I Am Ready for Love

I Am ready for Love

Why are you hiding from me

I'd quickly give my freedom

To be held in your captivity

I Am ready for Love

All of the joy and the pain

And all the time that it takes

Just to stay in your good grace

Lately I've been thinking

Maybe you're not ready for me

Maybe you think I need to learn maturity

They say watch what you ask for 

Cause you might receive 

But if you ask me tomorrow 

I'll say the same thing

I Am ready for Love

Would you please lend me your ear?

I promise I won't complain 

I just need you to acknowledge I am here

If you give me half a chance

I'll prove this to you 

I will be patient, kind, faithful and true

To a man who loves music

A man who loves art

Respect's the spirit world

And thinks with his heart

I Am ready for Love

If you'll take me in your hands

I will learn what you teach

And do the best that I can

I Am ready for Love

Here with an offering of 

My voice

My eyes

My soul

My mind

Tell me what is enough

To prove I Am ready for Love

I am ready 

for Love

-India Arie

I Am Ready for Love

I am a Divine and Beautiful Being

I Am a Divine and Beautiful Being


I choose to live each moment with appreciation and complete acceptance of my own Divinity and beauty.


I choose to appreciate and accept the beauty in all beings and the perfect divinity in each moment. 


I open my heart to the possibility of Love and benefit from every being and each moment.


I purge myself of all doubt, negativity, judgmental tendencies, guilt, panic, and fearful thinking.


I always seek that which I need to grow, to bud, to bloom, to blossom, to fruit, to bear seed.


I dare to draw into myself the positive manifestation of each trial and difficulty; the rightness of every lesson. 


I breathe deeply and savor the love and benefit that surrounds and embraces my life as I live it each moment.


I forgive myself with every breath I take and renew my transformative intentions with every beat of my heart.


I glory in the goodness and rightness of all that I encounter and all that I Am.


I Am a Divine and Beautiful Being.


-Donna Henes

I am a Divine and Beautiful Being

You Are Beautiful

"Beautiful Flower"

 - India Arie

This is a song for every girl who's

Ever been through something

She thought she couldn't make it through

I sing these words because

I was that girl too

Wanting something better than this

But who do I turn to?

Now we're moving from the darkness into the light

This is the defining moment of our lives

'Cause you're beautiful like a flower

More valuable than a diamond

You are powerful like a fire

You will heal the world with your mind

There is nothing in the world that you cannot do

When you believe in you, who are beautiful

Yeah you, who are brilliant

Yeah you, who are powerful

Yeah you, who are resilient

This is a song for every girl who's

Ever been through something that She thought she couldn't make it through, 

girl you can make it through

I sing this words because

I know you're the one who

knows there's something better that this

and you're gonna define it 

Now we're moving from the darkness into the light

This is the defining moment of our lives

'Cause you're beautiful like a flower

More valuable than a diamond

You are powerful like a fire

You will heal the world with your mind

There is nothing in the world that you cannot do

When you believe in you, who are beautiful

Yeah you, who are brilliant

Yeah you, who are powerful

Yeah you, who are resilient

Yeah you, who are beautiful

Yeah you, who are brilliant

Yeah you, who are powerful

Yeah you, who are resilient

Yeah you, 

Yeah you, 

Yeah you, 

Yeah you, 

yeah you are,

Yeah You

You Are Beautiful

I am gonna shine, shine, shine, shine...I'm gonna BE WHO I AM and I don’t care who don’t like it, yeah!

