Epiphany, Jumerah Village Circle, Dubai (2026)

18/02/2023

Epiphany of the month - Wounds and Gifts.

We are all made of duality - good and bad, kind and harsh, optimistic and despairing, strong and broken, trusting and doubting. These can also be seen as our gifts and wounds. Interestingly, both are essential to our growth and both are equally magnetic . Both aspects of ours, draw out from others, their gifts or their wounds. If we didn't have wounds, we wouldn't be motivated to dig deeper for our gifts to ease the pain. If we didn't have gifts, we wouldn't be able to empathize with others or be able to help them with their wounds. The more wounds we heal, the more our gifts show up, it's a bit like earning points in video games and unlocking more strengths and getting to the next level.

This is a perspective and practice that has been helping me a lot for the past few years and I thought I'd share it this month. The moment I started seeing people, including myself, as a package of wounds and gifts, I started feeling more grounded in my everyday interactions with people, both personally and professionally. I started taking things less personally, being less judgemental or defensive, and found myself being more curious about what is causing this wound to show up right now and is there something I can help with, or heal in myself?

It has definitely made me more accepting of myself and of others. We don't have to be perfect or flawless or woundless, because then we won't be dualistic humans anymore. We just need to start becoming more embracing of the wounds so they are allowed to be seen, heard, comforted and healed. This doesn't happen in isolation, it requires interaction with others, which is why relationships are our biggest teachers. This is what we are here for, to keep unlocking more gifts, healing more wounds, and reaching higher levels of our humanity together.

22/01/2023

Epiphany of the Month - Life and Weather.
How do you react when you experience bad weather? Do you take it personally? Do you ask why is this happening to me? What did I do to deserve it? Why is the weather out to get me? Why do I always get this rain/storm/heat? Usually not, I would think.
What we usually do is adjust our plans and clothing accordingly and do our best to stay safe and allow the weather to pass. The weather changes almost daily, we know it will pass and not stay the same forever. This gives us the peace of mind to just do what we can to flow with it. We don't take it personally in most cases. We enjoy our time during the weather we like and lay low during the weather we don't feel great in.
Life, as far as I see it, brings us a variety of different weather conditions and seasons - experiences, emotions and moods. If we would just see it as weather, we would get less entrenched in taking it as a personal attack and indulge in self-pity and self-victimisation. We would see it as something that will pass and do our best to stay safe and grounded during challenging times. This can help us to navigate the majority of bad weather days with a lot more ease and awareness.
Of course there will be certain storms that wreak great devastation too, and they will need a different response, but those are usually and thankfully few and far between in most of our lives and that's when we can give ourselves permission to respond in whatever way that feels appropriate. However I believe that practicing this approach during the regular weather changes in our life will help to not only flow with more ease through the majority of our lives, but will build a better response to the bigger storms too.

25/11/2022

Epiphany of the Month - Being Self-focused.

Being selfish is usually seen as a negative trait, and many people talk about being selfless as a trait to aspire to.

But perhaps the journey towards selflessness starts with being selfish, or more appropriately: self-focused. How can we expect to give something to others that we don't have ourselves? If we want to make someone happy, we need to be happy ourselves first. If we are not happy, and we try to make someone else happy, then we do it either out of obligation, or a need for reciprocation, for appreciation, for reward, which will ultimately make us happy. If we help someone with the intention of forgetting our own sorrow, that does not last very long either. So if we do certain 'selfless' acts out a feeling of lack or obligation, that just defeats the purpose, because if we don't get back what we think we deserve, then we are disappointed, frustrated, depleted and unhappier than we were to start with.

If however, we are happy within ourselves and then share that feeling with someone, we are not functioning out of lack or waiting for a reward or reciprocation. Just the act of seeing someone happy is rewarding enough. We are just sharing what we have enough of.

So perhaps we do need to be a little self-focused, by doing things that make us happy, fulfilled and complete, so that we can share ourselves with others more freely. Charity begins at home they say, so maybe we need to start with ourselves and then widen the circle to others? If we all would just take care of our own needs first, without feeling guilty or selfish, we would be much better equipped to help others, and the number of people needing help from others would decrease too.

If we are healthy, we can better help others who are not. If we are abundant, we can share more abundance with others. If we love ourselves more, we can love others better too.

-love

16/10/2022

Epiphany of the month - Life is happening right now.

