Medicine for the Soul

MEDICINE
for the
MAKITA GABRIEL
S O U L

Dedicated to Joshua, my son, and all of the teenagers and children
of the world who seek understanding, patience, and unconditional
love to be who they were born to be.
May we inspire them to shine their light, follow their dreams,
and nurture their pioneering spirit. May we set them free from
the chains of our fears and give them wings to fly, cherishing the
unlimited potential that dwells in their hearts.
May we inspire them to live fully, love freely, and to follow their
dreams.
Makita

Makita Gabriel
Author
Founder of Soul Vida
Makita Gabriel is a pioneer in the field of Body Mind Fitness,
Energy Medicine, Leadership, and Empowerment.
Makita Gabriel pioneered Soul Vida, a fitness and healthy lifestyle
brand that’s passionate about the body, mind and spirit of wellbeing.
Makita is the founder of the Soul Vida Fitness Method, a unique,
ground-breaking workout,
inspired by the fusion of yoga, pilates, and martial arts.
Makita has over 27 years of experience as an Internationally
Acclaimed Body Mind Fitness Trainer.
Makita’s passion is to inspire and empower greatness by
Reawakening the Body, Mind, and Spirit of Wellbeing on the planet.
All rights reserved. All information presented in this ebook is
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The Wellness Revolution
Everything is Energy.
Be Fear - Less
Be Your own Guru
Fear or Love, you get to Choose.
A Breath of Fresh Air
Your Declaration of Self-Esteem
The Power is YOU.
Living Beyond Limitations and FEAR
Your Body Listens to Everything You Say
This Thing Called Love
Listen to Your Heart
Your Intuition is Always Right
10 secrets to Living an Extraordinary Life
Is Now a Good Time?
TABLE OF
M E D I C I N E F O R T H E S O U L

WELLNESS REVOLUTION
THE
Desire and Passion are the Sparks of Inspiration for Changing your Life
Self Love, Self Honour, Self Respect and Self Care are your daily vitamins.
MAKITA GABRIEL
P A G E 1
The term wellness is used to
mean a healthy balance of
mind, body, and spirit that
results in an overall feeling of
wellbeing.
Charles Coven of Arizona
State University, defines
wellness as a
‘multidimensional state of
being, describing the
existence of positive health in
an individual, as exemplified
by the quality of life and a
sense of wellbeing.’
The National Wellness Institute describes
the term as an ‘active process of
becoming aware of making choices
towards the most successful existence.’
Historically, wellness has been known as
the absence of disease, injury, or pain.
However, this perspective on wellness is
evolving. We are at the forefront of a
wellness revolution in our world.
Wellness has become multidimensional
and includes a physical, mental,
emotional, and spiritual approach
towards the optimal way of functioning.
Traditional western medicines focuse
on fixing the disease, rather than
restoring the ease. A wellness-oriented
lifestyle is proactive, and focuses on
preventative measures to provide an
optimal level of health, as well as
emotional and social functioning.
In fact, true wellbeing comes from
adopting a holistic approach that uses
the prominence of the whole individual
and integrates mind, body, and spirit,
and, also, an understanding that every
belief, action, thought, and feeling has
a direct influence on our state of being.
At Soul Vida, we are excited to have
developed a ’Smart’ workout that is
100% natural, unique, and organic in
every way.
It has exercises to transform the body,
inspire passion, and breathe focus to
help you create enough mindfulness
while you workout to not take the
monkey mind too seriously! It’s simple,
fun, and makes you feel ALIVE!

The Soul Vida workouts
induce a feeling of wellbeing,
very deep relaxation, relieve
tension in the body,
reawaken self-healing, and
positively influence self-
confidence, creativity, and
productivity.
The effect of the Soul Vida
Exercises on the body can be
described as the soothing
vibrations of getting energy
moving through each of the
100 trillion cells in your body.
Inner Calm with
Soul Vida
P A G E 0 2 M E D I C I N E F O R T H E S O U L
David Viscott said, ‘to love and
be loved is to feel the sun from
both sides.’ Wellness is a choice.
It is a decision you make to
align yourself with optimal
health of body, mind, and spirit.
Anxiety and stress are true time-
wasters. All stress is an internal
reaction to what is happening
outside of you. It’s not an outer
thing, it’s an inner thing. So
you’re in charge. You can
choose to be happy and stress-
free, no matter what is
happening in your outer world.
Did you know that only 8% of
what we worry about comes
true?
John Kehoe, a transformational
coach and pioneer in Mind
Power Research, said that
‘thoughts are real things,
thoughts have power.’
Yes, every thought can give you
energy or take it away!
Thoughts are powerful units of
energy that can harm or heal
the body.
He also said that ‘we are a
giving and receiving station of
energy.’ Yes, that means that we
pick up vibes/energy from
others, and we also emit a
signal to the universe of the
quality and vibration of our
thoughts, feelings, emotions,
etc.
Like a light house, you need to
be conscious of what signal
you’re send out, because that is
the energy that will come back.
This is known as the ‘Law of
Attraction.’
Our wellbeing is our lifeline.
Positivity and vitality create
an abundance of life-giving
energy!.
Fear collapses the very
foundations of our health.
It’s like cancer. Fear spreads
a message to each cell in
the body that it’s life and
life force are at great risk,
and over time, cells
degenerate, with
continuous fear, stress, and
anxiety!
Positivity makes us feel
good, and good, happy
vibes help the body
rejuvenate. So learn to say
no to fear! We have limits to
our time, our energy, and
our activities. Don’t allow
fear to create withdrawals
from your energy bank
account. Surround yourself
with positive people, then
it’s easy to stay
positive.Remember, energy
is contagious — is your
energy worth catching?
True wellbeing
comes from
within.
The body is a temple and it’s
the one place you will live in
every day of your life. Our
health is our wealth. If we
lose our health, we lose so
much more than just our
wellbeing

