With Thanksgiving two days away the idea of gratitude was on my mind today.  And so I led my yoga students in a guided  meditation on gratitude.

Having the attitude of gratitude can be healing for mind, body and soul.

When we cultivate a daily practice of recognizing and acknowledging what we are thankful for, we open ourselves to seeing and experiencing the world from a different, perspective. And this can do much to ease the stress and depression that often accompanies the holiday season.

If you are trapped in a cycle of replaying and dwelling on the negative events of the day and-or season, you just may find yourself replacing that old cycle with a positive one as you create a daily gratitude practice. 

Gratitude Activity

At the end of the day write the answers to these questions in your journal. Choose to do this daily for a minimum of two weeks.

1. What am I grateful for today?
2. What really cool thing did I learn today?
3. What did I appreciate about myself today?

Holiday Affirmations

Repeating these holiday affirmations to yourself will support you in making conscious healthy choices this holiday season.

This holiday season is about gratitude.

It’s about family.

It’s about love.

Taking care of myself is an act of love.

This is going to be a special holiday season.

I find the time to move my body.

I drink water and feel the power of a well-hydrated body.

I’m attracted to healthy foods.

I hold a vision of my healthy and strong body.

My choices support this vision.

With every healthy choice I feel so good.

I enjoy the holidays at a deeper level now.

I love and support my body through this holiday season

This is easier than I thought

This is fun and enjoyable

This is about gratitude and love

Happy Thanksgiving and many blessings to you always, Patricia

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Sometimes what we are unable to articulate clearly can be discovered in a meditation – visualization. Give this meditation a try even if you are unclear about your life purpose. Then notice what begins to unfold in your life.

Using symbols to represent that moment when you achieve a goal, state of being or life purpose can be a powerful way to create the changes you want in your life.

1. To begin, get yourself in a comfortable position, close your eyes and take several slow, deep breaths while allowing your body to completely relax as your mind begins to focus.

2. You may wish to request and see sense or imagine the presence of your wise self, higher self, God or other entity to be with you during this process.

4. Then, allow yourself to visualize a symbol that represents your life’s purpose or goal you wish to achieve. It can be something tangible, or something that represents qualities you would like in your life such as love, joy, creativity, success, confidence etc.

4. Imagine the symbol at the top of a mountain, with a path leading directly to it.

5. Now, imagine yourself walking, running or dancing to the top of the mountain.

6. Hold the symbol in your hands, and imagine being surrounded with magnificent and radiant light. Then, take the symbol into your heart and notice how that feels.

7. Return from the mountain.

8. Come back to the room slowly and open your eyes.

9. Write about your experiences in your journal.

I hope this was valuable. Many blessings to you on your journey.

Patricia

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Accepting the gift while in the midst of a personal storm can be challenging.  This quote is a wonderful reminder to step back and rise above the storm with the knowledge that this is the perfect storm.  While not always available immediately, the true gift will reveal itself.  Enjoy!  Blessings, Patricia

“This is when the magic happens: right when you feel like everything is going wrong, shift your attitude to accept that it’s actually going right. Our judgments of how we think our life should be are preventing us from reaching our Highest Potential. If you’re going through a storm, hold the belief that it’s the perfect storm for you to be going through and that you’ve been given everything you need to weather the storm. When the chaos subsides you will experience the Truth that is forever true; you are always taken care of, exactly where you need to be and your efforts are rewarded exactly when they need to be. Remember this Truth the next time a storm is on the horizon and you will grow wings and be able fly right over it and towards the calm waters of Trust and Love.” – Jackson Kiddard

“Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.”- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

So many times we look for love and approval from others.  Many dedicate their lives to vocations, activities and actions that seek recognition. Like a water jug with a hole in it, we are constantly seeking to fill it up.  When you find and rest in that place of genuine, healthy self love, that love and appreciation of the creation and manifestation of you, there is peace and knowing that you are enough.  Blessings to you, Patricia

Only when we truly know that we are able to tap into this part of ourselves can we begin to love others fully. Love for others is the manifestation of love for self. We cannot love another more than we love ourselves. Life is a mirror. If you want to know what love for

yourself looks like, look at your love for others. If you want to know what your love for others look like, look at your love for self. When you love yourself this way, you love God this way. This relationship is the divine love triangle; self, God, and others in any order.” ― Marlon Hartley Lindsay

“A deep love resides inside each of us. This love is independent of the desires, thoughts, and opinions, good or bad, which are readily offered to us. It is a love that is gentle and kind, accepting and nonjudgmental, playful and spontaneous, courageous and curious. It is always encouraging and always evolving. This love can be discovered only through turning off the noise around us, coming to ourselves in silence, meditation, and prayer. If we listen carefully we will hear the murmurs of our inner voice tell yearnings of our truest selves. What is available to us is a profound understanding, appreciation, and full acceptance of self, all of the good and all of the bad.

Only when we truly know that we are able to tap into this part of ourselves can we begin to love others fully. Love for others is the manifestation of love for self. We cannot love another more than we love ourselves. Life is a mirror. If you want to know what love for yourself looks like, look at your love for others. If you want to know what your love for others look like, look at your love for self. When you love yourself this way, you love God this way. This relationship is the divine love triangle; self, God, and others in any order.” ― Marlon Hartley Lindsay

Happy Monday Everyone,

I wanted to share this powerful quote with you.  Maybe you will want to take time to think about and answer these profound questions.  In doing so perhaps it will support you in setting intentions and mindfulness this week.    Enjoy.

