give yourself permission to be happy and heal
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2023
- give yourself permission to be happy and heal
In this video I wanted to open the discussion on giving yourself permission to be happy. I don’t know about you, but I often internalize so many negative things going on in the world that I feel like I don’t deserve to experience fulfillment or contentment when so much suffering is happening. As if, somehow, it’s selfish to do so. But as I’ve grown I’ve realized - at least in my case - that cultivating peace and joy in my own life actually makes me more effective in helping others. When I am allowing myself to be happy, I want to share those feelings and feel more hopeful about the future. It makes me do more, and be a better person. This is in contrast to the video I made about cynicism a while ago: my response to my past mindset has been to seek out little moments of joy, even when I’m not at my best. Hope you enjoy this, maybe it will resonate with you! Either way, feel free to share your thoughts below!
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As you see this I am about to leave to go home after visiting my abuelita and family in Puerto Rico ❤ It’s been wonderful to have been able to speak my other native tongue and see so many I love. Hope to be home safely very soon, take care everyone!
Thank you Paola. Yes, our fellow living creatures are my best companions too when I need to relax and leave the cares behind. Thank you ❤
safe travels
Safe travels glad you enjoy la islita. My siblings and most of my family are still there…
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Thankyou Paola. This is now one of my favourite videos. The water photography is so beautiful. Your honeymoon video in the beautiful magical garden video is another favourite. I never get enough of your scenery type videos.
I also do breathing techniques it helps calm me when panic sets in. Especially when I despair at the way our world is going. Safe travels and Bless You and all your precious family 🙏🦋🕊️🌿🍀🍃🌱
"If we waited for everything to be right before we allowed ourselves to heal, we would never heal". (paraphrase).
Well said, Paola.
I LOVE the nature videos!!! To me , thats what your channel signifies. It's an escape from stress and into the magical natural world and it's teachings 🍄🪻🪺🏔️ I enjoyed breathing with you 🌳💞
A lovely way to start my day, after reading some of God's Word. ❤ It's my birthday today, and I already planned on simply BEing and resting today. So much has been going on in my life, and I'm just happy to be quiet. Your video blessed my morning. Thank you, Paola. 💕 🌷
Happy birthday! I hope you have a wonderful, quiet day. And I hope things will get better in your life...🥀
I hope you'll have a beautiful birthday! 🌻
Thank you, friends! So kind of you! You have a blessed and happy day as well...
Happy birthday!🫀🤍
May you always be happy!
Happy birthday dear ❤
Have a wonderful day
I am 54 years old. I think that you are wise beyond your years. Thank you for encouraging me today and reminding me that I need to take time to heal and enjoy nature more. I love all of your videos and have watched you for years now. Thank you and God Bless!
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Sandra, I am 63. Yes! She is wise beyond her years! So refreshing
I so enjoyed sitting peacefully in nature together. I share your love for all the growing plants around us. A treasure.
Sometimes I feel like life is too serious to have fun, or too dangerous to relax. There are so many dangers, anything could happen to me or to the people I love. I feel like I have to be on my guard all the time. But this video is a good reminder that it is far from selfish or irresponsible to be happy, and that allowing yourself to be happy does not invalidate the sufferings of others, or your own. Thank you. :)
Monica, may you be safe, healthy, and may you find peace in your heart!
Thank you for your unexpected kindess! 🤗 May you also have safety, health, and peace. 😇
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Reminds me of what a classmate wrote to me on the last day of uni, “you deserve the happiness you are denying yourself”. Thank you for this wonderful reminder Paola 💚
Yes, very important to be a 'human being' and not always a 'human doing'.
Hello Paola. This was an especially beautiful video. At this time I am going through a health crisis but you remind us that whatever is happening we can still take moments to feel peaceful and happy. The video was full of joy and the meditation was peaceful and blissful. Thank you so much. Love from Australia.
I am also facing health issues; I hope yours resolve themselves in a positive way. Having someone like Paola to guide us through this is a real gift, isn't it? Sending you good wishes from USA
I hope you get better soon
Feel better may Our Lord bring you healing.
I hope you get better! :)
I’m to. I’m 12 years living with Stage 4 Breast Cancer. I’m feeling some changes, and scans come next month. Trying not to worry, but, near impossible. I hope all of us, feel Gods peace and we get the strength we need to deal.