EVERYTHING IS ENERGY.
WHAT’S THE SIGNAL THAT YOU’RE EMITTING?
Weed out the negatives and stay
with the positives. Every thought
that you have sends out a signal
to the universe, and through the
law of resonance, that same
signal boomerangs back over
time. In fact, the quality of your
thoughts not only send the
message outward, but inward,
too, to the trillion and one cells in
your body. Our bodies thrive on
life-enhancing thoughts,
Emotions, and feelings.
Energy is a boomerang — what
you put out, comes back; what
you give, you get. We are so
powerful! No one can take that
away without your permission
(conscious or unconscious) and
that is a fact.
P A G E 0 3
have on you. In other words, you
choose how you’re going to
respond.The great thing about
positivity is that it creates such a
harmonizing effect on our bodies
and our hearts.In fact, the HeartMath
Institute in the US is doing great
research on the role that our
thoughts and emotions have on our
hearts and our health.
Heart coherence is about how
negative and positive thoughts and
emotions affect the heart and the
overall state of wellbeing. Being in
the heart creates peace and
harmony in the body, and this
promotes self-healing and
longevity.
Did you know that every cell in
your body ‘listens’ to the mind
and heart. Dr. Masuru Emoto, a
revolutionary scientist and
biologist, found that water carries
the vibration of our intentions and
water molecules reflect and hold
the resonance of the
environment, with its mental and
emotional energy, that they are
exposed to!
William Alford said, “Feeling
gratitude and not expressing it is
like wrapping a present and not
giving it.” So how do you stay
positive? You make a CHOICE.
No matter what is playing out in
your outer world, you choose
what effects it will

Your words, actions, and overall
state of being not only contribute
to your body’s wellbeing, but
your energy ripples out into the
world.
You can have a powerful, positive
effect on the world. Either way,
you get to choose. Improving the
quality of your thoughts, choices,
actions, and overall attitude
ripples out to create change in
your world. Yes, that’s how
powerful we are!
This dance of energy is called life.
Believing in the power of
positivity and in your own innate
power, so that every time you
believe in yourself, you feel it, you
know it, and so do the 100 trillion
cells in your body!
The quality of your thoughts
changes your body.According to
Bruce Lipton, pioneer and cellular
biologist in the field of
Epigenetics, in his acclaimed
book Biology of Belief, he
explains how the cells in the body
respond to thoughts.
Yes, that’s right, your body and
DNA can be reprogrammed with
positivity and awareness. You
don’t need to be a victim, you can
program your cells and body to
heal. Remember your body
belongs to YOU, not your
ancestors!
Love inspires actions and
instigates a sense of
benevolence. Love mitigates fear-
based reactions and fosters
understanding and collaboration.
P A G E 0 4
Hundreds of sports exist, from
those between single
contestants through
Love embraces compassion and
dissolves aggression. Love
promotes an uplifting state of
being and fear destroys our
potential.
Love inspires you to take the next
step with power! In the words of
Nelson Mandala, ‘You don’t need
to see the whole staircase, just
take the next step.’
Love inspires you to be carefree,
rather than careful and cautious!
Love expresses itself as the force
that gives life!
Did you know that in a
developing fetus, the heart
starts beating before the brain
even begins to form? We are,
indeed, miracles of creation!
YOU are hardwired for bliss,
gratitude and an overall YES to
life.
Remember: there’s no DARK
switch only a LIGHT Switch. So
when we are in a dark mood, all
you need to do is turn on the
light!
In other words, lighten up!
You are hard-wired to FEEL GOOD, so don’t spend time on
feeling bad or not good enough. Love expands our vision and
the possibility of a better world.
Love starts with YOU and it is the absence of fear.
Fear is the absence of love.
By living in positivity and gratitude, you create a sustainable
foundation of extraordinary wellbeing.
So make it your mantra, every day, to Love More and Fear
Less.
Choose to be well! Choose to be Happy.
‘It’s not what you do that matters, it’s how much love you put
into what you do that matters. For it is love that heals
yourself and the world.’ - Mother Theresa
‘Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.’
- Jim Rohn
Be Well!

BE FEAR-LESS
What would happen in this moment, if
you held your heart open? Would that
change the choices that come before
you?
What would happen if you took away
your mask and let the world see you as
you truly are, and you were bold and
brave in living the wisdom of your
true self?
What would happen if you summoned
the courage to live from your deepest
knowing? Would that help you to
create opportunity, where previously
there was none?
What if you turned your back on what
the world has forced you to be...and
held open that space inside of you that
knows you are safe, that knows the
power of trusting life, that knows the
difference between commitment and
duty?
‘YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU
NEED TO BUILD SOMETHING
FAR BIGGER THAN
YOURSELF.’ - Seth Godin

