Dipl. Psychologin Hila Naftali

23/06/2025

International Yoga day🥳🙏🏼
Yoga is about breathing, about pausing, about self awareness, stillness and love.
Yoga is not about rushing, posing and competition.
Yoga can help you learn how to approach life with breath, ease, softness and love.
BUT only if you really engage in Yoga.
If you use Yoga to be “cool”, to rush, compete and pose. This is what your life will become. An endless rushing and posing.
So you see, what Yoga is, is how you approach Yoga. Just like Life.
And like in life it’s your choice. Yoga will become what you choose and then learn to live with the consequences of your choice.
Yoga never hurt anyone, it’s your approach to yoga that caused you injury. Like in life, you get injured by your choices, at least as an adult, so learn responsibility.
Stop saying: Yoga causes injury, this is simply untrue. What causes self injury is being occupied with the way you look and pose, instead of your breath and self awareness. Take responsibility and choose better for yourself.
Because what Yoga looks like is your responsibility.
Choose🙏🏼🩷
Hila Naftali - Psychologist and Yoga teacher🩷😇

17/06/2025

Success: why some feel the need to “crush”others to succeed?
People are very concerned with success. Does success mean to push someone else out of the way?
Is success possible without “crushing” someone else?
Can we win in life without”crushing”the other?
People who “crush” others are not interested in winning, they are trying not to drown. That is the difference between people who act from ego - surviving life, and people who act from self love - life itself.
Egoism does not stem from self love, it stems from being controlled by fear and survival, thus you always have the feeling someone is running after you and you must be faster or stronger to survive. When the ego controls us, we can even forget our humanity.
Self love is; I nurture myself so I can nurture everyone around me. Like life itself.
Just look at trees, they take the sun, water for them to get strong and fruitful and everyone around them benefits. Humans and animals get oxygen, shelter, shade, food, even water and medicine. This is what life wants. Life wants you to live, not survive. So you go ahead, get your success, your money, your status and then go feed everyone around you as well.
Understand that we are here to serve life not our ego/fears/survival.
The moment you understand this you will truly thrive in every way. Because true success means that we are able to share our success.
Go ahead, succeed. I am rooting for you💪🏼🩷
Hila Naftali- Psychologist🩷

14/06/2025

How to prepare for prayer?
Most people pray in situations of crisis, because what most of us ask for is the strength to master the situation we are in. Praying has the power to activate our own light so it strengthens ourselves, our loved ones and everyone around us.
So focus on your heart, take five deep breath into your chest, concentrate on the expansion of your heart, keep on breathing and concentrating. The breath keeps expanding your heart which makes the energy field around your heart expand. The more you concentrate on your heart and breath, the calmer you will feel. Now start your prayer.
Start with thanking God for what you have and then move to what you need help with.
Don’t curse someone else
Don’t curse the situation you are in
Don’t blame
you cannot activate the divine in you by letting darkness in
Divinity is activated by love, gratitude and asking for guidance.
May your prayers be received and heard
May Gods will be clearly visible to you
May you stay in the light and release darkness from your heart
May your heart expand and radiate light
Amen🩷🩷

06/06/2025

I hate being vulnerable
How many times did you say that to yourself?
How many times did you act as if you don’t care, so no one will noticed how vulnerable you are?
How many times did you act differently than from what you felt in your heart, to not feel vulnerable?
The truth is probably; too many times.
Why?
The answer most of you will give is; so no one will abuse my vulnerability.
The truth is; you are too afraid to deal with the fact that being human means to be vulnerable.
Why is it important to allow ourselves to be vulnerable?
For three main reasons:
1. To understand that we are human and we can get hurt
2. To allow intimacy with ourselves and others
3. To stop resisting pain, so we can grow and move out of suffering
How to practice vulnerability?
1. Train yourself to be ok with pain, through breathing, kindness and compassion for yourself
2. No criticism
3. Speak openly about what hurts you
4. Allow people to help you
5. Learn to ask for help
6. Change the sentence “i hate being vulnerable“ - “i am able to be vulnerable and feel pain”. This is how I grow and evolve 🩷
Sending love strength to all who feel vulnerable right now and encouraging you to use this opportunity to practice 🩷💪🏼
Hila Naftali - Psychologist and Psychoyogi❤️❤️❤️
Foto: I took it myself in beautiful Pantanal

29/05/2025

Your body never fails you
I have never trained or done any exercise in my life to look better or loose weight, because in my experience it’s a wrong approach to a healthy relationship with your body.
My body is my best friend, no one has ever loved me more or kept me safe more than my body.
I would have never survived some of the things that happened to me in my life, if my body would not have been alert and strong. I have immense respect for my body.
When I train (yes meditators and yogis go also to the gym) I train with focus on my body.
What’s guiding me is not the way I look, who looks at me, or my weight.
What’s guiding me is my breath, my strength on that day, my energy on that day, my flexibility on that day and I personally get highly motivated by music. That’s it!
So you see our body never fails us, we fail our bodies because we are occupied with the illusionary relationships surrounding us, instead focusing on our true relationship, the relationship between ourselves and our body. You want a healthy body that feels good, try nurturing that relationship and respect when your body alerts you on certain things, listen.
Try it next time you do any kind of exercise, how does it feel to start a relationship with your body?
Because this is where a healthy body, mind, soul, energy connection starts, with a healthy relationship to your body.
Enjoy💪🏼🩷
Hila Naftali - Psychologist and a firm believer that strengthening your body, mind, soul connection starts with a strong bond to your body.
Foto taken while hiking with my body in the forest

