Awake for Life

26/02/2026

“Is This How I’m Allowed to Be Treated?”

If someone has treated you badly and you continue the dialogue, it means they’re allowed to treat you that way.

How others are allowed to treat us is determined only by us.
And the instructions on how to speak to us must be written by us. And that page should be rubbed in the face of anyone who intends to communicate with us.

Preventively — not only when someone has already stepped over your boundaries and confused your garden with a toilet.

Attempts to delicately explain (while trying not to ruin those “priceless” relationships) that you don’t really appreciate them crapping on your hydrangeas will be a pointless fluttering.

Believe me, the person won’t even turn away from what they’re doing.
And when you finally hand them that instruction manual, they’ll simply crumple it in their hands to make it rougher.
Because once someone has already crossed your boundaries, the instructions no longer work.

They are already where they shouldn’t be, doing what is forbidden.
Of course, they’ll apologize for the hydrangeas and promise not to defile them again. They’ll just move on to the peonies.

Once again: if you continue the dialogue, it means this is acceptable.
When I remember all my past experiences, smoke comes out of my nostrils.

I should have slammed the door immediately instead of blaming it on coincidences, misunderstandings, hypoxia, a hard life, and other idiotic excuses for idiots.

Seriously, to hell with your “hard life.”
Here’s a truth from the series “the sky is blue, the grass is green”:

If it seemed to you that a person behaved a bit like crap, it means they are crap.

A normal person cannot act vilely. It’s impossible — even by accident.

If a decent person wrongs you somewhere along the way, they understand it immediately (without you pointing it out), feel genuinely upset, and compensate for their behavior with every means available to them.

You will certainly verify the truth of my words. If not immediately, then later — when you’re tired of believing that it “just slipped by again.”

Even if it “just slipped by” for the fifteenth time, I no longer want it to keep appearing in my life.

And since I don’t believe in second chances (because fifteen more will follow at the expense of your psyche), based on my vast, messy, sh*tty experience, I officially declare:

in such cases, you must act immediately — drive the scoundrel away with a wet rag and without any opportunity for explanations about how he “accidentally messed up in your yard.”

Because your boundaries are crossed with the aim of turning you into a puppet. These are not accidents.
And when you learn to immediately cut off contact with scoundrels instead of crawling into drawn-out drama trying to save them or explain things (if you engage in dialogue, it means you want to be convinced — and that’s not hard),
at some point you’ll discover that they simply no longer exist in your life.

And your garden is far more important than people.
Yes — your garden is more important than people.
And when you accept this as a fundamental law, only normal people will begin gravitating toward you.
The kind who have their own boundaries drawn properly, too.

/Ashotovna/

17/11/2025

5D PEOPLE ARE ALREADY LIVING AMONG US

And here’s how they are different. Check yourself ↙️

1️⃣ When there is chaos around
While others drown in panic, they remain in silence.
Not because they are indifferent, but because they feel: everything is happening as it should.
When something familiar falls apart, they do not cling, they observe.

"It means space is being freed for something new."

2️⃣ In relationships
This person does not argue or try to prove themselves.
They do not save, they do not blame. They simply see the other person — with their pain, defenses, and history —
and do not take it personally. They remain calm, even in the middle of a storm.

"This person is not against me; they are simply not in contact with themselves yet."

3️⃣ When things go “off plan”
They do not get angry, they do not blame life.
They are able to look deeper, understanding that everything that happens is part of something greater.

"If a door closes, it means this is not my path."

4️⃣ In the body and with food
For them, the body is not a mechanism, but a living sensory panel for consciousness.
They eat according to feeling, not a schedule.
Not because “it’s right,” but because the body doesn’t want otherwise. Food becomes a way to nourish, not to silence.

At some point, they may give up coffee, meat, sugar.
But not out of principle — simply sensing: “Now I need purity, not stimulation.”

5️⃣ When emotions rise
They do not run from them, suppress them, or get overwhelmed.
They allow feelings to pass through the body, knowing it’s just energy moving.
Their nervous system breathes, it doesn’t contract.

