For real though. 

Negative things have no power other than that which (if) you choose to feed into it. 

Archangel Michael kicks arse. 

Always starve the negativity and be grateful for all blessings- big, small and to come. Don't treat the good like the bad because it's that doubt which fuels negativity and gives it a chance to have a hold over you and your life- or make it feel that way. 

If you feel weak or powerless then pray, believe, keep the faith, take a step back, and see that only you can hold your God given power unless you choose to surrender it. It's never too late to better yourself. 

People may be able to try physically holding you down (the system does with things like money), but you are always your own person who is responsible and accountable for all the decisions you choose or have chosen to make. 

In staying true to yourself mind, body and soul you can find true peace. Chaos is only there to help you recognise and appreciate the peace, hate makes you realise the true beauty of unconditional love, etc. 

Once you realise these things the lesson in negativity has filled it's purpose, and you don't need it anymore. Anything after or other than that is self-sabotage. Even if it doesn't seem like it at the time, we create our own heaven or hell with our thoughts, actions and words. Without light you set yourself up for true failure in a world that makes you feel like you're winning. 

I'm grateful to have discovered this because I know I'm looked after in the most important spiritual ways by God's light in all forms, and when I die I'll be well looked after. 

Where there is life there is hope, and there is hope beyond that too with more than just what you can see. In fact, looks can be and are very deceiving. Trust in your initial feelings, those are God given. Light will always guide you if you give it a chance to shine. God sees souls before bodies. 

Peace and loving blessings,

-Dalanda

xoxo

Don't project your negativity on people, especially those that want to share the light. We are human beings, everyone can be cruel but if someone wants to be kind you shouldn't trick them with your own insecurities. 

There is no need to play devil's advocate with your relationships because embracing people and being kinder is the only step actually that needs to be taken. Adding anything else is a recipie for disaster because like they say, 'if you keep knocking at the devil's door, someone is going to answer you'. If you're looking for things to trip you up, you'll walk off of your nice path and into a self-imposed downward spiral with no one to blame. 

There's no such thing as too good to be true when it comes to people, because every single person is unique with unique gifts and it can be amazing when you meet people you have a connection with. You should trust yourself in your dealings with yourself and others to know that if there was something truly bad you'd sense it and your true self would be repelled, not scared because fear is energy manipulation. This is why it's not real. 

Fear can put up one of the greatest barriers between two which is misunderstanding and once that's up, there's no point till an effort to understand each other is made. You can be the loveliest person to someone but if they want you to be bad then all they will see is bad, all they will do is try and make you fit into the negativity they've created in your head. 

 Remember how you view the world is a reflection of yourself, and you should have faith in people instead of thinking they'll be as horrible to you as you can be to yourself. If you don't trust yourself and others, you could end up alone and hating yourself which is no way to live your life when there are people out there that are kind and don't want to see you suffer. 

There is good, but good people from the perception of someone plagued by negativity is far worse than straight up evil. This is because you'll have kindness and on the other hand you'll have bastardisations of it being projected most onto the one that tried to fix it. It's bad for the negative person too because it's doubt that creates misunderstanding and often people are actually seeking out the good things they run from. We can create a living hell for ourselves just based on shoddy perceptions. 

 I'm hyper-sensitive to energies and have always been, but it can get hard to deal with because often I pick up on insecurities as that's what people often focus the most energies onto when it comes to themselves. I find it sad because it's not how I see them but people take themselves far too seriously so I always try to look for the light in people. However just because I see it doesn't mean they acknowledge it and some inner monologues can be hard to hear, and it's why I distract myself with music when I'm out and about because it's something I can completely zone out and engage with.

However you can still pick up on some very painful things and this is why I realised the hard way that healthy boundaries and where you put your trust just as important as raising people up. Just because you can see the light in someone (and I have the gift and sometimes curse of being able to see it in everyone) and what they could be, doesn't mean that's what they are or what they want to be in that moment. I've been attacked very badly energetically and physically from just trying to help people recognise light in themselves because of their own self-doubt. I wrote a lot about healing because I needed it to stop, and I needed to start trusting myself.

If you could see and sense people the way I do (which you could if you cared to try), and the damage negativity does you'd never want to be mean to anyone ever and that's from the heart. I know from experience it can and does make you physically and mentally sick. That's why I focus so much on being kind, it's so painful and damaging not to be, but people just ignore it because it takes courage to feel. That for me is proof that people can be and are sensitive but they choose not to be and modern society ignores kindness because it doesn't make the kind of selfish profits. What's sad is people seemingly get away with it, but I personally don't see the fun in cheating yourself out of true happiness. It is what you do when you give in to doubt, but few people will admit it to themselves like that because we're told to never make mistakes. We all do, especially when we are being misguided. 

I try my best and we all should because you don't know who you're dealing with-there are more mentally ill and suicidal people out there than you would think. Everyone just wants to be happy and that's a fact of all souls, and why people are so risk-aversive. We needn't be, we should just be less guarded but to trust takes more balls than throwing things away and holding on to a negative status quo (for some). 

 You find what whatever you look for in life, but your journey and results vary based on your mindset. Teach them with kindness is a legitimate thing but make sure you come with understanding too and you can start with trusting yourself and your ability to sense things. 

When there is good in your life, trust in it. The truly difficult act in life is going against your true self and true friends and you don't need to. You've never needed to. 