I am gonna shine, shine, shine, shine...
Just for today
I will not worry what tomorrow will bring, no
I’m gonna try something new and walk through this day
Like I’ve got nothing to prove, yeah
Although I have the best intentions
I can't predict anyones reactions
So I’ll just do my best
I'll put one foot in front of the other
Keep on moving forward
And let God do the rest


I don’t know what’s gonna happen
That’s alright with me
I open up my arms and I embrace the mystery
I don’t know what’s gonna happen
That’s alright with me
I open up my arms and I embrace the mystery


Just for today
I’m telling the truth like it's going out of style
I'm gonna swallow my pride and be who I am
And I don’t care who don’t like it, yeah
I feel the fear but I do it anyway
I won't let it stand in the way
I know what I must do
There’s no guarantee that it’ll be easy
But I know that it’ll be fulfilling
And it's time for me to show improve


It’s okay not to know
Exploration is how we grow
It’s ok to not have the answer
Cuz sometimes
It’s the question that matters


I don’t know what’s gonna happen
That’s alright with me
I open up my arms and I embrace the mystery
I don’t know what’s gonna happen
That’s alright with me
I open up my arms and I embrace the mystery

I am gonna shine, shine, shine, shine...I'm gonna BE WHO I AM and I don’t care who don’t like it, yeah!

Letting Go

To "let go" does not mean to stop caring,

it means I can’t do it for someone else.

To "let go" is not to cut myself off,

it’s the realization I can’t control another.

To "let go" is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To "let go" is to admit powerlessness,

which means the outcome is not in my hands.

To "let go" is not to try to change or blame another,

it is to make the most of myself.

To "let go" is not to care for, but to care about.

To "let go" is not to fix, but to be supportive.

To "let go" is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

To "let go" is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes,

but to allow others to affect their own destinies.

To "let go" is not to be protective, it is to permit another to face reality.

To "let go" is not to deny, but to accept.

To "let go" is not to nag, scold or argue, but instead

to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.

To "let go" is not to adjust everything to my desires,

but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.

To "let go" is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.

To "let go" is to fear less and love more. 

- Louise Hay

Letting Go

Sólo por Hoy...

Sólo por hoy, voy a respetar mis propios límites y los de los demás.

Sólo por hoy, voy a ser vulnerable con alguien en quien confío.

Sólo por hoy, voy a tomar un cumplido y lo mantendré en mi corazón por algo más que un momento fugaz. Voy a dejar que me nutra.

Sólo por hoy, voy a actuar de una manera que yo admiraría en alguien más.

Yo Soy una hija de Dios.

Yo Soy una persona hermosa.

Yo Soy una persona valiosa.

Yo Soy bella por dentro y por fuera.

Yo me Amo a Mí Misma Incondicionalmente.

Yo me puedo permitir un amplio tiempo de ocio sin sentirme culpable.

Yo me merezco ser amada por mí y por otros.

Yo Soy amada porque me merezco el Amor.

Yo Soy una hija de Dios y merezco Amor, Paz, Prosperidad y Serenidad.

Yo me perdono por haberme lastimado a mí misma y a los demás.

Yo me perdono por dejar que otros me hicieran daño.

Yo me perdono por haber aceptado el sexo cuando quería Amor.

Yo estoy dispuesta a aceptar el Amor.

Yo no estoy sola. Yo soy Una con Dios y el Universo.

Yo soy completa y entera.

Yo soy capaz de cambiar.

El dolor que yo siento al recordar no puede ser peor que el dolor que siento al saber y no recordar.

Yo soy suficiente.

Yo soy Amor.

Sólo por Hoy...

Just for Today...

Just for today, I will respect my own and others boundaries.

Just for today, I will be vulnerable with someone I trust.

Just for today, I will take one compliment and hold it in my heart for more than just a fleeting moment. I will let it nurture me. 

Just for today, I will act in a way that I would admire in someone else.

I Am a child of God.

I Am a precious person.

I Am a worthwhile person.

I Am beautiful inside and outside.

I Love Myself unconditionally.

I can allow myself ample leisure time without feeling guilty.

I deserve to be loved by myself and others.

I Am Loved because I deserve Love.

I Am a child of God and I deserve Love, Peace, Prosperity and Serenity.

I forgive Myself for hurting Myself and others.

I forgive Myself for letting others hurt me.

I forgive Myself for accepting sex when I wanted Love.

I Am willing to accept Love.

I Am not alone.I Am one with God and the Universe.

