Paola Ranova

Iguana Medicine,  Dream Traveler.  Search the Shadow  to find Treasures. Paola Ranova, 2019. 

Women, be the truth of who you are.  Stop pleasing others - parents, family, culture, conventions, stagnant social beliefs, unfulfilling relationships. You name all the mind prisons that may be limiting your life and personal growth.  Embrace your power and the right partner, job, friends, and life will come to you.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- EARTH & FIRE According to Chinese Medicine, material life manifests in different organized levels. One of them is the binary Yin & Yang system, and the Five Element cycles (Fire, Earth, Metal, Water & Wood) are another. For further information you can talk to a D.O.M. (Doctor of Oriental Medicine), and research on your own. If you are not familiar with this knowledge, a good book to start would be Giles Marin's book Five Elements ,  Six Conditions : A Taoist Approach to Emotional Healing, Psychology, and Internal Alchemy .  In this story, Raddie thanks her parents, Dame and Nate , for her life, and celebrates her Chinese Medicine elemental constitution in the presence of three powerful crystals:  Chrysoprase , Blue  Hemimorphite ,   and Reddish-Brown-Orange Aragonite, present  in the first image of this story. Chrysoprase belongs...

Lapis Lazuli is a strong stone that helps heal the ego in a  Cardinal Method of Life Connection ℠  ( CMLC℠ )   perspective.  It brings peace of mind and deep, grounded wisdom to the Soul. In a  CMLC ℠   perspective, Lapis Lazuli is connected to the Medicine Buddha & Dhanvantari in Ayurvedic wisdom. The basic principle in this connection is that all dis-ease starts in the ego and in distorted mind patterns, and when we heal the ego, we may eventually heal the physical body. Lapis Lazuli belongs to the cubic/isometric system, which balances the root chakra, and its color balances the third-eye, so Lapis connects and strengthens these two chakras.  Lapis Lazuli is a royal-blue crystal streaked with pyrite, and more intense the blue color is, the more it reveals the quality of the specimen.  I hope you've enjoyed this little piece of  CMLC ℠   crystal info! Let me know your thoughts in the comments area below, and...

------------------------------------------------------------ GROUNDED SPIRITUALITY There is difference between being spiritual and avoiding physical and social reality, and being truly spiritual as part of being here, right now, connected to the present moment. For  The Cardinal Method of Life Connection ℠,   Hematite is a great stone to ground us and keep us aware of both our spiritual wisdom and the present moment. It brings peace and awareness of our physical reality, our bodies, and the people and environments around us.  In the  CMLC ℠ perspective ,  Hematite is a related to the Earth Chakra and connects us to the peaceful ability to consent to reality as it is, clearing away our perfectionism. It belongs to the Trigonal Crystal System, and like all Trigonal stones, it also aligns our Crown Chakra.  For more information about the concept of grounded spirituality, there's a whole chapter about it in the bo...

Smokey Quartz is a very powerful crystal. It belongs to the Quartz Family and the Trigonal System. In the Cardinal Method of Life Connection ℠ (CMLC ℠ ) , all Trigonal System crystals align the Crown Chakra and create a stronger connection with God. In a CMLC ℠  perspective, Smokey Quartz brings Wisdom to our lives and helps heal collective energies, such as families, cities and cultures. It brings a kind of wisdom in which we see the truth of others and  deeply respect the individuality of each person, as we calmly take care of our lives and let them be.  I hope you've enjoyed this little piece of info! Let me know your thoughts in the comments area below, and for more CMLC℠, visit the YouTube Channel PAOLA RANOVA, the website paolaranova.com and the Facebook and Instagram Profiles @paolaranova and @paola.ranova *all contents and illustrations by Paola Novaes Ramos ©  (Paola Ranova ©).  All rights reserved. ----------

------------------------------------------------------- NATURE SPEAKS Masses and Elite are Raddie's older brothers. They're fourteen-year-old non-identical twins. Although different in personalities, Masses and Elite are equally intense in their opinions and preferences. Red Spinel crystals belong to the isometric/cubic crystal system and bring strength and courage to the world. They also balance and maintain the health of the root chakra. Rainbow Obsidians are amorphic solidified lava and are very important for The Cardinal Method of Life Connection ℠ . They encourage the expression of the unique nature of each person and bring freedom, consciousness expansion and creativity to our lives. Raddie loves Simon & Garfunkel and in this story she mentions Paul Simon's version of a famous Andean song, which he called "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)". I hope you've enjoyed this first CMLC ℠   illustrated st...

