Are you happiness-impaired?

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Aug 162011
 

Reading Time: 2 minutes Happiness Quote “The Prohibition of Happiness cripples more people than all the human physical disabilities, accidents and diseases combined.” Maria Mar   What steals Happiness from your Life? This is an essential tracking you need to do in your life in order to have a rich, meaningful life, to love well and to succeed. If you are a woman, you are born into a history of centuries that prohibits your happiness through myths, laws, guilt, shame and even abuse. If you are a creative, unique person or a spiritually-focused person, chances are that you have been trained to see your own happiness as selfish and to focus on giving to others at the expense of your own fulfillment. In all these cases, there is an oppressive myth that serves as the thief of your happiness. The war between self and others. This war is artificial and you need to break free from its grasp. You need to experience the gifts that your happiness brings to the world! Begin right now where you are seating. Pay attention to your Body and [Read more.]

Book Review: Love your Body, Love your Life

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Nov 022009
 
Book Review: Love your Body, Love your Life

Reading Time: 3 minutes BOOK REVIEW by Maria Mar the Dream Alchemist   BOOK: Love your Body, Love your Life: 5 Steps to End Negative Body Obsession and Start Living Happily and Confidentially AUTHOR: Sarah Maria     Why is the Dream Alchemist reviewing this book? Why should I read it? There is a lot of talk about “having a Dream” and manifesting it. The Law of Attraction has become almost an obsession in our popular psyche. But as a manifestation expert and shaman, I can assure you that “having a dream” is the easiest way to miss it. There is only one way to manifest your dream, and that is to BE your Dream. To embody it. How can you embody your dream, however, if you are out of your body? When you reject your body because it is not the perfect “ideal” body that you’ve come to believe you must have, then you are evicted from the first territory of your physical existence. Your body anchors you in the physical world. Negative Body Image throws away that anchor and evicts you from [Read more.]

Dance with the Music of Life

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Oct 032009
 
Dance with the Music of Life

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hi, beautiful sisters and brothers, In this 3-part blogging series, I reflect on the rhythms of our lives. I use three popular rhythms or experiences of music to help you explore how you can entrain with the music of life. By bringing yourself into harmony with that music, you are able to stop rushing, pushing and grating against the grain of time. Instead, you can begin to flow effortlessly towards your dreams, living fully and joyfully. The first part, entitled “Soul Means Deep, Slow and Close to the Heart,” examines the obsessive-compulsive addiction with time and goals that keeps us alienated from our deepest personal truth and from the compass of our BodySoul. In this part, I use the rhythm of Soul, not only Soul as  the music genre, but other soulful rhythms such as Cante Jondo (Flamenco) and Bolero, to help you slow down and reach deep into yourself to enrich your experience of the present. In the second part, entitled “Salsa Means Spice,” I remind you that life is to be lived in the now, to be enjoyed [Read more.]

I am living my Dream. Come sing with me!

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Dec 222008
 
I am living my Dream. Come sing with me!

Reading Time: 3 minutes I remember Angie, the beautiful, magical child I was once. She would create poems and dances and organize participatory, creative events for the family reunions. Even before she could talk, she would get up on a big can of  “Sultana” crackers and tell stories to the invisible crowd from her future life that only she could see. I invite you to join my “I am my Dream Celebration” today by leaving your comments and sharing your stories. Here’s mine. Through my inherited wounds and blows in life, Angie lost some of her creativity and luster, and she became a caretaker, someone who carried a lot of psychic weight as an atonement for being so happy and creative. She lost her singing voice. She lost her visual art skills. She came to believe that she only had a right to do art if she was NOT enjoying it and if she focused on the problems. After all, that is what she saw everyone around her small world focusing on! Though I never betrayed my creativity or my life’s purpose, I paid [Read more.]