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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We think we know

Date 30 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Do we ever know someone, I mean really know someone? Perhaps it’s the people we think we know the most that we don’t know at all. There is a difference between knowing someone and knowing about them. And we never can know someone unless we work from the soul. The…
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Regaining control

Date 29 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s always bad to invest our energy and get hooked on the wrong things that make us lose sight and control. The good part is that to regain control over our personal lives isn’t as hard as we think. Losing control means we’re powerless to regain control and that usually…
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Choosing not to care

Date 27 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
It is important we care, but it is not always important to care. There is a difference. We spend our lives caring, but caring only works when someone we care about, cares about us. We concern ourselves over the people who care less about us. We spend a lifetime trying…
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Willpower & determination

Date 25 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Willpower is essential if we are to achieve, overcome and succeed, so why do we fail at the willpower thing? What is it about willpower that has a tendency to stop us in our tracks, just when we need it the most? Leading research led by Roy Baumeister, Professor of…
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Children taking sides

Date 19 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Childhood experiences often show that adult relationships aren’t always happy ones and that even if children don’t see problems from the outset, it doesn’t mean those problems don’t exist, or they’re not affected by them. Children are very adept at picking up friction, even if on the surface those problems…
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Changing personalities

Date 18 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
How we see ourselves in a close relationship, can prompt us to alter how we define our identities, both in negative and positive ways. Our affections towards our significant half can influence how we see ourselves. Confidence and self-esteem and our dispositions, can influence changes in us in either negative…
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Settling for second best

Date 12 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We mustn’t settle for second best and yet that is what we do, what some of us have always done. It’s not that we consciously set out to think about being second best, but it’s often how we see or treat ourselves. When we undermine our abilities, when we undersell…
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