Get To Know The Real You

When you are asked to introduce yourself, do you respond by telling them what you do, where you live, or who you know? Well, those are certainly important aspects of your life but they aren't your whole life, or at least they shouldn't be.

We spend so much of our time focusing on our relationships with other people that often we neglect the most important relationship of all - the relationship with ourselves. We, women, are so identified as roles of mother, wife, daughter, and sometimes career woman that we often forget who we really wanted to be, what we dreamt of becoming, and what we love and value. In effect, we have forgotten our "self" , our "true self", "essential self", and "wise self".

Very often we have buried our authentic selves under a facade constructed in order to please other people or to be socially acceptable. But the effort to sustain this image is draining and self-defeating, and it requires too much energy to maintain. It is time to step free of the scripted life we have been living, peel away everything that is not essential and discover our authentic identity. Reclaim the woman we truly are!

Remember what is important in our lives, hopes, and dreams. Discover and rediscover our deepest yearnings. In order to do this, we need to embark on a psychological search-and-rescue mission to comb back through our lives and recover our joy, wisdom, passion, enthusiasm, self-confidence, vitality - the threads of our true self that we have lost along the way.

Creating a life we love requires courage, commitment, and perseverance, all of which we have. The call now is for us to be authentically ourselves.

- The above is inspired after reading "Chicken Soup For The Soul - Life Lessons for Women". Yes, everything is in our own hands. We make the life we want to have!"

Soy Wax Candle To the Rescue

Last week was a very bad hazy week in Singapore. The continuous forest burning in Sumatra, Indonesia caused our air quality reading (PSI) to average 30-60. However on Saturday, it shot up to an average of 150, and the whole of Singapore was blanketed with the ashy haze from Sumatra. PSI of above 100 is considered unhealthy. Every outdoor activity was cancelled.

Very sad for the children here because it was the weekend of the Mooncake Festival or called the Lantern Festival. It's a once a year event where everyone would go outdoors to enjoy the full moon and children would parade with their lanterns. But all plans to do that were cancelled. So disappointing!

At home, we were lucky to have our scented soy wax candles. These are healthy candles and sootless so we could burn them even in air-conditioned rooms. That helped us to minimize at least the awful burning scent as the hazy air was seeping into the home. With the candles lit, and the hanging lanterns, it gave us that festive mood while we munch on the variety of mooncakes and sipped on our chinese tea. Saved by our soy wax candles, we managed to have a wonderful Mooncake festival indoors.

Ruby Lim

HappyMomentsCandle.com

4 Candles

Hi All

Today I received an email and in the message was this link to 4 candles. I find it so meaningful! Like to share it with you:-

http://i.euniverse.com/funpages/cms_content/2529/4candles.swf

Never allow your flame of Hope to be extinguished as it brings along Peace, Faith, and Love.

Have a good week!

Ruby

www.HappyMomentsCandle.com