Everything will change when your desire to MOVE on to something new and improved exceeds your desire to HOLD on to something known and familiar.

A friend reminded me of Wayne Dyer’s book 10 Secrets For Success and Inner Peace, Here are some questions. I love answering questions like these because it helps me know who I really am and what I really believe.  After you’ve answered the self discovery questions, here are the 10 secrets. http://www.slideshare.net/…/10-secrets-of-successful-life     Continue reading →

A client had been waiting to tell her husband she wanted a divorce. They had no problems but she was bored and no longer felt the love. We talked for a year then I didn’t hear from her until tonight. She said we’d ended our last call discussing how to make hot and sour soup and I’d given her a link to the recipe from my website. She’d spent the last year perfecting her hot and sour soup and getting unexpectedly jazzed about cooking. And her husband? They’re fine. She didn’t necessarily need a divorce. She just needed a change of focus, she just needed to reignite a passion to reconnect with her soul. From that connected place, everything she looked at appeared differently and she realized she was living heaven on earth.

RECIPE: Andrea’s Hot and Sour Soup

Beginning 4:00pm today Friday, May 27 there is a Memorial Day Retreat this weekend at the Yoga Shakti Mission in Palm Bay, FL with Mokshapriya Shakti.
Theme: Compare the teachings of Patanjali’s Yoga Darshan and the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. Both scriptures will be studied and the message of each will be meditated upon.  Picture above: The Durga Temple

REGISTRATION: $130 per person or $190 for families
WHEN: 4 pm on Friday May 22nd until 2 pm on Sunday May 24th.
WHERE: Yogashakti Mission 3895 Hield Road, Palm Bay FL 32907. (321) 725-4024
MEALS: Delicious and wholesome home-cooked vegetarian meals will be served each day.
WHAT TO BRING: Sleeping pad or blankets, sheets, loose comfortable clothes, towel, yoga mat, pen and notebook.
E-MAIL: yogashaktipalmbay@gmail.com to register or call 321-725-4024
Visit http://yogashakti.org

As I get older, I make it a point to keep active with physical tasks and to eat light to be fuel efficient.  At 64 I have no health problems. I take no medication, do little caffeine and no alcohol. When my system is overloaded, it’s not just that I can pack on extra pounds, it’s that my body is the vehicle that allows me to move around in this world.  The fuel I put into it determines how easily and how long I can do that.  When I use food like I use firewood – adding to the fire only the amount of wood that is needed when it is needed – the more easily it is converted to fuel for me, and the more efficiently it burns.  This fuel is what I use to feed ALL of my biological processes – everything, for all organs and body parts, so it’s important.    Continue reading →

I experienced an interesting exercise yesterday watching myself react to old triggers. A pal and I were driving when I spotted a former friend walking north on Emerson Drive. I knew who it was from a block away by the walk, by the clothes. As I passed him, he had a look that I recognized well. He looked completely luded out.  I did a U turn and passed him again. He was sitting under a tree in someone’s yard.  He looked straight toward me and I’ve seen that face enough to know it well. Bipolar, most who know him haven’t seen the down side, they see only the up moods, the faux charm, the manic “on” personality. I saw both for 2 years.  My first thought was he needs to not be walking around like that. My second thought was, “it’s not my job to know what he should be doing.” I went home and thought no more about it.  Later, as I was gardening in the front yard, I found myself glancing up the street and at my driveway. I began to feel uneasy. Back in the day he’d spook me by watching just out of sight. He holds grudges for years and plots payback. It doesn’t matter if there’s a monster in the bushes or if I only think there’s a monster in the bushes;  either way, for peace of mind I should get out of the bushes. I went inside and thought no more about it.  I woke at 3:00am and walked outside for a nighttime stroll around the hood.  As I neared the street, however, I felt uneasy.  I didn’t feel safe walking around in the dark. I wondered if my former friend had been by. For a year he lived across the street at his mom’s, who was my friend for 20 years. For that year I stopped walking at night. He now lives a mile south, so it’s still on his radar. He’d been out walking — when he hates to walk — and he was looking in a bad way. Not what I’d want to run into and certainly not alone in the middle of the night. He’s a troubled individual. I hope he gets the help he needs. And if I feel in danger, I need to look within and see what it is in me that is attracting those thoughts and what I can learn from it. And as always, I trust in God and tie my camel.

We’ve had a mild winter again this year. It’s a sign we will not have active hurricanes hit in our area and, if they do, it won’t be major. Remember that when the seasons starts, doesn’t matter how many they say are forming, it never fails. Do NOT be alarmed if they forecast an active hurricane season. While that may mean a lot of storms forming, it does NOT mean they are around long or that they even make landfall. If they do, it does NOT mean they make landfall near you. If they make landfall near you, it does NOT mean it causes you or anyone you know big physical or financial loss or damage. Just remember these things are as true as anything the meteorologists say.

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