M E D I C I N E F O R T H E S O U LP A G E 0 6
What if you saw every experience as an
invitation to choose for yourself once
more, and decide where you want to
go?What if you took the passion, the
excitement, the lessons from the firse of
the past, and like a phoenix, rose
anew?Would that help you to
surrender to this moment, embracing
peace of mind, knowing that no one
has ever had power over your choices?
No one except you!
Fear or love. You get to choose, time
and time again.
What if you began your day with self-
love, self-respect, and self-honor, would
that help you to stay focused on your
dreams?
Stay! Stay with your breath.
Your breath is your beloved.
A lifelong companion, quietly offering
you counsel and inspiration, with every
breath.
Keep your own counsel. Even if it
means standing alone.
What matters most is that you no
longer betray your own heart for
another.
What matters least is what the world
tells you to believe! Remember, what
others think of you is none of your
business!
Let go and forgive yourself.You did the
best you could, given the
circumstances at the time.
It’s time to move on from the past. You
see, the past only exists in your mind!
The past is no longer real. It’s only a
memory.
Look around you....Do you see
anything but this moment? This
moment is all that exists, now and
forever. The future is a now plus a
now, plus a now, and so on!
They are moments in time, circling
back to the eternal Now. All that
matters is how you experience this
moment.These are the footprints
you leave behind.
Every drop of experience
transforms your future, growing
wiser and fuller with every turn.
Rest here a while and remember to
keep your heart open. Let your
heart show you the way.That is
where you will find what you are
looking for!
Falling in love with life is a way of
accelerating and celebrating your
connection to your intuition, which
is your heart’s knowing. When you
love who you are, your intuition
gets stronger.
When you love your life, your
relationships are borne of love, not
fear, of connection, not need, of
individuality, not codependency.
The world is yours to explore. And
when you feel the passion to move
forward, you fully recognize that
any limitations you struggled with
were life’s way of saying that the
fear was leaving to allow more
LOVE to arrive.
Don’t give up. It is time to be all that
you were created to be! Stay
strong, get things done that are
part of honoring you
life’s commitments, and then,
when you are done, you will be
ready to move on in a way in
which nothing can hold you back.
We spend too much time on fear,
working it out, understanding it,
trying to find a reason why our
mind is churning, etc. All of these
are FEARFUL thoughts.
Allow nothing to hold you back.
LOOK FEAR right in the eye and
conquer it, by KNOWING that it is
a LIE, and that it only exists in your
mind!!
Have courage and believe in
yourself. Love is what makes life
sacred, and knowing that you, too,
were born of LOVE, not fear, is the
message that your heart
longs to hear. Trust yourself. BE
FEARLESS!
Your ego is like a filing cabinet,
filled with everyone’s unconscious
beliefs and old conditioning.Clean
it out. Create space for what you
want to believe.
‘The heart knows what
the heart knows.’
- Stephen King

BE YOUR OWN GURU
You are the guru you seek.
You are the one you’ve
been waiting for.Your daily
routine, habits, and rituals
create your life. What
would happen if you
consciously changed the
‘old’ routines and started
new ones? It takes 24-28
repetitions for something
to become a habit, noted
Bruce
Lipton in his book, The
Honeymoon Effect.
When new perspectives are
transformed into actions,
feelings, and thoughts, our
lives change forever.
Moving away from old ways
can be simple. When we let
go of judgements, there are
no mistakes, only learning
experiences. Each
experience becomes a way
of changing direction.
Have faith in you. Have
faith in the universe. Faith
eliminates self-doubt – it
eliminates fear. Remember,
the only limitations are
those that you place on
yourself.
Don’t give your power
away – it is yours.

P A G E 0 8
The challenge is not to get
unsettled or hooked into un-
productive emotional and
mental states while we are
patiently allowing the new
dawn to manifest. Remember,
mentality and perceptions
create the reality you
experience.
A victim mentality creates a
victim reality.
In The Biology of Belief and
The Honeymoon Effect, Bruce
Lipton stated that genes and
DNA are not fixed – how you
see and perceive life is how
your biology will respond.
Thoughts are real things.
When we send
inappropriate signals from
our thoughts, emotions, and
intentions to our biology, the
body listens and registers
everything we say to it. In
other words, thoughts,
emotions, and intentions talk
to the body and send a
vibrational signal to the cells.
According to Bruce Lipton,
when we start to run our
biology with inappropriate
signals, the body starts to
break down and create
disease. He says that
perception controls behavior –
that your behavior and
psychology, and the behavior
of your biology, are affected.
DNA is the blueprint of
perception. As we
change our perception, we
change our biology. Our body
‘registers’ everything we feed it
with vibrations, through the
quality of our perceptions,
beliefs, thoughts, and
emotions.
Changing your mind about
something changes
everything.
Your beliefs shape your
perceptions. Your perceptions
create your experiences. If you
change the way you see
things, what you perceive
changes as well. The placebo
effect demonstrates that what
you believecreates the reality
of your experience. For
something to be, we must
believe it into being.

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FEAR or LOVE,
POSITIVE or NEGATIVE
YOU GET TO CHOOSE!
P A G E 0 9
It’s only a choice. Large obstacles
are building blocks for growth,
achievement, and happiness.
When you strengthen yourability
to stay strong in the face of
adversity, you allow yourself to
be strong and powerful.
I remember the first time I read
‘what other people think
When you start to look at life
from this perspective, you
become your own best friend
rather than holding yourself
back.
You are a soul having the
experience of being Human,
rather than the other way
around. When you focus on
your limitations, you create
limitations.
Use your intuition to spring
forward into renewed action.
Your reality is about to
transform in ways that you
never imagined and you are
need to trust that inner
knowing.
The inner you is ready to match
the outer you. In other words,
trust yourself. Remember that
no matter how real fear appears
in the moment, fear is a lie. It’s
nothing more than ‘false
emotions appearing real.’
The fear of change, both
individually and Collectively, is
a significant factor that’s
emerging in your reality.
of you is none of your
business.’ Life has taught me
that this is very true. What we
sow, we shall reap. Endings
viewed from an empowering
perspective transform your life.
Your ability to adapt to life’s
endless stream of change is
the key to a fulfilling life.

