Costa Women Blogs

When we capture a beautiful moment in a sunset, in the fragrant notes of a summer rose, in the radiant expression of a blooming Lilly, or in experiencing a random act of kindness, we feel the presence of beauty in our heart. This is because beauty is our essence. It is not something you necessarily see, it is what you feel within, life simply mirrors the state of our soul, when we are open to this perception. We can choose to see life as ugly or beautiful, as painful or experiential, as fearful or exciting. What we choose to see, is founded on what we believe about ourselves. If we wish to experience the beauty in life, the first place look is within. Beauty rests peacefully in a place beyond fear and doubt, underneath anger and pain, and beyond terror and trauma. Beauty exists at the very core of our being. It does not matter what feeling you are having right now, or what belief you are holding about yourself, or about life, because if you wish to experience beauty in this moment, you can choose to look for something beautiful in life that touches your heart. It may exist outside in the garden, it may ripple across the surface of still waters, you may hear it in the laughter of a child, you may feel it as the kiss of the sun warms your cheeks, and you might just find it in a memory or a dream. Beauty exists everywhere, so that despite the challenges of life you never forget who and what you really are. Copyright Antonia Behan 2012 www.antoniabehan.com

    Standing in the shadows, hiding behind a mask, you will find the authentic self, that very core of our being that we fear to reveal, for fear of judgement or ridicule, because while it may tolerable to have criticism placed on what is a mere façade, on the person we choose to show the world, should judgement be placed on the true person, we fear the hurt may be too intense to bear. We believe it is better to hide behind a mask. However, in truth we do not really know how others judge us, indeed, even words spoken may be clouded by core truths. The only reason we fear the judgement of others, is because we fear the judgement may be true. This is because we judge ourselves with harsh criticism, or because we lack self esteem. If we did not care, judgement would not be our concern. The reason we lack self-esteem, is because we do not dare to test our strength, but instead we hide behind a mask, shielding ourselves from the outer world, afraid to be strong, afraid to let our soul come out into the world and shine. And so we stay safe, limited, trapped. We are like a bird in the nest preparing to take flight for the very first time, afraid to take a death-defying leap into the unknown. We fear our wings may not support us, that the wind ruffling our feathers may overwhelm us, and that we will fall to the ground to meet our death, and there is a very slim chance that we might, for life is cruel and there is no certainty in anything, it is survival of the fittest, a truth we find difficult to swallow. But, if we do not take a risk and open our wings to fly, we shall never feel the wind beneath our wings, as we glide through life’s currents, rising and falling through the days. We shall never see new lands, or glide across the oceans. We shall never rise high above the world to see the marvels of creation, because we shall be hiding in the nest, so afraid to die that we do not give ourselves a chance to truly live. If we are to remove our masks and dare to be authentic; to be the person we really are, with our true potential realised, even if it makes us vulnerable, we shall liberate ourselves from our self made prison. Indeed, we are more vulnerable while we remain in the nest. It is only by testing our strength, our wings, and our abilities, that we find out who we really are and how strong we really are. When we test our strength, and realise our ability to face our fears; our courage to meet fear in the skies, in a stormy ocean, at the office, in the playground, or before a room of a thousand people looking up at us for guidance, the fear that was our prison warden, becomes the doorway to our freedom. Copyright Antonia Behan 2012   I support you in developing the courage and confidence to allow the mask to make way for authenticity, and the sense of peace, acceptance and happiness that comes with authenticity. Find out more at: www.antoniabehan.com

Vegetarians & Vegans in Spain   Whether you are vegetarian or a healthy eater like me Sometimes Spain can be tricky place to avoid the endless ham, pork and meat on offer! Here is a guide to order non meat dishes in standard restaurants.   Also I include a list of tried and tested places around Spain with Vegetarian, vegan and organic food on offer   http://www.piccavey.com/vegetarian-spain/ Que aproveche! Molly

