Greetings,

Take a deep breath right now. Be aware while you are doing this. Take a deep breath. Hold your breath briefly. Let it out.
 
I usually include a breathing exercise or experience at the end of my newsletter, but this time I start with it. Why?
 
People for whom yoga is a way of life, Yogis, equate the breath with life itself. Breath is the current of life force always moving through you, moving through you until you take your last breath.
  
Right now you have an opportunity to appreciate and connect with the stream of your own life energy. You always have that opportunity. All you have to do is to pay attention.
 
I invite you several times today, to join me in taking a few deep breaths. Notice that an intentional breath activates an awareness and a connection to the stream of life, that life current that is moving through.
 
Where do you want to direct your life energy? We have choice.
 
We all have desires, things we wish or hope for, points of focus to where we turn our attention.  Desires, in the form of thoughts, channel our energies. Without objects of attention, we are aimless and dissipate our energy, our precious life force.  
 
I have a strong desire for self-care that includes yoga, meditation, and relaxation, so it is easy for me to direct energy towards those activities. I love to do all three and have invested 40 years in practice, believe it or not!
 
Today is a great day to re-direct your energies. If you could make one change in your physical abilities this year, what would it be? If you could improve your mental faculties, would you? How about your emotional state? Or your connection with that which is Beyond?
 
The poet Mary Oliver says: "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

 

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