August 2010
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Search Out the Lie!
“You don’t experience anxiety unless you’ve attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple. You don’t ever feel anxiety until you believe that a thought is true- and it’s not.” Byron Katie… Continue reading
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What you can reach!
I love women who inspire me, who show me how to reach beyond your normal reach and succeed where you are unsure of succeeding. The same week my boss turned 50, she completed her first Copper Man Triathlon, swimming… Continue reading
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Loving What Is…
We would rather be ruined than changed;We would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the momentAnd let our illusions die.~W.H. Auden What is so unreal is that we believe we can stop change that it is… Continue reading
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Take Care Of You!
“If you had to take care of yourself, as you take care of others, what would you do for yourself?” This question was asked on Oprah’s Soul Series on Sirius Radio as she spoke with Geneen Roth. The woman… Continue reading
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Serves Me!
In Waking, by Matthew Sanford, he writes again about his experience with yoga. “Maha mudra is a strange pose. In yogic lore, if a yogi practices it enough, he or she can eat anything, even something poisonous. Regardless, it… Continue reading
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As I Yoga Along
“A monk sits cross-legged in the middle of the road, meditating on existence. A powerful insight consumes him: He and the Universe are One. He intuits further that the Universe, being One, would never harm him itself. And as long… Continue reading
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Affirmed by His Experiences
Maha Mudra, a chapter from Waking by Matthew Sanford. “When I return home from the hospital, everything seems the same – my blue velvet chair, the sounds of my fridge, the creaking of my wood floors. Everything except for… Continue reading
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Waking
In Matthew Sanford’s book, “Waking” he writes in the chapter called “Body Memories”. “I am in the hospital, but what am I healing? Is it my back or is it my past? Whatever it is, I am on fire.… Continue reading
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Both and And…
"To stay with that shakiness—to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge—that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in… Continue reading
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All or None Religion.
My mothering skills have huge pockets of All or Nothing options, accented with control and responsibility that is overly dramatic and leaves me with little options to manuver through issues that I find are out of my control. While… Continue reading