It’s been a while since my last blog, I wasn’t much inspired during the end of 2012… There were some memento moments of late with my friends, Tom and family… Tom and I wanted some good old ‘me time’ and ‘time-out’ and as of today I feel a little more like LIVING…  and writing about them… I’ll start with December 12th and December 21st 2012, two dates that i’ve looked forward to for a long time… I gathered with friends from SpiritualMurcia.com to celebrate our continued intention and vision of a peaceful, harmonious and joyful world… We all had a great time together and look forward to more people and groups joining us for our 4 quarterly get togethers… The next one is on the spring equinox 21st March in Bol Nuevo… Hosted by Marie who teaches yoga… In fact I’ve looked forward to 2012 for as long as I can remember… for 2 reasons… because I would be celebrating my 1/2 century birthdate and living very consciously in this last year of a long cycle… remembering through all my earthly experiences WHO I AM, releasing everything that no longer served me and celebrating new beginning, a completely new cycle of unity, love, cooperation, peace, harmony…  2012 is not about the end of our world as everyone fears…  but because a long cycle was ending… a long cycle of duality of right and wrong, good and bad, love and fear…  Celebrations were abundant in Britian this year with the Queens Jubilee and the home Olympics & Paralympics… which brought so much hope and joy to millions around the whole world…  This added to the overall ‘happening’ from a lot of ‘us lightworkers’ for focusing on the intention and vision of change… we want NO MORE of the control, power, greed and fear… we want to live in unity, peace, harmony, love and cooperation… with each other…  I AM being the CHANGE… inspiring myself and others… Are YOU? I thought it appropriate to add here one of my last notes on my travels around Benalmedena…  It is what prompted me to write my heading… Choosing LOVE over FEAR… NOW… Today (January 10th, 2013) I awoke with the feeling that it was time for me and everyone to choose, it was now or never…  Normally I say it’s never too late, there is always an opportunity to change, a new cycle comes around again to help us… but this morning and looking back on todays events I instinctively knew that from now on I had to pay close attention to being present, being in the now moment,  following my intuition and LOVE… instead of FEAR… (following a positive flow by being at peace, trusting myself and choosing what is good for me and for the good of all in every moment, depending on how I felt)…  Today was the last day of the old moon and from tomorrow the new moon would position itself to show a sliver of its new self on Saturday 12th January… Since December 21st 2012, ( a date that millions of light workers & our guides, aspects etc… around the globe, have been gathering with the same intention and vision of co creating a new earth… a peaceful, harmonious and joyful place, here on Mother Earth… to live in cooperation and love together)…  we ‘humans’ and Mother Earth had entered a completely new cycle and new dimension… and this last lunar cycle of ‘our old ways’ (of our 3Dimensional & Dualistic World) has been helping us to finally cleanse, release and heal all our yesterdays… Today I knew this was a final warning… it was time to move on, new ways, living from the heart, from love, from YOU… otherwise… the spiral tips down and very quickly… when you choose FEAR and allow doubt, mistrust, failure to rule life, you choose an unhappy ending for yourself… YOUR CHOICE is YOUR DESTINY…  The lion that you imagine will come and eat you up or be your best friend… what do you choose? It was our golfing day today, we were celebrating our 14 1/2 year wedding anniversary (we thought it was 12 1/2 which we celebrate in Holland, but later checked the dates… whoops…) and I had a business deal going on back home…   Telephones rang, golf players in front so, so slow, my mind was all over the place,  my golf ball too…  and Tom wasn’t much better…   I wasn’t relaxed and felt very floaty, not belonging…  We both had a terrible score…  Later after a short break at the hotel we took ourselves off to the marina for our Anniversary Dinner… Everything was a disaster from visiting a lovely shop that was closed, our first drink, meal and getting our bill… I’m not one to go into too much detail or point the finger in blame at negative things… so you won’t find any of my negative experiences in restaurants on my blog… as I take responsibility for my thoughts, my actions and my life and everybody who comes into it…  I know instinctively that we are responsible for everything that comes and happens in our life… maybe not always on a conscious level, but definitely on our subconscious level… Today was showing me what can happen if we don’t focus on the present moment, trust and follow our intuitions…  Choosing LOVE over FEAR…  Now it was time to sleep and YES we will return to the restaurant and have a great experience… which i’ll write about next time we visit and report in my travelling blog… http://newenergyconsciousnesstravel.blogspot.com.es  