I Am whole and good.

I Am capable of changing.

The pain that I might feel by remembering can't be any worse than the pain i feel by knowing and not remembering.

I Am enough.

I Am Love.

Just for Today...

Ahora me toca a Mi!

Amazona

Durante las décadas que somos solteras y cuando llegamos a la maternidad, las mujeres nos esforzamos para satisfacer todas nuestras muchas y exigentes responsabilidades. Como la luna que no puede seguir más llena sin retroceso, no podemos aguantar más antes de explotar como un globo inflado con demasiado aire. En la segunda mitad de su vida, la Reina comienza a decaer, a contraerse, a mirar hacia dentro. Ella abre la válvula de aire y libera lo que no es para su beneficio.

"Tal vez la mediana edad", especula Anne Morrow Lindbergh, "es, o debería ser, un período de eliminar conchas, la concha de la ambición, la concha de la acumulación material, la concha del ego. No se pueden reunir todas las conchas bonitas de la playa ". La reina rechaza lo no importante, lo que no la apoya, y lo inconsecuente hasta que se reduce a lo esencial. La pureza de su propósito es cada vez más finamente enfocado y ella vive su vida yendo directamente al grano.
Cuando llegamos a nuestra madurez, naturalmente hacemos una pausa y hacemos un balance de nuestra vida - nuestra trayectoria profesional, nuestros objetivos y aspiraciones, nuestro sentido del significado y propósito de nuestra vida. Con nuestra perspectiva de todos los cambios y las pérdidas que hemos visto y sufrido, nos damos cuenta de que todo lo que nos queda en nuestra vida es tiempo, y quién sabe cuánto nos queda?
Por lo tanto, el imperativo de vivir plenamente, de manera creativa, enérgica, eficaz y conscientemente nos consume. Empezamos a cuestionarnos - algunas de nosotras por primera vez en nuestra vida de chica buena - todo lo que hemos asumido previamente, las normas, las restricciones, las adicciones, las predicciones y predilecciones que han ordenado nuestra existencia. Nuestro corazón clama por la autenticidad. Es la vida que estamos viviendo la vida que elegiríamos si supiéramos que sólo teníamos una vida para vivir?
Todas las partes de nosotras que antes eran ignoradas, ocultas, sublimadas y suprimidas claman por nuestra atención. "¿Y yo qué?" la mujer profesional le grita al ama de casa y la ama de casa le grita de vuelta "¿Y qué soy yo, hígado picado? Quiero mi turno, también." -No, es mi turno ", exige la hija, la amante, la esposa, la madre. -No, no, mírame ", grita la artista, la escritora, la músico, la deportista, la empresaria, la aventurera, la sanadora, la espiritual. Una vida no vivida exige ser vivida.
Una terapeuta que conozco llama a la mujer en esta etapa decisiva de la mediana edad "La Mujer Peligrosa", porque es probable que tire por la borda todas sus anteriores nociones de la responsabilidad y el deber de los demás, y se pone a sí misma - sus necesidades, sus deseos, su metas y sus sueños - en primer lugar, a pesar de las repercusiones. "Las mujeres tienen que armarse de valor para cumplir los sueños latentes", escribe Alice Walker. La Reina brota de la adversidad y las limitaciones anteriores, reales o imaginarias, para convertirse en una hábil jugadora en el juego de su elección. Cuando Ella funciona con su propia guía interior, ella suelta sus dones únicos y expresiones, la suma de toda la experiencia de su vida hasta la fecha, y les permite madurar y dar frutos. Y Ella reconoce y celebra los beneficios físicos, emocionales y espirituales de hacerlo.
La Reina del Logro, de la Realización, de la Resistencia, de la Supervivencia ha experimentado mucho durante sus años de soltera y de maternidad. Ella ha viajado a los confines de sus emociones, a veces voluntariamente, a veces gritando y pataleando. Ha explorado las profundidades del dolor y la tristeza de los tiempos oscuros en la vida, así como las alegrías y los placeres de los más ligeros momentos, y ha aprendido e integrado las lecciones de cada uno.
Sus habilidades se pulen, su confianza en si misma es alta. Ella está contenida, es suficiente en sí Misma. 
Ella sabe que puede manejar cualquier cosa que pueda venir, porque Ella, de hecho, ya lo ha hecho. 
Ella está centrada y comprometida, es fructífera, y una fiera en su propio nombre. Esto le da claridad de visión y propósito. Ella sabe lo que quiere y sabe que lo quiere ahora. Sus decisiones no puede tener sentido para sus amigos y familia, Sus elecciones pueden provocar conmoción y alarma, pero ninguna cantidad de disuasión puede zarandearla de Sus decisiones. Las antiguas dudas y preocupaciones se desvanecen en la luz cegadora de su determinación.

