Remember when you were a kid and they told you to stop the day dreaming?
Well forget what they told you and begin to dream. A few months ago I found myself feeling depressed and listless, which is not my normal self. When I sat myself down and took some time to be still and ask myself what is going on? Self said “without a dream the people perish.” I realized I, for the first time ever, had lost my dreams. I was listening to a world that said I was too old, too slow, too tired, I was never going to be rich and famous! I was never going to write a best seller book! I was never going to be a well known sought after speaker!
WOW! THAT’S A LOT OF NEVER GONNA BE’S!
Thank God there was another voice that reminded me of what I had always known: that I can be and do whatever I set my mind to do! I was reminded of the words of Ellen Wheeler Wilcox, “Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.”
The words to become aware of in this statement are “first get to know who you are.” We are encouraged to get to know others; to listen carefully to what they say and to follow the advice of our elders and teachers and preachers etc. We are told who we can be and who we can’t be. We are very seldom encouraged to be who we are. So I encourage you today to look beyond what you have been told. Hear the words of Walt Whitman, “Reexamine all that you have been told…..dismiss that which insults your soul.” When we begin to doubt the dreams that call to us we have indeed laid insult on our soul.
The limitations that we accept about ourselves have come from the people around us. We can change our life by believing only the best about our self.
The ninth commandment, “thou shalt not bear false witness,” is not just about how we talk to others, but also applies to how we talk about ourselves. Anytime we take on a label that is not the truth of who we are, we are bearing false witness to the truth of our being.
The truth about me and you is that we are an awesome creation, a powerful and wonderful creation. We can do all things through the power of our creator which dwells within us.
So let’s get busy and dream ourselves into a rich and wonderful, peaceful, loving world.
Remember the words in the song from “South Pacific”
, “ If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?”
Join “Yoga Yaya” as we dream big and bigger and smile as our dreams come true.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Saturday, September 7, 2013
hello blogging world
75 years old may be too old to connect with a technical world but here goes my first attempt. tune in later to see if I am still sane and speaking to Ron !
correction
This is definitely a learning process. my last post was supposed to show my special chart, what it showed was not what I intended. I will try again. Patience is a virtue that sometimes escapes me.
PAIN ---------- POWER
LOVE---------- FEAR
PAIN ---------- POWER
LOVE---------- FEAR
Are you living the life you came to live?
This is a question that is ever on my mind ! Am I doing enough? Do I need to do more? Did I say the right thing? Did I say the wrong thing? And on and on and on, and there I am again locked once more on the treadmill of fear, afraid to move, and then I recall the words from the Eagles "you may lose and you may win but you will never be here again, don't let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy".
I know that the answer to all of the above is YES. YES. YES, - SO WHAT!
My Guru, Ram Dass, said "it is all grist for the mill," what ever I do or have done is all a part of my experience here on this planet and if I tune in it will help me grow into the being I came to be!
Many years ago I made a chart that hung at the foot of my bed that read - PAIN ---------- POWER
FEAR ---------- LOVE
When I am lost in the fear I am in pain; when I tune into the truth and love and appreciate who I am, I am in my power. Now that seems like a no brainer. Why do I choose to go to the fear?
One answer may be that is familiar, it is a fear that I know, if I go with the love it will take me into uncharted territory. There is an Irish saying that speaks to that ,(the devil you know is better than the one you don't), so then I ask myself why does it need to be a devil and why does it need to be scary?
The only sensible answer is IT DOESN'T!!
So how do we stay in the love?
For me the first step is Awareness, being ever awake and aware of what I am thinking, closely monitoring my thoughts and changing them before they pull me down into the abyss of fear and pain.
Yoga and Meditation are the tools I use to help me stay balanced and attuned to the love and the wonder and the beauty of this time and this place.
Yoga does not have to be a complicated thing. It can be as simple as finding a quiet spot and becoming still for a while, practicing some deep breaths, allowing yourself to relax.
