You know I haven’t watched the news in years but now that I am on social media (I only joined Facebook and Instagram last year, believe it or not?) is pretty hard to stay away from the coronavirus news and its effect on people, the economy, the whole world really.
But I have started seeing some courageous people out there that are stopping to feed the fear, the sadness, the unknown that the coronavirus are bringing into our lives.
I guess it is hard to see the positives when there is so much negativity around us. But truth is there is always a positive in every situation and we should practice looking at life and each situation a little more with positive eyes.
I thought instead of feeding you with the continuation of my emotional healing story which by the way is not finished yet, I was going to highlight to you the positives I have read about this whole situation:
Emissions are dropping faster than countless years of climate negotiations
People are working together as a community more than ever. They are respecting the government directions to stop the spread of the virus. People are offering to shop for the elderly. People are offering to share their food with their neighbours. At a global level, we are actually pulling together.
In Venice, in Italy the epicenter of the coronavirus, the canals are empty of its usual boat traffic, photos on social media are showing clear waters and the return of wildlife. People have spotted dolphins in the canals. If you have been to Venice, you would know how impossible that sounds.
So maybe we should go back to our practice to look for positives in every situation…we all know that where focus goes energy flows so let’s try practicing to feed more into what we want to and desire to happen with this whole thing.
Hope this gets you thinking about creative ways to make this world a better place. Sometimes we need a reset and it feels like the earth is getting one, we are getting one…and yes sometimes it is inconvenient and we didn’t ask for it but once more we need to stick to it and trust the process.
Tag: how can I change my life after cancer
Don’t let “life” compromise your health
How well are you taking care of yourself these days?
I could say I have had a full life so far…born and breed in Brazil…I left when I was 21…first one of a huge extended family to leave without a plan…
Unless you can call having a Spanish passport and €1000 a plan? 🤦🏼♀️
Looking back my plan was very simple…I had a deep desire to prove to everyone you could create a life on my own terms…even though I was a woman…👩🎤
Coming from a chauvinistic culture, that was a big statement at the time…
I went to Spain first, then I lived 3 years in Belgium, 4 years in England…went traveling with my boyfriend at the time, husband now through Central and South America…ended up in New Zealand…had 2 kids and 3 years ago, we moved to Brisbane.😅
We moved to Brisbane for my daughter’s health, she had asthma in New Zealand. She was cured when we moved to Brisbane but then I got cancer…
Bowel cancer Stage 3 to be more precise😔
My KPIS for the day went very quickly from how many placements I could make in my recruitment role to
what I was going to eat to heal my body…
what I was going to listen to help my mind…
and what I was going to do to help my soul…
all of this wasn’t actually too hard for me….
BUT what it was hard to learn was…
~to be vulnerable
~to ask for help
~to be dependant on my husband
~to count on family and friends to help us…
I had to learn to climb up from the deepest hole I could have ever dug myself into…
Somewhere along my life, I thought to myself I was invincible…
it turned out…I wasn’t…and I am not…
And ya know, it wasn’t easy…
I had to work hard…
I had to acknowledge my mistakes…
I had to accept responsibility and learn how to get to know myself…
and face my worst fears…
I had to learn how to forgive not only others but myself too.😊
Now life looks very different…
2 years after my diagnosis, I feel the healthiest and happiest I have ever been…
I am continuously working on my physical, mental and spiritual health…I swore I would never take my health for granted anymore…
I am living up to that promise with every breath I breathe, E V E R Y S I N G L E D A Y
Recently I left my 10 years recruitment career to focus on my business –
I am now a Wellness and Lifestyle coach.
I help cancer patients to regain control of their health physically, mentally and spiritually by making small changes that compound into a massive impact on their lives.
I believe we can learn from scientific research and we can learn from experiences, our own and the experience of others too…
I have read countless books….I have listened to podcasts, YouTube videos, Ted Talks, anything body, mind and health related…anything that could help me to heal, create a new body, a new mind and a new life after my cancer diagnosis.
