Hello Friends, Have you ever noticed how hard it can be to hang on to good feelings? For one thing, our brains are hardwired to cling to unpleasant experiences (in order to analyze and avoid them) and designed to let pleasant experiences pass through. (Sad but true!) To compound this conundrum, most of us have […]
Category: Joyful Life
Living Joyfully: Beauty and the Beast
Hello Friends, Beauty and the Beast has a place in my heart as one of my most beloved fairy tales. My five-year-old daughter recently went through a phase of fascination with the opening “legend” of the prince’s transformation into a beast, where she asked me to re-tell it over and over again. She could feel […]
Living Joyfully: On Having and Not Having one’s Things
Hi Everyone, As some of you know, I’m in Vermont now with my family, even though I had planned to move to San Diego. In fact, I was so sure I was moving to San Diego that I shipped all of our earthly possessions there in a moving pod. It’s still there. So I only […]
Living Joyfully: a Rare & Precious Flowering
Hi Everyone, In A New Earth, author Eckhart Tolle writes about the blossoming of a flower as a kind of “enlightenment -” the plant’s transcendence of it’s ordinary growth and foliage into something rare and precious – and totally different from the plant’s usual, every day being. Tolle explains the “flowering” form of enlightenment as […]
Living Joyfully
“One thought can create, one thought can destroy” -Dae Yong Kim I always thought he was exaggerating. But last week, as I was working with a Jin Shin Jyutsu client, something magical happened.She came in with a lot of back pain, and I could tell right away that there was a lot of energy locked […]
Living Joyfully
In the martial art I practiced, we had a saying: Action Cures. When you’re feeling stuck or unsure, it’s good to take stock of all your options. But after a while, hovering in this reviewing mode begins to take its toll. New vistas only open up when you take steps toward them. When you never […]
Living Joyfully
Hi Everyone, Wow – I am loving this spring energy. Are you loving it too? We have so many sweet reminders this time of year (between the sneezes) of the deliciousness of being alive. When I smell the lilacs blooming, I’m reminded every day that the essence of our breathing practice in Yoga is ENJOYMENT. […]
