Posts Tagged ‘Moment’

The ordinary is extraordinary

Posted on: January 5th, 2015 by Lynika Write A Comment

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“So much of the ordinary is extraordinary, we often don’t pause long enough, to see the daily miracles tucked inside our days.” ~ Lynika

 

This isn’t a rehearsal

Posted on: January 3rd, 2015 by Lynika Write A Comment

 

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“Get fierce with living a full life. This isn’t a rehearsal. It’s your one, real, precious life. Right here. Right now. Gusto up!”
~Lynika

 

Live your life in new ways

Posted on: January 1st, 2015 by Lynika Write A Comment

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How to survive…

“Live your life in new ways…

Climb out via the other side of the bed each morning.

Don’t reach for your phone, let your soul come back all the way first.

Notice small things, kneel in the garden, watch the tiny worlds living amongst the grass.

Remember how your heart beats for you each day, take deep breaths in return.

Work in a different room or corner of your home.

If you don’t work or you work for someone else, carry a stone or scrap of paper in your pocket with something valuable written on it.

It can be a quote, a word, a wish, your name…

Remember your world is bigger than 4 walls and it calls to you.

Eat outside.

Help someone.

Love the miracle of being here, alive, playing yourself for a short time on this magnificent stage.

Love your character. Write it new lines.

Remember to let it laugh, weep, dance, fall down, get up, love.

Think outside the old lines.

Don’t stay in one repeat episode.

Walk into new rooms, make new chapters.

Own your life.

Occupy it.

Our time here is brief.

Live it wild, w i d e, open and deep.”  ~ Lynika Cruz

“If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you’ll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you’ve already been in.” ~ Anne Lamott

 

What to be grateful for

Posted on: December 30th, 2014 by Lynika Write A Comment

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Running water, education, shelter, safety… to name a bare few. It’s good for the soul to notice the blessings we do have. ~ Lynika Cruz

Remember to stop and laugh

Posted on: December 28th, 2014 by Lynika Write A Comment

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“Remember you
can stop at any
time and be in
the moment.
If the path
feels hard or
too serious,
recharge in
the power of
laughter.
Look up and
notice the joy
of life itself.
It’s woven
everywhere.”

~ Lynika Cruz

Get ready to shine, shine, shine

Posted on: December 26th, 2014 by Lynika Write A Comment

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This world has enough imitations…

Break free of any limitations you may have boxed yourself in with and shine, shine shine…

Because it turns out…

That little light of yours ain’t so little…

And it sure as heck doesn’t belong in the shade of anyone else’s shadow.

You don’t need anybody’s permission to be who you really are!

Live whole…

Live deep…

Live wide…

Live out loud..!

Count down with me…

In ten seconds you are going to decide to let go of everything and anything that keeps you small…

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Welcome to the planet you magnificent, authentic, unique being!

We’ve been waiting for you! ~ Lynika Cruz

P.S. You’re born with the right to become YOU!

Your life is happening right NOW

Posted on: December 12th, 2014 by Lynika Write A Comment

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Pssst… Look around you…

Life is happening right this second.

This very moment right here, right now, is where you are actually ALIVE and living.

We spend so much time thinking and planning ahead that we sometimes don’t realise we have accidentally abandoned our current life and moved there.

Moved to a place that doesn’t have solid, earthy goodness filling you up and sweet, present, ecstatic joy slapping you in the face with a big, happy kiss.

Planning ahead is important but be careful not to live there.

We lose precious moments on words and half sentences like these:

  • Later…
  • As soon as…
  • Once I’ve/We’ve…
  • After…
  • When the/they/he/she…

Meanwhile those lost moments accumulate and turn into days, then weeks, months, years until one day you realise…

“These moments are my LIFE.”

Go outside for a moment, really. Get up, look out the window if you’re in a blizzard or heatwave, but LOOK out there, look at life, it’s happening right now around you and TO you.

The loose leaf, the sudden dot of a small bird lifting against the sky, the rustle or stillness of this very moment and your own heart beating in your chest, right now. THIS is living.

And it’s happening NOW.

Be happy in it.

Satisfied even…

Take one small moment if you will and just LOVE it.

Turn it over for a brief second and say out loud, in this moment, this very moment I’m alive and I am noticing it and feeling it.

Now breathe and breathe and breathe.

Life is brief…

Live it W I D E and DEEP… you gorgeous, magnificent, amazing miracle!

~ Lynika Cruz

Flick that switch

Posted on: November 26th, 2014 by Lynika Write A Comment

 

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“The one person we need to validate the most is the one reading this right now.” ~ Lynika Cruz

Please share this with others who need a gentle reminder that they are the biggest light in their own lives and flicking that light switch on, is their right and the biggest gift they can give themselves and this planet.

The most powerful influence in your life

Posted on: November 24th, 2014 by Lynika Write A Comment

 

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“When you’re bad-mouthing yourself internally, you’re also listening hard. Remember there IS a recipient on the receiving end of your inner jargon.

Catch yourself whenever you start to put yourself down or discourage yourself. In that very moment STOP and SEE that person as 3D, standing right there in the room with you, looking at you wide eyed, earnestly, waiting to trust and believe whatever comes out of your mouth.

This isn’t a trick, it’s the sad yet honest reality. You’re listening, soaking up every message you send yourself. YOU are the one who can make the difference to yourself. YOU are the most powerful influencer in your life.

Maybe your boss or colleagues are mean, maybe the world bites hard sometimes, maybe your parents weren’t there for you or never understood you, perhaps you were bullied badly or still are, maybe you’ve had an abusive spouse, maybe you’ve felt your whole life that nobody cared and you have never mattered.

All the more reason and PROOF as to why YOU need to be the exact person to show up for yourself. Funny enough, it may feel as if all those other people and events are the ones that could make the difference to your life being good or bad, a success or failure. If only they’d understand or say sorry or back you up.

Truth is, it’s you. You’re the one, the only one who CAN make the difference. Every one else’s support or encouragement is either temporary or part time.

You’re the one constant in your life, the one voice always talking, the one companion always in the room.

Your approval, your belief is what you really need. Those eyes are looking to you, those ears are waiting for you.

Waste no more time looking outward.

And don’t just take some half-baked, casual attitude about it either. Would you convince anyone else that way? No.

You’re no fool and you don’t want some watered down, inner flaky prince or princess charming showing up, asking you to hop on a two legged horse outta there.

Get FIERCE with your life, get protective, get REAL and CHAMPION yourself every moment you can.

You’re listening, start talking.

I want to see you smash the illusions and powerhouse your life.

This world needs you at your best. YOU need you at your best.

This is the moment it all changes forever.” ~ Lynika Cruz

This moment right now is your life…

Posted on: November 22nd, 2014 by Lynika Write A Comment

 

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“You never know just how precious life is until you see or hear of someone losing the fight for theirs. This moment right now is your life…

As you read this quote you’re holding delicate moments of your own life in your hands and spending them.

Make sure you treasure each priceless, fragile, powerful moment.

Spend them well. Every single one of them is your life.” ~ Lynika Cruz