There was a time in my life when I was fascinated by people driven by a sense of rebellion fueled by pride and anger — a dangerous mix, so I surrounded myself by them. I’m not sure if it was because of our innate Spanish pride, our ghetto-like roots, or perhaps our difficulty fitting into society while growing up, but we took every opportunity to exert our dominance and MAKE others respect us.

This focus, bordering on obsession, on making sure we were respected cultivated an extraordinarily stressful lifestyle. We had to look tough, be tough, act tough, show no emotions or else… be eaten by a bigger fish who was playing the same game.

It appeared to be a natural way to be for everyone around me, but I didn’t feel like that inside. There was a part of me that was delicate and ethereal, a part forgotten, underneath the other parts of me showing off my power. So I tried to cover it up every time with my way of dressing. I would look at myself in the mirror with my combat boots, chains, military fatigues, leather jacket, all the essentials for a badass… “Ooh… Such a bad girl!” …but then my face would betray the truth most often… an innocent sweet little girl. No amount of accessories or scowls could cover it up.

My friends would always get into fights, just for the sheer fun of it. Although not often used, they even carried guns and knives as casually as the average person might carry sun glasses or a watch.

“Hey, your elbow touched me” and the fight would start. I felt disappointed about so much aggression, although I would also give the evil eye to anyone who “touched my elbow”.

I would often times stand up for noble reasons. Like vigilante on a mission of justice I would defend anyone who was being belittled, I really couldn’t stand that. It wouldn’t matter to me whether they were one or ten against one, I would stand my ground. I even called out the director of the show I was working in, for bullying some of the other performers, resulting in my getting fired and blackmailed. I would stand up, not to fight with physical aggression, but with my voice and a whole lot of attitude.

So the day came, that a big guy with a few girls appeared on my way and decided to pull and keep my hair tie. Of course, you can imagine, I didn’t feel respected, it was not just. So I made his stupidity my problem and let my rage boil.
After a feeble attempt to reason with them, they surrounded me, grabbed and held me down while punching my jaw. I managed to escape while snatching away the purse of one of the girls, which she left on the floor in order to get a better grip on me. Well, “Too bad,” I thought, “now I have your I.D. and I know who you are.” I ran away with it.

I soon found two of my bad guys in the street and we went to find the aggressors together.

There they were. I never had any intention to hit anyone, even after having been hit, I just wanted a reason for what they did, an apology, something. They obviously had their own way to communicate and resolve things, my two friends promptly jumped in and started fighting. The guy was tough and my friends could barely cope.

I just stood there, staring at the girls, saying “Now what? Now I am not alone” with zero intention to touch anyone, I was all words… until I saw two of the girls coming to me and a fist approaching to land in my face. That was it! “You guys are done” and I unleashed the beast.

I only recall one girl backing up while the other one was bleeding under my fist. My punches were the most untechnical things, but my raw power made up for it.

The police came and that was the end of the story, aside from my jaw not closing properly for a few months and seeing the guy who attacked me many times after that around the neighborhood.

That was a tipping point in my life, when I realized how pointless it is to fight. How sad and destructive fighting is. We have the choice to spread happiness but we chose pain and destruction. In retrospect, I couldn’t understand it.

The beast was still inside me, that warrior aspect, even when it was for a good cause – standing up for others, it would appear suddenly and uncontrollably when least expected. I started feeling concerned about it. I noticed how I was attracting these situations in my life because of my way of being and the people I surrounded myself with. I was reacting negatively to the negative people around me, thus endless multiplying negativity.

How can this be changed? The beast (an unconscious part of me) seemed to be in control of everything and have more power than my conscious self.

Purely through coincidence, I started learning martial arts with the desire of working in action films. I started with Wing Chun, and I recall how much I loved it because of its centering and grounding nature. I started getting deeper and deeper into martial arts, learning different styles in the most profound way I could, meaning, by dedicating time not only to the physical actions, but to the spiritual aspect and the philosophy.

I started to understand how I was managing my energy, how I was reacting to encounters. The critical moment was during my sparring sessions with one of my best friends. I realized that the more calm I was, the more control and clarity I had. I could easily see openings and intentions. Most importantly, however, my own calmness and consideration for my partner would also elicit more of the same from him, we would not hurt each other. This was such complete contrast from the moments when I wanted to show off my badassness and power. I would get lost in emotions, blind to any openings and he would also respond with the same, getting more and more aggressive and throwing that snowball back to me and me back to him until we would really hurt each other.

I eventually learned, on a more consistent basis, to transform negative energy into something more constructive and even positive and creative.

Since then, these situations gradually disappeared from my life, and on the rare occasions that they do happen, I don’t engage them. I just put my attention somewhere else, somewhere positive and worth my focus and energy.

Not only do I now know how to fight and have that confidence and security with me all the time now, radiating for everyone to perceive it, I also know what is truly valuable. I know how to grow and learn from any situation by staying calm and influencing those around me to stay calm as well, so any would-be issues are often resolved before they even come into existence.

This is the true power of martial arts and why it changed my life forever transforming all that potential for the best. I am very grateful to have been able to give shape to that inner diamond, my raw power, to be able to have the delicate part of me dialog with the beast and working together in harmony with the rest. Expressing myself as a full being with so many different yet integrated shades.

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- Victoria Vives

What… Elmo?  After the shock (and a good laugh), I realized that making things so dramatic and ‘profound’ is not always the best way to achieve fulfillment, but instead, taking things lightly and enjoying a good laugh can be much more powerful.  Living in the feeling of appreciating life.

So I don’t know whether I have one or many spiritual guides. I don’t know whether Elmo is my Spiritual Guide, or one of them, or not. I do know that Elmo always makes me VERY HAPPY and tuned in with life! Kids are smart!

I rarely share this stuff although I had similar experiences since coming back to physical consciousness after a near death experience while scuba diving in the Atlantic Ocean. This was a critical turning point in my life.

I’m talking about clearly experiencing and interacting with the non-physical realm.

I’ve always had a special sensibility for the spiritual aspect of life and at the same time I’ve always been scared of it as well.  At that time, when this interaction started, I would have rather perceived something that I could touch.  What I know so far however, is that it has always been a very pleasing experience when some non physical connection happened, although it has not been easy to accept and understand by my mind.

JULY 31st AFTER MIDNIGHT

That night, I was dreaming and I suddenly woke up because of the strength of my inhalation. I had inhaled more than just empty air. I felt filled up as if I was an empty glove and a hand had just come inside me.  I perceived myself as a hologram and everything around seemed to be geometry forming my energy field.

Instantaneously, my heart felt a connection.  It was like when you connect the pump to the tank to fill it up with gas but with a sort of combination key being executed for a lock to be opened.

My heart was passionately beating.

The most interesting thing was that different parts of my body were also pumping,on their own rhythm. I felt a field of vibration all around, I felt kind of elevated.  I experienced a very pleasing and ecstatic sensation.

I was connected with my higher self. I received several names for it, with the clarity that let me know that one of the names was the preferred one, and at the same time that the name didn’t matter.  It was more of a useful tool to focus in a certain way and be able to refer to something specific.

Something as mundane as a photo shoot or other career projects helped me understand how this expanded awareness worked.  I experienced myself taking a big book (all this time I wasn’t moving, just laying in the bed by my husband’s side) which represented a possible photo shoot that I was proposed to do. When I brought that book into my proximity, the part of my field that was surrounding the book stopped vibrating. It wasn’t either a bad or good feeling, it just didn’t vibrate at all, so I felt unbalanced as a whole field. It felt as if an apple had a great bite taken from only one side – incomplete.

I understood how important it is to commit to only do what makes me fully shine for who I am, so that I can continue expanding in that direction, explore it, share my unique me and my unique gift rather than adapting to others visions.

Another thing I perceived was related to the renowned Jeet Kune Do Wednesday Night Group.  I did a couple of projects with them and the people who are a part of it, and I might do some more. They’re starting to feel like family to me, which is very enjoyable.

As I continued with the experience, I wondered how this connection would be seen from non-physical eyes. So I brought this aspect close to me, into my field of vibration and… Ta-dah! We blended together and vibrated together.  It wasn’t clear where one was ending and the other was starting. Then, directing my attention to the right where this blending had taken place, there was a sort of channel and at the end, I noticed the connection with Bruce Lee, but couldn’t really perceive much from him.

I did test other aspects of my career and personal life in the same way and connected with other people (people I know and people who I don’t personally know but are known by everyone). I even experienced myself in the future, about half an hour after, and didn’t realize that it was me until that future was the present. It was very distracting when I couldn’t recognize myself and was trying to see what that was.

TIME TO TRANSFORM – 2012 ELEVATED VIBRATION

I more and more want to accept this part of me and openly talk about it. If you are much stronger in your mind than in your heart, it might not be easy for you to understand this. It is not easy for me and it happened to me.

I am excited because I see the potential of all of us living with an open connection to non-physical and being able to interact from there anytime we choose. We could be with whoever we want without traveling.  We could talk to them without calling.

I imagine that both parts will have to be aware of their non-physical perspective for full communication, but I am pretty sure that part of the physical aspect would receive the other person’s connection or message in form of an insight, feeling, memory, or something similar.

This is so powerful and only high vibrations can reach the soul realm to connect with it, therefore, only good intentions would be there to receive in that instantaneous dimension.

I plan on tuning myself in a high vibration as often as I can, and at the same time, accept when I am not there as a result of feeling sad, angry or in any other way. That’s O.K.. Enlightenment is like a mood that comes and goes and we can always tune back into it.  The more we practice this the more our brain patterns for this subject will be reinforced making this connection more readily available, more second nature.

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Victoria Vives

So even if we are just but a small part of all that exits in the immensity of the Solar System, would you agree that if such beings existed, they would be there for us?

Due to copyright, I thought I would create my own solar system image with extra planets ^_^

Two weeks ago I found out about Eloheim, channeled by Veronica.

Channeling is the process of creating a connection or tuning into the channel of a non-physical entity.  It is said that when artists used to hear the voice of the muse, they were channeling.

Far are the days when I didn’t believe in these things or didn’t trust them. Having had interesting channeling experiences myself, more in the movement realm, and having created such amazing things in my life, close to Science Fiction, I am now very open to believing in the magic that mostly everything is possible.  In fact, let’s just take off the word ‘mostly’ from that last sentence – Everything is possible!

So when something as interesting as Eloheim is in front of me, my way of deciding whether it is a trustworthy source or not, is to listen to what it is shared and consider if it is a life changing knowledge that I never heard or read in such clarity after my ten years studying life from many different perspectives.

Once I am amazed by what they share, I am close to certain that they are who they claim to be, in this case, Eloheim: beings of Love and Light, who were given the task by God to create this Solar System so that we could come to Earth to grow as Souls.  OMG!  Isn’t that beautiful?  It sounds like out of a fairy tale.  It makes me daydream!

Long ago I was studying Metaphysics.  This word means beyond physical.  metaphysics has been one of the most powerful things that helped me learn how we can create our optimal life experience.  It acknowledges how what we don’t see (non-physical, thoughts, emotions)  is more powerful than what we see (physical).

Back in Spain I used to channel the Green Ray  in a Metaphysics group.  We were offering our time to channel the 7 Rays for enhancing the  health and lives of others.  Not channeling in the way of speaking as Veronica amazingly does, but just with our hands directing the energy towards the person.  There are stories about The Seven Elohim (like Eloheim but without the e), so I suddenly thought those might be related.  I researched about it and the Seven Elohims are part of Metaphysics, each one of them for each one of the Rays!  So I asked Veronica about it.  She mentioned that the Eloheim say that they shouldn’t be assumed to be any other being named Eloheim or Elohim but that the members of the Council (who she also channels) resonate to the different seven chakras!  Fascinating!

Veronica Torres and one of the Eloheim quotations to take you from Victim to Victor
There is an opportunity in any crisis!

I decided to have a private session with Eloheim last week and it was… LIFE CHANGING.  The guidance they offered me in just one session could be good enough to have a totally new life experience.  They advise to work on your core emotion in the first session.  The core emotion is like the theme of your life, and this really helps with understanding most of the questions about life you might have.  IMPRESSIVE!  I am applying everything they shared with me and I am living life from a totally different level.

Enjoy Elohim and Veronica’s website and their profound wisdom shared with fun and coloquial videos… wisdom and even Superheroism!  http://Eloheim.info/wordpress/

Victoria Vives

Above picture: Feeling the power of NATURE from the rock into my body and all around – I could actually see energy emerging from the mountains and blending with the blue sky

This place was not only a physical location, but a specific location in time. We went many times to this trail, however, today it was a completely different story.