‘ Breathing in, I calm
body and mind,
breathing out, I
smile in the present;
I know this is the
only moment.’ -
unknown
Transformation begins the
moment you see things as
they truly are.
Ask yourself..
What serves me in my current
reality?What have I outgrown
and what am I still
holding onto? What needs to
be removed or changed in my
life? What are my intentions
for the next 12 months? What
are the positives that have
emerged through negative
situations lately? What am I
ready to do tomorrow when I
wake up, that will help me
orchestrate change in real life
terms?How solid is my
relationship?
You have all the answers you
need.As you summon the
courage to find your own
counsel and live by it, You will
find inner peace.You will
notice that the fear was, in
fact, a closed door that was
marked “Please Enter,” rather
than “Keep Out.”
Fear-based thoughts or
emotions releasepositive ions
into the environment.
Science tells us that the
imbalance in the ratio
between negative ions, which
are life-enhancing, and
positive ions, which induce
stress in our bodies and
environments, has a profound
effect on our physical,
emotional, mental, and
spiritual wellbeing.
When the positive ions are
high, we feel under the
weather and out of alignment.
We can be more prone to
depression or mood swings.
Positive feelings and
experiences increase negative
ions, which also increase
positivity and boost our
moods. Negative ions create
positive vibes that increase the
feeling of good energy in and
around us.
What is also quite amazing to
know is that the negative ions
reach our bloodstreams. They
activate the production of the
mood-enhancing chemical,
Serotonin, which helps to
eliminate depression, relieve
stress, and boost our
wellbeing.
Negativity creates positive
ions, which can lead to
adrenal stress, whereas,
positivity increasesnegative
ions, which relax the nervous
system.
Chronic stress creates disease,
not to mention the viscous
cycle of fear and control
within our psyche. Body Mind
Fitness Practices, like Soul Vida
Workouts, stimulate the
relaxation response, which
activates the parasympathetic
nervous system and signals
the body to release stress and
tension.
When we are open to keeping
balanced, we are aware and
relaxed. This is who we
naturally are! What makes us
feel alive and free is our
birthright.

A BREATH OF FRESH
AIR
We intrinsically know how to
breathe.
Ourbodies breathe without
thought. Inhalation and
exhalation are our most basic
instincts.
Breathing permits an intake, not
only of Oxygen, but also of life
force, the energy that brings forth
life, otherwise known as chi,
universal consciousness, energy,
ki, healing energy, etc.
When we get tense, we tend to
hold our breath, straining the
muscles and making movement
difficult. This is why a sense of
ease and balance is vital, and
breathing consciously lets the
body relax.
If you have any challenges when
you exercise, bring your focus to
your breath and allow it to flow
freely. Focus on softness and
slowing everything down!
One of the most significant
changes in the body is when we
become stressed. The frequency
and the quality of the breath
becomes shallow!
On a physical level, when we
become stressed, the ‘flight and
fight’ reaction is triggered in the
sympathetic nervous system,
which causes the body to release
adrenaline and cortisol.
During periods of prolonged
stress, the body starts to
decrease its ability to rejuvenate
and maintain health and vitality,
creating a vicious cycle of chronic
muscle tension and fatigue.
Being aware of the breath takes
attention away from thinking, and
invites the body to relax and let
go of stress, promoting healing
and wellbeing.
‘The only difference between
fear and excitement is
whether you are breathing’.

- Dan Millman

YOUR
DECLARATION OF
SELF-ESTEEM
You have a right to be here.
You were born at the perfect time!
You were born from love, not fear
You are deserving of love.
Where others could not be
there for you, know that was
not because of you. It was
all they knew how to do!
They gave you what they
could, given their
circumstances and
limitations at the time. Let
go of seeing your worth
through the actions of
others. You are worthy! No
matter what has occurred in
your life. The U in universe
stands for You!
You are an individual of
significance. There is no
one else like you.
Be true to your heart, even if
it means letting things go!
Be who you were born to
be,
even if it means standing
alone.
That is what you came to
be. Stand tall, feet reaching
down into the earth for
support. Stand tall, spine
long, chest proud, heart
open, saying YES to you
being the best YOU.
Say what you mean and
mean what you say.
Get things off your chest
and off your back.
Stand in your power! Be true
to the one person in the
world that’s been with you
since the beginning of time,
walking the path with you!
The one who knows you
inside and out, for better or
for worse. Be true to that
one person because that
person is YOU.

The
Power is YOU
Come home to your heart
— that’s where you’ll find
the answers!! And that’s all
you need in this world!
Focus your energy on the
right things at the right
time. Chart your path to
success with written goals
and plans. Be present.
Stay. Breathe! When it gets
tough, soften, yield, and
breathe some more!
Do what you love to do
and don’t let anyone tell
you otherwise. Persevere!
Don’t give up! The harvest
is coming! Know when to
walk away!
Know when to let go!
Remember that the pain is
in HOLDING ON. Not in
LETTING GO.
Know when to stay, even if
your knees shake! Living
with your hearts
knowing has the power to
heal and transform yourself
and others, lighten your
load, leave your comfort
zone, and release your
attachment to what you
THINK is right. Do what you
FEEL is right!
Respect Yourself. Honor
Yourself.
Learn to stand your ground!
Take out your emotional
and mental garbage,
recycle the stuff that no
longer serves you!
Seriously, no talking about
it, no thinking about it, no
sorting it out… just drop it!
Remember, any problem,
past or future, can only exist
in your mind. Most of it is
not true and doesn’t belong
to you.
It’s never too late for you to
become who you are destined
to become... Begin now!!
Trust yourself... In some
situations, you may have
outgrown yourself, at least
inwardly.
Let Go. Adjust your outward
circumstances to reflect the
maturity you’ve already
attained on the inside!
Be real and draw a line in the
sand, in the spirit of
commitment, persistence, and
self-discipline.
Claim those circumstances in
your life that reflect all the
hard work you’ve done.
In all situations, leave no
karmic footprints.
Heal, not harm, with your
thoughts, words, and actions.
With any life challenge,
summon the life force of the
universe. Destiny will always
support you taking the high
road.
Detach from the story. Stay
with what is real! Be your own
best friend as you travel
through life by not betraying
yourself for another. Create
the best life possible. Be the
best you.
The Power is, and always will
be, YOU!

