You Are Being Led

Last night's reading included the following excerpt:
'There comes a point in any journey, even in the most magical of trips, when we look around and say I don't know where I'm going.  We have no plan...  Now is the time to practice what you know. Trust. Let go. Stay as peaceful as you can. Stay right in the present moment.  Sharpen your tools - your intuition, your inner voice, your consciousness and your awareness....'
From Journey into the Heart by Melody Beattie

This is right where I am.  Isn't it amazing how a reading can speak directly to you???!!!  My life is a mixture of dreams come true and the path unknown. Of happiness and sadness. Of trust and faith and fear of the unknown.  How can one life be so duplicitous??  Is everyone's life so full of both sides of the coin? 

If I am being led - can I have faith, can I trust it will all be 'ok'?  There is a reason for it all.  There is a path outlined. 

I am hoping so.....

Wine and Chocolate Playlist :)

Intro - The XX
Pickup Truck - Kings of Leon
Next Girl - The Black Keys
What's My Name - Rihanna and Drake
Hot tottie - Usher (featuring Jay-z)
Mash Up Mix- Thick as Theives
We R who We Are - Kesha
Like a G6 - Far East Movement
Raise Your Glass - Pink
The Time - Black Eyed Peas
Wildflower - Cee Lo Green
Come with Me - Flo Rida
Firework - Katy Perry
Innocent - Taylor Swift
Breathe - Telepopmusik

Thanksgiving

It is the month of Giving Thanks.  What does that mean exactly? I think you need to acknowledge the things in your life for which you are grateful and thankful.  You know - look at your life with glass half full!   I have always been that person. You know, the annoying one who says - 'But you have this, you have that..."
If I am not that person, I get really down. Doesn't everyone?? I mean, anyone can focus on the bad stuff. How you've been wronged. Why does that person have what I want? Why am I not getting that???

Instead, change your focus.  Buddhists believe comparing your life to others is a mistake. The wrong perspective. Instead, look at your life as your life... no comparison... and see what you have.  Looking at life, your life, with 'glass half full' changes everything.  Your life and your experience is unique. Besides - looking at someone elses' life isn't a real perspective, right? You get that? It is  your PERCEPTION of that person's life. No one really knows what is happening in another person's existance.  You only know yours!  So seize the day. Literally.

Tell those around you - how important they are to you. Tell those people you are grateful and thankful for what they've brought to your life.  Give thanks for the wonderful things in your life. Heck, give thanks to those challanging people and things in your life too. Those people, those moments define who you are.  Really. Reflect on the things that 'made you who you are.' Give thanks. Give thanks. Give thanks.

Shine Your Light

Recently some of my readings in class have struck me extra hard. Have you ever heard one Ive shared and thought - 'She is talking to me!?' Well, recently I have spoken for me - and I do often actually. I share the things the feelings the struggles I go through because I know others feel the same way.

I have always been a person with 'internal joy.'  In my darkest times, when I have lost that for a bit.... it's devestating. That joy comes from within. A basic love of self, of life.... I do have that. My mom taught me at a young age to find that happiness, find that joy - no matter what the situation.  Because joy does not come from a situation, from another person, from a place. It just doesn't. It should follow you everywhere - as it is inside you.

I have felt joyful in yoga lately. I really have.  I hope it shows. Despite taking the rest of my life day by day - I have been 'present' in yoga. Yoga is my gift. I appreciate it every day.  I appreciate those who come to class to live their yoga and share it with me.

This upcoming week is a big one... 10 classes for me.  My usual, my brand new noon on fridays and my Yoga, Wine and Chocolate on Friday night. Come share the fun, the joy and your light with me - And more than anything - Find your Light, Find your Joy from within and share it with the important people in your life. There is much to be joyful for ... you have it within  you.

Share Your Heart with the World - Melody Beattie

Share your heart with the world. Share Willingly, openly, joyfully what you have seen, what you have learned.

Don't tell people how you think you should have handled things. That's shame.  It teaches others to feel ashamed too. Don't tell people how you wish you had handled things. That's needless regret that we pas on to others.

Share honestly and openly about yourself, the way you felt, the things you thought. Share how going through your experience changed you.  Talk about your resistance, your pain, the imperfect way you did things, the way you handle things now.

Sharing honestly and openly teaches the people around you the most helpful truth - that the imperfect way we live our lives us right for us at the time.  When we love and accept ourselves enough to honestly share who we are, it helps those we touch to believe that they're good enough too.

Share your heart with the world around you and you will bring healing to those you touch.

Latest Playlist 11/2/10

Hauteyoga QA Evening Playlist

Om Mani Padme Hum - DJ Reverend Alsultany
Teardrop - Massive Attack
Bleed - Hot Chelle Rae
Tighten Up - The Black Keys
Strip Me - Natasha Beddingfield
The End - Kings of Leon
Raise Your Glass - Pink!
Just a Dream - Nelly
Grenade - Bruno Mars
Firework- Katy Perry
The story of Your Life - Matthew West
The Sound of Sunshine - Michael Franti
Thick as Thieves
Stay in the Love - Wah!
Jai Ma- Suzanne Sterling
Daylight as Sunset - EarthRise Soundsystem