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Sparkler of the Day – Let Go of Limitations

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Here is the Sparkler for the Day – Letting Go of Limitations:

“Let go of your concerns over what other people think. Let go of even what you think about yourself. Our beliefs are limitations that keep us confined and addicted to how we think things should be, to what we think reality should look like. Our fears are real, yet they live from this place of quarantine. We have decided what is possible and what is not. We have decided how the whole world will play itself out. This is how we create our reality. We have decided that the impossible is, for us, just that – impossible. Literally.

How can we create from such a restricted place? How can we heal from a place such as this? We have put out the vibration that says, “I can go this far, but no farther”. “I can do this, but never do that.”  “I can heal from this, but not from that.” We do not know what the outcome of our healing will be, for we are not God, of course. Yet, when we clamp down on and cling to our beliefs in our limitations, aren’t we really telling God how it’s supposed to be? Aren’t we making a proclamation that our healing power can only go so far and no farther? If we decide that we are doomed, we have chosen our position and thereby doomed ourselves.

Belief – travesty of the mind … if we allow it. If we can just step for one moment beyond this imprisonment, we have ventured into a larger world – a world of infinite possibility. We have stepped into the impossible. Who knows what will happen? Who knows what healing will ensue?

We look to other people and what they accomplish as a measure of what is possible for us. Because we are so stuck in our own limitations, we automatically see the limitations of others. Such a place is completely inadequate for us to bloom into ourselves. How can the impossible ever transmute into the possible if we are coming from the captivity of such constrained thinking? Take matters into your own hands. Allow yourself to rise into yourself. Reach beyond the programming and touch the stars – for as surely that they are out there, they are within you just awaiting recognition. You are ultimately an infinite being, as are we all. Why is it so difficult to believe this? If we are to expand into our full potential, it is incumbent on us to expand then beyond the walls of our limitation into the infinite nature of who we truly are.

Trust. Believe you can heal. Reach beyond your beliefs into surrendering yourself beyond the powers of the mind. Surrender to your experience. Allow all of it and be its witness. Whatever your story was, clear the slate. Let the space of pure presence work its power on you for it works in a land that writes its own story in every moment. It writes the story of creation, It writes the story of the impossible becoming possible.”

  • Excerpted from Chapter 1: the Power of Story from the upcoming book “The Way Out: Crack the Code to Chronic Pain & Discover a Thriving Life”

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Report From The Back 40 (Out & About Edition) Winter Solstice Day 6

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Here is my Report From The Back 40, Out & About Edition, from Winter Solstice, Day 6.

“I live in a house of miracles, held and guided by a light deep within…” from Jai-Jagdeesh, Ardas Bahee, a chanted prayer that speaks to prayers both known and unknown to us… this was the refrain that resonated for me through yesterday, Day 6 of the Winter Solstice celebration and our 3rd day of the white tantric yoga practice.

Inside the heart is that eternal space. I feel like we are born fully connected to this and somehow during our early years, we become disconnected to it. For me, it has taken my lifetime to fully reconnect and truly realize, reactivate this sacred union. To discover the essence of who I am. This yoga practice has accelerated my reconnection. While the meditations were challenging, thanks to the group conscious, my steadfast awesome partner, Katherine, and my own inner strength, I was able to stick with the postures each time and transcend into another level of consciousness. I had a number of pretty much indescribable experiences. Each one left me in awe of the vast nature of my body and awareness.

So after 3 days, 12 meditations each 62 minutes long holding a different specific pose, and then 6 – 31 minute meditations holding a pose, we completed our white tantra yoga experience. I was amazed that my voice held out after so much chanting. Now the icing on the cake for me, and I feel everyone else there, was the dancing afterwards. What an after party! These yogis and yoginis really know how to shake loose! Imagine 600 people all practicing together for 3 days, holding poses and consolidating their energy. Expanding themselves from within. And then allowing to release. I felt like we were all rubber bands that got stretched and held to our absolute limit…and then finally released into the air. I never saw or felt such energy in a room dancing and just pure all out celebrating the sheer joy of being alive. I’m pretty sure we actually raised the tent roof at least a few inches. We say, “Ang sung wahe guru!” ‘Every cell in my body is vibrating to that of the Infinite.’

I close for now with a precious quote from beloved spiritual teacher and yogi, Yogi Bhajan: “Peace be our prayer. Peace be our motto, motive, and mission. May we have peace of mind, peace of self, peace of the Universe and peace in our families. Peace in our relationships between our friends and all humans, and may we achieve peace between our enemies and ourselves.” Sat Nam, dear friends.

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Report From The Back 40 (Out & About Edition) Winter Solstice Day 5

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Here is my Report From The Back 40, Out & About Edition, from winter solstice, day 5.
Ong namo guru dev namo. I bow to the teachers that came before us and the One that lives within who bring us from darkness to light. Here we are at the longest night of the year together in celebration. This day is so often a most challenging one for me, as the sun lover in me longs so for the light. I woke just at midnight and chanted the above mantra. I added Ra Ma Da Sa Sa Say So Hung, a healing chant, for myself and everyone. It was a gentle and positive way for me to begin this day that in my past has been so difficult.
Yesterday, Day 5 of this celebration, was pretty much bliss-filled for me most of the day. I felt just about every emotion and almost in the extreme in our first morning meditation. The meditations for the rest of the day, one after the other, seemed to elevate me, one level after the next. Higher consciousness and inner strength were the fruits of our labor, and it was a true labor of love. “Know yourself. Love yourself, and teach others to do the same.” These were the words of beloved teacher and yogi, Yogi Bhajan, that stayed with me as I walked out of the 2nd day of our white tantra practice. God: Generator, Organizer, Deliverer ~ I felt closer and deeper into the Infinite and to myself, thanks to the power It brings. We need only ask.
I walk into today with such a song of gratitude and hope in my heart. One last important note. I am struck and so grateful for how beautifully everyone here is living this path. Everyone has a job, seva, love service, and this camp is humming with activity and as smoothly running as can be. What a wonderful and profound example of the gracious result conscious living can bring. I am honored and humbled to be a part of all of it. When we love ourselves, all of ourselves, we shine light on even our darkness, we heal ourselves and in turn we heal the world. Happy Winter Solstice, everyone!
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Ong namo guru dev namo