Maria Felipe is the author of Live Your Happy. A Cuban-American born in Miami, she is 5’9” with a towering personality to match. After experiencing success as a model and actress, including hosting World Wrestling Federation TV shows, she felt called inward and studied to become a reverend at Pathways of Light, an accredited religious school inspired by A Course in Miracles. She leads monthly services in both Spanish and English at Unity Church in Burbank, CA.
All of us seek true happiness in our lives; but, it is the rare few that manage to find it. Maria Felipe, our guest on today’s show, guides us into how one can do just that. Maria believes that cultivating self-love and a feeling of abundance are KEY to finding true happiness. She delves into her life struggle of people pleasing and her general lack of self-love—factors that have contributed to her becoming intrinsically unhappy. Today, she discusses just how she managed to let go of her grievances, cultivate that self-love, and ultimately find that true sense of happiness. Tune-in to learn how your willingness to connect to the Holy Spirit and to your spirit within can help you live your happy.
Today’s guest is Maria Felipe
Her book Live Your Happy: Get Out of Your Own Way and Find the Love Within is based on A Course in Miracles
The books urges readers to live at MAX capacity; be responsible by not being a victim of the world that you see
Being FORGIVING, even when and if you do not want to, WILL make you feel better
Maria was suffering because she was dissatisfied with the state of her relationships and her career
In this world of duality, we are constantly looking for outside validation to be “complete”
Was even attending the Course of Miracles in a bid to find happiness
Her personal life went through major upheaval in 2009 when she went through a divorce; resorted to drinking and partying to cope up
Started to recognize that if she did not mend her ways, she was doomed to die
Decided to go to The Pathways of Light, a ministerial program to further her study on the Course of Miracles
Opted to go there not to become a teacher, speaker or instructor but to HEAL her mind
The Course of Miracles says, “All you need is a little bit of willingness for miracles to happen”; inherently willing, she finally warmed up to the program
Tried reading books and listening to CD’s in her self-help and desperation phase, but to no avail
Need to EMBODY the teachings and live them in your relationships with yourself and others
Realized the futility of looking for love outside of oneself
Tranced with the world and caught up in our egos, we have gotten comfortable with being unhappy
Being EASY and being HAPPY is the true normal; happiness, our function and inheritance is the true reality
BIG DEALS rob us off our inheritance, our happiness—in other words, when we make a big fuss over small issues or catastrophize certain events in our life that end up stealing our peace
Cultivate a mindset where you are happy regardless of the outcome; your happiness is not dependent on things outside of you
Remember, outside stuff does not define you; GOD does
Avoid falling in the ego trap where you think, “You could have, you should have or would have done it better”
Avoid being obsessed with your looks and being skinny just to people please or get something else from the outside world
Maria’s body is just a reflection of her thoughts
Your bank account and your job do not define you; you will not find abundance in your life via monetary gains
Your life is inherently abundant since you are God’s creation; you have everything and lack nothing
Our ego pushes us to achieve more and more in this consumption driven society
Maria beat 500 girls to land a job at World Wrestling Federation; while this job had all the trappings of success, Maria was the saddest she had been all her life
The only thing that you want to truly MANIFEST is what the holy spirit guides you to do; look to manifest more internal thi
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