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Cultivating Strength, Joy, Calm & Resilience

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Our Opinions

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Do you really need to be right?

Is there just one answer to the question?

Can’t we find space for both our opinions?

Perhaps in this complex Universe

We are intended to have different perspectives.

Perhaps through our varying views

We can impact the greatest change.

It’s easy to partner with those who share

The same point of view.

Divinely powerful to embrace that which is different.

Could it be that our opinions intertwined,

Instead of butted against each other,

Can lead to greatness beyond each of us

As we stand in our opinions alone?

Let’s partner in our differences,

Nod to each other’s strengths.

Let’s meet at the top of that mountain,

grow the Universe stronger and brighter

With love, compassion, and respect

For one another and our opinions.

 


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Love in action

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Compassion is love in action.

When you are compassionate with others, you accept them in a space of humble kindness.  You are not excusing action or inaction on their part, rather you are fully acknowledging that the action or inaction is theirs and they are trying to do their best to be their best.

When you are compassionate with yourself, you invite the richest form of healing and growth imaginable within your deepest Self, knowing you are doing your best to be at your best.

Feel the love…unconditionally.

Feel compassion.

 


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The Fold

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Where the mountains end and the sky begins

is the fold of the Universe,

where sadness and happiness collide,

where the past and the future meet today.

 

Look not on the convergence

with longing, searching,

or a need to see the separation.

 

The fold is a place

where none of that matters,

where there is no goodness or badness.

All just is.

 

Where all of the moments of life blend,

Effortlessly

Naturally

Joyfully

Complete.


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Daily Injections

Joyful Yoga

“You’re Benjamin Buttoning,” my dear friend said.  What’s the secret?

Well-being.  When you have it, it shows.  It glows.

So, inject well-being into your life.  Let it flow through you, with you, and all around you…and then maybe you too will start to ‘Benjamin Button.’

How do you inject well-being?  More Joy… More Love…More Yoga.

“Certainly worth a try,” she said with a more youthful smile.

 

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Celebrate National Yoga Awareness Month.  Take a yoga class or share yoga with a friend. Inject a little more well-being into your life!

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http://publichealthonline.gwu.edu/yoga-matters-invitation

 


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Twinkle on

Twinkle On

Twinkling lights are so magical.  The anticipation of how they will brighten a path, shape a tree, light the way as night falls.  There’s a feeling that they were placed there just for me.  Sending a secret message of love and happiness.  Like a friendly smile, a generous hug, a simple wave, a knowing glance.  Twinkling lights make everything more special.

Twinkle on.


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Ride the Wave

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Emotions last 90 seconds. They roll in one after the other like waves breaking along the shore.

The skilled surfer watches the waves as they roll in. He decides which waves to ride. He makes that difficult decision to either bail, abandoning his surfboard and saving himself, or stay with the wave and ride it to the end. His decision is based on an honest assessment of his skills, without judgment or self-criticism, and without investment in perceived outcomes.

Choose which waves you will ride today.


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Stay on the Path of Love

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Worrying is about putting your thoughts, feelings, and planning into something you don’t want. Why waste that energy? Can you just focus on what you do want instead?

Close your eyes…take a deep breath in and out…envision your heart’s deepest desire. Now, frame that desire in a positive statement, like it’s already happening. Repeat that positive statement three times…and let it fill you.

Carry that statement with you and when your mind starts to wander down that path of worry, just bring it back here. Let your thoughts, feelings, and planning go into whatever brings you joy, peace, love.

 

 

Inspired by Yogi Baghan


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It’s About Time

Time is Love

Choose wisely when you give your time as that is where you put your love.

When you give your time, be fully present. Give of it unconditionally.

It may serve to determine a shift in how you spend your time in the future. But for now you have chosen, directly or indirectly, to give that time.

You have invested yourself, you have brought your love, so give it fully to this experience, to this moment, and it cannot help but make the experience richer, the time more valuable, and the next investment clearer.

Time is love.