Keeping control

Date 24 May 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s one thing being shown or being told what to do, when we’re struggling to understand how to do something, but it’s another thing being controlled by others and yet sadly that is exactly what happens. It’s almost expected, or we allow it to happen unconsciously because we don’t know…
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Handling ourselves

Date 22 May 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
I believe that not handling ourselves emotionally will lead to a lot more stress than we bargained for. In my formative years, it wasn’t so much that I didn’t deal with my emotions. Being angry meant my emotions were dealt with, although slightly misplaced, but had the emotional support have…
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Informed opinions

Date 20 May 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Because we spend the majority of our lives either forming opinions, or listening to other people’s opinions, it’s important we’re informed about the opinions we go on to form. It’s not that anyone goes out of their way to get opinions wrong, but without opinions being backed by facts that…
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Ego vs intuition

Date 18 May 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
The ego and intuition are at two ends of the spectrum and are complete opposites, like chalk and cheese. The ego is defined as a person’s sense of self-importance or self-esteem. Intuition is the ability to understand something instinctively without the need for conscious reckoning. There is a problem with the…
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Self-inflicting limitations

Date 15 May 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
The way we see and interpret our life through culture and society, means we set our own limitations and that’s what we continue to do. The environment and what is expected of us and how we’re expected to live can make us somewhat narrow-minded and that is how we continue…
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Perceptions & Disability

Date 14 May 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Living with a disability means we’re either seen as heroic because we manage our disability, or that any effort we make is great because we’re learning to deal with it. We’re not really seen as normal, but given the fact that ...
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Decisions & the bigger picture

Date 11 May 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We all have things that we deal with, but whether it’s something someone else deals with, or something we deal with, it’s important we’re looking at the bigger picture, because that way we will go on to make more informed decisions. There is always an underlying problem that becomes the…
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Seek your own approval

Date 10 May 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
You don’t need anyone’s approval to tell you you’re good enough. Life shouldn’t be about seeking other people’s approval, it should be about working on your own approval. Seeing things for yourself. If someone stands in judgment, or chooses to walk away and decides to physically remove themselves indefinitely from…
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Morality and Spirituality

Date 8 May 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Living a moral life is synonymous with spirituality. So, in a broad sense, when I talk about morality, I am defining spirituality. Spirituality has everything to do with morality. Morality is everything that spirituality is. Being moral allows us to live honestly and purely in a world that doesn’t always…
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Being unnecessarily difficult

Date 5 May 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
There is a difference between being difficult unnecessarily because we know we can and know we’ll get away with it and being difficult unnecessarily because we struggle and fail to cope. We may still choose to let their behaviour to go for a quiet life, so as not to rock…
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When the ego talks

Date 3 May 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
When we allow our ego to make decisions on the important things we need to make decisions on, we will always get the process wrong. We need to understand the facts the way they really happen, rather than choose to perceive the facts wrongly through our ego. When the ego…
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A soulful connection

Date 1 May 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We have a mind, physical body, and soul. Although our lives start in the physical form when we’re born, we have already had past lives, some with people we’re in contact with in our current life, and some people we’ve yet to meet. Have you ever had a fleeting moment…
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