AHA moment

 

Today was an AHA moment!!!! After witnessing myself do some yoga postures in my meditation, I decided to follow through and do some yoga stretches after my meditation. “They say” you must see it, BE it before you become it. Well, what better way that acting out what I am envisioning of happening in my meditation, right? So, in meditation I laid out my whole day in front of me. I planned of what it would look like; I witnessed myself eating greens, I figured out what my meals were going to look like…etc. you get the point. But the best part of it was following through. It is great to see it ALL in our mind’s eyes, but then to ACT on it is the most important part of the journey that most of us forget to take.

After a little bit of Yoga stretching, I went to brush. While brushing a voice inside said to me, “Thank Goodness I am not like your daughter. She strictly believes in, if you listen to me then I listen to you mantra. Body is much more forgiving than that, but I do need you to listen to me. You cannot feed a sick child cheeseburger because they are not feeling well and that cheeseburger is only going to end up harming them more than helping them recover. So then why do you eat foods that are harming your system? That are harmful to me? You know you have a sensitive body; then why do you keep feeding it food that makes it weaker?” That was an AHA moment for me. I was like, Holy fuck (sorry for cursing), I have been feeding myself food that my body cannot digest and I keep doing that because it I like it and because it is easy for me. No wonder I am having difficulty healing my Hashimotos Hypothyrodism and Pre-diabetes. I keep eating foods that weaken my immune system. My body needs my help to heal itself. But what if I actually listen to myself; listen to what my body needs for healing, then wouldn’t it in return help me actually heal?...................WOW…. What an mind opening moment.

And then I busted out singing and listening to “Listen” by Beyonce from soundtrack DreamGirls

Learning

Life is about learning......constantly......and then implementing what we have learned. I feel like, I am always learning, but implementing takes a lot longer than I would like it to be. Dont' take me wrong, it happens, and it happens quicker in the beginning, but then keeping it going consistently is a difficult habit for me. Consistently and constantly are the 2 c's I have difficulties with :) I am glad I can laugh about it. 

After loosing mom at 15, I had to learn different things from different people in my lives. For example: I always used a rubber band to tighten all my spice boxes that didn't have a Ziploc already in built. When we lived in Berkeley, I gave cooking classes to our landlords and the way she stored her spices rang true to me. She used to close it with a clothing hanger pin. How cool and creative is that? Now, that may seem something very simple for most of you, but for someone like me, that was a revelation. It looked much more presentable and it didn't crumble up the packet like the rubber band.

I have always enjoyed studying from the world around me than sitting in classes and reading books. Please don't take me wrong, I love listening to books now that they are on tape and I love reading books as well (when my little one gives me time to do just that), but I have always been the one to look at nature for education, to look at the world around me to teach me and to my peers and sisters to educate me and I really like it. I feel like they are invested in teaching me as much as I am invested and interested in learning from them.

So you see my friends, education does not stop after you are done with school or with college. Everyday is a new learning day from the world around you. If we keep ourselves open there is so much new to embrace, learn and implement. So, what did you learn today?

I will start with me. I learned that after my hypothyroidism has been in balance, I am feeling much more than I ever felt before. For example: I used to get acupuncture done before, but never felt it at the level I have been feeling it since my last 2 sessions. Before I felt I was numb to things, now that my thyroid is in balance I feel like my senses of feeling things have returned. I can actually feel the benefits of acupuncture. I can actually feel the chi moving, relaxing me and I LOVE IT. Yay!!!

I hope you have a wonderful day and THANK YOU for reading

United we stand, divided we fall

Om Saha Navavatu

Saha Nau bhunaktu

Saha viryam karavavahai

Tejasvi navadhitamastu

Ma Vidvisavahai

Om Shantih, Shantih, Shantih

Above Sanskrit Mantra translates as follows: 

Om, May we all be protected

May we all be nourished

May we work together with great energy

May our intellect be sharpened (may our study be effective)

Let there be no Animosity amongst us

Om, peace (in me), peace (in nature), peace (in divine forces)

I first learned this mantra at Yoga school, Laughing Lotus San Francisco, CA. It was one Mantra that we had to learn by heart, before we began teaching. I certified in 200 hours Yoga Teacher Training in Vinyasa flow. Back then this Mantra did not resonate a lot with me, back then life was much simpler. 

Today, I am seeing division amongst people and amongst friends regarding COVID - 19 and the information that is being shared. We are being separated by fear (false evidence appearing real). I am choosing to stay away from the nitty- gritty, but I realize I too get caught into the politics of the situation. It is scary. 

In short, I have been repeating this mantra over and over again to help calm the chaos within me, to calm the chaos in my city and to calm the chaos in this world. May we all join me in our free time to help find peace in everything within that we do and everything around us. 

Namaste

Time to share, time to let go

Time to let go

I have been collecting, gathering information for a long time. It's time to let it all go, or to put it in better words, It's time to share the wealth with the world.