Arriesga! Arriesgalo todo! 
Que no te importen las opiniones de los demás, de esas voces... Haz la cosa más difícil en la tierra para ti.
Actúa por ti misma. 
- Katherine Mansfield
Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/thequeenofmyself/2010/06/now-it-is-my-turn.html#ixzz0qqrw2xle

Ahora me toca a Mi!

Now it is My Turn!

During the decades of our Maiden and Motherhood, women grow to meet all of our many demanding responsibilities. Like the moon that can't keep getting fuller and fuller with no retreat, we can take on only so much before exploding like a balloon pumped up with too much air. In the second half of Her life, the Queen begins to wane, to contract, to pull in. She opens the air valve and releases what is not to Her benefit. 

"Perhaps middle-age" speculates Anne Morrow Lindbergh, "is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulation, the shell of the ego. One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach." The Queen rejects the unimportant, the unsupportive, and the inconsequential until She is pared down to the essentials. The purity of Her purpose ever more finely focused, She lives Her life more directly to the point.

When we reach our middle years we naturally pause and take stock of our lives -- our career paths, our goals and aspirations, our sense of meaning and purpose. With our perspective of all of the changes and losses that we have seen and suffered, we come to realize that all we have left in our lives is time, and who knows how much of that remains? 

Therefore, the imperative to live fully, creatively, energetically, effectively and consciously consumes us. We begin to question -- some of us for the first time ever in our good girl lives -- all previous assumptions, rules, restrictions, addictions, predictions and predilections which have ordered our existence. Our heart cries out for authenticity. Is the life that we are living the life that we would choose if we knew that we had only one life to live? 

All of the parts of ourselves that we have previously ignored, hidden, sublimated and suppressed are clamoring for our attention. "What about me?" the career woman yells at the homemaker and the homemaker yells right back "And what am I, chopped liver? I want my turn, too." "No, it's my turn," demands the daughter, the lover, the wife, the mother. "No, no, look at me," shouts the artist, the writer, the musician, the athlete, the entrepreneur, the adventurer, the healer, the spiritual seeker. An unlived life demands to be lived. 

One therapist I know calls the woman at this decisive stage of midlife "The Dangerous Woman," because she is likely to overthrow all of her previously held notions of responsibility and duty to others, and puts herself -- her needs, her desires, her goals and her dreams -- first, despite the repercussions. "Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams," writes Alice Walker. The Queen bursts forth from adversity and previous constraints, actual or imagined, to become a proficient player in the game plan of Her choice.When She operates from Her own inner guidance, She releases Her unique gifts and expressions, the sum of Her entire life experience to date, and allows them to ripen and come to fruition. And She recognizes and celebrates the physical, emotional and spiritual benefits of doing so. 

The Queen of Achievement, of Attainment, of Endurance, of Survival has experienced much during Her turns at Maiden and Motherhood. She has traveled to the ends of Her emotions, sometimes willingly, sometimes kicking and screaming. She has explored the depths of the pain and sorrow of the dark times in life as well as the joys and pleasures of the lightest moments, and has learned and integrated the lessons of each. 

