I just saw the new 5 minute video from my friends and life coaches, Johnny and Lara, and had to share it with you.

It’s so inspiring, and so relevant to what many people are going through right now!

I thought that if they have helped me to grow and expand in so many different ways and levels of my life, they might help you too!!

Johnny and Lara’s Amazing Video!

You see, we all feel overwhelmed sometimes. We work and work, but bills keep coming and debt keeps piling up – many people feel like they just can’t seem to get ahead. Good news! Johnny and Lara have discovered the secret to living a truly wealthy life and reducing your stress over money. There’s a way to grow your wealth so you can truly afford the finer things in life – and have time to enjoy them.

You won’t believe what Johnny just bought Lara! CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO

I was so impressed that I’m sharing this video with as many people as I can – and I hope you will, too!  It’s just five minutes long, and I promise, it may just be the best five minutes you’ll ever spend!

With Love and Light,

Gaby

P.S.  I’m serious. You have to take five minutes to watch this video. Five minutes – you can do it during a commercial break! Just click here.

Think back to a challenging situation from your past. Have you noticed that even as time goes by – perhaps you even change your environment, your location, and the people around you – most of the time that challenging situation manages to come up over and over again? Have you ever noticed a pattern in the situations?

I ask these questions because I have experienced challenging situations throughout my life that tend to repeat themselves. Even after several years have passed, I have moved to different countries, and the people around me are totally different than the people that created my environment ten years ago, I seem to experience the exact same challenges. A few years ago, I didn’t even know there was a pattern in the circumstances or what was creating this phenomenon. Today I have a clear idea of what the answer is and this is what I want to share with you.

Throughout my professional career, I have worked for a variety of companies – all within the same industry. I always found very similar stressful situations (and ones that drain all my energy). I always thought that, in some part, it was the type of industry I was in. But I also thought that those situations were somehow created by my circumstances and the people around me. It took me several years and a lot of emotional ups and downs to realize that, throughout all those years and all those situations, there was only one single common denominator: ME.

Thinking the way I was, I was always blaming others, putting the responsibility on other people or external conditions and circumstances. What happened was that by being negative and resisting my own awareness, I was unconsciously attracting more of the same without even noticing. The energy and vibration that I was sending out was very low, and I attracted the same low energy into my life. The pattern then kept repeating itself.

When I came to the realization that I was the only one responsible for what was happening in my life, I started to wonder why that was happening to me. One of the greatest pieces of advice that my life coaches have ever given me is this: “The quality of our life is determined by the quality of the questions that we ask.” When we are asking from an unconscious place, we tend to ask questions like: “Why me?” “Why this is happening to me?” Such questions, at their essence, have a very low energy and vibration and immediately place us in a victimized position.

However, since the Universe matches the energy of the type of questions we ask, the solution is simple. Instead of asking low vibration questions, we need to learn to ask, what Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith calls, “Powerful Questions.” He teaches that these types of questions will take us out of the “unconscious” paradigm that we are living and will allow us to grow, expand, evolve, and, therefore, manifest a more powerful life. He gives some examples of powerful questions, such as: “How can I grow and evolve with this situation?” “What quality am I to cultivate to shift this circumstance in which I find myself?” “What skills am I being called to develop?” “What is it that I am to discern in this situation?” “What opportunity is here that I’m not grasping?” “What good is here that I am not seeing?”

Learning to ask these Powerful Questions will give us the capacity to use so-called negative or challenging situations as an opportunity to go deeper, to search ourselves, to stop placing blame on external circumstances, and to take responsibility for your life.

I invite you to start practicing to ask yourself more Powerful Questions anytime you experience a challenge in your life. Welcome each challenge and practice as you go. This will activate the impulse to establish a higher vision of your life!

With Love and Light,

Gaby

I know it is a little bit late to wish a Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you…. but why not? The Celebration of Love could be any day, right? So here it is…. Happy Valentine’s Day! Thank you all for your love, for your friendship, for your unconditional support, for taking the time to read my blog, for your inspiration, and for sharing your positive energy with me. May your life be full of love and joy throughout this week, month, and the rest of the year!

Since this is going to be the last post of February, I want to use this special occasion to share my insights around love with you.