I am Reiki Master, 3 time certified Yoga teacher, Ayurvedic practitioner, chef, a mom, very successful 2 times restaurant owner, a wife and most importantly a unique being of my own.  I was gathering information up until now. And now its time to share.....

why the sudden change, you ask? I was doing some core creating conscious healing "stuff", and I realized how much of what other's thought of my writing blocked me from actually writing; blocked me from actually creating what I love to do, which is writing. How many times we get caught up with "what others will think of my piece" that we actually take away our own happiness by not writing or even publishing what and how we feel.  So now I have chosen to step in my creative self, without attachment of the outcome (a.k.a what other's will think). Plus I have so much to share, it's not fair that I keep it all within. 

I feel like this is a good start. More to share with time. Hugs. Have a wonderful Monday everyone

What do you love to create?  Christopher Duncan (Google him) asked me that question when I was learning about Magnetic Mind and Conscious Creating. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. 

He repeated, What do you love to create? Without any expectations. Without any attachments, what would it look like? Images started flowing of me dancing, of me writing again, of me doing yoga again. I had forgotten to create. I had forgotten to create what I love. 

Writing without expectations. I was so focused on what other people would think of my writing that I stopped writing. I write because I love to write and express my feelings. And I am starting to do that again. So, here is to my journey of writing. It does not have to be grandeur, it just has to be me. 

So I now ask you that same question, What do you love to create? Close your eyes and take a deep breathe and see what appears. Once you have that answer, focus on just creating, without any expectations. Do it, because you love it. Create it. Take action. Create what you love, Love what you create.

Threshold

Threshold: Sometimes we look around us and we think we are the only one's that have gone through hell and back. But the more I look at everyone around me, and listen to what their lives have to say, I realize everyone goes through what they need to, in their own way. For ex: You cannot possibly know what I have gone through losing my parents at a young age and then having to move to this country without really having an option or an opinion. And yet to you it may seem like there is no way possible you could handle all those emotions and turmoil in your life, but then if the tables were turned and I were to be given a situation in your life that was a turning point in your life or life changing /difficult, I may have the same to say, "there is no way I would have survived that". So you see, it feels like we are given what we can handle. Our threshold is something like an elastic rubber band. Sometimes we think, there is no way, I can handle another ounce of sorrow in my life and yet if that sorrow does show up we somehow find the strength to carry on through that as well. We all are blessed with the threshold of what we can, and cannot take. I could possibly not compare my hardships with yours because they are personally carved to teach me something I need to learn. I do believe we come on Earth with a mission, and that is of growing and moving forward in life, spiritually. I also believe our parents and family members play a big role in it. They sometimes push our buttons because they too came on earth with a purpose of helping us grow. Its through hardships we learn lessons in our lives that bring change. it does not always have to be that way but it seems to be the way, specially if we are sleep walking and are not fully aware of our behavior and our actions. Now, if we are fully aware of our actions, thoughts and our deeds, this would be a completely different game.

In short, what we are going through in our lives (tough times) and what we have gone through, is here only to make us stronger, humbler and a wiser human being. Everyone's journey is different. So let's embrace ours just the way it is, without judging it, but knowing that it is merely helping us climb that ladder to awareness/ enlightenment, even quicker. Whether we want it or not, we are all on a journey called LIFE. We came from somewhere else and we will return to where we came from but in the mean time, we have to travel through EARTH and while on it, lets have fun even through our difficult times because before we know it, our end is near and we wished we lived a little longer. :)

Namaste

Time's flying

Crap. Its already been almost a whole year since I last wrote. So many changes. It seemed like 2012 was full of transitions and changes. I had 5 goals in mind that I wanted to achieve this year and it seems like I crossed all of them off, one by one. Phew!!! What a relief.

Going back to college has been a great change. It helps me not just expand my vision and see things in a different light but also helps me be more part of this so called "society". I felt like I use to be very one tracked mind, "spiritual", I feel like going back to college, balances that out, quite well. Not planning to do this full time, as I do want to open up my own business some day but its a good practice to start somewhere and to get logistics down.

Last one year has been one big learning year. I feel like my life lessons teach me something new all the time and this time it was about Trust. Learning to trust my own gut instincts. Knowing something, feeling it from within and actually acting on it. I have usually stopped at....."feeling it from within" but sometimes not really acted upon it. I guess everything comes in time, now doesn't it? Acting upon my instincts is the next step.

Along with that lesson, I learned CHANGE comes easy to me and I actually starve and thrive upon change as I have had such a gypsy life for most of my adulthood. But as I have started living with my husband I realized that it might be easy for me to make changes and go through them like nothing, but it may not be the same for others who are being affected with it in my life. With that being said, Change is good, but not all the time. Again, everything in balance, right? :)

Another difficult change I have had to make is step from "becoming" and into "doing". I always believed in things just happening and that's not the way to move forward in life if I want to get somewhere. for ex: If i want to start a business, its not going to "just happen". I will have to take appropriate steps to make it happen. So no more living in my "head space" all the time. Time to step out into the real world and invest into more tangible things.

With that said, it has been an interesting ride my friends. Can you believe 2 more months before this year ends, already? Time is flying

Thanks for reading.