The Meaning of Personal Transformation

I have been reflecting these past days about the word transformation.

We know that life’s engine is through transformation. Everything alive evolves to fulfil a specific purpose. A small seed can transform itself into a wondrous Oak tree, just as a small caterpillar transforms itself into a  beautiful butterfly.

But what does that mean for us? How can we be aware of our own transformation?

Just the other day I heard a remarkable speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which precisely talks about transformation. He shared his own experience with this phenomenon. What he said really stuck with me and made me think further about the topic. 

He shared his own experience with transformation. During his youth, he used to be a drug addict and he even described himself as a “bundle of desires”. His life was completely driven by a total self-will. After a certain time, a life driven by self-will ends up becoming meaningless. He struggled to find meaning anymore to what he was actually accomplishing. The world seemed chaotic, dull and unbearable. Until one day, he decided to surrender, and turn his will to a Higher Power. Once he surrendered to serve a higher purpose, is when he understood the meaning of transformation.

Every decision in his daily life, whether small or big, had now a moral dimension, and he realised that by making the right choices his life started to change and rewards and blessings came very fast. He keeps on saying that when his life became fully rewarded he still tries to keep his humility in place because that’s the only way that you can keep connected to the Higher Source. It is particularly challenging when things are going well in your life, he says, because when things go well one hardly thinks about God or in asking for help. 

Most people who are desperate and helpless tend to turn to God for help. But what happens when you are doing great? How do you keep finding meaning in your life despite your many blessings?

This explains maybe why so many people experience anxiety and depression, even though theoretically they have everything: a house, food on the table, and even family and friends who love them. Why do so many people fall into addictions and cravings of all types? Wouldn´t it be because they are lacking a life with real meaning?

When I examine my own life, I realize that what keeps me going is my desire to help. I have a deep desire to be of service and to share everything I know that can help people navigate through this dense, toxic World. I know that I have the moral responsibility to act in the service of what is right and what I regard as the truth. I wake up every day thinking I have to report to God for another day at His service. 

To take decisions with a moral dimension is what psychologist Jordan Peterson would say is making your bed every day, tidying up your room and showing up at work even if you don’t feel like it- because it is not about you, but it is all about what you are offering to the World. Is to work towards becoming a much better person than what you are today. It is to explore the potential of being. It is in the limits of the unknown where we have the field play of becoming. 

Eventually, how others see you means nothing. What is meaningful is how you see yourself. A superior man thinks about virtue; a petty man thinks about comfort.

How do you feel about the word transformation?

How would you transform yourself into someone who can live purposefully and plenty?

 I would love to hear your experience.

To learn more about the topic, I invite you to read my book:

The Success Mindset: Take back the leadership of your mind

God bless,

Paola K.

La mejor arma para la salud: Enamorarse de la vida

Uno de los anhelos más grandes de la humanidad, es contar con buena salud. Una buena salud significa tener energía abundante para poder vivir la vida a plenitud y sentir entusiasmo por nuestros proyectos de vida.

La verdad es que el cuerpo fue diseñado de forma perfecta. Dios hizo un trabajo sublime, de perfección inentendible para nuestro pobre y primitivo entendimiento. Pero la verdad siempre sale a la luz, y espero que todos nos demos cuenta que nuestro cuerpo se repara a sí mismo y lo único que tenemos que hacer es darle los “materiales correctos” para regenerarse, como decía el maravilloso doctor Frank Suárez.

Los materiales correctos son precisamente los alimentos. Pero para sentir entusiasmo y tener las ganas y determinación de comer las cosas correctas, se necesita en mi opinión, tener un amor profundo por la vida y el deseo de conocimiento de uno mismo.

Cuando sentimos apatía por la vida, cuando creemos que nuestro cuerpo es “ajeno” a nosotros y no entendemos lo que “pasa por dentro”, caemos víctimas de industrias mafiosas que se aprovechan de la ignorancia y la facilidad de manipulación de las personas para hacer sus negocios redondos. Persona sana= Cliente perdido. Persona enferma=Cliente de por vida. No necesito explicar más.

Tener entusiasmo por la vida, sentir que nuestro cuerpo es perfecto tal y como es, nos motiva a buscar opciones más acordes con nuestra naturaleza para poder mantenernos sanos y vigorosos. Si realmente amas tu cuerpo, vas a buscar incansablemente el alimento y los hábitos que lo hagan mantenerse de forma óptima. Vas consumir menos o eliminar totalmente comidas chatarra como los panes, cereales procesados, azúcares procesados, pastas, la coca-cola… y vas a optar por más proteínas sanas, magnesio, potasio y colesteroles sanos.

Cuando amas tu cuerpo vas a cuidarlo bien, y vas a evitar caer en excesos. Vas a procurar no sobre-estresarlo, ni excitar el sistema nervioso de tal manera que cause un estrés irremediable. 

