aha

read in an inspiring yoga class tonight...

1. Telling people you love them even though there is so much poison that you think you hate them. Once you say it you burst open with white joy and then you miss the time lost in the negative.

2. Doing things that make you really scared but really exhilarated.

3. Muting the voice in your head that is always worried, always tentative, always keeping you in the land of stuck. "Just do it". GO.

4. Saying no to people who only take.

5. Saying yes to people who give you as much as you give them.

6. Opening your heart so wide that you touch a space that is unknown, uncomfortable and exposed. Staying in that space. Holding it. Holding it. Ahhhh.

7. Turning addictions into accomplishments. Nothing has you in its grips. You are the grips.

8. Service to God/Goddess. Everything else will fall into place.

9. Sacred sweat, lots of it. Dance. Laughing so loud someone complains.

10. Forgiving the world and then making it better.

s l o w down

these days, i seem to find my mind pacing...racing, rather, back and forth, forward and back. and i can't seem to slow it down. not enough deep breaths, lion's breaths or solitary moments can slow it down. sighing helps, only momentarily, then i get to thinking about what's going to happen next, what i can do to allow myself more time for...myself, how i can create more and expend my energy into something creative and something i love, where i can go where cars don't exist or if they do, they are all SMARTcars, with cyclist-loving drivers...i could go on, but honestly, i'm content where i am. i love my what i do, i love the people i am surrounded by, and i love eating frozen lasagna at 11:00pm. i just want to stop thinking about all of that and s l o w down. and live in the moment, appreciate life for what it is right now. stop thinking about work on my days off and UNPLUG. do the things i love.

be here now.