Choosing LOVE

July 27, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Sun hands

I am making it a personal part of my practice to stop sweating change and the constant evolutionary process.
I am choosing to sink in and love it all. It’s natural, it is normal, it is karmic, it is correct.
We are ALWAYS in it or just coming out of it or just going back in and sometimes we match up with the people closest to us and it feels normal and sometimes we don’t and it feels rough and lonely.
It’s just what’s happening. Sometimes it feels terrible, painful and despairing. Sometimes it’s joyful, easy and inspired. We get locked in to this idea that “happy” is the correct way to be all the time. This idea that we have to be happy all the time creates a ton of judgment if we feel angry, sad, bummed.
I believe that when we are “in it” is when the actual healing is happening. It’s like being in war with your soul and that’s okay. Can you roll with pretty and non pretty reality? It’s so serious and also not so serious at all.
JJ
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healing

June 28, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Time out

::: on HEALING ::: Healing is a dialog between you, your ego and your highest self.
What am I going to put in my body today? Who am I going to surround myself with that will nurture me and support me? What kind of environments will I put myself in? How will I treat myself when I feel angry, anxious or insecure?
I have been treading water lately and I have been trying to manage anxiety and heal and it’s a process. People collectively think that healing is a warm cup of tea, puzzle pieces sliding in to place, and the end of a headache. When we get a cut the healing process is actually super gnarly. It’s uncomfortable and can out you on edge. Healing is a process and a practice, same as anything. Don’t judge yourself for what your healing process looks like.

For me, healing is ferel sobbing, laying in bed, watching a movie, trying to catch my breath laying on a cold tile floor, lacing up my sneakers and running, crying in savasana(me always), eating ice cream or talking shit with a friend until the real root of the matter pops up. It’s fucking gnarly and hard but I’m committed to my growth and change and healing process.

Feel free to leave a comment and let me know what your healing process looks like. How do you heal?

Truthfulness

June 26, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Truth

“is my “yes” coming from a dark corner or from the light in my heart?” ~ c.L.

The word Satya is Sanksrit for truthfulness. It’s a powerful language because it’s a vibrational language and so each word is so much more ~ it literally holds the very essence of the word. Satya means a lot more than “not telling lies”.

Truthfullness is fierce in its demands and magnanimous in it’s offerings.

“When we are real rather than nice, when we choose self expression over self indulgence, when we choose growth over the need to belong, and when we choose fluidity over rigidity, we begin to understand the deeper dynamics of truthfulness, and we begin to taste the freedom and goodness of this jewel.”

“REAL comes from the center of our unique essence and speaks to the moment from that center. Real has a boldness to it, an essence, a spontaneity. Real asks us to live from a place where there is nothing to defend and nothing to manage.”

~ The Yamas + The Niyamas by Deborah Adele

When you connect with your truth and start living from that place, you begin to see the distortion that sits between being nice and being real. Nice is fake. It’s a dreamy illusion of what you think you should look like or sound like or be. Being nice is operating from a place of inauthenticity because you think you will be accepted.

Bring real or truthful, means you are operating from your center, your innate sense of self. You are brave and authentic and honest and true. Make it a part of your practice to be real and authentic and see what unfolds for you.

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“is my “yes” coming from a dark corner or from the light in my heart?” ~ c.L.

The word Satya is Sanksrit for truthfulness. It’s a powerful language because it’s a vibrational language and so each word is so much more ~ it literally holds the very essence of the word. Satya means a lot more than “not telling lies”.

Truthfullness is fierce in its demands and magnanimous in it’s offerings.

“REAL comes from the center of our unique essence and speaks to the moment from that center. Real has a boldness to it, an essence, a spontaneity. Real asks us to live from a place where there is nothing to defend and nothing to manage.”

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