Facebook Break

There are moments in life that are meant to be shared with our friends and family. We rejoice in celebrating some of these moments together, while other moments bring us closer by sharing our pains and agonies. Facebook has been a wonderful instrument for sharing these moments. But not everyone agrees on what, when and how some of these moments are shared. 

And Facebook isn't the only medium we use to share. Some people share more than others. I use several formats of social media for both personal and professional sharing. As a self employed yoga therapist, I rely heavily on these formats to get the word out about my classes, services, and even to sell some of my handmade items. 

But as of late, I've noticed that I spend way too much time browsing and not enough time developing myself professionally, so I've decided to take a hiatus from my personal Facebook. I will continue to use my business page to share yoga news and events. I will also be using my instagram to simul-post to Twitter and Facebook. I hope to use this time saved to reflect and meditate on my future. All things being equal, I hope to realize a direction for my future with a clarity I feel I cannot achieve with my face buried in that book. 

When and if the time comes that I feel the urge to come back to the book of faces, I look forward to catching back up on all these moments. In the meantime, if you want to share any moments with me, you'll have to do it the old fashioned way.

Peace, love and applesauce, my friends.

How to manifest anything

I've spent the better part of the last 18 months creating a new reality for myself. It began a long, long time ago, but it didn't really pick up momentum until I started yoga teacher training a year ago January. This is when everything I had learned and experienced previously started to come into sharp focus.

I have been on this journey for as long as I can remember, but what I didn't understand then, that I understand now, is that until you create new patterns of behavior, you will generally respond to situations from your default settings, and my defaults needed to be reset.

If you Google "Manifest" you will likely find an entry from WikiHow on "How to Manifest Anything". It is bizarre for me how readily available this information is, yet how few people realize how simple changing your life can be. One of my teachers explained to me that you can read something a hundred times, but until you are ready to understand it, the knowledge will not take root in your mind. 

Over the course of my lifetime I have had countless experiences with manifesting results by the sheer power of my thoughts. Being the skeptic I had been, I generally perceived the results to be either a fluke, a coincidence, or possibly the result of some unseen force that chooses to allow some events to happen, while disallowing others. Often the result would lead to some less than desirable situations that left me feeling like maybe I was wrong in thinking I could create a wonderful life for myself. Even more often, this would lead to depression and/or anxiety, filling me with regrets that I had even attempted to change my fate. 

So what changed? My brain did. I have been fully immersed in a course in changing my life, by changing my mind. I have been surrounded by teachers that have helped me to "see clearly now." I have tested the theories and repeatedly gotten the same results and I can safely say, you CAN create a wonderful life for yourself, too!

Here are the simple (easier done than said!) steps to creating a new reality for yourself, according to the WikiHow page:

1

Accept and acknowledge that your thoughts are forms of energy that contain the seeds of your future experience.

2

Learn to still your mind. Meditation is both easy and difficult. Once you master the meditative state, begin to introduce a specific word like 'happiness' or an image (sort of like your personal logo) in which you have invested some meaning (like a check with a specific amount on it).

3

Reinforce this technique by keeping a new reality journal. In it write accounts in the present tense (as if happening now) of what you do, say, think in the experience that you are manifesting.

4

Make way for new experiences by consciously changing old habits and routines. Take a new route to work. Get up earlier. Have something different for breakfast. Give up some things.

5

Create rituals to symbolize your expected outcome. If you are manifesting a new car, buy something small that symbolizes it.

6

Enlist the support of all supportive forces: trusted friends, favorite places, inspiring music, or even your own created talismans.

http://www.wikihow.com/Manifest-Anything