Well, it’s officially here: The start of the holiday season! While some people eagerly wait for 365 entire days to finally break out the Mariah Carey Christmas album, the holiday season can be complicated for many. While it can inspire a spirit of charity and kinship with other human beings, it can simultaneously magnify any perceived deficiencies in our lives: Our loneliness
“Surrender to Grace. The ocean cares for each wave until it reaches the shore. You are given more help than you will ever know.” -Rumi The inopportune events that happen in our lives are there to teach us, care for us, mature us. They are not there to hold us back. They are there to re-direct us to a better
“To be fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.” -Pema Chodron Isn’t it funny how at just the moment when we get comfortable with a new change in our lives – maybe a new job, a new baby, a new city – something suddenly happens to throw a wrench in it? And we have to
In yoga classes, you’ll often hear the instructor say something like, “You can always come to a child’s pose if you need rest” or “take rest here in downward facing dog and breathe deeply.” These statements, while well-intentioned, naturally assume that everyone sees child’s pose or downward facing dog as poses of “rest” and relaxation. But the thing is, some
“The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.” -Julia Cameron The Bhagavad Gita, one of the major Hindu scriptures and part of the Hindu epic tale Mahabharata, details a conversation between Lord Krishna (disguised as a charioteer)
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” -Willa Cather I have always lived my life as if I can avert disaster from happening. If I can prevent failure, I’d reason, then everything will be rosy and nothing surprising or painful will happen (or at least not that often). That way, I can spend my
“A flower does not think of competing [with] the flower next to it. It just blooms.” -Zen Shin It’s Saturday morning, and you’ve had a long week. You want to sleep in, but you decide to go to a yoga class instead. You roll out your mat in the middle of the room, feeling pretty proud of yourself for making
“Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? ÂIs ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? ÂNot to me.” -J.K. Rowling Our bodies are pretty interesting. ÂThey are comprisedÂof trillions, no seriously, TRILLIONS of cells (that’s a 1 with twelve 0’s, mind you. TWELVE!). ÂEvery cell is responsible for carrying out some sort
If you’re interested in health and wellness, you can’t go too far in your day without reading some article about how meditation can improve mental health outcomes, productivity, relationships, and perhaps even change the way our brains function. Some people eagerly try meditation, while others avoid it like the plague. Inevitably, most people find it to be more than a little challenging
