Yesterday my hairdresser and friend said she loves when I come for my appointments because I “smell like peace”. 🤗 Ahh, what a wonderful compliment! Contentment, or what the yogis name santosha, is a valuable and wonderful thing. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve felt deep bliss in my soul, only to have it fly right out the window when someone or something stresses me out. My heel’s been hurting lately (possible bone spurs), and the more I fret about it, the more the rest of my body, mind, and spirit gets aggravated, which only leads to my suffering. The more we give control of our gladness to something or someone outside of our centers (the place where our true Self, Love, Light, God, and/or whatever else you’d name it lives) the less satisfied, calm, and glad we become. Sweet harmony is in each of our hearts! Here’s to living from our place of peaceful wholeness! 🙏🏽💙🤙 #peace #contentment #satisfaction #santosha #glad #gladness #harmony #whole #calm #love #yoga #upwardspiral #bliss #blissarmy #blissology #magicman #whitelotusyoga2018
Happy Martin Luther King Day everyone! It seems to me every moment of kindness and care, however small, is a realization of his beautiful dream. Last Friday, lisa, Lara, and I got to help some friends serve people at a soup kitchen type deal. It blew my mind how much joy simply giving these struggling/hungry folks an extra cookie or two brought. The three of us worked the milk and cookies station, and every time we gave “extras” their face would light up like a Christmas tree. It was fabulous! It’s SO easy to make someone’s day! So here’s to your and my kindness being someone else’s brightness!
#love #kindness #care #compassion #encouragement #mlk #dream #joy #bliss #light #brightness #yoga #magicman #upwardspiral #blissarmy #blissology #kitsaphotyoga
Have you ever set a resolution, planned something wonderful, or decided to make a change for the better … only to be quickly doubted by inner/outer critics, have all sorts of distractions arise, be shamed at the first misstep, and be questioned for even trying? I wrote a book and am ready to look for an agent/publisher, yet interruptions and worries block my path. Whether it’s opposition to a diet, new business/job, fitness regime, plan for personal growth, fulfilling a dream, or anything else that brings us closer to heaven, author Steven Pressfield names this force Resistance. After listening to him talk to Oprah about this oppositional energy that is NOT you or I, but is a reality like gravity, I thought it’d be helpful to write a short blog on what Resistance is and how to overcome it, so we can better grow and become. I hope you enjoy it and would love hear your stories about battling Resistance!
https://gracenpeaceyoga.com/2019/01/19/you-are-enough-and-can-do-hard-things-how-to-defeat-the-resistance-to-our-resolutions-dreams-and-growth/
#Love #Resolutions #Change #Dreams #Growth #Transformation #Resistance #PersonalGrowth #WarofArt #StevenPressfield #Oprah #Art #Creation #Joy #UpwardSpiral #Bliss #Heaven #Worth #Courage #Work #Beloved #Valuable
Five years ago my New Years Resolution was to become vegan, and I've never felt better in my body. It was a mindful choice I made to get my practices to better align with my beliefs. I share this because in my experience, the more mindful we become in our doings, the more vibrantly whole, happy, and alive we become. Recently, one of my favorite teachers, Janet Stone, wrote about "digestion" as something we're constantly doing physically, mentally, and spiritually, asking: "What are nutrients and what is waste?" I'd say, we are what we "eat" on all levels. The shows we watch, podcasts we hear, social media threads we follow, relationships we cultivate, thoughts we ruminate on, music we listen to, food we eat, and so on, all form and shape who we are.
A prominent way this showed up in my life was in a decade long addiction to porn. Not only did the images I took in lead me to objectify women and myself, it twisted the glorious bliss of sex and romantic intimacy into something shameful. In the same way my body feels more joyous from shifting to a clean-eating, vegan diet, ten years of freedom from porn, replaced by positivity, has my spirit singing like Ed Sheeran!
Whether it's what we eat, drink, watch, or listen to, or who we spend time with, or where we go, we're constantly either nourishing or toxifying ourselves. Today, as we make our moment-to-moment choices, I invite us to pick what moves us forward, body, mind, and spirit, rather than what holds us back. I encourage us to make decisions that promote our healing, growth, and flourishing. This is the heart of yoga, and remember it's practice not perfection! :) #nourish #whole #healthy #happy #alive #digest #positivity #vegan #vegetarian #diet #yoga #magicman #bliss #body #mind #spirit #mindfulness #choosehealth #blissarmy #blissology #janetstone #whitelotusyoga2018
