Jazmin's Musings

Imagine walking down a street only to realize that the path is blocked. You may feel moments of unease but immediately begin looking for the detour sign that points out an alternate route. In that moment, you don’t perceive the experience as a failure, or a denial. You understand that it is a redirection, you’re still going to arrive where you want to, just by taking a different path. Spiritually and emotionally blocks feel heavier. They show up as delays, discomfort, frustra

Grief is proof that we have loved. An emotion like any other that needs to be expressed – not suppressed - for its lesson to be truly realized. Grief doesn’t only arrive when someone we love chooses to depart the physical. That’s just its most recognizable form. It surfaces when we say goodbye to a place, a chapter, or a version of ourselves we’ve outgrown. It shows up in quiet moments when a life we could have lived fades into the background – even when we’re grateful we did

When you are triggered, you experience it in the body first with a tightening of your chest or stomach, shortness of breath, sweating, fuzzy thoughts, and lumps in your throat; All happening at once as though time has slowed down. Or sometimes it can be experienced as pure fire, a raw all-consuming rage. A sudden burst of false power where your inhibitions drop, and you feel invincible. This version often leads to confrontation or even violence. What feels like strength— is a

Almost every version of Love portrayed in society, or the media is in one form or another conditional. Parents love their children because they are their children, not specifically because of the individuals they are and will eventually grow into. In romantic love, you choose your partner and agree to navigate the peaks and valleys of life together. However, should trust be betrayed, the love is lost. It is first important to identify that love is more than simply a feeling.

Ever felt like when you speak, no one truly hears you? As if when you attempt to communicate your heart’s truth, the receiver is unable to truly comprehend. You are left feeling a little hollow, unheard, misunderstood, and basically lonely. It hurts even more intensely when it’s those closest to you, parents, siblings, family-like friends, even your significant others. This could lead to thinking there’s something wrong with you, and maybe you should change to ‘fit in’ with t

Humans have been taught that life should follow a specific pattern, and anyone who deviates from that is considered an outcast. Until they become successful, then they are termed pioneers and visionaries. In truth, no one has figured it out, successful people are sought for guidance, but even they had to learn from their experience. They become teachers, often unwillingly, because they have lived the challenges, setbacks, and lessons themselves to know exactly how to overcome

When I was little someone showed me a map of the world. I remember zeroing in on British Colombia saying that if I ever got to live abroad it would be there, simply because I liked how it sounded. Fast forward many years, and British Colombia became my home. When I was a teenager, I spent endless hours researching and dreaming about travelling the world. Many times, frustrated about how I was going to achieve it. At age twenty-two I began a six-year journey working on cruise

Becoming aware of a habit or a response to an unwanted scenario is the first step toward change. This step is the acknowledgement phase, where you recognize a repeated pattern that gives you a less than satisfactory, or temporary satisfactory, result. Those habits that offer an immediate endorphin hit, like a sweet treat or recreational drug use, but over the long-term act only as a plaster to underlying personal dissatisfaction. A reminder, after the acknowledgement phase, e

One of the purposes of life on earth is to experience the process of things, the process of becoming, the process of achievement, the process of growth, etc. We often wish we could just magically be done with something, like we wish dinner would cook itself, or you could just look at a book and all the information is somehow downloaded into your brain instantaneously. On another plane of awareness, we already do that. Curiosity led our Higher Consciousness to wonder what it w

Everyone has memories that are connected with negative emotions in the same way they have memories that are connected with positive emotions. Because the negative emotions are louder, the brain tends to remember them easier. We usually have to consciously make an effort to think about experiences that made us feel joy. Because thoughts and emotions trigger each other, we tend to just accept it as an unchangeable fact. Some people base their whole identity on the negative expe

You know that uncomfortable feeling you get when you are around people you don’t know well? You start to get thoughts about them judging you or watching your every move just waiting for you to slip up? You become hyper aware of them and interpret everything they do or say as something somehow related to you. Congratulations, you have successfully given yourself anxiety by creating a story in your mind supported by your confirmation bias; The tendency to favor information that