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The process of making decisions could be simple and easy. However, when important moments that require decisive action come around, it can be difficult to make the right decision without a process to do so.

I recently had to make an important decision and I was not sure on how to proceed. Then in a split second I realized that the power of prayer was available to me and then right there and then, I opened my heart to God and asked Him to help me. I immediately felt at peace in knowing that I could place my faith in God and allow His guidance to give me the answers that I was seeking. I continued to have faith and a couple of days later I received a clear answer and guidance as to how to proceed. Not only I gained clarity with the answer, also, once I took action, it propelled a series of events, all for a final perfect outcome. I thought to myself, only God is able to arrange everything in such a perfect way.

Let’s explore how to make better decisions and how to cultivate the habits that will help simplify the process.

1. Seek divine guidance: Before you do anything, the little decisions as well as the big ones, put the effort into having an ongoing conversation with God. Pray to God. A prayer from your heart, in your own words, is a wonderful way to open your heart and mind to receive answers, gain clarity and be guided to the proper action.

1. Remain calm: This step is crucial because you will be allowing for the answers to come to you instead of blocking them with fears or worries.
    
2. Consult someone who can help you: seeking the help of a professional can be very helpful because they can point out something that perhaps you may not have considered and guide you in the right direction.

1. Be Patient: Keep up your faith knowing that the answers will come in God’s time.
    
2. Take action: Once you receive your answer be willing to take action. You might ask, how do I know that it is the right answer. One way to know is making sure that you are acting from your heart center.
    
3. Use the power of meditation to sharpen your intuition: Every day we’re confronted with difficult situations for which we need to have clarity. Fortunately, there is a way to know, and it is through using our intuition. More than just a “feeling” or a guess, true intuition provides clear insight at the times we need it most.

I invite you to remember that you do not have to travel your journey on earth alone. You have a Higher Power who wants to guide and support you in every area of your life. Open up your heart and mind to Him. Practice feeling His Presence and conversing with Him throughout the day and asking for His advice and guidance. The more you do it, the more it becomes a natural way of living, and most importantly, you will realize that He is interested in even the most minuscule aspect of your life.

On Thursday, August 3, I will be facilitating a FREE Inspirational class” via zoom: “6 Tips to Simplify Making Decisions”. This class can help you embrace today’s message as it will provide tips on how to relax your mind. Click here to REGISTER

Gloria Ramirez
Transformative coaching for Self-Mastery
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Taking time to slow down from our daily activities is crucial to our health and well-being. Sometimes the challenge is that we are so used to the constant activity that we tell ourselves that our mind is incapable of resting. At other times, we convince ourselves that we do not have any time to relax and unplug.

There are so many studies that tell us how important it is to take time to allow our minds to rest. When we do it, we are able  to relax, to calm down and to restore our energy. It is an act of self-care to take time to allow our minds to rest. It is as important as eating and resting at night.

I’d like to share a few practices that have helped me to relax my mind and body:

1. Meditate: Research shows meditation is one of the most effective ways to relax your mind and body. It is important to find a way to develop a daily practice, even if it is just for 10 or 15 minutes.
   
   
2. Practice Measured Breathing: Practicing relaxed breathing is a powerful way to relax you mind. You can use the “Measured Breathing Technique” of inhaling a certain count, holding the same count, and then exhaling for the same count. For example, you can do it for 6 counts, holding your breath for 6 counts and then release it for 6 counts. Or you can do it for more or less counts depending on your lung capacity.
   
   
3. Journal your thoughts: Writing down what you’re thinking and feeling is an excellent way to calm your mind. You can think of putting your thoughts on paper as a mental cleanse.
   
   
4. Exercise: The fastest way to get out of your head is to get into your body, whether going for a run or a walk around the neighborhood. Movement can change the way you feel.
   
   
5. Connect with Nature: There are numerous benefits of spending time and grounding yourself in nature. It has a calming effect in your mind and body. You can take short walks or longer walks as you time allows it. Being in and around nature often makes us think more clearly and feel more relaxed and refreshed.

