The only antidote for fear and hatred is love.
Like your favorite tv super doctor, love swoops in and patiently “cures” these otherwise near-deadly maladies of the spirit.
Forget taking your “chill-pill.” There’s no need to mask the symptoms.
Love, like a skillful surgeon, removes the cause of these maladies.
So next time you feel these illnesses coming on, immediately check yourself in to the love hospital.
You’re in the best of hands with Dr. Love!
The meditation energy is an alluring, trustworthy seductress.
With her warmth, simple beauty, and pure love, she tenderly draws you inward into her quiet chamber–your heart.
What is this gravity that pulls me to earth and roots me here?
My mind and heart may float away at times, but not my body… thanks to gravity!
It helps keep me safe and secure here.
These flights of fancy may take me away from this body for a time.
But then thankfully I catch myself and miss being present in the here and now.
I remember what grounds me… and come back to my body.
Mind and heart, I want you to be here now!
I need you here to enliven this body on earth with all your dreams!
Respect and love are forever dance partners never too far from one another on the dance floor of our hearts.
They are completely dazzled by one another!
The room goes hush when they are on the floor.
Sometimes, a good belly laugh is all that can “cure” the ills of the world and help lessen the everyday pressure of life.
It’s like taking a photograph of the same thing from an entirely different point of view.
Have you ever noticed that when you laugh, your mind loses its grip for a moment?
It lessens its hold on present thoughts, perspective, and even moods.
After the laugh, you somehow feel refreshed, different, renewed… bothered less.
Drink up, my friends!
So many yoga poses like warrior and lions’s breath foster a brave and focused fearless heart.
They that feed the lion within ready to take on the injustices so prevalent in the world and in our everyday lives.
They feed our courage to stand up for ourselves and others rights as though they were our brothers and sisters.
This fierce love needs to be fed like compassion–the yang and yin of the heart.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
May your heart and mine burn bright as we stand up and fight to protect our earth and champion the rights that should be accorded to all people.
So much of yoga and meditation is concerned with the heart and its chakra.
On this Valentine’s Day and in the days and months ahead, remember to do things that care for and feed your own heart and that of those you love.
In a human being, the greatest alchemy of life can occur… compassion brought to pain, or sorrow, or anger, or fear can not only soothe them but literally transform them–accept, hold, and eventually even transmute them like the sun to clouds.
Our consciousness like the sky holds this marvelous drama for us to behold and love.
Giggles are like jiggly lines on the surface of the water.
Belly laughs are deeper ripples,
Like a long series of duck quacks.
What will I be in awe of today?
Like a hiding secret, it will be revealed or spring forth unplanned, unknown before that wondrous moment.
I need to be attentive… or I might miss it.
It may not be flashy. It could be very subtle.
It could be in my cup of coffee…or tea… in a casual conversation in the grocery store line… while pruning in the garden….
It could literally be anywhere, even in my anger or tears….
It cannot be pressured to appear.
It has a funny kind of performance anxiety.
Like meditation, it comes to me. I just need to show up–open and present, welcome to its surprise.
What will I be in awe of today?
Like a hiding secret, it will be revealed or spring forth unplanned, unknown before that wondrous moment.
I need to be attentive… or I might miss it.
It may not be flashy. It could be very subtle.
It could be in my cup of coffee…or tea… in a casual conversation in the grocery store line… while pruning in the garden….
It could literally be anywhere, even in my anger or tears….
It cannot be pressured to appear.
It has a funny kind of performance anxiety.
Like meditation, it comes to me. I just need to show up–open and present, welcome to its surprise.
