Anxiety is the result of too much focus on the future.

Happiness is the result of focusing on the present.

So we should focus on the present. 

Yoga and meditation help us to do that.

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Three tools for leading a happier life.

What are you doing to lead a happier life?

1. Breath. Use it to bring awareness to what’s happening to you and to nourish yourself.
2. Water. Use it to nourish, cleanse, and hydrate the rivers and streams of your body.
3. Yoga. Use it to create the energy that will bring more strength, flexibility, alignment, openness, and balance to your body – and to release the emotional backlog archived in your body. I call this being a “life athlete”.
4. Meditation. Use the quality of your attention and silence to look and listen within. This is an opportunity to wake up and listen to the desires of your Spirit. Start with that!

Implementing these four basic elements on a regular basis can hep you elevate and sustain your mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical health. When you begin to reframe the opportunities within change, you give yourself another perspective and a broader understanding of the choices available to you. Are you doing what’s most beneficial in terms of honouring yourself and your truth? If you don’t like your choices, break out and go after what you most deeply desire. When confronted with a difficult choice, ask yourself, “Does this brighten or dim my Spirit?” Make a warrior’s choice. Get brilliant.

Shine.

it does not mean

to be in a place

where there is no

noise, trouble or hard work.

it means to be in the midst

of those things and still 

be calm in your heart.

– Unknown

“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.”

…And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently.”

— Steve Jobs

 ”When a bodhisattva practices genorosity, he does not rely on any object – that is to say he does not rely on any form, sound, smell, taste, tactile object, or dharma – to practice generosity. That is the spirit in which a bodhisattva should practice generosity, not relying on signs.

Why? If a bodhisattva practices generosity without relying on signs, the happiness that results cannot be conceived of or measured.”

– Buddha

(Taken from the Diamond Sutra – ‘The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion‘ a commentary on the Diamond Sutra, by Thich Nhat Hanh)

“The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent as they have to speak.”

- Spinoza (Dutch Philospher)