We live our lives dependent on milestones, waiting for them. The next weekend, vacation, more money, true love, marriage, kids, new job, retirement, and so on. What are we doing while we wait? We are on auto pilot, just getting through the day, the week, the year, the boring date, the demanding job. All the time we spend waiting, we are not really fully living. we are waiting to live. And when the event we were waiting for comes, it flies by, and then we're back to auto pilot and waiting, and not living again, just existing.

We don't realize that our life is mostly made up of what we consider non-moments. the ones we waste, by not living them. There are 525949 minutes in a year. How many of these do we truly live in? Making the most of each moment, expressing the best that we can be in each moment, really living?

At the end of a long life, do we want to realize and regret that we squandered most of our life in denial of life? This is life, happening right now. Let's show up, accept it, look for goodness in it, be present, be grateful, be aware, be the best we can be, and be alive.

30/08/2022

Epiphany of the month - Being Present.

In every moment, as much as possible, be in the moment.
We miss so many moments because we see them as "fillers" that build up to a bigger, more important moment.
We make the mistake of not taking each moment individually and experiencing it fully.
Interact with each moment and each person with curiosity and a fresh perspective, without letting past experiences and future expectations taint your output.
Get out of your comfort zone, find new ways of reacting to and interacting with everyday events and people, and see if you can find reactions and responses that work better for you, letting you feel more empowered and more aligned with the flow of life.

Rather than thinking of things as "mundane, every-day events, things that just have to be done, and its better to just do them the way you've been doing them forever because some things are just a means to an end, no need to put in more effort into them, they will remain boring and mundane"...think of them as opportunities to discover more strengths within you, those which guide you to make the most of each moment, using it to discover and share your most grandest potential in every moment of every day.

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23/06/2022

Epiphany of the Month - Satisfaction.

Many people believe that if we become satisfied with where we are, we become complacent and there is no room left for growth.
They use this feeling of never being satisfied to propel them to being better, doing more, achieving more.
That is one way of looking at it and it does work for many people.
However, I have noticed that this modus operandi leaves us in a constant and ongoing state of dissatisfaction
and unhappiness with ourselves and our lives. It creates alot of stress and anxiety about always having to do
more and get more. This way we are never really satisfied with anything at all.

I personally do not see satisfaction as a road block. I feel that when we are satisfied with something, we can fully enjoy and celebrate it, and feel proud about having achieved it. And then we can use these energies to move on and do more, with more confidence, peace and positivity.

It's a small shift in perspective, but can make us alot more successful and joyful if we adopt it.
Just for a change, let's try something different. Once we achieve something, let's be grateful for it, be proud of ourselves for making it so far, and use these positive feelings to motivate us to do more. Because intentions shape the outcomes: if you start something because you are dissatisfied with what currently is, then that is what will keep perpetrating in the future as well, you will never be satisfied with anything, no matter how much you do or get. If you start something feeling confident and satisfied with where you are currently, with the objective of being even better by exploring more of your potential, then you will experience more success and more rewards during the journey.
What are your views?

07/05/2022

Epiphany of the Month - Purpose.

“The ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ ‘Has your life brought joy to others?’”
– Carter Chambers, from The Bucket List

That is what our purpose needs to be..as simple as that..and as important as that. It doesn't matter what work we do for sustenance, or even if we work or not. Our purpose is not dependent on our work. What matters is what we are being while we do our work and also in every moment of our lives. Are we creating and finding joy in everyday moments and tasks? Are we sharing that joy? Are we being kind to ourselves and others? If we just make this our purpose, rather than looking for or waiting for a 'calling' to come to us, we can find our bliss and purpose. Each and every one of us can contribute, we don't have to be Mother Teresa or Mandela to make a difference. We don't need to feel too small or too busy to make a difference. We can do this just with the people around us, and let it ripple through them to others and further. We are not here by coincidence or as extras in this story. We are all main characters and imperative for the Universe to experience love and joy.

13/04/2022

Epiphany of the month: Destiny vs free-will.
Many people say that if everything is written by fate anyway, why is there the concept of being judged for our actions?
Others say that we write our own fate, so we are completely responsible for all that happens in our universe.
While the former belief can make us feel absolved from all judgement, it can at times, especially challenging times,
make us feel like we are victims and punished for some unknown reason.
The latter helps to empower us, but can at times make us feel overwhelmed with trying to figure out why we manifested
certain things in our reality, and we keep trying to understand and heal that part of us that is attracting 'bad' things.
I feel that a balance of the two would be the healthiest way to live our lives.
I think life is a combination of destiny and free will.
Firstly, all events, good or bad, are destined, because it it wasn't 'meant to be', it wouldn't have happened.
All events, good or bad, bring with them the opportunity for us to learn, evolve and grow - to find a part of
the divine within us that we had forgotten we carry.
The free-will part comes into play when we understand that we have a choice in how we perceive the events and
how we choose to feel about ourselves and others during and after the event. And there is ALWAYS a choice.
So rather than worrying about whether an event was pre-destined by a higher power, or created by us - it would be better to be aware of our perception of it, how we define it, and how we let it define us and life.
We can either allow the event to bring out our strengths or our weaknesses. The choice is ours.

03/04/2022

Wishing you all a peaceful and fulfilling month of Ramadan. A reminder to us all to continue with the habits of being a good human that this month aims to inculcate in us. Kindness, charity, grace, connection, honesty, moderation, introspection, self-control and humility are just a few of them, and are appreciated year round. 🙏🏼💝

13/03/2022

Epiphany of the Month - Challenges and Growth

We keep saying or hearing statements along the lines of:
- We don't grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges.
- When life puts you in difficult situations, don't say why me, say try me!
- Smooth seas don't make skillful sailors.
- My challenges made me stronger. They are the catalyst to my growth.

We attribute so much of our growth, learning and strength to the challenges that we have been through and have overcome; and we measure our success based on how hard it was to achieve something. This inevitably makes us attract more challenges and difficulties to overcome, over and over again, because what we believe is what we create in our lives.

This is an old paradigm and is not required anymore.
We need to realize that we can grow through ease, grace and joy.

That's how it was always intended. We just didn't listen to the gentle nudges of our intuition. We ignored what our higher wisdom was trying to make us aware of. We were too comfortable in our comfort zone to really pay attention to the messages. And so for us to grow, things had to get difficult enough for us to take heed and wake up and do something to change the situation or ourselves.

Once we realize this, we won't need to be pushed so harshly to grow. We can do it with awareness and joy and by being more in tune with our inner guidance.

If we allow ease, it will be available to us at every step, and we can actually start to enjoy the journey of growth and getting to know and enjoy who we truly are and what we are capable of. All we need is to believe that we are worthy of success and achievement through ease and joy.

18/02/2022

Epiphany of the Month - Love is an inside job!

It is impossible to love someone unconditionally if you are unable to love yourself without conditions.

It is impossible to be at peace with someone exactly the way they are, without judgement and expectations until you are at peace with yourself, exactly the way you are, without having to prove yourself or be something that you're not.

It is also impossible to receive unconditional love from others until you know how to give it to yourself, knowing that you deserve it and it is safe to accept.

So your job is an inside one. Focus on developing and enhancing your relationship with yourself, and watch how all the other relationships in your life start to flourish.

14/01/2022

Epiphany of the Month - Choosing Kindness

Do people only get in touch when they need you and ignore you when they no longer don't? Be kind anyway. When you need something there will always be support available, perhaps not from the people you were there for, but it will come back to you from one source or another. Kindness is never wasted. If you can do something for others, do it, simply because you can, without weighing it's returns. Choose kindness.

Have some people left your life without any explanations when you thought they would be there for the long haul? Be kind anyway. Ask them the reason, it may bring you awareness of how to be a better person, or give you a better understanding of others and their motivations. If they have no response, bless them and let them go. It may hurt for a while but it opens up the space in your life for people who are more in alignment with who you have become. And when they come into your space, be open and trust and give again. Don't be afraid of them leaving too and hold back your love and kindness. We have infinite amounts within us. The more we give the more it grows. Choose kindness.

Are people pointing out your flaws or judging you for things while not noticing their own behavior or shortcomings? Be kind anyway. If it's fair, be grateful to them for helping you grow. If it's not valid, there is nothing to be offended about! It's just someone's opinion formed through their own conditioning and doesn't need to be taken personally. Let it go. Choose kindness.

And why should we choose kindness? To show kindness toward ourselves! To help us enjoy a peaceful and positive state. The more time we spend stewing over things, the more unhappiness we create in our lives. The more moments of happiness we squander. We are responsible for creating peace and joy for ourselves, we cannot give others that responsibility. It is through our perceptions that we create our reality. Within and all around us. There is enough anger, aggression and separation in the world. The last thing we need is to add to it. The best thing we can do is counter it with more love compassion and kindness.

Choose kindness.

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