What is True Financial Freedom? An Integrated Perspective

What is financial freedom?

Is this what financial freedom mean to you…

A beach lifestyle where you do not have to work and yet the cash register go ka-ching?

A jet-setting lifestyle while your trading portfolio generates income with the click of a button?

A real estate plan that would generate passive income for you while you play golf on the weekdays and have enough time for your family?

I am not surprised if you are already being sold such dreams by marketing professionals or sales advertisements with a ticket like the picture below….

Now, who wouldn’t like the idea of firing their boss and creating a lifestyle of their dreams?
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15 Best Mindfulness Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh

I enjoy learning from mindfulness quotes by meditation teachers. One such teacher is Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. He is a poet and peace activist, revered around the world for his powerful teachings on mindfulness and peace. I have his books and also attended his talk when he came to Singapore some years ago.

What I find appealing is the simplicity of his teachings. He draws on nature to impart his insights, for instance. While quotes do not usually comprise of a lot of words, what he says is enough for us to reflect upon.  They offer amazing life lessons.

The following are some of my favourite mindfulness quotes and in no particular order by him…

15 Best Mindfulness Quotes Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness Quote #1: Every Feeling is a Field of Energy

“Every feeling is a field of energy. A pleasant feeling is an energy which can nourish. Irritation is a feeling which can destroy. Under the light of awareness, the energy of irritation can be transformed into an energy which can nourishes.” – Thich Nhat Hanh Continue reading

Take This Quiz: Spiritual Strength Test

What is your spiritual strength?

Spiritual strength is your divine superpower. It is energy derived from being connected with Source. It encompasses your enduring quality. Others are attracted to you because of your spiritual strength.

It is possible that while you are gifted in your spiritual strength, you are not aware of it. After all, you radiate it naturally. You could be so used to your divine aspect that you do not realise of the influence that you have on others.Continue reading

How to Love and Accept Yourself Even if You Feel Ugly

You may find it hard to love and accept yourself if you believe and feel that you are ugly. Hate to look at yourself in the mirror? Have challenges with attracting a soul mate or your dream job because you think that your looks is in the way?

Read on to find out how you can love and accept yourself anyway. I am updating this post with more tips as I am discovering that this is an issue that afflicts a number of the clients I have been working with.

Through this post, I hope to stress the importance of self-love despite having an appearance that you may perceive as “flawed”. When you have a negative perception about yourself, your self-confidence comes down. This ultimately affects your ability to achieve your highest potential and also with manifesting what you want in life.

In fact, you could be aware that how you look to yourself matters more than what other people are saying.  Whether or not you are truly “ugly” can be an issue that is perceived or real. Some women can sweat over a mole or having wrinkle lines. Others may have features that could be deemed ugly by society’s standards. Whatever the case may be, you face difficulties with getting past your looks, no matter how others may assure you.

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How to Free Yourself from Body Image Issues

Have you ever wondered why you may continue to have body image issues, in spite of consciously knowing that you need to love yourself?

Body image is how you see yourself when you look in the mirror or when you picture yourself in your mind. It is what you think and feel about your physical body. Many of us internalize messages during our childhood. These messages can  lead to either positive or negative body image. Having a healthy body image is an important part for practising self-love. 

While most of us do not suffer from eating disorders caused by poor body image issues, we have the tendency to be overly critical in how we look. Chances are, if you are like the vast majority, you’d find yourself constantly thinking “I am flawed” or I don’t look good enough”. Thoughts like these can have a negative impact on self-confidence and your ability to shine!

There was a day when I was rudely awakened to why it could be so challenging for women to stop beating themselves up over their appearance. It happened when I was reading an article about Lady Gaga who encouraged thousands to embrace their bodies after hitting back at critics who called her fat. The article was in the pull-out Friday segment of our main newspaper. The writer then went on to rounding up 5 celebrity women who were proud of their curves.

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7 Daily Morning Affirmations for Abundance

What would you say to making morning affirmations for abundance?

Some people may find the advice of making daily morning affirmations to start the day simplistic and may erroneously think that it is not valuable. They would rather set it aside.

What is more, if you are already not having enough sleep, making morning affirmations could be the last thing you are thinking of. Just recall how you have been dragging yourself out of bed at the sound of the alarm. Your engine has barely started to crank up. You are hardly feeling the surge in energy that is required for making affirmations.

However, I’d like to ask you if you have noticed how there is a follow-on effect when you are feeling happy? Begin your morning right and you set the tone for what it is to follow. You are in a state that leverages on the law of attraction positively, thereby attracting positive outcomes throughout the day.
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7 Tips to Overcome Perfectionism

Were you taught to believe that striving for perfection is a worthy goal since young? Perhaps, from the time when you were a child, you learnt that perfect scores are ideal. If you did not, you would be penalised even if it was just one mistake out of every ten correct ones. And so, you have been conditioned to believe that you need to be perfect – that is, without a flaw, failure or weakness.

What you crave for is approval, in the strive for perfection. The shadow side is the fear of rejection that you hold.  You fear being ridiculed and not accepted for who you are if you are perceived as less than perfect.

Note that there is nothing wrong with wanting to produce your best work or hoping to present yourself in a good light. However, having a perfectionistic streak can have negative consequences. You are in the energy of “striving”, in seeking to meet a certain standard; failing which, you would shred yourself to pieces. The thought of imperfection makes you feel not-whole, incomplete, discontented and ill. The emotion that you experience is shame. There is a strong sense of disapproval towards the self.

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How To Ground Yourself In 7 Ways

A reader to my blog posed me this question: How to Ground Yourself. Well, it can be accomplished in a few ways. I would like to share my ideas in this article.

(Update: I’m republishing this post once again as the ideas are timeless and as I am still being asked “how to ground yourself” today.)

What Is Grounding?

Whenever I get a question about grounding, I am aware that mostly, my clients refer to spiritual grounding.
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The Secret to Manifesting What You Want Starts Here

Are you hoping to get an absolute guarantee or proof that something or some idea will work first before you would consider putting in “trust” or effort?

Maybe it is a new coaching program, business venture, new life direction or even applying the principles of the Law of Attraction.

To set aside your skepticism, you’d like to be assured by an expert, coach or even a pyschic fortune teller that you’d achieve 100% success?

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7 Signs of Inferiority Complex

Learn to recognise signs of inferiority complex. An inferiority complex is a state whereby you persistently believe and feel that you are not able to measure up to others. It is a sign of low self-esteem. The thought behind an inferiority complex is “I am not good enough”.

“The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.” – Alfred Adler

At least 95% of people have at one point or another encounter thoughts and feelings of inadequacy. However, you are said to have an inferiority complex should you constantly compare yourself with others. You see yourself as being in second place or falling short. Consequently, you feel poorly about yourself.

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