Find Your Middle Ground

Month: December 2014

  • * For Auld Lang Syne

    Wishing you all a Happy Hogmanay and Guid New Year! All the best to you and yours from me and Robbie Burns.

  • A Question for the Future

    At this time of year its natural to reflect back and then look forward to what the New Year might bring.  Some of us set game plans and goals to accomplish… Others have intentions around our own evolution and inner journey…  And some of us like to stay in the present moment. You know how…

  • * Haiku – new year

    ~ Time hurtling forward Pressure to bring about change. An other treadmill. ~ Find your Middle Ground Reflect and nurture your self Follow nature’s way ~

  • * The best gift

    Originally posted on Mindfulbalance: Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit. Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in your own Awakened Heart

  • * Let Go and Find Yourself

    ” In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent Self, rooted in awareness and creativity. Once you have captured this you have captured the world.”                Deepak Chopra  Letting go: Of every exhalation Of the…

  • * Mantra for Today – thoughts

    Today’s mantra is helpful when we notice we are creating stories about ourselves, situations and other people … Which means its helpful every moment of my days 🙂   My thoughts are not the truth (They are only my thoughts) The truth lies beyond our thinking. Take time to pause, meditate and sit with whatever…

  • * Tao Inspiration – Acceptance and Peace

      Accept the world as it is. If you accept the world, the Tao will be luminous inside you and you will return to your primal self. ~~~ She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because she has found…

  • * Elf Awareness

    A good friend of mine is embracing her inner “elf” this holiday season. It does make me smile 🙂 What would your Inner Elf look like? We think of elves as those pixie like creatures that help out Santa. They work hard and play.  They make mistakes and laugh.  They are sometimes impulsive yet kind. They…

  • * Guardians of Being

    “Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in their minds and in endless past and future concerns are taken back by their dog or cat into the present moment, again and again and reminded of the joy of Being.” Eckhart Tolle from “Guardians of Being” So true! Fond memories of my soul mate…

  • * All Things Change

      All things arise Suffer change And pass away. This is their nature. When you know this … …you become still. It is easy. The Ashtavakra Gita We spend so much time and energy avoiding the way life actually unfolds, and most of the time we are unaware that we are doing this. We have…

  • * Ever had this moment?

    Originally posted on the biology of belief: Consider you intimately know someone and you also know his or her parent. From your perspective you see that your friend’s behavior closely resembles their parent. Then one day you casually remark to your friend something like, “You know Mary, you’re just like your mom.” Back away! In…

  • *If I Had To Do It All Over Again

    This poem was shared at a time of reflection during my Kripalu YTT500 Module. It really brought lightness and a fresh perspective to a time that could have been pretty serious and intense. Nadine Stair lives in Kentucky. Age 85 she was asked what she would do differently if you got to live her life…