When anxiety, fear, or tension appear — they do not hide it, they remain present, and after a few minutes it naturally calms.

"A wave is passing, I stay with it, and it flows away."

6️⃣ In action and choice
They no longer “strive,” they allow things to happen.
They live from the soul’s response, not from effort.
If something doesn’t work out, they don’t push or force, they simply realign energy inside,
and the space opens the way itself.

Instead of struggling with circumstances, they pause, listen, accept, and allow things to be as they are — and then everything unfolds more easily than expected.

A 5D person is not about floating in clouds.
They simply live with a different quality of perception.
Instead of struggle — flow.
Instead of fear — trust.
Where there was heaviness — now there is lightness from existence itself.

Olha Khymchak

17/11/2025

10 Quiet Ways a Person Reveals Their True Nature

Some truths don’t shout.
They don’t shake the ground or tear the sky open.
They reveal themselves softly —
in the pauses, in the shadows,
in the moments where no applause exists
and no one is watching.

These are the places where a soul speaks without words.

1. How they treat the powerless.
A heart shows its shape in front of those who can give nothing back.

2. The tone of their inner voice.
What they whisper to themselves is the mirror of who they really are.

3. Their response to disappointment.
When life says “no,” the mask breaks — and the true self steps out.

4. What they do when no gratitude will follow.
Some shine only when seen. Others shine in quiet.

5. How they speak of others in their absence.
Integrity lives in the invisible places.

6. The way they return after a mistake.
The brave come back softer, not harder.

7. Whether they keep their word when comfort disappears.
Promises test the mouth; challenges test the spirit.

8. How they receive truths that disrupt their ego.
Some defend. Others breathe — and grow.

9. The way they tend to their wounds.
Do they numb the pain, or sit with it until it transforms?

10. How they love when loving gets difficult.
Anyone can love in sunshine.
But true character is revealed in storms.

And so — the soul is not shown in achievements, speeches, or masks.
It is revealed quietly, in the tiny choices
that only the heart knows about.

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17/11/2025

HOW EASY IT IS TO AVOID RESPONSIBILITY.

To come to therapy, empty your heart, show your life’s “pile,” and secretly hope that the professional will clean it all up in five sessions.
But if that pile has been building for a lifetime — can anyone really shovel it out for you?

And then the person gets stuck halfway.
No money, no strength, no motivation.
Only the smell of what has been avoided for years.
And the question appears: “Why am I not better yet? Why didn’t you save me?”

But the truth is simple — and uncomfortable:

A therapist is not your savior.
A therapist is your flashlight.
Light in your hand, path ahead — but only you can walk it.

And here is my answer, my truth, my experience:

1. Take responsibility for what happens — or doesn’t happen — in my life.
No one will clean up what I continue to add every day.

2. Small steps are still steps.
Even when I don’t feel like it, I can do something tiny.
Breathe. Talk to myself. Untangle a single thought. Release one small knot.

3. Stay honest with myself.
To admit: yes, this is my painful story.
Yes, this pile is mine.
And honesty is the first movement toward freedom.

4. Accept that healing is a process, not a service.
No professional can clean up 30 years in 5 sessions.
But a professional can show the direction.
And the rest — is my journey. My strength. My choice.

This is how it is:
sometimes life stinks,
but that is exactly when healing begins —
when we stop looking for saviors
and start looking for ourselves.

Kristīna Smiltiņa
Certified Therapist

01/11/2025

Perfect choice for today 🌬️💛

Today I rise with the sun —
to hold space for two souls in breath.
Each inhale, a beginning.
Each exhale, a release.
I prepare in stillness —
focused, centered, alive in energy.
Grateful to walk this path I love. ✨️

31/10/2025

YOU

If you cannot help as a doctor,
then as a human being you can offer something even more valuable —
presence, understanding, warmth.

Healing does not happen only through medicine or knowledge,
but through genuine humanity.

Sometimes all it takes is a comforting glance,
a kind word,
or simply being there —
for someone to feel hope again.

Humanity is the power that heals the soul,
even when the body seems beyond reach.