There are so many other ways to relax your mind like yoga, gardening, praying, listening to music, finding ways to express your creativity and reducing activities that create stress. The secret is to be aware that we do have plenty of powerful tools and make the commitment to use them. I invite you to be willing to give these ideas a chance to transform your life.

On Thursday, June 1, I will be facilitating a FREE Inspirational class” via zoom: “5 Ways to Cultivate Inner Peace”. This class can help you embrace today’s message as it will provide tips on how to relax your mind. Click here to REGISTER (https://gloriaramirez.com/register)

Gloria Ramirez
Transformative coaching for Self-Mastery
Monthly Inspirational FREE Class

If you feel that you need support to overcome a challenging issue in your life, I am available to support you with a coaching session or with a series of Life Coaching sessions. We can meet by phone, Skype, FaceTime, or Zoom. Please visit my website or reply to this email for more information and to schedule a session.

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There are so many moments in our lives that our peace can get disrupted and this is why it is important to have tools or ways that we can use to overcome stressful situations.

Let’s start by remembering that nobody can take our peace away except if we allow it. We tend to think that circumstances or people can rob us of our peace and we end up playing victim instead of taking full responsibility. At every moment of our lives, not matter how stressful, we can take control and respond with calmness, poise and faith instead of reacting with fear, anger, or disharmony. We are in charge of our emotions and we can direct them towards calmness and joy.

Also, we have to keep control of our minds and not allow our thoughts to run wild. In an instant, they can take us into negativity, despondency and out of control. We have to be strong and know that at any moment, we can be firm and choose to be calm. It is from a space of calmness that we can find solutions to our challenges because our mind is clear and our heart is calm.    

There are many ways that we can use to cultivate inner peace and here are a few suggestions:

1. Breath. This is the easiest and more powerful tool we have to remain calm. One simple exercise you can do is to inhale and exhale 10 times and feel that as you inhale you bring peace into your being and as you exhale, you let go of anxiety, fear, anger, pain, etc.

2. Set boundaries with friends and family. Generally, it is when we over commit that we run into frustrations and anxiety. A simple practice of saying NO when we know that we cannot commit to something, can save us from stress and disappointment. This is an act of self-love and self-respect.

3. Calm your mind through meditation. This is the best gift that we can give to ourselves, to take time every day to sit down in silence with God, for as short as 15 minutes or longer, if possible. It is in this sacred space that we give some rest to our minds and we are able to relax and really feel that deep inside of us is that peace that surpasses all understanding.

4. Accept what you can’t change. One of the major ways that we create suffering in our lives is by wanting for things to be different than they are. We want to control people, circumstances, etc., not realizing that by doing this we are rejecting the flow of life that is trying to teach us to have patience, understanding, acceptance and faith. When we commit to doing our very best and leaving the rest to God is when everything starts flowing in our life.

5. Use the Power of Prayer. As you pray with devotion, intention, gratitude and faith, your prayers will be answered. God is a God of Love who wants to support and guide us. All we have to do is to open our hearts and minds to receive His Blessings. Pray giving thanks in advance for what you are about to receive. For example. Thank you, God, for the manifestation of my perfect new job. Thank you, God, for my excellent faith and vitality.

This month, I invite you to practice the ideas presented above and be willing to give them a chance to transform your life.

On Thursday, May 4, I will be facilitating a FREE Inspirational class” via zoom: “5 Ways to Cultivate Inner Peace”. This class can help you embrace today’s message as it will provide tips on how to focus on quality thoughts. Click here to REGISTER

Gloria Ramirez
Transformative coaching for Self-Mastery
Monthly Inspirational FREE Class

If you feel that you need support to overcome a challenging issue in your life, I am available to support you with a coaching session or with a series of Life Coaching sessions. We can meet by phone, Skype, FaceTime, or Zoom. Please visit my website or reply to this email for more information and to schedule a session.

