A few weeks ago I found myself spending way too many hours in bed. Always in a grumpy mood.. Feeling like my body was not listening to my commands.. I started thinking when was my last check up… “Quite recently”, I think to myself. Then checked my nutrition, physical health and others but soon enough realized that there was no real reason to feel like that. I will tell you the steps I took to investigate what was going on inside of me and how I managed, once I understood I was the one taking my energy away, to get my energy level back up. 

I often hear “I would love to meditate but i cannot not think about stuff”. What a misunderstanding about what meditation actually is. We are not supposed to not think but to become aware of what is in our minds, in our energetic field. The big difference between thinking and meditating is that when in meditation, once the thought comes, we acknowledge it, welcome it and then let it go. Is a process of becoming familiar with not what we are thinking about, but what kind of things we worry about, what kind of things we direct our attention to.
I will teach you how to observe your thoughts and meditate without being interrupted by the thoughts popping into our heads during meditation.  

In this episode Rebecca invites Valentine Shade Hoy to reveal the story of his life and his relationship with philosophy, religion and meditation. After having spent 2 and a half years in a Monastery in Myanmar and having become a monk, Valentine suddenly becomes very sick and is obliged to leave his new home. His time outside of the Monastery brings him to cross paths with Rebecca's life. Having learned so much from the relationship with Valentine, Rebecca asks him to share how curvy (but at the same time perfect) his trajectory was before finding his way to "enlightenment" in a Monastery in Myanmar as well as the biggest insights Monkhood has brought to him. 

In the episode Presente, Desapego & Fé (in Portuguese), Rebecca shares the biggest lessons she has learned after a very painful breakup. 

She starts by taking about intuition and how sometimes, if we listen to it, we are capable of accepting painful situations in life as we understand they must be happening for a bigger reason. 
She goes on to tell us how Joe Dispenza's meditation technique has taught her to stop ruminating the past and being hijacked into future worries. In a deep moment shared with a dear friend, she discovers what happiness is all about :  enjoying the present moment.
Rebecca also acknowledges the importance of counting on friends and family to go through tough situations, but understands that professional help is sometimes crucial.

Finally, she explores the topic of limiting beliefs...and how we create situations in our lives that reflect these limiting beliefs...Then she shares how her past love experiences have show her what her patterns in relationship are. and the limiting beliefs behind it. However, she realizes she has been slowly transforming these toxic patterns in healthier and happier ones. But knowing that this change depends entirely on challenging her beliefs about herself first. 

in the episode "Pensiero Magico, Grado di Presenza & Dialogo Interiore" (in Italian), Rebecca receives a new friend life has given to her after a boat trip in a magical island : Isabella Raffa. 

Isabella shares with us about her upbringing and about her relationship with religion and how it has always felt as an obligation and not as a choice. She then tells us a bit about her own connection with the spiritual world, a world she likes to describe as magical. 

Isabella goes on to discuss the different techniques people use nowadays to reconnect with our inner self and with that sensitivity. She mentions art, meditation, singing, any artistic practice but also reminds us that having a kind internal dialogue, being present and breathing are probably the best and most powerful tools we have to go deep inside of us and live better. 

 This episode will soon be available on Youtube with subtitles in English.

in the episode "Ayahuasca, Amor & Cura" (in Portuguese), Rebecca receives a new special guest and childhood friend : Jessica Benavenuto. Jessica shares with us how her relationship with her family, with her traumas & religion has lead her to a path of spirituality that actually made sense to her. 

Jessica starts by telling us about where she comes from and how her ancestors inherently had some influence over her understanding of the spiritual world. 
Then goes into her unique relationship to spirituality, a relationship that she owns and understands entirely now (partially thanks to astrology).
To finally tell us openly about the biggest traumas she suffered as a young woman and how it impacted her whole life.  
It was in the search to heal these traumas that plant medicine entered her life. For her, Ayahuasca, was and still is one of the wisest teachers of all times. It taught her the biggest lesson of all : love. 
It is only through this love that she was able to heal. 

This episode will soon be available on Youtube with subtitles in English.

in the episode Melancolia, Vision Board & Respostas (in Portuguese), Rebecca shares from a place that is not all happiness, joy and accomplishments. It talks about a moment where solitude becomes loneliness,  generating negative emotions such as the feeling of detachment, non-belonging and therefore creating more doubts. 

In order to overcome that feeling and to not give up on her life goals, she gives a few tips and practical tools she uses : practicing gratefulness and making a vision board. 

She also talks about how God or the universe always answers our questions if we let our stubbornness aside and ask for help and guidance. She believes that if we are faithful, if we do our best and are respectful and good to others,  the universe never leaves us without answers. 

This episode will soon be available on Youtube with subtitles in English.

In episode 5 (in French) of Through my eye(s), Rebecca receives a new guest :Audrey Barrasa.  
In "Reconversion, Yoga & Anges” ou encore "S'ouvrir, s'écouter et se transformer" (title chosen by Audrey) she tells us about a big professional shift that she provoked in her life allowing her to regain self confidence and to find balance between her old job and her new passion.  She also explains to us how learning and later teaching yoga, has transformed her understanding of the connection between body and soul through mouvements and breathing.  Finally, Audrey shares a very personal story with us of how losing a dear friend has opened up a whole new dimension to her life. She goes deeper into it giving us a series of exemples of what spirituality actually is for her. 

Her beautiful testimonial and her way with words takes us in a journey full of simplicity, beauty, peace & hope. 

This episode will soon be available on Youtube  with subtitles in English.