It is with deep gratitude, and hope, that I write to you today to tell you that I am taking a hiatus from blogging. It has been such a great joy to connect with so many people over the years! THANK YOU!!! Am I really leaving? Well, no. I am taking a vacation from writing … More The End of an Era – Time Sensitive
Sometimes, the philosophy of yoga can be applied in daily life to bring greater ease, and more contentment to the mind while we do our mundane daily tasks. You know, that might sound like a lot of thinking, but really, it is just holding some thought to allow yourself to remember what you are up … More Yoga Ways of Dealing: Let Go of Results
How often do you find yourself feeling pain because of judgment. It can be your own, or someone else. It can be judgment toward yourself or toward something else. But so frequently, judgment can lead to some suffering. Either we judge something in ourselves as somehow lacking – and therefore give ourselves grief. Or, we … More Ways of Dealing: Judgment
Five methods to integrate yoga into your daily life, off the mat. … More Integration Skills: How to integrate yoga into today
You only need one thing right now, one helpful attitude. … More Rhythm and Practice: Just Showing Up and Smiling
Sometimes discipline is about what to stop doing. Instead of finding time to do more, you can focus on removing what doesn’t suit or work for your life. We’ve all tried to stop a variety of habits, but perhaps there are some you haven’t considered. Much of yoga is about removing what doesn’t work any longer, … More Discipline isn’t always about what to do
Worry and Freedom seem sometimes to be the complimentary issues in our lives. It can escape our attention that they are actually one thing, the extremes on a line. On one side there is worry, on the other side a personal feeling of openness and freedom. All along the middle are various gradations of possibility … More Moving from Worry and Control to More Freedom
Some days we just aren’t quite ready to return to work the usual way. Something has happened, or something is now known to be coming our way. It can just feel surreal to really have to go to the office or wherever you work. This week some people are returning to work after spring break, … More Letting go after the storm, or otherwise getting ourselves ready to be focused again
I want to recommend you stop telling the mind to be quiet. It is sort of like telling someone not to think of a purple horse that is jumping on top of igloos. – You pictured it didn’t you? The mind has it’s own intentions, and they are appropriate for some things, but not particularly … More Don’t Try to Clear the Mind
The concept on Monday was to bring a little awareness to the relationships in our lives. On Tuesday we looked at a way in which the awareness game can enrich our lives and how as we shift our attention, we actually can begin to improve our experience of our lives. Today, we look at one … More Judgment and what to do about it.
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