YOGA

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. Rumi

I’ve been practicing yoga on and mostly off for several years, but for the last few months I’ve been practicing more frequently.  Mainly because in my perfect life vision I kept seeing myself doing yoga, which was odd because, like I said, my yoga practice had been very limited.  Nevertheless, I’ve been searching for the yoga studio that seems to fit me just right. While trying to make sense of this vision, my awareness of wanting to live a healthy life, kept popping up. In fact, I want to live until the age of at least 100. So in that respect – I get the vision.  About four months in to my practice, I read an article that included a photo of a 91 year old woman, who not only was still teaching yoga, but practicing.  They photo showed an image of her laying on her back in plow position.  If you don’t know what that is, it’s where, while lying on your back you lift your legs and feet up over your head using your abdominal muscles, landing your toes on the floor. And, since I’m now, living in South Florida, I’m acutely aware of the limitations of many senior citizens, and found this feat amazing.  Her muscle tone looked better than many woman 60 plus years younger.  What a bonus!  So I’ve been hooked, and even more committed, to finding the yoga studio just right for me.

It all fits into my vision of my perfect life.  Although at times it can feel a little crazy, like when I decided to start writing this blog.  But when your trying to create your dream life, you need to  continually nurture what you already have and want, while reevaluating, adjusting, and taking action, for more good to come.  My vision continues to include having a healthy mind, body, and soul.  I believe that my new yoga quest fits right into that vision.  In fact, I want to become a certified instructor.

So start your project if it fuel you and fits your vision, live your life, and don’t worry what others think.

Just a thought,

Love, Goldi

Foreshadowing Life

The other day my thirteen year old stepson and I were watching a movie, that we had already seen before. Throughout the movie he kept shouting out examples of foreshadowing. A term he had learned that day at school, where the writer is preparing you with clues, for whats to come. Foreshadowing can be both a positive or a negative event. I had heard the term before, but this time, thinking about it stuck me, as well, funny…because it seems to work the same way in real life.  As we are metaphorically writing our own story, we foreshadow our life by speaking and writing about things that come true.  You usually get what you believe, and you believe what you say or write, or at least start to.  Soooo, only speak or write what you would like to happen…  Say, it’s going to be a great day! Great things come our way!  Life is Good!

How will you foreshadow your story…

Just a thought…

Love, Goldi

 

 

Self Made Self Made

I saw a t-shirt today that said “Self Made”, …I thought, aren’t we all self made.  Are we not a composite of all the choices that we make.  Whether it’s what we ate, if we exercised, what school did we choose to go to, or if we choose to go at all. What town to live in, where to work, who to date, and who to remaining friends with, etc etc.  We are the sum of every decision.  We can choose to change our direction at any time, we can self make ourselves into something new.  We don’t have to stay where we are unless we love it, or parts of it anyway. We can stay and work on the parts that we don’t love so much.  Being happy comes from within, and luckily, we have the ability to change and adapt.  It is never over, or too late, as long as you have breath. 

Remember you’re self made…how are you doing?

Just a thought…

Love, Goldi