You Are Enough
Just being here, being ourselves, is enough.
Most of us have the feeling that we are here to
accomplish something big in our lives, and if we haven't done something that
fits the bill we may feel as if we are waiting. We may feel incomplete, or
empty, as if our lives don't yet make sense to us, because they don't line up
with our idea of major accomplishment. In some cases, this may be because we
really are meant to do something that we haven't yet done. But in most cases,
we can let ourselves off the hook with the realization that just being here, being
ourselves, is enough.
As we live our lives in this world, we share our energy and our spirit with the
people around us in numerous ways. Our influence touches their lives and,
through them, touches the lives of many more people. When we strive to live our
lives to the fullest and to become our true selves, we are doing something big
on an inner level, and that is more than enough to make sense of our being here
on this planet at this time. There is no need to hold ourselves to an old idea
in the back of our minds that we need to make headlines or single-handedly save
the world in order to validate our existence.
We can each look within our hearts to discover what is true for us, what gives
our lives meaning, and what excites us. We can release ourselves from any
pressure to perform that comes from outside of our inner sense of purpose.
Staying in tune with our own values and living our lives in tune with our own
vision is all we need in order to fulfill our time here. Our lives are a
process of becoming so that we cannot help but cocreate; being who we are,
responding to each moment as it comes, we can trust that this is enough
A Daily Om post
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This from Jacci Gruniger in Santa Fe, NM:
This
year I am working with these mantras:
I
AM enough
There
IS enough
I
HAVE enough
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"Falling in love with
yourself is as beautiful as any experience of love is. It's learning to laugh
at your awkward tendencies and smile at all your quirky habits. It's learning
to be grateful for the many sides you have - confident, crazy, shy, sexy,
nerdy, angry, weird, and all the rest of them. It is realizing that you're one
of a kind and that you deserve to give the world the best person you can be.
Falling in love with yourself is being happy in your life and knowing that in
this one moment in time, you're beautiful simply because you are you." -
Kovie Biakolo
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story
inside you.” - Maya Angelou
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“Every time we ask a good question, we’re generating a
fresh possibility and a new way of seeing our life.” — Jen Louden
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“Slow Yoga:
Musings from the Beginning of the Bell Curve”
See the writing by Kaoverii - Sublte Yoga
Good
Yoga = Fast and Strenuous Yoga
(How do you answer that?)
But cultural speed comes at a
price – it creates a myriad of stress and meaninglessness induced illness and
dysfunction. as J. Krishnamurti said:
“It is no measure of health to
be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Not that fast strenuous exercise doesn’t have its
benefits, of course it does. But when speed and productivity become the primary
goal of yoga and reinforce toxic cultural values, then it becomes problematic.
The antidote to our caffeinated culture gets devoured by that culture.
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Here are a set of
new themes for some of your yoga practices:
"MOTION IS LOTION"
“Movement is medicine.”
“Gentle is the new advanced.”
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My meditation teacher from Kripalu was, and is, Jonathan Foust. You can visit his website at
https://www.jonathanfoust.com/.
He lives with his wife, Tara Brach (also a
meditation teacher, see
https://www.tarabrach.com/)
in the Washington, DC area. Jonathan likes to get out in his kayak and take
photos of the wildlife. He has put together a
great five minute review of the area wildlife of last year and is
posted on youtube.
The back ground music
is him playing his meditative flute.
See -
Riverbend
Park Images, 2018 by Jonathan Foust
His annual self
review questions at the beginning of a new year is asking himself –
What Worked?
What Didn’t Work?
What’s Calling Me Now?
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Perhaps your inner
guru is inviting in the Essence and Energy of
Patience / Courage
/ Insight
Let us all slow down in 2019 and see what is really here!