You need help: contact me
Kristina Smiltina
Certified Integrative Breathwork therapist
Hypnotherapist and subconscious guide.

☎️ 07383 080567

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31/10/2025

⚕️ A story that looks like progress… but was really a warning 💀

👩‍⚕️ Doctors told her the glow in her bones was “healthy energy.”

🦴 When she could no longer walk, her jawbone literally crumbled in her hands.

🖤 In a photograph from 1963, we see an elegant woman sitting calmly in a medical chair. Two doctors in spotless white coats stand beside her.
A massive X-ray machine — nearly the size of a car engine — hangs just a few centimeters from her throat, aimed directly at her thyroid gland.

👩‍🦰 The woman looks serene.

👨‍⚕️ The doctors look confident.

🏥 The room — sterile, professional.

😶 No one is wearing protection.
Not the patient. Not the doctors. Not even a lead apron.

☢️ Because in the 1960s, radiation wasn’t feared — it was celebrated!
It wasn’t an age of ignorance — it was the age of modern miracles.

X-rays were a wonder. 👁️‍🩺

They allowed us to see inside the human body without cutting it open.
Fast, efficient, and — as people believed then — completely safe. ✅

👣 So safe that shoe stores installed X-ray machines to measure children’s feet.

Mothers would bring their kids weekly to watch their tiny bones glow on the screen while the salesman fitted “the perfect size.”

😬 So safe that dermatologists beamed radiation onto teenagers’ faces to treat acne — using doses we now consider catastrophically high.

🥤 So safe that companies bottled radium (a radioactive element) and sold it as an “energy tonic.”
Athletes drank it. Society ladies swore by it.

One brand was called Radithor.
Its slogan? ✨ “The Eternal Sunshine.”

💀 A man named Eben Byers, who drank it regularly, died in 1932.
When his body was exhumed years later, it was still radioactive.
His bones had dissolved. His skull was full of holes.

But by the 1960s, that was all “in the past.

Medicine was moving forward. 🚀
X-rays were routine. Radiation was progress.

Progress had to keep moving — not looking back.

👩‍⚕️ The woman in the photograph probably went home that day grateful for her “modern care.”
The doctors filled out their report and saw the next patient.
The same machine was used dozens more times that week.

😔 No one knew.
No one knew that radiation accumulates.

☢️ That every dose adds up.

🦋 That the thyroid — this small butterfly-shaped gland — is especially sensitive to radiation damage.
Years later, thyroid cancer rates skyrocketed.
The very doctors who stood unprotected day after day developed leukemia and died young.
There were no long-term studies.
No one dared to ask the “uncomfortable questions” — because asking meant slowing progress.
And slowing meant falling behind.

💼 Progress had priority.

⚠️ Caution was for cowards.

🕰️ It took decades and thousands of victims before medicine admitted the cost of its confidence.

In the 1970s and 1980s, everything changed:
🦺 Lead aprons became mandatory,

📉 Radiation limits were established,

🧑‍🔬 Radiologists began working behind protective barriers,

🦷 Dental X-rays — no longer yearly, only when necessary.

The industry that once worshiped radiation as a miracle finally admitted it was a poison. ☠️
But it was too late…

😔 Too late for the women whose thyroids were irradiated and who later developed cancer.
😔 Too late for the factory workers who painted watch dials with radium and died with glowing bones.
😔 Too late for the children whose feet were X-rayed every time they tried on shoes.

📸 This photograph haunts us because we know what they didn’t.
We see the danger they couldn’t see.
We understand that the doctors in white coats — with certainty on their faces — unknowingly harmed those they wanted to heal.

💭 But here’s the painful truth:
We’re still doing it.
Today, there are medical procedures we consider normal,

💉 technologies we trust,

☢️ chemicals we use without restraint —
and only the next generations will realize how destructive they truly were.
We just… don’t know it yet.

👩‍⚕️ The woman in the photograph believed in modern medicine.