I knew that whatever I did up to the moment of my cancer diagnosis was killing me and I needed some drastic changes…
The internal work is where it all begins….I mean not only physically but mentally too – health is a ‘360-degree’ gig…you need to look at all aspects of your life…one by one…
And through my understanding we are experiencing a health crisis…
~most people are not fit and healthy
~chronic diseases numbers including cancer are on the rise in every country in the world
~heart and lung diseases, cancer and diabetes are the world’s largest killers, with an estimated 38 millions deaths annually
~the major risk factors are tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and the harmful use of alcohol
ALL THINGS WE CAN CONTROL right?
And this is what we are doing about it….
~we are still being bombarded and falling for foods that create disease
~we live a lifestyle that doesn’t promote a healthy body and mind
~we feel powerless because we think being healthy is really hard work
~we don’t want to invest on our health because when it comes to health , everything seems expensive right?
If you want to know how you can turn your health around….you need to take action…and your first action could be get in touch with me.
I know right, scary…and it takes courage but if I changed my health around, I believe you can do it too.
What is your “why”?
I come from a culture where you just get on with things…you kinda of have to.
The government is not there to help you, corruption is the norm and money talks so people just need to get on with it.
This is what I remember about Brazil…I left 18 years ago…
In my case I can’t complain about my childhood….
I grew up in upper middle class…but as a result of that my path was already carved for me before I was born.
As a female you were bound to follow the “unread” rules of a chauvinist society where girls were expected to behave in one way and boys could do whatever they wanted….
By behaving according to society expectations, as a girl you would hopefully find yourself a ‘man’ who was from a ‘good’ family meaning same social economic level as you or better.
And after finishing school, you were expected to go to university, get married and have kids.
Part of me feels that I decided early on unconsciously that nobody was going to carve my path for me.
So I was indeed the ‘black’ sheep of the family…the first one from a large extended family who left Brazil without a plan at 21 years old.
All I had was a Spanish passport, €1000 and a strong desire and naivety that I was going to prove to everyone, one could do something else other than what was expected of them.
I lived one year in Spain, 3 years in Belgium, 4 years in England, went travelling for 1 year through Central and South Amercia, lived 6 years in New Zealand and have been in Australia for 3 years.
I never went back to Brazil ( a couple of times on holidays)…I have never asked helped from anyone.
And yes I am super proud of this as I worked very hard for it.
But it wasn’t until recently that I did an exercise with Dean Graziosi that shocked me.
The exercise is called the “Seven Levels Deep Exercise”.
You ask “why” questions 7 times, moving progressively deeper into answers.
Why do I wanna gain capabilities? Why do I want more success? Why do I wanna achieve more? Why do you want financial freedom?
For example in my case I started by asking myself:
“Why do you want to be successful in life?”
My answer was “Because I want to prove myself”
Then I asked again
“Why do you want to prove yourself?”
to which I answered…”because I want people to think I am capable, honest, independent”….
then you keep going asking ‘why’ questions for 7 times.
By question level 3, something came out of my mouth that I had never said before…I said:
“I never thought I belonged anywhere”
That hit me and my husband who was next to me, like a brick wall…
when I said it, I realized that I had never felt I belonged in Brazil either, in my own country.
Previous to that I thought I didn’t feel a sense of belonging because I lived in different countries, I was a foreigner after all but truth was I never felt I belonged to where I came from either.
And my last answer shocked me even more…
I simply said…
All I wanted was to feel safe…it wasn’t money, power, a nice house, a nice car…it was simply because I wanted to feel safe.
As I write this, I actually feel deep inside that my answers are a reflection of my life, what I have worked for, what I have always craved for…a sense of belonging, feeling accepted and safe wherever I am.
It sounds crazy that such a simple exercise can have such an impact on people’s lives.
Most people really don’t know their ‘why’. They might know on the surface level. But when you go from a surface level, from thoughts on why you wanna be successful or why you wanna something, to anchoring it in your heart with feelings and emotions, things start changing.
There may not be a more powerful motivating factor on the planet than knowing your true “why”.
When you know; in your soul, why you get up every morning and fight for your dreams, you’ll never let anything get in your way of becoming the person you are meant to be.
If that is where you are right now…you are not sure about your ‘why’, you are looking for purpose and meaning in your life, I would strongly recommend you to check out Tony and Dean’s training that started changing my life: