A Book About YOU! - What Would It Say?

Imagine someone has written a book about you! In about 100 words write the blurb for it (the blurb is what people will read on the back cover).  

Here's the one I just wrote:  

"Maria Portas had every thing going for her, until as a child she experienced sexual abuse from one that was trusted, her grandfather. This became the secret that created a roller-coaster of fear, depression, self-harm and abuse. Over 30 years, it manifested in many forms. Until one day the hand of God released her, He picked her up and embraced her. At that moment Maria knew she was nothing without Him. At that moment a transformation began of the most remarkable life you could ever imagine. The miracles taking place in Maria's life will have you begging God to reveal Himself to you .....He is there waiting."  

This is a powerful exercise to know where you are at. To speak about yourself in a way that will attract others to you (as you want to captivate the audience). And to get clear about where you are going, your expectations for your life. You want to fill these pages with amazing people and events!  

I would love to read your blurb! Share it with others here or on my blog: http://www.mariaportas.blogspot.com 

Maybe I'll even buy the book!!!!  

Make it an awesome day, 

Maria Portas.

Walking Through The Doors Of Fear

Fear is not from or of God.  It is what you have created to keep you small.  Keep you little and unassuming.  Your world is abundant, and yet you live in fear.  If only you knew that fear is not real, it is but a fantasy to destroy the life which lives in you.

We are filled with the power of goodness, the power of love is where God exists. And, you can only see God when you are experiencing the love in your heart.  The rest is an illusion you have made up, and it must be gone, for you waste so much time pondering what may be, if this may happen or that.  

You are the creator, you have control.  You get to create what you desire.  So why fear when you are creating that lack, a sense of disorientation that blinds your life with falseness.  Do not be that, that you cannot fulfill.  You are powerful.  You have immeasurable power in you and in God.  

In God you can dissolve the fear that you produce.  Release it, it does not serve you.  It destroys your life, your power and your eternal abundance in Him. You will succeed in what you choose, if only you believed and knew that the feelings you have are just but a step away from the power you are about to receive.  

That uncomfortableness is just a journey, a doorway to the fruitfulness and joy you are entitled to.  Just open the doors! All of them!  Live in access to life.  You deserve the power and glory that God sees for you.

Maria Portas.

3 Easy Steps To Discover Your Inner Beauty

We place so much importance on our physical beauty, but it is our inner beauty that we must nurture and cherish. When we develop our inner beauty, our physical beauty seems to miraculously improve as well!

Here are some strategies that can help you discover and develop your inner beauty: 

1. Make an "I Love Me" list. This is a powerful tool to help you discover your inner beauty. Write down all of your good qualities that don't relate to something physical.  Are you caring? Loving? Sincere? Positive? Love animals? All these attributes and a host of others relate to your inner beauty. The process of writing out your strengths gives you tangible evidence of your great inner qualities that you might not have even been aware of. 

2. Surround yourself with amazing individuals who inspire you to live a life full of love, creativity and abundance.  You are naturally drawn to people like yourself, or those that possess the inner qualities you admire. When you surround yourself with these kinds of people, your own inner beauty tends to shine through also. 

3. Observe and develop your inner beauty. Most of us know how to take care of our physical beauty:  we get our nails and hair done, we stay in shape, buy new clothes, and so on. When you discover and improve your inner beauty, physical beauty follows. What can you do to bring out your inner beauty? It's simple: Be you! Show beautiful qualities like compassion, love, and patience, and practice them daily. 

4. Avoid negative talk. Focusing on the positive qualities of others brings out the best in you! It reinforces your inner beauty. People will be drawn to your positivity, therefore attracting loving and caring individuals into your life.

Final Thoughts on Your Inner Beauty 

Your inner beauty is unique to you. Unfortunately though, many of us don't know how to celebrate and honor it. Unleash your inner beauty, you are a magnificent gift to the world!   Self-confidence comes from knowing the beauty you possess inside.

Forgiveness - The Freedom You Deserve.

Forgiveness will give you the freedom you search for.  You remain trapped in your heart, your life.  You search and search, when all that is needed is the release of a hard heart.  What is it that  someone can do, that you cannot release to God?  

You know, God will search your heart.  Allow Him that heals to change your life.  What you withhold you do not give to yourself.  Your anger, fear and desires are consuming your world.  You cannot live in these circumstances.  

What was done, is done.  By choosing to hold this, you do not release the pain in you heart and you continue to afflict that pain to yourself.  What's done is complete, .... you now continue to hurt yourself.  

God sees your troubles, your fears and if you would release it to Him, He will dissolve that which is now harming you.  You choose to hold on to it, as if somehow it is an attack on the other.  But you are only attacking yourself.  Release it, and He will send the peace you deserve... to live, love and learn.  

Your release will fill the corners of your world with love.  Do not bring your past into the future.  Leave it, it does not exist.  You have the now.  Release it.  No hour is worth the pain you have already suffered.  Release and you will be freed.

You will then show others how to change your mind, your world, your heart.  You will lead by example, when all you desire falls into your life.  

You only focus on what you think about, and if it is causing pain, it is not of God. Release it.  Hand it over to Him and release your heart so He can fill it with Love.

Maria Portas.