As you go through your asanas you may find yourself wishing you were somewhere else. Each posture seems to hurt or you just can’t seem to do it right, or do it at all. Why not change your mind set?

Look at each posture as a chance for adventure, even a wild adventure. First of all, even if you are just an average practitioner, you are stronger, more flexible that most people you know.

When you do that next posture, put a little adventure into it. See if you can stretch a little further or hold that balance a little longer. Don’t let the posture beat you.

As a teacher, I sometime get the student who puts so little effort into their practice that I wonder why they come. After a year, or even two, I see no progress in how strong or flexible they are. They haven’t put enough into it to get anything out of it. Is that you?

Why not go for it? Put all you can into your next practice and see if that little sense of adventure doesn’t put a spark of life into it that you didn’t have before.

Namaste!

One of my Principles is that hardships happen, but I always have a choice. Sometimes it may seem as if the choice isn’t there, but it is. If nothing else, you can choose how you will react and think about any circumstance that comes into your life.

Let’s say that you are barely making it financially and the car just broke down. You can pay for the repairs, but it will leave you really short and there may be bills that don’t get paid on time. Now, I don’t know your situation, but I would guess that there isn’t much you can do to immediately increase your income. The money flowing in is pretty much static. Let’s look at the choices.

You can get down and let your thinking go in the direction of “poor me.” You begin to think that there is no way out, that your life is going down the tubes and you will probably have to walk the fifteen miles to work, your kids will have to give up their school activities, your house will be repossessed and your mate will leave you; this all in the same day! Your thinking just gets lower and lower and soon you can hardly move you are so depressed.

Or, you can decide that this is not going to get you down. You will look at your bills and see where you might shuffle things around. You can see if there is any overtime you might work to bring in some extra cash. You talk to your mechanic and see if he can let you make payments. If none of those things come about, you can just decide that this will not beat you, those things that your mind wanted to say would happen won’t happen and you will live through this.

Part of making the change to a better life is taking responsibility for your life and making choices that move you forward. If you want a more prosperous, successful life, you must look for it, you must attract it into your life. The law of attraction says that what you think about, you attract. If you think all those horrid things are going to happen, they start to become true. If you think that things will work out somehow, they start working out. It is as simple as that!

The next time life slaps you in the face, instead of crying in your beer, or milk for those who are health conscious, choose to look for the answers. Let the situation be motivational for you to change instead of tearing you down. Choose to look at how you can make things better and how you can learn from the situation. What does it have to tech you about yourself and the world around you. Your life will only improve when you decide that it will. Until then, you are at the mercy of the situation!

Steve

A Common Path

We all walk the Path of life. What Path are you walking? Is it the Path you would like, or is it one chosen by someone else, possibly forced onto you? If you are like most people, it is, unfortunately, not the one of your choosing.

We are a product of our environment, or so the Sociologists and Psychologists say. It is true that we are shaped by environment, our parents, teachers, and friends. The question is, can we break from this conditioning or is it permanent? Since we have all heard the stories of those who were raised poor and became rich, or born disabled and overcame the disability, we know the answer.

One of the greatest methods to walk your Path is to plan that Path. People who seem destined to walk a Path set by someone else, do so because they fail to think outside the box they have been put in. They accept the Path placed before them and never question or envision it any differently. Those who break free, see the vision of their dreams and desires, not as some fairytale, but as something that can be achieved, something to make plans toward.

Do you walk a life of no planning, or do you walk the Path you choose? Do you see your dreams as attainable, and work toward them, or mere fantasies?