Alexi Panos Inspiration

In life, we all get broken open. We all experience some crazy pain be it a messy childhood, a traumatic loss or a breakup. We can't escape life without escaping some of these moments. And these wounds are normal to life, just like physical wounds are normal to the human body. And just like the body goes tow work to heal the wounds of the flesh, life goes to work to heal the wounds of the soul. But there is something that we do that tends to disrupt this natural process; we tend to reopen the wound so we can re-experience the pain, so we can hold onto it, so we can bring the old pain into a new circumstance. But WE are the cause of this new wound because WE hold the knife that reopens it. And I know this example far too well. I let this one play out over and over and over and over again. I would reopen the wound of being cheated on in the past and bring it into every relationship I was in; because I wasn't ready to let it go. I wasn't willing to see that it was ME that was still holding onto it. So, I in turn

Who cares what people think? I used to. Like really, really used to. I used to run myself ragged making sure that every single person I came in contact with thought I was perfect, had it all together, and never made a single mistake. I would filter myself and hold back my true feelings so as not to disrupt the status quo. I would play small and not put myself out there, so I wouldn't be center stage where I could be judged and criticized. That, became a little exhausting. My greatest lesson this year has been releasing the NEED TO PLEASE. It's been amazing! It's been freeing! It's been BRUTALLY hard, all at the same time. But I realized that, no matter what we do in life, no matter what we say, no matter how we act. We're always going to offend or displease SOMEONE. There are 7 Billion people on this planet and there's no possible way that we can make every single one of them happy. And, even if we did, it's pointless because then we're leading someone else's view of a "perfect" life. This is YOUR life. If

The two most important days in anyone's life are the day that you're born, and the day that you find out why. Grueling, tedious, boring, CRAZY frustrating- the HOW'S in life will stop us in our tracks every single time. The "HOW'S" are the steps- the things that feel overwhelming or insurmountable; the things that we MUST do in order to accomplish whatever it is that we're after. It's the research, it's the planning, it's the doing...the WORK. But the hows are completely meaningless until we have a powerful enough WHY. Because our WILL power is only as strong as our WHY Power.  It's the unshakable force that drives us to move mountains and conquer incredible feats. Until we've have a powerful enough WHY for our lives, we'll continue to have a mountains of unfinished To Do lists, goals that never even get started and another year of abandoned New Years Resolutions. The person with a deep, burning hot desire or reason why will always defeat the best of the best at doing any how every single time. That my frie

Any of you out there a perfectionist?  Going after every win, getting every detail meticulous and right, being the best of the best, not following through or finishing things up out of fear that it won't be perfect in the end?  Yeah, I know it well.  Perfectionism plagued me for most of my life.  Perfection kept me a prisoner from the joy of life, the beauty of creating, to the freedom of expressing, the absolute magic of dropping my walls and dropping IN. We strive for perfection. BUT…the BEAUTY of this life, the JUICE that makes this life worth waking up to IS the journey of transformation, the journey of figuring it out, of messing it all up and then making it all right…it is the journey of perfection…not the destination of perfection that we need to strive for. If it was all perfect, there would be nothing else to work towards, nothing left to learn, to uncover, to embrace, to dance in, to FEEL. Everything is PERFECTLY IMPERFECT, because it is right where we need to be. Breakdowns and breakthroughs are

We need to stop being so interested in what we DON'T want. See, we watch the news, and we get chaos of the world, and global destruction, and violence and terrorists, and all these things. Then, we turn on our TV's and we get drama, we get couples fighting, we get cheating, we get lies. And then read magazines, and we flip through, "You're not enough." "Your not enough." "You need to buy this product, because you're not enough." Cool. Then, we call our friends and say, "Why me? Why me? Why me?" Well get this: I like to think of it, as a radio frequency. We are these fine tuned instruments radiating energy and frequency to the Universe; and the Universe is giving us back what we're radiating. Like attracts like. It's the Law of Attraction. So, like a radio, if we want to listen to soft rock, we're going to turn to 92.8 because that's where the soft rock is. But, if I want to listen to the top hits of today, I'm going to tune to 102.7 because that's where I normally find them. But if we want soft rock, and I t