I enjoy writing about themes that remind and help us to express our true essence: LOVE. I totally believe that what the world needs right now is love. Love is the master cure for any challenging situation that we face in life. Love invites us to respond with kindness instead of reacting with anger. Love invites us to treat everyone with respect and dignity. Love invites us to be generous and help anyone in need. Love is continuously inviting us to express our true nature in our human interactions. The question is: are we allowing love to be the driver in our lives? Or, are we allowing judgement, greed, jealousy, fear, doubt, unforgiveness, blame or any other limiting behavior to obstruct our innate desire to love?

How can we express love to our fellow human beings? We can do it in so many diverse ways and for everyone is different. I’d like to share some ways that have worked for me:

1. Love. The natural essence of your heart is love and it wants to be expressed freely and openly. A Course in Miracles says that only love is real: “The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.”
   
   
2. Kindness. Each act of kindness (however small it may be) expressed with love sends out a ripple that reaches others. Each ripple is a wave of energy, a vibration that when joined with other ripples, together they bring about the changes that we want to see in the world.
   
   
3. Respect. Each human being must be treated with respect. This is a basic principle that is of upmost importance to follow in our human interactions. Even if we disagree with others, we have the responsibility to treat everyone with respect and dignity. Buddhism expresses it this way: “Rudeness or unkindness in speech is a form of violating the other. Sincerity does not imply rudeness or brutality. If there is anger in what we say, what we say loses its value. What prevails there is not the intention to communicate something, but the desire to hurt or destroy the other. Violence does not cease to be violence because it is verbal.”
   
   
4. Compassion. The human race faces many challenges every day. It is only common sense to not add to the load of the suffering of humanity, but instead to try to alleviate it with our attitude of compassion and caring for one another with love.
   
   
5. Acceptance. Letting go of control is the key to accepting others as they are. The challenge is that we constantly want people to behave the way we want. Not only we suffer when we try to control the behaviors of others, but we also cause pain in others. Our responsibility is to control ourselves and in reality, this is all we can do.
   
   
6. Understanding. We don’t know what people have gone through and suffered in their lives. We might not be aware of their past experiences and this is why it is crucial that we have an understanding heart instead of rushing to judge. Remember that what we don’t like about someone else is an invitation to change within ourselves. People are mirrors of what needs to change in ourselves.
   
   
7. Patience. This is the king of all virtues. We have the opportunity every day to exercise this muscle. To be patient with others means to be humble and not to want it our way, but instead to wait for the right time to get the answers or the outcome that we are seeking.
   
   
8. Generosity. Every day we have the opportunity to be generous with our time, talent and treasure. The rewards are the satisfaction to help others and also to enter the flow of the law of cause and effect: as we give we receive.
   
   
9. Service. How wonderful it is to be able to help someone in need through our service. It could be cooking meals and do an errand or visiting the sick. There are so many ways that we can be channels of loving service.
   
   
10. Joy. We can demonstrate love through the expression of joy. For every one of us it is different. We can share our joy by sharing our specific talents and abilities with our brothers and sisters. It could be with a smile, or creative expressions like music, art, dancing, sports and so on.

As we commit to sharing our love with humanity, what we are really doing is being channels of God’s love because God is everything in this list and much more. What we will be doing is bringing the essence of the divine into this world.

I invite you to commit to expressing any of the ideas above, or your own, and share the love of your heart with the world. The satisfaction that comes from being a source of love in all of your interactions far surpasses the effort that you might have to put into doing it. Resolve to becoming the best version of yourself every day.

I invite you to listen to this song:

Lyrics: What the World Needs Now Is Love

1965 song with lyrics by Hal David and music composed by Burt Bacharach

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No not just for some, but for everyone

Lord, we don’t need another mountain
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross
Enough to last ’til the end of time

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some, but for everyone

Lord, we don’t need another meadow
There are cornfields and wheat fields enough to grow
There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine

Oh listen, Lord, if you want to know

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some, oh, but just for every, every, everyone

On Thursday, April 6, I will be facilitating a FREE Inspirational class” via zoom: “8 Ways to Offer the World Your good Vibes”. This class can help you embrace today’s message as it will provide tips on how to focus on quality thoughts. Click here to REGISTER (https://gloriaramirez.com/register)

Gloria Ramirez

Transformative coaching for Self-Mastery

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If you feel that you need support to overcome a challenging issue in your life, I am available to support you with a coaching session or with a series of Life Coaching sessions. We can meet by phone, Skype, FaceTime, or Zoom. Please visit my website or reply to this email for more information and to schedule a session.

