Saturday, June 4, 2011

Balancing Distractions

Life is not happening "to us", life brings us what we invite into it.

The purging began last Thursday with the physical body. It was different than being sick as it felt like something was being released that was no longer needed so that my spirit had bigger space to live.

Hours later, my phone & computer both shut down, I have no landline but I did have an old desktop so I plugged it in. Low and behold, I was unable to get onto any of my email accounts or websites, I already had begun to feel calmer than usual.

I witnessed what I had invited in and went about evening and days to come. Three days later I got a new phone and my computer has a mechanical problem but has turned back on and is very slow.

At this juncture I have opted not to put emails back on my phone. I really did not know the impact of the constant pull to my blackberry. I feel less disturbed, slowed down

and more at ease. I love all the technology we have and appreciate it very much, I have found new ways to add it into my life and not let my life be run by them.

As my Yoga practice on the mat is beginning to parallel my Yoga practice off the mat, like the matching of my inside and outside. I am reminded how great my life is, with all the things that come my way, I choose to continue to see the choices I make and how they affect all beings/things.

There is a quote that I have been hearing for a couple of years now, I can hear something over and over intellectually but until I experience it I will not get it. Here is one I truly Love, Honor & Live:

"Practice, Practice, Practice and all is coming."
-Pattabhi Jois

Thursday, May 19, 2011

"Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind"

To my amazement there they are again, those thoughts, YOU KNOW "THOSE" THOUGHTS? The ones that tell you that you can't, not worthy, its silly, never gonna happen, wasting time, etc. . .
These thoughts that go through our minds everyday are "Just Thoughts", we are not them, we are

beautiful spirits that do not have to listen to them and DO NOT have to give them power.

I continuously bring awareness to my habits, study myself, deepen my daily Yoga practice and take interest in the way I operate and yet there is the CRAZEE mind stuff.
I shout out "Yaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" You may ask why would I be happy that my mind experiences these vacillations and to you I answer, there is no duality, there is only divine oneness, all that comes our way is neither good or bad, it is apart of the life experience as a human "be"ing.

Don't allow your thoughts to dictate your life, find a way to go within, awaken your spirit, find the simplicity that brings you what you continuosly look for outside yourself. Ask for help, don't wait, life is short to give in to the possibility of Gr8ness. I invite you to reach out and share yourselves. Sometimes the hardest obstacle to to just ask for help, we do not have to do things alone, isn't that fantastic? :)

Love & Blessings

"Everything
just as it is,
as it is,
as is.
Flowers in bloom.
Nothing to add."

- Robert Aitken Roshi

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