The Roll of Thunder - I am at Peace

Amidst everything going on - I feel a sense of Peace.  Peace at my soul level.  I'm just content and happy and I'm happy to say it.  I have not often felt this and certainly not for a long time but everything just as it is - is simply fine.  Its like the layers are all peeled back - and my true self is there and I have found peace.  Now I don't know how things will be tomorrow- or another day when I'm grinding away with the struggles in life....and I don't care so much.  Because everything right now in all its perfection and want and need and bounty and emotion and struggle and reward is OK.

Its a beautiful thing when you harness your own power so that all the crap and maya and uncertainty the world tries to throw at you just doesn't hit the mark.  Its a beautiful and powerful thing to know that there is a force that is greater than my wants and my needs and my ego - and today I am putting my faith in that - and I feel peace.

Its not a situational thing - I have this therefore I feel peace.  I don't have these problems therefore I have peace.  Its just there in the midst of it all.  And it is going to carry me through and it nourishes my soul.  I have the most wonderful people in my life to thank and share with.  The crazy is always around anytime you want to embrace it - and so is the peace.  Its right in the middle of it all - right where you stand - if you allow yourself to open to it.

"If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace."  Thich Nhat Hanh

Spring into EnLightenment

I look back at some of my posts and they tend to fall on the deep side of things for me.  I am very light at heart so I thought I would share some light hearted thoughts - all in a positive direction:

• i love to listen to all the different birds singing in my back yard
• even if they start at 5:30 AM (its natures alarm clock for the 6:15 AM yoga class)
• i don't love it when they poop on my car
• i'm not sure what to make of the many many mole holes at the edge of my property - Holy Mole-y
• i enjoy putting newly filled green balloons on the business sign outside
• sometimes i breathe in the helium when i fill them (maybe thats why I didn't know yesterday was Weds until the afternoon)
• I love that my business boutique is filled with local artists things
• and the aroma of lilacs from my friend Pats lilac bush (she got as a cutting from her Dad)
• everything has a story and it doesn't make you sappy if you like to hear whats behind everything - thats one of the richnesses in life
• i love that every day or two someone brand new comes into the yoga studio and signs up for class
• and i love it even more when they come back for more

make your own list - don't worry so much about punctuation (sorry to my high school english teacher) focus more on content than form......just like yoga.

namaste - hug a tree

great day

Absolutely Positively Definately I'm Sure......

People are fascinating.  I learn so much from observing and keeping an open mind and open heart.  I learn about others and that provides insight into myself.  I was recently in a store waiting calmly in the midst of an energetic flurry of activity of who needs what and when.  Yoga has taught me to stand in the center (more often than not I can do it) and not be swept up in external forces. 

A senior sales person was commenting on a customer issue and emphatically stated there was no possible way that could have happened.  Impossible - said with the utmost intensity and self assurance.  Convincing.  A strong energetic push on the statement.  Well, in a matter of 20 seconds it came to light that not only was it was very possible that could have happened, it most likely did happen.  And the self assured senior sales person got more quiet and the energetic push turned into more of a shying away. 

We should just train ourselves to take a moment and allow some situations to play out - without slamming the door on them - who does it really serve to close your mind off?  It really is a disservice to yourself and those around you.  It was quite amusing to see the events unfold - completely removed from them and just observing. 

Days later when I found myself hardening onto a fact or what I felt strongly was a fact - I remembered observing that day at the counter.  I allowed myself to soften around it - and to detach enough to ask myself - why is it so important to me to hold fast to this idea? 

It really wasn't that important.  Save it for the thngs that matter.  Its so much more energetically efficient.  There is so much going on today - we are wise to manage ourselves more efficiently (by struggling less in the mind to always insist on being right).  For me it takes almost all the struggle away and allows me to enter new situations with a fresh perspective. 

Namaste