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!

Black and White Beauty, Black and White Mood

I recently took a client to White Sands, NM. This is one of my favorite places in NM.
It's simply a pure marvel and the largest desert of gypsum in the world.
Eun Joo is from South Korea and visiting this site was a long time dream of hers. She was about 10 years old when she saw pictures of White Sands for the very first time. Since then, she has held on to her dream and has always believed that she, one day, would visit it. She did everything she could to make her dream come true, and this day had come!

I was so happy to help

her make it true. She was such an inspiration for me!
No matter how big or far your dream seems to be, go for it!
Along with this stunning White desert we also went to the Valley of Fire...Another

amazing site...And that's this week's article: Black and white beauty, Black and White mood...Read the article to understand what I mean.
As soon as we arrived in the White Sands area, the excitement began...
The magnificent beauty immediately uplifted our spirits. When I looked around, everyone was in a blissful mood, playing with the glistening sands, talking and sharing each o

ther's feelings.

Even though the plants are ra

re, as it is a desert, they look glorious. Especially at dusk and dawn, the color gradient is so delicate; I felt like I was immersed in a world of grace and nothing seemed to be able to take away this cheerful mood. White Sand's unique formations are the result of water's work. A million years ago heavy rains poured on the mountain made of gypsum and literally dissolved

it. This gypsum run off created Lake Lucero. The wind continued to break the lake down until it would become a fine sea of gypsum particles, which finally evolved into the smooth round dunes ever moving and creating these amazing sands patterns.

Valley of Fire, as its name indicates is the result of fire's work. The lava formed this dark site, it's flow would run up to 44 miles south from this little peak. A m

illion years after this event, the soil has become a 'paradise' for the plants and offers a very fertile ground for them to thrive.



Surprisingly they found their way into crevasses and lava cracks. Given the amount of lava still visible I was very surprised to see the diversity and quantity of plant species.


Valley of fire is a beautiful site, but I couldn't help but notice that all this black color certainly brought a different mood than White Sands. W e arrived with an uplifted and positive mind. After being around this surreal landscape and dark colors for a while, I realized that sadness and quietness were the emotions and state of mind that took over our mood.

This confirmed the importance of our environment, and how nature influences us. If you don't like the environment, you are living in, be sure to take some time to think on how you can change it. Add some lighter or brighter colors to your world, or simply colors you like. Add some plants. Give smiles to others, as you will receive them back!
This week I challenge you to be creative and make a pos

itive and lasting change in your life, your environment, maybe by changing a habit, maybe by changing some décor... Do something that make YOU feel good! And please let me know how it changes your everyday life:

The Power of Connection, between Nature and Wisdom

Presentation at Ignite NM 7

Nature and wisdom, the power of connection!

By connecting with our environment we reconnect with our inner wisdom, with our true nature, we

can then… unleash our full potential to create the life we want! Do you want to know how?

Let me tell you a little bit about myself and how I became so passionate about helping others to get connected with nature, our environment and their inner wisdom.
After many years of working in the corporate world as a landscape designer, I realized I was doing more and more technical design and computer work, and being less often outside where I had a very special connection with nature. I began to feel miserable but most importantly, I knew that I was moving away from who I truly am, my purpose, and my passions.

A defining moment happened when… I had to get an emergency surgery, and some complication forced me to stay at the hospital (for the first time in my life) for a week. As soon as I came back to work, I knew I had to change my life. I had to take action and follow my heart.
I quit my job, sold my furniture, and hit the road towards the west…not knowing exactly what I was going to do, except reconnect with who I am.
This journey enabled me to meet experts in a variety of fields who taught me to trust my own instinct and live with passion.

The day I decided to apply the principles I learned, everything in my life unfolded. After few months of reconnecting with nature and my purpose, I created Travel Heart, which combines my passion for travel and being around stunning landscapes with my desire for continuous learning, personal growth, and deepening inner wisdom while sharing and helping others.

I have since made a commitment to dedicate the rest of my professional life to sharing with others the power of nature and the wisdom of experts, so that they too can live with joy and passion and to connect with their own wisdom.

Lets get connected!

