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2/15/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“One should not overstretch, nor understretch. If one thing is overstretched, something else gets understretched. If overstretching comes from a swollen ego, then understretching results from a lack of confidence. If overstretching is exhibitionism, understretching is escapism. Overstretching and understretching are both wrong: Always stretch from the source, the core, and the foundation of each asana. This is the art of dynamic extension. It is not that yoga injures, but it is the way one does yoga that leads to injury…

“Always try to extend and expand the body. Extension and expansion bring space, and space brings freedom. Freedom is precision, and precision is divine. From freedom of the body comes freedom of the mind and then the Ultimate Freedom. The Ultimate Freedom that yoga works toward can be tasted in our own bodies, as each limb gains independence, flexibility, and freedom from its neighboring limbs…”

~ B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

The key to freedom, my friend, is being tuned in, fully present, aware, and feeling exactly what is happening at any given moment.

Utilize this precision in your yoga practice and witness how it begins to pervade every aspect of your life.

Ah, freedom is so satisfying!

2/14/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”

~ Alice Walker

Love, my friend. As with anything you want more of, expect it, feel it, embrace it, spread it and you attract it to you.

Happy Valentine’s Day.

2/12/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty.”

~ James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

There’s no sense in needless suffering, my friend, just be deliberate with your thoughts.

Look for the connection between the thoughts you think and the way you feel and train yourself to constantly shift your thoughts to something that feels better. When you see the positive, the beautiful, and the best in people, life, and things, you’ll experience the best in people, life, and things.

It’s not difficult, but it does take practice. The results are well worth the effort, my friend, you’ll see.

2/10/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”

~ Helen Keller

Would you call your life a great adventure, my friend? Are you having fun and enjoying yourself? Are you able to experience at least some of the great pleasures that life has to offer?

Well, I hope you are. But if not, then it’s time to set some new priorities. After all, you will never know what nature might have in store. So face your fears head on and start going after your dreams.

Just what is it that you would LOVE?

1/9/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“By seeking and blundering we learn.”

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There’s no such thing as a mistake. Oh, you may look back with regret about something, but those are the very “mistakes” you’ll be sure to not make again.

Chalk everything up to experience and simply strive to be better. It’s now water under the bridge. Let it go and know that this is the best anyone can do.

Live and learn, my friend. That’s what life’s about.

2/8/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The most important thing that I learned was respect for all of civilization. In Oxford I learned to respect all that is best in human civilization. That helped me cope with something that was not quite the best.”

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

Knowing that life is always cyclical, that the pendulum must swing back in the other direction, is the foundation that withstands even the most trying of times. Always hold the vision of what you want to experience and, with patience and faith, know that its time will come.

The worst of times become fuel for the best of times, my friend.

2/7/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”

~ Stephen Covey

With every step you take and every thought you think even, you have the power to choose. And with all those choices you’ve made, including the ones made by not consciously choosing and taking action, you have created your life as you know it.

All day long every day, you are making decisions. Do you realize that? Why not make them deliberately, my friend, and take ownership of your life?

2/5/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

If your dreams don’t inspire you, my friend, what’s there to look forward to? But when they do… oh, when they do… they’ll sweep you right along with them!

Dream big, my friend, big inspiring dreams. Enjoy every moment you think of them. Act as if you’re already living them and the next thing you know it’s… voilà!

Imagine that!

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