Rocks Into Roses: Life Lessons and Inspiration for Personal Growth

By Christine Evangelou

Rocks into Roses offers guidance, soul support and inspirational words to help you progress through life's lessons and value your life experiences. Rocks Into Roses is an insightful and heart-warming read to help you move forward through life's twists and turns, all the while embracing your unique journey.

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Words are powerful and hold the breath of our intention and purpose. Sometimes the words we speak to ourselves or those that are spoken to us drown out our inner glory and pierce our mind with lack, loss, and limits. We are far greater than the passing thoughts that we carry into our hearts and the experiences that hurt us.

If you desire to create a new way of thinking, seeing and doing then it all begins with you and how you empower yourself to live your life by choosing courage over fear, love instead of limits, and faith rather than doubt. Transformation is a walk through rocky emotional terrain that inspires our reinvention and renewal.

If you have lost yourself a little on life's journey- use this as your blessing and an opportunity to rediscover the magnificence you hold within. When we feel lost is when we can search our soul to find ourselves again and ground our values, beliefs, visions, dreams and purpose toward our soul's true impression.

About Christine:

Christine is a motivational writer, author and poet. She writes for her site "The Motivation Angel" and has previously contributed her writing to some US and UK based personal development/motivation sites. See more on her author page at "The Motivation Angel".

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christine Evangelou
• Release date: Nov 7, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386779254

Christine Evangelou

Christine is a motivational writer, author and poet. She has been publishing her writing work since 2016, this includes personal growth books and inspirational/healing and empowering poetry. Christine is originally from a Health and Fitness background but has always loved to write. Spiritually inclined and highly intuitive, she believes in the power of words that can emotionally touch people and help shift their perspectives and mindset to higher ground. She writes for her site "The Motivation Angel" and has previously contributed her writing to some US and UK based personal development/motivation sites. See more from Christine at "The Motivation Angel" .

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About Rocks into Roses:

Words are powerful and hold the breath of our intention and purpose. Sometimes the words we speak to ourselves or those that are spoken to us drown out our inner glory and pierce our mind with lack, loss, and limits. We are far greater than the passing thoughts that we carry into our hearts and the experiences that hurt us.

If you desire to create a new way of thinking, seeing and doing then it all begins with you and how you empower yourself to live your life by choosing courage over fear, love instead of limits, and faith rather than doubt. Transformation is a walk through rocky emotional terrain that inspires our reinvention and renewal.

If you have lost yourself a little on life’s journey- use this as your blessing and an opportunity to rediscover the magnificence you hold within. When we feel lost is when we can search our soul to find ourselves again and ground our values, beliefs, visions, dreams and purpose toward our soul’s true impression.

Rocks into Roses offers guidance, soul support and inspirational words to help you progress through life’s lessons and value your experiences.

An Introduction to Rocks into Roses: Life Lessons and Inspiration for Personal Growth©2018

Rocks signify the hard and hurtful parts of life that we can take action upon to transition to flowering beauty. We transform them through intention, courage and our inner dynamism to bloom our roses. When we see an indistinct flower rise to full bloom through an inconspicuous split in the rock, this inspires hope, faith, and highlights the strength of the gentle flower over the seemingly mighty rock. Suddenly we view the impossible as possible again. Your challenges and tough times may appear as the rigid, prominent and oppressive rocks that force you down, but the splendour of the rose is born through the power of inner wisdom, natural law, and tenacity over tribulation as she ascends toward glory. Even the most beautiful roses lay dormant during winter; life’s darkness is simply a shadow that we can seek our light through.

Why roses? Roses symbolize love, promise, passion, hope, and new beginnings. And every rose has its thorns that are cutting, bleak and defensive, almost thoughtlessly misplaced on the beauty of the rose by nature. And yet the thorns have a purpose, just as the rose does. Those thorns may prick and sting sharply but we learn valuable lessons from life’s thorns. The rose teaches us the humility of balance and grace; we may witness many thorns on the stem of the rose, and yet her beauty is not negated or harmed by their presence. Life’s hindrances and hurts don’t subtract from our existence- they add to the full experience of it.  

We can easily lose ourselves in external circumstance and feel buried and swallowed beneath the rocks that life has thrown at us and the thorns that have penetrated our heart. We can lose our sense of self, the centre of our perspective and in turn our power to adjust, adapt, and flow with life rather than fight against it. But we can rise through the rocks and rubble rather than be ruptured by them. We can value the thorns for the wisdom we gain through the infliction of the wounds. Whatever traumatizes us, or attempts to break or block us can inspire our greatness and fuel us forward once we reframe our thinking, redirect our energy, and nourish ourselves with a shift in perspective.

We may bruise and damage ourselves along the way, and draw blood from the wounds we encounter through the thorns, but we are never a lesser person for the experiences life has moved our way...we are far greater. Just like the rose holds her beauty among the thorns- we can gather our strength from the most unlikely places. Everything that hurts us can be transcended into something of greater beauty and purpose. We should embrace the full measure and magic of life...and turn our rocks into roses.

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Rocks into Roses is for anyone that seeks to shift their perspectives and inner dynamics to higher ground and rediscover a higher love and meaning for life, themselves and others.

Rocks into Roses is formatted into three sub sections, for the mind, for the heart, and for the soul. 

I hope you enjoy reading Rocks Into Roses!