For someone who now lives in South Florida my love of the forest, the meadows and the mountains is filled by watching your videos. I miss them so much so really appreciate living vicariously. They are a gentle, peaceful reminder of my love for mother earth. Thank you Paola 🙏
I'm right there with you I also moved to southern Florida and miss the north the mountains, the forest, the seasons watching these videos gives me a little of home
And yet another FL person who misses the mountains the forests and real grass..
Why do people move to Florida when they love forests and mountains? I never understood that.
@@harrietcarter3307 it wasn’t my choice but my parents
we moved cuz of little grand babies@@harrietcarter3307
You bring so much joy and peace to the world. Thank you so much.
This came at just the right time, thank you. I hope things get better for your family members and I’m sending lots of love and healing. 💜
Perfect timing. I woke up a little anxious this morning. Your videos are always comforting and relaxing. Thank you. 🩷👑
Acts 2:37-39 will do you a lot of good and calm your spirit.
Dearest Paola, I have been going through some life transitions and your beautiful videos have brought some magic into my life. Keep creating, beloved. Your simplistic approach and zest for life lift up the soul of many like me.
That was lovely. The garden and then the sitting and breathing in life. Thank you for this. I needed this today.
paola🌸 You are a fresh breath of air in my world of chaos. you have always kept me feeling calm, when it was hard to.
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Dear Paola - gracias 🪷 Lovely to begin my day with your beautiful video, inspiring words and delicious breath work. I will return to this slice of forest many times. May we not forget happiness and healing are a choice in every moment. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🙏
Thank you so much, Paola. I love nature. Years ago, I jogged and walked in a beautiful park. I so miss the beautiful smells of the trees and woods. For me, it was a pleasure walking and jogging on the dirt paths surrounding by trees. It was beautiful even on a rainy day. I must get back there. Thank you.
Thank you for reminding me that happiness inside is much more important than any external success. As you said, we have the right to allow ourselves to be happy, no matter what happens in the world. If we are happy, we can spread this happiness to others, bring more light into this world. And indeed, joy and peace within us make us more effective in helping other people. To take away your permission for happiness is like depriving yourself of an important internal resource.
We are all learning how to be happy in this complicated world❤
Thank you so much, dear Paola. That was a beautiful, meditative video, and I so appreciate your sharing your breathing meditation with Mother Earth with all of us. So necessary for self care during these chaotic times. My garden, local parks, the ocean and old growth trees where I live in Canada are my temple and sacred sanctuary. ❤💚🌲🌻🏵🌹🌳🐝🐳
Wonderful video Paola ! Thank you for all the beauty you bring to us in your videos and sharing your soothing soul! The surroundings of your filming and what you capture centers our very being! Truly enjoyed this. Again thank you!
Hello and thank you so much for this video. I totally enjoy your natured themed videos, I find them relaxing and reflective. I will keep you and your family in prayer and hope things go positive for them. ❤❤❤
I was just thinking, "I am missing Paola's beautiful, peaceful videos", and up popped this wonderful trip through such a magical place. Thank you! Enjoy your time with your family. 💜💙💜
This video made me feel crying i don't know why. Suddenly i thought " The nature is actually so beautiful, it's sad that i am not gonna be able to see and experience everything." Thank you so much. 🌹
Yesss!! I always look forward to your videos. They are one the highlights of my day!! Travel safely and take care, Paola.
Thank you to share your outer and inner world with us! 💖🙏✨
It is me who shall thank you, deares Paola for all the wonderfull wisdom and reflextions that you bring to me❤ It means more to me than you can ever imagine, and helps me to heal so much brokenness from childhood. You are a true light in this complicated and noisy world, Paola, and I love you for it.
i never comment but i loved the quiet moment (9:00). Your videos are like a guided meditation to me 💚
Thankyou Paola for reminding me to enjoy some little thing for myself. So many illnesses and stress in my life right now I will now take a small bit of time for me to enjoy. Blessings
I saw a little petal fairy dancing in the breeze at 01:25 and a rock fairy standing in contemplative silence at 05:03 🌸🌳🌲 What a beautiful video, Paola! Sending love. And a safe homeward journey 💕
Thank you for sharing that with us! SO uplifting... Ever since I was small, I have been seeing and experiencing things like that, but for many years I didn't have the courage to talk about it. Now I just think that we are all free in our experience-worlds!...
