KRISTINA'S WEEKLY EMAIL OF THOUGHT-PROVOKING ESSAYS & VIDEOS TO KEEP YOU CONNECTED TO YOURSELF ON THIS JOURNEY CALLED LIFE
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Greetings!
It's been a heart wrenching week as both literal and metaphorical fires burn in our cities and within our spirits in response to the blatant threats and senseless loss of life due to racism, whether on the streets of Minneapolis or at the hospitals in New York. I wrote today's PGG
with a longer intro
around the time of the Eric Garner death back in 2014. Six years later it is sad, to say the least, that not much seems to have changed.
Our country is going through some huge growing pains at the moment, revisiting core issues and values that originate from it's founding -
everything about our inherent physical and psychological structure is up for review.
I am not an expert on how to address the external side of things, as there are plenty of authorities, opinions and organizations out there; some more helpful than others, some offering solutions and others simply adding fuel to the fire, so
be sure you are monitoring and measuring your intake of all kinds of media
at this time. And, more importantly, mitigate and counterbalance it with exposure to the opposite, hence today's PGG.
What I can also offer is some expertise in
getting to the
internal
root of the matter,
which for pretty much any issue you can think of is
emotional pain and a lack of forgiveness and love for ourselves
. This results in its extreme as projecting hatred and blame onto others, and in general makes it harder to connect as humans on a variety of levels.
SO, f
or the
PGG Video of the week
I talk about how to
forgive and accept yourself in order to connect with others and be authentic.
And because what you focus on grows, this week's
Instagram post
reminds you to
focus on a UTOPIAN version of our planet,
and for a
bonus post
to focus on
Truth, Justice, Beauty, Unity
and the like.
As always, please feel free to
contact me
with any comments about anything I'm doing.
Big hug <3 Kristina
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Beauty and the Beast
Originally published August 20, 2014
These days it seems that ugly is the status quo. We are bombarded with so many negative events, factual and fictional — both served up as entertainment- that we have simply become used to it. In these days of doom and gloom I encourage you all to imagine the opposite:
What if Beauty became the norm?
And when I talk about Beauty, I don’t mean a two-dimensional feast for the eyes, or pleasure for pleasure’s sake, although that is part of it.
True beauty is three-dimensional; it is something to be felt and experienced, not just superficially appreciated.
Beauty happens inside and out. It is never just cosmetic. It is something to be absorbed by every fiber of your being, whether admiring a work of art, listening to music, observing Nature in its magnificent glory, witnessing an act of courage or compassion or
enjoying a person’s human expression at its best.
So, where do we begin, how do we do this? It’s tempting to just tune out and distract ourselves with whatever we can, and hope that the problems of the world instantly vanish or some drug company creates a pill for peace. But the truth is that
the more disconnected and desensitized we become, the more problems we will have.
Most people are walking around emotionally constipated.
We need to keep our senses alive, intact, ebbing and flowing in a balanced way
— yet not letting them run the show or allowing any external images or situations grab control of us. We need to be able to respond from the deepest human level
so we can know how to react
, when to take action, when to pick up the phone, when to tweet or post something, when to set boundaries or ask for help, and when to turn off the TV or computer.
Brene Brown, in her now-famous
Ted Talk on vulnerablity,
tells us that
when we numb the bad, we numb the good too
. So you can’t just shut yourself off if you want to feel love, compassion, empathy, kindness, and yes even
feel beauty.
Feeling means we are alive
. If not, then what are we?
Duality is a fact of life:
in order to appreciate the sunshine, you need the rain.
Once you are able to connect with and feel ALL of what is going on within you, with a little regular detox of laughter and tears, you can deal with the not-so-pleasant emotions as they come up, let go of them more easily, and conversely take hold of and
relish in the positive, ecstatic and joyous ones even longer — expanding and benefiting from that energy more profoundly.
Look for Beauty everywhere and
let in the Beauty to overpower the beast
. Allow the darkness, anger, pain and shame to move through you so that you can then use that same vehicle to embody and express supreme joy and love when they abound. You can then more accurately
observe and call out injustice because you know in your heart what truth, justice, goodness and beauty look and
feel
like.
Not quite sure how to go from Blah to Bliss?
Give me a buzz
, and I’ll show you how living life as a fully-fledged member of the human race has its rewards, and
being able to FEEL Truth, Freedom, Beauty & Love
are by far the best!
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If you like what I write, you'll love what I have to say in person!
Remember, you can always see PGGs from any month or year going back to 2010 on my website at
www.kristinaleonardi.com
and visit my social media pages for more inspiration throughout the week! Want to share my PGG? Use my
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