Find Your Middle Ground

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  • Inspiration – Teacher Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

    Inspiration – Teacher Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

    What is wrong with seeking the pleasant and shirking away from the unpleasant?

  • Ready To Let Go

    Ready To Let Go

    Bridging of the realms.

  • Inspiration – Time Enough

    Inspiration – Time Enough

    The wisdom voice says: “Be still. Take time for what is truly important.” I imagine myself diving, leaving behind and untidy trail of what’s not needed. I cast aside worry, which has never brought me anything even remotely useful. I let go of doubt, and all the countless ways I tie myself in knots. Scattered…

  • The Way to Freedom

    The Way to Freedom

    Weekend Writing Prompt # 455 Wisdom said “It is safe now to turn the key” But which way to freedom?

  • Accept the Seasons of Your Heart

    Accept the Seasons of Your Heart

    Many of us are experiencing the extremes of the seasons right now. That’s quite a metaphor! It made me think of these words from the heart of Kahlil Gibran in “The Prophet”. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Just as the stone of the fruit must break, so that…

  • Remember – Insights For Women Healers

    Remember – Insights For Women Healers

    This is a powerful and touching story from Rachel Naomi Remen, taken from when she talked with a group of American women doctors about treating cancer patients. ” In the discussion after the talk, an internist commented that she would find this work difficult. She had avoided caring for people with cancer because a certain…

  • Awakening in a Nutshell

    Awakening in a Nutshell

    Enjoy this ditty 💐 Blissing outis not what it’s aboutTuning inis where to beginAccepting the good and badwhat makes you sad and madare portals to awakening.Embrace the highs and lowsfor this is where you grow.Find your middle ground.Pause, open and releaseConnect to inner peaceTo keep you safe and groundedwhen life becomes confounded.Take care of yourselfWishing…

  • 🎉❄️ Val’s January Community News ❄️🎉

    🎉❄️ Val’s January Community News ❄️🎉

    ~The New Year begins Take care of body and soulFind your Middle Ground~ Welcome to the January Community News! Happy New Year everyone 🎉. Give yourself the gift of Gentle Yoga and Mindful Movement this year, to support you through this year of new beginnings and transformation! Its a chilly beginning to the New Year…

  • Haiku – year end transition

    Haiku – year end transition

    ~ Reflect on this year with kind sight and gratitude Say cheers and step forth ~ A simple message as we transition from one year to the next. This is a time to pause, yet the world continues to turn, and life keeps going in its own rhythm of highs and lows. Be with it all…

  • How do you Express Yourself?

    How do you Express Yourself?

    Today I am wearing yellow and purple. Yellow to support the No Kings non violent protests and purple to honor Spirit. Freedom and Love. Today I express myself in the clothes that I wear and the words that I write. Tomorrow will be coming together in community for gentle yoga and meditative inquiry with followers…

  • Seasons

    Seasons

    Our soul – with its insistence on finding the still point from which it keeps rising – carries us through the seasons of our lives. This still point … Seasons Thanks to Karl Duffy at Mindfulbalance for sharing this seasonal goodness from Mark Nepo.

  • Inspiration – Precisely Where You Are

    Inspiration – Precisely Where You Are

    Precisely Where You AreThere is no turning back, youknow. Once the soul is awake,and the voice of spirit beckons,there is only one direction. Ofcourse, the route may look abit circuitous. Yes it maylook as if you move every whichway but forward until you seethe broader view, the one thatshows you with arms thrown wide, embracing…

  • Depth of Feeling

    Depth of Feeling

    “We are so unused to emotion that we mistake any depth of feeling for sadness, any sense of the unknown for fear, and any sense of peace, for boredom. We are so schooled away from the life below, that anything beneath scares us.” ~ Mark Nepo from “The Book of Awakening” It’s a scary place to start…

  • Barrier as Doorway

    Barrier as Doorway

    “Everything you think is a barrier is actually a door you have not and need to walk through.” – David Whyte In Scotland I take lots of walks to enjoy the fresh sea air and clear my head. I also love the enchanted Fairy and Willow Walk at Archerfield, and witnessing the absolute delight in…

  • The Real Riches – Poem by Danna Faulds

    The Real Riches – Poem by Danna Faulds

    My wealth is wonder.True abundance is thedelight I feel on summernights as fireflies risefrom the grass and Orionstrides across the sky.I measure my wealthin birdseed and hummingbird feeders,in the number of purplemorning glories the vineson the back deck produce.Inner light, divine connection,self-expression, love -these are the real riches of my life.~ “The Real Riches”taken from…

  • Haiku – highs and lows of life

    Haiku – highs and lows of life

    The pendulum swingsThrough the highs and lows of lifePeace will come in timeLike the ticking clockForever moving forwardUntil it winds downWhen we choose to pauseThe present shines more clearlyLove renews itselfLet the heart openAllow fear to diminishFind your wings and fly~ Val Boyko Namaste