Recuerda que no hay nada ni nadie por encima de tu salud. Ningún trabajo, ninguna persona, ninguna circunstancia tiene más peso o valor que la salud, que es la vida misma. Yo como madre de dos pequeños sé que es difícil darse prioridad, piensas que primero es la salud de tus hijos antes que tu propia salud, por ejemplo. Es verdad que amamos a nuestros hijos por sobre todas las cosas, pero si te descuidas, caes en enfermedad y una mamá enferma no va a dar el mismo desempeño y atención a sus hijos que una mamá sana, vital y tranquila.

La vida es movimiento, un cuerpo sano se mueve con energía. Una vida sedentaria, sin mucha actividad es muy parecido a la muerte. Cuando estás enamorado de la vida, quieres vivirla a plenitud, hacer muchas cosas, conocer las verdades del mundo, viajar, experimentar… la curiosidad no tiene límites.

Una de las capacidades más increíbles que tenemos los humanos es justamente la capacidad de convertir energía en vida, en movimiento. Cuando cumplimos nuestras metas, estamos materializando nuestro amor y entusiasmo por la vida, convirtiendo esa energía mental en algo tangible.

Por eso es tan importante mantenerse en un estado de alta vibración positiva lo más posible: El que vibra alto y positivamente construye una realidad acorde con esa energía- construyes tus sueños, logras tus metas, te sientes en paz y en armonía con el mundo.

Cuando piensas negativo, toda esa frecuencia pesada de la negatividad te hunde y te bloquea- la energía se bloquea, flota densa y entonces se materializa en problemas, falta de salud, falta de motivación, flojera, desgane.

Reflexionemos un poco. Enamorémonos de la vida.  El mundo no es una escuela fácil y está llena de trampas, de falsas ilusiones. Pero el amor es la mejor guía. El amor nos conduce a la verdad… y la verdad siempre triunfa.

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PAOLA KNECHT es una coach certificada en liderazgo, transformación y desarrollo personal,  autora de The Success Mindset: Take Back the Leadership of Your Mind y Un Mundo de Ilusiones. Puedes obtener más información en my-mindpower.com.

Healthy Families = Healthy Societies

In Today’s state of the world, nobody talks about the role family plays in the preservation of human societies. In the last decades, the focus has been set on basically destroying the very core of a functional family: the role of men and women. 

Good families have a solid male-father figure who brings leadership, security and stability to the family members. They also have a caring mother, who primarily has the task of raising their children and are by excellence the food scientists, doctors, teachers, psychologists and multi-task talented of the family.

When each member of the family understands their role, there is more harmony and stability at home. Back in the 50s and 60s, one salary was enough to sustain a family of four, have a nice house and have a comfortable, decent life. However, as the decades passed and globalization started to become the hope for a “progressive future of prosperity and collaboration”- we started to see strange shifts in our cultures and especially in family structures.

The first wave of change is the encouragement of women to join the workforce. The women’s rights movement in the late 60’s not only triggered the feminist movement of that time, but also the value of being a woman and the priorities we should look after as a woman started to take a different direction, going more in favour of developing strong, emancipated and aggressive women and making obsolete the role of a loved, caring mother.

The second wave was that women became less interested in staying at home and having children. Societies started praising the new “Super Women” who climbed into leadership positions in business or became elite athletes, models or scientists. There was no room left to praise the ordinary Mother, the invisible soul that stays home and ensures the family stays together.

The third wave is a curious “cultural” explosion in gay communities. Suddenly, gay life was in Vogue. I’m not talking about the traditional homosexual or lesbian preferences, which are respectable. The whole community started to transform itself into a binary rainbow of infinite possibilities. Men that “feels like a woman” could actually get pregnant if they really want it. A trans woman can fall in love with a man. Or with a chimpanzee, or with a plant. Doesn’t matter. Your ideologies and feelings override biology and common sense.

A fourth wave is an emergence of “Feminazis”- extremist women that take “toxic masculinity” to the next level.  The anger towards men is such, that they consider the natural and beautiful act of making love a “subjugation to machist dogmas”. So if you have an orgasm, you might very well be collaborating in keeping the machos in power, a sin in today’s rainbow standards.

And what would come next?

It wouldn’t surprise me, that the trend goes towards the complete eradication of any sexual identification. Asexuals, transhumans- any sign of human sovereignty is gone.

You might think I am exaggerating, but just think a bit about it.

Without the traditional family construct, the moral values that hold our civilization become blurry and obsolete. The lack of values and tradition causes confusion. Confusion causes chaos and depression. 

Disconnection causes hate and wars. Connection causes love and harmony.

The family nucleus connects us to our core and our nature. The strength and assertiveness of a strong father and the loving care of a mother make you feel safe and loved. Anything else will lead to disconnection and chaos. 

This is the big dystopia of our times.

Destroy families systematically, and you will destroy humanity.

Maintain healthy families and your societies will strive. That’s our only hope.