Kicking Karma’s Ass

On October 18, 2014 By Rebekka LienIn love, Relationships, travelLeave a comment

I thought I might title this blog post with a funnier title, something that would grab you. It’s almost Halloween and I am utterly amazed at how I have seen the continuous support of people, strangers. I have seen LOVE come to pass in so many ways in my travels.

I am amazed at the POWER of LOVE. Where do I begin?

Yesterday I was at the world famous Berlin club called Berghain. My new Spanish friend and I got in. I couldn’t believe it, well because apparently they rejected all these “normally” dressed people. I guess it pays to be weird. There was this “walk of shame” where the rejects would walk backward…and yes, everyone in line saw them walking away in shame….I didn’t like how the bouncer shoved me to get padded down at the women’s line.

We got in because my friend said “it’s because I’m homosexual”.

I thought about how he manifested us getting in because of his unwavering certainty in the fact that if he was gay, he would definitely get in. I believe that this power called “belief” can get us in anywhere we want. It could be as crazy as, “because I’m Asian I’ll get into any university” or “because I’m hot I get into any club” (this is a belief I have held onto and yes, it works”.

SO this blog post is called Kicking Karma’s Ass because I don’t really believe in Karma, I believe we should rename it…we should name it LOVE.

Love expands, fear constricts us.

Walking down the street, I say a little prayer for each person and I try to smile at them.

Some people don’t smile at me but some do. In Amsterdam, an angel gave me water when I couldn’t move in bed. She said, whatever you need, I’m here for you. I meet her in Berlin, by accident, by divine order, we end up in the same hostel. There is a man who is suffering from a broken heart, he lost his business and is under depression. I give him granola bars and a quote, words of encouragement. Kindness towards a stranger.

Because of love, the world is a better place. Because of love, genuine friendship, commonalities, I am invited to go to a club with a new friend. Because of love, and simplicity, I share simple moments of conversation with 3 boys from Afghanistan. They stuff my face with cake in kindness. Because of love I am able to smile at a little girl named Medino and build a relationship for a few days while I am here.

She laughs at me with genuine simplicity, love, kindness. She is a little girl, a cherished little girl. I give her pen and paper to draw, next thing you know we are eating together. We can’t communicate through language, only gestures. Yesterday she was being a little brat so I left dinner early, but she will always be in my heart, as also a reflection of the little girl in me.

I love the little girl in me, I will never neglect what that little girl wants.

All of life is love, without love and an open heart we cannot receive.

Do not keep good from those who should have it, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and return tomorrow, and I will give it,” when you have it with you.

I have found this to be true. You see, I am traveling with an insane budget, and somehow God has expanded that money. At every opportunity that I have been given to see a need, I have been able to give…especially food. I have been sharing food with those that seem hungry in the hostels. This has given me a lot of pleasure because I know that people have helped me the same….especially people who are hungover and can’t move.

I realized that when you withhold from others what you can give them now, out of fear of lack, the same will happen to you…and this isn’t karma, this is just how like attracts like. You see, I realized that when I live out of an open heart that there is ALWAYS more than enough and that material things are always circulating, you don’t hold onto much. I have also tried to see the good in people and because of that, I have almost always come into contact with strangers that have the best intention.

Now I constantly ask myself if I am acting in fear or love. In moments of fear, we constrict our bodies and we make bad decisions. It doesn’t hurt to ask ourselves, close our eyes and breathe. How does this decision make me feel?

If you feel good, your heart is expanding, you are acting in love.

If you feel bad, and your heart feels constricted, you are acting in fear.

(Pictures taken in Berlin)

5 Ways To Travel Cheap

On October 10, 2014October 10, 2014 By Rebekka LienIn travelLeave a comment

Most people think they need thousands of dollars, tens of thousands to travel so they NEVER do it.

Well, it’s actually quite affordable if you’re willing to tumble a little in bunk beds, like little kids do. I don’t mind it, I can sleep anywhere, I’m the best plane sleeper. I fall asleep right when I buckle up and even before they make those important announcements about flotations or something. I can sleep for hours on buses and time usually goes by pretty fast for me since I do my reflection on there.

Amsterdam hostel, if you can sleep to clubbing music then you should go to this hostel. There’s a cute little cat I like to nap with.

