Tag: I can

• I Am A LIttle Closer.

  “Most people become extremely nervous or tense when they are trying to accomplish something that means a great deal to them.  Anxious, nervous actions do not draw that power of God, but continuous, calm, powerful use of the will shakes the forces of creation and brings a response from the Infinite. The germ of success in whatever you want to accomplish is in your will power.  Will that has been badly battered by difficulties becomes temporarily paralyzed.  The resolute man/woman who says, '"My body may be broken, but my head of will power remains unbowed,” demonstrates the greatest expression of will.

   

  Whoever would develop will power must have good company. If your desire is to become a great mathematician, and your customary associates all dislike mathematics, you will certainly be discouraged. But when you mix with accomplished mathematicians, your will is reinforced; you think, "If others can do it, I can do it."

                  Paramahansa Yogananda

   

  Our remote yoga teacher sent this to us, stating how she felt that it pertained to our email group, how we can watch each other succeed, and know we can too.

   

  I know that in the past I nestled myself into groups of ‘I can’t’ and they accepted less of me and in fact being less was required; your overall energy was, “I CAN’T”!

   

  As you travel towards the new camp of “I Can” you are walking away from old familiar buddies, and forging new ones, learning a new language of I Can.

   

  I have felt unsure of myself in this new mode of I can, I hadn’t yet built my inner will power and so I was leaning on the group’s energies like a cane when I felt weak, when “I can’t wanted to stumble from my lips. 

   

  As a group we do believe that the other can! 

   

  Our actions and our words are literally cheering them, giving them our can energy when theirs is lacking. 

   

  It is like a relay race, where we hand the stick of will power over when we become tired of carrying the “I Can” and they take it over.

   

  A rag tag bunch who have come from the “I Can’t Camp” and are determined not to fall back in to the lazy waters that surround it.

   

  I feel the empowering waters, the resolute determination and will power growing in the two little words, I CAN as I make my way into Camp I Can.  Not quite at home yet, but every day I can, I am a little closer.

  
  

   

  March 6, 2010

  growing, I can, I can’t, overcoming, Paramahansa Yogananda, will power

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• I Can

  It is day 57 and I am still in the game, still doing one day at a time towards the 60-day mark, with just three to go, I am astonished that I have done this consecutively and with surprising ease.

   

  How thrilling to see that I can do this, and I have to wonder what other things I have not explored, what other exciting, new, different, challenging, life changing items are out there waiting for me?

   

  I am heading for 101, and so after the milestone of 60 days in a row, I will just get up the next day and tackle the next 41. 

   

  When you put your mind, your desire and your soul into something, I am thinking it can’t help but happen.  We seem to move mountains of fear and piles of “I can’t” when we simply just focus on what it is we have to focus on.

   

  I am thinking the mind has a bottomless pit of excuses, a room filled with reasons to keep all challenges at bay, and our biggest challenge is to keep our eyes on the ball, our sights on the prize; getting our muttering mind to the mat, and our feeble excuses can drag along as we lift our arms and begin.

  For somewhere buried deep within us is this new identity arising, I can do it, I will try it, I am willing, I am able, out shouting all of the weak excuses. 

   

  I love my new voice, “I Can!”

   

  February 26, 2010

  Bikram, I can, no more excuses, Yoga Challenge

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