Something that changes Me

"I seek only to reveal my true self, which may or may not be the same tomorrow, should I learn something new that changes me"

We all experience things that change us whether they are subtle or life changing sometimes depends on our willingness to accept the change or the scope of the event.

Learning to accept that change is inevitable isn't always easy, especially when those changes create a major shift in our lives. Our inability to flow with the change can make it hard to learn, grow and shift our understanding and meaning of our own life to a greater level. The above quote resonates so true within who I've been, who I am and who I will become......we are constantly learning new things about ourselves and our environment around us, adding and subtracting, expanding and contracting just as the universe would have it. We seem to forget that the natural flow is to concieve, grow, blossom and then..... completion and RENEWAL.

To help us to learn to accept and intigrate these ideas into our own reality it helps to slow down, relax and let go. Meditation can help us to achieve this. Why not give it a try?

Become comfortable, close your eyes, deepen into your own breath and then inhale and expand and open your awareness to all the things that are occuring that expand and renew your perception in Body, Mind and Spirit. Now exhale and release, letting go of all the things that no longer pertain to who you were, who you are and who you are becoming.

All it takes is some quiet, your own breath and your own openess to the shifts and changes that are ebbing through your life to realize that you are learning something new every moment of every day, that which helps us to reveal our true self.

Namaste

A letter to my loved ones and friends

For every time you shed a tear and felt alone,
I'm sorry I wasn`t there,
For everytime you asked for someone to help you through,
I`m sorry I wasn`t there,
For everytime you laughed in joy and wished you had someone to share it with,
I`m sorry I wasn`t there,
For every moment of happiness, sadness, lonliness and joy,
I`m sorry I wasn`t there,
If this is what all my tears and fears, sorrows and joys has taught me then they were all worth it,
In future when you are sad and feel alone, when you need someone by your side, when you wish for someone to share your joy and success, you know I am here, I have always been and will always be here with you.
Don`t ever believe you are alone, for I will always be here.

Namaste
Laura

Bliss for a Cause - World Yoga Day

February 3, 2008 11:00am - 1:00pm

Today is World Yoga Day, commencing 11:00am until 1:00pm Yogis will hit the mat for 2 hours of Yoga, Meditation and prayer. This year we will come together on behalf of Amnesty International. This 2 hour session will set off the 24 hours of sessions around the world.

This is the first time I participated in World Yoga Day and I did so on my own mat in my own special place, home. Each time we come to the Mat we come for a different reason, to build stength, become more flexible, relax, let go....and we try to do so with intent and purpose. This was the first time I hit the mat with a truly more global wide intention set in mind. Prior to starting the practice I was struck by the theme, Human rights, personal freedom. We may have all felt unheard, unable to express ourselves at times, but we still retain the ability and freedom to express ourselves in our spiritual and/or religious beliefs, artistic expression and personal liberties. It is hard then for us to comprehend the persecution and sacrifice of others for their spiritual and/or religious beliefs, for being born of the wrong gender, for self expression through art and/or many other smaller civil liberties we take for granted daily.

As a Yoga instructor it brought my understanding of Union, prayer, meditation and commitment to myself as well as the world around me to an enlightened level.

My practice became about the gratitude I feel for all that I am able to believe, achieve and give, it also brought me to quiet contemplation of the sufferings I have needlesly caused myself and others by not allowing for true freedom of self and to take with me into the future that new found inspiration.

"We have a duty as those who are of free will to ensure we use our freedom to strengthen, inspire and uplift and assist others"

If we take for granted that which we posses, but don't see, all those who are suffering for and working towards Human Rights will do so in vain.

Not everyone will get down on the mat today for the cause, but, if we take just one moment, this moment, to realize our own true personal freedom and our gratitude for it. We have made a difference.

Thank you to the global community for strengthening my practice, deepening my knowledge and helping me to follow my path.

Namaste

To find out more visit

World Yoga Day : Home
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