Christine Evangelou - Rocks Into Roses: Life Lessons and Inspiration for Personal Growth

Rocks into Roses: Life Lessons and Inspiration for Personal Growth2018 by Christine Evangelou/The Motivation Angel.

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Rocks into Roses comprises an inspirational collection of articles by The Motivation Angel 2018.

Existing articles have been re-edited, adapted and formatted for this book with additional guidance.

About Rocks into Roses:

W ords are powerful and hold the breath of our intention and purpose. Sometimes the words we speak to ourselves or those that are spoken to us drown out our inner glory and pierce our mind with lack, loss, and limits. We are far greater than the passing thoughts that we carry into our hearts and the experiences that hurt us.

If you desire to create a new way of thinking, seeing and doing then it all begins with you and how you empower yourself to live your life by choosing courage over fear, love instead of limits, and faith rather than doubt. Transformation is a walk through rocky emotional terrain that inspires our reinvention and renewal.

If you have lost yourself a little on lifes journey- use this as your blessing and an opportunity to rediscover the magnificence you hold within. When we feel lost is when we can search our soul to find ourselves again and ground our values, beliefs, visions, dreams and purpose toward our souls true impression.

Rocks into Roses offers guidance, soul support and inspirational words to help you progress through lifes lessons and value your experiences.

An Introduction to Rocks into Roses: Life Lessons and Inspiration for Personal Growth2018

R ocks signify the hard and hurtful parts of life that we can take action upon to transition to flowering beauty. We transform them through intention, courage and our inner dynamism to bloom our roses. When we see an indistinct flower rise to full bloom through an inconspicuous split in the rock, this inspires hope, faith, and highlights the strength of the gentle flower over the seemingly mighty rock. Suddenly we view the impossible as possible again. Your challenges and tough times may appear as the rigid, prominent and oppressive rocks that force you down, but the splendour of the rose is born through the power of inner wisdom, natural law, and tenacity over tribulation as she ascends toward glory. Even the most beautiful roses lay dormant during winter; lifes darkness is simply a shadow that we can seek our light through.

Why roses? Roses symbolize love, promise, passion, hope, and new beginnings. And every rose has its thorns that are cutting, bleak and defensive, almost thoughtlessly misplaced on the beauty of the rose by nature. And yet the thorns have a purpose, just as the rose does. Those thorns may prick and sting sharply but we learn valuable lessons from lifes thorns. The rose teaches us the humility of balance and grace; we may witness many thorns on the stem of the rose, and yet her beauty is not negated or harmed by their presence. Lifes hindrances and hurts dont subtract from our existence- they add to the full experience of it.

We can easily lose ourselves in external circumstance and feel buried and swallowed beneath the rocks that life has thrown at us and the thorns that have penetrated our heart. We can lose our sense of self, the centre of our perspective and in turn our power to adjust, adapt, and flow with life rather than fight against it. But we can rise through the rocks and rubble rather than be ruptured by them. We can value the thorns for the wisdom we gain through the infliction of the wounds. Whatever traumatizes us, or attempts to break or block us can inspire our greatness and fuel us forward once we reframe our thinking, redirect our energy, and nourish ourselves with a shift in perspective.

We may bruise and damage ourselves along the way, and draw blood from the wounds we encounter through the thorns, but we are never a lesser person for the experiences life has moved our way...we are far greater. Just like the rose holds her beauty among the thorns- we can gather our strength from the most unlikely places. Everything that hurts us can be transcended into something of greater beauty and purpose. We should embrace the full measure and magic of life...and turn our rocks into roses.

R ocks into Roses is for anyone that seeks to shift their perspectives and inner dynamics to higher ground and rediscover a higher love and meaning for life, themselves and others .

Rocks into Roses is formatted into three sub sections, for the mind, for the heart, and for the soul.

I hope you enjoy reading Rocks Into Roses!

With gratitude, thank you, Christine

Rocks into Roses, Chapter List:

For The Mind:

1. Changing Life Experience Through Shifting Perspective
2. Routes To Enhancing Self Awareness
3. Embracing And Moving Through Fears
4. Mental Strategies For A Mastered Mindset And Dealing With Anxiety
5. Creating Greater Inner Confidence
6. Behaviour Change And Boosting Self-Belief
7. Healing Inner Unrest Through Mindfulness Strategies
8. The Magic Of Belief And Accessing Your Inner Power
9. Freedom To Be You And The Chase For Perfection
10. Rebel Hearts: Breaking Your Own Rules