Wednesday, November 30, 2011
When Life Gets So Good
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Our Angels Who Dedicate Themselves to Our Truth
Monday, November 28, 2011
Humility Follows Humbling
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Humble Pie
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Feel It Now Baby
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Unleashing Your Call
Monday, November 21, 2011
Shifting Perspective and Perception
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Flow State - Available thanks to yoga and sobriety
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Awareness: A Sure Gift of Yoga and Sobriety.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Spiritual Maturity
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Swedish Pancakes and texts from strangers...the love of the program
Monday, November 14, 2011
Sobriety : Peace that Passes Understanding
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Forgiveness Free's Me...
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Sobriety, sometimes a walk through the darkness
Friday, November 11, 2011
Six Aces
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Bridges of Love
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Communities of Love, The Group Dynamic
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Awe - A State of Humility
Monday, November 7, 2011
Empowered Through Forgiveness
Sunday, November 6, 2011
For Something and Against Nothing....
Ernest Holmes once said “find me one person who is for something and against NOTHING.” What a better world it would be if we could be really for or, better said, passionate about those things in life which, stoke our internal fires AND, truly against nothing. What a better world the place will be as more of us wake to the Truth that I am not right and you are not wrong. How much time have we really spent making somebody else wrong and wasting endless energy having to be right? In the program you often hear, “do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?” I love it because it is the same exact Principle that Holmes is revealing in his sermon by the sea when he writes “find me one person who is FOR something and AGAINST NOTHING.” I learned this again in a workshop I did yesterday called “Being with the Dying.” Joyce Lechuga who specializes in hospice work introduced the principle as “welcome everything, push away nothing.” Wow! Ok so when I hear things more than once, especially in three’s or more I know that the Universe is speaking to me. It seems to me that making someone else wrong has to do with grading our self worth against another and failing to realize that we are all equally, spiritually perfect and that true power is not derived out of comparison, that life is not a race. Join me in doing ourselves a favor as we STOP comparing ourselves to others. We are like a grand symphony, each here to learn to tune and play our note to the highest, cleanest vibration possible. I hope your note is different than mine otherwise we would play one, long, boring tune. There are spiritual practices throughout the traditions which are specifically for the purpose of personal clearing, cleaning and cleansing. These are essential for those of us who are passionate about being the finest instruments of the Universes_____________(fill in the blank) whatever it is you feel called to be. What did you come here to bring? What is uniquely yours? What is it that you yearn for deep down inside of your soul? That’s yours to be in the world and don’t you stop until you are in the full glorified expression of that seed! The meantime, the work, although it is always a journey and has the full array of experiential feelings and gifts that shall be soaked up along the way, has a clear purpose though and that is to cleanse you in preparation for the magnification of your soul in EVERY area of your life – your full triumphant glorification! The practice of yoga and the practices which are the foundation of the 12 step programs and those being offered by New Thought/Ancient Wisdom Communities, those of Eastern traditions such as Kirtan and many many more are what I will call, alignment practices. They are alignment practices because most of them boil down to having a shared purpose of getting out of our own way so that God may be expressed in It’s full Glory in you, through you and eventually, AS YOU! You know what I mean, because you can feel this in your soul. I am not writing anything new, I am just recalling what I re-member every time I hear it. I Am here to be more of who and what I truly am each day, in new ways, dynamic, whole, free. So are you, join me on the ride and we will walk the road of awakening and glory together. True Love bursting forth from your center today! Welcome your light and do not compare another on their journey, they may be in a valley, a shadowy place but they are surely on the road to discovering the same I AM that lives in all of us. Be a light that light’s their pathway. I Am. You are. We are One! Let the Light of Love shine Brightly all over the world today.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Embracing the Mystery
