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12/9/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it consciously or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth, every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.”

~ The Dalai Lama

Every single one of us is a unique individual with unique desires and secret dreams. Yet most of us make decisions about what to do with our lives based on what others expect of us, what will make others happy, or what we think will bring us the most security. None of which is the path to greatest fulfillment.

The very fact that you are alive, that your heart is beating without your permission, should be enough to make it clear that you have a purpose and deserve to be happy. But only you can know what will make you truly happy and content, my friend. You owe it to yourself and to others as well to be moving in that direction.

So, my friend, what would you LOVE? There’s no better time than now to dust off your dreams.

12/8/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“You don’t love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That’s what I mean by love.”

~ Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Have you ever found yourself in a quandary, not quite sure what to do? Perhaps someone’s done something unkind or disrespectful and you don’t know how best to respond.

There’s one simple question that you can ask of yourself, my friend, the answer of which will point you in the right direction. What’s that question?

“What would LOVE do?”

Come from LOVE, my friend. It will never lead you astray.

12/7/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.”

~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Mastery of mind creates mastery of life. Satisfaction, contentment, happiness, success, you name it — this is what mastery of mind creates. But mastery of anything is not so easy to come by. It requires faith, determination, discipline, concentration, and patience. And how do you develop these?

This, my friend, is at the heart of BeneFIT’s Yoga. The classes were designed to use your body as the mechanism to train your mind, to turn your mind into your best friend. It’s a brilliant formula full of challenges: heat, mirrors, 26 postures, 2 breathing exercises, 2 sets of everything, clear instructions, plenty of sweat, and the same thing every time. Now, you may think you’re just improving your body, but you can rest assured you’re fine tuning your mind at the same time.

Master your mind, my friend. It’s worth every ounce of sweat.

12/6/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.”

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

With every thought you think, every word you speak, every act you perform, come from your heart.

And don’t worry should you ever fall from this space of grace. Your heart understands the struggle and the suffering that underlies all less than good deeds. It willingly forgives your own and others’ shortcomings.

You can trust in your heart, my friend. It will never steer you wrong.

12/5/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The fastest way to freedom is feeling your feelings.”

~ Gita Bellin

Things — like emotions and situations — stick around until you experience them. When you fight, fight, fight, and resist and struggle, you are stuck with it. What you resist persists. But if you let yourself identify and feel whatever it is you’re resisting you’ll be able to move through it and on to what you’d prefer.

So, my friend, it’s suffer or surrender. That’s basically what it all boils down to. Feeling your feelings will bring you the clarity and the freedom to direct your future elsewhere.

And yes, it’s definitely worth it.

12/4/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

~ Voltaire

You can decide to be happy or you can decide to be sad, my friend. The choice is yours. Just know, when you make a decision you set life into motion.

And just to be clear, a good mood begets good things, a bad mood begets bad things. It’s really very straight forward.

Choose to be happy!

12/3/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The Unmanifested is the source of chi. Chi is the inner energy field of your body. It is the bridge between the outer you and the Source. It lies halfway between the manifested, the world of form, and the Unmanifested. Chi can be likened to a river or an energy stream. If you take the focus of your consciousness deeply into the inner body, you are tracing the course of this river back to its Source. Chi is movement; the Unmanifested is stillness. When you reach a point of absolute stillness, which is nevertheless vibrant with life, you have gone beyond the inner body and beyond chi to the Source itself: the Unmanifested. Chi is the link between the Unmanifested and the physical universe.”

~ Eckhart Tolle, The Power of NOW

Connecting to your source is tapping into your unlimited potential, into your power, peace, and bliss. It is becoming one with who you really are right here and now in your body, in this lifetime. It’s that amazing feeling of being fully alive and present.

Let this be the goal of your yoga practice.

Tune in, my friend. Feel what’s going on in your body. Use your breath as your guide. Let it take you in deep. Release the confines of your mind and follow your chi back home. Home to love, peace, wholeness, happiness.

Ahhh… home sweet home…

11/30/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.”

~ Julie Cameron

Make it your top priority to find yourSelf, my friend. Be still and listen carefully. Determine what feels right to you, what feels best to you, what brings you joy. You are the only one who can do this.

No one can ever know what you hold dearest in the depths of your heart better than you can. But it requires honesty and the determination to not let anything keep you from your Truth, whatever it may be, whenever you discover it.

You owe this to not just yourSelf, my friend, you owe this to the world.

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