MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

NOURISH YOUR SOUL

Your SOUL is the most PRECIOUS part of you. It is the CORE of you. It is your HEART, your DREAMS, your LOVE, your LIFE. It is the ESSENCE of what makes you YOU.

Too often we allow our soul to become dusty or dirty. We bear with a situation or get burdened down with weight that creates such heaviness in our soul that sometimes we feel like we just want to close our eyes and sleep forever. Sometimes the pen we write our life with drips black ink that falls on our soul and creates a dark stain where once light shone through.

A life is NOT a life when our soul becomes too damaged. It is only HALF a life when our soul becomes so tired that it wilts instead of grows. It has a negative effect on not only us but those AROUND us, and that is NOT what we want to ensure.

If your soul does not get NOURISHED, like a flower that needs the sun, it wilts and eventually dies. You canNOT let that happen. So even if it hurts like hell, renders your soul in pieces for a time, sometimes we must REMOVE any aspects from our lives that would cover the light of our soul and prevent it from reaching for the sun.

Life is too SHORT to allow yourself to live it merely SURVIVING. It’s time to take a stand and “spring clean” your soul, everything that resides there, hidden or not, and determine whether its presence in your life has a positive or negative cause and effect. If it is NOT positive, allow yourself to let it GO. Allow yourself to begin to LIVE again.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

YOUR SOUL

Sometimes our mind and heart and soul can be in conflict with one another – this can create confusion and chaos and when we have those, we can be scattered and restless, become doubtful of our path and mistrusting of ourselves. STOP. Take a step BACK and really look at what is going on. See the art for what is TRULY there – from a distance and not that up-close-and-personal perspective that we sometimes “blind” ourselves to see.

LISTEN. Your SOUL is from whence your real “truth” stems – it whispers its secrets and desires to your heart and your heart leads from there. LET your heart lead and listen not always to the “logic” of your mind, for sometimes logic is not always logical, and what is done on faith, although might APPEAR to have no sense, makes the MOST sense of all.

Sometimes the mind can cause distress in the heart – when that happens we seem “off” for our soul protests, our “instinct” knowing what it is we TRULY need and not what we THINK we do. Sometimes the “think” is a want, a stubborn thread not ready to be let go of, even if our soul already has, causing pain in the heart from the emotions it evokes. In such times you have to IGNORE your mind and seek deep the whispers of your soul.

LISTEN. Let your heart be filled with the truth of your soul - to surround you and seep into your mind, so that your all becomes in SYNC. When your mind and heart and soul are working as one, striving together for a common purpose instead of fighting against each other, then you will have clarity in your journey and the road ahead, even if you know not where it leads just yet, will be made that much clearer.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

THOSE IN YOUR LIFE

The PEOPLE in your life can be very important. If you surround yourself with negative and toxic people, you will eventually find yourself dragged down to their depths, and that is not where you want to be. If you are surrounded by people who seek only to limit your potential and are jealous to see you spread your wings and fly, you will eventually either become resentful that you are “stopped” at every turn or you will begin to become negative and toxic. If you surround yourself with people who have been through destruction and pain and can still smile and see the beauty and good in life, then you will find yourself encouraging each other and lending strength when it is needed. If you surround yourself with positive and motivating people who believe in you and support your dreams, you will find yourself enjoying an abundant life full of blessings as you reach further and strive higher with those also moving forward in life.

Who you choose to ALLOW yourself to be surrounded by can make a huge difference in your life. Are those closest to you truly the ones who know and see and accept you for who you are and will only seek to encourage you, yet not be afraid to confront you because they care if they see yourself in a place of destruction and tell you the truth even if you do not want to see it? Or are they those who claim to know who you are, even as they do not understand your truth and purpose and only seek your attention when they want it or have no one else to turn to? Are those you let close holding you accountable and challenging you so that you grow, as you are them, and do they have your best interests at heart, as you do theirs? Or are you simply a passing whim to them, a moment of pleasure or a “novelty” they think delightful until it no longer serves them?

WHO are the people in your life? Who are you SURROUNDING yourself with? Who are you allowing into your INNER circle? Are they true souls or soulless facades? Do they truly listen to you and support you, or do they only criticize and condemn and seek to tear you down? Do they know what makes you truly happy and can they tell the difference, or do they just call you “happy” when you smile?

The negative, the toxic, the limiters, the energy demons, the “stagnant”, the fake – they will all ultimately hold you BACK from tapping your true potential and seeing your dreams realized. But the positive, the supporters, the warriors, the pioneers, the real who see and know your heart – they will walk WITH you into the fulfilment of all you are meant to be and more.

