Habits and how to change them
Habits are actions that we have learned to repeat daily by doing them over and over again.
Some of them we have learn from observing our parents or siblings, our environment and all the people in it that have had some sort of influence on us.
They can be good or bad and can literally make or break us.
Their importance lies in acknowledgement that they can make your life easier or a lot harder depending on the habit.
For example, if you have a habit of smoking it will have a negative impact on your health, on your life in general and on your finances as well.
On the other hand, if you have a habit to exercise every day, that can only impact you in a good way if you are doing it in the right way.
Your health, stamina and wellbeing will be impacted in a good way.
Habit is created in the way that we repeat same action until we don’t have to think about it ever again.
When subconscious mind gets the message and it usually take about 21 days to create a new habit, then you will be doing it automatically.
It is like driving a car, at first you must learn all the rules and regulations, and the car itself, but after driving it for a while you do it automatically.
Best way to change a habit is to replace it with a different one.
Its not easy but our brain has neuroplasticity and its capable to create new neuropathways which is now a proven fact.
Replacing our old habit is very much possible.
It all starts with a decision that you want to change it and having a valid good reason for it, that will keep you motivated to persist and have willpower to continue with it.
The best way to stick with your new habit is to repeat it until its automatic.
It will be hard in the beginning because your brain is creating those new pathways and connections but after a while it will be your new habit.
Natalija Russell
Duality of life
There is a dual nature to life itself.
Everything in this reality has its positive and negative expression.
Its all part of one but expressed in two extremes.
There is sun and the moon, night and day, hot and cold.
There is also life and death, different seasons in the year and duality of our reality is expressed in everything.
Who can say one is better than the other?
Is sun better than the moon?
Is day better then night?
And where exactly do those two extremes meet?
It’s not on us to judge which of those two are better.
Our biggest task in life is to find balance in between these two extremes in everything we do.
Only when we find and create that balance within ourselves, we can create it outside of us.
Natalija Russell
LIES VERSUS TRUTH
When a person lies it takes a lot of energy to keep that lie going.
It also must have a very good memory to memorize the web of lies that will follow just to sustain that first lie that they have started with.
Lies are never good. They tend to creep up and expose you as a bed person that you are.
People tend to lie because of fear that they won’t be liked for who they really are.
Being yourself is not always appreciated in our society but your authenticity will attract people who are more like you.
Being a liar can only attract people who are also liars so you can bounce of your lies with them.
Being honest is the way to go, you don’t need to memorize anything, and you will attract that honesty back to you.
World is your mirror so whatever you project out, you will get back.
And remember the truth is not always pretty, sometimes it will make you angry, but it will set you free.
Natalija Russell
DEATH AND REBIRTH
What is death but and ending of one form and a rebirth of another.
Everything is energy.
For so long humanity has been afraid of dying like it is something to be afraid of.
Everything in nature and around us has its cycles, it has its beginning and the end.
Nothing last forever and it always transforms into something new and better. Change is eminent and it is something we should collectively accept as a good thing.
We should all die before dying only to realize that we cannot die.
We can only transform into something else.
So don’t be afraid of death because it’s a part of life. Who is afraid to die is also afraid to live fully.
The cycle of live, death and rebirth are always spinning.
Natalija Russell
BECOMING AN ALCHEMIST
Alchemist is a soul who can turn any situation in to a positive result.
Regardless of what is happening to them in their life’s they are still seeing the positives that can come out of a seemingly bad situation.
Because there is no such thing as all good and all bad.
There is bad in every good and there is good in every bad thing that happens to us.
By looking at the situations and circumstances of our life’s we can choose to only see the good coming out of them.
That good can be either in the terms of lessons or a blessing so by us alchemising we are becoming rulers of our destiny.
Natalija Russell
YOUR PAIN IS YOUR GAIN
Your pain is your friend. Never forget that.
I know it is hurting you right now. On all levels.
There is suffering all around.
But in all that suffering there is always a lesson waiting to emerge.
You can always learn from any situation, good or bad.
At the end of the day, there are only lessons and blessings in this life, and by you changing your perspective you will change your life.
Your pain is teaching you how to become stronger, wiser, more resilient.
It is teaching you to be grateful, to have empathy and to better understand the world around you.
Your pain is you’re blessing in disguise, so next time it hurts, start counting your blessings.
Natalija Russell
NOTHING LASTS FOREVER
Times of happiness are on the way.
You may not be able to see them right now,
But they are defiantly approaching.
Its always the darkest before daylight.
Endure for little while longer, you can do it.
You got the strength to push it through.
Nothing lasts forever.
Everything has its rise and fall, its peak and demise.
Sadness is needed for your growth.
How would you know how happiness feels if you never experienced sadness?
You wouldn’t have nothing to compare it with.
So be joyful for your sad moments, because they are teaching you to be grateful for the good moments, that are coming.
And remember, nothing lasts forever.
Natalija Russell
FACING YOUR OWN SHADOW
This can be very challenging for any person.
We try mostly to escape from the parts of ourselves that we condemn as not good enough, not pretty enough, not loving enough and because of society we start to act in the way that others see or say is exactable.
But on that road, we slowly start losing ourselves.
We start to listen to other people, like they know better than we do about what are needs are.
We put a mask on for the show that we call life, and we start playing our role in it.
And sometimes we can escape from ourselves that much that we can’t even recognize ourselves anymore.
That is not the true self, that is ego that keeps telling us who we should be or not, what we should do or not and what is good and safe or not.
Ego wants to be liked, true self doesn’t care if he is liked by others, he only cares about how he feels.
Take that mask of, peel those layers like an onion and when you reach the end you will find your true self.
You were whole from the start, there was nothing to add to yourself just to strip back to your soul essence.
By Natalija Russell
ONLY SPEAK FROM THE PLACE OF LOVE
Words are our connection with the physical world and tool that we use to create.
Do you know that your words are spells, and that’s why in school you learn how to do spelling?
Words can have a big impact on our life’s, they can nurture us, inspire us, encourage us but also hurt us immensely.
When you speak from the place of fear, anger, or any other lower emotional state you are being toxic to yourself and others.
Your words are like echo’s so never forget what you put out to the world trough your mouth. It will come back to you like a boomerang.
Its simply karma, what other people say its their karma and what you say back its yours.
So always be kind with your words, even when other people are not because that way you teach them by your example how to behave.
Loving word will always echo back to you that love that you have placed outside of you.
Whatever you put out, you will always get back in one form or another.
Loving and supportive words will bring back to you that same love and support.
By Natalija Russell
SUPRESING OUR EMOTIONS CREATES ILLNESS
Our emotions are just energy in motion. Energy moves trough our bodies and if it does that without us interfering in the process, we are always in flow an at ease.
Mostly we try to interfere because we don’t like to feel “bad” emotions in our bodies, so we suppress, we numb it down with food, drink, addictions, and all sorts of things just not to feel.
When energy cannot move freely trough our body with ease it creates disease.
And what is disease then illness in various forms.
It’s a signal from our body that something is not right with us and that something needs to change.
So, people need to know that any illness that happens to them is because they have created it themselves by not letting the energy to flow.
For that truth people must stop playing victim games and take responsibility for their own creation.
They need to become conscious of their own self, their body and of their own emotions. Awareness is the key to knowing this.
When you know who created the problem it is easier to take responsibility for it.
Blaming your environment, other people or your genes will not get you far.
Solution for this is to change your mind about how you feel, take control of your feelings, and realize you can change how you feel at will.
Then the shift will occur.
So that you become conscious of yourself.
By Natalija Russell