Love is the one thing that everyone wants more of in their lives. We might not know exactly what love is or how to define it, but somewhere in our hearts we know that love is the most important thing in our lives. For me, love is ENERGY. It is the energy that is our core essence and when we are immersed in it our lives are suddenly transformed. I have asked myself several times, “Why are we always seeking love?” I believe that happens because our search for love is our soul’s reach for that profound and sublime sense of connection. We know that love – and being in love – is the best thing that we could ever experience.

Although we are all seeking it and it is all we long for, love is an area that most of us have received little or no instruction at all. The general assumption is that we know how to love, how to feel loved, and how to keep it in our lives. I have discovered that no matter what our circumstances are, we all can learn to love, to be loved, and to attract true love to our lives. We can all re-condition ourselves to love. And that is exactly what I have been doing this last year. In the process, I have learned there are a few (but very important) things we need to do if we really want to find true love in our lives. But the most important one is this: LOVE YOURSELF.

Loving yourself is not narcissism, nor egotism, or stubbornness. Self-love is a real and solid internal grounding from which you become your Authentic Self. Self-love helps you set your boundaries to be very clear about who you truly are and what you want in life, and it will be your guide in your efforts to love others as well.

Learning to love yourself is a life-long process. It is not something that happens in one day. You have to work it at every minute; but the more you practice it, the more attention you give to it, the more you continually remind yourself of how important you are, you will eventually arrive at a place where it will become automatic.

The most important part of this process will be when you realize that the path of self-love is a spiritual path. When you learn to not only see, but feel yourself as one of the threads of this vast, caring, and beautiful Universe, and when you really embrace that connection, then you can say that you are truly loving yourself. It will be only from this sense of connectedness from which you can truly love others.

For over a year I have been working on reconditioning myself for love. It took me around 8 months (and the help of my love and life coach) to realize that all this practice was actually the act of pure SELF-LOVE. I always thought that in addition to all that I had been doing, I also had to do something else to really learn to love myself. I always thought that the work that I was doing was about “changing” myself and not about “loving” myself.

I believed this up until that glorious and inspirational moment when I began to understand the truth. This is where my shift began. I started to feel different. I started to enjoy life in a completely different way. I even started noticing that my heart was longing and calling for something bigger, for something with transcendence. After two months of Divine searching I even discovered my purpose in life: to be a writer!! And here I am, living my spiritual path, feeling and experiencing my sense of connection with Spirit, with this vast Universe and humankind. It is only through self-love that I am guided to more love.

I invite you to begin this powerful and beautiful journey to self-love by taking one single step today. For you, what would that be? Write it down, post it where you can see it, and then take action!

With Peace and Love,
Gaby

A couple of months ago I watched a movie called “Funny People.” Yes, it is a comedy, and even though comedies are not my favorite genre, I thought there was a good message behind it. This movie – along with a wonderful book I just read and having celebrated Valentine’s Day just last week – gave me the idea of writing about this subject: Getting Real.

In the movie, the main character finds out that he is about to die and therefore starts getting in touch with the people and places that matter the most to him; he gets in touch with his heart and his emotions, and he starts to be who he truly is. Months go by and, after taking a new medication, his doctor tells him that the medicine had a positive reaction on him and the sickness was eradicated…. he gets to live! He gets a second chance! He was overjoyed, but only for a while. Even though he tried to stay in touch with his heart, in just a few days he fell into the same old patterns and finally lost his inner connection. It is when he starts feeling all alone again that he realizes that something needs to change; he realizes that this time he needs to change and that real change will take some time.

After I watched this movie I began questioning myself: “Why do people only Get Real when they are faced with tragedy, with sickness, with death?” “Why are we rushing all the time trying to get or be somewhere else when our present moment – giving our full attention to everyone around us – is the best practice we can do?” “Why do we tend to live just on the surface and don’t take the opportunity to connect with people at a deeper level?” “Why not be Real every day of our lives?”

Valentine’s Day was approaching and my sweetheart and I were having one of those good and deep conversations we often share. This time the conversation was about Love. We were trying to find a way to celebrate this special day in a different way. We wanted to use Valentine’s Day as a way to celebrate our love but this time at a deeper level – with some special commitments that could help bring us even closer. So for a while we were talking about this idea of Getting Real, getting in touch with our deepest feelings and emotions, and letting them be the sail that guides our boat through the ocean of our lives. At the end, he shared with me a book that he read a while ago and believed would be very appreciated, and very appropriate, for this conversation .