As you ask yourself who you surround yourself with, ask yourself what type of person YOU are and what YOU give to others’ lives. You know who you DON’T want in YOUR life, so if you are not already, choose to be one you WOULD have and seek to make an inspiring and positive difference in the lives of all those you touch.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

 

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

NEW

A year ago this date a pretty significant event for me occurred. It was significant in the mere fact that I even LET it happen. What followed began the journey of a heart opening up to life and the possibilities and dreams it had never dared before. A different type of strength was born, and emboldened by that strength a NEW creature began to emerge.

It is funny how fast time goes and how quickly everything can CHANGE even as nothing changes. I can look back and smile and feel that warm glow in my heart, even as that journey has ended and that creature no longer exists. I can look back and smile BECAUSE of the strength that still exists, even as it has developed and grown into something more than would have been imagined this date a year ago.

For this day is not this date a year ago. It is a NEW day. It is not a time for looking back except to remember fondly the happiness in such moments that were and learn from the experiences that sprung forth from them. It is a time for NEW strength to be moulded and new words to be written in a new chapter of this life.

With EVERY new day that dawns comes the opportunity for new adventures to begin, new dreams to be realized, new thoughts to be created, new strength to be born. It is a chance for RENEWAL of your soul, heart and mind, releasing what we have no control over to Him and taking accountability to change what we can make a difference in.

Every new day is the chance to CHOOSE to accept that the past no longer is, but that the lessons learnt are valuable. It is a chance to EMBRACE the new waiting, taking the strength you know exists and allowing it to let your smile be real, your heart to still hope, your faith to truly believe, and you to simply “be”, even as you will not let yourself stand still, constantly desiring forward movement.

As the new day starts take a moment to still your soul. Breathe in deeply and clear your mind. Seek the strength of your soul and pull it close. As it rises from within let it push away anything that would hinder your heart in moving FORWARD. Let your mind follow it, new footprints on sands wiped clean from the waves, new thoughts with new COURAGE at first a tiptoe and then a running leap becoming bounds.

New day. New strength. New thoughts. New beginning. New creature. BETTER YOU.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

ONE STEP AT A TIME

It’s not always going to be easy. Especially the times when you think you are past something and have let it go, but then are suddenly thrown backwards and off kilter, realizing that you are not as “over it” as you thought. Life loves to throw us curveballs. It is cruel and unrelenting in trying to break us down, to make us crawl on our knees. Only it doesn’t want us to get back up; it wants to watch us break so much that we don’t want to get back up and fight. And it’s up to US to ensure that it sees no such satisfaction.

One day at a time. One STEP at a time. We seek strength. We push forward. We fight. We survive. Some days are easier than others. Some we wonder how we managed to get to this point. When we look back we see the path we have carved up the mountain of life, our footprints stretching behind us in and out of the waves on the endless beach of eternity. We have come so far, but we still have so far to go.

Whatever happens remember that YOU are stronger than your circumstances, You are stronger than the punches that land on you. You are stronger than those who try to bring you down. You are stronger than the storms that rage around you. You are stronger than you THINK.

Keep your head UP. Give your soul the room it needs to breathe and HEAL and grow. Surround yourself with only sources of NOURISHMENT for your soul.

You have got this. You will get through this. You can only get BETTER!

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

NUMINOUS

It has been a month since my life changed in a cruel twist I never saw coming but that my soul sensed months before it happened – a twist that destroyed the world I had been building and the future I had started planning. Cruel, perhaps, because the pain was senseless and could have been diminished considerably had it occurred well before it did. But inevitable and ultimately necessary for my eyes to be opened – to bring me to my knees and cause me to see what I had let happen to myself: How far I had drifted from His embrace and the woman I had been becoming, when my soul had glowed so brightly that others noticed and I had peace in knowing I was on the right path.

It has been 10 days since I left the home I lived in – the home that had felt like a home, but then I just a stranger on the outskirts of the family I had been blessed with. 10 days since I stepped out on my own – moved into my own place, an empty house, a skeleton with so much potential. There were times when my soul was saturated with unbelievable sorrow at what I was leaving behind – love and family, before it was reminded that it was all an illusion that had taken me from the path my life was purposed for, albeit teaching me several very valuable lessons and giving me the ultimate happiness for moments that will now only ever be memories of what a fairy-tale feels like.

It has been mere hours since this once bare place truly became a “home” – lovingly setting up each room, the unlimited freedom to infuse my personality into it, creating harmony and knowing in my soul that I finally had my sanctuary. Smiling as hours passed in the doing – an open and easy smile accompanying spontaneous dancing and that hum that lets you know when a woman is truly happy. For the “wandering soul” desiring to set down roots and create a home is a “scary” experience – having a “home base” and not leaving with the wind or on a whim can feel like a cage to the soul who never lingers long anywhere, but I am excited, knowing I am now in His will.

So comes one “circle” to a “close” – one chapter of my life ended, the brief interlude passed, and a fresh page waiting for the next stage of my journey to start. Once again I am living on faith – not knowing but trusting, because now my soul is back in “alignment”. It is a freeing feeling and I feel like I have “come into my own” again - the creature I was has reemerged, the same but different: The love and carefree delight of life and happiness of a spirit at peace that was once loved has returned, but the sparkle is brighter, the light a more mature hue for the pain that has purified it, the smile and laughter holding nothing back for this soul has truly realized the power of inspiration.

Everything that has led me to this moment has not been without reason - it took time to see what was for what it was, but now my eyes are clear. There is a weightlessness in my soul I have experienced rare times in my life – the complete peace I feel allows me undeniable acceptance of where I am, understanding that sometimes indescribable pain is required for us to break so much that in the moment of our deepest despair, when we are stripped of almost everything we have held so precious, we cry out to Him, reminded that He is the cornerstone on which everything in our life is built, surrendering so that our soul might be healed and renewed, empowered like the phoenix to rise and become all we are meant to.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

TRUST AND HOLD

You have a dream. You have an ache burning deep in your soul. You have a vision beyond anything else. HOLD it. Keep it CLOSE. Remember WHY you cherish it thus. BELIEVE in it with everything you have. NEVER let go of something so precious.

It might seem as if your dream is far off. That does not mean that they are never going to eventuate. Some dreams just take TIME to manifest from fantasy to reality. Some dreams require MORE than others, not because they are “impossible”, but because not everyone is yet READY for that reality.

TRUST the process. If you are doing what you can and giving all you’ve got you can do no more. All you can do is be patient and have FAITH that your vision will be. It might not happen as you WANT it to happen, but it WILL happen, just the way it SHOULD be.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

FEEL THE RAIN

There was a tornado the other night. It started with simple streaks of lightning flashing through the sky intermittently. Then came the thunder bellowing in our midst. And then you heard the rain, slashing against the windows, the wind tearing at the trees like they were paper dolls it wanted to rip to pieces and scatter. It was harsh and being out in it would not have been pleasant. But inside, watching it, hearing it, sitting in the darkness and just letting the sound seep into your soul, it was calming and almost peaceful, despite the storm it created outside.

When it rains, sometimes it is light raindrops that you barely settle on your skin, brushing over you as if they were specks of dust. But sometimes it pours and you feel every drop, like a slap on your arm, leaving a stain of wet, making sure you felt it.

When it rains, some people only notice the wet, the uncomfortability it presents, the inconvenience it can cause. Others see it for what it is, allowing themselves to stand amidst it, feeling it on their skin, dripping and streaking across their body, metaphorically “washing away” the old to make way for the new, and giving them a “clean slate” and “new chance” to “start over”. The rain is not just water, and if you look deep enough into life and what beauty it can create when one might see it as an “inconvenience” or “drudgery”, and when you do, open your soul to what more it has to offer.

When it rains, are you the one that rushes to get out of the “wet” into the dry, where you can “predict” and “control” what happens? Or are you the one who takes a moment and stays outside, closing your eyes and turning your face to it, welcoming the “change” that those still and quiet moments can bring?

© 2013 Rosie Chee

2013 | Day 87: NOURISH YOUR SOUL

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

NOURISH YOUR SOUL

Your SOUL is the most PRECIOUS part of you. It is the CORE of you. It is your HEART, your DREAMS, your LOVE, your LIFE. It is the ESSENCE of what makes you YOU.

Too often we allow our soul to become dusty or dirty. We bear with a situation or get burdened down with weight that creates such heaviness in our soul that sometimes we feel like we just want to close our eyes and sleep forever. Sometimes the pen we write our life with drips black ink that falls on our soul and creates a dark stain where once light shone through.

A life is NOT a life when our soul becomes too damaged. It is only HALF a life when our soul becomes so tired that it wilts instead of grows. It has a negative effect on not only us but those AROUND us, and that is NOT what we want to ensure.

If your soul does not get NOURISHED, like a flower that needs the sun, it wilts and eventually dies. You canNOT let that happen. So even if it hurts like hell, renders your soul in pieces for a time, sometimes we must REMOVE any aspects from our lives that would cover the light of our soul and prevent it from reaching for the sun.

Life is too SHORT to allow yourself to live it merely SURVIVING. It’s time to take a stand and “spring clean” your soul, everything that resides there, hidden or not, and determine whether its presence in your life has a positive or negative cause and effect. If it is NOT positive, allow yourself to let it GO. Allow yourself to begin to LIVE again.

© 2013 Rosie Chee