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There are so many ways that we can contribute to the well-being of humanity. We just have to be conscious of our attitude and be willing to offer the world the best in us. As we help others to feel good about themselves, the quality of our lives is going to improve and we will bring more joy into our life.

Remember that when our inner feelings are centered in helping others, everything around us is going to shine. As within so without. What we think deep within ourselves, will get expressed in the life we lead.

I invite you to take each and every day to radiate happiness and positivity not only to your loved ones, but also the entire world. Start passing these positive vibes on to others and you’ll notice a large change in yourself and those around you.

1. Be a smile millionaire. Paramahansa Yogananda speaks of the inner joy of the soul and how we can live in such a way that our outer lives reflect and radiate all the beautiful and noble qualities that give expression to that. Set up the intention that everywhere you go, you will share your smile to bring joy into the lives of others. Do this with the intention of contributing to the well-being of the world.
2. Maintain a positive attitude. You are sending a vibration to the world thru your thoughts, words and actions. Make sure that they are “high quality” and will impact positively those around you .
3. Be kind. Be generous, helpful, and thinking about other people’s feelings. Kindness opens our and other people’s hearts. Be willing to offer random gifts and kind gestures to make others happier and give their morale and mood a boost.
4. Praise others. Instead of finding fault in others, be willing to focus on their positive qualities. Your attitude will help them to believe in themselves and perhaps change their attitude.  
5. Express your gratitude. Find ways to say “thank you” for the ways people help you during the day or show acts of kindness, or for their generosity with their time, or talent, or money. Gratitude is not only an appropriate reaction to kindness but a way by which you can transform persistent negative thoughts into positive.
6. Treat everyone with respect. The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated.
7. Forgive and Radiate love everywhere you go. We can become beacons of light and consciously and purposely share our love with others. It has been said that the channel is blessed by what runs through it.
8. Every day become the best version of yourself. As each one of us sincerely gives our very best every day, then collectively we create a better world. Giving our very best invites us to be a constant expression of kindness, caring, honesty, generosity, forgiveness, joy, compassion and all the qualities that demonstrate the love of our hearts.

Enjoy your journey of offering the world your good vibes!

On Thursday, March 2nd, I will be facilitating a FREE Inspirational class” via zoom: “The Quality of Your thoughts Creates the Quality of Your Life. This class can help you embrace today’s message as it will provide tips on how to focus on quality thoughts. Click here to REGISTER

Gloria Ramirez
Transformative coaching for Self-Mastery
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If you feel that you need support to overcome a challenging issue in your life, I am available to support you with a coaching session or with a series of Life Coaching sessions. We can meet by phone, Skype, FaceTime, or Zoom. Please visit my website or reply to this email for more information and to schedule a session.

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We have in front of us the opportunity to create a wonderful, happy and fulfilling new year. To be able to create it, we need to remember that it is the quality of our thoughts that create the quality of our life. To change external circumstances, we must address the root of the cause (our thinking) that is the driver behind every aspect of our lives.

Remember that change begins from the inside. This is why you must let go of the temptation to blame others or play victim for your circumstances. If you want to change the outside, you must first change the inside. You must pay attention to your thoughts because what you think directly influences how you feel. If you constantly think or talk negatively about your health, your finances, your relationships, your work, that is going to become your reality.

One of the most powerful tools that I learned a long time ago, was the use of affirmations to help me change my thinking. They help you to reset your mind with positive, in the present sentences that affirm the truth of your soul. Here are a few affirmations from Louise Hay:

• I love and accept myself exactly as I am
• I am in the process of making positive changes in all areas of my life
• Everything I need comes to me at the perfect time
• I deserve the best, and I accept it now
• Wellness is the natural state of my body
• Golden opportunities are everywhere for me.
• As I change my thoughts, the world around me changes.

