Pic: My sister and I having some 4th of July funI've got a crazy week continued ahead of me. My regular class schedule, 6 classes I'm subbing in total this week and getting packed and ready to leave for Bali next Tuesday morning... oh, I also have a few pieces of loose ends I need to take care of before I leave. Still can't believe I'm going in just over a week! Can't believe I'm going to Bali
at all right now!
The way things unfold in my life lately are pretty amazing. I know some people looking in would have to wonder how a yoga teacher is able to make it all happen sometimes. I will share that I strongly believe in the power of putting your energy and intention on the desire, goal, outcome etc. Where ever your energy, that's your prayer. Seriously. If we are always worrying, that's the energy that we put out into Universal consciousness and that's what we align ourselves with. If I'm being honest... this has taken a lot of work and sometimes I fail
miserably. I can always see, however, just how much I bring on whatever it is that takes up rent in my head and in my thoughts.
Someone once told me I should focus on what it is that I think I want the money
for. By doing so we open up a whole WORLD of possibilities of the *hows*. I realize that this mind and imagination can only take me so far and if I just focus, visualize, and place myself in the experience itself as though I already have "it", *that* is what I align myself with because
somewhere, someone(s) or a sequence of
something(s) is aligning themselves with the same thoughts and energy and through Universal consciousness, amazing things can come together for us if we allow space for it. On a practical level, I've worked my tail off to live a debt free lifestyle. In a few months, I won't owe anyone a dollar when my car is paid off (several months early I should as-that's another tip!). I share this to give perspective NOT to be a financial advisor or anything- not my field, it's just my own personal experience; not without first experiences LOTS of face planting first.
While I know that some people might read this and roll their eyes or think I'm blowing a bunch of smoke, this has proven to be true time and time again... in *my* world anyway. Just as much as you might want to sit here and tell me its crap, I'd love to sit here and tell you that I am always this way. I am not, but I am sure working on keeping the focus on the desired outcome, result, goal etc and even more so, I'm much more conscientious of the self talk along the way and the messages I send to my subconscious mind because his has proven to work for me...when I work it with conviction that is. "Wishing" and actually being IN the experience to the point of tasting it, smelling it and FEELING it... are 2 entirely different things.
Last week I was planning to go to the new place I will be moving to at the end of Aug with the intention of possibility upgrading to a little bit of a bigger space as to make room for my office. In talking to my friend Fred, he says to me that I should go for it so that I can send a message of flowing abundance. This was said after I shared my excitement to be saving a little on a lower rent I had not anticipated and while the bigger space wasn't any more than what I currently pay, I had simply gotten use to the little extra saving situation the original space would give to me.
I went to the place and later that day I decided to upgrade. Shortly thereafter I got an email from someone wanting to buy my
entire remaining inventory of "saniehyoga" shirts and then another email "hiring me" (I never applied!) for 2 months of work to be the expert yoga advisor on a potential yoga project (site, location and details undetermined at this time and pending my return from Bali for further discussion) that will allow for expansive creativity and possibly more world travel in the near future. Between these two pieces of unfolding, I more than make up for any differences financially and furthermore/better yet, creatively, I get to expand.
Does it always unfold like this? For some, maybe. For me, no. Sometimes things unfold in a larger and LOUDER ways, and sometimes a little more subtle. Sometimes they are obvious and sometimes maybe not as much. What's the saying? Oh,
yes...
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change". I forget who said it but I'm reminded of it when it comes to positivity and living the life that we want to live. I'm still working on it...I tend to be my own biggest critic and as my brother, Bob, once pointed out, I have always had extremely high expectations of myself (which makes for a most harsh critic) so I certainly have a lot more work to do. So far though, I can see well enough to recognize what happens when I can keep focused on my heart's intentions. Bottom line, it does us no good at all to worry and to focus on what we DON'T want. We have got to retrain our minds, our HABITS, to shift in a direction that is inspiring us at the very least.
Amazing things come from a positive mental attitude and shifts of subconscious experience as well. No matter what we think or feel, we are sending messages on a much deeper level than we sometimes take credit for. Every war began with a thought. Every hungry mouth that gets fed began the same way. End Rant. So I was reading this women's surf style magazine for some surf inspiration since it's been a while since I've hit a board (thanks Mike! :) and came to
"7 do's and dont's of a surfergirl" when one thing in particular stuck this yogini's chord...
"
Do pray for safety before each and every session, before your toes even hit the water's edge. Stepping off land- you're entering God's world."
In a recent entry, I had written about the power that Mother Nature's waters have and it's significance to me. In the same breath, in the same wave, She can take your life. She can
kill you... yet she can also
heal you. I'm reminded that this is the practice; this is the balanced effort that is yoga. This IS the yin and the yang. We need the sunlight to live. All of life does...yet
too much sun can take life from us; in more ways than one.
I'm excited to say the least. In talking to a friend, the joke was that if I was flying to Italy instead of Tokyo, I might have had the "Eat Pray Love" thing down (although not sure it "counts" if it was just an Italian airport, but surely I would have found some good Italian none the less). I'm so grateful for the unfolding that has yet again, brought incredible opportunity to my path and I am ready to catch up with myself as I turn off the "conscious teacher" and realign myself, rejuvenate, cleanse, decompress, and get reacquainted with my natural breath and rhythm. There is no telling what awaits me in Indonesia. All I know is that I will be there completely present, completely "awake".
lovelovelove,
sanieh
www.saniehyoga.comps- Big schedule change announcements after my return from Bali
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