Are you just a spectator in life? Are you sitting on the sidelines, watching the game being played. Having a say, but never being willing to play? Are you just a spectator, or are you willing to GET IN THE GAME? Are you willing to play in the arena and risk it all, and risk looking like a fool. Marring your face with dust and dirt, and possibly failure? Are you willing to risk defeat to win it all? You never know unless you get in the arena and TRY. You never know the possibility of winning; what it feels like to taste victory unless you get on that field and PLAY. You see, our society is built around the chosen few that play, and then the masses that watch, and say "oh they should've," "they could've," "if I was them I would've"….well, why don't you? It's our arena. It is our arena to dance in, to play in, to take a shot. But most of us are sitting in the stands watching. Don't just be a spectator. Get out of the stands. Challenge yourself. Get in the arena and PLAY. This is YOUR game. Dare greatly, get

First we hide, and then we seek. See, hidden beneath all the layers and labels that we put on ourselves, is our TRUE self, our CORE self…our ESSENCE. But see, we bought the lie that we've got to keep the realest part of ourselves hidden; because we need to protect it, because we don't want it to be judged, or be vulnerable and susceptible to hurt or pain. So we hide. But if we hide then we must seek. We seek outside of ourselves for a person to make us feel complete, to praise us, to honor us, to make us feel beautiful. We seek circumstances to finally make us feel happy, to give us power, to make us feel worthy. We seek money and things to give us status so the world thinks we're enough. We've been hiding from ourselves and the world so we constantly keep seeking outside of ourselves from the world. See, you become enough not from having the perfect person on your arm, having the perfect job or enough money, or the right kind of clothes. No, no. You become enough, when you stop hiding. When you start showin

We cannot dispel darkness with more darkness. The problem is, as human beings, what we've been taught is to show up as the same energy, to meet that force with the same force; but if we think about it: we can't defeat darkness with darkness, because you're just getting black and black coming together and making more black. If we want to dispel the darkness and get rid of it, if we want to bring in that light, we have to OPERATE AS light. You bring light into a dark room and darkness disappears. We can't meet anger with anger, or hate with hate, or jealousy with jealousy; we can't meet pride with pride or ego with ego, because you just get more of the same thing. So we have to operate from light, we have to operate from love, from compassion, from gratitude, from joy, from hope. The only way to address fear, to address hate, to address anger, doubt, insecurity, jealousy, envy is with love. Turn on that light that is within you, and watch how the darkness disappears. So, no, we can't control and stop the hat

Who we think we are, is in the way of who we really are. You see, we've got this idea, that we've got to have a certain thing, look a certain way or present ourselves like x, y and z, to be accepted, to show up, to have presence; that presence can be bought. But what is actually true is presence can't be bought. Presence isn't in our job title, it's not in the way we look, it's not in the way we dress, it's no tin the community we surround ourselves with, the car we drive, or the house we live in…no, presence, true presence, is that undeniable thing, that unshakable something that shows up way before you walk into a room and is still there way after you leave. It's that thing that was here way before we were born and will be here way after we leave. See, presence is not what shows up in human form, no, presence is what shows up energetically before human form gets there. Presence is the memory that lasts in somebody after our human form passes this Earth. Think about that: if we believe presence is our car,

See, for so long I was so afraid of what people would think of me; I was so in my head about "Am I making an impact?" "Am I perfect enough?" "Am I making a good impression?" "Am I dressed well?" "Am I this, am I that, am I this?" EXHAUSTING. I was literally so in my head about making sure that everybody else could accept me, making sure that everyone else could say "yes" and check me off the 'approved' list; that I forgot who I was in the process. I was so busy living up to everyone's expectations, stepping into what their version of "perfect" looked like, that I had forgotten what my perfect wholeness already was. What we all need to do is stop shying away from our true selves and start showing it, start BEING it…unapologetically. Why? Because you are born with a specific gift that I can't have and I am born with a specific gift that you can't have. That's what makes us all unique. If you think about it, there are 7 BILLION people on this planet that are different in such a unique way; why is that? Yet we