Joy To The World

Empowering thoughts, I have listed so as not to be affected by what other people think and say about me. This relates to my previous blog " The Creation of My Magnificent Mosaic ." You can use it, too. 1. No matter what I say and do, I cannot please everybody. 2. People are looking at life in different perspectives so what's true for me may not be true for them and what's not true for me may be true for them. This is because each of us has its own different issues, beliefs, needs and priorities in life. It is our responsibility as a human being to know what is true for each of us. And because of that, I must be open to the idea of that I could be wrong in my perspective to some degree or another. 3. I still care about what other people think because I want to see their own perspective about life, putting myself into their shoes. This will develop my compassion and exercise understanding for them which I find interesting. So, please feel free to leave a commen...

After checking the statistics, I was astonished that a lot of people from all over the world read my blog. And so, before I proceed I'd like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Now going back, my thoughts looking at the stats were, "OMG! What am I going to write next?" I felt pressured, and I said to myself, "I am going to write from my heart." Fear came in suddenly, telling me, "If you reveal to the world what you feel and what your thoughts are, they're going to judge, ridicule and criticize you." I felt afraid. I remembered all the things people had said about me. They even looked down on me especially when it is about expressing my thoughts and feelings. And what's more painful was my own parents judged me for what I had become. I realized that those negative emotions I had listed on my previous blog were all coming from my past childhood trauma and one more was added, fear of being criticized. Anyways, I will share with you ...

Photo courtesy of solidrockcounseling.wordpress.com Most of my friends believed that I have a positive thinking mindset. Some of them consulted me with their problems because I have this quality of looking at things in a positive way. Even my father knew that I am an optimistic person because when I experienced " The Greatest Physical Battle " of my life, he said, "Joy, this is your test to know how positive you can be." And when I had this sickness, few of my friends said, "Good thing, you didn't feel depressed." And my thought was, "Should I be depressed?" I honestly did not resonate with that comment because of the positivism that I was projecting at that time. I already knew back then that your state of being (thoughts, words and actions) determines the outcome of your reality. So, my being positive helped a lot in my healing because if I was not, I'd be dead by now. After I got healed, I thought it was the end of my sufferi...

Warning: If you are eating, please do not read this article. Last May 2014, my supervisor called up my attention that there was something on the X-ray result after we had our Annual Physical Examination last April. I talked to our company physician and he said that they saw small spots on my right lung that could be the caused of having Tuberculosis. I knew that I was exhausting my health because I worked 3AM-12PM and then after that, I did my MK business 1-5PM. So, I decided to quit my job because I did not want to risk my health. I did not render 30-day grace period so I could rest before going back home. I already had a cough that hadn't been gone for 2 weeks and lumps under my jaw. I arrived in Davao last June 20, 2014 and planned to stay just for a month then came back to Cebu again. I told my parents and a close friend of mine about my health condition. They said we will see a doctor next week since it was weekend when I arrived. That Friday evening, I was with my fr...

Photo courtesy of Marlon Zabate This is the message I got in the morning after I had enough sleep. I was really tired because of holiday rush. The insight was "To be able to help others and in a way change the world is to make the most of ourselves. To be someone we never thought to be." Also, with that statement, it also means or related to Self Love. For how can we improve ourselves if we cannot accept our flaws. Change can be first realized in acceptance.  Once we know who we really are, I think the next step is to do Self Projection consistently especially for this year 2015. Self projection is when you say or do something to others, think as if you're saying or doing it to yourself and check how you think and feel in that given moment. It's like pointing the needle to myself whatever is happening in my reality or outside of me. I sometimes do this whenever I am contemplating or doing something. I guess this is a big help if we are pursuing Self Maste...

I know there are a lot of causes for breakouts, pimples or acne. I would like to share with you about my own story. I hope this might help for those experiencing breakouts right now.  It was in my late twenties (year 2012-2013) when I experienced a lot of pimples on my face. It was disgusting because whenever I was talking to someone they were not looking at me. They were looking at my breakouts. It was really intimidating. So, I looked for a solution. I went for natural. I tried honey, lemon, green tea, apple cider vinegar, etc. Nothing happened. I tried imported facial wash for acne solution. It just made my skin super dry because I had dry skin and it made my pimples worst. I tried different spot treatment, still nothing happened.  It came to a point that whenever I went online I always searched for solutions for my breakouts. But, you know I got that feeling; done that nothing happened. I asked my mother if she had breakouts when she was young. She said none same ...

At the start of June, I was so excited for a lot of reasons; I resigned from my previous employment so I am now working full-time for my business, I can now go on vacation whenever I want to so I decided to go to my hometown Davao City, and lastly Mary Kay just announced a chance for us, beauty consultants, to travel to Hong Kong and be able to watch the Dream Beautiful contest, the making of a model. I knew deep in my heart that I can do it because they only require us to recruit 8 new team members for 3 months (June-August) and based on my past experience, I was able to recruit 7 team members in 3 months with no goals set whatsoever.  But the unexpected happened, I got sick after I had a facial booking at my friend's house. It was a rare disease and I am going to talk about it soon once I am completely healed. That's a promise! With that sickness, I was bedridden for few weeks and until now I still cannot walk. It has been more than a month already.  First ...