The One.

Find Your Dharma.
Fall in love with your purpose.
Live there.
Let this sink in you.
Let you sink into this.
Radiate it.
Become it.
Let everything in your life match this state.
Live only sharing this vibration with your Love.

This is Love.
This is Life.
This is The One.

Skinny Snow Flake: Your Weekly Winter Waist Watcher, Vol.5: The DESIRE MAP

Skinny Snow Flake: Your Weekly Winter Waist Watcher, Vol.3: Om - Y - God

A friend's twitter prompted me to put this out there.  The M word; the scary one that seems to be so simple, yet most of us struggle with it quite a bit: 

Meditation.

My advice is keep it simple.  There is no right way to do it, as long as you do it. Especially at the start.  Here are a few simple tips for the beginner meditation mastering one out there:

1) There is no wright way or wrong way.  Only a way that gets done. Commit to a daily check-in. If you fall off track, the next time you remember, you get back on track :) 

2) Do not aim for perfection. Aim for practice.  Drop the idea of 20, 30, 45 minutes of solid, daily meditation, at lest 1-2 times daily.  Start slow and steady. Settle into staying present for just a minute, or five first thing in the morning. Whatever you can handle, and are comfortable with.  Work on this and progress from here

3) You can stay present in silence, or use a guided meditation already pre-made. There are some great ones here. Do explore options, see which works) Commit, and stay consistent.  

If you fall off track, the next time you remember, you get back on track :) 

Enjoy!
xo

Skinny Snow Flake: Your Weekly Winter Waist Watcher, Vol.2: Thank you, thank you, thank YOU !

Our US friends are celebrating one of my personal favourite holidays: Thanksgiving.  I love the spirit of giving thanks for everything in our lives.  It really IS a time to slow down a little, or even for a few moments, and reflect and find items in your life to be thankful for.  So good, so good for you as well :) 

I suggest you visit my wellness portal, www.monikakovacs.com, register for a FREE profile and complete your own custom 'Attitude' profile for the coming 30 days.  This simple 5 minutes daily exercise will ask you to reflect on your day and help you see how your life really IS by the end.  Quite fun and eye-opening :) 

A little extra. Thanksgiving's 'massive' calorie count: By the numbers:

1,500
The amount of calories an average woman needs each day.

2,000
The amount of calories an average man needs each day.

3,000
The estimated amount of calories in a typical Thanksgiving meal, including turkey, side dishes, and dessert

5,000 to 6,000
The estimated amount of calories people consume throughout Thanksgiving Day - roughly TRIPLE the recommended daily intake.

3,500
The amount of calories needed for the body to create one extra pound of fat

In conclusion:  Americans eat *3 TIMES* the amount of calories they need in a single day.  I.e. we eat enough extra calorie's to add extra 1-2 pounds of fat in less than 24 hours.

Now to ease that paranoia you got from the last sentence, chill out. One overindulgence will NOT cause you to gain weight, or fat.  An one time caloric excess will not affect an otherwise steady lower calorie healthy diet.  

The most important part is to enjoy yourself and the company you spend this lovely time with. 

xo
Monika

Without Brushing My Hair

The closer I get to you, Beloved,

The more I can see

It is just You and I all alone In this World.

I hear A knock at my door,

Who else could it be,

So I rush without brushing My hair.

For too Many nights

I have begged for Your Return

And what Is the use of vanity

At this late hour, at this divine season,

That has now come to my folded Knees?

If your love letters are true dear God

I will surrender myself to

Who You keep saying I Am.

Hafiz

Skinny Snow Flake: Your Weekly Winter Waist Watcher, Vol.1: Eating Well

A fundamental aspect to great health is learning how to provide our bodies with the highest quality nutrition, in the right amounts.  With an abundance of resources of great variety of information available, this task is as challenging as it gets.  We are solely responsible for what goes into our bodies, so we better start paying attention.  A simple rule of thumb may be, if it grows live, eat it, if it does not, do not eat it.  Still confused?  Look at what you are about tot eat and the form it is in, is it close to how it would occur in it's natural state.  If yes, eat it, if not, well.....it is LEGO, play with it, but do not eat it!  

Fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains grow organically.  Processed, canned, man-altered foods are not life-sustaining, no matter what the label may say, or how well the presentation tempts your saliva to start overstimulating.  Nature and life has already provided us with everything we need to feed ourselves and to live with abundant health. The simpler we eat, the healthier we’ll be.

A sweet affirmation: I listen to my body and lovingly respond to its needs—giving it just the right amount of food, rest, and exercise.

xo

Monika

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Adieu, Farewell Forever

So................it is time to stop living the same old story. 
Get past my personal history.
I no longer need it, I decided. 
I give it up.
Peace.

Support, Refuse, or Trust.....

If you reject [supporting] someone's work, you cannot expect for these same persons to say 'yes,' to help spread your message, for them to support your work.
I've seen this a lot lately....sort of amusing, and frankly sad.

Will it be abundance or scarcity?

It cannot be both.

Choose to be supportive.  So YOU can have more !!!
It is an abundant Universe. You must know this.

Why I recommend TrueStar

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by Monika Kovacs

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How to give for maximum return

When you give to something, or to someone, you give OF YOU.
This is what should drive you:

*HOW will you give of you ?
*HOW will you serve?

It is not about the purpose you are giving to.  Rather it is about YOU, and how you will represent yourself through your giving.

Namaste,
Monika
www.monikakovacs.com

To have succeeded

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Safe DREAMing

If you have the desire and the skill,
If you are willing to do it for FREE,
Then nothing can stop you.

You have to be willing to give up everything and support the VISION,
To allow for yourself to be PULLEd by the DREAM.
 
WHY are you doing what you are doing?
If you are not willing,
You have no business complaining.

BELIEF

When it is time, the Universe will do everything and anything, to make us learn and trust to BELIEVE.  She might even strips us of everything we are attached to, all that we identify with, or think we need--so that all there is to remain, is the BELIEF....

So that, with BELIEF the world may wakes up again, and a new sun shines down, is softened by a new moon.  So that true BELIEF may opens our eyes to new rays of being ready for whatever may come our way.

We are ready, we feel it, we know it, we are light, we are light of the past, of the weight the pain of the past caused us to assume. It is all gone now....only the emerging, gentle rays of the new sun remain.  Here it is.  Us, anew again.

So it is.

Sparked by inspiration

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. (Sufi Proverb) 

I searched for you, I found myself; I found my own reflection, looking back at me--through the eyes of you.

Her [true] Hero

A very strong woman, a true Heroine, does not need a man who is weak; one who yells, screams, or otherwise makes a scene--to get her attention-who seeks a mother-figure in her.

A true Heroine commands the presence and essence of a real man, a trueHero.  A man, who is a lot stronger than she is, at his essence; yet he is always present in grace, love and elegance.  Just the way her presence would command him to be.

A man, as such, who, in her weak moment, would carry her through that brief period, unnoticeably.  As such that, when she 'needed him,' she would never feel herself weak--merely that he would appear to be a tad closer to her, than on normal days.  He would do this in a fashion that appeared as deeper intimacy.  In his strength she would find and reclaim hers;   as she received his energy and strength, as hers, refilled, refuelled, ready; being herself again--ever so beautiful.   Owning him, him owning her, fully, completely, holding one another completely free.

That is what a true Hero is.

I set fire to the rain

The tests of the offenders, the haters, the second handers;
I stood my ground today.
I bless you.

Thank you Universe for blessing me with all your trials,
Thank you for allowing me to find the strength inside,
To walk through the fires of refining.
Thank you for allowing me to be re-born again.

In the midst of the love, the storms, the rains, the hail, the parting clouds,
In the blue of the skies....where the rainbows peek out,
I shall come alive again.
Where I belong--in the love, in the life, in the strength,
The grace and the perfection all life is, as is.

