My birthday arrives under foggy conditions. Each street light illuminates the mystical veil between Earth and Sky. I can almost touch it.
I spoke with my mother, the giver of my birth, yesterday. I told her that I’m aware of the fact that I did Not arrive alone 61 years ago. She was there and she remembers. In doing so we touched the mystical veil between us.
Can you feel the mystical veil? Does it separate you from all else or connect you? Ki to Happiness lives the Platinum path of both.
This is the last day that I am 60. Some call the birthday on which we turn the age of the day of our birth Golden. Since I turn 61 and was born in 1961, I’m thinking of calling it Platinum.
In these years I’ve learned to be kind to myself. I’ve come to understand me. I’ve grown patient with my foibles. I have that to extend to you, dear readers.
What do you extend to others? What would you like to? Ki to Happiness offers your foibles sweet, kind, patient understanding.
Reading The Goddess Pose reinforces my “yoga path”. I was a kid when my mom introduced me to yoga. My years dancing kept the passion of full embodiment alive. I only felt qualified to teach after I spent time in India with an indigenous teacher. True for Indra Devi also.
She broke the tradition of Indian male teachers instructing Indian men for all of us. We non-Indian female yoga teachers have her to thank. In her stead, may we keep that passion alive.
How fully embodied are you as you read this? What keeps your passion alive? Ki to Happiness thanks Indra Devi and all the teachers who’ve opened the path before us.
Working on the fourth draft of my manuscript brought up a lot of frustration. At first I felt like deleting one word, then one sentence, then paragraphs until the whole project felt futile. Instead of deleting the entire 30 years of effort, and falling silent, I expressed myself.
In my private journal writing, I let it all out. I returned to the freedom of expression without rules or points of view. I reconnected with my original impulse. I may never publish beyond here, yet I may satisfy my 7 year old self’s yearning to write and encourage others to do the same.
Without rules what might you like to express? What would satisfy your inner 7 year old self’s yearning? Ki to Happiness refuses to delete her truth, her passions or her responsibility to realize her dreams.
The forces of division must feel the edge slipping. It seems that there is a desperate grasp for control. We’ve all lived with this for a long time. Efforts toward reuniting will be necessary as we move forward.
Internal efforts of healing the division within may be to best place to begin. Containing the different aspects of oneself and choosing how to engage with the world results in feedback. Taking the feedback under consideration, we may adjust our way of engaging.
What feedback have you been receiving lately? What adjustment is necessary for you to engage me in a way that might result in the feedback you truly desire? Ki to Happiness engages with yoga offerings toward Union and reUnion.
Our world released the great teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on 1/22/22. Those who love him know him as Thay. This humble Light Bringer illuminated our consciousness, showing us the way of compassion and forgiveness.
In his physical absence, he left behind many who followed him closely as well as lots of books and poetry. His energy is available to all to join in through conscious breathing, walking and meditation. I feel him in silence.
What is your experience of the great teacher? Can you take a moment of silence and feel his energy with you now? Ki to Happiness honors Thay as she says goodbye and thank you.
There was unstable atmospheric pressure in the area yesterday full of tension. New communication devices were not cooperating, operators were cussing. Frustration mounted.
I put on my boots and coat and headed down to the woods. My feet started running along the wet path. Suddenly, lightning struck and thunder crashed as I sought shelter from the hail pinging down like snow wearing tap shoes.
What do you do with the tension that arises in moments of instability? Can you run with it instead of resisting? Ki to Happiness wonders at Nature’s stability within instability.
We all need a place where we are safe and protected enough to reflect, take stock, re-organize our priorities, so we can align with Guidance. With enough time in that place, we may introject aspects of it into our lives. Finding that place outside, we can recreate it . Ultimately we may find it within.
In my travels, I found sanctuary in anonymity and freedom. In my home, I find sanctuary in solitude and practices. This morning, I also find it right here.
What does sanctuary mean to you? Is it something you carry within you? Ki to Happiness extends the safety and protection found within to All.
Somewhere in the midst of working, practicing, and attending to my family needs I noticed an old injury popping up. My middle finger on my right hand took a crushing into the jyotish gem I’d worn for years a long time ago. The little bump started growing and paining me lately, making me aware that it was changing. I resolved to seek attention for it.
I felt to show it to someone as my first effort. After my fasting day, I reached with my left hand to palpate it, and couldn’t. It had resolved itself!
While you are busily attending to your duties, what may be resolving itself without you knowing? Might my sharing of miracles help you see them in your life, too? Ki to Happiness solves and reSolves.
After one day without food, I feel refreshed. Breaking my fast with one small apple, I delight in its sweet crunch as I chew it until it is liquid. Entering and exiting a fast is just as important as the fast itself.
Fasting for spiritual purposes is done along many paths. Simply taking one day a week off from heavy foods gives the body a chance to rest and do some deep cleaning. It give us a needed reset on our habits, enhancing gratitude, kindness, and the witness perspective.
What is your experience of fasting? How can you best reset and refresh? Ki to Happiness eats slowly and mindfully, deepening the habits that nourish body and soul.