Author: Ki McGraw

When listening for the spirit of guidance, we tune into radio station KYOU. Sometimes it’s hard to get the signal from our higher selves. We have three choices. Either turn down all background noise or turn up the volume. A combined approach also may work.

In my 20s, I needed lots of activity to meet my level of sensory overload in meditation. Sufi 9 Ways of Dzikr gave all my senses something to do, busying me so I could enter stillness. Now in my 60s, I prefer the silence of early morning to awaken my inner signal. Along the way, a combined approach was also helpful.

Can you hear Your signal? Do you need to turn up the volume or reduce background interference? Ki to Happiness will do whatever it takes to hear KYOU.

I used to have all kinds of ideas about what I was willing to do. I had a need for a firm boundaries as correction to my earlier years of being what I self termed “a boundariless wonder”.

That correction served me well. Developing healthy boundaries, I have learned to allow feelings to pass through me like the wind through the trees, blowing them away.

How are your boundaries? Semipermeable? Ki to Happiness is blown away.

Our building is from the turn of the last century. No insulation. The landlords don’t turn on the heat until November. So I awaken into 61°.

I practice with lots of layers on and plenty of warm water to drink as I start. Then I shift into my strengthening physical practices, all of which warm me from the inside. I arrive at this moment of blogging, heated from my efforts and happy to simply Be!

Are you warm enough? Can you find heat inside yourself? Ki to Happiness sends you warmth and joy.

We are all indigenous to the earth. We came from somewhere on this planet. We have been moving about from that point of origination ever since. Recently I learned that the Spanish language was the first official adopted language of these Americas.

When my Mexican neighbor arrived this morning, I greeted him. I told him what I had learned about the language. He casually pushed it aside saying “who knows?“ We went on to pet the cats.

How will you observe this day? Can you honor the part of you that is from here as well as the part of you that has moved about? Ki to Happiness embraces the good Mother Earth.

I woke up in the depths of my field of consciousness this morning. Not thinking, or dreaming, not from dreamless sleep either. Beyond those 3, the Upanishads defines the 4th, which is what Turiya means, as it is otherwise indescribable.

I first had this kind of experience in Bali over 20 years ago. I am glad to have had that so that I could understand better this morning. Without awareness of my name, age, occupation, marital status, or whereabouts, I simply was awake to my beingness.

Are you familiar with the different levels of consciousness? Have you checked out the map of consciousness that yoga offers? Ki to Happiness navigates with the map.

I am in my third month of contributing my efforts to cancer awareness. Parts of the challenges have become easy, although the tech interface hasn’t. I added 8 pounds to my squats and crunches today. That put the challenge back in these activities.

In doing so my internal reserves came up to meet the challenge. Without being pushed in this way, they may have remained quietly dormant within. Perhaps it’ll work out that way with my tech issues, too…

What challenges have become easy for you? How can you access your internal reserves? Ki to Happiness feels warm and strong, connected and patient as I meet my challenges.

Hatha Yoga Center appreciates the many new students who have been joining us lately. Whether LIVE in person, or joining our group page, their new energy enlivens our efforts.

Hatha Yoga Center also appreciates the multitude of long standing community members. It’s a pleasure to observe the old students help the new with friendliness and welcome.

Are you experiencing new people in your world? How are your old peeps welcoming them? Ki to Happiness witnesses the current of ever changing HYC community members with delight.

Driving back home after a private session I read this gas station sign: “humans are 70% water. We are basically cucumbers with anxiety”. I was listening to the radio at the time when Pharrell’s Happy song came on.

I started singing and dancing in my driver’s seat. Tears of joy streamed from this cucumber’s eyes as I let go of any anxiety. Happy tears. That 3 minute wiggle/giggle stayed with me all day!

How can your cucumber self release it’s anxiety? What makes you wiggle and giggle?Ki to Happiness loves the song’s invitation to “tap along if you feel happiness is the truth” !

As the global situation continues now, many of us are fatigued from 19 months of constant demands on our adaptability. Patience has long run out and stored resources dwindle. The unholy reactivity erupts.

The yoga sutras of Patanjali offer guidance to “holy disregard the unholy”. Especially at this time of this new moon, I highlight this sutra so we set intentions free from reactivity in favor of response ability.

What would you like to create? Can you release your reactivity so that you can stay focused on your truest desires? The Ki to Happiness is Response Ability.

As I prepared for teaching my 10 AM class yesterday, I discovered Facebook down. Like many, first I took it personally. I figured it was my phone. Then I found out that no one had any kind of device that could access Facebook, Instagram, messenger, or WhatsApp.

I proceeded to teach a small, intimate class without live streaming for the first time in nineteen months. Unlike my decades of having done so in the past, I had a constant awareness of those who wanted to practice with us that were unable to do so. In the process, I am aware that I have become more connected to more people.

Did you take it personally? What did you learn about yourself in the process? Ki to Happiness delights in Facebook coming back up.