Finding Peace

Follow me on my journey along the path to peace and healing. Yoga, health, nutrition, spirituality, and poetry.

[warrioryogini]

Does anyone know what happened to Ducky the therapist? Her Tumblr is gone. I hope she is okay.

[warrioryogini]

[awake-n]

We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (via laughing-treees)

[laughing-treees-blog]

Connect with your breathing. Send healing inhales into the space between your thoughts. Open your mind. Imagine you are a bright light traveling in your vast and open mind space. Bring your awareness to the silence, the faint ringing background noise thats always there. Empty yourself as you exhale. Detach yourself from your surroundings. Withdrawal from your senses. Give thanks for everything you have. Let go of everything you don’t have. Feel yourself being supported by the ground beneath you. You are uniquely and beautiful crafted from the stars, and you are enough.

[warrioryogini]

We are often reborn in moments, 

instead of a singular, spectacular explosion

As long as we exist in this universe, we are unfinished;

A miraculous piece of artwork in progress

You are not broken, flawed, or shattered

You begin, again and again, forever and always

You are brand new now, and will be brand new with your next breath

Each morning as you open your eyes

you have a choice

You can repeat yesterday

or you can decide to make a fresh start

not everyday but every moment

We are here together

sharing this common ground for reasons that we may never understand

As I breathe out you breathe in 

We are one

forever reborn Angela Minard 2015©

[abiding-in-peace]

Longing brings a sense of pain.To avoid the pain, you try to push away the longing. The skill is to bear the pain of longing and move on. Do not make the longing short - that’s why it is called Longing.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (via abiding-in-peace)

[warrioryogini]

I am so completely heartbroken that I feel sick to my stomach. I teach a yin class in an hour, and it will be a miracle if I don't cry at some point. I need a hug.

[warrioryogini]

Bruised

"Hurt people hurt people." I don't know where that quote originated, but isn't it the sad truth? It is an endless cycle that continues out of anger and unspoken needs. We throw around the word "forgiveness" as if that will solve everything, but it doesn't erase the pain. The more compassion I have for myself, the easier it is to let go of the anger. The pain is a different beast. You have to befriend the pain, acknowledge it, and keep it company for awhile. This I am learning...I can't starve it away, or drink it away. I can't check out anymore. No...I have to be present with the pain, and that kind of makes me mad, and so I return to the anger. I reach for compassion and forgiveness toward myself, again so that I can soften the anger, soften my heart, and it is a process of coming back again and again to loving myself. I'm a novice at this, so I make mistakes. I lashed out in anger at someone that I love because they couldn't love me in exactly the way that I wanted. I offered them my heart, which is soft, and easily bruised, and out of love and trying to protect me, they did the opposite of what they were trying to help me learn. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The love you withhold is the pain you carry." When someone withholds their love after you have tentatively offered yours, the pain is twofold. Withholding has only two goals that I can see; either to punish the other person, or to maintain the balance of power, and no matter what the situation or context of the relationship, neither one of those reasons is right in my mind, and never will be. For now, I'm babysitting my pain with tender care, hoping for resolution and understanding, with the heartbreaking knowledge that I may have to walk away from someone who was pivotal in changing my life for the better. If that has to happen I will most possibly be the strongest bitch walking the face of the earth.

[warrioryogini]

Everything is beautiful and I am so sad. This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief. The light spraying through the lace of the fern is as delicate as the fibers of memory forming their web around the knot in my throat. The breeze makes the birds move from branch to branch as this ache makes me look for those I’ve lost in the next room, in the next song, in the laugh of the next stranger. In the very center, under it all, what we have that no one can take away and all that we’ve lost face each other. It is there that I’m adrift, feeling punctured by a holiness that exists inside everything. I am so sad and everything is beautiful.

Mark Nepo

[grilledcheese-samwich-deactivat]

I was babysitting today and we were playing with his kitchen set, and I couldn’t help but appreciate how adorable the nutrition labels were. Why can’t all nutrition labels look like this?

[katimorton]

LOVE THIS!! 

[zenmister]

Hello. How can I manifest a better body? Also, please tell me about the releasing and the letting go part. Thanks !!!

To manifest a better body practice self love. Your body’s job is to carry you through life. Appreciate your life and your body will take you where you need to go. When evaluating you body, don’t be too hard on it. Try not to worry about the shapes and sizes of your features or the distribution of fat. Focus on how your body manifests energy. See how it can create joy, gratitude, generosity, good penmanship, artistic expression, smiles, and things like that.

Try not to criticize your body too much. That kind of thinking hurts its feelings. Give your body plenty of exercise, healthy foods and a decent amount of sleep. Try not to burden your body with too much stress. That impedes its ability to fight off diseases. Give your body plenty of oxygen. Take deep breaths often to make sure it is getting what it needs. Carry your body with a dignified posture. Whenever you can remember to do it put your shoulders back, open your chest, and hold your head high. Stand like Superman, or Wonder Woman every so often to fill your body with that kind of power and confidence.

For releasing and letting go of negative thoughts, take a deep breath whenever you notice them occurring. See if your thoughts are judging yourself or others and don’t buy into the judgement, but label it judging and focus and pay attention to your breathing. If your negative thoughts are projecting into the future, remind yourself that the future is completely unknown and bring yourself back to the present. If your negative thoughts are about the past, remind yourself that the past has past, and bring yourself back to the present. If your thoughts are about the present, be present with them. Notice your thoughts, feelings, sounds, tastes, sights, and breath and posture. Bringing your awareness back to the present again and again will help you forget about whatever negative thoughts you were entertaining.

Practicing mediation once or twice a day will help you build skills for noticing and releasing thoughts. It will also help sharpen your awareness and increase your capacity for compassion. When you get good at compassion you stop cutting yourself down and it becomes easier to release negative thoughts.

When you practice self-love and compassion, your body will take on whatever form best suits you.

[constanthummingbird-blog]

[bodhi-in-green]

In the process of loving yourself, it might be necessary to change your definition of beauty over and over again. If you limit that definition to a sharp and thin appearence, while you see soft and round in the mirror (or the other way around), there’ll always be that sense of disappointment and not feeling good enough whenever you catch a glimpse of yourself. But when you allow yourself to see the beauty in the curve of your shoulder, your belly, your breast, the genuine smile that lightens up your face when you feel happy, your hair, your thighs, your being.. If you allow yourself to include you in your definition of beauty, nothing, no fucked up social idea of beauty, no expectations of family, friends or lovers can take the feeling of being worthy and, very simply put, beautiful ever really away.

[pachipachiworld]

[afadthatlastsforever]

The thing I can’t stand most about myself is that I’m so rarely settled. That I cannot allow myself the space to feel satisfaction in what I have. That I avoid intimacy at all costs and court difficult things. That I dismantle everything I love because I am so terrified of ends.

Beau Taplin // The Displaced (via afadthatlastsforever)

[thewriterscaravan]

Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people live in angry bodies. The bodies of child-abuse victims are tense and defensive until they find a way to relax and feel safe. In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past.

Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (via thewriterscaravan)

#trauma

[whispers-of-the-rain]