I used to look at messages like this and push myself harder. I saw it as a spotlight on everything that wasn’t perfect and I should just pull up those bootstraps, stop whining, see the silver lining. Basically harsh self-criticism, masked as positivity and motivation. I looked at this type of phrasing to amplify what
The bees make honey What’s theirs is not mine The trees make sap and wood What’s theirs is not mine The flowers make blooms What’s theirs is not mine The planet has water and minerals The cosmos have planets The natives have rituals and customs What’s theirs is not mine What’s mine are my actions
This special chair yoga session is for survivors of COVID who have long-term symptoms, called long-haul COVID or long COVID.
Kindness is a living thing within us. It’s not just an action. Not just our words. Not just in our thoughts and motivations. We are stewards of kindness and its potential.
The early bird pricing for the Mettā-Verse Loving Kindness 4-week workshop is extended through April 2. Join now for $100. The Mettā-Verse workshop is a 4-week mind-body exploration of releasing blockages to kindness and growing more capacity for kindness within us. We will create a safe circle of community for movement, truth-telling, prayer and meditation,
Is worry and fear of what’s coming next weighing you down? Feel like giving up on talking to folks with differing opinions? Have you lost faith in the goodness of our fellow man? Mettā is a practice of inviting kindness in all of our affairs; embodying kindness in our actions, words and intentions. Kindness is
I am at a loss with your losses.
All I have is my presence and willingness to feel the loss with you without getting lost.
Yoga frees us from a life of “feeling bypass” to one of immersion and growth and balance.
My eyes are tired.
They are tired of screens and electronic lighting.
They are tired of seeing the harshness of the world; trying to see things your way; not seeing what I need to. The eyes – the windows to the outside world and the portals to our inner vision and inner spirit guides – need just as much attention as hips and core and legs.
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I have spent a lot of my years believing that focus was lasering my will. It was how I believed my success in academics, my profession – heck anything – was achieved. Lasering my will was me forcing my dominance or defiance. For example, “I’m not going to let them think I can’t do something because I’m a woman. “ “I’m going to prove I’m worthy as a person of color and do it 10 times better.” I had to be THE best which means superior when you think about it, or when I think about it. And being superior by deductive reasoning means others are inferior. And that just lands me at dominance.
Acceptance of what happens is certainly a worthwhile chew for our times. The pandemic and our fight for freedom, justice and equality can stir discontent. At least it keeps our focus on what’s wrong and the need to fix. It can feel like acceptance means we are OK with the state of the world. It doesn’t.
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