26/11/2010 by Piercarla Garusi.

I was talking recently with somebody who was complaining about the current state of affairs and she wanted to change the country. She was saying people will not change unless something will happen and it was necessary to do something.

We often have this thinking if we see something we do not like in the world, but what we resist persists.

When we criticize, when we want to change something, the only thing we will experience is … RESISTANCE. If we push against the world, we will only encounter resistance.

What we need to do is not resist what is, it is healing ourselves and finding our purpose, what we are here on this planet to do and do it. I believe we each have some form of task which is linked to our dharma, and when we reconnect with that and allow the Universe to guide and support us, then we bring about collective healing.

And if we do not do it, nobody else will ever do it. It is your task, that is how precious you are. And healing ourselves implies going back to wholeness and discover what we truly are.

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25/11/2010 by Piercarla Garusi.

With all the societal and cultural pressure and the spread judgment, you need to love yourself and… love yourself a little more.

Loving yourself has nothing to do with being narcisistic or superficial. It is deep, it is profound. It is giving yourself approval, it is treating yourself as you would with your dearest friend.

By loving yourself, you connect inside with what is true for you, with who you are, with your truth and your core values, with what you want to do, no matter what other people are saying to you or wanting from you.

By loving yourself you become waterproof to outside judgments, criticism, it is just their opinion. And you are free to do what you really love.

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25/11/2010 by Piercarla Garusi.

I believe in every culture, perhaps in different degrees, there is pressure to conform, to be as everyone else, perhaps do the same things, behave in the same way, believe in the same things. And sometimes, if a person does not do them, they are judged, looked at as strange or different. And judgements often cause people to suffer from low self-esteem, confidence and anxiety.

When I was running a support group in London to help people suffering from social anxiety, I often saw that the people who were suffering from social anxiety, had made a decision, perhaps subconscious, not to conform, not to be as everyone else. They were not aware of it and felt bad about themselves, but the truth is that they were incredibly courageous, they had decided to be themselves.

I often work with cross-cultural issues to support foreigners and recently I was talking with somebody who said she had never experienced cross-cultural problems even if she did not have any cross-cultural training. The thing is that she simply decided to follow the trend of the country, be a conformist of her new country.

But the inner power of the non-conformists is huge, once they achieve the inner freedom to be authentic, to be true to themselves, to be themselves and live their truth. They become unstoppable and able to let their magnificence shine.

Be magnifcent, you already are.

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24/11/2010 by Piercarla Garusi.

Give some Love this Christmas - You Are Infinitely Precious cards

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19/11/2010 by Piercarla Garusi.

What if we were to re-discover sacredness of each human being, animal, plant,  everything? What could happen to endengered species of plants and animals and to our beautiful planet? What could happen to peace and humanity?

What could we do to recover it?

We need to hold sacredness, respect, reverence for Life and everything as a priority value.
We need to be aware of our ego wanting to be right.
We need to be aware of our ego disapproving of ourselves and others.
We need to be aware of our ego always wanting more.
We need to be aware of our ego always telling us we are not enough.

We need to begin to love ourselves because we are the way we are.
We need to make a journey to heal ourselves from our negativites and our ego and discover who and what we truly are.
We need to build our life around what really matters to us and brings us joy.
We need to want for each human being to be happy.
We need to re-remember how to really Love. 

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19/11/2010 by Piercarla Garusi.

En toute la paix du coeur, which means peace of heart in all things.

Is it possible? It is a journey, not easy at times, but necessary if we are to rediscover who and what we truly are.

We are living through turbulent times, firstly financially - many people are without job and worry can be a daily companion.

How can we live at peace when we struggle financially or do not feel well physically, or when we worry for a loved one?

We need to learn to let go of wanting to control ourselves, our life, or other people. Worry is often wanting to control the other person or it is a projection of one of our fears which we need to deal with.

