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4/13/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Please remember that pleasing another is not the same as caring for another.”

~ Debbie Ford

You know, my friend, it just may be that what someone else wants from you is ultimately not good for them. And what do you do when you understand that but they don’t? Saying “No” would not please them, would it? But saying “Yes” might harm them. Right?

You know what the truly caring act is. Can you be strong enough to disappoint them? Can you honor your truth even if it means displeasing them?

Challenging, isn’t it? Well, my friend, which one sits best with your conscience?

That’s the one you go with. But please, do so from your heart.

4/12/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Life-force enters with the breath and leaves with the breath. This life-force is stored in the body. It is not the result of caloric intake through food. A stout person may obtain many calories from food without being able to utilize this in action. If the caloric theory alone were true, the stout would always be superior to the thin. The energy in an electric battery is derived from the chemicals introduced, and not from the material of the battery. In a similar way, the life-force vitalizes the body, and the body utilizes the life-force. Therefore, the body is an accommodation and not a person.”

~ Samuel L. Lewis, Forty Lessons on Breath

Tune in to your breath, my friend. Not only does it carry your life-force, but the quality of your breathing pattern directly affects your quality of life. Watch how as you change your breathing pattern you change your state of being.

A long steady breath activates the parasympathetic nervous system balancing and calming all the systems in the body. A short and rapid or an irregular breath activates the sympathetic nervous system and creates a state of high alert and stress.

Your breath is a tool that’s always with you, my friend. Heck, it’s what keeps you here! So learn to work with it and allow the best of life to flow.

4/11/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“It all boils down to who is in charge of your consciousness. Is it the past? Is it society? Is it the environment? Or is it you?”

“When I tell you to think deliberately, I am not addressing your mind, I am addressing you. The mind is a good tool and storage device, but on its own, it just thinks in circles. So I don’t want to talk to the answering machine, or even your secretary; I want the boss. That’s you. It is your mind; you built it, you own it. Now it is time you took control of it.”

~ Harry Palmer, The Avatar Path

So, my friend, you know the best way to do that, right? You go do Bikram Yoga where you’ll break the mind’s grip as you are forced to concentrate and listen carefully. Somewhere amidst all the sweating, stretching, twisting, flexing, and compressing you simply become too tired to think.

And then, ahhh. . .

4/9/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.”

~ Swami Vivekananda

We live life and we learn. We have to take action and move forward in our life’s journey and, of course, it’s not all going to be easy.

Don’t be afraid, my friend. Honestly, there’s no such thing as a mistake. We ultimately learn from everything — the good, the bad, and the ugly. And keep in mind, nothing is done until we decide it’s done.

4/10/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no escaping nature. You are a part of nature. Your actions, in great or small ways, affect all around you just as you are affected by all around you.

But you know, my friend, in a simplified fashion, the word yoga means union and is the study of the interconnectedness of all that is. Interesting, don’t you think? Practicing yoga is learning the mastery of nature.

4/8/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“‘Beginning anew’ means being determined to not repeat the negative things we have done in the past. A new era begins when we commit ourselves to living in mindfulness. When we vow to ourselves, “I am determined not to behave as I did in the past,” transformation occurs immediately.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh, you are here

All transformation begins with your decision, my friend, and will be as powerful as your commitment. How committed are you?

This is your life. It is, and will always be, what you make of it.

4/7/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

The Dalai Lama was asked what surprised him the most; he said,

“Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.”

Is this you, my friend? If you were to face death tomorrow, how would you feel about the life you’ve lived so far?

It’s never a bad idea to review your priorities and make sure they make sense. Remember, this is your life you’re living.

4/6/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

~ Albert Einstein

This isn’t just in reference to the outer world. What’s true for the macro is true for the micro, my friend. It’s your thinking that’s created your personal life experiences, just as the collective’s thinking has created the collective’s (the world at large’s) experiences.

When you change your thinking you will change your life.

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