Also, I learned to use words to affirm a positive attitude. For example:

• I CAN: I can do it
• I AM: I am good enough
• I WILL: I will commit to it
• I CHOOSE: I chose to be happy
• I HAVE: I have within everything I need to create a fulfilling life
• I LOVE: I love my life. I am grateful for my blessings
• I CREATE: I create positive experiences by being conscious of my thoughts, my words and my attitude
• I ENJOY: I enjoy knowing that I have the internal power to create a quality life

Enjoy your journey of creating the life of your dreams for this new year 2023!!!

Gloria Ramirez
Transformative coaching for Self-Mastery
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What a wonderful opportunity we have to start a new year with the intention of keeping our hearts pure. Sometimes we do not realize that a pure heart and prosperity go hand in hand. Anything that blocks our heart like resentment, judgment, criticism, also block our prosperity in all areas. This is why it is important to become aware of the areas that need our attention. The secret is that we need to be honest with ourselves and also be willing to do the work. The reward will surpass our expectations because once we release the blocks, prosperity can come to us in unexpected ways.

I invite you to do an introspection to see what are the changes you need to make. Make sure you do it with a sense of self compassion. We all have made mistakes and all we need to do is be willing to correct them. If it is resentment that is blocking your heart, be willing to release the pain by writing how you feel and then do a ritual to burn all those emotions. If it is judgment that is preventing you from living prosperously, commit every day to replace it with thoughts of gratitude. And, so on, take a look at each of the possible areas in your personality that might have negative tendencies and do your best to find the opposite quality that you can focus on practicing.

Here are a few ideas on how you can purify your heart to expand your prosperity:

1. Remove negative thoughts from your mind. Watch your inner dialog and let go of anything that limits you. You can use affirmations to help you do the internal change

2. Make good deeds a habit. Good actions will help you to purify your heart and receive the flow of blessings that the universe wants to give you.

3. Be consistent. Stay committed with your goal of making the changes. For this you need to apply your will power with determination and steady action. Fortify your will power by taking responsibility for every aspect of your life.

4. Keep good company. Being in the company of good, kind, positive people will give you a sense that you are moving in the right direction and will provide the motivation to keep doing your best.

5. Have faith. Focus on expecting the best of life, and you will create a wonderful magnetism that will attract what you are seeking.

Gloria Ramirez
Transformative coaching for Self-Mastery
Monthly Inspirational FREE Class – Click here to register

If you feel that you need support to overcome a challenging issue in your life, I am available to support you with a coaching session or with a series of Life Coaching sessions. We can meet by phone, Skype, FaceTime, or Zoom. Please visit my website or reply to this email for more information and to schedule a session.

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Prosperity consciousness is a topic that it is important to pay attention to. What it means is to focus on abundance instead of lack. Many times, we accept thoughts in our mind or use language that speak of scarcity, without even realizing that we are limiting what want to attract. Remember, “What you focus on you attract.” This principle applies to any area of your life, including health, relationships, work, and well-being.

The secret about developing a prosperity consciousness is to pay attention, to be attentive to your attitude, your thoughts and your words. Next time you notice that you are focusing on lack, make the shift right away and change the direction of your energy. Everything is energy and the waves of your thoughts and words are traveling throughout space like a transmission tower and what will come back to you will be according to what you sent out. If you have the attitude of “I can, I will”, and you send out positive thoughts and a language of abundance, affirming that plenty of opportunities are coming your way and doors are opening for you, then the response coming back to you has to match your message and you will be pleased with what you will be receiving.