With gratitude, thank you, Christine

Contents

About Rocks into Roses:

An Introduction to Rocks into Roses: Life Lessons and Inspiration for Personal Growth©2018

Rocks into Roses, Chapter List:

For The Mind:

For The Heart:

For The Soul:

For The Mind

Chapter 1: Changing Life Experience through Shifting Perspective

Chapter 2: Routes to Enhancing Self Awareness

Chapter 3: Embracing and Moving Through Fears

Chapter 4: Mental Strategies for a Mastered Mindset and Dealing with Anxiety

Chapter 5: Creating Greater Inner Confidence

Chapter 6: Behaviour Change and Boosting Self Belief

Chapter 7: Healing Inner Unrest through Mindfulness Strategies

Chapter 8: The Magic of Belief and Accessing Your Inner Power

Chapter 9: The Freedom to Be You and the Chase for Perfection

Ideals can actually sabotage self improvement

Perfection is not something outside of us

We know ourselves better through all our faults and failures

Chapter 10: Rebel Hearts: Breaking Your Own Rules

For the Heart

Chapter 11: Trusting Your Heart and Intuitive Voice

Chapter 12: Inspiring a Stronger Connection to Intuition and Heart Intelligence

Chapter 13: Pillars to Emotional Strength

Chapter 14: Balancing Heart and Mind Energy

Chapter 15: Reminders on the Beauty of Vulnerability

Chapter 16: Empowering Your Emotional Expression

Chapter 17: Being Real and Expressing Your Pain

Chapter 18: Dancing With Humility and the Strength of Acceptance

Chapter 19: Enhancing Life Experience: Compassion and Empathy

Chapter 20: Emotional Healing: Lost Love, Unspoken Words and Broken Promises

For The Soul

Chapter 21: Lessons on Perseverance, Patience, and Purpose

Chapter 22: Inner Drive and Motivation: Passion Has a Purpose

Chapter 23: Reasons to Never Give Up On Your Dreams

Chapter 24: Supporting Success and Overriding Failure

Chapter 25: The Warrior Within: Rising From Rock Bottom

Chapter 26: Letting Go: Releasing Mental and Emotional Baggage

Chapter 27: Galvanising Emotional Grit and Inner Strength

Chapter 28: Self Mastery and Embracing Your Autonomy

Chapter 29: Things You Should Not Apologize For and Embracing Authenticity

Chapter 30: Soul Truths on Mistakes and Wrong Turns

Chapter 31: Author’s Closing Note and Soul Reminders

Thank you for reading Rocks into Roses!

Rocks into Roses, Chapter List:

For The Mind:

Changing Life Experience Through Shifting Perspective

Routes To Enhancing Self Awareness

Embracing And Moving Through Fears

Mental Strategies For A Mastered Mindset And Dealing With Anxiety

Creating Greater Inner Confidence

Behaviour Change And Boosting Self-Belief

Healing Inner Unrest Through Mindfulness Strategies

The Magic Of Belief And Accessing Your Inner Power

Freedom To Be You And The Chase For Perfection

Rebel Hearts: Breaking Your Own Rules

For The Heart:

Trusting Your Heart And Intuitive Voice

Inspiring A Stronger Connection To Intuition And Heart Intelligence

Pillars To Emotional Strength

Balancing Heart And Mind Energy

Reminders On The Beauty Of Vulnerability

Empowering Your Emotional Expression

Expressing Your Pain

Dancing With Humility And The Strength Of Acceptance

Enhancing Life Experience Through Compassion And Empathy

Emotional Healing From Lost Love, Unspoken Words And Broken Promises

For The Soul:

Lessons On Perseverance, Patience And Purpose

Inner Drive And Motivation: Passion Has A Purpose

Reasons To Never Give Up On Your Dreams

Supporting Success And Overriding Failure

The Warrior Within: Rising From Rock Bottom

Letting Go: Releasing Mental And Emotional Baggage

Galvanising Emotional Grit And Inner Strength

Self-Mastery And Embracing Your Autonomy

Things You Should Not Apologize For And Embracing Authenticity

Soul Truths On Mistakes And Wrong Turns

Final Chapter: Author’s Closing Note And Soul Reminders/Free Verse

For The Mind

Chapter 1: Changing Life Experience through Shifting Perspective

I have always perceived my life as struggle. As a young child I can recall watching certain movies that were built upon an underdog theme and strongly resonating with the character. Something within me was drawn toward the struggle, the hurt, the pain; the secrets that lay deep within the hidden elements or surface disguise of that person- the fact that it was a fictional character made no difference, I felt powerful emotions and a fighters spirit like waves and tides through my soul.

Perhaps because I view my life as something out of a Rocky movie and fighting against the odds I have supported that struggle in some way. My perception of life never giving me what I want, or always having to fight for some victory through times of darkness and despair has potentially escalated the complexity of my life, and many painful lessons have repeated. For a long time, particularly through my earlier years, I kept asking why me? Why me can be a very confusing, disempowering and dark place forged in loss and lack.

Why me enhances a victim mentality that keeps us locked into the struggle of that circumstance. And we are all guilty of feeling this way and maybe supporting this avenue of thinking at some point in our lives. It is natural to question why we experience certain things in our lives, but we should aim to not stay chained within that paradigm, in this way we can move through it. When we can remove ourselves from our limiting beliefs or harsh impact of a situation we can broaden our mind to the bigger picture of what each experience requires of us and is trying to teach us. Perspectives are precious; if we can shift the way we look at something then we can change our entire experience of it and take action from a platform of an open heart and mind.

Life is a spiral with many twists and turns

As we evolve and grow as people, we will return to similar experiences and life lessons that test our resolve and capacity to overcome. If there are particular themes that continue to play out in your life, there is a reason for it as everything has purpose on your life path. We will draw people and experiences toward us at a subconscious level because there is something meaningful for us to learn from them. If we keep trying to deny our challenges, our pain, fears and sorrow then we remain tightly knit within them. Be open to the lessons and