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Oct. 15 - 22, 2012

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Rise and Shine

Who else will light the way?

Tom Grunick: What do you do when your real

life exceeds your dreams?
Aaron Altman: Keep it to yourself.

-- Broadcast News, 1987

The above dialogue is from one of my favorite movies, Broadcast News, in which pretty-boy anchor Tom Grunick is handed everything seasoned reporter Aaron Altman has sought both professionally and personally his entire career.

Aaron is not pleased about his ill-qualified rival's meteoric rise at the network and makes no disguise of it in the form of biting (and hilarious)

Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter and William Hurt star in the 1987 film Broadcast News.

commentary. The character of Tom Grunick is especially irksome because his bountiful life is the by-product of packaging, not authenticity. I'd have to agree with Aaron Altman: that's annoying.

I still laugh at this movie 25 years later and if you have not seen it, hit Netflix immediately! However, if you are following your own authentic path and that is opening you up to a life that far exceeds your dreams, now is NOT the time to keep it to yourself.

Quite the contrary. Perhaps you've noticed how much stress and suffering are pressing in on all of us lately. You aren't imagining it. With 7 billion people on the planet and the cosmic forces of an expanding universe (described in part as redshifts), we are being squeezed tighter and tighter.

Like many sages, Yogi Bhajan talked about the stress we would face in these times and 40 years ago cited it as his main purpose for cultivating teachers of Kundalini yoga. He accurately foretold of the desperate need that humanity would have for tools of meditation, connection and balance to survive the shift to the Aquarian Age.

"Yeah," you say, "I'm not a yoga teacher and I don't want to be." No worries. Yoga is not the only tool that brings an elevated, actualized spirit. All you need is whatever practice, discipline, interest or passion you have that lights up your soul -- because the point is not to run around trying to convert people or wake them up.

The point is to awaken yourself and let others see your light shining from within. We accomplish nothing with lectures. In contemporary times, the only genuine guide is the one who lives the teachings, leads by example and offers to light the way for others to walk their own path, allowing them to do so in their own pace and method.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Light up the darkness.

Sat Nam,
Mary

Regular Kundalini, Hatha and Restorative classes at my home studio in North Hollywood are now $25 each and can be scheduled upon request. Private sessions are $75 and consist of a 30- to 60-minute consultation, a custom recipe for a personal practice based on your individual needs, and 30 minutes of follow-up instruction by phone or in person.

Why? WHY? WHY?????

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