👨‍⚕️ The doctors believed in their training.
Everyone believed they were doing the right thing.
And they were wrong.
Not because they were careless, but because they mistook innovation for wisdom.
They confused novelty with safety.
They believed speed mattered more than caution.
⚖️ The history of medicine is not just a story of breakthroughs.
It’s also a story of bodies — of real people used as experiments in the name of progress.
It’s a quiet book of victims that teaches lessons humanity could have learned another way.

📷 This photograph isn’t just history.

🔔 It’s a warning.

The doctors looked confident.
The machine — modern.
The woman — safe.

❌ None of it was true.
And right now, somewhere in another sterile room, with advanced equipment and well-meaning professionals,
someone is receiving a treatment that future generations will call barbaric.

We just… don’t know it yet. 🕰️

(Found online)

30/10/2025

🧭THE ROOT OF HUMAN STRUGGLES OFTEN LIES MUCH DEEPER THAN WE THINK

We might believe that stress, anxiety, or fatigue are what trouble us.
But in reality, these are our body and soul reacting to years of tension —
to suppressed emotions, unspoken experiences, and unresolved pain.

💔 Many people learn from childhood to “hold themselves together” — to be strong, hide emotions, and not burden others.
Gradually, we disconnect from our own feelings.
Breathing becomes shallow, the body tightens, and tension accumulates beneath the surface, later showing up as:

– anxiety and restlessness without a clear reason
– difficulty relaxing and experiencing joy
– struggles with trust, love, and intimacy
– fatigue that doesn’t go away, even after rest

This is not a weakness or a flaw.
It is a protective mechanism that was necessary once, but now prevents us from breathing fully — and living fully.

🌬️ Breathwork therapy helps gently navigate these inner layers.
Through the breath, we open the body, allow ourselves to feel, release, and let go.
It’s a safe space where deep healing happens — not through the mind, but through sensation, breath, and presence.

💡 When a person begins to breathe fully, they begin to live fully.
Peace, clarity, and inner safety are restored.

✨ If you feel ready to release tension and reconnect with yourself —
send me a message and sign up for a breathwork session.

Kristina Smiltina
Certified Integrative Breathwork therapist
Mob: 07383 080567
Exeter

30/10/2025

29/10/2025

CONSCIOUS CONNECTED BREATHING is much more than a simple breathing exercise.

To devote attention to breathing means holding the key to enlightenment in your hands. That is why breathing, with its simple rhythmic repetition, plays such an important role in many religious rituals. By focusing on rhythmic breathing, the soul enters a meditative state, the mind clears, and comes into contact with the mind of the universe.

Integrative breathwork sessions offer an opportunity to balance all layers of the human energetic system. They also act on the physical level — the body deeply relaxes, the endocrine system becomes regulated, and repressed emotions and emotional armor begin to dissolve.

This armor often restricts the chest, limiting our ability to breathe fully, to feel, and to experience joy.

On an energetic level, conscious breathing brings harmony — it helps release foreign energies and attachments, and fills the inner voids.
It is a gateway beyond boundaries, a moment when your whole being remembers: you are more than your body, your fears, and emotions; you are light, a soul experiencing life through a human form.

A breathwork session is at once an energetic cleansing, a regression, and a meeting with your Higher Self or the Divine.

It can also be a journey into the Lower World to connect with your ancestors. I don’t know of another tool as multidimensional and yet as gentle as breathwork — especially when guided by an experienced and sensitive practitioner.

I’ve met many people who have been traumatized by other intense breathing methods led by facilitators who lack gentleness and ecological awareness. Such experiences often create fear and deep mistrust.

For these people, I love offering another way — one where breathwork is not a harsh “breakthrough” or catharsis (though it can sometimes be), but rather a path of deep and compassionate transformation.

Breathwork is a journey between worlds and lifetimes — a way to retrieve lost parts of yourself, to heal childhood, birth, and past-life traumas, to rest, relax, and fill yourself with life energy. It helps you reclaim the full capacity of your breath — to remember what it’s like to breathe with your whole chest — freely, bravely, effortlessly. Each session is a step closer to a free and joyful “I”.

