosphere a massage therapy offers for both the provider and the receiver, where for at least a couple of minutes love and goodness flow freely.

Happy LOVE day!!!!!! The day you can surrender to love and see what unfolds for you!

P.S. I made this video this morning trying to break with my own love limitations :) 

Embrace your zodiac sign

I was the kind of person who would never think that your zodiac rules your behaviour or has anything to do with you life or personality... of couse I was younger and had any idea of how simple life could be :D

Lately I have been drawn to understand myself more through the zodiac, and why not? I found it as an interesting guide to be the best I can be, to practice my magic with confidence and to understand others and accept them. So I am sharing my view of the zodiac as a tool to shift our energy and see the world in a different way.

I have read a lot of blogs about each zodiac sign and the first thing that dragged my attention was that they all talk about the good and the bad side of each sign. You see, I was born a Leo, and I grew up listening to people commenting on my strong almost angry temperament, I thought then I was doomed because I was going to be explosive, jealous, needy, arrogant, etc. I wish someone has told me that only when I am out of my center I will start tapping on that dark side.

I understand now that we are like planets, always rotating on an axis. Imagine if suddenly the planet goes a little bit off the axis? There is chaos! Well, the same happens to us, the more in tune and close to our axis (spirit) we are, the closer we are to the essence of the sign :) and that is why sometimes we meet arrogant people, cheaters, vindictive beings, bipolars, etc. Not because they mean to be like that, just because they are a little bit out of the axis.

When people come for massage with me I am always glad to see them going back to their center :) most of the times a massage and meditation is all you need to come back to yourself.

We are all born with a beautiful essence, and it is our work to keep our planet in balance.

Another thing I learnt is that none of the planets are the same.. right, that is obvious :P But if each planet is so different, can't we just accept the beauty of differences? I learnt that I can't ask a scorpio to tell me their deepest secrets because most probably he/she wont do it, accepting that this is the way they are, makes everything easier. I learned to accept and enjoy how different we all are and uh! wait! I can also learn a few tips and tricks from the others! :) then accepting myself for who am I, also makes everything easier-better. I work towards the positive and grow through the negative.

We all can be the beautiful planet we have to be in this life and have glimpses of much more than that while we prepare this tool box for the next jump.

Embrace the best of your sign, use it as a compass to get some direction and celebrate the difference in others :)


 By the way, the photo is from a japanese anime called Knights of the Zodiac. I grew up watching it and it is still on! It is about a group of warriors who use the powers provided by their constelations to save the world :)

Is your body a cage?

I haven´t been posting often because I have been like a butterfly in a coccoon, and I have been changing and observing.

I came across this cover of a song that used to be very present in my mind for many years. Since the first moment I heard it I knew.. my body felt like a cage. That was back at the end of 2006.

After I added dancing to my everyday activities, now I can tell not only that dancing is my life but I am becoming a dance with life.  This makes me so happy that I would love to share it with everyone, let the rest of the world know, that we have learnt everything wrong, and that dance.. is not an activity but the essence of the universe, it is movement, flow, creation.

If you ever catch yourself saying, I don't like dancing, I don't know how to dance, dancing is not for me, I look ridiculous, they look ridiculous or stupid, whatever reason you give yourself for not dancing and improve your dancing there is a sign of some deeper issue :) I was there once, always upset when people would insist on dancing with me, if I couldn't say no, I would feel ridiculous, and my face would look red because inside me there was a mix of anger and shame that I couldn't hide.

Ask yourself why is dancing not for you?
Is it because you are afraid of others judging you?
Why do I look ridiculous? Why do I feel humiliated? Is it because I cant accept that I am perfect just the way I am?

Once you understand what stops you from dancing, you will understand what is stopping you from flowing in your life and then you will have they key to open that cage and be free to be who you are. A perfect universe within the universe.

This question applies to everything in life that you refuse to do because... of fear, anger, self criticism, etc

Love your body because it is your body, it is your best pal in this life. You can't do anything without your body. You can't express, you can't feel, you can't work, you can't communicate, you can't love without your body. Show gratitude, speak to it, listen to it, and let your soul inhabit your body, you will notice that when this happens... people wont see a body or a mind, they will see light, they will see YOU.

