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“Before you die, dare to live what you know”—Ini Anana —————— Happy New Year friends✨I want to thank you for riding along with me in 2018 😘💞. All new beginnings brings something else to an end. Is anyone else welcoming a new direction in their journey? My mission for 2019 is to live the wisdom in real time. For the last 2 years, I’ve been “steeping” spiritual insights through a journey of self exploration, self love and self understanding. But reading a driver’s manual is one thing and getting behind the wheel is another. Living our wisdom in action is necessary to directly experience the truth of our inner knowing. The last two years taught me that our highest purpose is to love ourselves in order to become the fullest expression of ourselves so that we may be self-ful enough to allow this love to overflow as a service to others. We don’t demonstrate self love in our comfort zones. We don’t need our faith in our comfort zones and we don’t apply our inner wisdom in our comfort. In the same manner that we aid a plant to grow through care, we also apply such care and love to ourselves by daring to to grow into an expanded vision of our capacity. For me that vision is to create and share music to heal, feel and grow. This is is the tangible field where I get to apply the spiritual insights I gained over the years. And getting the behind the dream wheel is bringing up new insights, perspectives, passions and opportunities for learning. My message now has another overtone of the inner journey of living your dreams in real time. I want to share insights on the unspoken nuances of following our heart & believing in ourselves while navigating an unmarked path. I’m at a new starting point and created a new platform to speak to this new terrain of following a dream. We are almost always the only dreamer we know, so I wanted to create a space where we don’t need to hide or apologize “on our way to the dream”. If this rings true for you, then I invite you to follow along at my new page @inirising. This is the new space where I’ll be pouring my love, insights and songs. Wishing you much love, blessings and wellness in 2019 ❤️

”We heal so that we can dream”—Ini Anana ————— This inspiration summarizes the greatest lesson that I took from my experiences in 2018. Healing maybe an intentional journey but if my experience is not an anomaly then I believe it is typically a choice that we accidentally stumble upon en route to achieving something entirely different. Healing is like a check point that we must pass through to transcend the mental blocks that repeatedly hijack our ambitions. Often, we will not discover the hurt aka wound that is in need of healing until we choose to hold more space between each occurrence and our reaction. It’s in this space that I got the opportunity to feel the pain of the beliefs that I’d been concealing and bandaging over with reactive habits. Writing about many of the insights that unfolded from this pain was it’s own therapy. So I tell you today the pain of healing stems largely from choosing to surrender the choices, habits and behaviors that a person had long carved into their identity. It amazed me how letting go of the very ideas holding us back can still be painful. This pain is transformed by adopting new habits, responses and choices that create a new belief system, which aligns with a new vision that is not yet a reality. Choices that allow the newly felt emotional intensity in our bodies to release itself. Self care is what we exchange for reactivity as it empowers us to feel safe in our bodies when we dare to fully experience our emotions. I would attest that creativity is the highest form our self care because it breeds an intention of transformation. Re-organizing your room is creativity, cooking a recipe for yourself is creativity, being in nature or writing down your ideas are all means of transforming the dialogue in our minds. Self care engages us in the present moment, breeding a sense of gratitude that evokes passion. It is passion that gives us permission to BE more of our suppressed essence. So I believe that healing is the rightful starting point for the new intentions we are setting for the new year. Our true service is to help heal the world, which is an overflow of our own healing. My dream is to heal the world through music ❤️

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”—Edith Wharton —————— Wishing every heart a very Merry Christmas season from our family ❤️. This time of year can feel dark for many and it is such a gift when we can be source of light in someone’s experiences. May grace fill all the empty spaces in our days ✨🙏🏾#merrychristmas . . #designyourlife #thehappynow #motivation #writer #words #purpose #spilledink #purpose #consciousness #mindfulness #positivevibes #choosehappiness #love #unconditionallove #tumblr #peace #abundance #selfawareness #courage #personalgrowth #loa #bebold #selflove #inspiration #passion #fearless #oneness #shareyourlight #loa #spirituality #thehappynow #compassion