One of my radio shows was about the topic of life dreams – those dreams that you have about how you would like something (whatever) to be in your life at some point, and about not letting others take your dream from you, and not allowing yourself to reject your own thoughts before they even have a chance to germinate. Dreams of this type are so infinitely important to the quality of our lives…whether we become aware of them at age 12, or whether we do so when we’re 60, or whether we dust them off at any stage of our lives, remembering how blissfully we used to dream about fulfilling those dreams, and then just forgot about them. So now, for whatever reason, we are at another point in our lives, and have the opportunity to revisit those dreams, and to do something concrete about accomplishing them. What a blast! Dreams should not be ignored, and particularly, you should never let anyone talk you out of your dreams. Due to the response I received to the show, I would just like to reiterate some of the points made in the show: What your deam is: something that gives meaning to your life something that gives you a buzz, a sense of excitement, high energy, butterflies (of the good kind) in your solar plexus something that tells you – as opposed to so many others – that you actually already know what you want, so you are blessed! What your dream is not: something crazy something childish something that you should ignore something that will lead you to failure  What others may say to you about your dream: it’s totally unrealistic it will never work it’s childish it’s crazy it’s too hard don’t you realize that something so easy could never be of any value? it’s too risky no one else has ever done it before no one will like it no one will want it no one will believe it no one will accept it it’s a sure road to failure it’s nonsense it’s not serious it’s not what a grown man (woman) should do it’s ridiculous why would you want to do so much hard work for something you don’t even know if it will work, when it is so easy for you to be accomplished in this other thing (something you do well but that does not fulfill you)? do you realize what people will say about you if you do that? why do you think you might succeed where so many others have tried and failed?  Realize that the same buzz”, the same special energy you feel whenever you think about whatever it is that your dream is all about, is something so special, something so important, that this very feeling is what can most move you in the direction of your goals, your dream, but only if you hold on to that feeling, that energy. On the same note, with regard to your dreams, you will do well to be very aware of the thoughts that you may reject. How often have you not thought of something, maybe just as a fleeting thought or intuition that you paid little attention to, telling yourself that it was nonsense, or that it would never work, that the risk was too high, or that you would, in all likelihood fail, or that if you were the one to think of it, it meant that it was not important, otherwise someone would have already done something like that, and so on? In other words, you’ve had thoughts that for one reason or another you rejected … and then, sometime later, perhaps only days, or perhaps decades, you see that someone else not only had the same thought, but they acted upon that thought, and did something about it, and the results of that thought were now something tangible or plausible that others could see, or touch, or hear, or smell, or in some way become aware of. What happens at that moment; that moment of your own realization that your thought – your rejected thought – has been made reality by someone else, who, rather than rejecting it, took it, used it, made something of it? Isn’t that painful? Doesn’t it make you feel all manner of negative things about yourself? Now you might even have to make up excuses for yourself for not undertaking action when you first had the thought. That’s kind of like cheating at solitaire … the only one who is betrayed is yourself. There’s a wonderful quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. So what can you really do when you stumble across one of your rejected thoughts made reality by someone else the next time? You can learn from it. Learn that your thoughts and intuitions come from a well-spring of creativity inside of you that you should not necessarily reject, that you might want to pay greater attention to. Learn that there may be great value in what you are rejecting and condemning to failure or brushing off as the silly meanderings of wandering mind. Give greater value to your inner inclinations and indications. Try them out. Then, instead of betraying yourself, you may find that you bring something to life that in fact gives you greater life.  