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Change – Powering the Mind
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
This weekend we did the most amazing thing. We changed time! Come on, how powerful is that? We as a collective consciousness of mankind decided to just change time. We threw our clocks back one hour and declared “now it is this time.” Really, think of how powerful that is.
I don’t know about you but it takes a few days for my body to agree with this new declaration from the mind. My body says it is time to eat or sleep according to its rhythm, which is more interested in what it has been doing than what I am now telling it. But here is what is so wonderful, after a few days it says – “Okay, if this is what we are doing I’m in!”
If you have ever doubted the power of the mind, or your ability to make changes in your life take a moment and reflect on this. Twice a year you tell yourself that time has changed, you start doing everything you have done for the past 6 month in a different time zone. A few days later your body just agrees and starts to follow this new pattern. Your body and mind harmonize in an agreement and then it just IS. It happens when you travel to new time zones, as well.
You know it to be true because you have experienced this over and over again. It makes it easier to believe in the power of the mind when we recognize it in action. You can make up your mind, and then allow some time for your body to follow suit. So, what is your dream you are “dreaming awake” in you right now? Do you want to quit smoking? Want to care for yourself in a more loving way? Change a job?
Whatever you are dreaming start to tell yourself that IT IS NOW! Turn the clock, so to speak in your mind to acting, doing, feeling and believing that this new way of being is NOW. Give yourself some time to let it sink into the body and then watch it BE.
There is no, “I’m going to try…” to this. You declare it to BE, and then start to live it. I once read that “trying is failure with dignity.” I get that, as we often use that line to tell someone we don’t want to disappoint that we’ll “try to” do whatever they are asking us to do, when we know we won’t be doing it.
So DECLARE to yourself, and share it with others. Fuel your new way of being or doing in the world by speaking about it just as you do this bi-yearly time change. Declare it, live it and let it settle into the bones.
And so it is!
Tags: change, Mindfulness
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Mother Nature Teachs Us
Monday, July 26th, 2010
What a delight we had on the deck this morning. A seal sighting! While doing moon salutation we were facing the sea, and a seal was seen (thanks Linda for being the spotter) working its way towards Woods Hole. We took pause to embrace the beauty of nature on a clear sparkling day.
It is part of our practice at Yoga on the Beach to embrace it all. This morning a few of us also noted a sparrow during the opening meditation get confused in the tent. I used it for my meditation as I breathed in a neutral space of honoring the sparrow’s journey. It seemed to want to fly up to escape, and that only brought the sparrow into more confusion. After a few minutes of batting itself, tiring itself, and repeating the same behavior it dropped low enough to escape.
Sound familiar? Have you ever repeated the same thing over and over till you exhausted yourself to do it differently? A lesson learned.
Here is to naming your lessons learned from Mother Nature. Today I will go forth and journey in the rhythm of Sealasana. 
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Keeping it Green
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Calling all yoga students, Cape Cod, Key West and beyond. Yoga on the Beach has a one week challenge for you. Starting Aug 1- Aug 7 we’d like to inspire you to change something in your life that will diminish your eco footprint on planet Earth.
That’s right we’d like you to take your yoga practice off the mat (is it a green one?) and into your life by connecting up to Mother Earth. Think beyond your “usual” and come to other possibilities. Stretch your habits, breath fresh air while saying more please.
There are so many ways to approach this challenge. You can start by thinking about what you most cherish and would like to honor about our beautiful planet. Water, Air, Trees, our woodland friends can inspire you to make a difference. What can you do that lessens the stress on them?
Here are a few ideas:
- Walk or ride your bike to yoga class
- Car pool with a friend, or two
- Recycle your old mat
- Say no to plastic (oil product)
- Educate yourself about your landfill
- Compost
You get the idea, there are endless possibilities, and we can’t wait to see how creative you can be.
So keep us posted on what you are doing to change your footprint by leaving a comment on our blog, or fill out a card at class. Need more help check out The Green Guide or GLEE. If you are in Mashpee check out The Green Design store in Mashpee Commons (Stop and Shop side). We need to change our ways to make a difference. United we make greater.
Tags: beach yoga, Green Living, United, yoga
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WHAT and WHY
Monday, May 24th, 2010
You may often hear about speaking your truth, or speaking from your heart. Well this month I’d like to offer you a look at Speaking with Spirit.
I recently received this quote from Abraham-Hicks:
When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there’s usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you’re going to get it. When you pose questions you don’t have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down.
— Abraham
Spirit works in vibrational quality or energy. Feelings, hold a powerful vibration, as do words. When you speak with spirit you are consciously aware of the vibration you are putting out into the atmosphere around you that includes Spirit. What is more powerful than you being connected (and part of) somethings so Grand, so ominpotent?
Clarity is a power that helps manifest or create. Speaking of WHAT you want, and WHY you want it you enact a sense of clarity into the formula of creation. The feelings associated with the WHY increase the vibration as much as the words. Speaking from the heart is when you share what you are feeling, in the powerful nature of vibration. Just as powerful is Wisdom. It is the gift of awareness of what to speak in the moment that helps to enact your dreams and passions.
One of the biggest misunderstandings, for many, lies in the uncertainty aspect of creation. We believe that we are supposed to be clear and are totally in charge of ALL of the details. The WHO, HOW, WHEN and WHERE vibrate in the form of uncertainty. For you may guess at the answers to those questions or have intention to direct along those lines, however without recognizing there are other forces at hand besides you, you will fall short of your expectations. Recognizing that you are NOT alone and Allowing that you are part of something much bigger than just you is when healing happens. Unity heals the painful nature of duality. When you let go of the uncertainty, and allow Spirit to help you with those parts, magic happens.
Try it! Start to share the WHAT and the WHY in your life. Consciously speak with Clarity and Wisdom. Let go deliberately the WHO, HOW, WHEN and WHERE to be something you invite Spirit to be in charge of. Co-create and enjoy the fruits.
Tags: Spirit, surrender, Unity, yoga
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Life Lessons
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
I love the “rush” that comes with the aftermath of a life lesson that we actually experienced rather than just read about or saw in a movie. Often it isn’t a lesson that’s having its first round with us but the same lesson at a deeper level. For me it came recently in the form of awareness.
Yoga speaks of being aware or conscious, raising our consciousness and paying attention, living in the moment without distraction and being immersed in the activity at hand. Most of us are familiar with the most common forms of lack of consciousness in the forms of sleep, watching TV, alcohol and drugs, addictions, and so the list goes on.
Recently I was gifted with the awareness that consciousness is also lost when the Egoic mind wants control. That is to say, when our ego goes into high gear and ignites our power center into super warp speed to get what it wants when it wants. It does this in many ways and convinces us that we are right and righteous and “should” have what we want in the face of any other signs and messages. It creates blinders that disconnect us from the stream of consciousness of infinite possibilities, narrowing us down to that one our ego is holding to. (more…)
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