Raddie is a ten-year-old girl who loves nature and never really combs her hair. She loves to walk around barefoot, feel the power of Life in her body, and communicate with all beings. Green Obsidian is the Master Crystal of The Cardinal Method of Life Connection℠ (CMLC℠). All obsidians are petrified lava. They are "amorphic"  which means they have no internal structure or geometry. Internal geometry is what mainly defines crystals and sets them apart from other rocks, minerals and natural resins. For The CMLC℠, all amorphic "crystals" reveal the truth in a healing field in a much faster way than it normally would surface in the presence of other crystals and stones, or without their presence. Colors are Soul Healing Energies in the CMLC℠ perspective, and Green Obsidian is both loving and healing.  Like all Obsidians, it relates to the Earth Chakra and promotes Ancestral Healing. Because it is green, it's connected to the Heart Chakra and promotes i...

Video about "My BodyTalk Story" in the PAOLA RANOVA Youtube Channel

Whenever we blame others and get angry with them about painful experiences in our lives, we are still confined in the limitations of a dualistic, fragmented mindset. When we see others as manifested mirror images of many aspects of our own psyches, be them distorted or beautiful, conscious or otherwise, we are begining our journey into liberation, release, and integration with the Higher Self or God within.

Whenever we have emotionally charged memories and thoughts, we are creating downward spirals and stagnation in our lives. The purer the mind, and the more neutral our memories, the more objective will be our thinking. What we take in from the world will be clearer and brighter.

"Eruptions of Life... to be what you can be, in the depths of your seeds. The trees that you'll grow are there, in the depths as your seeds. Just go. Go be what your trees need to be. There's strong blood in you & your life flow... to be what your seeds need to be, what your trees need to see, what your life needs to free." (Paola Ranova, 2016)

It's important for the Soul to contemplate beauty - in image as well as in the untangible aspects of life. Take care of your health & your body. Clean your house & make it pretty. Be kind to self & others.Try to make everything inside you and around you as beautiful as possible so that the energy feels right. So that that you can breathe in peace. So that your heart can rest & pump & life can flow in its fullest potential. Paola Ranova (April 7th, 2016)

Nature is so kind when it gives you breezes 🌾🌿 (especially in Florida, LOL! 😜)

In Family Constellations, the Soul is a collective entity we belong to. So in this perspective we don't "have" an individual soul - we belong to a collective Soul. According to this understanding, the Family Soul is much larger and much more powerful than any person's individual free will. We are born in a family soul like icebergs are formed in an ocean. Symbolically, each individual of the family can be considered an "iceberg", and the family soul can be seen as "the ocean". We enherit the contents of the Family Soul "ocean". We are made of that "water", which contains the story of life and the history of each one of our ancestors. The history of our ancestors is imprinted in our unconscious mind and in all the cells and energetic blueprints of an individual's bodymind. In the Cardinal Method perspective, which follows many of the fundamental principles of Family Constellations, the focus is on the individual respo...

Native American wisdoms in South, Central and North America bring us a lot of knowledge about crystals, and one of them is that like anything or anyone in nature, they are beings of consciousness. My opinion is that crystals are very unique beings of consciousness that communicate many different things to different people at different times. This basically means they can act a lot like stem cells and function in many different ways in our lives according to what is needed in the present moment. That means they are not necessarily restricted to what is said in books or blogs about the spiritual nature of crystals - each person may have a very specific and unique experience with the same crystal or crystal species. In my experience of 22 years working with them, what I can attest so far is: 1. All crystals, as many Native American cultures tend to agree, bring forth the truth, heal and protect at the same time; 2. In my experience I would also add they all bring forth an energy...

Life is, among many other things, about letting go of the illusions of unanimity. And letting go is a blessing - what does not serve us, binds us. Paola Ranova, March 11th, 2016.