So it is.

Effortless

Effortless isn't 'no work,.'
Effortless means perfect alignment where effort meets desire and they together flow along.....

Don't You Quit, An Inspirational Poem

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high,

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit-

Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a fellow turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out.

Don't give up though the pace seems slow -

You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man;

Often the struggler has given up

When he might have captured the victor's cup;

And he learned too late when the night came down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out -

The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It might be near when it seems afar;

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -

It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

Affirmation:

I Trust the Divine to provide me with the wisdom to make the right decision, under every circumstance I encounter today and every day. If I want to know what to do, I ask quietly in my heart, and I shall be guided.


So it is.

Put yourself out there, as you

Put yourself out there as you.

Do not concern yourself, if, and who, may likes you.  Do not try to act to appeal to people, so they may potentially like you.  As this is likely to, ultimately propel you to act-out a role, as opposed to being yourself.  Such approach, in the long term, will not make you happy, and will not work.  Would you not rather date, or work with someone, who likes you for who you are?

Show up as yourself.  Find out, who likes you, as you.  Find who wants to date you, as you.  Find out, who wants to work with you, as you.

Let you be who you are.

True nobility

Find gifted people, bring them to the front, honour them, protect them.

Real teaching

Real teaching goes beyond your words, what you do even your attitude.
Real teaching happens in spirit through the heart.  It is the message at the spirit level, your intention of truth.

This is why I feel the truth from people clearer, than their verbal message.....

Give yourself to......

Beloveds, when we give our bodies to another being, we are giving them a piece of our souls. We might want to take the time to find out if they deserve it.

By: Iyanla Vanzant

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is,

Never better
Never easier
Never going to work
Never an option
Never going to come
Tomorrow doesn't exist--it is an illusion.

Seek today.
Today is all you have....this moment, and the next, and the next....

-MK

The REAL reason you gain weight

No matter what you say, the real reason you are over-weight comes down to this: 

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• Nutrition
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• Attitude
• Sleep

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Your Fortune

I believe that our fortune is in our hearts,
It was placed there by God,
Sparked lit by our greatest Dreams,
Fuelled by our Passion, 
Willed into life, brought to completion, by Us.
Our Divine potential is a given,
What we choose to make of it, is left entirely up to Us.
Change your body, change your LIFE. 


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This is your life, what are you doing with it? 

HAPPINESS Instructions

Love mad
Laugh happily
Dream graciously
Reach for the #Stars
Move your Body
Stay aligned 
Stay active and moving all day, every day
Hold steady--your highest Vision for Your LIFE
Live Awake
Co-Create 
Be Friend and befriend
Stop Trying--Quit, or Do


Never look back!

Yeah but, It's so hard....

It is hard until you do it.
It is hard unless you do it.
It is hard until you start to Believe in it.
It is hard because you are not Doing it.
It is hard because you want it to be hard.
It is hard because it is easier to believe in hard, than to say 'yes' to easy.
It is hard because it is scary.
It is hard because you want it to be your way
It is hard because you don't know what to do with it.

Then something changes;
Something shifts.
You change.
You begin to Believe. Then,
Hard disappears.

It becomes easy.
It becomes real.
It becomes 'all you want it to be.'
It becomes easy, as you wake up and Believe.
It becomes easy as you realize, it is all possible.
It is all Real, it is all Yours;

Your DREAM.

-MK

A TRUEpreneur

A TRUEpreneur is:
 
AN ENTREPRENEUR, WHO, AFTER HAVING PLANTED THE SEED AND TOILED IN THE FIELD EXTENDS THEIR HAND TO HARVEST THAT, WHICH IS NECESSARY TO PROVIDE STABILITY SECURITY, AND FINANCIAL FREEDOM FOR THEMSELVES AND THOSE THEY LOVE. AND THEN TAKES EVERYTHING IN EXCESS, AND BLESSES THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO ARE STILL IN THE JOURNEY OF BECOMING A TRUESTAR. 

