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I admired the character of the teleserye of GMA's Jewel in the Palace. It is about how you will grow strong inspite of hindrances that comes along the way. Jang Geum story tolds about her parents misfortune, that brings her to realization to fight and prove her right to the palace officials and king. She is a mischeavous young lady who started her fortune, training to be a court lady in the kichen and later becomes a lady physician, who become the catalyst of change inside the palace. She have a lot of adversaries along the way including her amobitious bitter rival Geum Young and her cruel aunt Lady Choi.
Inspite of her enemy cunning and ruthlessness, jang Geum did have friends and mentors who looked after her and guided her along her difficult path to greatness.
Love grows and deepen between Jang Geum and Captain Jung ho Min an admired military man who fall in love with Jang Geums wisdom and passion for learning.

OUR MIND FUELS OUR DREAMS

Jang Geum is really a very good inspiration for those who wants to achieve there dreams. I can say that, other people is not thehindrance. What really hinders and stop us from dreaming is just our mind whose always telling us that we can't make it and we are incapacitated and doesn't have resources to reach goals in our lives. Eagerness to learn is just like building a pipeline. It's really very intricate to build. It takes a lot of planning and studying for many years, pulling of resources in order to build that for many years. But once it was built...water will flow unstopably. Generation to generation will benefit just because of what you built. Buckets are easier to reach, and you can start working with your dreams right away. But without learning, reflection and planning eventually you will get6 tired later fetching water to fill your buckets and carrying that to your household to drink a good water to use it for your necessities and sharing it to your family.

Dream building is a process. I tell you, it is not instant. I believe in the saying practice makes perfect, and experience is not the best teacher but reflected experience is the best teacher. I was learning these for many years and now I felt that I already reach critical mass, Im unstoppable.

Our mind, will, emotions, and physical body are tools that we have been given to use. Most people have mistaken Identities, they tried to better there lives but they feel so limited, stuck and trap. Some people think that they are helpless and they keep comparing themselves to other people's ability. Actually, all we need is just a realization that we are unique and we have a hidden Jewel in the palace, which is our abilities and capabilities that are hidden inside and just waiting to be discover. I really appreciated my existence here on earth. I appreciated the challenges everyday because I know that this will mold me to become a better me.

Wait for chapter two next time...Enjoy reading!

Enjoying your Journey of Life(Reflection from the poem Ithika)

I hope that you will find inspiration by reading this good poem by Constantine Cavafy, as you reflect on this, hope you can gain some insights about how you can enjoy life to the fullest.

This poem is about a voyage of self-discovery and any goals or dreams one may have to achieve this. Both “Ithaca” and “The town where time stands still” include the belief that journeys are motivated by a desire to gain profit, achieve pleasure, overcome forces associated with the place, be enlightened or inspired, and to gain positive growth or alteration. In “The town where time stands still” the author speaks about a spiritual type of journey, a transformation that might accompany a physical journey from one place to another, and in the case of the poem “Ithaca”, you become a spiritually enriched person as a reward due to the journey you have undertaken. The message of the poem, that it is not only the destination that is important, it is the journey undertaken along the way that is most significant, and this is conveyed in the poem.

ITHACA: THE POEM

As you set out on your journey to Ithaca,

pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge.

The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,the angry Poseidon --

do not fear them:

You will never find such as these on your path,

if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fineemotion touches your spirit and your body.

The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,the fierce Poseidon you will never encounter,

if you do not carry them within your soul,

if your soul does not set them up before you.

Pray that the road is long.

That the summer mornings are many,

when,with such pleasure, with such joy you will enter ports seen for the first time;

stop at Phoenician markets,and purchase fine merchandise,mother-of-pearl and coral,

amber and ebony,and sensual perfumes of all kinds,as many sensual perfumes as you can;

visit many Egyptian cities,to learn and learn from scholars.

Always keep Ithaca in your mind.

To arrive there is your ultimate goal.

But do not hurry the voyage at all.

It is better to let it last for many years;

and to anchor at the island when you are old,

rich with all you have gained on the way,not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches.
Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.