I quiet my mind by breathing deep and repeating a mantra, such as, "I am happy, healthy, wealthy, wise, all is well." I repeat this until the chattering stops and I feel the peace.
Writing this blog is a part of my yoga practice. Whenever I sit at the computer the fear is waiting to grab me, what if I do it wrong, what if no one wants to read what I write? what if I make a grammatical error?
FACE THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY!
I invite you to join me in new adventures, whatever it is you fear know "YOU CAN DO IT" you can move through it and grow from it! YOU ARE POWERFUL - YOU ARE A BLESSING TO THE WORLD. It is your life get on with it.
I share a poem I wrote January 1984
FEAR
It's not always here!
Sometimes I awaken in the morning and it's gone -
Then sometime midst the day,
It stealthily slips in !
Sometimes I catch it before it
settles in - and send it out
Sometimes I welcome it with open arms
and revel in it, cuddle with it,
hold it closely to me
It protects me when it's here,
I am paralyzed
being paralyzed is pain -
but movement may be more painful!
Stay here fear
I don't want to move!
Fortunately I have come a ways since then, now I want to keep moving in the direction of better and better.
Yoga YaYa is on the move. Will you go with me into a world of LOVE?
This is a question that is ever on my mind ! Am I doing enough? Do I need to do more? Did I say the right thing? Did I say the wrong thing? And on and on and on, and there I am again locked once more on the treadmill of fear, afraid to move, and then I recall the words from the Eagles "you may lose and you may win but you will never be here again, don't let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy".
I know that the answer to all of the above is YES. YES. YES, - SO WHAT!
My Guru, Ram Dass, said "it is all grist for the mill," what ever I do or have done is all a part of my experience here on this planet and if I tune in it will help me grow into the being I came to be!
Many years ago I made a chart that hung at the foot of my bed that read - PAIN ---------- POWER
FEAR ---------- LOVE
When I am lost in the fear I am in pain; when I tune into the truth and love and appreciate who I am, I am in my power. Now that seems like a no brainer. Why do I choose to go to the fear?
One answer may be that is familiar, it is a fear that I know, if I go with the love it will take me into uncharted territory. There is an Irish saying that speaks to that ,(the devil you know is better than the one you don't), so then I ask myself why does it need to be a devil and why does it need to be scary?
The only sensible answer is IT DOESN'T!!
So how do we stay in the love?
For me the first step is Awareness, being ever awake and aware of what I am thinking, closely monitoring my thoughts and changing them before they pull me down into the abyss of fear and pain.
Yoga and Meditation are the tools I use to help me stay balanced and attuned to the love and the wonder and the beauty of this time and this place.
Yoga does not have to be a complicated thing. It can be as simple as finding a quiet spot and becoming still for a while, practicing some deep breaths, allowing yourself to relax.
I quiet my mind by breathing deep and repeating a mantra, such as, "I am happy, healthy, wealthy, wise, all is well." I repeat this until the chattering stops and I feel the peace.
Writing this blog is a part of my yoga practice. Whenever I sit at the computer the fear is waiting to grab me, what if I do it wrong, what if no one wants to read what I write? what if I make a grammatical error?
FACE THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY!
I invite you to join me in new adventures, whatever it is you fear know "YOU CAN DO IT" you can move through it and grow from it! YOU ARE POWERFUL - YOU ARE A BLESSING TO THE WORLD. It is your life get on with it.
I share a poem I wrote January 1984
FEAR
It's not always here!
Sometimes I awaken in the morning and it's gone -
Then sometime midst the day,
It stealthily slips in !
Sometimes I catch it before it
settles in - and send it out
Sometimes I welcome it with open arms
and revel in it, cuddle with it,
hold it closely to me
It protects me when it's here,
I am paralyzed
being paralyzed is pain -
but movement may be more painful!
Stay here fear
I don't want to move!
Fortunately I have come a ways since then, now I want to keep moving in the direction of better and better.
Yoga YaYa is on the move. Will you go with me into a world of LOVE?
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