Work Out Your Mind

The 3 H's:  Head to Hands to Heart

Are you beyond ready to create a new habit?  

A little something from Dr. Joe Dispenza's "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One":

If You Can Master Suffering, You Can Just as Easily Master Joy

You probably know someone who has mastered suffering, right?  So you call her and ask, "How are you?"

     So-so.

"Listen, I'm going to go out with some friends to a new art gallery, and then eat at this restaurant that has really healthy desserts.  Afterward, we're going to listen to some live music.  Would you like to come with us?

     No, I don't feel like it.

But if she said what she actually meant, she'd say, I've memorized this emotional state, and nothing in my environment- no person, no experience, no condition, no thing- is going to move me from my internal chemical state of suffering.  It feels better to be in pain than to let go and be happy.  I am enjoying my addiction for now, and all these things that you want to do might distract me from my emotional dependency.

But guess what?  We can just as easily master an internal chemical state such as joy or compassion.

Playlist:

1.  "Old Money" by Lana del Rey

2.  "Retrograde" by James Blake

3.  "Dream Lover" by Bobby Darin

4.  "Sutphin Boulevard" by Blood Orange

5.  "In the Morning"  by Junior Boys

6.  "i"  by Kendrick Lamar

7.  "Hercules"  by Aaron Neville

8.  "So This Is Goodbye" by Junior Boys

9.  "Suzanne" by Nina Simone

10.  "Heart Song/ Heart" by Jonathan Goldman

What do billionaires and yogis have in common?

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Works inspired by Scott Cook:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonnazar/2014/03/13/6-surprising-tactics-of-an-unassuming-billionaire/

http://www.inc.com/larry-kanter/scott-cook-intuit-building-culture-innovation.html


http://www.fastcompany.com/3020699/bottom-line/why-intuit-founder-scott-cook-wants-you-to-stop-listening-to-your-boss

                                                    PLAYLIST:
1.  "Fall In Love(Until the Ribbon Breaks Re- Imagination)"  by Phantogram
2.  "Perspective (feat. Homeboy Sandman)"  by Until the Ribbon Breaks
3.  "Revolution (feat. Faustix& Imanos)"  by Diplo
4.  "Johnny" by Yemi Alade
5.  "Airwaves" by Ray LaMontagne
6.  "Coins In a Fountain (Acoustic)"  by Passenger
7.  "Whispers (Acoustic)"  by Passenger
8.  "Circles (Acoustic)" by Passenger
9.  "Elysium"  from the Gladiator Soundtrack
10. "Mirror to the Soul" by Deepak Chopra
11. "Rabindranath Tagore Cycle: Nocturne"  by Mikrokosmos
12.  "Heart Sutra" by MC Yogi

Celebrating MLK's Legacy: Dreams Do Come True

Consider that fifty years ago, it is highly unlikely that I would have been your yoga teacher.  

A.  I would have been considered by the general population to be colored.  If you were not colored, our social milieus would rarely overlap.  If they did, they would be suffocated by cultural and legal barriers.  

B.  Colored or not, I would not have had access to the education that has informed my teaching.  I have attended excellent institutions of learning as well as pursued higher education at universities because of the movers and shakers and dreamers of the Civil Rights Movement.  

Remember that you are living in someone else's vision; remember that someday someone will be living in your vision.  Martin Luther King, Jr said, "it is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning."  Whether or not you are a Christian (I'm not), he conceptualized a world where people could do the simple things together- pray together, work together, join hands and "sit down together at the table of brotherhood."  

Someone lived their life so that we could breathe together.  Someone lived their life so that we could dream together.  

Make your dreams, however unrealistic they may seem in the present moment, beautiful- "even in the United States, the power of a dream can change the most entrenched reality."  

Namaste.

PLAYLIST:

1.  "MLK- I Have a Dream 1963" from Inspirational Speeches Vol.3

2.  "Compassion" from film A Little Princess

3.  "Strong World" by Ivri Lider and Idan Raichel

4.  "Love Vigilantes"  by Iron and Wine

5.  "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free"  by Nina Simone

6.  "He Got Game"  by Public Enemy

7.  "Ordinary Love" by U2  

8.  "Be the Change" by MC Yogi

9.  "Dreams" by Game

10.  "Soldier of Love" by Sade

11.  "Just Breathe"  by Willie Nelson & Lukas Nelson

12.  "Sketches of Pain" by Audible Mainframe

13.  "MLK" by U2

14.  "Om Shanti Om" by Deva Premal

15.   "Gregorian Chant 1: Amen" by Gregorian Chant For Meditation

THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED TODAY'S BLOG:

"The Soul of Money:  Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources" by Lynne Twist

TODAY's POSTURE:

Virabhadrasana 1- think focus and determination

Alignment-  front knee tracks over your middle toe, all four corners of your back foot plant into your mat,  bend your back knee to spin your hips forward

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

                You Are a Diamond- Even if the World Cannot See it, Even if You Cannot See It...

Right NOW, there seated as you read this, I invite you to consider that you are a diamond.  Actually, I insist that for this breath you believe that you are a diamond.  Simply by existing, your life has meaning, worth and richness.  Maybe you are even shrouded in the charcoal of life- the shine not seeming so lustrous.  Underneath-  You are still a diamond.  You want to release 10 lbs from your physical body- great!  You are still a diamond.  You want to meet the right woman when you have more money in the bank.  Without the bling, you are still a diamond.  You go on a job interview and they want rubies, you are still a diamond.  KNOW YOUR WORTH.

When you realize that you are PRECIOUS it will become easier to commit to yourself and to the consistent care of your life.  You will realize that some people have not been trained to see diamonds like yourself.  Instead you begin to choose to nurture relationships with gemologists- the people who have been trained to see your gifts.

When you realize that you are UNBREAKABLE, you will take risks, fully cognizant that the outcome will not alter your value.  When you realize your VALUE, you will feed your body with foods & experiences that will polish your physical experience of life- yoga, dance, a walk in the park.

You will not always feel like a diamond- especially if you watch television.  In our culture, there are non natural parameters for what a diamond is- and they are pretty narrow.  Rich, young, thin, usually white or light skinned, straight and on and on and on.  YOU ARE STILL A DIAMOND.

However many times a diamond gets dropped into the dirt, it can be picked back up and polished.  Fall down, get back up, polish and in the words of Pink Floyd "shine on you crazy diamond."

"Know Your Worth" Playlist:
1.  "Nothing Can Change This Love"  Sam Cooke
2.  "Burn One Down"  Ben Harper
3.  "Young and Beautiful"  Lana del Rey
4.  "A Woman's Worth"  Alicia Keys
5.  "All I Want Is You"  U2
6.  "Kiss"  Prince and the Revolution
7.  "Diamonds from Sierra Leone"  Kanye West featuring Jay Z
8.  "Diamonds and Pearls"  Prince and the New Power Generation
9.  "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"  Kendra Morris
10. "By Your Side"  Sade
11.  "Can't Help Falling In Love"  Elvis Presley
12.  "Not Even the King"  Alicia Keys
13.  "Forever"  Ben Harper
14.  "Don't Stop Believing"  Lullabye Baby Ensemble
15.  "Jewel Nadi"  Deepak Chopra

May you love ferociosly but do not give up your power,
Jahmelia

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Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose”  Bootcamp 2013

Begins Sunday, February 24^th with an orientation from 1:30-3:30 PM.  Ends on Saturday, March 9th.

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