#1 Way

Stay at hostels —

These are the hostels I’ve stayed at:

Hootananny hostel- about 15 pounds in the 8 bed room (London)

Leidseplein Hostel- about 9.99 Euros in a 12 bed room (Amsterdam)

Okay, get ready for this, I just booked hostels in Prague for 2.5 euros, I know, I’m not sure if I booked the right maximum amount of nights so I hope it worked, but that is about 25 euros for 10 nights.

So basically I’m staying around 15 US dollars for each night.

#2 Way

Cook—-

If you’re like me, you love cooking, well I love it.

I’ve made loads of good foods, including ramen (well, that’s not THAT great, but throw in an egg or kale and you got a gourmet ramen which would probably have cost 15 euros).

#3 Way

Go to free museums and free parks

#4 Way

Find a friend to crash with 🙂

#5 Way

Don’t drink too much —-money goes fast if you drink too much (alcohol) obviously, save your liver and pregame, or just save your liver.

OH by the way,

Drawing and lounging

How Law Of Attraction Has Worked In My Life

On October 8, 2014 By Rebekka LienIn entrepreneur2 Comments

I am a huge believer that your mind, your thoughts makes who you are. The very substance of your being is your mind because before you do something, you think about it. You think about getting a cup of coffee, so you get up from the couch and make coffee, or perhaps you go out to buy coffee. Everything you do forms from your mind, perhaps even deeper, your desires.

I have seen the law of attraction work in my life, though since I also believe in the existence of God, I know that God created human beings to be super powers, creators of our own lives. People like to separate spirituality from science, but I believe that with proven quantum physics, etc, that we are miracle workers, every single one of us.

Now, I have always gotten exactly what I wanted in life. Sometimes I complain that I don’t have enough, but I think that I never asked for that much because my hidden desires were not what I asked for. Instead, I asked for dollar amount. The dollar amount if empty, it has no value. It is the desire to which you would like to use the dollars for that drives the universe. For example, perhaps you want to make $500,000 or become a millionaire, but you have no reason for why you want to make that much money….then you will not attain it because you have no good reason for it.

Instead, ask for that which you want to experience in life, such as traveling, attaining some clothes, goods, having a remodeled kitchen, car, going on a trip with friends, getting a scuba diving license, etc. You see, sometimes I wonder whether I am truly a success in life, I’m 26 and some people in my life (which I have kicked out of my life) thought that I was living an unstable life. But I have been able to do everything I have wanted to do in life and the only thing that made me feel unsuccessful was thinking about what others thought about me. Why do we focus on those few leeches when most people are cheering you on? Let go of those people, fast.

Being rich isn’t about having dollar amounts in the bank account, it’s about being able to live the life you want. So you have to know what you want to do with your life, what you want and who you want to live it with.

I am truly blessed because I have always challenged the world, grasped my dreams and ran with it. Some people think I’m crazy but I’ve been able to travel to Australia, Ecuador, Brazil, Taiwan and Europe in the last 3 years while being self-employed, I’ve been able to lounge on beaches, live in bigger and bigger places with sheer will, and sometimes not knowing where money would come from. You see, the universe conspires for you, for your dreams if only you will dream, if only you will ACT upon your dreams. God is waiting to see HOW MUCH you actually want your dreams.

I was willing to clean out my apartment before I went on my trip because yes, I will sell everything I have, all my material possessions for a few days on the road, to meet strangers who become friends, to experience a transcendental transformation inside and out, to experience miracles, to challenge myself to the unknown.

You see, this is the attitude that gets you what you want in life. I am willing to do anything it takes to get what I want. Most people don’t, they’re not willing to leave their comfort zone. They say, “I want this, but only if it is easy or if I can go with a friend”. You must become the person who will be able to contain what you want, a steward of that which you attract.

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What It’s Really Like To Live In A Hostel

On October 6, 2014October 6, 2014 By Rebekka LienIn travelLeave a comment

Some people get freaked out when I tell them I’m staying at a hostel.

Well, it’s not that scary. Movies like Taken and Hostel just instills fear in people, it keeps people from traveling because they think traveling has to cost a lot. Well, it doesn’t have to cost a lot. Plus, people think the world is a dangerous place or that perhaps they’ll get slaughtered and cut up or locked up in the basement of a hostel (aka the movies).

Here are some friends I’ve made in London (at the hostel). You meet a lot of life-long friends and you can travel with them 🙂

This is us the other night, we found the only hip hop club in London, after much persistence the DJ finally played DRAKE. Then we hit up another electronic and house club and sure enough, it was what I expected of the UK. Well, I didn’t expect so many hipsters. Brixton is the place to be and if you want to stay at a fun hostel, try Hootannany Hostel. There’s a great bar downstairs, I’ve gotten used to the noise with ear plugs, nothing can wake me up!

