February 2012
18 posts
SYCS
“…when I thought working out meant smoking filterless cigarettes and walking to the subway…”
“Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves -...”
– Benjamin Hoff
“I started to carry chalk around with me. I ride my bike a lot, so, I’d ride my...”
– Jake Reilly, a 24-year-old college student who gave up his cellphone, email and social media for 90 days. He says that, among other things, the experiment taught him that some people he thought were close friends really weren’t that close after all, and he thinks it helped him get back together with...
“-Trust the wisdom of the heart.
-The universe is a stage on which your mind...”
– Yogi Tea =)
January 2012
13 posts
Timeline huh??
The Hen & The Egg
The hen knows that inside each egg a chick awaits birth. If the hen pecks on an egg to help the chick come out before the chick is ready, she can destroy it. So she waits and listens until she hears the chick pecking from the inside, then she starts pecking from the outside too.
Buddhist metaphor
“Anxiety is excitement without the breath.”
– unknown
Intentions are
not goals, but rather, a set of choices or selections of optimal applications to meet whatever needs present themselves to the client. While it may seem that bodywork is the obvious first choice, frequently energy work, talking or holding may be options of intentions that therapists need to consider too. We want to be open to awareness, curiosity, and participation with the client, and not lose...
“Thank you for listening. Thank you for understanding. I know what I said before...”
– Me
There is no good or bad, right or wrong, or better...
Question on Embodiment
Can you choose to look at yourself without judgement, and note every piece of you without condemning, criticizing, blaming, pushing away, interpreting, belittling, berating, apologizing, elaborating, translating, liking or disliking?
Practice Makes Perfect
Peace
Relaxation
Affirmation
Creativity
Timetable
Imagery
Commitment
Exercise
Meditation
Authenticity
Keep a Journal
Enjoy dreaming
Stress reduction
Play games
Emotional release
Risk
Faith
Enjoyment
Comradeship
Trust
I think life should be about touching the lives of...
Survival
I am tired.
I am tired of surviving this life instead of living it. What does surviving mean you ask?
Surviving is the act of peddling through life with small amounts of fun, but mostly worried about what is around the next corner and how you will make it through. It’s not a pleasant time, surviving. You miss out on adventure, on fun, on LIFE. Most people will never understand this. They...
“People cry, not because they are weak. It’s because they’ve been...”
– unknown
December 2011
3 posts
“Unless man can understand two contraries, that is, two contradictory things,...”
– Heinrich Suso
November 2011
5 posts
“The aim of Zen is to focus the attention on reality itself, instead of our...”
– Alan Watts
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”
– Lewis Carroll
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a...”
– Albert Einstein
October 2011
5 posts
“Be good to yourself today.
Love what you do.
Smile before bed....”
– Dove Milk Chocolates…yum
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September 2011
8 posts
“Be like an imbecile, twenty-four hours a day. Be spontaneous and buoyant, your...”
– Ch’Ing-Tu
“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be...”
– Don Miguel Ruiz
“We are visitors on this planet. we are here for ninety or a hundred years at the...”
– The Dalai Lama
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist...”
– Alan Watts
“To be born a human being is most difficult. It is even more difficult to be born...”
– Kyong Ho