"KEEP UP AND YOU'LL BE KEPT UP"

This time of the year we are all focused on our new year resolutions and goals we’ve set for ourselves to really make 2016 count. All of us want this year to be the year of much needed change personally and globally. And while goal setting is a great way to plant the seeds of our futures, it is important to remember that Rome wasn’t built in a day. Nothing great or worth having is done overnight. Sometimes it is as simple as just keeping up with life with baby steps and sticking to our routines whatever they may be. 

The important thing is to persist through daily challenges with neutrality and reminding yourself that you have all the strength and calm you need to get through life with grace. Whatever makes your soul shine, do that as often as you can and make time for it. It will help you be great in other areas of your life. I find that my yoga and meditation practice helps me keep a neutral mind and gives me the serenity to face whatever life throws at me. When I’m in a posture and my arms are shaking and I want to give up but I know if I stay I will reach that transcendent moment that I’m longing for, I push past my limited thinking of “I can’t” or “this is too hard”. Then I detach from my body and connect to my divine nature that wants to grow. So I keep up… I push past the pain to enjoy a momentary escape from the illusion of reality into my true nature and it becomes all worthwhile.

So just keep up… keep moving… keep being… keep shining. The rest will take care of itself. 

SOUL PATH

If you are not living each day with excitement, energy and passion, then you are not living on your soul’s path. So many of us walk through life, feeling numb and desperate for a deeper connection, but aren't sure how to get it. As the saying goes “the two greatest days of your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out what your purpose is”, but if you don't know your purpose then it can be hard to find true happiness.

Soul paths are our prime purpose for being alive through finding the talent within that only we can offer to the world. It always involves going beyond ourselves and helping others in some way with our gifts. Each one of us was born with a divine calling that we offer to the world that is unique to us and until we connect to that life is not as meaningful.

To find your soul path drop from your head to your heart. Ask yourself what you really love and what is most important to you in life. Start by taking small steps towards that every day. Start where you are and give the time that you can even if it is an hour a week. It doesn’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to know everything and you will grow into your passion and become an expert at it with time. By doing what you love, you will be inspired and gain insights into what brings you the most joy. When you lead from your heart, you will be led on the path. 

FOLLOW ME TO THE PATH LESS TRAVELED

Winter Solstice is a powerful time of re-birth and transformation to recognize our shadow, heal our wounds, release the pains and blocks to truly connect to our destiny. There is a tendency for all of us to want to hurry from autumn to spring to avoid the long dark days and coldness that winter brings. Connecting to the cycles of the season and sitting through the darkness of winter is a much needed break for our souls to connect to the darkness within to then transform and heal it into strength and light. 

If we take this time to journey within we discover ourselves and begin to trust life knowing that there is an incredible force within us. Deep inside each and every one of us there exists a summer that never dies. We just have to dive within to access it. Tonight light a candle to symbolize bringing light in and tune in to your wants and wishes for yourself and the planet. Take a trip into that part of you that is your true nature past all the stories you have told yourself, where all your strengths are held past heart aches and your light shines bright beyond the dark veils. The path less traveled is the journey within where we will find at our core we are perfect, we have everything we need and we are enough. We don’t need to do anything or prove anything to be loved. We just need to be.

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus

STAY IN LOVE

The only constant in life is change. We live in a state of perpetual losses. The last breath we just took will never return... yesterday is in the past and there will never be another day like it... we are not the same person we were an hour ago even on a molecular level. So why do we grieve loss? 

It is never about the person, place or thing that we have lost. You see, as human beings we are incredibly selfish in some ways. It's about how that person, thing or place made us feel ... the euphoria of love, hope and joy that they induced in us. They simply came into our life to teach us how to connect to a higher frequency of love and loving. When they leave or we lose something that is valuable to us we have to stay connected to the feelings they brought into our lives. Through them we were allowed to tap into a higher pool of love with a more open heart. That pool is ours to stay in should we be willing to navigate out of our grief. In that pool we now have access to other people and things that are in tune with our new frequency of love. 

So start loving... Start loving everything and everyone around you. You have been given a gift. Each loss is a new beginning and an opportunity to exercise your heart muscles to expand further and love deeper. Always stay in love. 

SKY IS THE LIMIT

As human beings we have been conditioned to live within the confines of our five sense. There is an infinite amount of spiritual data available to us but we don’t have the correct instruments to receive them with our limited senses. We see certain rays of light, but many waves exist that we cannot visually see with our current optical nerve's evolution. There are thousands of other pitch frequencies that we cannot hear but yet other animals hear them. Isn’t likely then there are other frequencies, energies, consciousness that is moving through the universe? We believe that if we cannot see, touch, smell, hear or taste something that it doesn't exist. 

We can choose to function at a lower primal level of awareness and simply exist or we can tap into new and higher levels of awareness that allows us to transcend our environment and literally create a world of magic. There are no limits to what we can create and all that limits us is a byproduct of what we have learned to think we can’t do or that have to be proven scientifically with our limited measuring devices. 

Take inventory of what you believe to be impossible in your physical accomplishments, relationships, health or finances and at the very least, even if it is ‘make believe’ in the beginning, change every impossible scenario in your mind to a possibility and see yourself having and fully living those experiences. Accept no limits in your mind and think of yourself as a manifestation of a higher power that has access to all things infinite because that is your source. We are indeed limitless beings. 

Through yoga and meditation we can temporarily break the chain of the mundane that which is of the earth, and connect to universal consciousness and temporarily perceive a taste of the infinite. Within us there is an infinite capacity that has a connection to all things. Go beyond logic… New limitless thoughts will ultimately lead you to new miraculous realities.