Last year my resolution was to do more yoga...and I can honestly say I accomplished that and more. Not only am I doing more yoga, I now get to teach it and bring it to the lives of my students. I can't explain how much happiness that brings me. My resolution this year is to be kind to myself, emotionally and spiritually. I have a tendency of being very hard on myself, I expect to be perfect at everything. That takes its toll on me and I want it to stop. I plan on meditating more, learning more about pranayama, going to gong baths, getting more massages, you get the point. I am going to follow my heart and do what feels right, regardless of what my "plan" is. I know that doing this will not only make me happy, but everyone that I encounter everyday.
The yoga class that I went to this morning was taught by a great teacher. She ended our class by reading us a poem that I want to share. To me, it was something inspirational to hear at the beginning of a new year.
Our deepest fear is not that
we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that
most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented
and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't
serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about
shrinking so that other people won't
feel insecure around you.
You were born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us.
It is not in some of us:
It is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own
fear our presence automatically
liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
Happy New Year!!
I guess I should stop expecting you to be the perfect boss at work now.
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