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Haiku – lighten up
~ Make your life sweeter Lighten up in heavy times Find Your Middle Ground ~ When we are going through stressful and difficult times, the mind tends to join in with worry and anxiety about the future. Life becomes heavier with each passing thought. It’s all too easy to get caught up in fortune telling…
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Permission to be Free
A slow and steady flow of breathfocuses awareness. As innerconcentration grows, a hiddenlandscape flows into view.Sensations, emotions, thoughts,and what lies beyond all these -the source of light and energy -comes clear. Steadiness and easeare key and so is permission to befree of rules and old beliefs.It takes years of discipline to knowwhat rules to break,…
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The Muse is Back
The muse comes and goes Natural as the ocean tides Get ready to surf. Take time for your Self The mind settles with patience Find your middle ground It seems that my Blogging muse has been on vacation for a while, but now she has comes back, refreshed and inspired. It does take acceptance, trust…
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The Mystery of Your Presence
“The mystery of your presence can never be reduced to your role, actions, ego, or image. You are an eternal essence; this is the ancient reason why you are here. To begin to get a glimpse of this essence is to come into harmony with your destiny and with the providence that always minds your…
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Haiku – bright moments
Find your Middle GroundBright moments on dreary daysChanticleer Gardens Thursday morning may have started off wet, but it was still a delightful time to look for bright moments at Chanticleer Garden.
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Haiku – transformation
Served on a platterSeasonal transformationBeauty in decay This is a time of fruition and transformation in nature … and in ourselves. There is a different kind of beauty in this cycle. How easily we embrace the seasons in nature, yet how hard for us to accept it in ourselves. What is ripening and releasing within…
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Introduce a Friend for Free 🧘🏻♀️🧘♀️🧘🏽♀️🧘🏾♂️🧘🏼♀️🧘🏼♂️🧘🏿♀️
Hi followers of the Find Your Middle Ground blog, and Yoga Community! September is here Introduce a friend for free Middle Ground yoga My online yoga teaching schedule will remain the same for the Fall. (September, October and November). Classes are designed for every body and are open to those with some yoga experience. I…
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🍎 September Yoga News 🍎
Hi Everyone near and far! Here is the latest news for September Find Your Middle Ground Yoga Community. I would also like to invite other yoga practitioners who follow my blog, to join me for a free Gentle Yoga practice via Zoom. Look out for the office invitation on Wednesday. 🍎 Yoga Schedule All classes…
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Beyond Ego
Ego creates a tangled web inner struggle mirrors external conflict Tension and distracted mind Resentment, anger Heart forgotten Then remembers Sadness descends What has been lost? Take a conscious moment Breathe Hand on heart and belly Be here fully Root down and rise up Be the Tree of Life Embrace it all. Raise head and…
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Beware the Guru Ego
When we are on a spiritual path, the idea of ego becomes something to overcome and get past. It feels contrary to how we want to be in the world.Its the part of ourselves that we would rather hide or deny rather than show. So we battle with it or suppress it…. or disguise it.…
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Truth…
“Somewhere each day we have to fall in love with someone, something, some moment. Somehow each day we must allow the softening of the heart. Otherwise our hearts will move inevitably towards hardness, we will move toward cynicism, bitterness, fear and despair. That’s where most of the world is trapped and doesn’t even know it.”…
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Coming Back to Ego
What is Ego? is a question that often comes up in yoga and in self inquiry. I’m coming back to it today, after experiencing my own ego wanting to dismiss and diminish a person dear to me. It’s a tough lesson to bring awareness back to our selves and our very human flaws. Here’s some…
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What’s True Here?
It’s an inquiry without boundaries whose answer shifts from breath to breath, and yet there’s something foundational at the heart of the question, something universal and unchanging. When I turn inside and hold this koan lightly, it isn’t an answer I receive, but an experience of life, a sense of Self with a capital S…
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How to Live My Life
Let my life open me Each deed and thought in service. My heart in the world How we live our lives reflects our deepest meaning. True self expression Choose the life you live Connect to your very soul. Your gift to the world These words came to me in reflection with Ali Grimshaw and her…
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The Real Riches
This poem from Danna Faulds is a perfect reminder for what Summer offers. My wealth is wonder. True abundance is the delight I feel on summer nights as fireflies rise from the grass and Orion strides across the sky. I measure my wealth in birdseed and hummingbird feeders, in the number of purple morning glories…
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“How am I that?”
Most of us like to think of ourselves in the best possible light, yet becoming aware of all aspects of ourselves, and accepting them, is the key to our personal and spiritual growth. Carl Jung called it our “shadow” and said: “Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good…
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