In ancient Greece, the same word was used for both breath and soul — a connection visible in many other languages as well. We cannot separate one from the other: the spirit is everything that surrounds us, and breath is our main way of connecting with it. Thus, we can conclude that the stronger and more rhythmic our breathing, the more fully we come into contact with the spiritual side of life. Spirit flows into the lungs with each breath and from there spreads throughout the body.

Without breathing, no life within a human being would be possible. Breath connects us with universal forces, which have the power to cleanse and heal our body and mind, and to expand our consciousness.

🕊 Join me for an individual breathwork session
Deep. Gentle. Soulful.

✨ Message me - to book your session — and begin a new cycle of breath in your life. ✨

Kristina Smiltina
Certified Integrative Breath Therapist
Mob. 07383 080567

✨ Unlock the hidden patterns with Kristina Smiltina of your subconscious and step into deep inner healing through breathwork and powerful subconscious work. Release old traumas, free yourself from limiting beliefs, and reconnect with your true self. ✨

27/10/2025

THE MAN WHO MADE DEATH SMILE

It happened more than forty years ago. Full of strength and energy, Norman Cousins, editor-in-chief of Saturday Review magazine, suddenly began to feel unwell. His temperature rose sharply, and he experienced pain and weakness throughout his body.

His condition rapidly worsened, and within a week he could hardly move, turn his head, or lift his arms. He was admitted to the hospital, where he was soon diagnosed with collagen disease — an autoimmune disorder affecting the whole body, in which the immune system begins to attack the body’s own connective tissues.

Each day Cousins’ body became less and less responsive; he could barely move his arms and legs or turn in bed. Finally, he could no longer open his jaws enough to eat.

Fear, sadness, and resentment toward fate completely consumed him. He stopped speaking even with his loved ones and spent days lying in bed, facing the wall of his hospital room. Dr. Hitzig, who was treating him, tried to help by consulting the best specialists, but the disease kept progressing. Then Cousins asked the doctor about his chances of recovery. The answer was devastating: out of five hundred patients diagnosed with collagen disease, only one survived.

That night Cousins could not sleep. Up to now, the doctors have done everything they could for me, he thought, but it hasn’t helped. If I want to stay alive, I must take responsibility myself. If medicine and doctors are powerless, I must find another path to healing.

He remembered what a doctor had once told him — that the body mobilizes itself to fight illness when the endocrine system is functioning at full capacity. But fear, depression, and hopelessness suppress this system. Under stress, the adrenal glands secrete hormones — adrenaline and noradrenaline — which flood the body and, in excess, become destructive.

From these reflections came a simple insight: if negative emotions provoke disease, then positive emotions, by stimulating the endocrine system, can become the “igniters” of healing. And everyone has access to a simple remedy — laughter.

> “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
— Proverbs 17:22

This biblical quote inspired Cousins. He began studying the works of doctors and scientists and soon found plenty of evidence supporting his idea.

As early as the 17th century, physician Richard Burton wrote in The Anatomy of Melancholy:

> “Laughter purifies the blood, restores the body, and helps with heart ailments.”

Immanuel Kant emphasized that laughter activates all vital processes. Freud called humor a unique manifestation of the psyche and laughter — a unique form of therapy.
Modern researcher William Fry experimentally proved that laughter improves cardiovascular function, blood formation, breathing, and muscle tone.

Scientists discovered that during laughter, the brain releases substances similar to morphine. These act as a kind of inner anesthesia, helping the body relax while also mobilizing it to fight disease.

Cousins realized he had no right to passively wait for death. He had to awaken his own inner resources through laughter. It wasn’t easy — lying motionless and in pain — but he created a plan.

Ignoring the protests of his doctors, Cousins left the hospital and moved into a hotel, away from the oppressive atmosphere of illness. Only Dr. Hitzig stayed by his side, supporting his “laughter therapy.” They set up a movie projector in his room with the best comedies and humorous stories.

After just ten minutes of forced laughter, the pain subsided so much that Cousins could sleep peacefully for two hours. When the effect faded, another film or bit of humor brought the smiles — and relief — back again.

