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2/23/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“It usually takes some experience to grasp the absolute futility of the mindset that clings to right versus wrong, good guys versus bad guys. (It’s just impossible to get the bad guys to agree that they are indeed the bad guys!) Eventually you learn to get out of the argument. At the heart level, the argument doesn’t hold as much interest as the solution. You start moving to synthesis thinking, leading to a solution-based orientation to life. Conflicts begin to disappear as you have less and less interest in defending unimportant positions and more and more interest in residing in your heart.”

~ David Pond, The Pursuit of Happiness

Every aspect of life is better when you reside in your heart, my friend. Not only do you no longer feel the need to be right, you appreciate diversity for what it is (different), you can be relaxed and at ease with life, and you experience the blessings of love and connection.

What does it take to reside in your heart? It takes getting out of your head. It takes turning off the critic and the analyzer and monkey mind and instead accepting and appreciating what is.

Hmmm… maybe that’s why BeneFIT’s Yoga makes us feel so good.

See ya in class!

2/22/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”

~ Gilda Radner

Like what we’ve just gone through here in Texas, life is going to throw a few curve balls our way, my friend, it just is. Some we can perhaps prepare for but there will be some that come out of nowhere with no warning. No matter how much we’d like to, we simply can’t control everything.

But what would life without challenges? How would we grow? How would we evolve?

So, the real question, my friend, is are you willing to change? Can you adapt? Are you resilient?

This is what making the best of each moment is all about.

2/21/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“At a certain point, we forgive because we decide to forgive. Healing occurs in the present, not the past. We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.”

~ Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love

Forgiveness is the most powerful step you can take on your path to wholeness, to loving yourself, to true happiness.

Whenever you’re angry, resentful, sad, depressed, etc., you are not in alignment with Spirit, your Higher Self. Take it as a message that you need to move back into alignment with your source, step back into your power. Forgiveness releases the negativity that creates the separation.

Regardless of how it effects the forgiven, my friend, forgiveness heals the forgiver. That’s all you need to know.

2/21/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow — it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.”

~ Shakti Gawain

What is hiding in your shadows? Are you afraid to find out? Well, my friend, the problem with that approach is that that thing that’s lurking is oh so subtly controlling you.

Don’t be afraid now. All it takes is shining some light.

2/19/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Deep rest cultures your talents and abilities and brings you closer to your nature. Even a slight feeling that the Divine is with you will give you deep rest. Prayer, love and meditation are all flavors of deep rest.”

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Have you ever noticed that at the end of a good Bikram Yoga class you find yourself lying in savasana feeling spent…done…too tired to think? Well, my friend, that feeling right there — too tired to think — is the biggest benefit you get from your hard work. Not that the others aren’t big, don’t get me wrong here. But a quiet mind, the kind that, without your even knowing it, opens the door to the Divine is priceless.

Alignment with Spirit, the gift of a quiet mind, is the avenue through which all good things can flow.

So take your time in savasana and enjoy your deep rest. Have no doubt, my friend, it’s worth every ounce of sweat!

2/18/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“When humility enters our souls, we are at last able to perceive that we do not live alone in this world but with millions of brothers and sisters, and that hidden in the heart of each is the same animating spirit.”

~ Uell Stanley Anderson

What does it take for us to find humility? For our walls of protection and pride to come down?

I wonder if it’s a matter of feeling safe. Do we need to feel safe and secure enough that the level of criticism, punishment or harsh judgments won’t be too much for us to handle? Do we believe that we have to be perfect (something impossible) to be accepted?

Well, one thing is for sure. Simply by virtue of the fact that that same animating spirit in all of us is in us makes us each worthy of love, imperfections and all.

Did you know, my friend, that by honoring and acknowledging that animating spirit at the heart of each person you come across or even think of you bring more of it to the surface? Not just in them, my friend, but in yourself as well. Try it.

Namaste

2/17/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.”

~ Adele Brookman

Did you know, my friend, that some people think they don’t have any imagination? That’s what they think. They draw a blank every time they try to imagine anything positive for themselves.

They don’t seem to realize that every time they’re worrying they’re using their imagination. They don’t understand that that thing they’re worrying about, it hasn’t happened yet. It’s 100% in their imagination.

Granted, it is becoming more and more real the more they focus on it. But let’s not forget that it all began in their imagination.

2/16/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

~ Indira Gandhi

When you watch champion athletes at peak performance you can’t help but notice their single pointed focus on only what they’re doing in the present moment. In a state of heightened awareness, only accessible with a still mind, they are able to take in information from all around them, instantly know what their next move must be, and execute it flawlessly. It’s all effortless.

This heightened awareness is called presence, presence of mind.

Practice it always — while working, walking, washing dishes, relaxing, imagining, interacting — and enjoy the purity of life flowing through you.

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