When I reflect in genuine reverence to my goodness, I am presented with the opportunity to understand that I am addicted to the re-runs and to not be fooled by different actors and a new set. Only when I look into the camera as the Director, producer, and editor, I gift myself the present moment super power to write my reality, right now.
Read MoreLet us drop the debate that is suffocating our devotion. Let us worry less about wether it’s Ishvara or God or Brahman or Shiva, and wow ourselves more, with the remarkable web that one tiny spider weaves in just an evening or with the ever present patience of an alligator or with the magical hanging moss that drapes like an archway from the trees like its the entrance to heaven itself…oh dang…maybe it is! The miracles are many, yet they are often overshadowed with our commitment to our complaints.
Read MoreConsider contentment to feel something like the space in-between the inhalation and the exhalation. There is no dragging your feet, clinging to the exhalation, scared to take the next breath, worried it won’t be big enough to fill your lungs. There is no feeling sad and deflated because you just know this breath won’t compare to that awesome breath you had once last year, so why bother taking another inhalation?! It’s more like a simple trust that you, your body, your being, knows, innately, how to breathe. There is a surrendering to a greater wisdom.
Read MoreWe often define yoga as a yoking, but forget to include that in the efforts to unite, we must purify. We must remove all that is gunking us up, wether that’s from underneath our toenails or from the unkind words we think or speak, or from the dust bunnies underneath our beds or from the rusty chains of resentments and grudges that burden our hearts.
Read MoreCarrying around all of our shit is heavy. Carrying around other people’s shit is even heavier. The belief that we need this or that to be okay is the same belief that wraps itself around your neck and slowly begins to squeeze the life out of you. Little by little, this metaphorical snake will suffocate you and cut you off from they very air you need to breathe - and your breath is your life. So whether it’s a physical object, a relationship, or approval from another, the need for something outside of you cuts you off from Source, and chokes out your life force.
Read MoreListening to yourself and to others is a skill, a muscle you need to strengthen. Let people speak until they pause, they you pause. This brief moment provides you with the space to respond with what they need to hear as opposed to what you want to tell them. Oftentimes we are so uncomfortable with silence that we tend to fill the gap with unhelpful words that cloud and compromise the power of the entire connection between us and another. Each conversation is an opportunity to unite energy with another human and send out wavelengths consciously constructed with the intention of the other person’s evolution at heart (the ultimate generosity!). We get to offer our listening as a gift, in each interaction, with others and with self. And because YOU are the universe, it is also a gift to yourself.
Read MoreA quote from the Bhagavad Gita sums it up perfectly, “Peace is granted to those whose mind stays balanced in the midst of honor and dishonor, heat and cold, pleasure or pain, and who maintains equanimity during praise and blame.”
Read MoreToday we ask how. How do we access that which transcends time, space, and personality? And thus arrives tapas. Tapas are often described as discipline. The Sanskrit root of tap means to burn or to create heat. To burn is to transform, to change form, or maybe to rid ourselves of the conformity that is confining us to limited thinking and perspective. We could also consider it the invitation to reform, our attitudes, our habits, and our ignorance.
Read MoreSat translates as: true essence or nature. Some more definitions include: that which has no distortion; that which is beyond distinction of time, space, and person; that which is pure; and, that which is unchangeable. To be honest or truthful sounds transparent, yet there is an assumption being made after taking into account the translations of sat. It is being assumed that we have a previous knowing that we have, “a true nature or essence.” It implies we already have an understanding and acceptance that we have a quality about us of which is unchanging. For me personally, growing up in the west, this was not the case.
Read MoreI am not about to define love for you, as I am barely scratching the surface to understanding it myself. Here’s what I do know about it, love does not judge, blame, criticize, demand, attach, restrict, or expect. That’s a start, so now when I make an observation about myself that I do not like, I can ask, what would love do? Would it judge me or blame me or try to make me feel like shit about it? No, it would not. So what would it do? It would try to understand me, not appease me or condone me, but understand me, and then love would gift me both the grace and guidance to decide how I can be better. This means I get to override the mean girl who will spend days and days replaying and regurgitating a reaction of my own or an action of another and replace her, with the grace and guidance of love.
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