My Yoga Journey

[myjourneywithyoga]

Some days life is like playing a timed fame, but you forget it's timed, are late for everything, and just hope it's close enough to pass the level anyway.

Plus the coffee is no good

[poemswords]

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” - Mark Twain

[myjourneywithyoga]

Picked up my weekend reading from the library today! #lovemylibrary #readallday

[books-n-quotes]

I don’t know if we’re alone in the universe but I’ve met plenty of people who are alone inside themselves.

Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via books-n-quotes)

[myjourneywithyoga]

Just Start

Everyone falls off their bike the first time. Well almost everyone, I know there's always an exception to everything. The point is that we all start something new not knowing st all what we are doing. This shouldn't keep us from trying. Tonight I did a live online meditation on my page. No one joined me but some have watched it since. It was so far from perfect I'm not sure I'd even call it good. It was real though, and real is the best I can offer. No one will look at me and think "I could never do that" so I'm happy being less then perfect. I'm real. I'm authentic. I tried, I did it, and now I'll never have to do my first live meditation again. So it was a success. A small one, a little win, but a win. If you never try then you never succeed If you don't start you can't improve If you don't do it then it never gets done

[myjourneywithyoga]

The point in meditation is to find your way to those answers.

[myjourneywithyoga]

I want to be healthy and tone up I want better cardio So I started running again, after a foot injury, and now I've hurt my knee. So I started body weight training with basics, pull ups and push ups and legs,etc, and now I hurt from shoulders to stomach. Ok Universe, I hear yoga, to,or row back to yoga and only yoga until the pain is gone. I'm a little sorry I strayed

[myjourneywithyoga]

Do It Anyway

It won't be perfect, nothing is Not everyone will love it Not everyone will like it Sometimes you might not even like it If it brings you joy Do it anyway

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[myjourneywithyoga]

Sometimes our best intentions don't work out I wanted to get in my morning yoga outside and enjoy this beautiful day and the wind in the trees.... I got hit it in the head, there was a bee on each side no matter how many times I moved location, and there was a horse fly that kept landing on my ankles. Outside time cancelled. Give me a carpeted floor and air conditioning any day!

[books-n-quotes]

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

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[myjourneywithyoga]

This is my new friend. He makes tea and coffee and wakes me up in the morning with a fresh pot of whatever I set it for before bed. So much more productive with a morning coffee! #my coffee #itmightbelove

[myjourneywithyoga]

When Finding Yourself Becomes Everything

You can't be your best when you can't find yourself, when you can't remember who you are under all the day to day stuff. You can't be at your best when you aren't sure you're you. Sometimes we need to state back, to stop doing everything and stop caring for everyone (not about them, but for them) and just sit with ourselves, do the work, read a book, find a hobby, and reconnect to who we really are. You can do this while balancing everything else, but sometimes you need to just do this, nothing else. Find yourself. Build yourself up. Be just who you are meant to be. Let this be the purpose of your day, of your week, or even your month or year. Go on your own Eat, Pray, Love adventure or do things you haven't done since school. Let finding yourself become everything. When you carve out this time you can focus on yourself truly and without guilt. This leaves you free to do what you love, be who you love. You learn things about yourself that you never knew, you learn what's important and what's not, you feel empowered and free and important. You are valuable and it's important to remember that. To show yourself that you have value and deserve to be treated so from everyone. You become a whole new lighter, happier version o yourself. When finding yourself becomes everything you find the most amazing person within.

[myjourneywithyoga]

The Value of No

We help others We are all in this together We work as a team Except when helping someone, or doing something, is detrimental to your health and wellbeing. Taking care of and doing things for others past your ability or when you just can't manage it well, it makes it worse not only for you but for them. Once you reach burn out you can't help anyone. Once you've done too much you can't take it back. Sometimes tired can't be helped by sleep, and we need to balance ourselves to avoid that form of tired. Sometimes no really means I'd love too but I can't Sometimes no really means I did too much for other people today and I'm tapped out Sometimes no means my body hurts and I can no longer force it to move today Sometimes no means I'm too tired to drive, too tired to function Sometimes no just means I can't, because I just can't. No rarely means I don't care or I don't want to be your friend anymore When you say no to do in something that you just can't do well, then you are saying yes to things you can do well. When you say no to one opportunity you are making it possible to say yes to another. When you say no to helping one person you leave time to help yourself. You help keep yourself strong and healthy and able. No can change your life when used properly, appropriately, and with meaning behind it. No has value to your health, both physical and mental, and helps you do he hints that are most important without getting caught up in things that aren't beneficial. The value of no is seen in your attitude, your abilities, and your friendships. It staved off resentment and anger, it keeps balance and harmony.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be.

Phil McGraw (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[myjourneywithyoga]

Sometimes I need to be reminded that I deserve to do things just for me. For no other reason then that I love them, it's fun, I want too.... So here is my reminder for YOU You deserve to do things just for you, buy things that have no purpose but to make you happy, and you don't need to justify things that make your life better and more fun