Coming back to your dreams, even when they change direction slightly, you will know you are on the right track, as long as you continue to have the feeling, the buzz, the energy, that inner sense of excitement. It’s a direct inner connection to your inner self, that voice inside of you that warns you just before a car comes racing around the corner at the second you were about to step out into its path, that voice (or feeling) inside of you that warns you about that person you just met at the dinner party, who at first glance seems so wonderful, just what you were looking for, and yet, there may be something you need to look at more closely, and thanks to listening to that voice, you do so, before jumping off the precipice, and you find out why your inner voice communicated with you. Call it intuition, call it buzz, call it energy, there is a spark that we feel when that inner communication comes out and speaks to us. If you feel this, if you are familiar with this, then it is paramount that you hang on to it. Don’t think that just because others aren’t doing it, or aren’t paying conscious attention to it, that it isn’t real. Count yourself very lucky – blessed – to have it in your life in such a clear way. You’ve connected to your inner source, in this case, your passion, and that is something you should welcome and nourish. As Wayne Dyer put it: Don’t die with your music still inside you. For more about finding meaning in your life, and of making conscious choices that will enhance your life and promote greater inner peace and freedom, have a look at my book Rewiring the Soul: Finding the Possible Self (paperback or Kindle). To download the first chapter, click here To see the Table of Contents click here From the Description on Amazon: Ask anyone, whatever their circumstances, if their life is vibrant, fulfilling, harmonious and happy. An honest reply is likely to be ‘no’, because to answer a truthful ‘yes’ is no mean feat. Only to grow psychologically and emotionally is not enough. And only to grow spiritually is not enough either. All three dimensions need to be developed in order to realize your full potential. If you are willing to assume total responsibility for the self and to start what is an on-going journey, you will quickly begin to glimpse the first fruits of the ultimate goal: inner well-being, freedom, peace, harmony and joy. This book sets out the pathway to self-mastery and self-discovery and walking that pathway will be the most exciting adventure of your life. My new book The Tao of Spiritual Partnership is now also available in print and Kindle formats. To download the first chapter, click here To see the Table of Contents click here From the Description on Amazon: More exciting than any other kind of relationship you have ever known, spiritual partnership is a path, a Tao, available to you so that you may transform your life. Spiritual partnership becomes background music to daily life allowing you to enhance the process of your growth and evolution. This ground-breaking book addresses: • relationship patterns that hold you back from a truly fulfilled life• the strong connection between sexuality and spiritual partnership• communication leading to true connection & lasting transformation of your relationshipIt is precisely at the problematic crossroads so often encountered in relationships that we are offered the opportunity to create a new foundation based on mutual complementarity rather than need; a free relationship between two people who want to be together, rather than two people who need to be together. Needing another, we are told, is the measure of love, but for a fully conscious individual nothing could be further from the truth. And therein lies part of the secret and healing power of spiritual partnerships.  Praise for The Tao of Spiritual Partnership “All humans seek the illusive touch of another’s Soul, which opens us to the sense of belonging to something bigger than the self. Dr. Kortsch has given us the true “tao” of relationship in this brilliant exploration of emotional tapestry. We will be grateful for this illumination of spiritual partnership for generations to come.” Chris Griscom: Spiritual Leader, Author “Eloquently and comprehensive, showing how your primary love relationship may be a sacred vessel that transports you and your partner to a place of mutual healing and expansion.” Robert Schwartz: Author of Your Soul’s Gift: The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born “The Tao of Spiritual Partnership is a unique blend of wit and wisdom; Dr. Kortsch encourages us to take responsibility for our relationships, while recognizing and seizing the opportunities for our own personal spiritual growth.” William Buhlman, Author of Adventures Beyond the Body  *********************************** Gabriella Kortsch, Ph.D., CHT Author: Rewiring the Soul  (2011) & The Tao of Spiritual Partnership (2012) Blogs: http://RewiringtheSoul.com / http://TaoofSpiritualPartnership.com Web: www.advancedpersonaltherapy.com / www.terapiamarbella.com + 34 952 929 071 —  Marbella, SPAIN Psychotherapist: English   /   Español   /   Deutsch

The telecommunications industry has claimed for years that cell phone usage is safe and cell phones on the market today operate well within safety standards. But… On May 31, 2011 the World Health Organization (WHO), together with the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer, associated with wireless phone use. Additionally, the American Cancer Society (ACS) has listed cell phones on their list of possible cancer-causing substances due to the fact that cell phones give off radio-frequency (RF) waves and may increase the risk of brain tumors or other tumors in the head and neck area. Source: Lifewave.com For more information check http://www.lifewave.com/matrix.asp