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Gratitude is all about the Attitude
With Thanksgiving upon us, GRATITUDE is a natural message to connect to this week. Realistically, there is always something we can choose to be unhappy about, a situation that could be better. Often we put quite a bit of our energy into “solving” or “resolving” these things and Gratitude can be hard to find. However, we can make the choice to realize…
Read MoreKindness is often its own reward
Last week I was inspired by the profound difference between being “Nice” and being “Kind”. I then also realized that it had been “National Kindness Day” the prior day and I stumbled upon the following quote from William John Bennett which summed up my thoughts. “A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.” It is always…
Read MoreEnjoy all the “Sweet Spots” along your journey
A couple of months ago I read an article written by Julianna Miner, who is an Author, Professor and Mother of three children. One day, while at the pool with her kids she realized she was in the “Sweet Spot” in parenting. Her kids were old enough to go to the bathroom by themselves, the intense fear of one of them…
Read MoreThe 4 KEYS to Happiness
Last week my inspiration came from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali which is the text of Raja Yoga (Ancient Mental Science). Patanjali is considered the ‘Father of Yoga” and even though the Sutras (the word Sutra means thread), were written somewhere between 5000 B.C. and 300 A.D., these short two or three sentence “threads” of advice are applicable even today. My…
Read MoreThe Obstacles ARE the Path
I am always trying to be open enough in my mind to see and accept inspiration from whatever source it may come. Recently, it happened to come from an obituary of a women who lived on the other side of the country, who I have never met before, named Jane Catherine Lotter. Now, I don’t…
Read MoreGive UP and Forgive
When we hear “Giving Up” it usually has a negative association, but it can have a POSITIVE one as well…to Give UP means to surrender, to let go, to truly release up and out whatever is holding you down. This past week it was about Giving UP to find forgiveness. I recently ran into a friend who is…
Read MoreNever Say Never
This past week I asked my students to think of something they had accomplished (either off or on their mat) that they never thought they would. I then asked them to grab a bit of inspiration from it and dedicate their practice to that inspiration. They breathed and flowed and opened their minds to the possibility…
Read MoreCatch Your Breath
I have found myself using the phrase “Catch My Breath” quite alot these days; usually in the context of…. I am having trouble doing it….. with two children, my classes and various other responsibilities I have taken on. But last week I stepped back and made some commitments to myself including spending a little more time…
Read MoreBeing Present is a Present
I have spent a bit of time this past week talking about something that we all strive for; to be PRESENT in our own lives. An example I often use is we each can think of a time when we got in the car and drove to our destination and then once we arrived, we realized that we don’t really recall the actual drive; we have no specific memory…
Read MoreAttention is Generous
You never know when inspiration will strike; the trick is paying enough attention to notice when it does. A few months ago I was in my daughter’s classroom for the end of the year writing celebration; an opportunity for the children to read something aloud that they created in school. On the back table my daughter’s teacher had baked some muffins and…
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