Author: Ki McGraw

I have resurrected my manuscript, now working on it in a new way. Mercury retrograde is a perfect time for such revision. It is not a great time for technology and communication yet I’m doing it anyway.

No longer needing to accommodate weather, holidays, my assistant’s schedule, or resisting the new technology this process requires, I dove in. One of my dear friends called me exactly as I worked on her fictionalized character. Synchronicities always let me know I’m on the right path in Divine timing.

What do you need to be doing? As you start, are you getting confirmation through synchronicities, encouraging your way forward. Ki to Happiness appreciates the reinforcement of synchronicities indicating she is doing her it in Alignment with Divinity.

Now that the Christmas tree is down, and the last gifts have been opened, we’ve digested the leftovers of the holiday. Sweet sleep called me early. I let myself drift off before setting my morning preparations.

I awaken renewed. My cats and I share the stillness of predawn as I practice the soul revolution of yoga. Connecting my body with my mind and emotions tethered to the Highest Principle, I start my day, again and again.

What renews you? What’s the highest principal you revolve around? Ki to Happiness renews with sleep and revolves her soul around Spiritual Guidance which is easily accessed through yoga practice.

Hatha Yoga Center resumes its regular schedule after the holidays. I’ll be teaching at 10 AM in our refreshed studio. Private sessions today include one for me as I return to working with my writing coach.

I am ready. I welcome the privilege and the honor to serve and be served. Participating in life’s exchanges keep me current in the flow, now of 2023.

When do you return to work? What needs to be done so you look forward to it? Ki to Happiness brings the joy of the holidays with her.

Happy new year! Let’s welcome 2023 with a clear set of intentions. I intend to have a peaceful prosperous year of health, spiritual growth and gratitude.

As I begin my yoga practice, I feel it’s cumulative effect. I deepen my commitment to it. As I program my crystals and make my offerings, I invoke all the angels, saints, guides and guardian on my team to protect and safeguard my path.

What are your clear intentions for the new year? What practices will help you meet your intentions? Ki to Happiness practices Hatha Yoga to manifest her intentions of health, spiritual growth and gratitude.

In preparation for the new year, I’ve been cleaning house. Re-organizing, and letting go of clutter, adapting to this new space now that we’ve been here for five months is a celebration. Practicing hatha yoga cleans the house of the spirit, also welcoming in the new vital energy as we turn the calendar page to 2023.

While sweeping and scrubbing, I learned of the passing of Pele, Barbara Walters, and one of my classmates from Junior and Senior high school. The death of Lori McWilliams stopped me cold as I let go of the sponge and went to my knees in grief. None of us know how many NYE’s we get, so let’s clean up and be grateful “we have a pot to piss in” as my Grandmother used to say.

What do you need to clean up? How can you best prepare for 2023? Ki to Happiness cleans house in gratitude.

As we approach the fresh new year of 2023, mercury encourages us to look back. This three week period gives us a chance to reflect and redo. Many use this time to make resolutions which potentially won’t truly kick in until this period has passed.

This pattern may be confusing and cause communication and transportation problems. When we are informed about it, we are empowered to make the best use of this time. No need to try to force new things, or begin new projects, or insist on the New Year’s festivities going any certain way.

Can you take your time reviewing the past year? What needs to be refined? Ki to Happiness welcomes this time of reflection.

Around us, floodwaters are rising. We hear the sump pumps tending to the basements in our neighborhood, near Victory Creek. Our live work space is on the first floor, so we are on higher ground, with nothing in the basement to concern us.

We also have maintain power as 40,000 others in our vicinity lost theirs. I’m grateful for our good fortune of staying high and dry with heat and electricity. As a count, my blessings, I pray for those less fortunate at this time of year.

Can you count your blessings with me? Are you warm, safe, dry, with heat, electricity and clean freshwater? Ki to Happiness shares her high ground with any and all who are in our Hatha Yoga Center community, with room for you to join us.

Assembling the second Soji screen Santa left for us, we had only 95 of the 96 parts. I went in search of one screw to replace the missing one as Bob continued screwing in all we found in the box. I looked through our hardware and found 3 possibilities, none quite perfect.

When all was assembled except for that last screw, Bob tried it and it didn’t work. After waiting through the storm for Santa’s late delivery, learning the gifts required assembly, and getting this far, the temptation was great to give up in frustration. Instead, we stood the Soji screen up, and in shifting its relationship to gravity and our perspective, the screw worked well enough.

What has been frustrating you? What can you shift to get a different perspective? Ki to Happiness found a change in relationship to gravity made the difference.

My daily rituals and yoga practices give me a baseline from which I can track my condition. I compare myself to my baseline each day, so I can make adjustments and refinements. Today requires Epson salt soaking.

We received delivery our Christmas gifts now that the ice and snow has made travel possible again. They required some assembly. I volunteered, which resulted in a functional room divider and a cranky body from multiple frustrated contortions in the process.

What do you use as your baseline? what adjustments and refinements are necessary for you today? Ki to Happiness needs to soak.

On this day after Christmas, we are encouraged to give of our abundance to those in need. Initially, a Canadian observance of giving gifts to staff members, this celebration has evolved. It’s a good day to clear out the closet and the pantries, and to release our excesses, and give them to you are less fortunate.

I have a few items selected, which I will bestow upon those who cross my path today. I will offer books one of my clients authored, spiced nuts from our family gathering, and a few chocolate Santas. My students and clients perhaps will appreciate the gesture.

What do you have an abundance of that could benefit someone else? Could you box it up today and give it away? Ki to Happiness has an abundance of joy with which I will wrap my boxes.