Gratitude Can Reframe Any Aspect of Life

Gratitude Can Reframe Any Aspect of Life

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No, life isn’t perfect. Sometimes we have to take crazy long drives when what we really want to do is stay home. Sometimes we have to do really gross jobs. But, if we’re paying attention, if we’ve set the intention to practice gratitude, life will deliver moment after sparkling, cozy moment to feel grateful that we’re here living and breathing and loving in this glorious, messy world of ours. Please join our FREE weekly gathering as we share and support one another in our practices of gratitude this month.

A Grateful Heart Sees Gifts All Around

A Grateful Heart Sees Gifts All Around

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We mostly think of gratitude as something we feel when something nice happens to us. What if, instead, we thought about gratitude as a choice we make? As something that we do? A practice, perhaps? Practicing gratitude is simple but not at all easy. Join our FREE weekly “support group” through November to practice together. I promise it is worth the investment of energy for a grateful heart will never stop finding gifts to be grateful for.

Your Attitude is Yours to Choose

Your Attitude is Yours to Choose

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A rough start to a rough day in a rough week provides the setting for a glimpse of yoga philosophy’s power to immediately change life for the better. Practicing yoga helps us develop the capability of choosing our attitude. This can feel like a bit of a superpower as we watch ourselves begin to be the change we wish to see in the world.

Staying Calm Is Possible, Not Easy.

Staying Calm Is Possible, Not Easy.

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Sometimes life leaps out at you with a well-timed “BOO!” It is in these moments of startled upheaval that your practice comes into play. Seasoned meditators, experienced yogis, and deeply spiritual folks may seem calm on the surface. But I assure you that they are, like the proverbial duck, paddling like the dickens to maintain what looks like serenity.

Endings Lead to Beginnings

Endings Lead to Beginnings

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Take a walk this fall. Pause in joyful awe as you watch Nature celebrating another ending. Then ask yourself if you could celebrate your next ending with the same wild abandon and confident hope that a(nother) beginning awaits your bold, beautiful self. Because it absolutely does.

Resistance Causes Some of Our Greatest Suffering

Resistance Causes Suffering

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We (all of us) experience reactions. No amount of practice – yoga, meditation, prayer, etc. – is going to stop this from happening. Resistance is one of our strongest reactions. Resistance is also (in wise words from Star Trek) futile. In fact, it causes some of our greatest suffering. Read on for one way to unplug the power of your resistance.

Eighty Percent of Success is Showing Up

Eighty Percent of Success is Showing Up

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Eighty percent of success is showing up, but I would guesstimate that for about eighty percent of us, showing up is the hardest part. So, what are we to do? Ink in an appointment with yourself. Treat it like the most important appointment of your day. Sooner than you can imagine, you will no longer need to make these appointments. Showing up for YOU will have become quite easy.

Life is Not Supposed to be Easy

Life is Not Supposed to be Easy

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“If life is a bowl of cherries then what am I doing in the pits?”
There seems to be a common human delusion that if we’re “good” and do “good things” that life will respond by being “good” back. This belief creates an innate resistance to life’s challenging or uncomfortable moments. In fact, the most meaningful moments in my life, the times when I’ve learned and grown the most, have sprung from challenging, uncomfortable, and even painful times. I suspect this is true for you as well. Read on to learn how to practice struggling optimistically and gracefully.

Some Participation Required

Some Participation Required

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My favorite yoga quote is “Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory” mostly because if the way it guides us to live life off our mats. As important as it is to study, to ponder, to cogitate, to process, to synthesize, it is 99 times more important that you, to quote Nike, “just do it.” Participation is the key to living fully. So, whatever it is that has captured your attention – ready, set, go for it!