Living Beyond Limitations and FEAR
My struggles and limitations
have done one of two things.
In the past, they have stopped
me or forced me to be creative.
They forced me to rely on an
invisible force within me that
beckons me not to give up –
that beckons me to take a
chance, to say, “Yes, I can do
this. I will. I am going to do
this.”
If my life was a book and I was
the author, how would I want
my story to go?
What would it be like to live
beyond the limitations of my
beliefs?
What if making a commitment
to changing my beliefs gave
me back my life, and it
became what I wanted it to
be? Would I accept change?
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‘Tension is who you
think you should be.
Relaxation is who
you ARE!’
- Chinese Proverb

In order to believe in the possibilities
of my Dreams, and to take the initial
step to turn possibilities into
probabilities, and probabilities into
realities – concrete realities – there
were many things that I needed to
change in my own psyche.
I came to the realization that I should
use my imagination and vision to
create my reality. By breaking
through in my mind what I could do
and what I couldn’t do, I realized that
my mind needed to become open –
open to help the inspiration of life to
flow through, like a gentle breeze
coming in the window. It was about
believing in my dreams and facing
my fears – that held the greatest
breakthrough.
The thought that I would like to
challenge you with today is instead
of thinking of your limitations and
challenges as negative or bad, what
if you began to look at them as
blessings?
What if you looked at them as gifts
that can be used to create the fullest
life imaginable, to ignite your
unrealized potential, to open the
door to your heart and mind, and to
help you go further than you ever
thought you would go?
Debbie Shapiro wrote about this in
Your Body Speaks Your Mind. The
body can heal itself, but scientific
proof suggests that you need the
presence of love, tenderness,
nurturing, and care. The mind can be
a force of healing, rather than a force
of fear. In fact, over the years, a
number of new wellness models have
been developed as part of the
research that’s gone on in self-
healing and energy consciousness.

Y O U R B O D Y L I S T E N S
T O E V E R Y T H I N G Y O U
S A Y
In The Biology of Belief and The Honeymoon Effect,
cellular biologist, Bruce Lipton, stated that genes and
DNA are not fixed.The brain communicates with all of
the cells in the body through hormones and
neurotransmitters on a physical level.
For example, if you have a negative thought, belief or
feeling, your brain triggers the fight or flight
mechanism in the body. In other words, it starts to
trigger a threat response.
Red Alert, Danger. Danger is what the cells pick up on
in the body.
The medulla sees a threat and turns on the
hypothalamus and the pituitary gland. They
communicate with the adrenal glands. The adrenal
glands start pumping out stress hormones, such as
cortisol and norepinephrine. It turns on the stress
response that activates the sympathetic nervous
system, which puts you into that fight or flight mode.
It’s an adaptive, reactive, and protective response to
danger.
Stress hormones fill the body and bathe every single
cell.
This stress response is meant to switch off after the
threat has been managed. What happens when it
doesn’t is that it starts to break down the natural
intelligence and innate wisdom of the body’s
consciousness.
To counterbalance the stress response, we have what
Herbert Benson at Harvard called the Relaxation
Response. This happens when the stress response
switches off – the parasympathetic nervous system then
switches on.
Healing hormones, including oxytocin, dopamine, and
endorphins, bathe the body. They bathe every cell in
the body with nourishment and healing.
The natural, innate intelligence of the body that
governs the natural cell repair mechanism and healing
responses in the body, only switches on when the
relaxation response is activated and the nervous system
is relaxed.
The relaxation response may be what researchers
explain as this placebo effect.
Our relaxation response is naturally hardwired intothe
body, the operative word here being ‘natural.’ And it is,
in fact, our ‘natural’ state of being, where our body is
being energized by love and harmony.
The fight or flight response, which is the stress reaction
in our emergency state of
being, happens when we are running on fear and
disharmony, or simply put, being RUN by fear and our
perception of threat and survival!
A chronic state of fear and disharmony creates Dis-
EASE. In fact, science has shown that over 80% of
diseases are stress-related.

This Thing Called Love
We are surrounded by
an ocean of universal
consciousness called
love, and bathed by the
tenderness and warmth
of a universe that
nourishes us with every
breath and heartbeat.
To the mind, love is an
emotion. It is outside us,
not inside us.
To the mind, love is an
addiction.
Like a lover’s kiss; the
thrill of the chase; an
unquenchable need or
desire that leaves us
hungry for more; a
feeling to die for, giving
up ourselves to another
in the hope of
redemption.
An addictive high that
jolts our senses into fight
or flight.... like heroine,
to the ego, love is a drug
and an emotional roller
coaster. An exhilarating
ride accompanied by
the highest of highs and
then the lowest of lows…
It leaves us half empty,
rather than half full.

