Tuesday, January 01, 2008
my 2008 wish for you
My New Year's wishes for all my loved ones are more or less the same wishes I have for myself: a life well-lived, full of love, bliss, grace, compassion, success and peace of mind.
2008 is going to be our best year yet. I can just feel it. My most sincere and heartfelt thanks to all of you faithful readers for helping me through 2007 and making it memorable and mostly positive. May we each continue on our individual paths of personal growth and fulfillment in 2008, with new breakthroughs and ever more profound epiphanies.
I send my love to you and to those who only read rarely or not at all. We create our own destinies, and 2008 will surely be a year of fulfillment of those amazing, terrific, empowered destinies.
Please use the comments to set your intention for the year and share it with others so that we may all be inspired by it. My biggest intention for 2008 is to manifest the resources and the courage to create the life for myself that I want to lead, which may or may not take me to NYC permanently.
Your turns.
2008 is going to be our best year yet. I can just feel it. My most sincere and heartfelt thanks to all of you faithful readers for helping me through 2007 and making it memorable and mostly positive. May we each continue on our individual paths of personal growth and fulfillment in 2008, with new breakthroughs and ever more profound epiphanies.
I send my love to you and to those who only read rarely or not at all. We create our own destinies, and 2008 will surely be a year of fulfillment of those amazing, terrific, empowered destinies.
Please use the comments to set your intention for the year and share it with others so that we may all be inspired by it. My biggest intention for 2008 is to manifest the resources and the courage to create the life for myself that I want to lead, which may or may not take me to NYC permanently.
Your turns.
Labels: celebration, growth, hope, moving, new year, New York, opening to grace, personal, strength, success, transformation, wisdom
Sunday, December 30, 2007
the benefits of yoga
I've blogged quite a bit about the benefits I've realized through my yoga practice, but I recently discovered two very tangible benefits that I thought I'd share.
The first has to do with my recent vacation. While in New York, I did not have the opportunity to physically practice, nor did I meditate at all. And even though I was having my dream vacation, I could feel the same positive energy running through me that I had only previously attributed to a good practice. This endured even after I returned to Tucson, before I had a chance to attend a class or sit down to meditate. It's like there's this kind of yoga residue that sticks with you, that we store up, even when our practice lapses for a short time. I didn't really believe that was true, though I'd heard about it, till I recently experienced it myself. Very cool!
The more tangible benefit that I attribute to my yoga practice is really to me the more remarkable of the two. I hadn't weighed myself in five or six months until earlier today. What a pleasant surprise to look down and see that I've gained 10 to 15 pounds! Really. I weighed myself again just to make sure I didn't read it wrong the first time. I believe most of that weight gain is muscle, and some of it may be due to how my yoga practice has helped normalize my metabolism. Either way, I'm very pleased.
So if you're contemplating starting or delving deeper into your own yoga/meditation practice as a new year's resolution, I'd strongly encourage it. It worked for me!
The first has to do with my recent vacation. While in New York, I did not have the opportunity to physically practice, nor did I meditate at all. And even though I was having my dream vacation, I could feel the same positive energy running through me that I had only previously attributed to a good practice. This endured even after I returned to Tucson, before I had a chance to attend a class or sit down to meditate. It's like there's this kind of yoga residue that sticks with you, that we store up, even when our practice lapses for a short time. I didn't really believe that was true, though I'd heard about it, till I recently experienced it myself. Very cool!
The more tangible benefit that I attribute to my yoga practice is really to me the more remarkable of the two. I hadn't weighed myself in five or six months until earlier today. What a pleasant surprise to look down and see that I've gained 10 to 15 pounds! Really. I weighed myself again just to make sure I didn't read it wrong the first time. I believe most of that weight gain is muscle, and some of it may be due to how my yoga practice has helped normalize my metabolism. Either way, I'm very pleased.
So if you're contemplating starting or delving deeper into your own yoga/meditation practice as a new year's resolution, I'd strongly encourage it. It worked for me!
Labels: joy, new year, transformation, yoga
Monday, January 01, 2007
...and improved
Happy New Year!
I have high hopes for 2007, especially after the roller coaster that was 2006. Still, I have no regrets about the year that was.
At the party I attended last night, we each wrote down three wishes for the coming year, then burned them to send them out into the universe. In class yesterday, we set our intention not just for class, but for the year.
Setting a tone thusly can only yield positive results. It sure beats how I've spent the past five or six new year's eves: home, alone, drinking a vodka and cranberry, watching the ball drop in Times Square and singing both verses of Auld Lang Syne by myself from a 1935 songbook.
This is going to be a momentous year, I can feel it. And what a difference a year makes. I went back yesterday and read my first post of 2006. It was morose and full of self-pity. In hindsight, that really set a horrible tone for the following 12 months.
So I wish all my readers the same love, light, health and happiness that I intend and wish to bring to myself.
It's going to be one hell of a great year!
I have high hopes for 2007, especially after the roller coaster that was 2006. Still, I have no regrets about the year that was.
At the party I attended last night, we each wrote down three wishes for the coming year, then burned them to send them out into the universe. In class yesterday, we set our intention not just for class, but for the year.
Setting a tone thusly can only yield positive results. It sure beats how I've spent the past five or six new year's eves: home, alone, drinking a vodka and cranberry, watching the ball drop in Times Square and singing both verses of Auld Lang Syne by myself from a 1935 songbook.
This is going to be a momentous year, I can feel it. And what a difference a year makes. I went back yesterday and read my first post of 2006. It was morose and full of self-pity. In hindsight, that really set a horrible tone for the following 12 months.
So I wish all my readers the same love, light, health and happiness that I intend and wish to bring to myself.
It's going to be one hell of a great year!
Labels: hope, new year, personal