Embracing the mystery is Being Rooted, Connected, Open, Available, Alive with Vision and yet Present. It is about finding that sweet spot of showing up and allowing. All of the dedication and practice we commit to in the program and through yoga is our dedication to showing up. The allowing is the sweet spot of surrender which allows Pure Good in It’s newness to flow in a way that previously had never occurred, ever on this planet. Whether it’s taking flight from twisted chair into a crow flown only and ever by you in that way on that day or the full dynamic unleashed creativity of spontaneity through the stroke of your brush onto the canvas before you. Embracing the mystery is about life when it becomes a place where intuition lives fiery and true in our souls and we can almost taste the vision for the next step of our evolution and sometimes the veil will part and the vision for our life swims like a school of dolphins through our being. The key is to somehow stay grounded in the present moment, the present day without taking off with the tiny taste of what’s to come, for we may take off in the wrong direction if our surface mind interprets the vision slightly askew. Embracing the mystery has this sweet and powerful component of Trust, which is buoyant and filled with anticipatory excitement when embodied. Embracing the mystery is born of a deep rootedness or groundedness and yet an opening at the top. The exalted tree, just like it is symbolized and embodied in yoga. First you must root down and send your energetic roots into the loving wrapture and support of Mother God as the earth and then allow life energy to rise from the center of the Universe up through powerful energetic lines and systems in your body and as if the automatical and instinctual movement of life as growth, your arms reach out and your tree’s branches are extended, if only for a moment, your tree of life is exalted. I root down in my life and reach up with a wide open heart and allow life to flow in me, through me and as me. I am 100% open to a completely new expression of the greatest possible version of myself. I let my light shine brightly and sincerely hope that my light might brighten a dark place on your path. I know your light has been my saving grace through the dark places on mine. Together we awaken and rise. Much Love Extended to each of you this day.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Discipline is like creating an opening over and over again for Divinity.
I believe diligence and discipline are doorways to bliss once built. I am imagining columns of archways built with diligence and discipline which line an old Greek garden leading to a magical and blissful place. That is why I am awake and at the key-board again, because I believe there is something to discipline. Discipline though is not to be confused with neurotic control. There is a stark difference. Discipline is like creating an opening over and over again for Divinity. Control is like closing the door on Divinity It’s simple to tell the difference, discipline feels good when completed and control feels terrible, it feels tight. What is amazing about this system of discovering what mode opperundi that you are in is that you can use it anywhere anytime, the stipulation is, you have to be IN your body if you know what I mean. This is why sobriety and yoga are so incredibly important to a harmonious life. Both require the discipline of showing up on a regular basis and through it, we wake up to our true selves. So, even when it feels like a real challenge, I stick to my discipline and show up. Suit up and show up, as they say. Some famous person once said that 90% of life, is showing up. Showing up is a discipline. As Michael Beckwith says, it’s your “Blisscipline!”
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Choice from Awareness
Awake and Devoted at the beautiful hour of 4:30am…. I say devoted because the first thing that I love the practice in the morning of turning to what is True and Real inside of me. I say “I love the practice” because it is truly a way that I have to participate in bringing heaven onto earth through my life. Truth be told I am up for a 6:00am class at my favorite yoga studio on the planet with my very favorite teacher, Scott Francis. But even on an early morning such as this where yoga is my first “in the world” activity of the day, I still love this time between God and I. In these wee hours of the morning it so much easier to re-member who and what I really am. I Am Love. I Am Integrity. I Am Prosperity! I Am Joy! I Am happy! I Am Creative! I Am deep Peace! With these declarations I am setting my sails to the winds of life which I chose to be carried by. I love the analogy that our lives are like a transistor radio, what frequency of life are we tuning ourselves into? Is it complaining? Is it judgement? Is it lack? Is it disease? Or is it Harmony, Wholeness and Strength? The beauty is that I can turn my inner dial at any moment to exactly that which I’d love to vibrate with and therefore experience. So simple and yet there is key component of life which is pre-requisite for a life of freedom and choice and that is awareness. My awareness is the key function of my mind and through the consistent practice of yoga, meditation and step work I can honestly say that I am becoming keenly aware of what is going on inside my mind. “Ah, there it is, I woke up believing in lack, that maybe there isn’t enough in the world to support me, or hey, I guess underneath the false confidence of the ego I don’t believe I am truly enough to be loved ?” Then I get to ask myself, are those things true? NO, they are not true of me and they are certainly not true of you. So today, tune in with me to Infinite Love Bursting forth as my life, in every area of my life. Tune into the heart and chose deeply with me to live from this place. Tune in with me to a quiet mind and a dedication to the True you. Life is Good, It is Magnificent, It is Wholly…. If only we chose to see Truth we will then experience Life’s Bounty…. I say yes to the good stuff of life today!