Why? Because every action we do, has an impact on each other, on the earth, on our future and on the future of the earth.
Let’s reconnect with our environment, the nature but also anything that surrounds us. As the Lakota say: Mitakuye Oaysin; we are ALL related! We are all ONE! The plants, the Earth, the stones, the air,the animals and us humans.

Native Americans have based most of their values and philosophy on the lessons they learned from ‘Mother Earth’.
What better example than the philosophy of the Zia tribe, represented in our New Mexican flag, by the Zia sun?

A very simple symbol yet, meaningful and powerful.

The Zia sun reflects the wealth of spiritualism, teaching the basic harmony of all things in the universe.

Four is a sacred number for Indians and it embodies the Earth and its four main directions, the year with its four seasons, the day (Sunrise, noon, afternoon and sunset), life and its four division: childhood, youth, manhood and old age. The circle of life and love, which has no end and no beginning, binds all this.

The Zia believe, too, that in this great brotherhood of all things, man has four sacred obligations: he must develop a strong body, a clear mind, a pure spirit, and a devotion to the welfare of his people.

I believe these four obligations create harmony and balance in our life.

When we are balanced we can easily reach out and get connected with everything around us, remember how the animals we encounter teach us lessons or deliver us messages? (See my newsletter on the power of the animal totems)

No matter where you live, you are surrounded by nature. Yes even in New York City. As soon as warm days are here, many New Yorkers are rushing towards Central Park, and lay down on the grass. And Manhattan is an Island, surrounded by water! What a powerful element!

And nature, it’s the wind, the air, the rain, the snow, and the sun. I am sure that each of these elements brings a feeling within you. Do you feel sad when it’s pouring rain? Sometimes even angry because it ruined your hair, or you are soaked to your bones and cold? Don’t you love to feel a cool breeze on your face on a hot summer day?

Snow brings the cold, yet doesn’t it make you smile to watch the kids shouting their excitement and playing with this light white powder? And building snow men?

See how our feelings and mood can emerged from…’Mother Nature’

So it is not a matter of “I don’t have much nature around me”, yes you do. Now, what is the connection between Nature AND Wisdom?

Native Americans were wise enough to observe nature, to celebrate it, to honor it and respect it. Because they know that we can’t control nature (although we try hard!). They understand that nature needs the seasons to rejuvenate itself, and that we need the youth as much as we need the old age.

One definition of wisdom is a deep understanding of people, things, events or situations, empowering the ability to choose or act to consistently produce the optimum results with a minimum of time and energy,

By becoming aware of everything that surrounds us, and how it makes us feel, we are connecting to our environment, and when we know that everything is related, we chose our actions carefully. We become wise!

It is the same with our human environment; some of our relationships make us feel miserable, unworthy, disempowered, sad or angry.

Listen to your heart; you know who you are within yourself, as soon as you let go of a toxic relationship, beautiful ones will arrive in your life. Your life will unfold. Because you are reconnecting with who you are, because you are honoring yourself, because you are respecting yourself, and because you are now taking care of yourself.

Native Americans understood early, that we are ONE, we are deeply connected with everything around us, we are part of Nature.

By reconnecting with ‘Mother nature’ and our environment, we are retrieving our true nature, we are releasing an amazing energy, and so we attract the same. We are ready to create our life and to become all we can be.

Wildlife in Costa Rica

This is one of the reason we choose Costa Rica to host the "Awakening your true Nature" retreat. The lush nature and wildlife of Costa Rica, will help you reconnect with your own nature:

Nowhere else in the world are so many types of habitats squeezed into such a tiny area. The range of habitats in Costa Rica, a consequence of its unique geography, creates an incredibly rich diversity of flora and fauna – in fact no other country on the planet has such variety. Measured in terms of number of species per 10,000 sq km Costa Rica tops the list of countries at 615 species, compared to a wildlife-rich country such as Rwanda that has 596, or to the comparatively impoverished USA with its 104 species. This simple fact alone (not to mention the ease of travel and friendly residents!) makes Costa Rica the premier destination for nature lovers from all over the world.

Along with its diverse geography, the large number of species in Costa Rica is also due to the relatively recent appearance of the country. Roughly three million years ago Costa Rica rose from the ocean and formed a land bridge between North and South America, and as species from these two vast biological provinces started to mingle and mix, the number of species was essentially ‘doubled.’

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