The Four Agreements

I am so grateful for the wonderful technologies we have access to these days.
My mother lives in France, and it’s so easy to be ‘together’ through Skype!

Ancient wisdom helps us to go deeper within, to be true, to connect with our higher self and others more authentically. Modern technologies are pushing the limits to who we communicate with and how many people we reach.
Now we shall be even more careful with the way we communicate and connect with others.
I believe our purpose is to get to know ourselves and help others know themselves. An extraordinary tool to help us in this matter is the New York Times bestseller book from Don Miguel Ruiz: The four agreements. I had the immense pleasure and honor to meet this man last January and his son Don Jose, who co-wrote the 5th Agreement with him.
It was amazing to be in there presence and feel the love that emanate from them.

I’d like to share with you these four agreements and their principles, which are based on Ancient Toltec wisdom. By applying them in our everyday life, we can change everything around us. These four agreements reminded me how the connection with nature and our true nature is important.
The Four Agreements:

Don Miguel Ruiz was born into a family of healers, raised in rural Mexico by a healer mother and a shaman grandfather. He has dedicated his life to sharing the wisdom of the ancient Toltec.
Don Miguel define the Toltec has the ‘women and man of knowledge’ throughout southern Mexico. They were scientists and artists who formed a society to explore and conserve the spiritual knowledge and practices of the ancient ones.

Don Miguel said that if we adopt these four agreementsthe transformation in our life will be amazing. “You’ll need a very strong power in order to adopt them” and live your everyday life according to them, but yes the transformation will be amazing.

The Four Agreements:

Be impeccable with your word
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Don’t Take Anything personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their won dream. Where you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

Don’t Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Always do your best
Your best is going to change from moment to moments; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

If you haven’t read this book, I highly recommend it. Think of these agreements and adopt them in your everyday life. It is not easy to continuously walk your talk. But if you always do your best, you’ll see some amazing results in your life. And you’ll discover who you truly are.

Llama Adventures

Nature doesn't cease to amaze me! And yesterday I went north of northern New Mexico. After a couple of hours driving along the Rio Grande, I finally arrived to our meeting place. Far far away, but what a reward to be in such beauty. The Llama were there and we begun our descent toward the Rio Grande (800 feet down...)

The terrain was pretty steep, and we have to be careful where we put our feet. Along the trail we could see a good sample of the New Mexica

n flora, junipers, ponderosa pines, yucca, sage brush.

The wonderful thing about this hike is that I didn't have to carry anything else than my camera! Thank you Diego, my companion of the day!

Wisdom from Chaco Canyon

Now, even if you stay just few hours in Chaco, you'll have the opportunity to discover a lot. The buildings and construction are fascinating and truly amazing. This is one of the very rare sites around the world known for its building alignment being on the path of theSun course AND the path of the Moon course. The other site in the world known for this is Stonehenge in England. This alignment, which is fascinating to witness,shows how knowledgeable the Chacoan people were, especially about astronomy.This knowledge was in fact extremely important for them, since it confirmed the cycle of the season, the time to plant and the time to harvest. Some doors and openings are aligned in such a way, for two days in the year and two days only (at the equinox), that there is a perfect alignment for the sun to go straight through them at sunrise, without creating any shadow...Today when these alignments are measuredwith precise scientific instruments it correspondexactly to the trajectory / path of the sun and the moon.

Visiting Chaco Canyon (part1)

Imagine a large, open, arid land where you can see far, far away. You are driving for a few miles in this desert under a deep blue sky. Few disperse habitations appear with wooden houses close by. These are “Hogan”, the primary traditional home of the Navajo people.

After a long meander down a dirt road you arrive at another vast open space, you are in the Chaco Wash in the San Juan Basin.Stop before going to the visitor center to embrace this unique landscape, to give thanks to the ancient for welcoming you in this sacred place. Enter the place with an open spirit and open heart. Promise to respect this land, its history, its teachings and its wisdom. Honor and give thanks to the four directions; the East, North, West and South.

When continuing down the road you’ll see Fajada Butte, where the Sun Dagger was discovered by Anna Sofaer in 1977. Fajada means ‘belt’ or ‘band’ in Spanish. This amazing massive butte was named ‘Fajada’ by the first Spaniards because of its layer of carbonaceous shale and thin coal beds, which design a black belt around this monument.

Chaco canyon is not just a site…it is an immense area, a region, where pueblos (villages) and ceremonial sites are linked together by surprisingly long and wide roads.

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The Water Element

Water is source of life. It couldn't be more true in the Southwest, where so many plants animals and humans depend on it. Water is also source of purification, cleaning, connection, in many tribes around the world. For a long time mans went around the world in search of the Water of Longevity...
What does water represent for you?