I think that creativity is an essential part of our being. It shows up in myriad ways, whether it’s fine art or kitchen art or musical art or the art in the way we are with people. Art is every where. As an artist I thought I’d share this beautiful youtube clip with you (yet again 🙂 )… It just, makes me smile.
I have blogged about Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor in the past but I wanted a little inspiration today! It is amazing what can happen when we neurologically align our Brain with our heart!! Consciousness: The way we perceive ourselves and others in the world. Here’s her most exquisite sharing at the TED Talks!
The last few weeks I have shared with you a couple of amazing thinkers and radical peace activists. Today I would like to share the next one with you… Pema Chodron. Now I am certain many of you know her for her teachings and pod casts already so that said I’d like to share a YouTube clip of her with you. A Brief note on her history:
“Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. She attended Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. Pema has two children and three grandchildren.
While in her mid-thirties, Pema traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with whom she studied for several years. She became a novice nun in 1974 while studying with Lama Chime in London. His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to England at that time, and Pema received her ordination from him.
Pema first met her root teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. Lama Chime encouraged her to work with Rinpoche, and it was with him that she ultimately made her most profound connection, studying with him from 1974 until his death in 1987. At the request of the Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the full monastic ordination in the Chinese lineage of Buddhism in 1981 in Hong Kong.” The Pema Chodron Foundation. I highly encourage you to study her teachings. Her sense of humor is wonderful!
Sending Love,
~Sarah
We all have some sort of limiting belief system in our make up. Often this is created from how our past has formed us. Our past has taught us to anticipate the future, whether it is either healthy or not and the painful episodes create limiting beliefs, assumptions and/or obstacles. Just because something has happened in the past doesn’t mean it will happen again. The healthiest thing for us to do is to reframe the situation or experience in a way that is supportive.
As I wrote last week I am introducing you to remarkable humans who have helped frame me and my thought processes throughout the decades. This week it’s Tara Brach, a remarkable human who I thank on a regular basis. She often talks about the release of limiting beliefs and where they come from. I invite you to take a look at this YouTube clip when you have the time.
Sending warm loving thoughts,
~Sarah
I just returned from a spectacularly restful and warm vacation! I was warmed by the sun for 10 whole days, which I didn’t realized just how much I needed it until I was down there. It’s been unprecedentedly cold here in New England and I was in desperate need of some natural vitamin D. Though that said something was going through my head while I was down in sunny southern Florida.
“Wherever you go there you are”: I have been in love with the writings of Jon Kabat-Zin since the mid 90’s and his book Wherever You Go, There You Are is something that I think of often. We take ourselves with us everywhere we go. All of what we are is with us all the time. And I was reminded of this. Everyone leaves for their vacation with either hopes, expectations or intentions for their time away from home. And sometimes while away our time doesn’t live up to what we were hoping for. So a shift in expectation is needed. A thought reframe is needed (or in my case a reframing of my thoughts about returning home to the cold 🙂 was needed). Then there are the thoughts we have about our vacation, I’ll be more…. peaceful, active whatever your thoughts are and then you’re attached to those expectations. What would happen if we let go of that? Allowed ourselves to be exactly as we are the way we are?
“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.”
In the next few weeks I thought I’d introduce you to some of my favorite people who have guided me on the road to awareness and today it’s Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Energetically,
~Sarah
The holiday season tends to make one reflect on what is important to them. I grew up listening to Johnny Mathis, Dean Martin, and Bing Crosby at Christmas. Somehow this song always, no matter when I hear it throughout the year… I reflect. What are you reflecting upon this day?
Love and Light
~Sarah
This morning our power went out, luckily only for a brief stint but our internet went out for… well it’s out now and we’re not certain when we will get it back. I love this weather enforced down time. Our television is web based and when the internet goes so does the television. The quiet in the house is really lovely. All I hear is a man tinkering and a little one playing and creating stories with her legos.
I don’t know about you but when I get going I go! I can lose track of the quiet times, the down moments, the not doing. With all my focus on staying in the moment I can get wrapped up in the doing. So this begs the question: What do you do to stop and smell the proverbial flowers? Or fly the kite? I’m looking out my windows at the trees swaying to the remarkable wind that is definitely a Winnie the pooh kind of day. Today for me it was loosing our power and internet (this post is obviously posting after the fact).
Hope you are all enjoying your Sunday!
Lots of Love!
~Sarah
I have blogged about Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor in the past but I wanted a little inspiration today! It is amazing what can happen when we neurologically align our Brain with our heart!! Consciousness: The way we perceive ourselves and others in the world. Here’s her most exquisite sharing at the TED Talks!
My question for you today is: What’s your theme song? For me having a theme song helps to elevate your joy. It can pull you into the moment when you’re everywhere but in the moment. It can get you ready to go out or stay in if the mood strikes. If you don’t have one I invite you to take some time to ponder what mellifluous tones bring sparkle to the who of you. And the who just might be feel great!
I’ve had my theme song so since college and I still love it! I’ll share it! What’s yours? And PS the dancers are bad a$$!
Stay warm!
Lots of Love
~Sarah
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