Here are Five Key Principles to Develop Prosperity Consciousness:

1. Be the Master of your Mind
   This quote says it clearly: “The mind is everything, what you think, you become.” Pay attention to the quality of your thoughts. The best way to do this, is to pay attention to your emotions because they are interrelated. When you are happy, positive, hopeful, trusting, your thoughts are matching that attitude and the opposite is true too.
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2. Surround yourself with people that have a prosperity mindset
   Give yourself the gift to be around people or environments that foster prosperity. You know those people who always seem positive and see the glass as half-full instead of half-empty. Find them and start spending time with them. Attitudes rub off.
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3.  Study prosperity principles
   My mentor Les Brown used to say, “when you are in the picture, you cannot see the frame.” This means that if we keep thinking with the thoughts that created the challenge, we are not able to see the solution. This is why need someone with clarity to help us see what is in our minds so we can change it. Participating in prosperity programs, classes, or reading books or watching videos can help us see what we need to change, then we are empowered and can take action based on what we have learned.
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4. Practice Gratitude
   Practicing gratitude is one of the most powerful and widely recognized tools for creating abundance, happiness, and improving one’s overall well-being. According to Oprah Winfrey, “If you look at what you have in life, you will always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you will never have enough.” One way to practice this is to create a “Gratitude Journal” and every day write down ten things, people, situations that you are grateful.
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5. Repeat Daily Abundance Affirmations
   The use of positive affirmations can help you dissolve any limiting beliefs or habits hidden in your subconscious mind, and will improve your ability to attract what you really desire. Affirmations can help to shift your mentality from scarcity to abundance.

I just started an 8-wk prosperity course based on the teachings of John Randolph Price, a very respected teacher: THE 40-DAY PROSPERITY PLAN: How to realize abundant prosperity in your life and business. In my opinion everyone should take this program. The reason is that it will not only transform your own life, but also it will help in the expansion of the prosperity consciousness of the planet, which is very much needed. Click here to REGISTER.

Affirm: My thoughts, words and actions consciously focus on abundance

In divine friendship,

Gloria Ramirez
Transformative coaching for Self-Mastery
www.GloriaRamirez.com

If you feel you need support in shifting from a negative habit to an empowering one, I am available to support you with a coaching session or with a series of Life Coaching sessions. We can meet by phone, Skype, FaceTime, or Zoom. Please visit my website or reply to this email for more information and to schedule a session.

 

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Expanding your consciousness sounds like a fancy idea and what it really means is to be aware of your language, your thoughts, your actions, in summary, your attitude. It is to be aware of how you respond to life situations and to be willing to learn what they are really trying to teach you. It means to be more conscious of your behavior.

We expand our consciousness when we respond to people and life challenges with calmness and take responsibility in trying to understand why we attracted the experience into our life, so we can make changes.

We expand our consciousness when, instead of choosing to be angry, or judgmental, or jealous, or doubtful, we choose to be calm, to understand, to be happy for the fortune of others and to trust.

We contract our energy when we find fault in others, or blame others, or play victim or are unkind to others. This is why we have to pay attention, observe ourselves and when we notice that instead of expanding our consciousness, we are constricting it, that’s when we must take action and shift our energy.

Here are some ways that can help you expand your consciousness:

• Meditate. Take time to be in silence with God, to pray, to deepen your devotion.
• Journal your feelings so you are able to release any trapped energy of anger, or fear or stress.
• Always do your best. In the process you will become a better person.
• Do not identify with your mistakes. You are not your mistakes. You are a child of God. Learn from them and be willing to change and to do what is right.
• Trust in yourself and in your God given talents and abilities. This will help you to feel self-confident and access your inner power.
• Focus on love. At the end of the day, ask yourself, have I left anyone out of my heart today? If you did, ask God to help you open your heart to forgive and let him/her in. Go to sleep with a peaceful heart.
• Keep a positive attitude. This includes being kind to others, praising others, focusing on the solution and not on the problem, seeing the positive side in everything and everyone, being of service to others, and having compassion.

I leave you with this quote: “happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” -Denis Waitley

Affirm: I expand my consciousness with my positive attitude

In divine friendship,

Gloria Ramirez
Transformative coaching for Self-Mastery
www.GloriaRamirez.com

If you feel you need support in shifting from a negative habit to an empowering one, I am available to support you with a coaching session or with a series of Life Coaching sessions. We can meet by phone, Skype, FaceTime, or Zoom. Please visit my website or reply to this email for more information and to schedule a session.