I M Perfect lady

April 2010

  • Respect Your Self First.

    During yoga today I wondered about the difference between self-respect and the respect of others.  So I went ahead and looked up the meanings.   Self-Respect. proper respect for oneself and one's worth as a person.   Respect. 1.   esteem:… Continue reading

  • Respect Doesn’t Arise.

    If someone told you to respect someone how do you go about doing that?  That even if you don’t love him, he deserves respect.    I sat there and felt those words in confusion.   It seems I typically respect… Continue reading

  • Your Free Will.

    “Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.”  ~William Shakespeare   I looked up the word willpower and it said, “the strength of will to carry out one’s decisions, wishes or plans.”   What I didn’t know… Continue reading

  • How I Treat My Body.

    “There are many ways to deprive yourself:  You can deprive yourself of cookies or you can deprive yourself of feeling well after eating them.  You can deprive yourself of feeling your sadness or you can deprive yourself of the confidence… Continue reading

  • Going Beyond the Challenge

    Deadlines and completing challenges seem to divert our attention to what is really going on.   I have been doing Bikram Yoga for 113 days, I am in the middle of my second 60-day challenge, and in a week, I… Continue reading

  • Your uncomfortable comfortable rut!

    Have you ever stopped to question why you do what you do, feel what you feel, or act the way you act?    To sit down in your life and begin a self- discovery looking at the patterns you seem… Continue reading

  • Woman, Food, God

    “Trust the process, trust your longing for freedom.  Eventually you will stop wanting to do anything that interferes with the increasing brightness you have come to associate with being alive.  And rest assured that like the butterfly that flutters its… Continue reading

  • Breath to breath – (chapter 9 “Women Food God” Geneen Roth)

    "Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body."  I wish that was my line (but alas, it belongs to James Joyce), since it perfectly expresses the mass twenty-first-century evacuation from our bodies.  We think of ourselves as walking heads… Continue reading

  • Broken Thoughts….

    While reading the book, “Woman Food and God” it affirms to me my life.  That our imperfections make us perfect, that there is nothing to change, just more to accept.   We have some how bought into the thoughts we… Continue reading

  • Book

    I am reading a book called, “Woman Food and God” by Geneen Roth, and in Chapter Two she opens with this.   “On the first morning of my retreats, I tell my students that the greatest blessing in their lives… Continue reading