The caution you should take in life, is to not follow the negativity. We all know what's right or wrong, it's whether we listen and act on it and that all comes down to you. 

Bright blessings,

-Dalanda 

xoxo

Rocking fruit (my lips were red- I had another non-themed party or I would have gone fruitier), and partially shower soaked hair (from a minor mishap xD) with some awesome people. 

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I Think She Knows

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Justin Timberlake

This image reminded me of how I've learned to understand healing in life. There's light along the way, the need to trust with the bridge, light to lead the way and more light should you choose to move away from the places with less light. 

Healing can be a never ending journey, and this is because we can always be better but we can also trap ourselves in stagnant energy, or pain cycles that don't further our growth as souls and human beings. 

Healed turns into healer when it is a state of being- and we can all be healers. There is no trick in light things just are. Even whilst in pain you can be a healer, and in so heal yourself providing you don't focus on ignoring, feeling or escaping the pain but accept what is, work with the lessons from it and allow yourself to grow. Not all change is inherently good, but it can give you scope to learn more, be more and do better if you approach it in the right way. Then you can be better. 

All we ever truly have in life is our perception of reality which is the present moment, it moves forward with every heartbeat- but even that stops one day when our soul leaves our bodies for that final time. As they often say, 'life is no dress rehearsal'. We don't get any time back, and the past can't be changed or altered. 

I find trust and light in our creator, mother-father God and in the gifts, mysteries and mercies I see all around me in life. From even things that some would consider simple or take for granted like breathing, going for walk, hobbies. 

In this world where we are bred to cater to others whilst being selfish; this conflict can lead us to forget our true selves but we are never lost-just misguided. To think that there is light in every being is comforting, because we are all trying our best by simply being here and where there is life there is hope. 

To see the light you must first acknowledge it in yourself and others because it's difficult to recognise or see what you're not looking for- many good things in life are hidden in plain sight. We must also remember that there is a lot that can trigger negativity to make us doubt the light in ourselves and others so understanding and trust is important. 

Universally we must be the light that we want to see, and if God has granted us the mercy to can free ourselves from things that don't serve our highest good, then why should we turn around enslave ourselves and others? What's the point of holding on to negativity? Jesus who transcended religion gave a message of unconditional love and it's the most important rule to live by because only love solves things. Without love there is no healing. 

Remember your light, and that you are light. It may sound unrealistic, but only because society profits from our insecurities. We should be bold enough to love and embrace our true selves because we are all we physically have. Fighting against ourselves, or others makes no sense. 

Nobody's perfect- but it's not an excuse to sin if in that moment you know better and that's not an excuse to not learn from our sins or punish ourselves and others. 

We all have power, and a choice in how we use our power- we can harm or we can heal. Both paths have something to teach us whether we consciously consent to it or not. Such is life, and life can be really beautiful when you're actually around to experience it all in positive ways.

Something important to remember when dealing with yourself and others as Alexander Pope wrote in his wonderful poem 'An essay on criticism' (1709):

'Ah ne'er so dire a Thirst of Glory boast,
Nor in the Critick let the Man be lost!
Good-Nature and Good-Sense must ever join;
To err is Humane; to Forgive, Divine.'

I was reminded of his words when I saw this today as it's ultimately the same message but in modern English:

Hurt people, hurt people so to facing that with any less than love would be a mistake- just look at all the wars stemmed from greed and misunderstanding. Bring people higher and raise them up but don't neglect yourself or you could end up with not the best advice or decisions. Grow onwards and UPwards. It's hard, but the seemingly easy way out in a bad mindset spells disaster. 

It's only you that can grant yourself true peace of mind. 

Love, light and bright blessings,

-Dalanda 

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Never Too Late

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Siddy Ranks

Who You Are

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Jessie J 

Ndombolo

Koffi Olomide

One Day I'll Fly Away

Randy Crawford

Anytime You Need A Friend

Mariah Carey

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The stages of trying out a new bubble tea flavour

I didn't even realise I was being documented at the time, but I saw the genuine reactions after and thought they were quite funny. I didn't realise how responsive my face is to taste. 

1) tea coma 

2) taste analysis/ wondering why I'm being stared at 

3) realising the jelly that didn't compliment the flavour very much. 

4) resolving to trust my own choices in the near future

5) going for light instead (I took this one myself :P)

Overall it was satisfactory. Rose flavoured bubble tea is quite yummy though! I would recommend that; I would also recommend light in all ways! I've found that in the dark, and mistrust of the light we make fools of ourselves.  

God bless, 

-Dalanda

xo

Touched By An Angel

We, unaccustomed to courage

exiles from delight

live coiled in shells of loneliness

until love leaves its high holy temple

and comes into our sight

to liberate us into life.

Love arrives

and in its train come ecstasies

old memories of pleasure

ancient histories of pain.

Yet if we are bold,

love strikes away the chains of fear

from our souls

We are weaned from our timidity

In the flush of love's light

we dare be brave

And suddenly we see

that love costs all we are

and will ever be.

Yet it is only love

which sets us free

Maya Angelou

One day / Reckoning Song (Wankelmut Remix)

Asaf Avidan

Food inspo

There is light at the core of every single human being.

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Throwback Thursday!

2008!

Back when the peace sign was still in fashion!

I've grown a lot since then in all the most important ways, and my perspective is way different but I still like (minus front-cam) selfies now, and I have learned to love embracing my past ^^

We all should :-P

Blessings!

-Dalanda

xoxo