Wishing you all the best
Good eye ! 🧚♀️🧚♂️
06:36 I see our cottage fairy walking under a wildflower in a beautiful meadow. Do you see her?🧚
Yes,i saw that too!Wow!its really magical this place..Thanks Paola🙏
We need to allow ourselves to heal as well as to accept and embrace healing. Let the morning bird sing her way into our hearts and see the through grateful eyes
Beautifully done Paola- I too am entering a new chapter of my life and am giving myself permission to rest and heal- this was a wonderful way to start my day- thank you and wishing you all of the very best🌲💐❤
Best of luck to you on your new chapter in life. I am in a stressful place and Paola has been a source of great comfort to me, too. 🌹
@@kathif8598 thank you! Sending peaceful and healing thoughts your way
@@ravenbrown7053 Thank you! 🙂
I always come home looking forward to see your videos, set myself with hot coffe and windows open where I see green leaves, you make me feel being in a wonderful world with my little space I have. I'm so thankful to you.
Seus vídeos são sempre tão confortantes
It is absolutely magical. If I were given the chance to visit that fairy garden I'd probably cry out of happiness (I cry when I don't know how to handle the happiness I'm feeling)
I am practicing being happy by refusing to be pulled under by the woes of the world and the negativity of those who believe in hate and drama. I am dedicating myself to being cheerful, kind, gentle, and empathetic as I make my home a cozy retreat and my garden a safe place for fairies to dance!
Suffering is a state of mind, as is happiness. We are blessed to be able to create our own realities 💖
You've never been raped...
Thank you Paola for taking us along with you as you visited that Gorgeous garden. I too enjoy being one with Nature and just being still. I'm glad you made it back home safely and I'm sure your husband and fur babies were so happy to see you.🧡
I watched Wild recently (highly recommend), and in the story, their mother had a lot of suffering and she still remained happy. She said that if she thought about all of the hardships, then what? It would be more suffering and she wants to live. It was really powerful. I lost my Mam when I was 22, coming on 8 years now and she always said "Every day is a good day, when we're alive". And I really try live by that. I just shared recently that happiness is in the small things, the nice cup of tea, the chat with friends, a hug, some nature. Notice 5 things every day that you are grateful for, this is what helps me. 🙂
Thank you Paola for such a beautiful video. I too love spending quiet time outside in nature. I am a very sensitive lady as well and the craziness of the world sometimes overwhelms me. I love to potter around my home and garden. I am in my 60 and reduced my working hours and it has helped me a lot to slow down.
Your writings are magical them selves. I hope you are planning to ride a bike one day. It will most definitely be at that seller! You are a beautiful young lady. Thank you for this beautiful video. I needed it so much.❤
Anyone wishing to see, sense or connect with Fairies, must enter nature with an open, humble heart and mind just like Paola. This video is a gorgeous reminder of the beauty and power found in stillness. Just beautiful!
Thank you for sharing the beautiful landscapes and your breath work.
I’ve felt much better.
Good night from Tokyo.
Stillness speaks peace in our souls! We need to find that balance between the NOW and the worries of the future, so be present and experience the calm within…from moment to moment…that is JOY. ❤
This video was so beautiful at times it gave me chills. Your skill and artistry shone through, and this is definitely a new favorite. Thank you for the time and effort you’ve put into sharing beauty and peace with the world. Much love and safe travels!
your videos are so calming ;'), once again, loved this too. 💖
Our Creator has given us so much to enjoy in this beautiful world! It brings me to thank Him and worship Him! What a wonderful God!
What a wonderful day in this beautiful environment! If I too lived in or near a fairy forest it would take a lot to even make me leave..nature is so healing and connecting with the earth brings us renewed energy and peace 🍂🍁🌸🧚
I needed this peace and your gentle voice. Happy friday!
I do think that giving yourself the chance to be happy gives you a more positive outlook in life. We wish you nothing but further blessings,
Glad you are home safely Paola. Thank you for sharing all of the wisdom you have. That garden was beautiful. The land is beautiful. God;s creatures are beautiful. You are a beautiful woman full of wisdom. Have a great weekend. ❤
A beautiful video in so many ways. The mossy lush green of the garden is such a lovely setting. And I loved your message about finding space for love and joy even if there are bad things going on in the world. It also felt magical to take a moment to just be quiet and breathe along with you.
Thank you for such a positive message to start my day. I too am seeking and working on a more peaceful life and to make an effort to slow my life down
Good morning, Beautiful. You're so talented and whimsical. Thank you for sharing. I hope you have a lovely day.🐝
This is why I come here! Softly go into this peaceful realm!
I absolutely love seeing the beautiful nature there. Thank you so much for sharing.
Hi Paola,
Such a gratifying and blissful feeling it is.What a delight it has been navigating through the serene nature , accompanied by your ever so grounded , beautiful, meaningful words . It instantly connects us to the absolute truth and the eternal energy flowing through us !
