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1/14/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization.”

~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

That right there, my friend, is why we do BeneFIT’s yoga. And it’s also why the yoga helps us feel so good. We heal, grow, and align physically, mentally, and spiritually all at the same time.

See ya in the hot room!

1/13/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn’t care what we plant…success…or failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal…or confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety, and so on. But what we plant it must return to us.

“You see the human mind is the last great, unexplored continent on earth. It contains riches beyond our wildest dreams. It will return anything we want to plant.”

~ Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

You know that saying, “the grass is always greener on the other side”? Well, the truth is that the grass is greenest where you water it. So regardless of all the seeds you may have planted in the past, from here on out water only the ones you want to grow.

Be discerning, my friend. You reap what you sow and nurture.

1/12/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi

To err is human, my friend. As human beings none of us is perfect. There will be moments when we behave in a way that is less than our ideal.

The pure of heart strive always to right a wrong quickly knowing that to do otherwise prolongs their own suffering. To them, nothing is worse than being out of alignment with the pure, positive vibration of Spirit, their Best Self.

1/11/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

~ Leonardo da Vinci

You don’t have to be aggressive in your ‘happening to things,’ my friend, but don’t just sit back and let things happen to you. Be proactive. Decide what you want to experience in life.

It’s the difference between consciously navigating your boat and just letting it be tossed about by the waves and the wind.

Where are you going, my friend? What do you want? The sooner you know, the sooner it will become your reality.

1/10/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Traditionally it is said that the root of aggression and suffering is ignorance. But what is it that we are ignoring? Entrenched in the tunnel vision of our personal concerns, what we ignore is our kinship with others. One reason we train as warrior-bodhisattvas is to recognize our inter-connectedness — to grow in understanding that when we harm another we are harming ourselves. So we train in recognizing our uptightness. We train in seeing that others are not so different from ourselves. We train in opening our hearts and minds in increasingly difficult situations.”

~ Pema Chodron

Look below the surface, my friend, and you’ll see that we’re all doing the best we can from where we are with what we have. And those circumstances can be very different from person to person and even moment to moment.

Our uptightness happens when we get stuck in our head, in our thoughts, and lose touch with the caring and compassionate energies of our heart.

Imagine yourself in their shoes, my friend. How would you want to be treated?

1/9/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.”

~ John F. Kennedy

All change is gradual, my friend. It starts with a decision and gathers strength with commitment. It will be challenged and tested. How much do you want it? What are you willing to give up in order to have it?

There is nothing more noble to strive for than peace. Peace creates the space that allows change, that allows love and all good things to flow.

When you want to feel peace, you have to first make peace with yourself. Peace comes from within and it comes as you release the beliefs and the judgments that keep you separated from the pure, positive spirit that is the heart of you.

In the heart, my friend, is where all peace, all positive change, begins. Go there.

1/8/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Flexibility is consciously letting go.”

~ Emmy Cleaves

Everything starts in the mind, my friend. Tension, tightness, struggle all come about when we resist and let the monkey mind run wild.

Things are never as bad as we imagine. Try taking a deep breath and, letting it out slowly, decide to be open to other possibilities.

The better we get at releasing mental tension the more comfortable and flexible we’ll be in the body.

A flexible mind creates a flexible body.

1/7/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice. And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see, your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgment and shining in its endless beauty.”

~ Paul Ferrini

Try it, my friend. Suspend the meaning you’ve attached to the situation, suspend your interpretation, and trust that there’s a higher purpose behind your experience.

Things don’t always make sense until you can look back in retrospect and link all the pieces together. Meanwhile, keep in mind that sometimes the very things we resist the most are what we need the most.

Release your judgments, my friend, and let the beauty of life reveal itself to you.

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