Aaralyn Shiri @aaralynshirimusic
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been searching. Searching for ways to get rich, for love, for the fad diet that would finally help me lose 100 pounds, and for ways to fix myself, so I could finally be happy.
My mom put me on a calorie restricted diet at the age of 12 (per the recommendation of a nutritionist). I started trying to make money in 5th grade by sewing bean bag animals and selling them to my friends.
In junior high, I overheard a teacher comment that a girl my age already had a well performing stock portfolio. So I decided I wanted to learn about stocks and investing.
I tried every diet under the sun. I read self help and self improvement books like they were going out of style. I got into real estate, thinking that’s how I was going to make it rich.
I tried selling on eBay, Amazon, day trading, MLM businesses, internet marketing...whatever it was that promised to make me rich. I bought so many courses, hoping there would be new information that would catapult me to the next level.
In high school, I started playing video games, because that’s what one of the guys I liked did. I was a chameleon. Changing who I was, pretending I liked what they liked, hoping they would like me, too. Although I never really knew who I was anyway.
I didn’t know what a healthy romantic relationship looked like, and I had such low self worth, that I put up with incredibly poor treatment.
I thought that this was the only man that would ever love me, so I had to hang on. I didn’t want to lose that love, because I believed I would never have it again.
I was on several medications for depression throughout my life. I tried to find love in food, TV, porn, romance novels, faceless men on the internet. Just constantly searching for SOMETHING.
NINE YEARS AGO, my co-worker and friend, sent me a link for Liana Shanti Heal Candida Now program by Health Mastery Institute . Of course, I immediately bought it, along with several of her other nutrition programs. I wasn’t able to stick with them until several years later.
But what changed was that I never again looked for another diet. I knew, on some level, that everything I needed was there. I felt the truth in it.
From there, I took her health coaching course and then moved on to her spiritual programs, as she started stepping into her role of a spiritual teacher/shaman. I resonated with Liana, her writing, her teachings, her program and her truth, so I just kept going.
And I stopped searching. I don’t search for new ways to make money. In fact, I barely pay attention to how much money my business brings in every month, or my monthly expenditures, for that matter. I was finally able to commit to myself, losing over 140 pounds to date, and I don’t “diet” anymore.
I don’t read self help books. I don’t search for the latest spiritual/meditation/healing technique that promises to make me happy, successful and reduce stress and anxiety. I don’t search for love outside of myself. And if I find that I’m doing that, I quickly turn back within, which is where the love I needed has lived all along.
All Liana does is love me, unconditionally. She isn’t fixing me. I was never broken. She isn’t saving me. I am saving myself. She doesn’t tell me what to do or ask me to believe her blindly. She says, “Try it. Prove me wrong. Prove that it doesn’t work.”
She shines a light on all of my false beliefs. All of the ego traps I’ve believed my whole life. All of the mud that people piled on top of me, preventing me from seeing my light. She constantly points me back into myself, which is where all the answers lie.
She’s teaching me to trust myself, my own wisdom - which is something MY MOM completely obliterated. Liana reminds me of my own perfection, allowing me to shed layer after layer of anything that makes me believe otherwise.
Why did I stop searching? Because what I found - worked. Plain and simple. Miraculously, I listened to a call that came from deep within my soul, that I wasn’t even aware of at the time. I knew I had found exactly what I needed. And I listened and trusted myself enough to keep going.
Anyone who knew me 7+ years ago, KNOWS, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I am not the same person on any level.
Now I refer to Liana Shanti as my shaman, my guru, my teacher, my spiritual guide. Which, I know, sounds weird to many people, because we’re not used to being devoted to a spiritual teacher in the US.
So when I mention Liana Shanti in every blog post, when I talk about her with my friends, I do so because there is no amount of gratitude that will ever be enough. For the work and clearing that she has done, for her courage to step into her purpose for being on the planet at this time - guiding those who hear the cry of their soul, to their true purpose.
Thank you will never be enough for the level of freedom, joy and happiness that is my current reality. I’ve found my way home.