Great staff and lovely surroundings. I’ll be heading to Amsterdam on a megabus on Wednesday, if you’re there, would love to meet you- Rebekkalien@gmail.com

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Here’s the kitchen and our daily hang out place.

The common room where everyone lounges and watches hours of television, play guitar and relax

My attempt at making English food.

Heady Beats in London

On October 3, 2014October 3, 2014 By Rebekka LienIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Losing all sense of time, relevance

I’m here, somewhere else, not home, not what people would call home, conventions

stupid faith

incredible, incredulous, abnormal, alien, faith

which causes me to tread waters, wipe out tornadoes, words landing like volcano remains, falling

Like a Mario character jumping past, on and destroying creatures with wide open jagged mouths

I have dark eyeshadows and leather pants

Like a mystical force

Let no thoughts of worry or lack enter your mind, because as you dwell longer on that thought, will it slowly come to pass. Shut it down. Focus and dwell on that which is good, positive, life giving, abundant, loving. Think about these things without wavering, even with stupid faith. So stupid when it comes to pass, people will wonder why and how.

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Do What You Love & You’ll Never Have To Work A Day In Your Life

On June 5, 2014June 5, 2014 By Rebekka LienIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

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Lying in bed, this question popped up “What am I doing with my life?”

Recently I had a realization that I was still striving for success, so that I could provide for my family, give my future kids a better life than I lived, and…well not have to “work” anymore.

We all strive for that don’t we? For future happiness.

And we continue to live in discontentment and the what ifs, preparing for future disaster, but never looking life in the face. I remembered a 30 ish year old friend telling me that he wish he had started doing what he loved earlier, that he should have given up what he loathed to dive head first into his love, his dream. This day, he is living his dream despite the obstacles, rejections, failures…but he is reaching his dreams.

Even though I teach everyone around me to live their dreams, out of necessity, I felt myself slipping into “what do I need to do to get by, to make it”, I started following patterns that bored me and copying peoples’ tactics… I lost my creative heart.

When you lose your creative heart out of daily obligations and “necessities”, you lose your ability to create INSPIRED work out of a creative heart. A Creative Heart Derives from Love and Rest.

The other night, I was on a floatie having a heart to heart, and it struck me so hard when he said “sometimes when things are not going the way you want it to, you have to let go and then you’ll start to do things the way you did them when you were really good at it… artists paint out of their love for painting and expression, versus the need to produce an artwork“.

I posted this on Facebook-

“I had an epiphany today….what am I doing with my life?

I know I seem very inspirational and I am doing a lot of different things to actualize my dream, but what if all I want to do is lounge at the beach, get a tan, play music and be a part time hippie? What’s so wrong with that?

And maybe I really don’t want to be Asian Oprah or travel the world or manage multiple businesses, maybe I just want to grab my backpack and disappear into the jungles and deserts of the Middle East and South America.

Maybe I have still been succumbing to society pressures to be someone I am not. I believe if you focus on what you love, your dreams will chase you versus you chasing the dream.

I started teaching yoga and meditation because I was doing yoga as a hobby and posted pictures online. I was also giving people advice on how to solve their problems and create boundaries. Someone who saw my pictures asked me to teach a class, and the rest is history. Someone else referred me to a dance studio and I took the opportunity and grabbed it by the horns. I created 1 session of 4 classes, printed fliers, walked around town dropping them off at cafes, created videos, facebook invites, meetups, now I am registering people for the next 2 sessions. Was it scary? Yes. Was I doubtful that anyone would even sign up? Yes. Was I scared that I would lose money? Yes. Everything that I was scared of I faced and slapped away.

Another example of how something I naturally did turned into work was —I posted inspirational statuses on facebook and a newspaper editor asked me to compile those, NOW I write a monthly column.

If you do what you love, you will organically attract opportunities. That’s what life should and must be about.”

Life is not seeking opportunities outside of you,

It is knowing that everything is within you, waiting to be manifested into reality.

At The End Of My Life…

On February 26, 2014 By Rebekka LienIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

At the end of my life, I want to say that I lived fearlessly.

At the end of my life, I want to say that I grasped each moment with vigor.

