Category Archives: 27 Ways to Love Yourself

Health

6 Fantastically Appealing Women 2019

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These days I am very mindful of the things I consume.  I have sensitive eyes, ears, and tastes.  My heart is seeking purity at the highest level.  With an open spirit, I attract great energy and truth.  In my world, this intelligence knows no boundaries.  With each person I come into contact with, I find a positive vibration, even in the darkest of hearts and even when it’s hard to see from behind the masks that we all wear.  I find the duality in all things.  There are lessons to be learned.  Everyone is a teacher.  Allow the light into your life!

Meditate (to think, to ponder, to fix attention) on this powerful feminine persuasion…


United States Representative Ilhan Omar

Activist Tamika Mallory 

Academic Kaouthar Darmoni 

Spiritual Scholar Kamil Oshundara 

Entrepreneur Dawn Dickson 

Gender Activist & Author Samina Ali 

Stay tuned… I have my eyes fixed on 6 wonderfully appealing men as well.

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I am Shila (shy-lah) Iris

There are people all around us, but all I can see is you…

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Crown chakra lotus love…

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Shila Iris, lioness butterfly warrior goddess aka Honey

Word is Bond [9]

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… music that inspires higher stages of consciousness…

Modern-day proverbs and thoughts by Shila Iris ♥

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Word is Bond [7]

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Love for self.  When you love yourself, everything changes.

Modern day proverbs and thoughts by Shila Iris

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Word is Bond [6]

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… not the mere knowledge of worldly things, the intelligence of self.

As I move towards this rare thing called “knowledge of self” I always want to tell the truth, I abandon secrecy to reach higher heights, I have respect for all things, I can see the light in the dark, I appreciate things opposite of myself, I have more balance, I choose harmony, I preserve myself, I am filled with reverence, I receive, I attract … and the list goes on.

Modern day proverbs and thoughts by Shila Iris ♥

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Always healing, infallibly evolving, constantly moving towards ascension.  Come with me.

I See God In You…

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“I want to go to a place where I have nothing and everything, that exists between here and nowhere.  I want to go to a place where I’m suspended in ecstasy… I want to go to a place between dark and light, where wrong becomes right.  I want to go to a place where time has no consequences.  I want to go to a place where I can hold the intangible, and let go of the pain with all my might.  I want to live inside the glow.” 

To my dear family…

… and to anyone who wants to wake up.

Judith, Dalmira, Rosemary, Lesley Marie, Zarina Asha aka Tamika, Kavel, Gregory Wayne, Alexander, Eric Seth, Aaron, Brandon, Bobby, Imhotep, Kitwana, Kwame…

India Arie is on tour ya’ll!

My intentions are pure, I assure you.  I am filled with gratitude, appreciation, and truth.  Peace.

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I am Shila Iris

Word is Bond [5]

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Modern day proverbs and thoughts by Shila Iris

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Word is Bond [4]

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Give me the truth, I give it right back, in many creative forms.  It’s magic.  ♥

Modern day proverbs and thoughts by Shila Iris

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Word is Bond [3]

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His message, her message…

I know there’s a lot to be angry about in this world, but let’s talk about how you feel and why.  When you shout I can’t hear you at all.

It is my mission to keep my cool.   I only raise my voice when I’m speaking passionately, but really, not even then.  I find that as I get deeper into my spiritual practices, the desire to shout has faded.  I just want peace of mind.

Modern day proverbs and thoughts by Shila Iris
(inspired by my favorite Author Ayi Kwei Armah)

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P.S. But I will check you, with a calm tone!  Don’t come for me!  Lol.

Wu-Tang is on Tour!

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Are you down?  

I’m super excited about seeing these brothers on the Gods of Rap tour.  They are not coming to my town, so I have to decide where to go.  My options are:

Chicago is always fun for me…
I haven’t been to Cleveland in a long time and I’d love to see my family…
Maybe Raleigh?  I’ve never been, but my sister lives in NC.
Nashville would be hot, I have a lot of history there…
I have yet to visit Seattle, and Cali is by far my favorite state in the U.S. so I am always down for a visit.  Where would you go?  The tour ends in August in Minneapolis with De La Soul and Public Enemy!  That will be exciting; and of course, there’s always New York where the show is likely to be the greatest because it’s Wu-Tang’s hometown.  Suggestions?