Her skills are polished, Her confidence high. She is contained, sufficient unto Herself.She knows She can handle whatever might come Her way, because She has, in fact, already done so. She is focused and engaged, fruitful, and a newly fierce champion on Her own behalf. This gives Her clarity of vision and purpose. She knows what She wants and knows She wants it now. Her decisions might not make sense to Her friends and family, Her choices might shock and alarm them, but no amount of dissuasion can shake Her from Her resolve. Old doubts and concerns fade in the glaring light of Her determination. 

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself.
- Katherine Mansfield 
Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/thequeenofmyself/2010/06/now-it-is-my-turn.html#ixzz0qqrw2xle

Now it is My Turn!

Going with the flow of the Universe

I am going with the flow of the Universe

I loose resistance

I leave the problems, the mountains behind

I float easily on the stream enjoying nature...

I love the flowers, the butterflies, the sunset, the journey...

I allow the Universe to take care of everything

I feel the Universe and I flow with Life.

Thank you Sifu Wong, my life has changed after getting to know your teachings. I feel so blessed to practice Chi Kung everyday. The inspiration for this painting and poem came during my practice.

Many blessings, love and happiness to you and all the Shaoling family.
~Marlina

Sifu Wong in Alicante, April 2010.

Going with the flow of the Universe

Quiero Vivir, quiero gritar, quiero sentir el Universo sobre Mí... quiero correr en Libertad, quiero llorar de felicidad... sólo quiero encontrar mi sitio.

Sólo queda una vela
Encendida en medio de la tarta

Y se quiere consumir....

Ya se van los invitados
Tú y yo nos miramos
Sin saber bien qué decir

Nada que descubra lo que siento
Que este día fue perfecto que parezco TAN feliz
Nada como que hace mucho tiempo
Que me cuesta sonreír

Quiero vivir, quiero gritar
Quiero sentir el Universo sobre Mí
Quiero correr en Libertad
Quiero encontrar mi sitio

Una broma del destino
Una melodía acelerada
En una canción que nunca acaba

Ya he tenido suficiente
Necesito a alguien que comprenda
Que estoy sola en medio de un montón de gente

Qué puedo hacer?

Quiero vivir, quiero gritar
Quiero sentir el Universo sobre mí
Quiero correr en Libertad
Quiero llorar de Felicidad

Quiero vivir
Quiero sentir el Universo sobre mí
Como un náufrago en el mar
Quiero encontrar mi sitio
Sólo encontrar mi sitio...

Todos los juguetes rotos
Todos los amantes locos...
Todos los zapatos de charol

Todas las casitas de muñecas
Donde celebraba fiestas
Donde sólo estaba yo..
vuelve el espíritu olvidado del verano del amor..

Quiero vivir, quiero gritar
Quiero sentir el Universo sobre mí
Quiero correr en Libertad
Quiero llorar de Felicidad

Quiero vivir
Quiero sentir el Universo sobre mí
Como un naufrago en el mar
Quiero encontrar mi sitio
Sólo encontrar mi sitio

Quiero vivir, quiero gritar
Quiero sentir el Universo sobre mí
Quiero correr en Libertad
Quiero llorar de Felicidad

Quiero vivir
Quiero sentir el Universo sobre mí
Como un naufrago en el mar
Quiero encontrar Mi sitio

Sólo queda una vela
Encendida en medio de la tarta
Y se quiere consumir....

Quiero Vivir, quiero gritar, quiero sentir el Universo sobre Mí... quiero correr en Libertad, quiero llorar de felicidad... sólo quiero encontrar mi sitio.

Learning to Fly.....

All women are born Beautiful, 

knowing that however is their choice. 

All women are born deserving Love,

Choosing that is up to them.

I have no bounds or boundaries

I love whom I choose and when I want

I'm free in my love

Im in bliss

In my senses I rejoice

I Know Who I Am

I smile

Can you see my secret smile....?

To whom do I belong?

I belong to Me

-Agapi Stassinopoulos

Learning to Fly.....