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If you love it, let it go, If it comes back …..

I am a Wellness Consultant with TRUESTAR Health, home of the Leading Online Healthy Lifestyle Resource, the #1 Ranked vitamins and natural supplements.  I first began with this company, working as a Personal Health Advisor, in 2006, when they operated within various retail locations.  I coached people through their journeys to better health, using the TRUESTAR system, combined with my own Personal Training services.  It was all I could ask for, and some.  I was doing what I loved.  I never worked a minute.  I simply got to spend time clients, sharing my knowledge, learn something new every day, and change lives.  It was amazing to have seen 100’s of committed individuals pushing through to weight-loss victories, amazing bodies, lives transformed.

There was especially one client I adored working with.  She was the Student every coach dreams of.   I will call her Kathy to respect her privacy.  I remember Kathy first coming in to our initial consultation, with all her 4’9, meaning business like I have never seen anyone before.  She signed up for my biggest packages in everything.  She was hungry.  She knew what she wanted; she was focused, open, willing, and ready to go.  Her and I had a 42-week contract.  She never missed a beat.  She never whined.  She was always grateful.  She was honest, and very open.  She shared her struggles, her joys; she shared what she could not shake, her fears and more.  She started to come alive.

Besides all the above, she worked HARD!!!!!  She showed up ready, she trusted.  She changed her life; she also lost 50 lbs.  My favorite part, as I am such a girl and stylist, I started to see her changing her outfits.  She started wearing skirts and more feminine pieces, not to mention her sweet smile of joy, and eyes of sparkle became permanent on her face.  There was so much gratitude, and the strength that can only come from KNOWING she had earned it.  As the fruits of her effort unfolded, she never stopped going for it.  This woman was unbelievable.

I had to I relocate, end that line of work, and leave my clientele behind.  My prime focus became my Private Personal Training business catering to high level performers and executives stay at home wives and mommies.  This transition, while exciting, made it difficult to part from my clients, and friendships.  I had no access to company database, hence I always wondered and missed many of my besties from the past :)

Fast Forward to 2012, February 25, 2012.  I am still a TRUESTAR Girl, and represent the best of the best, as a Wellness Consultant.  After the Saturday morning training + meeting, I had an inner push to call my mother and suggest a visit.  She wanted to meet with me mid-way, but something told me to drive out ‘to’ her farm.  It was a gorgeous Sunny winter afternoon, and I love visiting the country on a day like that.  It is like God was talking to me all while driving, I was listening to a book on audio, that seemed to have guided this entire drive and experience.

As a personal note, I am a book warm, I love to read and listen to books.  I love to learn and spend a ton of time on bettering myself, also to work on my command of the English language.  During my drive, I was listening to my latest and greatest find, which was really an almost divine slap on my face, as I was not getting the first gentle nudges, that tried to guide me to read it.  Enter SPIRIT JUNKIE--a hip new book, I was guided to get my hands on through audible.  I soaked it up ip in two days.  It was clearly ‘for me’ and for ‘a purpose’ unknown to me at the time of my purchase.  The book is based on A Course in Miracles (ACIM), a self-study curriculum that aims to assist its readers in achieving spiritual transformation.  I have been wishing to own a copy of ACIM for long, but could never put my hands on it.

As I arrived to the country, I was filled with peace.  The book I was listening to, SPIRIT JUNKIE, was really getting into those dark areas of my psyche that, needed to be opened. 

I am known to, what I call, ‘clever-task.’  I do not like sitting, not to mention, work, in one place.  Over time, I learned to get my work done wherever I happened to fancy positioning my yogic behind.  Since I am usually on the go, my tasks get done in creative ways. 

As I arrived to my mom’s farm, I had a couple of conference calls to attend to.  While waiting on these, and mom to get ready, I got online to see, if the local bookstore may have carried ACIM.  They did; I put it on hold.  As a side note, both ACIM and SPIRIT JUNKIE had been books I was nudged about, since I first learned of them.  I ignored all of these of course, until these nudges, and the circumstances of acquiring them, became too clear and inevitable.