Towards the end of the video , when we watched the breathing exercise as part of the mindful meditation, we have been motivated to mention a step further , where we find ourselves spontaneously connected to the all pervading subtle energy, backed by our pure desire to feel the truth- our true inner self !
Thanks again for making and sharing these videos, which keep adding to the beauty , bliss and joy in our daily lives 🙂
Thank you very much for holding space for a moment of silence and intention, it feels special to share in those moments together over space and time! 💛 I am so grateful!
Your videos are pure Beauty and magic, such marvelous art Paola you gift us, Thank you!!
Truth! Amen. Thank you. Love Well Being and Joy to All Everywhere!
This was so refreshing and peaceful. Nature is so soothing and everything about it is a miracle. It is necessary to get outside in nature on a daily basis. This post is not written well but I just wanted to relay that I am so grateful for you and your love of nature. Thank you Paola 🌿🍂🌻💕
Such a gift, every time, a gentle and exquisite few minutes sharing your world. Thank you Paola. 💜🙏🕊
Often happiness is something to have later, but we all need to give ourselves permission to be happy now, like right away
I swear you posts these videos right when I need to listen to them the most. Thank you
No, we should be thanking you! Its ashame we have to be reminded to relax and 'just breathe'! You are a joy to be around! ❤️
It’s always calming to watch your vlogs, your voice is soothing ❤ you really seem like a sensitive person and you know how to use that to your advantage ❤
Thank you for the time in nature with you. Please consider offering a mindful meditation in each video ❤
You always share such beautiful, contemplative videos. The garden was gorgeous. I like to watch before sleeping as it quiets my mind. Thank you Paola!❤
شكراً لكِ على مشاركتك معنا الفديوهات الجميله و المريحه التأمل لطيف 🫂♥️🧘🏻♀️
Thank you for the chance to breathe. I felt so spiteful as my husband has the tv blaring. After the breathing, I now feel like I can manage it. Thank you!
I recommend noise -cancelling headphones!!
👋 hello,
This is a beautiful garden and thank you for sharing.
After watching so many of your wonderful videos especially the ones on books 📚 I bought some of your recommendations to add to my library.😊❤
Yes I shall join you and sit still and breathe
I recently moved to India and have been in a major city for a few months now with no access to nature (yet). I don't plan to live in the concrete jungle but I'm here, in the city, for about 6 months or so. Seeing the trees and nature of my homeland really brought me peace today. It's not the same, but it really blessed me. Thank you 💚
What a beautiful and peaceful video this is. I can't travel anymore due to some health issues, and to be able to experience the magical garden and calming nature this way is such a blessing. Thank you so much for this. :)
Hope your family is improving. I enjoyed the meditation with you. Love the nature videos also
Me deleitan tus videos, Paola. Soy Mexicana y vivo en Australia desde hace 30 años. Me emocioné cuando vi el video con tu abuelita y Mami y sobre todo el momento cuando tu Mami dijo que su apellido es Morales, como el mío era antes de casarme. Tu voz es muy pacífica y transmite tranquilidad. Gracias! Saludos desde Queensland!
I enjoy the nature a lot, sitting, and gentle walks, and breathing and observing
Thank you! This was truly magical. I love the remainder to be happy even in the chaos of our lives. ❤
Magical! Thanks for sharing this little gem I had no idea was in my own backyard. I will visit and experience it’s majesty for myself. Blessings and peace❣️🙏🏼🧚🏼
I have been unwell lately , & it makes you rethink your priorities in life,
just the small things makes life worth wild ,
your voice soothes me so much 😊🙏
Dear
Paola, TheCottagefairy
Whatching Your Video is Like Meditation,
ThankYou for Providing Great Prospective for Life,
Keep Continue Your Valuable n Mesmerizing Work n Keep Adding Value to The Life
TakeCare Dear
ThankYou Once Again
This Video brought peace in my stressful day - i love nature and the Sound of nature! I breathe with you and I tried to find inner peace for a moment.. I love your beautiful videos, thank you for taking us with you in your fairy world! 🌸💚
I LOVE your nature videos, book videos and self care videos. Thank you so much! 🌸
Absolutely love the wind through the trees, my favorite sound.
Safe travels! Thank you for this beautiful video.