The book is called “Tuesdays with Morrie,” and is written by Mitch Albom. Perhaps you have heard of it or you have seen the movie. Maybe you have already read the book, or maybe you have not. But if you haven’t read it please, please, please do!

I can’t describe to you how deeply this book has touched me. It made me laugh, but it also made me cry. This loving story teaches us those things we ought to know already, but have somehow forgotten. I won’t give anything away – you will have to find out for yourself. The only thing I can promise is that this book will change the way you see your life because the subject of the book is about just that: The Meaning of Life.

So this is my invitation for this week: if you want to Get Real, if you really want to find out what this truly means, make the commitment to go to your favorite bookstore, go to the author’s website, go to amazon.com, and GET THE BOOK. I promise you won’t regret it; you will enrich your life through every page and the teachings will stay with you forever!

“The truth is Mitch,” Morrie said, “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”

With Love and Light,

Gaby

It was two years ago when I first felt and understood the true meaning of Responsibility, and it was about 8 months ago when I first learned a new way to look at it. Let me tell you the story.

Around this time of the year in 2008, and after a serious conversation with one of my sisters, I decided that I needed to take control of my own life. I really needed to understand what was going on in my life – why I was feeling unhappy and unsatisfied in the relationship I was in (yet again) and why I was always angry, negative, and losing my temper toward my circumstances; that was not how I wanted to be! I needed to understand why I was always living under someone else’s expectations – which I was never able to meet – and why I was never able to define who I was and what was what I wanted in my life.

It took a lot of commitment, time, energy, and resources to discover, but I realized that unconsciously and throughout my entire life, I was placing the burden of responsibility on someone else, anyone else, but myself: I blamed my parents, my mom’s mental illness (and its role in my family and in my life), my religion, my friends, my coworkers, my bosses, the superficial society I was living in (and, therefore, the inadequate men I met unable to connect with me at a deeper level), etc.

When I realized that the responsibility is not in others but within ourselves – a shift began to happen. I suddenly started placing myself at a 180-degree view and started to be the witness of my own experience. I began to be the observer of my own mind and emotions and began to truly understand that I was the one and only person responsible for what I have been attracting to my life. This was just the beginning of my awakening process.

It is important to understand that with every thought we have, with every word we say, with every feeling we experience, and with every action we take, we are co-creating, with Spirit, our own lives. Every minute, hour, and day – 100% of the time – we are choosing how we want to live. It is up to us if we want to do it consciously or unconsciously. It requires effort, focus, and attention from our part to become mindful of the situations and aware of our internal process. The practice of meditation can accelerate and propel this process.

For many years, meditation was knocking at my door. And even when I felt drawn to it, I never paid too much attention to it; I never did anything about it. It wasn’t until I read several books that mentioned the power that meditation can bring to our lives and help us become more peaceful, joyful, and grounded, that I made the commitment to practice it on a daily basis.

One of the many benefits that meditation has brought to my life is the ability to respond appropriately to situations – coming from my Superconscious Self rather than reacting from my subconscious bad habits. It helps me to constantly work on replacing negative attitudes with positive attitudes. I can’t say that I am a master of it. I am human. I’m still learning and practicing it every day.

This was the new way that I discovered to look at responsibility, and it has been helping me tremendously in my day-to-day activities, interactions, and relationships!!

Here is the practice: In any given situation that requires your response, take a moment to think it over instead of reacting from habit. Your responsibility lies in becoming aware of the unique response that is called for in that particular situation. You can ask yourself, “How can I respond appropriately to this particular situation?” Sometimes your response will call for actions, and sometimes it will call for restraint. Your responsibility will involve a conscious response rather than an unconscious reaction from your habitual tendencies. This requires mindfulness to see the situation clearly and learn to separate your responses from the situation itself.

We all have the ability to respond to everything, everyday, and in every moment. Your own internal guidance, your intuition, that little voice that calls for the Good in you, is the one that will give you the answer on how to respond…. Just be open to listen to it!

With Love and Light,

Gaby