When mom and I finally got back into the city, we had a plan where we would go first etc.  I wanted to pick up my book, ACIM, so that was first (seriously, can I be more of a child).  While at the store, I also wanted to pick up the current book I was listening to, in paperback (when I love a book a lot, I do this).  As I looked for my prey on the shelves, without success, I turned to walk towards the computers to do a search, and get myself properly allocated.  As I begin to make my way to the computer, I spotted a short lady, in store uniform.  I recognized the face, the glasses.  I knew her, but have not yet registered the identity.  Then it was clear, it was she; the one I never forgot, the face I have missed for 5 years.  The client I always remembered with so much gratitude, Kathy!!!  I could not believe my eyes.  We got excited, caught up.  She also met my mom, told her about our amazing journey together (FYI, my mom still thinks I do a cross between aerobics in pastel spandex, Jane Fonda style, mixed with some yogic moves). 

Kathy briefly shared her personal struggle and frustration since we parted ways.  I.e. how she did not find inspiration, nor support in the people who came after me.  Her body also took another downward spiral.  We re-established contact, and became beyond eager to reconnect and embark once again on a new journey to self-love, and multi-dimensional transformation.  Just before we parted, after all she was at work…oups, I asked her to assist me finding the book I wanted to get, SPIRIT JUNKIE, one of the ‘reasons’ I went in there.  Kathy, also felt the same book calling to her, and she put a copy aside for herself as well.

As mom and I left the bookstore, I had an uneasy pinch of the minus 14-Celsius outside. I suggested a coffee break.  While in line at the cafe, a lady, who stood in line, overheard our admiration of the gorgeous cakes and desserts.  We started talking and instantly clicked.  A short conversation of caloric-guilt, quickly lead to an exchange on weight loss, what I do, and of course TRUESTAR Health.  My new friend, Amy, emphasized that, ‘her ways’ were different from the conventional.  I.e. she saw body transformation as having a strong spiritual basis.  I pointed at the blue book in my hand.  We locked eyes; we both knew we were ‘meant to meet.’  Amy left to sit with her cupcake, we also took our spot.  In a few minutes, Amy tapped my shoulder.  She came over on her way out, to ensure she’d given me her name, also, affirming that, she would look forward to reconnecting and embarking on a quest of working on her spirit and body with me.

Mom and I continued our afternoon, and ended up at a COSTCO.  Of course no Saturday afternoon with mom would be complete without COSTCO :)   As we filled our cart, another TRUESTAR blast from the past, another Monika + Past client Reunion, praising the fruitful work of the past, to mom, who at this point was beaming like a light ball, still picturing her daughter in pastel purple spandex doing the grape-wine, popping the TRUESTAR vitamins. 

It was an unplanned day filled with miracles; or was it?  Were the events shared really miracles, or merely life’s summoning of itself into existence, uninterrupted? i.e. as it happens, when we step out of our own way?  I finished listening to SPIRIT JUNKIE by the time I made it home that evening.  Looking back, it was so clear to me, based on the story the author shared that, everything that, I had experienced, beyond TRUESTAR, SPIRIT JUNKIE, ACIM, have been life’s ways, to get me to where I had been heading all these years.  The lessons, the struggles, the nudges, the slaps, the joys, the sorrows, the losses, the rebirths have all served a purpose to, and of, this point.  It all began many years ago, when I was an over-weight teenager...

The body is a journey of mysteries.  What you do with it is up to you; accept assistance on your way from spirit, a coach, who can easily become a close friend and mentor you will guide you on this journey, and so much more…

PS – always leave room for miracles…..

Your love IS your World

EVERYTHING about you spreads your love.

It beings in your intention.
It transfers through your emotion.
It is present in your thoughts.
It appears in your words.
It creates your actions, hence,
It shapes your experiences.......

Your love creates your world.

-MK

What are you afraid of.......

