Grace/Gratitude

HELLOOOOO ALL!  I want to apologize for not writing for so long as god has had other plans for me and needed to get my attention so that I could then give to you all.  I am so happy to be here writing, which brings me to my topic/discussion today:  Grace and Gratitude.

As I am sorting through my apartment of all my stuff and coming across my many, many books (I love reading) I came across 'A Course in Miracles' and let god decide which page he needed me to read.  (Side note: If you do not like the term god please insert anything that speaks to you instead, god is what I say when my higher power is speaking to me).  The page that I turned to read "by grace I live and by grace I am released.  This was very interesting as I had just written in my gratitude journal for the first time in months today.  I also have be experiencing many doubts within myself on this journey of letting go and getting to know god.  Hearing these words were SO refreshing today as I needed to hear them.  When I hear something I know that need to hear I always remember that I need to share it because somebody else needs to hear it too and it is my duty as a teacher.

Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear.  By grace alone the hate and fear are gone.  

less is more.

Less is more.

It's 2:12am and I literally was just doing what you see in the above photo.  The sad part is that photo is a magnet on my refrigerator RIGHT NOW -  when I bought it I thought it was a funny.  In reality it's me.  

I have my excuses for raiding the refrigerator at this hour - it's Ramadan so I cannot eat from sundown to sunset so I have to eat at these god awful hours.

Staring into the fridge I started to think how I was not going to write in my blog tonight as I am pretty exhausted.  However, while staring my all time favorite statement "less is more" comes in my mind.  We all experience this, we buy too much food from the grocery store to only feel obligated to eat it.   Or perhaps we do not eat it and end up wasting it?  That sense of guilt of wasting caused me to eat more - however I should learn to just buy less.

As I continue my path with blogging, this has been super fun so far and something to look forward to, I want to go in depth into my life to inspire.  In reality I really do not like social media and am way traditional, I would rather take things back to writing letters where there was actually meaning.  However it's come to grow on me and with anything it's all about the intention.  In terms of sharing my life I really, really do not want to (kicking and screaming) as I fear that people will use it to critique, judge etc.  However that is an insecurity that I have been battling with since growing up, I realize that the impact through social media and my words to other people definitely outweighs my shyness.  My whole life I have been asked if I was an actor and/or told I should be on TV - well this is my baby step to the media, next will be videos (ahh).  Any maybe that will be it...

So back to the "less is more", it's something that I have always felt my whole life as I despise clutter.  If you were to walk into my home you would think it's a showroom because everything has a place.  However just when I thought you couldn't have "less" I have reevaluated my entire life.  

"A cluttered room is a cluttered mind - the more "stuff" the more holes you have filled to avoid yourself and the truth" - ME

So here I am going through everything - starting with the refrigerator and working my way to my closets, my drawers, etc.    I feel like my entire life I was told I "needed" all this stuff to survive and in reality it just was bought to fill me up in some other way.  As I begin to tear away the necessities I am learning about myself, similar to therapy, tearing away the thick layers of myself.

I encourage all of you to try it - start small and go through a drawer and get rid of what you do not actually need.  Let's discuss (nina@ninaroshelle.com)


...to be continued

Ramadan

Ramadan

"The month of Ramadhan is not like any other month; its purpose is to rid man of those habits which he has accumulated throughout the rest of the year. It is a month that prepares man for the remaining eleven months by teaching him discipline and self control. Thus, Allah has made some acts which are beloved to man, like eating, drinking and fulfilling one’s desires, Haraam. If man can control these desires in this month, which are usually permissible for him, then he can surely control himself from other desires which are not permissible throughout the remaining months."

So today is my second day of blogging and I was very shocked at the amount of views, it is so great to connect with people.  I have to say that I owe my path of starting to blog to one thing: Ramadan.  To clarify I am not Muslim however I have many friends that practice Ramadan.  I was very curious of the practice and so I asked questions and did some research. 

One of my favorite quotes is "discipline leads to enlightenment" and I desperately needed to regain a lot of discipline in my life.  

I will continue to blog through my experience but so far out of the 29/30 days (depends on the moon) with only 14 days left this is what I have personally learned:

Discipline.  Real Hunger.Listening to your body. What a clear mind feels like.  Sense of awareness.  



More to come <3 email me: nina@ninaroshelle.com

Loka samasta sukino bhavantu!

May the entire universe be filled with peach and joy, love and light.


Welcome to my blog
, my name is Nina.  The sanskrit quote and meaning  is my purpose of life.  I am here not because I love to write, but rather to share my thoughts with the world as a teacher and inspiration.  I actually do not like writing, social media much as I believe in more traditional ways of life, and am very camera shy.  However the world exists on the internet now and has the ability to reach way more people than I can physically come into contact - so here I am.

Namaste everybody!  I will give you a brief bio about myself in a nutshell but as I blog my story will unfold and most likely at the right time for you and I to benefit.  So here it goes:

I am 28 living in NYC, moved here 4 years ago to pursue event planning.  Prior to that I went to Penn State University and was born in Buffalo, NY.  I knew since 8th grade I had a purpose in NYC and growing up I knew I wanted to help people.  I used to ask my mother why all adults always looked sad when I was a child - I wanted to bring a smile to their face.

Through lifes twists and turns I was told to plan events, when I say told I am talking about my inner voice/intuition etc.  I happened to plan the Sociology/Crime Law and Justice Career Fair as an independent study and fell in love with the idea of bringing people together.  Not long after I found myself roaming the floors of the NY Times Building planning events from executive lunches to book launches and panel discussions.  However something was still not right...

The Chairman of NY Times Executive Assistant asked me to come to yoga because we often would sigh on the phone together.  That day changed my life - forever.  I quit a year later and did my yoga training and started on my spiritual path.

Today (July 25th, 2013) I am in the middle of the chaos of transformation.  Meaning I have finally surrendered and rethinking my entire existence and what I am meant to do here on this earth.  You can never be 100% sure but I can assure you that you will find out as you continue to follow your path.  Things become clear, but it takes time as things do not happen over night.  I am about 2 months into fully "surrendering" and it has been quite the roller coaster.

My goal of this blog: Inspire and talk about my spiritual journey.  Also talk about real life things, NYC, food, sex everything.

Email me about ANYTHING: nina@ninaoshelle.com