The journey of hope and disillusionment,
passion and revenge, here one day and
gone the next. Love found. Love Lost,
round and round the wheel we go,
looking for love in all the wrong places.
To the mind, love is dependence,
attachment, and bondage.
If love is not a thought or emotion, what
could it possibly be? What is this thing we
call love?
Real love is something that dwells within
us, ripe with wisdom and conscience.
As our heart opens, we KNOW who we are.
Love is the fuel that inspires us to create
majesty and grace...
It inspires us to be real and empowers us
to acts of genius, as poets, parents,
companions, neighbors, partners...
Love is the force that shapes our destiny
and dissolves our egos. It is the most
profound, encompassing force that can
neither be lost nor found, neither
destroyed nor created.
Love Just Is!
Love is the canvas on which you
paint your life. Love is the inspiration; the
beginning, middle, and end; the
destination and the journey; the question
and the answer. Love is you and me and
everything in between.
Love is all around us. Where we choose to
see love, fear cannot dwell.
Love is what we’re made of.
It’s our purpose here on this planet.
You will discover that when you look back
at your life, the moments that brought the
greatest honour, peace, and inspiration —
the moments when you truly lived — were
not moments spent consuming,
performing, competing, acquiring,
working, or being busy. They were the
moments when you listened to your heart
and the wisdom of your soul.
In the presence of real, heart-based love,
we are all brothers and sisters, sharing the
same Garden of Eden that we call Earth.
Love is in our hearts.
In love, there are only MIRACLES!
As Mother Theresa said, ‘The only cure is
LOVE!’

LISTEN TO
YOUR HEART
Listen to the heart,
For this is where you shall find truth.
The heart is ever-flowing with wisdom.
An open heart has no agenda.
The mind can become easily torn between
fear and control,
Looking endlessly for stimulation.
The mind knows not where to find peace.
It thrives on the busyness of its stories…
the past, future, ifs, buts, maybes,
shoulds, coulds, rights, wrongs…
It mistakes illusion for reality, and lives in
a state of perpetual denial.
You can often hear it saying, 'I don't
believe in that because I can't get my
head around it...’
Or, ‘Prove it to me and then I'll believe...’
No amount of proof, can convince a
strong ego of the presence of the divine.
Its agenda is to win at all costs.
It separates itself from life. In fact, it
thrives on separation.
No amount of attention, can satisfy an
untamed ego.
Fear and flow cannot co-exist.
Just as fear and faith cannot co-exist.
Faith is our 'knowing that it can be so.'
Ego fears not being enough, so it lives in
a state of perpetual fear and contraction.
It is forceful in its pursuit of glory, of
being right, of fighting, resisting,
struggling for power...
Struggle is like a drug for the ego.
It will coerce you into playing out roles
in your life and then it
Will convince you that you are the roles
that you play. It is a world held captive
by fear.
Fear is the absence of love.
So the way to transform the mind is
through the heart.
Tender the mind with wisdom, teach it
that the way out of the chaos is
through the heart.
Ask it to sit in the back seat while your
inner knowing sits in the driver’s seat.
It can come along for the ride.
And as it learns to mature and yield,
releasing its baggage,
the mind can be the heart's greatest
ally.
Together, they can be the best of
friends.
The mind can learn to listen to the
heart.
A sharp mind with a tender heart has
the power to transform the world.
For it transforms and leads through
love, not fear.

Long ago, Albert Einstein said, ‘The
only really valuable thing is
intuition.’
That's because intuition is your
'inner genius,' and it opens the door
to creating the best life for you.
Your intuition will guide you
unconditionally in all areas of your
life, from
creativity, finances, and emotional
fulfilment, to spiritual growth,
health, and relationships.
Your intuition is your doorway to
consciousness and source
intelligence.
Make your intuition your best friend.
Your intuition is your road map.
As you continue to find new ways of
reconnecting to your own in-built
navigation and internal GPS,
you will begin to realize that you are
far more centered and balanced
than you
previously thought.
The challenge is listening and
following your inner knowing.
So keep coming back to this: What’s
my knowing about this situation?
Be open to following what you know
and don’t rationalize or
intellectualize it.
KNOWING is enough. Now, act from
that place that’s right for you.
YOUR
INTUITION
IS ALWAYS
RIGHT

10 secrets to Living an
Extraordinary Life
Follow Your Intuition without Hesitation
That’s because intuition is your inner genius, and
it opens the door to creating the best life for you,
authentically. Your intuition will guide you
unconditionally in all areas of your life.
Your intuition is your doorway to consciousness
and source intelligence. It’s a little bit like an
internal GPS.
In the beginning, to really, really trust it seems
quite challenging. Yet, like a muscle, the more
you trust it the more reliable its strength
becomes
Focus on what you do want, not on what you
don’t want. Do more of what makes you feel
happy and alive.
The root of the word enthusiasm is ‘entheos.’ It
literally means ‘God within.’ When you feel
enthusiastic about your dreams, it means that the
universe is speaking through you and saying,
‘Yes, go that way.’ It’s more like a sign post. The
feeling of enthusiasm is one of the ways that your
intuition speaks to you. What makes you excited,
happy, and delighted?
What makes you feel alive?
That’s what you need to do more of.
S E C R E T # 1 S E C R E T # 2

SECRET #3 SECRET #4
Change your Vibrations to Change your Life
Be clear about what you want and how you want
your life to be. Create those feelings to attract a
perfect match for what you’re sending out.
When we’re clear about our goals, we stop
wasting time on the things that don’t matter and
really start to focus on the things that do. Spend
time thinking about what you truly want. What
does your ideal life look like?
Draw pictures of it – even a dream board, if you
want. Write in your journal. Spend time each day
really starting to make all those feelings concrete
– whether it be visual, auditory, or a feeling-
knowing within you of how it would feel to live
the life that you imagine to be your perfect
match.
Imagine you are living it in the now. What are you
wearing? What are you feeling?
Who are the people around you?
Where you can, make the visuals and feelings
alive. Remember, the signals you emit need to be
a vibrational match to what you want.
Focus on the Positive, Not the Negative
Focus on what you want to create, not on
what you want to let go of.
Create positive self-talk, unconditionally,
every moment of every day. At first, it
may be challenging, but where you can,
really live that sense of not talking down
to yourself. Pay attention to what you tell
yourself about yourself and your life. If
the general tone is hopeful and positive,
you’ll become your own best friend.
William James said, ‘The greatest
discovery of my generation is that
human beings, by changing the inner
attitudes of their minds, can change the
outer aspects of their lives.’ It’s easier to
create a life you love when you’re
actually focusing on the positive. As you
focus on the positive, what you create in
your outer life also mirrors the inward
change in vibrations.