12/05/2025

Almost 10 years ago I got blessed with attending one of Eckhart Tolle’s retreats and till this day I haven’t encountered someone who speaks with such softness and humor about the ego.
I find Eckart’s teachings important, also sometimes I hear critics saying it is not important, we should just focus on love and our soul.
I disagree.
In my experience the ego is cunning, like darkness that can overshadow even the strongest of lights.
I agree that we shouldn’t analyze the ego to death, because it puts the ego right back in charge.
We should be aware that the ego exists, just like we should be aware that darkness exists. It’s just part of life.
Think of it that way:
The ego, like the emotions, the thoughts and our body is a player on the soccer field, important to acknowledge, and even more important to control. The soul (awareness) is the referee, controlling all the players on the field including the ego.
Like we cannot ignore players on a soccer field, so we cannot ignore the ego, but we must acknowledge to control.
Thank you Eckhart Tolle for your wonderful gift to the world, I highly recommend reading: The Power Of Now.
Hila Naftali - Psychologist for almost 20 years, what a profound blessing it is to serve.
Foto taken by myself at the retreat in Greece- Know Thyself❤️🩷

11/05/2025

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11/05/2025

The bizarre trend
I see a trend in social media that I really don’t like because it contributes to even more fake and unhealthy relationships.
Workshops like:
How to make him miss you
How to make him fall in love with you
How to make him marry you with these easy steps
Believe me when I tell you, the last thing you want is manipulate someone in being with you. Don’t get me wrong, the more a male is in his ego, the easier it is to manipulate him. But that means that the next girl will be able to do so just as easy.
People always forget that.
If you can learn how to manipulate and it works, so can everybody else.
Believe me, if you are interested in true connections you want a true man not a male who acts from ego and can be easily manipulated.
If you are interested in having a true man, be a true woman.
Courageous, truthful and unapologetic herself. If he will respect you for that, you have a true man in front of you. If he doesn’t, you have an immature male in front of you that is controlled by his ego.
I would suggest that you go the other way.
So instead of falling for these bizarre workshops, maybe start with loving yourself first.
Because a woman who loves herself will never manipulate anyone in being with her.
She doesn’t need to because she is fine with and without.
Hila Naftali - Psychologist and a firm believer in healthy connections 🩷🙏🏼
Foto taken by myself: street art in beautiful barranco ❤️🩷✨

08/05/2025

Smiling part 2
I am a firm believer in fun. Life must be fun, if not what the hell are we even doing here.
So I went smiling into an elevator and this time I smiled at a handsome man wearing a blue suit. Immediately he held the door open for me and pressed my floor. So he got a smile with dimples and he said to me: you are very happy. And I answered: yes why wouldn’t I be?
And he was stunned by my answers, paused and said: you are so right why wouldn’t you be. We both laughed.
What I didn’t tell him is: a person that knows how to be accountable for their life is a happy person.
I would never take the victim approach. I don’t believe in it. God gifted me my life and I am 100% accountable for how I choose to approach my life.
If I choose a happy life, I choose accountability. If I choose to play the victim and blame everything on everybody else this is what my life will be like, mountains of suffering.
So you wanna have fun and be happy, start being accountable and mature. Stop behaving like a teenager.
It is not cute, it is victim behaviour and immaturity.
Except if you really are a teenager than I hope you have some adults around that are accountable for you and can teach you. Otherwise life is suffering.
Be accountable, be mature and enjoy your life 🥳🥳
Hila Naftali - Psychologist and a firm believer in accountability and smiles

04/05/2025

A smile shows people you come with love, you engage from love and act from your heart, it does not mean you are weak or easily manipulated. Being an open hearted person in a world that does everything to push you into fear and panic is heroic.
The first thing I do when someone looks at me is giving that person a big warmhearted smile.
Why?
Because my approach is love, first and foremost.
If that person crosses boundaries, I will put up stronger ones.
The fact that I choose to engage first with love, does not mean I cannot switch to strong boundaries.
It means I give every person the opportunity to approach me also with love, if they won’t I will give them boundaries.
In my experience, 99% will choose love and are grateful for my smile, some even surprised.
1% will try to manipulate and cross boundaries, that’s why it is important, that we know both, because this 1% is usually very violent.
That doesn’t mean you should loose your smile, it just means stronger boundaries.
So please don’t let anyone take your smile from you, the world needs your smile. Just the other day I encountered a very depressed man at breakfast, he was so down, I could feel his sadness. I looked at him and give him one of my big smiles, with dimples ☺️, he immediately opened his heart and gave me a big smile back and greeted me.
Smiles are life savers, remember that. 🩷
Hila Naftali - Psychologist with a big smile🥰

30/04/2025

Sitting at the wrong table?
Over the years I have encountered a lot of couples that are afraid of asking this question out loud.
Am I sitting at the wrong table?
Why?
Because asking this question makes us understand that something is not quite right. Most want to cover their eyes, ears and mouth. Maybe if I act as if it’s the right table it will manifest itself as such.
The simple answer is: no, it probably get worse and you will blame the table, instead of looking at the actual difficulty.
The thing that is most important to remember is, that asking ourselves questions helps us grow, especially if we are willing to research what’s really going on.
So don’t be afraid to ask this question out loud if something feels off. Allow yourself to explore and research. Sitting at a questionable table doesn’t mean we must leave. Most often it means to adjust, to reevaluate our decisions, and to check what’s going on with everyone at that table. Sometimes we will all leave the table together because we created something that we all outgrew. That’s progress and growth. Nothing to be afraid of. You should be more afraid of not asking the question. In my experience most couples regret it deeply not asking it sooner. I have known couples that avoided each others needs for a lot of years and in the end what’s left is bitterness and anger. Don’t become someone like that.
Dare to ask🩷💪🏼
Hila Naftali - Psychologist❤️🙏🏼

27/04/2025

What is solitude? What is feeling lonely? Why is solitude healthy for us and even essential?