Right & Wrong

Recently a good friend of mine told me what she announced as a horrible deed she had committed, before she told me; she was already warning me that she would never do it again and I could feel how worried and confused she was.

While she was telling me her story, there were moments where she admitted that the whole experience had been enjoyable but she kept on saying she “knew” it was “WRONG”

But according to WHO was this experience WRONG? This reminded me of all the pre-conceptions, judgments and beliefs we carry around, and they are not even ours! We have inherited so much of this baggage from what we have been taught and told. Very few people actually endorse their own beliefs and live according to them because they have decided to do so.

But what happens with the rest? The rest just accepts them and tries to live up to them at the best of their abilities, but isn’t that exactly the kind of pattern, the kind of attitude and conformism that creates the increasingly high rates of unhappiness and depression in the world today?

The experience my friend shared with me, was by far one of the best things that could have happened to her, why? Because for the first time in her entire life, she dared to leave absolutely all of the pre-conceptions, judgments and inherited beliefs she was carrying around and surrendered completely to herself, she embraced self-trust and gave a massive step towards her own growth and evolution. For the first time, her own voice was ‘speaking’ lauder than everyone else’s!

Unfortunately, my poor friend soon enough put back on her backpack full of everything she had just summed the courage to leave behind, even if for a moment. And she felt the heavy weight of the backpack once more, suddenly her recent experience was now looked at through judgment-full eyes and her worse fears came over her. She felt bad, she felt worthless and utterly confused.

Soon she will realize that this experience is something she will remember as the first big leap on the way to hearing her own voice, to finally be herself despite the world.

How heavy is your backpack today?
How much of the contents are truly yours?
Whose voice speaks lauder?
Whose voice are you listening to?

This, being YOUR life, the only life you truly own; shouldn’t it be your own voice the one to lead you?

As far as I am concerned; I am going to let my voice scream out laud so I may never fail to hear it!

The earthquake that shook our hearts

My dear friends, welcome again to this Light Planet. I am bringing an interesting subject to our conversation, I cant help but sharing with you my take on the Earthquake that hit my country this past February.

The recent great earthquake that struck Chile this past 27th of February did not only turn towns, walls and houses down, it also shook our hearts. The images of destruction, fear, deep desolation and helplessness were all around, even in those places where no physical or structural damage was visible.

The earthquake shook our hearts and souls. All of a sudden people felt helpless, small, full of fear; fear for their lives, the lives of their loved ones, fear of losing the fruit of their work, their homes and everything they held most dear. Some remembered friends and relationships that have been neglected for a long time, some others had regrets and realised they were not ready to go just yet. But also, it made neighbours that had never exchanged a word; finally speak, help and support each other, it reminded us that we are all human beings, that we are not that different from each other, that we all share the same land and the same planet, what happened in Haiti no longer seemed so distant.

Soon enough, the only important thing was to be alive and well, love and be loved, material things lost their value, it was all about being grateful for being alive.

I was lucky enough to participate in an amazing event, the Telethon in aid of those who suffered the most and I can clearly say I saw many “angels” in action that day. The whole country got together for over 24 hours, putting all their efforts give as much as they could give, money, food, clothes but many others just got themselves to the most affected areas and started chatting to the people, offering a hand and a shoulder. Surely we all agree that it would be nice not to have to go through all of this for people to be nicer to each other, but I guess most people are still hanging from Drama, which sometimes proves to be necessary for a major change.

It has been one month since the earthquake, and even though in the streets of big cities like Santiago it looks as if nothing had ever happened, there are still many people in need out there, the country still gets back into awareness with the -still- constant after shakes, we simply can’t forget this.

After this earthquake, personally; I have started to check what was left broken inside of me, or which are the walls that broke down giving me the oportunity to build something new. To all of you, residents of Planet Earth, I invite you to do this exercise, you may not live in Chile but hey, Earth is still Shaking!

Until the next time!