Today we started at the trail head at 6am. I was excited by the idea stretching my comfort zone by getting up so early and also hiking barefoot! We started walking uphill. It was fresh, silent…  Oh, look at that, there were actually people coming down the mountain. I wonder at what time they started and if there was even light then.

They were an Asian girl, an older man, perhaps her dad, and a dog.  As they approached, the girl greeted us and we answered with the same. The man look at us as if he had seen something unexpected, a beautiful treasure, some special gift or light inside of us.  He saluted us with great warmth and love that activated our hearts on a whole different level.

My husband, my friend and I were puzzled. We had never experienced something like that. Such kindness and welcoming.

The best part is that this love giving repeated again and again with different hikers coming down hill. We started wondering if the early morning hikers were people of a “different kind”. Only very dedicated people go hiking so early.

Second time in my life that I hike barefoot. Loving the feeling of connection to the ground!

So we reached  a cooler area and before turning back, we saw a rattle snake, still resting peacefully coiled beside the trail as we walked along the stream at the cool canyon bottom.  Soon after, a lizard, not very concerned about us, going about its business only inches away.  We had never seen nature and wild animals behave in this way before!

On our way back, totally recharged with nature and love, I looked forward to that inspiration and interaction with other hikers.  I was not settling for anything less than what I had experienced on the way up.  Anytime that somebody would approach as we hiked down, I had ready my best welcome and appreciation for them.  Although it seemed that the late morning hikers weren’t as interested as the earlier hikers, something would light up in them and their reaction would somehow brighten.

So it seemed as though we had found a special mountain that offered inspiration on the way up and compelled you to inspire others on the way down.  Magical coordinates of place and time.

I am so glad we were so early. When we came back there was a lot of traffic… in the opposite direction. Everybody was going somewhere, but we were coming back from somewhere, with a full day before us!

My husband and I after being welcomed on our return to Paradise Earth

Have you ever had the experience, while driving, that somebody made a funny thing like getting right in front of your car and drive superslow?  The common response would be to get kind of bothered and pass the car, but in doing this you might or might not notice that you bothered someone else. Then that someone else might also not feel as calm anymore and, in turn, might cut someone else off and so on. The feeling spreads. It is a ripple that affects much more than where it was originated.

What if next time that this happens, you breathe twice and forget about it?  Just choose to think that the slow car that interrupted in front of you might be driven by an old lady that is not very aware, or by a young new driver who needs support in the first days behind the wheel.

Cut off the wave right there and you will be benefiting lots of people.  If there would be always somebody around to remind us that feeling good is a choice, that life can be so enjoyable and well feeling, that we are appreciated, things would be very different.  You can be THE ONE to remind that to others.

You can be the sun when there are only clouds.  Your love will be given back to you, multiplied.  It is worth the try.

Victoria Vives

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He, as Jesus, Einstein, Buddha, and other fantastic superheroes in our history who achieved a massive amount of clarity in their lives inspired all of us with their vision.

HINT:  There was something that they shared with us in many occasions and that is key for our personal mastery, so here it comes:  it is not about us following them and what they discovered, but more about looking inside ourselves until expressing that same gift that they had but in our unique way.

Einstein’s way wasn’t martial arts, neither Bruce Lee’s was Physics, and I am sure you are as grateful as I am that they both followed different paths and thus brought out different and unique gifts as their contribution to our collective experience.

You love martial arts?  Good!  Learn as much as you can from martial arts teachers.  You love Sciences?  Awesome.  Do the same in that field.  Bathing yourself in the light of what other teachers shine will get you closer to your inner gift.  It will activate your path of inner power.

That is the inspiration from the outside, but make a decision and be determined to bring out what is inside of you which might be somehow similar but certainly different.

There is something that has been sweetly calling you, something that all of us, the world, would love to experience through you: THAT UNIQUE ASPECT that only YOU can bring about, for us to be a WHOLE world.  As I mentioned before, a body with only hearts and no lungs, eyes, legs, etc. won’t function as a whole, so same with the world, we need all functions to be covered.  We need YOU.

The time is NOW for you to be who you really are.  We’ve been looking for the real YOU to be expressed.  YOU are WANTED.  So BE it

Victoria Vives

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