This can’t be said too many times: make time to feel gratitude, focus on the parts of life you’re thankful about, tell people, and write it down!! Find a journal you love and commit to a simple practice that can change the dominant themes in your life for the better. It’s especially heartwarming to go to sleep feeling grateful. Try for 10 minutes of writing before going to sleep and I bet you’ll see a happier trend in your mornings!
This weekend, enjoy your FREEDOM! Your health and your choice to eat, do or watch something for pure JOY. The present moment and day offers so much. It doesn’t have to 
be important (best if not), it doesn’t have to be seen by others (best if not), it doesn’t have to be even worthy of Social Media (best if not).
Maybe the best way to choose is that is it simple worthy of your gratitude journal or an unconscious smile.
IN JOY.
Breath of Joy is a simple and extremely effective breath for :
Stand or sit with your feet comfortably wide (a solid and confident stance) and exhalethoroughly. Breath IN breaking your inhale up into 3 parts, like 3 sips of air. Filling in the belly, ribs and chest. This is ONE breath, in 3 sips.
For your next breaths there are arm and body movements. Knees stay softly bent.
1st sip – arms reach shoulder height and in front of you.
2nd sip – arms rise out like a T, shoulder height.
3rd sip – arm reach up with enthusiasm over head (even if you are faking it for now).
EXHALE – forward fold quickly swishing your hands between your knees/legs letting IT ALL GO. Every ounce of air quickly pushed out.
Start again. 5 of these breaths can change rough patches in your day and add energy during a long drive, a break during training/meetings or getting you through moments of negativity and stress.
-Namaste –
Affirmation for pure contentment:
I am satisfied with who I am. I feel so pleased with life and myself.
Not to be egotistical or conceited but to feel satisfaction and worthiness in loving yourself… I hope you’ll practice saying this until the affirmation sinks deep into your bones and becomes part of you! Feel the perfection that you are – the work in progress – the blossoming beauty with more to come!
If you can find a few moments in the next days to be absolutely present, take time within those moments to focus your energy on your heart center. Notice your body and your life force. Does the energy you possess feel scattered? Is it caught up in something that happened yesterday or are you worrying about events that could be part of tomorrow? Can you call all of your attention and energy back to you and focus on it collecting at the heart? Be with your heart as your only objective. Let the rhythm of your heart beat be the voice that draws you inward. Try for a while to meditate on this pulse. From here, imagine the collected energy as a color that resonates with you. Send the color into the room around you. Let that beam be filled with the feelings of joy, adoration, and love. Imagine the color surrounding and brightening the hearts of those you cherish.
Joy emanates from my core. Feelings of adoration surround my loved ones. We are light and love.
How wonderful will this day be if you allow yourself to focus on the things that easily fit and flow with you!? Let things, people, places, and experiences that lift your spirit be highlighted in your thoughts and conversation.
Whats’s easy? What feels good? This is what deserves your attention. Tell everyone about the good in your life!
“In a beautiful world that has come to hooray the hustle I find my sweet loving soul rebelliously dancing to the contrary — an upside down, inside out, reversed, lapsed beat. It’s mysteriously boundless, surprisingly wholeheartedly, perfectly un-calculated and wrapped in a tangible fabric that is made out of shooting stars and moonlit expanse. For this season, busy has no place.” – Tess Guinery
Let your life take a hiatus from busy for a little this weekend. Take a moment to notice what the earth is up to around you, which at this time of year is particularly beautiful! When you’re back in the hustle of everyday, perhaps you can carry along an internal feeling of abundance and blooming!
Have you ever found yourself drawn to another without being quite sure why? This can be romantic, platonic, or any number of scenarios. It could even be fascination bordering revulsion but nevertheless you’re drawn in… It’s simply someone that captures your attention.
Consider the qualities about the person. Could it be that they’re hosting attributes that are complimentary to your own? Could it be that you are drawn to what feels absent in you? On the path to becoming the best version of yourself without seeking to live that through or in opposition to someone else, it can be helpful to understand the pull of others.
Practice noticing your internal atmosphere to nurture the next steps in relating.
Getting back to the workweek, if you’re on a traditional Monday- Friday schedule, can feel less than desirable. Maybe you’d rather be under the covers for a lay in and looking forward to a late brunch. For this Monday, I hope you can let yourself appreciate yesterday for whatever it was and also appreciate today for whatever it is. Let possibility be an enchantment as part of this Monday. Embrace not knowing absolutely what today will bring you. Greet today with anticipation – even if only mildly so. Let yourself expect something good and see what naturally stems from there!
I hope there is a time this weekend when you sit somewhere outside.
Listen for 3 distinct sounds.
Follow 3 birds in their flight across your sky.
Feel 3 breaths from complete bottom to the tippy top- through your lungs, muscles and skin.
Speak 3 gratitudes about your life in that moment.
Sit. Breathe. Be. Just for 3.
Presence and Positivity 