“If today was it, would you die knowing you did your best?

If tomorrow never came, would you be proud of the last thing you said to each person you love?

If “someday” was only “now”, would you do everything you’ve always put off?

If you knew you had a choice about what kind of life you could be living, would you choose different?

If you knew failure is impossible, what would you do?

If it were true that everyone you meet is you in another body, how would you treat them?

If love was the true currency of the Universe and the more you gave away the more you received, how would you spend it?

If fear were the biggest illusion and the greatest lie of all time, how would you choose to live your life?

If the Universe always supported a life lived towards achieving dreams, how big would you dream?”

- Jackson Kiddard

Supporting you in your personal empowerment, Abundant blessings to you this week and always, Patricia

The art of Thanksgiving is gratitude in action.

It is giving thanks for the gift of life

by living it triumphantly.

It is giving thanks for your talents and abilities

by accepting them as obligations to be invested for the common good.

It is giving thanks for happiness

by striving to make others happy.

It is giving thanks for beauty

by helping to make the world more beautiful.

It is giving thanks for inspiration

by trying to be an inspiration to others.

It is giving thanks for opportunities

by accepting them as a challenge to achievement.

It is giving thanks for the creative ideas that enrich life

by adding your own creative contributions to human progress.

It is giving thanks for each new day

by living it to the fullest.

It is adding to your prayers of thanksgiving, acts of Thanksgiving.

— Author Unknown

Extending my gratitude to you this Thanksgiving season and always,  in love and light, Patricia

‎”As we increasingly master our perceptions, beliefs, and thought/feeling patterns, we magnetically attract that which we most desire.”
~Luanne Oakes~

The mind is a powerful tool we can use to transform our lives.  With specific and purposeful use of the mind we can improve performance, relieve pain, speed healing, lose weight, stop smoking, achieve confidence, eliminate fears, stress and phobias, quit destructive habits and attract what we want in our lives. 

There’s been a movement underfoot for awhile now, called the “Law of Attraction”.  It became popular with the 2006 movie, “The Secret” along with the promise to help you create anything you want in life.

What is it, and can I use it to attract what I want? According to Wikipedia, the law of attraction “refers to the idea that thoughts influence chance.” In other words the premise is that conscious and unconscious thoughts shape what happens in our life, not just motivation and action.

According to this theory we send out vibrations that represent our beliefs, thoughts and emotions.  The law of attraction matches those vibrations (whether positive or negative) and brings us more of the same.  So, based on this theory, to attract what you want you must become deliberate about what vibes you are sending out into the universe.

Many believe that to attract what you want, you merely have to send out the right vibrations and your desires will manifest.  Personally I don’t believe that sending out vibes alone will achieve my goals. However, I do know that our thoughts ultimately create the beliefs, feelings, actions and inactions in our lives. Our state of mind is the key in attracting what we want and achieving our goals.  When combined with sound action steps, we can substantially increase our odds at attract what we desire.

What we focus on affects our performance. We know that in sports like golf, baseball, football and others once we learn the skills to play; we become truly success when we gain mastery of our thoughts.  Thoughts that are filled with anxiety about missing the mark or imagining failure will most often lead to failure.  

This is true in all endeavors.  When we imagine and see ourselves succeeding at whatever goal we set it affects our performance by preparing our mind for how it’s going to be and we expect success. In sports for example, there are many documented studies comparing mental practice and actual physical practice. In many cases mentally practicing and rehearsing the game was equal to or better than physical practice.

If we think we’ve failed even though there maybe evidence to the contrary that is our experience.  On the other hand, if we walk through life imaging success, even if others don’t completely agree, we walk through life feeling successful.  When we feel successful, we take more risks increasing our opportunities for even more success.  Not only that, it feels good to think successful and positive thoughts about our lives.  How do you want to feel?

There are many ways we can use these ideas to create the success we desire.  One way is by participating in a guided meditation/visualization during which you will actively and creatively visualize successfully achieving our goal. You will prepare you mind for what will be by mentally rehearsing what you want to attract. You can also do this alone by visualizing, in as much detail as possible, what you want to attract in your life.

Learning to use our powerful minds in visualizing what we want to attract while taking action in the direction of our goals will support us in achieving the success we desire. What do you want to attract in your life today?

Join us this Monday and participate in a guided meditation designed specifically to support you in attracting what you want in your life.  Experience the power of your mind.

When:     Monday, August 23, 2010 

Where:    Highline Athletic Club

                     125 S 156th St
                     Burien, WA 98148-1220

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It fills me with joy to remember that I can set the tone for my day, each day.  Before I step out of bed in the morning, I have the opportunity to decide what kind of experience I want to have during the day. Will it be a good day, bad day, my best day ever, and how do I want to be during the day. 

Creating an affirmation helps me in this process.  By declaring, “This will be my very best day yet”, no matter what I may be facing during the day, I am setting my intention and I’m filled with expectation that this will be so. 

What kind of day do you want to create for yourself? What affirming statement will you make before you get out of bed tomorrow? Try these:

1. I am happy, relaxed and joyful.
2. I will be very productive today.
3. I will meet every situation with confidence and patience.

How will you begin your day tomorrow? What affirmations will support you?

Peace & Blessings to you always,

Patricia