When we let go of our fears, our resistance and allow things to be, we become more positive, we raise our vibrations and we discover we can trust, we are supported, our reality begins shifting and our heart finds rest.

Let go and let God, whatever concept you have of Him/Her.

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18/11/2010 by Piercarla Garusi.

We know that in some countries some people have gone away from religion, not substituting it with an individual spiritual journey.  

Societal pressure might have caused some people to conform or feel bad about themselves. People became disconnected from who they are and their values.

It might also have caused people to put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform, to be successful, measuring who they are with their success or achievements.

People have put on themselves an incredible amount of strain, beating themselves up if they have not achieved yet, if they have not managed their life yet, and people are feeling more and more stressed.

And it was completely down to them to be successful, they were ‘alone’ in that.

The preciousness of each individual, the gifts of uniqueness, the sense of sacred, of worth has been lost and people feel not valued.

Relationships have become more superficial, there is not enough time, and people are feeling more and more alone.

And the percentage of people suicidal is high, very worrying.  

But if one knew they are loved, and loved beyond measure, and that they are supported and helped at all times, they would simply need to ask…there would be a lot of relief and healing in people.

Whatever concept you have of God, Consciousness, Source Energy, etc., when you find what helps you on your spiritual path, you will find profound peace.

Love is who you are.

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18/11/2010 by Piercarla Garusi.

It is a choice.

When we do not listen to our soul, when we try to fill ourselves with things, when we do things just to follow the trends and have approval, when we stay with people just because we do not want to be alone, when we are afraid of facing our shadow and we run away from loving ourselves, when we think our happiness will come from things or people, when we do not live consciously, we just find ourselves more and more empty.

A life with meaning starts from searching first what has meaning for us, what is truly important to us, and building our life from that.

We can find this by:
- being authentic and being clear of our values
- being present and enjoy the simple things
- ignoring the trend and be ourselves
- living deeply and refusing to be superficial
- following our heart and doing what we love
- dare to connect at the level of the soul with people
- loving ourselves and choosing carefully the people we surround ourselves with
- finding a spiritual practice that works for us and helps us grow and discover what we truly are

There lies true peace of heart.

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17/11/2010 by Piercarla Garusi.

Being loving does not mean that you have to keep yourself in negative energies, that you have to put up with abuse, that you have to do what you do not want, that you have to be open when you do not want to, that you have to put up when people do not respect your boundaries, that you have to have people in your life you do not want to. Every adult relationship is voluntary and the how of the relationship is a choice too.

Being loving is not resisting the negativity, as you have created it, it is focusing your attention on how you wish to be treated, on what you want in your life, on the kind of people you want in your life. It is not having anger towards yourself or anybody and focusing on what you want. It is allowing everything to be, be yourself and follow your heart. There is nothing you have to do, only that which you want to do.

Being loving is an attitude, it is sending approval to yourself and others and allow freedom. And it is listening inside and respecting yourself.

Be wise

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17/11/2010 by Piercarla Garusi.

What we experience in life is an out-projection of our mind, mainly subconscious, that is we are not victims, we have created it.

This can be extremely difficult to feel if we have experienced profound pain, discrimination, abuse, if we have been severely victimized. It would require from our side maybe a huge work to release anger, pain, grief, and all the patterns that caused us to feel bad about ourselves, that caused us to feel unsafe, that caused us not to feel in control of our life, that caused us not to be treated with respect.

But once that work has been done, a very empowering prospective opens up. When we embrace the fact that our life is an outcome of our thoughts, we realize we can change it, we can create what we want, we can be happy. And a very important key to this is feeling good about yourself,  is loving yourself.

It is often with people who have not experienced abuse or pain that the blame game is still so common. It is the ego who wants to blame somebody, who complains, who wants to be right, who wants the others to say sorry or recognize their ‘wrong’.

But we are not our ego, we are infinitely more than that.

And what if we could decide today, and tomorrow and the day after… to live a day without enemies? How would you feel about yourself? How would you feel about your life? 

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