Gradually, the pain retreated. Lab tests showed that inflammation in his body was decreasing. Laughter had become a real medicine. Each day Cousins laughed for at least six hours. His eyes were swollen from tears — but they were tears of healing.
The doses of anti-inflammatory drugs were reduced until he stopped taking any medication at all.

Within a month he could move his fingers without pain. After two months he could freely turn in bed. Soon he was standing, walking, and later returned to work — playing Bach on the organ, playing tennis, riding horses. The doctors’ predictions of total paralysis had been completely overturned.

Ten years later, Cousins accidentally met one of the doctors who had once given him a “death sentence.” When they shook hands, Cousins squeezed so firmly that the doctor winced in pain — a gesture more convincing than any words.

In 1976, Norman Cousins published his autobiographical book Anatomy of an Illness (As Perceived by the Patient). It caused a sensation.
Through his own experience, the author demonstrated that a positive emotional state can heal even from a severe illness.

13/06/2025

🌘 THE DARK SIDE – A Path to Wholeness, Not Weakness

There is a place within us where we rarely dare to go.
It is the quiet room behind locked doors.
There are no laughs there. No candlelight.
It smells of resentment, of forbidden anger, of unanswered childhood pain.

There lives our shadow — our dark side.

This is the place where all that we’ve suppressed, denied, and pushed away lives:
– what society told us: "You mustn't be like that."
– what our family couldn't bear: "That's not okay."
– what we ourselves couldn’t accept: "I'm not like that."

And yet, it lives within us.
And it keeps breathing.
Not to destroy us —
But to teach us how to become whole.

🌑 The shadow is not an enemy. It is an awakened part longing to be heard.

The dark side is not evil. It is not weakness.
It is our untapped power.
The repressed truth that no longer wants to scream through anxiety, rage, or drama in our relationships.

It is the longing to be seen.
It is the ability to set boundaries.
It is the lust for life we once called “too much.”

When we run from our shadow, it becomes a problem.
But when we walk toward it — it becomes a guide.

🔥 Why do we need our dark side?

To become truly alive.
We cannot be full of light while ignoring what lives in the dark.
Just as a tree cannot rise to the heavens without deep roots in the earth —
a human being cannot be whole without exploring their depths.

The shadow doesn’t control us when it is seen.
But it begins to rule us when we ignore it.

It shows up as: – projecting our flaws onto others,
– burning out from trying to be “good” all the time,
– becoming passive-aggressive or chronically dissatisfied,
– losing creativity, sexuality, and life-force.

🔍 What lives in the shadow?

– Anger – which can become a healthy “no” and the power to protect yourself.
– Envy – which points to unacknowledged dreams.
– Control – which reveals fear and a longing to feel safe.
– Unaccepted desires – which can become the root of authenticity.
– Unrealized potential – that simply waits for your courage to be claimed.

✨ Meeting your shadow is not a fall. It is a birth.

No wise one ever became wise by avoiding the dark.
No healer ever became a healer without walking through their own wound.
No truly alive person ever became so by avoiding the part they most want to hide.

The person who meets their shadow becomes free.
They begin to hear themselves.
They stop pleasing, stop masking, stop projecting.
They light up their darkness — not to destroy it, but to illuminate and embrace it.

🌌 What can you do with your shadow?

– Write down what annoys you the most in others — it’s a projection of you.
– Let your anger rise and move through — in stillness, without violence, but with presence.
– Acknowledge your fears and desires — they are not enemies, they are messengers.
– Find a safe space — in therapy, in a retreat, in an honest conversation.
– Listen to yourself not only in the light, but also in the noise.

💬 And then…

Then you begin to return home.
Not to the idealized version of yourself.
Not to what others expect you to be.
But to your real, raw, alive, and powerful SELF.

Only such a person can truly love.
Because they’ve met all their colors.
And finally… they are no longer afraid of the dark.
Because that’s where their freedom lives.

🖤
And you?
What is the dark side you're still afraid to meet?
Or are you already learning to love it?

Share in the comments.
Maybe you will be the one to inspire someone else to begin their journey home.