This Illuminating Dream

Being a person is such a fascinating mystery.  

I am not my body, but I have a body.

I am not my feelings, but I have feelings.

I am not my thoughts, but I have thoughts.

I am not my awareness, but I am aware.

Who am I?

What is I?

The awareness of my awareness as Tolle suggests?  Maybe.  The mystery that we call God as Chopra phrases it?  Possibly.  

I don't know the answers, but I know that when I allow what is to be, when I am balanced in awareness and surrendered to the flow of existence, I am at peace.

Being Myself

We don't know what our True Authentic Self really is or feels like.   Experience, human expression, it's all trial and error.  But not in that an error is wrong.  To err is human.  To miss the mark.  To continuously fall short in spite of our best efforts.  Yet salvation is in the journey.  Our "True Self", that inner core of unconditional love and ultimate oneness is only accessible through these unique, individual human perspectives . By delving in, being more "me", by trying out things that I am drawn to, finding the essence in them that attracted me, keeping that aspect and then trying out new expressions of me.  Ideas, looks, interests, passions all bringing me in contact with the world outside me and giving me all kinds of information about the world inside me.  Go for it.  Try it out.  Make a change unashamedly.  Be who you want to be now.  To err is human.  To not try is to deny yourself the depth of what it is to be human.  There is no failing.  You succeed in having experiences every time you try.  How they turn out is beyond your control, and the unexpected outcome brings the next Adventure.  What do you want? Just do it.

Yum

75 minutes of yoga culminating in headstand in warm pajamas.  With Macklemore, Sia, Mary Lambert, Awesome.  #ilovemylife #ilovemyself

Self-Care

Making some face scrub and about to pamper myself and then do restorative yoga before bed.  Show yourself some love today!

Self-Care

Making some face scrub and about to pamper myself and then do restorative yoga before bed.  Show yourself some love today!

Undoing

Yoga isn't about "doing the pose" it's undoing what is in the way of the pose. As children we generally experience freedom of movement in our bodies.  As we get older various factors contribute to our feelings of aging and limitation.  Approaching our adult body with compassion and curiosity and a spirit of removing obstacles is the heart of physical yoga.  Find ease and freedom!

Freedom

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