Feel the Earth Beneath your Feet
Spend at least 15 minutes in quiet,
meditative contemplation every day.
Answers often come to life’s questions
through self-reflection. By creating the
space within you that you can visit every
day, you no longer feel alone. In fact, you
make peace with your aloneness.
You become more and more aware of
your connection to the universe and how
the universe truly does what you ask of it,
through benevolence and consistency.
Allow your evolving consciousness just
15 minutes every day. This will help you
change your life by focusing on who you
really are.Remember, you are not your
ego.
Lighten Up: See yourself in the best
possible LIGHT.
In the moment, see if you can raise your
vibrations to the best possible feeling
you can access, and then focus on
expanding that. Even though you may be
having a bad day, where you feel
everything has gone wrong, focus on the
highest vibrational thought or emotion in
the moment, so that you’re no longer
focusing on things you don’t want to
create. Nothing’s broken and nothing
needs fixing.
Just keep focusing on the positive, in
order to expand and manifest it. Where
you can, lighten up.
SECRET #5 SECRET #6

Live It - Don’t just think it or feel it, live it through
action.
Action follows realization. Where we have
realizations and we don’t take action, we become
extremely frustrated – not only in our goals and
our purposes, but on an everyday level.
Take action. Realize something, then act on it.
Even small steps are very powerful action steps.
Small steps lead to big steps. How we do the little
things is how we do the big things.
Where you take action, you no longer stay in the
‘I’ve got to work something out’ phase.
In the moment, it’s as if you say, ‘What is the one
thing that I can do right now to show myself and
the universe that I’m ready to take that next
step?’ Sometimes, it can be just picking up the
phone, talking to a friend, reading a book, or
learning a new skill. Take action on what you feel
really excites you. Even if it’s a small step, it’s still
a step.
Synchronicity is a message from the Universe -
Become Aware and Observe!
Synchronicity shows us that we’re on the right
path. Of course, everyone has a right path for
them. We courageously need to live that. A
synchronicity is where the universe is showing
up and showing you a sign, so that you can take
that next step.
As you become more and more aware of the
interplay of energy in your life – of the ebb and
flow – and you begin to trust in your own
awareness, then you understand what is yours.
What isn’t yours, you return to sender. You start
to focus on witnessing things as they really are –
you pause, you step back, you take a breath, and
you move out of that ego reaction. You start to
see things as they are, knowing that in that
moment, nothing is broken. The moment is
perfect as it arrives. As you surrender to the
process, it’s almost as if you can see the divinity
working for you.
Sometimes you may need to surrender and come
back to your inner knowing. Accept what you are
feeling and know that something bigger is at
play. You may not like it, but that’s okay. Be at
peace with what is happening, knowing that you
have the power to resolve it.
SECRET #7 SECRET #8

Your heart knows, what your heart knows. No
explanations needed. Listen to it!
Knowing is powerful.
Intuition allows us to truly access that inner
genius by focusing on what we truly want, rather
than trying to fix what we don’t want. We become
more of a clear channel, so that we’re moving out
of victim-hood and into being a creator. The
signal we’re emitting is not dissimilar to that of a
lighthouse. As we become more and more aware
of our ability to create our life rather than be
victimized by circumstances, we start to
understand that the signal we’re emitting needs
to change before life shows us that there is an
imminent change outwardly. Changing our inner
signal and inner vibration is a precursor to
changing our life.
We start to feel the earth beneath us and we start
to feel connected to a greater power that moves
through us. Even 15 minutes a day in quiet
contemplation can allow us tremendous change
and nourishment in our lives. As we lighten up in
the moment and let things be, meaning we reach
for the best possible feeling or experience, we
can lighten up in a sense where we’re actually
raising our vibration.
When we realize and then take action through
our realizations, our action becomes almost like
an act of trust and faith. We’re not pushing the
river of life, we’re moving with it. In my
experience, as realizations come in and I take
action, I develop more faith in myself and the
greater power, as well as more trust in allowing
life to unfold.
When we return something to sender, we tell our
story, we feel our feelings, we own what’s ours,
and we know what’s ours. Every human being
has felt something in them that says that certain
things don’t belong to them, even if they’re living
in denial. Return to thesender what is not yours.
It’s a very simple, yet powerful, tool to use. By
trusting your knowing and shifting your
perspective, you can be present with the power
of the love within you. You can understand and
trust that your heart knows what truth is. Your
heart knows. In the words of Stephen King, ‘Your
heart knows what your heart knows.’
When we return something to sender, we tell our
story, we feel our feelings, we own what’s ours,
and we know what’s ours. Every human being
has felt something in them that says that certain
things don’t belong to them, even if they’re living
in denial. Return to thesender what is not yours.
It’s a very simple, yet powerful, tool to use. By
trusting your knowing and shifting your
perspective, you can be present with the power
of the love within you. You can understand and
trust that your heart knows what truth is. Your
heart knows. In the words of Stephen King, ‘Your
heart knows what your heart knows.’
SECRET #9
SECRET #10