Have a beautiful day!

Emotional Maps and Art Massage™

I made this video for you because I would like to help you bring self-understanding through colors in your everyday life. I would like you to find a way to connect your body mind and soul.

I have used this system to help me understand what sometimes I cant see because my ego is on the way.

I have used this system also with my granny (85) and my grand uncle (93) to check on them, because they dont know how to explain what they feel in their bodies. They may be experiencing pain, lack of sleep, nightmares, etc. and they wouldnt know why. So I help them to express it intuitively without words.

I believe this is a great way to help not only ourselves but specially those who cant tell yet what their wise bodies are trying to say.

This system is based on an art therapy thechnique that uses the sillouhette of the user to bring self awarness. From that I used the idea to have the sillouhette as a map and intuition as a guide.  I also include a massage or contact to call the body, to ask him to express freely what it needs.

I use as well the theory of body meridians and chakras to read the map, but you can start by making a list of colors and their meanings, this will be the language between you and your body.

Enjoy!

A GOOD QUESTION

Lately I have been inspired by Alejandro Jodorowski and I decided to include in my Tarot readings the question: What is the purpose of your life?

I read in one of his books that once when he was sick, he met a chinese doctor who told him that he couldn't heal him unless he have a purpose in his life. 

I feel as well that purpose is what guides your healing. At least it has been part of my journey and so I share it here :)

My favorite answer to what is my my life purpose is: It doesn't have to be something big, it doesn´t even have to make sense, it could also be pretty much related to how do you want to feel and you can also attach more ideas to it, or change it completely because it is flexible! how cool :D And it is very very important that this should be PERSONAL.

How do you project yourself in abundance to the future? The future that is now.

I wanted to have this questions here also for you, and I would like to give some inspiration:

Start by writing a phrase, don´t be afraid, go crazy! :)

- I want to be happy

- I want to flow

- I want to feel free

- I want to expand through my job

- I want to see beauty everywhere

- I want to be colorful

- I want to feel love

- I want to shine/ glow

- I want to feel abundant in any aspect of my life

- I want to be music

- I want to be wise

- I want to be myself

- I want to create/invent

- I want to be in peace

- I want to find treasures

Once you have this intention in your head, you must allow yourself to align it with the rest of your life, without any effort, you must know that this is YOUR wish, and that it is PERSONAL thing. 

USING ARCHETYPES TO FIND YOUR LIFE PURPOSE

Our subconscious understands better with metaphores, dreams, and subtle languages like colors and sounds, smells, etc.

If you struggle finding your purpuse writing a phrase, you can also get an archetype that represents better how would you like to feel in your life, for example:

I want to be a trasure hunter ( and find treasures everywhere I go)

I want to be like Mona Lisa ( and experience beauty in myself and everywhere around me)

I want to be a magician ( and make things happen through my magic energy)

USING ADJECTIVES AND IMAGES TO FIND YOUR LIFE PURPOSE

I read once an article by Danielle LaPorte that I found very fun to try, this is a great excercise for your creativity, which means this is a great excercise to open your mind to infinite posibilites :) and therefore your life.

I really recommend you to check it out: http://www.positivelypositive.com/2015/02/18/how-do-you-want-it-all-to-feel-sensuous-goal-refinement-emotional-magnetizing/

Here some examples of how to find an intention for your everyday or your whole life:

I want my body to feel like a Jaguar in a new open field.

I want smiling to feel like mangoes.
I want my friendships to feel like sandalwood oil, and bowls of popcorn, and hand-knit, with Vodka mixers, served up in a red tent.
I want my nervous system to feel like The Buddha must have felt when he discovered The Middle Way.
I want my gigs to feel like Jimmy Page playing Kashmir, and Gaga doing a Born This Way finale, with some Leonard Cohen tenderness.
I want my neighborhood to feel like a new Jason Mraz song.
I want my integrity to feel like the Hope Diamond.

:) Have a great life! - C.