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” 
– Michelangelo (1475-1564)

I was moved by poetry.........

hourglass :: a last love poem

i loved you
as much as i could
as long as i could
hard as i could
hard as it was

steadily holding on
to the small piece of maybe
that was finally destroyed

i have done all i can

we came together
in our respective corners
at the bottom of an hourglass
with our own strengths
our own wounds

marriage is to be found
in the voyage
through the tiny neck
of this timepiece

crossing up and over
to the opposite quadrants
those qualities of the other
missing in ourselves
are to be absorbed
for each to become whole

my love
hard as we tried
we simply did not make it
through the passage
the wounds too deep
the rage too loud
the voice too silent

and though i love you
i cannot be
married to you
i lost myself
in the giving of everything
to you

i now know
heartbreak in one
is a pain
unable to be healed
by the other

we can only
heal ourselves

for months
i have been nowhere
and everywhere
wheeling my home behind me
into the havens of others
now i need to land safely
inside the space of my own

i was starving to death
before hunger finally saved my life
waking me to desire

and now you are
free from the wanting more
than i could give
and i will love you
beyond the wound

~ from Writing for My Life…Reclaiming the Lost Pieces of Me: A Poetic Journey by Nancy Levin

Has God Gained Weight Lately?

I had a life-changing experience yesterday.  It is too complex to share right now.  I will at some point :)  For now, the jest of it IS this: when you are WILL-ing to be and act from where you are most vulnerable, and you are WILL-ing to surrender to your experience of this truth, you WILL be heard by the Universe in full.  The right people, forces, influences, energies WILL align for you; along with all that you need, at the exact time, to propel you forth in the RIGHT direction, for your greatest good, that will also serve the Universe at the highest level.

The only condition is that, you must remain attached to your desired experience, that, which feels RIGHT at your core--all while remaining completely DEtached from what the outcome would look like.  Such Magic occurred yesterday.   Instead of the tides, circumstances, I have been seemingly fighting against, that really wore me out, put me out of my element, and only increased my insecurities and fears, I surrendered, and went with a decision, completely unlikely of the former, and I found open doors.  I found kindness, light, and open arms of support in my purpose.  What is more, the first thing this morning, I opened my eyes to an email, in response to all this.  So many details paving me a new path to step on and follow

I let go, I let God.  I opened without, even realizing at the time, to something that was unknown, subtle, gentle, yet powerful and beautiful; and it answered.

As I contemplated this morning, I could not help but burst out laughing, wondering if God had gained weight lately?  You can tell I am a living example of what I teach at the physical realms.  I pictured God with slight love handles.  I.e. when we watch great movies, we are likely snacking on something comforting at the same time.  If we do this too much, too often, without counter balancing the habit, we can, and likely will, gain a little extra weight.  I imagined God watching our human movies, while snacking, and being amused.  The 'independent' busy-bees, wanting to make it all happen on our own, working hard to prove it to the world, and to every one else, that we can, and WIL do it alone...on our own; needing nothing or no one.  I also think it is funny; we all do it.

Take with you this from my above ramble: TRUST that in your heart, in your purest, most sincere connection to what your own definition is of God, it is there with you, it is One with you.  You are One with the greatest Perfection and most lively force of your existence.  Let this be.  Marry this force.  Marry the best in you, so you can and are ONE, with it all.   Let this beautiful force drive you up every day to the best you can be, do, and have, and experience.

1%

What's in the number 1?  Everything!
It is New Year. It is exciting, yet scary at the same time. So many possibilities and more than 300 chances to get it right, wit the rolling in of each new day.
I was reminded by someone, who inspires me to a great deal, at all levels, to focus on being 1% better each day.  So that, in 365 days, I will be 365% better.  This was not the first time I heard the 1% advise.  Yet, today, this simple nudge was more powerful, than any big motivational tactic I can think of, that I came across recently.
Thank YOU, my inspiration, for advising me when I needed it the most, in the most subtle yet POWERFUL way possible.

Here is to the POWER of the 1%.
Monika
xo