The videography of this video was so gorgeous and enchanting, and I really needed to hear this message. I've struggled for a long time with feeling like things aren't good enough, mostly from this internal belief that I'm not good enough, and that maybe once I reach point x I can allow myself to be happy. I had to realise that I am good enough right now, and that even if I'm not perfect, I'm allowed to rest and enjoy and heal.
You are good enough! Adopt Nam-myoho-renge-kyo as your mantra, and meditate often! This is a vow, an expression of determination, to embrace and manifest our Buddha nature. It is a pledge to oneself to never yield to difficulties and to win over one’s suffering. At the same time, it is a vow to help others reveal this truth in their own lives and achieve happiness. Each of us is born with all that we need to find the light inside. We need only dedicate ourselves to the task, and work toward enlightenment.
Like many of your community, I love the nature videos. The quiet and the calm are what's needed right now. Actually, when you said you couldn't do anything about what's going on in the world, you found the perfect way to help by bringing love, joy and quiet peace into yourself, your videos and your community. Thank you! I hope you enjoyed your visit with your family.
Thank you for your beautiful outdoors video 💕it’s always been my go to place for healing and relaxing even if I’m working in the garden 😊I always feel so much better mentally and physically and emotionally thank you for sharing your beautiful journey with us ☘️
Thank you, not only for the beautiful scenery, but, also, for the vital reminder that we always have an option as to our emotions. The problem is that, over the course of our lives, we become locked into emotional patterns to the point that they become automatic responses, requiring no real thought. As a very wise woman once told me, "All of life is habit."
What a beautiful, nourishing video. Thank you as always Paola for your gentle encouragement. This message really resonated ♥️
Beautiful cinematography! Your videographic talents are growing with each video, the compositions gets even more beautiful and immersive, and the editing more fluid.
We have a beautiful garden and sculpture park close to our home, where I've spent lots of time, mostly to take photos, but sometimes just to wander and contemplate life. My wife originally signed us up as members, so that she could spend time with our daughter in a park setting while I was at work, and where our daughter could go and explore (there is a children's park component). Many years later we are still members, and our daughter likes to go to the gardens with me as she has gotten the photography bug as well.
Keep on making nature videos, keep on making bookworm videos, I think most who are part of this channel like your introspective style and will watch whatever you upload.
Thank you so much Paola for taking us to the Garden and nature I so much enjoy your videos they are therapy to me, I live in Tucson AZ and it's been sooo hot here we can't get out because of the 3 digit temperatures and I am an outdoors person it has been very difficult, so again thank you for the beautiful peaceful green nature walks I look forward on seeing your videos. Blessings to you and your family💜
It's a beautiful place!!! I love your channel, u have a great energy!!! God bless you!!!
So sorry to hear you have family members going through difficult situations. You're so right: we can't wait for "everything" to be perfect so we can heal because it never will be! Your philosophy in dealing with today's world is SO HELPFUL!!! You are so wise beyond your years! I hope your time with your grandmother and family has been wonderful in spite of that....safe travels! ❤❤❤❤ (sending YOU love)
Que paz y que harmonía transmiten los vídeos, se nota todo el amor que proyectas en cada cosa que haces😊♥️🌺🌺🌸🌸
I always choose happy. When bad things happen in my life I find something good in those bad things.
I don’t usually comment. However this video reminded me of a poem I found recently so I thought I’d share
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“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy,
don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty
of lives and whole towns destroyed or about
to be. We are not wise, and not very often
kind. And much can never be redeemed.
Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this
is its way of fighting back, that sometimes
something happens better than all the riches
or power in the world. It could be anything,
but very likely you notice it in the instant
when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the
case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid
of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.”
~ Don’t hesitate, by Mary Oliver
thank you😊
This was lovely Paola, thank you. I have also been dealing with stress and painful family matters, and I always find solace in going outside to nature. Your talk about letting yourself be happy really hit home for me - it's something I've been practicing for years but still struggle with.
It was nice to breathe with you :)
The first environment - my most beloved climate...though that of your home is exquisitely beautiful. Happiness - at 64, I have, ostensibly, lived too long. For (a long time), I've ceased to even aspire to this state. But, all else that you describe and express - I am about to lose my second feline daughter of fourteen years. I am utterly bereft/heartbroken. Your dear sharing here, in entirety, is the greatest treasure. I could not thank you enough.
I love your videos! Every morning I unplug and feed the birds and squirrels in my garden and enjoy the experience. I look for nature discoveries, like a feather or a fall leaf and marvel over these small treasures. I’ve heard it called “forest bathing” and I love every minute of it. Thank you for sharing your imagination and your magical discoveries. ❤