okay so maybe this isn't about Yoga.

Okay so maybe this isn't about Yoga.....but while in India, you can get a little stir crazy at a meditation retreat.....So besides the hours of meditating, the yoga classes or the countless of pages of journal writing and self reflecting...to feel somewhat sane and connected back into the mundane....I enjoy the smaller things in life like.....YOUtube.com......this little tune gets me moving and bumping on my ear phones of course, wouldn't want to wake up the Indian family below....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu_zwdmz0hE


enjoy dancing like nobody's watching because I do, and actually people don't care about you as much as you think so get moving...!

Anxiety.

Anxiety, even writing the word makes me anxious. It is an apart of being human, easily broken and vulnerable as well as the opportunity to triumphantly arise to journey of freedom. When faced with the daily stress of interacting with both the internal and external world Anxiety is never something to avoid but rather an opportunity to take on responsibility in the ongoing commitments of life. Even the Buddha, went on a quest to seek the end to suffering, if he didn’t have stress over the mundane then perhaps he wouldn’t have left his palace walls. When one can step outside their own palace gates or egoic mask one can then inquire deeper into reality and find the purpose to their lives. Getting uncomfortable will create big waves of trusting transformative changes.

good quote

To be whole, let yourself break.
To be straight, let yourself bend.
To be full, let yourself be empty.
To be new, let yourself wear out.
To have everything, give everything up.
Knowing others is a kind of knowledge;
knowing yourself is wisdom.
Conquering others requires strength;
conquering yourself is true power.
To realize that you have enough is true wealth.
Pushing ahead may succeed,
but staying put brings endurance.
Die without perishing, and find the eternal.
To know that you do not know is strength.
Not knowing that you do not know is a sickness.
The cure begins with the recognition of the sickness.
Knowing what is permanent: enlightenment.
Not knowing what is permanent: disaster.
Knowing what is permanent opens the mind.
Open mind, open heart.
Open heart, magnanimity."

The Science of Meditation

Science hasn’t been around for as many thousands of as Buddhism has, however man’s quest for greater meaning in life at been at the forefront of both. What has Buddhism provided for science? Conversely what has science given to Buddhism? Perhaps the model of science is set to be seen as more linear, logical, and rational associated with the left hemispheric view of life whereas spirituality can been seen more as an intuitive, creative, and spontaneous correlating to more greater interactions to the right hemispheric side. Where can both worlds exist and have inter-hemispheric resonance. Is the cortex the answer?

Winter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGdFHJXciAQ&feature=related

Dear winter....Yes, its been a long love affair of snow dancing in the air and bitter wind to wake up my drowsy state....but it's time to let go your time is about to expire I play this song in appreciation and as a goodbye.

Exhale.

I exhale to let go.
I exhale to make room for the unknown.
I exhale to laugh.
I exhale to cry.
I exhale to create courage in the shaky.
I exhale to surrender.
I exhale to trust.
I exhale to breathe again.
I exhale to feel.
I exhale to live.
I exhale to do it all over again.
I exhale to allow.
I exhale in order to notice the space in between.
I exhale to release the idea that I'm in "control".
I exhale to let others in.
I exhale because it happens organically as the gift that keeps coming.
I exhale of an expression into deep grounded gratitude for each breath.

See You When You're 40.

Dido- Heals.....................Listen to this tune...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxGIjqTM_Q

Music Therapy.

I've driven round in circles for three hours
It was bound to happen that I'd end up at your
I temporarily forgot there's better days to come
I thought that I would give it just one more chance

Cos' I want, tonight, what I've been waiting for
But I found, tonight, what I'd been warned about

You think that you are complicated, deep mystery to all
Well it's taken me a while to see, you're not so special
All energy no meaning, with a lot of words
So paper thin that one real feeling, could knock you down
And I've seen, tonight, what I'd been warned about
I'm gonna leave, tonight, before I change my mind
So see me when your 40, lost and all alone
being comforted by strangers you'll never need to know
not sad because you lost me
but sad because you thought it was cool to be sad
You think misery will make you stand apart from the crowd
well if you had walked past me today I wouldn't have picked you out
I wouldn't have picked you out
now I've seen, tonight, how I could waste my time
and I'll be on my way, and I won't be back
cos I've seen, tonight, what I've been warned about
your just a boy, not a man, and I'm not coming back