Greetings~

I wish someone, somewhere, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. Our parents, schools, friends . . . everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. It's like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole over and over again. And at a certain point, those expectations create disappointment and sadness and stop us from being in the now. At a certain point, we realize (sometimes several times in my case), that we can't MAKE something happen.

Life doesn't work that way.

We have to flow with the tide, do our part, and then . . . yes, that's right . . . surrender . . . surrender to the natural order and flow, because deep down you know there is one. And deep down, you know on some level, what the right choice is and when it's time to let go and let the current move you.

Sometimes it's what happens in place of what you expected that becomes the most thrilling ride of all. That's when life gets so juicy. Because we grow, learn, change, and have a deeper understanding of life. And in hind-insight we can usually see why something did or didn't happen.

So rather than getting sucked back into what becomes an endless cycle of hope and disappointment, what if you could, even for a moment, let go of expectations of yourself, of your life, of your day,
and settle in to what is right now:  the body sitting, the breath engaged and present, and the spirit a little more spacious. Try it -- wherever you are -- feel your body on the chair, take a deep inhale and just feel . . . feel the aliveness of you, the aliveness of Spirit that guides you from a deeper knowing. Follow that place.

Namaste, 

Anisha

Things don't always go as we expect them to, but what happens instead, that's the good stuff! ~ The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel