“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…
“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…
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi Vulnerability opens doors. How can anything get in when you always have your guard up? As you surrender to the moment, to the emotion, and let down your resistance, you allow life to flow. It’s freeing. It’s healing. Open the wound, my friend,…
“Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.” ~ Deepak Chopra Next time you find yourself getting impatient, irritable, frustrated, or upset, recognize that you’re resisting something. All suffering is the result of resistance. So, when you’ve had enough of…
“Respect dissolves resistance.” ~ Harry Palmer Whenever you resist something, be it a person, place, thing, an experience or emotion, it controls you. You’ll continue to suffer and struggle until you quit resisting. So next time you find yourself suffering ask yourself, “What am I resisting?” Whatever it is, recognize that it holds power over…
“I am a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don’t feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality,…
“When you focus upon an unwanted aspect of something in an effort to push it away from you, instead it only comes closer, because you get what you give your attention to whether it is something that you want or not.” ~ Abraham-Hicks Know why you feel so relaxed after a Bikram Yoga class? Because…
“The pain you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the level of emotion, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the…
“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…
BeneFIT by Struggle Spirit wants us to know that, while we may not always like it in the moment, struggle always beneFITs us in the end. It’s simply a part of the growth cycle. What follows struggle? Relief. Surrender. Bikram has a line in the dialogue we teachers are supposed to use while teaching. It’s “struggle…