Bringing awareness

Date 11 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Bringing awareness to our emotions brings reasoning, where we didn’t have reasoning and where we have reasoning, we can work on change. Bringing awareness helps us recognise and understand how our emotions will affect us, and how our emotions will help us interact with others and what impact our emotions…
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The value of listening

Date 8 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
The art of our success isn’t achieved by speaking, but by our ability to listen. While some people may be impressed by how well we speak, more will be impressed by how well we listen. The best outcomes are governed by knowledge and wisdom and by our ability to intuitively…
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Parental influences & culture

Date 3 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
I believe it’s important we explore our thoughts, feelings and experiences, pertaining to parental influences and culture. In many respects, it’s how we learn to do things better and how we come to make positive changes in our life. Consciously, we may not always equate how influential our parents or…
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How not to be offended

Date 1 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We come across and interact with people who knowingly or unknowingly are offensive and on our part, we let it happen. Only we have the power to stop it. It doesn’t have to be that way; we can all choose to communicate differently. We can choose to be a little…
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Understanding the caring

Date 28 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
There comes a time when we know the people who genuinely care, because their actions show they care. Then there are those who say they care, but their actions show a different understanding of what caring means. It is only when we come to understand that fact that we can…
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A simpler existence

Date 26 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s hard to imagine life in the slow lane given our busy lives, but it needs to happen, if we are to lead a simple existence. A life homing in on the simple more harmonious things, will help us to cut down on stress. When we learn to slow down,…
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Personal Boundaries

Date 25 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Our personal boundaries are the boundaries we work our lives around. It’s the boundaries we create for ourselves that we expect others to abide by. We have personal boundaries, but others may ignore them. Boundaries are there to tell others what they can and can’t expect from us and what…
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Snobbish behaviour

Date 23 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
The world is made up of different people. Some are tall, some are small. Some are tolerant, some have no tolerance at all. Some are kind, some are unkind. Some are humble, others may be snobbish, where they feel they’re a cut above the rest. They think their outlook, their…
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Turning into our parents

Date 20 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
It is generally understood that we may eventually turn into our parents, unless of course, we consciously choose to opt out. It’s common when we’re young to emulate, even want to be like our parents, particularly if our parents are good role models. Children look up to their parents because…
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Our early influences

Date 16 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
As parents, it is important we maintain our own morality if our children are going to have a chance of being raised in a moral way. The more moral the parent, the more moral the child will be. Do we take time to consciously think about our moral standing? We…
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Ignoring our emotions

Date 9 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We take supplements, we make sure we try to eat healthy foods, we spend our life pampering ourselves and that’s fine, but we literally ignore everything on the inside. We bury vulnerability. We seek out quick fixes and play the resilience card, the card that helps us to bounce back…
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Lessons learned

Date 8 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We learn that our most valuable lessons come through our thoughts, our emotions, our perceptions and our words. We learn our emotions determine a particular experience and outcome whether that outcome is right or wrong. That we have control, that we learn and grow as we continue to go. We…
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