IS NOW A GOOD TIME?
Is now a good time for life to be
all that you want it to be?
Life doesn’t always happen in the
way that you think it’s going to
happen.
It happens with your best
interests at heart.I know what
you’re thinking, but it helps you
transform yourself for the better!
Life doesn’t happen to you. Life
happens because of YOU, and
happens FOR you.
In other words, our lives are there
to make us our BEST SELVES.
Feel grateful (great full) about
what happens in your life.
Everything that happens in life is
happening to make you the BEST
version of yourself.
Are you willing to see the best
reason why something
happened to You? But I guess
challenges wouldn’t be called
hurdles in life if we couldn’t get
over them.
I love my life...I love being
alive...I LOVE my life...is it
sinking in yet?...I love my life!
Now live your life as if you LOVE
your life.
Say to yourself, ‘I’m going to
LOVE, RESPECT, and HONOR
myself.’
Self-love is what really matters
in life. I love my strengths,
weaknesses, my mind, emotions,
and body. I love what I’ve
become, and the parts of me
that no longer serve me, I can
CHOOSE to let go of... Wow, you
mean I’m FREE to choose? Ah,
yes!
When you respect, love, and
honor yourself and others,
‘IT ALWAYS SEEMS
IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL IT’S DONE.’
- Nelson Mandela

you are tapping into
something bigger than
yourself. And that feeling is,
dare I say, spiritual.
Notice how your body feels,
NOT what your mind thinks,
when you hear these phrases.
Notice how your energy
shifts, even momentarily.
What is an expression of you?
Is the life you’re living now an
expression of YOU or an
expression of who you used
to BE?
The gift is WHO WE BECOME
BY DOING WHAT WE LOVE,
jumping off the cliff and
growing wings on the way
down.
Take a leap of faith, the
parachute always opens! It
really does, in ways we
wouldn’t believe!
Remember, the universe
doesn’t wear a stopwatch, so
the parachute usually opens
just before you’re ready to
throw in the towel and say,
‘Ah, this stuff doesn’t work. I
can’t trust...’Yes, you can. You
can trust in YOU being able
to handle anything.
You might even stumble on
the possibility that you’re
always loved, protected, and
directed when you listen to
your heart. That ‘higher’
power? That’s not a guru,
that’s YOU!
Don’t ever give up on you.
Believe in yourself. It doesn’t
matter if parents didn’t, or
your teachers didn’t. Who
cares? The fact that you
believe in you is really all that
matters.
If you’re still searching for
yourself, well, don’t look any
further. Because I can see
you! You’re not as lost as you
thought you were.
If you’re reading this, you’re
ready to hear this and
remember how great you
are. So the secret is out.
You’ve found yourself!! Okay,
great. So is now a good time
to start living life
passionately?
Hope you’re smiling...
When you get stressed, asked
yourself this:
What thoughts do I think
over and over again that
make me feel awful?
Why do I think them if they
make me feel awful?
Which do I prefer — being
happy or feeling awful?
The shift from looking back
for directions, to not looking
back because you’re not
going there or ONLY looking
back for lessons in life, is a
pretty powerful one!
Why is this happening to me
and what part am I playing in
all of this to make it happen?
I can then make choices
from a centred space – a
powerful space – rather than
just react.
Life is always best lived from
conscious action rather than
from reaction to what was
learned in the past.

And to do that, you need to look within
you, because that’s where you’ll find the
answers.
Most fears arise from looking into the
future through the eyes of the past.
Put yourself in the driver’s seat and drive
from where you are right now, in the
direction of where you’re truly going. If
you listen to your fears, it’s like driving
your car in reverse on the freeway. Not a
peaceful experience.
Fear is a message that reminds us that we
need to keep being true to us, NOT the
fear.
Resolve it mentally, and move on.
Watch your thoughts closely. Thoughts
are real things, and like seeds planted in
the ground, they grow if you let them.
Turn disempowering thoughts into
empowering thoughts. Nip them in the
bud!!
Think good thoughts, plant positivity.
It’s easier that way. Less fear grows with
positivity!!
Remember, reality is neutral, not
subjective. It’s our take on it that makes it
swing one way or the other. It’s OUR
definition of reality that gives our reality
substance.
Is now a good time?
Focus on the positive, that’s the path that
Opens up. You focus on the negative,
that’s the path that opens up. We
CHOOSE the path by our focus.
Our focus is our control panel. Whatever
we focus on, grows. Period!
You focus all of your activities on showing
up, stepping up, and making a difference.
That is what you create...step by step by
step. The one place you’ll find what
you’re looking for is in the NOW.
Start your mornings with that very special
appointment with YOU!
Do what makes you feel the most alive —
swim, meditate, jog, walk, etc. Just build
your day on YOU, the best, happiest, most
loving version of yourself.People who are
both successful AND fulfilled have this
attitude in common: Life is happening
FOR me, not TO me. I create my life by the
intention and choices that I MAKE.
So is now a good time to choose the
choices that feel right for you and make
you happy?
Hmmm...Do you feel that shift? Great, now
go out there and have the BEST DAY (or
night) ever.Why? Because you’re in the
driver’s seat.
Yes, take the driver’s seat and don’t look
back.Forward, onward, and enjoy the
adventure.
You’re the only person that can live your
life.
No excuses. JUST DO IT. You’ll love
yourself and everyone else for it.
It’s worth it!

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Choose to create your DESTINY instead!
When you make a choice
You instruct the universe to grant you your
wish in that direction.
MAKITA GABRIEL

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