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WHAT’S IN MY MUG – Today I am drinking GOLDEN MILK.  It is so delicious!  This is half almond milk, half coconut milk, turmeric, cinnamon, honey and a pinch of black pepper.  There are many different ways to make this, I’m sure you’ll find what you like.  I tend to use more coconut milk which I buy canned.  Due to its richness, this is a whole breakfast for me.  I don’t tend to eat solid foods in the morning- just water, smoothies, and this milk!  Since nature forced me to let coffee go, I have discovered many wonderful options that seem to be much healthier for me.  Try it.  Peace.

I am Shila Iris

Word is Bond [2]

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… and because he knew this, he and I were together for a long time.  Who doesn’t desire freedom?  The freer, the closer.

Modern day proverbs and other thoughts by Shila Iris 

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I love Aries season!

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My homeboy Bobby took this pic of me 10 years ago.  He even put the make-up on my face!  I am grateful.  Happy Birthday Bobby!  I love Aries season.  To all the Aries in my life- my Mama, my Baba, my nieces Kyla and Xoi, my best friend’s daughter Brandi, my cousin Andre, and my homeboy Frank Anthony aka Imhotep, and to any Aries unmentioned or from the past.  The moment I had with you all was beautiful, even if it didn’t last.  I decided not to look up any character traits associated with Aries.  I don’t really need to.  I can feel what they are.

This has truly been a season of transformation.  Spring forward!

Word is Bond

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Modern day proverbs and other thoughts by Shila Iris

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To suffer a death-like experience and be reborn, a beautiful mind forms…

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A continuous process of spontaneous growth

My thoughts unfold
revealing stories
knowing of enemies
knowing of friends

Having neither,
I abandon the trend of opinion

Throw caution to the wind
for an intimate experience

These mysteries are taboo
I find the voodoo that renews, the truth

is simple when observed from a safe distance
in close quarters, it is hard to define

Possibilities from a point of view
active forces shaping reality

I stare,
into your eye

Choosing life is sometimes goodbye

Walking along the lines of a beautiful mind,
my heart is as light as a feather

I see numbers, red dots and patterns
deciphering while I’m cyphering

I subtract, then add, instead
having nothing, I have it all

This little light of mine, it shines
I praise dance with my hands in the sky

Summoning, the sum total
the evenness of the odds

The electricity, the heartbeat, I am
one plus one, you, two plus two
Six times, I’ve
chosen this life, this form,
the dark heart of a panther
illuminating when penetrated

Indigo golden rod in the hands of, the
magician disappears
a dying god,
brings peace of mind,
eleven times, I’ve
known for two thousand seasons

Through several lives, I’ve
seen the best when it was the worst
is one in the same
The energy can be

can flow

through me, let go
come to, come be

open your eyes and

breathe me.

Thank you for coming!  I am grateful. 

The morning after…

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The morning after you break free
When the message inside of you resounds
When you’ve been alone and listening
and practicing and chanting and hopping frequencies
and traveling thru alternate dimensions
and seeing numbers and symbols and signs
and meditating and discovering rituals

and the veil falls…

And the Sun appears
and you synthesize with the intelligent,
confident and gentle, ego-less, playful, divine masculine
and you summon the spirits
And your ancestors march in legions
from the east, the south, the west, and the north,
towards your light

When as above is so below

When you unMask
And the answers reveal themselves
When eyes that once were hazy become clear
and your femininity is a wave, a hurricane, an infinite power
and your wild woman flows, unharnessed
repelling and attracting

“The morning after I went into myself and pulled out the cancer,
the pain, the disharmony, and became,
a healer
With my own mind, and my own hands I, 
am the all seeing
the high being…”

When the blindfold falls
And you see yourself
and love yourself
and love yourself
and love yourself
but it’s something even deeper
I hear my voice
This is my choice
This is my life
timeless,
I know the Way

by Shila Iris