Practice everyday to be embodied in aliveness.
Meditation does not need to be on a cushion. It can be in any moment where we bring our attention out of our head and into our awareness, our body, our breath, our senses, our presence.
Suffering is only sustained through thinking.
Access all that brings you joy!
Bring it from the past or step into new things you’ve always wanted to try.
Ask yourself in any moment.. ‘what is something loving or feel good that I can do with myself right now?’…
Follow it.
If you can’t seem to choose it, look into the thoughts and barriers that block you. Learn to see what you are choosing and protecting.
We have to learn to really connect with ourselves; come out of our head and into our heart and present moment.
No matter how much stuff we have, if we cannot connect in gratitude within ourself and be truly alive to our environment, we cannot ever feel fully abundant.
Being discerning is seeing things objectively, as they are, without needing to add your ideas or opinions. And with that just having an awareness or knowing of what is right for you in how you are going to respond.
Being judgmental is seeing things through your ideas and opinions and putting them in a box of good or bad.
I had a therapeutic massage today. Man it was so good.
Receiving is so healing!
It made me ponder on how it’s a totally different thing to receive care and physical support than it is to make my own efforts. Both are necessary of course. But man I was grateful.
And it was so clear to me how even a really brilliant doctor still needs a doctor, a nurse still needs a nurse, a yoga teacher still needs a yoga teacher, a Counsellor still needs a Counsellor, a massage therapist still needs a massage therapist.
We need each other.
Learning to open to receive is important.
Often we want to skip our challenging emotions and just feel better. But the way to feel better is to pass through our emotions, or to let them pass through us. This way they can be released and we will come home to land within our self.
We often fear we might be overwhelmed, drown or that our feelings won’t end, if we really let ourselves have them. But this is a trick of our mind, trying to protect ourselves.
Feelings will always pass. That is their nature. They are always moving.
And so with becoming more grounded in our body and our awareness, we can learn to trust ourselves to have them.
If we don’t know how to be with ourselves, what do we really have?
Our body and senses are powerful tools to help us be grounded, connected and present.
We can spend a whole day at work on our computer and often forget we even have a body, as we are in our mind and the screen.
Remember to come into your body as often as possible!
Do things that make you feel good in your body. Take conscious breaths. Walk and feel your legs and the wind on your face, hear the nature and take life in.
We often have the idea that to get stronger we need to squash and conquer our feelings of weakness.
It takes more strength to sit with those suffering parts of ourselves than it does to try not to have them.
When we allow something, it can then move with the flow. When we resist something, we hold it in place.
Strength is inclusive of our vulnerability. With true strength we learn to stay present and remain loving with all aspects of our human self.
With expanding our awareness we can learn to observe our parts rather than be blended/identified seemingly at the mercy of and acting from them.
Work on yourself first.
RATNA DYER 