Are you even in the Christmas spirit without a pair of red pants?😜😻. These relaxed slouchy Joe Fresh jersey pants are currently $9.99. Go snatch em up if you’ve been naughty and will be buying your own presents too 😘 . #designyourlife #thehappynow #motivation #writer #words #purpose #spilledink #purpose #consciousness #mindfulness #positivevibes #choosehappiness #love #unconditionallove #tumblr #peace #abundance #selfawareness #courage #personalgrowth #loa #bebold #selflove #inspiration #passion #fearless #oneness #shareyourlight #loa #spirituality #thehappynow #compassion

“Your children are not your children, they are sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself....You may give them your love but not your thoughts for they have their own thoughts”— Kahil Kibran “The Prophet: On Children” ——————— Throw back Birthday selfie with this boy of mine when he turned 16 five days ago 💞. These words of wisdom would likely be one of the many lessons that this boy came to teach me. Why would the Mr. Kibran caution us not to give our children our thoughts? Because our thoughts aren’t natural to our existence, therefore don’t belong to us & aren’t even our truth. Because our thoughts separate us from the pure essence in our heart because they are often symptoms of our unhealed hurts. Our thoughts are extensions of the limiting beliefs that we formed about ourselves at a time when we feared not being loved by others. Our thoughts is how we make ourselves small, weak and disempowered for the benefit of needing the love or rescue of another. So, when we give our children our thoughts by supposing that the manner that we react to experiences should also be theirs then they seamlessly inherit the limiting beliefs which those ideals stem from. In hindsight, I can see how this boy really resisted giving up his innocent free-spiritedness in exchange for my fearful mindset. If I had any other first born child, I wouldn’t have this sliver of consciousness. There’s no doubt he did inherit some of my unconsciousness and he too will have to choose to embrace the journey of surrendering any conditioning or outlook that doesn’t support his personal freedom and self love. My son, my wish for you is to continue examining the thinking that undermines your joy, inner peace, connection to yourself/ others or being the fullest expression of yourself. May you choose to heal these ideas and evolve above it. And my advise to younger mother self would be: do not make your child weak or small in your mind in order to care for him for this is the intention this will overtake their own minds. I would caution me not to project habits of taking things personally, worrying, people pleasing onto my child’s experiences because this lowers a child’s self esteem & power.

I am deserving of love, support and progress—Ini Anana ———————–—— Let’s pause and repeat this statement at least three more times. I believe that these are the three ideals that most of us truly want but are not open to receiving it. Why do you think it is that we want these things so much and expend so much energy in seeking it but do not remain open to actually accepting it? I reckon it’s because along the way we confused “wanting” something as the means to having it. When in reality, receiving and accepting something is the ONLY way to have or posses it. But can one simultaneously receive and want something at the same exact moment in time? You see, even for a brief moment, we must abandon our relationship with the wanting of a thing to internalize having it once it has indeed materialized. But instead we often get what we wanted and but are not present in the gratitude of this acquirement and move forth never truly internalizing our receipt of it. Because we are too afraid to give up the scarcity of “wanting” in fear that it’s our only guarantee for getting more. Well, I would invite us to consider what is the aim of wanting if we don’t receive it by eventually dropping the belief that we are lacking that which we want. Can we believe in the possibility that receiving what we want in gratitude offers us the clarity to create more from the lens of abundance. So what is it that you need to admit that you already have by dropping the belief of lacking it. If you want love or support stop ceaselessly wanting perfection or else you will die never having truly felt the power of love or comfort. And can we reflect on how far we have come and accept the progress we have made so that we can access the internal reassurance that we are indeed equipped to keep expanding beyond our comfort zone. May the material presents not be the only gifts that we long to open this holidays but let’s open our hearts to receiving the abundance that is overflowing in our lives and around us ❤️

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