Without her you would have never set out on the road.She has nothing more to give you.

And if you find her poor,

Ithaca has not deceived you.

Wise as you have become, with so much experience,

you must already have understood what Ithacas mean.

Constantine P. Cavafy (1911)

The first journey the poet describes is the physical journey. To reach your destination or your goals you must overcome many obstacles and challenges along the way. Although it may not be an easy road, what you learn along the way is invaluable. Imaginative journeys are described by the poet when he mentions imaginary monsters which do not exist. The “Lestrygonians”, “Cyclops” and “Poseidon” are all metaphorical symbols for the challenges and obstacles encountered along the way. In the entire poem the poet is attempting to analyse his inner-self and arrive at self discovery. On the journey described, you become wealthy and knowledgeable and hopefully get to know yourself better. The journey is seen as an analogy for intellectual pursuit and journey of ones soul. The “Egyptian cities” are a place of academic learning, where you may become more knowledgeable and wise through your learning.

The poem is about a journey of self discovery. It tells us that we must overcome all obstacles and challenges in life, such as “Lestrygonians”, “Cyclops” and “Poseidon”, keeping our thoughts noble. Various kinds of enrichment will be found, such as “pleasurable perfumes” and “fine merchandise”, only if the traveller does not impose fears and obstacles within themselves. By visiting “Hosts of Egyptian cities”, one will learn and become a better person. Throughout this long journey, you will become wealthy in a spiritual way. If the journey has been successful, you will come out of it with so many rewards. Rewards that are not measured in a material way, but in the spiritual enrichment you have gained.

My written article1 ( Renewing your mind and emotions)

written by Ms. Bacharpa

"We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion we have of things." EPICTETUS

I like writing my experiences and reflecting on the things that i have done in a day. Well, I was out of town the whole day...working and finding clients for our incoming variety show program..My steps seems very heavy, my thoughts wrestle, I felt pity for myself walking down the road with no umbrella to cover the hit of the sun. I'm not like this lately...I know i'm well motivated and really like this job so much. But It seems that my day is so heavy...I remembered that yesterday, my manager and I have that talk...and it seems that she never believed in me that i can really do some close deals and I felt demotivated the whole day...

Reflection:
The mind and emotions are like the mucles in your physical body, with proper care and exercise, we can strengthen them.Lack of use and discipline to exercise in your muscles will cause them to become weak. The thought that fill our mind and the way we feel at any given moment do not have to be the things that are happening to us. There is a difference between being a person who is taking action in life and being a person who spends more time reacting to people and circumstances. That's why i felts heavy that day because I am more concern with reacting to people and circumstances. i remembered my friend saying to me..It's not what happened to you that is important, but how you react to the situation...thats a very powerful sentence.

Most people are unconscious about themselves..What on earth they are here for?..what is there purpose in life. Much of the confusion and pain in many people's life is due to the fact that they have a mistaken identity.They walk around everyday trying to get theings done to make there lives better but feel so limited, trapped and stuck. They felt helpless and mistakenly percieve themselves a s only a physical body with a mind and emotions. The other way of saying it..is, If i'm not talented and I dont have this things, im good as nothing.

i f we can keep your prevailing reality and your constant and continuous predominat awareness centered on the truth, then living a freelife really becomes very simple. Living your dream purpose life, is simply the way it really is, the way life is really suppose to be, who we are in the inside and who we are created to be.

Sometimes our mind decieves us. Our mind can play the tricks and can cause us to dissability. Most of the fears that stops a person from making one's dream a reality are not caused by real threat but just a production of thoughts. I remember one story about a young woman who have been offered with fake medication...she had been told that the medicine will cure her. She believed in it so much, ridicuolously, she was cured. The illness there is just the collection of thoughts, and that collection of thoughts become the philosophy for getting well. Onece the heart and mind were saturated day and night with reality, they reach critical mass and the God given, built in healing and restoration process went to work in their physical body to correct the problem. Whether its physical of psychological.

I will just update this article, and write more views here based on the collection of learning from different books..

Just remember, the quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your life.

Godbless