ActressAmiraAscending

Still I Rise Well as we prepare to approach a new season, like many others at this time I've been doing a lot of reflecting over this past year. Reflecting on how much I've grown, progressed & ultimately elevated my life (inside-out). How many goals I've accomplished, bad habits I've ended, how my views have changed and which ones remained the same. I look back on the woman I was coming in to 2017 versus the woman I am now going in to 2018 and I'm proud & elated to say simply, I've grown, period. I faced many obstacles internal & external just as I did the year before but I now solve them from a much more grounded, solid core. I know that I have yet to "arrive" but I also know when the occasion causes for it, I rise. And overall that's been the message the Universe has sent me this past year. That "The Art of Ascending" is simply rising to whatever occasion/obstacle lies ahead. That in fact the only way to ascend is thr...

Against All Odds A wise man, aka Albert Einstein once said "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." Sounds so easy and simple right? Yet anyone who has experienced life in any a manner can unanimously agree that it isn't so easy after all, simple maybe but easy hardly. See, the simplicity of a thing doesn't guarantee ease and although it is as simple as to "keep moving" the fact is there are many odds that may incline one to desire to stop or to even become unconsciously stuck from fear. Fear of the unknown, fear that they're not good enough or has what it takes to beat the odds or even recover from the temporary defeat that the odds have handed them. In this sense life is like riding a bicycle and oftentimes while riding a bicycle we fall off, the chain pops, catch a flat tire/low air pressure, go up steep hills or lose control going down one or sometimes even hit by a vehicle and knocked flying off and often...

Thus Far Ok so, if you've been paying any attention to anything that I've been rambling on about thus far  than you probably have noticed by now that I tend to stress that I am a work in progress who's living & learning to the best of my ability . Or you should have at least grasped by now that I'm still learning. And I'm quite proud of that although a lot of lessons were learned through trials and to be frank darkness.....intense darkness. In those moments/places of darkness I've learned that darkness is in fact  the place that not only stars but all  things are born including this planet we call earth and the almighty divine creator himself. Yet, the stars reside in the darkness so that particular space may have some light. Stars actually never get to "escape" the darkness they must simply overcome it. In fact the only time we benefit from their shine is when its dark. See, stars are unbothered by the darkness because it never consumes ...

In My Humble Opinion As I continue to journey through this miraculous experience called “Life” I like to accumulate what I call “mini discoveries” or what Oprah Winfrey coined as “aha moments”. Initially these discoveries were for my own survival/navigation through similar experiences or so I could pass the next “test” concerning that discovery, but in my typical nature I would babble on to my loved ones about these exciting self discoveries and naturally they'd share their very own “mini discoveries” with me. As a result, we’d both part ways enlightened with a higher frequency than when we began conversing. Amongst these “mini discoveries” and enlightening talks I’ve come to discover that the idea/concept that everyone has the ability to change the world is slightly off. See the fact of the matter is every single one of us are already changing the world through whichever frequency we’re existing in and operating from in our everyday encounters with others familiar and stra...

"Be The Miracle" Ascend, to go up/climb or rise through the air. To go up or move upward, to rise from a lower level.......to pretty much advance which to me is obtained through improvement (self). As I often ponder on this whole concept of "ascending" & constantly self-reflect and critique my perceptions of "ascending", the better I get at this ascending business. See I now know that there's an art to ascending but what was missing up until recently was the acknowledgment of art's inherent dependency upon purpose. Though the beautiful wonders of nature are "masterpieces" of art to say the least they still serve a purpose. In fact purposes that are vital to life here on earth and that's what makes them art, the possession & honoring of those purposes whether "big" or "small". So, what does  this new discovery (self) mean for the ascension of  "actressAmira"? Easy, it simply means that in or...

I'm A Mess(age) From a glance at my life from afar one might come to the conclusion that I "have myself together" to some extent but I'm here to let you know that I don't "have myself together" to any extent whatsoever! I am a total & absolute mess. Despite growing up in an overall stable/healthy foundation I somehow managed to mindfuck myself to the point of the need for my own personal intervention. I have a great dad who is a wonderful example of what type of treatment I should expect from a man yet I still fall/and once upon a time even settled for less. I know that this life is short and the only shot  I get and I'm still learning not to allow fear to bully me into procrastinating on my dreams. The fortunate thing is I've been made aware of my imperfections early in life which in some sorta twisted way encouraged me to embrace the beauty of being flawed in general. And things became full circle later in my adult years once I rea...

When It Hurts-It Hurts What do you do when you’re hurting, I mean really, really hurting?  Fr om my experience there is no antidote, just time. As time goes on (which it most certainly will), the pain fades. That’s all fine & dandy but what about in the meantime while you’re in the midst/state of hurting? How exactly does one cope? Well, wisdom has whispered to my soul that hurting is healing and apart of life. Les Brown has taught me  that “its life”. That people will lie, hurt and treat me unfairly and that it’s my responsibility to keep pushing through the pain. The “hippies” told me to surrender to all of life’s happenings (the good, the bad & the ugly) and to simply “let it be”. The faithful/spiritualists suggests that I pray/meditate and to lean on God because he is the ultimate healer. But life itself has told me to let it hurt, to feel the pain and grow stronger from it.  To learn from my hurt and essentially let it hurt because quite frank...