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You know it, follow it

July 8, 2025

That inner knowing, the feeling of excitement when you think about it. You know it’s for you. You know it’s coming if you let it. So why are you so afraid?

There’s some true romanticism regarding dreams. It’s like in a way they are more special if they remain dreams. Something we wish for, but not necessarily work on achieving it. Why? - It’s easier to dream, to wish, to long for a goal, a place, an occupation that to make a plan and just jump into the unknown, learning on the way how to make it happen.

Dreams are pretty. Putting the work into them not always. Takes more than imagination to go for your dreams and make them happen. It require times of unpretty moments, doubts and struggles. Times when you would wonder “Is this really what I want?”

Achieving your dreams is not a pink dream, but rather a ix of nightmares and sleepless nights. Yes these exact ingredients are what make them worth following.

Because along the way you will find out how pretty this unpretty journey is. How worthy are all the struggles. And how important it is to follow your dreams just because if you don’t, you’ll never know what it would have been.

Go for it.

In Daily Blog Tags daily journal, daily blog, motivation, mariya mileva, photography, fotografa, fotografia, barcelona, spain, self acceptance, empowerment, women
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What are you grateful for?

July 5, 2025

…I was asked the other day during a session where for q change I was in front of the camera.

My Life, I said. And I meant it.

I’ve been working hard on learning to accept, to balance, to change what is no longer serving me and manifest what I actually want. It is an outgoing process, but if we’re not happy and appreciative in the now, we won’t ever feel it, even if achieved.

I am guilty of chasing achievement and when I reach it, the next goal is already in the far distance, waving at me. A constant chase, an illusion that “one day” when I “get there” I will feel complete.

No.

If it’s not now it’s never. Because we only have now. And the now in the previous sentence is already the past. The moment is now and the moment passes in an instant. Nothing in the future will fulfil you like the gratitude of what you have NOW.

Now is everything we have, yet we live disconnected of it looking forward or backwards.

What are you grateful for now?

Who would you call now if this was your last phone call?

In Daily Blog Tags gratitude, grateful, mariya mileva, photography, photographer, fotografa, poblenou, barcelona, fine art, daily, thoughts, self development, journal, blog
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How much is enough?

July 2, 2025

Is a burnout always required to show that a break is desperately needed?

Regarding everting - physical activity, creative flow, relationships, especially the one with the Self.

We, as women, often struggle with the idea of resting, taking time to reflect, slowing down. Especially those of us who are goal, carrer oriented. We dismiss the idea of how we’re supposed to function and follow the example of the men.

There’s a reason we function in a different way. Acknowledging our strengths and weaknesses, living the way we were created to is the only way forward.

You’re here for a reason. Your strength is in what is given to you, what comes easier to you but make difference in others life.

You don’t need to hustle for your gift. Just tune to it and let it flow.

The intelligence of the body is not always as it seems

June 28, 2025

The body is so intelligent that often overwrites your decisions. It is so aware of your fears even when you’ve blind yourself to acknowledge them.

To change the pattern is not only enough to find the cause or to see it. To change the pattern involves changing your emotional state about it, teaching your nervous system how to behave.

Traumatised experiences trapped in our body’s fields involve reprogramming ourselves for emotional reactions about experiences we hidden deep inside from our own self.

I don’t think it’s impossible. Yet involves tools might have never been used before.

Tags daily diary, journal, journaling, blog, mariya mileva photography, fotografa
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Where do you go from here?

June 26, 2025

What is your relationship with change? How do you feel about the changes life trows at you, about how the people around you change, about the changes you have to make within yourself in order to become, achieve or develop that what you desire inside?

I confess - I used to fear change. So much that concisely collected, recorded and re-thouhgt moments so I don’t forget them. When my beloved Father made his transition to the Sky, this was one of my main goals - to NOT forget him or any moment we had together.

Life thought me change is inevitable. In fact essesncial. Witough change there is no growth, no further moment, no life. Our ego does not like it of course, as it can’t be controlled or predicted. Yet this is the whole point of it.

We are in a constant change, no moment is the same as another. What is now is gone in a moment. What is was will never be and what will be has never been before. We notice and enjoy how young children grow, but soon we forget this exact thing is happening to us with the same pace, even if not as visibly distinctive.

Change, as scary as is might seem at times, is a great thing. It means nothing lasts forever - nor the bad or the good. It teaches us to appreciate the moment, to value the colours of each experience.

Change means the seed we planted today will grow and give us fruits. It means the fruits we’re eating are here because of ours ancestors efforts. Change means we have the power to make a difference, even if we don’t see it in our life time.

Our body is also affected by change. It grows and it will die. It changes along the way under the circumstances or care we pit through. Every breath we barely notice passing through our lungs is a change that gives us the next moment of life.

Change is necessary, inevitable and enriching.

Take it with no fear, embrace it instead.

In Daily Blog Tags daily diary, blog, journal, mariya mileva, photography, photographer, change, thoughts
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