I want to learn from each lesson and live with boldness so that I have tried all solutions, all desires, all impossible feats, I have tried. So that at the end of my life, I won’t be an old lady who sits at a chair and mopes about what I did not do and what I wish I had done.

No, I want to be a fire and life filled old lady with electric blue dyed hair who enjoys her beach side home hanging out on a hammock with live bands playing by the fireside. I don’t want to submit to the structure of this world, a script that I never wrote…I want to define each moment of my life so that I am living on my own terms and not on the words which bellows out of the lions’ den.

I want to be good to myself, women- it’s a message for you. You put you first and the rest comes. If you are depending on other people to make you happy, forget about it. Your happiness is not going to last.

At the end of my life, I want to say that I enjoyed every year of my life. Maybe I had really horrible years, but I learned to have fiestas with my circumstances. I learned to see the beauty in mistakes and pain. I don’t want to live in a bubble of plastic situations and man-made synthetic fabrication of “what should be” or “steps a, b, c” or “because he/she told me to”. Let my life be original….so that when someone writes about me or makes a movie about me, it is not identical to others, but uniquely me.

At the end of my life, I want to say “I loved myself well” and because I loved myself well, I was able to give the gift of me to others, whole, 100% authentic me without BS.

I want to have lived in the present, embracing wholly that which the moment gives, sound, light, color, energy, positivity. I let the negative feelings of bitterness, anger, sadness, guilt, shame….dissipate into the abyss. I let light seep into my every pore so I am entrenched and filled with liquid love. At the end of the day, you have you and you have love. And that, is really what matters.

If you were speaking to your inner child, what would you say to her or him?

Are the things you say to yourself something you would never say to your own self when you were 3, 5, 10???

Would you say the same things to your own child?

If so, start speaking truth, love and hope into your inner child. These are words you should be speaking to yourself, because that is love.

KreativHaus ART DAY

On January 26, 2014 By Rebekka LienIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

KreativHaus ART DAY

KreativHaus ART DAY Located in Pasadena, California.

Feeling uninspired? Come create art with us at our KreativHaus. Be a kid again. Kids are welcome!

Suggested Donation: $3 to cover snacks, drinks, electricity, water, toilet paper, soap, supplies, free swag bag worth $20. Or any amount you feel led to give 🙂

Please click this link to make your contributions and register:
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I will email you the address when I receive your paypal notification/donation. Thank you!
Rebekka

The Secrets To A Happy Life: Being Still

On August 10, 2013 By Rebekka LienIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

I have been watching many documentaries and my daily practice includes yoga and pilates. I have discovered that there is a rhythm to life.

The rhythm of life includes seasons.

Seasons can be split even into weeks. It is not just fall, summer, spring and winter, it is a season of working and a season of letting go.

In our American society, we often think of working hard until our time to retire.

I believe the contrary, I believe that in order to live a long life of health and happiness, we must learn to surrender to the rhythm of life and observe the seasons that require us to throw our hands back and listen to stillness.

This season requires us to trust that everything will work out, that there is a higher wisdom which we do not understand now, but will eventually.

Our unrelenting striving can cause physical illness, mental anxiety, anxiety attacks, unstable hormones, emotional breakdowns, temperamental issues, and others.

That is why, it is ESSENTIAL to allow ourselves to be still, to do nothing, to breath deeply, to listen and observe, and soak in wisdom about our situations….and lastly to trust. I often try to figure things out with my thoughts, I research relentlessly, searching, striving.

Reacting. But reacting is not the our best creativity, our best service to the world, reacting is a left over remnant of our energy.

If we desire to be the best that we can be, we must give ourselves the best gift of letting go, sitting still, being still.

And perhaps, after an hour or two of continuously being still, we can give the best of ourselves to the world. Perhaps in those few hours, we attain more energy, more wisdom, more creativity, more ideas and revelations than we could EVER WORK for in 20-30 hours, weeks, months of work.

Hippie Santa Wants To Give You A FREE GIFT

On November 29, 2012November 29, 2012 By Rebekka LienIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Hey folks!

I am sitting at Silverlake -Stories, just finished designing my awesome holiday shopping ad! Anyways, I wanted to finish it so fast that I got stressed out. I think it is because I am so hungry.

This week, I decided to book a vacation week for myself. This means I will not be teaching or doing anything work related start December 23-January 2. To help YOU who may also be bombarded with holiday stress- SHOP with Me online. Do it all now, write all your holiday cards, and take a hot bath once the rush comes.

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Cheers mates!

From your fun sister- Rebekka