Feel My Spring...

Lighthouse of Hope

I believe that our thoughts are a powerful force - can move mountains. We must believe and hope in a bright future and always think positive. It is always our choice to choose happy life or get depressed and eat yourself.

It is scientific fact - that our thoughts affect to our health and body. Modern life is very stressful and everybody has a lot of different problems and as a result, a lot of negative thoughts. For example, I was sick for a whole year and doctors couldn’t diagnose exactly what was wrong with my stomach. I had pain inside of my body all the time and my negative thoughts were growing like mushrooms after the rain. It was an endless circle, a swamp of negative thoughts… as long as I didn’t change my mindset  to a positive. Now, I believe that your hope and positive mind can heal you and can help you fight with a horrible illnesses, in some cases - even if it’s a cancer. Take care of your mind, your body will thank you. Take care of your body, your mind will thank you.

How can  you do this? You need to download new positive program for your brain, just like you would do on your computer. I believe that our thoughts can change our life, you can choose to be a successful and try hard to become one or give and live in cardboard box under the bridge. We must believe in yourself and do everything with hope and smile. Sometimes, when everything goes wrong and you feel that whole world is against you, you just need to relax and hope in a new happy day. Dream about what you wish for and your dreams become true. I believe, if you will imagine in your head yourself like a president of a company, or like a celebrity, or like a beautiful bride, or happy mother, yours thoughts will give a signal to Universe and will start the global process of reincarnation.

I believe, that if you start every single day with a  phrase: “Today is the best day of my life and I will win a prize!”, you can get anything what you wish for. I know it is easy to say about it, but not easy to do. I spent many months to improve my mind and start to think positive. I went to yoga class, which is help to clean and refresh my body and soul. When I started to work with my yoga coach all my negative thoughts disappeared and I felt all my body:from head to toes. I started to talk with my  head and stomach and found harmony between my sense and body. When we worked on breathing: all my pain gone and I felt full relax.  Also, I went few times a week to swimming pool, because when I swam my brain turned off and I was relax and just enjoy the process. I read, watched and listened all positive and kind book, movies and songs, because they helped me to get off of bad thoughts.  I walked along the lonely beach, because ocean always work better than psychologist. I breathed with full chest fresh ocean air and walked among the clean water.  I talked to myself about how this life is beautiful and how is important to kill all yours negative thoughts and grow inside of you a big tree of positive, love and Hope.  

Our thoughts affect our reality. If you want to change your reality, you know where to begin. So if you find yourself engaging in negative thoughts, start using positive practices like these canto change your life. Focus on the good and not the negative. Make time for some positive self-reflection and positive thinking. It will transform your life before your eyes. I believe in positive thoughts and hope and I know how they are powerful from experience.  Just believe and you will find your lighthouse of Hope.

Spring is around the corner...

Wine and Design

 When I was in Charleston during my vacation, my girlfriends made for me a surprise: we spent all evening  drawing  at the art room. It was wonderful night! I am so bad in drawing and don't have any experience to paint something beautiful. For first five minutes I was a  little bit confuse, but after a glass of cold wine, I opened a new talent in myself. It is a joke, of course the trainer of this event helped me and gave me a lot of good tips for drawing.

   This is an amazing place for relax, meeting new interesting people, communication, opening new talent of your soul. You can bring your own bottle of wine or champagne and enjoy the process... They costing 35 dollars for almost four hours and gave you all materials: a canvas, brushes, paints. And they teach you! I think it is a good deal for make yourself or somebody a little more happier. 

    
   We drew last night a cute lovely birds, which set on the branch and watched for the moon. Romantic!

  Pancakes in the air 

    Today is the start of the week of Maslenitsa, It is one of my favorite time in the year. Time when the Spring is right around the corner and when you eat pancakes (in Russia we call them ''Blinchiki'') everyday during the whole week.  

• Maslenitsa is one of the Orthodox Church favorite and merry festivals.
  During these weeks people avoid eating fat meals, meat and there are few entertainments.
• People must work hard, pray and clean their soul.
• The Russian word for butter is “maslo” hence it appears Maslenitsa. Maslenitsa is the time to say farewell to winter and hello to the coming of spring. We eat "blinchiki", because our ancestry believed, that hot yellow pancakes symbolized the sun. 

    Blinchiki we make every day especially much from Thursday up to Sunday during The Wide Maslenitsa. It is required to visit and receive guests when Maslenitsa. Each mistress of the house has her own particular blinchiki recipe. I still remember the taste of my granny's pancakes with fish, honey, jam, and lots of butter and of course  with red caviar. Also she made “zbiten” (a hot drink made of water, honey and spices).

Sunday is the last day of Maslenitsa, we call it "Forgiveness Subday". Everybody must forget all their offences and forgive all people. When I was a child , I went with my grandfather to frozen lake and watched how burned the Dummy of Maslenitsa. It was fun! Everybody is dancing, playing in old fashioned Russian games and eating pancakes.
 Welcome to Russia, welcome to Maslenitsa!)))  

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