When making a decision start with compassion and love. When carrying out the decision do it with compassion and love.
yoga
It’s going to be okay
Relax your shoulders, wiggle your jaw, feel the muscles behind your eyes relax. Take a deep breath and feel the love and support that surrounds you. How do you feel now?
If you need help, then help someone else. If you need support then support someone else. If you need love then love someone else. If you need to receive then give.
Friday Smoothie Mornings
Thanks to @SocratixSW1 for morning smoothie recipe.
1 banana;
1 date – add to taste
Handful of baby spinach,
Handful of mixed nuts,
Tablespoon of almond butter,
Handful of blueberries (frozen or fresh),
100ml Kefir,
Coconut water and almond milk until up to max.
Additions:
Add pinch of spirulina if you feel like changing it up (turns it super green!)
Add half an avocado
Fly
What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly? – Rumi
Be you
You are not your mistakes.
Start now
Small adjustments add up.
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way” -Martin Luther King Jr.
Practice everywhere
The practice of yoga begins when you leave the studio
The secret is pretty simple
“The secret to living is giving”
– Tony Robbins
It just is
…”I had a discussion with a great master in Japan… and we were talking about the various people who are working to translate the Zen books into English, and he said, ‘That’s a waste of time. If you really understand Zen… you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because… the sound of the rain needs no translation’.”
– Alan Watts
The crazies and quiet ones
In every big city I've lived in, I’ve come across people who talk to themselves. I’ll be sitting on a bus and hear someone start a loud conversation and my first thought is that it’s a loud obnoxious phone call, or maybe it’s two friends having a lively conversation – but after a quick glance I realize that it’s just one person having have a solo conversation. I’ve seen this on the city streets as well, someone will walk past me muttering to themselves or start shouting at unseen people. Their eyes are glazed over and it’s like they are on a different planet. They are lost within themselves and have disconnected from everyone around them.
The only difference between the talker and everyone else sitting quietly on the bus trying to ignore the “crazy” guy is that the quiet people's dialogue is INTERNAL vs EXTERNAL. Everyone out there has a similar chatterbox going on inside their head. Conversations like “I have to reply to that email today”, “I thought that was rude!”, “I shouldn’t have lost my temper this morning (sigh)” “I love her”, “I’m hungry”, “I should’ve answered that question differently”, “Why didn’t he text back”, “I hope the test results come back okay,” “When is the package arriving?”, “I need to workout tonight”, "I feel good", "I feel shit" etc.
Imagine if everyone’s INTERNAL dialogue was EXTERNAL. It would be a noisy bus ride. If that’s the only difference between the crazy / angry guy on the bus then who is really crazy?
The mind is a playful monkey. From time to time you have to catch yourself from being sucked into an internal dialogue with yourself. Calm the monkey with a few deep breaths, get out of your head and get into the moment.
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