Daily Dose of Inspiration

7/9/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Frequency, precision, and intensity is what makes Bikram Yoga successful.”

~ Emmy Cleaves

As the saying goes, “you can walk a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.” Well, my friend, that’s what it’s like with BeneFIT’s Yoga. A good studio provides all the necessary elements of Bikram’s formula, but it’s up to you what you make with it.

> How often do you do practice?
> How carefully do you incorporate the details in your practice?
> Do you give it your all?

Do your part, my friend, and BeneFIT’s Yoga will transform your body, your mind, and your life.

And have no doubt, it’s worth every ounce of sweat.

7/7/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The only people I am aware of who don’t have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.”

~ Steve Goodier

Life isn’t meant to be easy, my friend. Where’s the growth when all goes exactly as you want and expect it to?

Embrace your challenges. They’re always gifts in disguise. Just trust. The gift will become clear in time.

7/6/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“It has been said: “Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.” Stillness is really another word for space. Becoming conscious of stillness whenever we encounter it in our lives will connect us with the formless and timeless dimension within ourselves, that which is beyond thought, beyond ego. It may be the stillness that pervades the world of nature, or the stillness in your room in the early hours of the morning, or the silent gaps in between sounds. Stillness has no form — that is why through thinking we cannot become aware of it. Thought is form. Being aware of stillness means to be still. To be still is to be conscious without thought. You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.”

~ Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

The practice of stillness is prevalent throughout the Bikram Yoga class. Think of it:

1. The goal with each posture is to move into the deepest expression your body can manage and hold in complete stillness.
2. Between postures we strive for stillness.
3. The teacher’s constant instruction shifts your focus to listening and doing — not thinking.

But, my friend, how do you practice stillness in the rest of your life?

7/5/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The quality of forgiveness that burns up all things except beauty is the quality of love.”

“The above saying returns us to the Sufi emphasis on love, not as a decoration to our lives, but as the most powerful creative force of the universe. We may spend our whole lives distinguishing real love from passion, romanticism, lust, sentimentality, and all of the other ways that our culture tries to sell us counterfeit forms of love.

“Perhaps life is calling you right now to use the burning power of love to heal and erase the impressions that have lodged on your heart.”

Neil Douglas-Klotz, The Sufi Book of Life

It’s really best, my friend, to just let go of the past. Dragging around hurt and victimhood leaves you unable to truly enjoy the present or create better things in your future.

All of us are imperfect human beings doing our best to feel good and sometimes, whether intentionally or not, we hurt others. Once it’s done, it’s done. Tap into love and forgive everything and everyone involved, including yourself.

Whether forgiving yourself or someone else, my friend, you set yourself free.

7/3/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Life is utterly simple and yet most complex. You have to simultaneously attend to both facets of life. When life appears most complex, turn to simplicity. Simplicity brings peace. When you are peaceful attend to the complexity within you. That will make you skillful.

“If you are only with simplicity, it makes you lazy and dull. Being only with complexity makes you angry and frustrated. The intelligent ones balance them and rejoice in both. If you look only to simplicity, growth is not there. If you look only at the complexity, there is no life at all. All that you need is a skillful balance… you will be skillfully peaceful.”

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Skillfully peaceful. This is what your yoga practice teaches you to be — skillfully peaceful. Have you noticed?

Think of the challenge of finding stillness in the posture while continuing to deepen its expression. Think of how you have to work with your breath to tune into your body. Think of how you simply listen, do, and feel without having to think.

Skillfully peaceful, my friend, is yoga at its finest. It’s mastery of life.

7/2/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“There are two ways of spreading light…
To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.”

~ Edith Wharton

All it takes is appreciation — of anything, my friend — and you spread light. You can’t go wrong when you appreciate just as you can’t go wrong when you love.

Look for things to appreciate — things like the sunshine, the rain, the clouds, your pets, your family, that you have a roof over your head, water to drink and food to eat. There is something to appreciate in everything.

As you appreciate you spread light, you spread love, you spread good tidings. You will feel light. You will feel love. You will feel good.

So spread the light and make it a beautiful day.

7/1/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“What people do not understand is that you do not choose something by looking at it and shouting “Yes, I would like some of that!” You make your choices by your attention to things. In this Universe that is based on attraction, when you look at an unwanted thing, your attention to it causes an activation of the Vibration within you, and then the Law of Attraction brings more like it into your experience.”

~ Abraham-Hicks

Can you now see how your attention is the seat of your power, my friend? Have you ever noticed how you tend to experience more and more of what you’ve been focusing your attention on? You may need to try this idea on for a few days and test its validity.

How often do you stop and consciously think about whether you like what you’re focusing your attention on? Do you really want to be experiencing more that’s like it?

With just a little shift in your focus and some persistence, my friend, you could completely change your experience.

6/29/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“If you fill your heart with love and gratitude, you will find yourself surrounded by so much that you can love and that you can feel grateful for, and you can even get closer to enjoying the life of health and happiness that you seek. But what will happen if you emit signals of hate, dissatisfaction, and sadness? Then you will probably find yourself in a situation that makes you hateful, dissatisfied, and sad.

“The life you live and the world you live in are up to you.”

~ Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

In the grand scheme of things there’s not a whole lot that we have control over. But we do have control over the thoughts we think and what we focus our attention on. In fact, my friend, that right there is where our true power lies.

You feed and get more of what you focus your attention on. So bring your energy and your focus to your heart and let gratitude and appreciation for all the things you love be your predominant energy.

Life is so much better that way, my friend. Trust me on this one.

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