Guest post by Silvia Mordini The quality of our intentions influences the quality of our lives. Successful business people, athletes and artists all sing a similar song when it comes to setting your intentions high. Yoga helps in this way by teaching us to make precise, high quality efforts. This practice inspires you to expand beyond the ordinary, living up to your greatest potential. Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the … [Read more...] about Stop Settling: Uplevel Your Intentions
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3 Ways to Be Happy Now
Happiness is a continuous state of quiet joy that exists in the moment from the inside out. Happiness is what love looks like. It is the manifestation of what it means to love ourselves, love our day, love our lives. The timing of happiness is right now. As seekers of happiness it is important to understand how much of it depends on internal versus external factors. Based on her research, in her 2007 book The How of Happiness, positive psychology researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky concluded that … [Read more...] about 3 Ways to Be Happy Now
How to Make the Most Out of That Magic Hour
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. -Rumi By Noelle Rodriguez Magic Hour There is that magic hour right before dawn breaks and the sky turns a beautiful orange hue. The stillness is palpable as the sky turns one shade lighter after another. As if the darkness that enveloped the night sky was but a fading dream. If you pay attention, you can feel the energy in the air. It is rich and buzzing with the potential of the coming day. It’s the magic hour as vibrations … [Read more...] about How to Make the Most Out of That Magic Hour
How one NFL Star Quieted the Voice in His Head and Found the Present Moment
A photo posted by Amazing Yoga (@amazingyoga) on Mar 3, 2016 at 9:15am PST I grew up with a childhood dream of one day playing in the NFL. The dream became an obsession. I ate, drank, and slept football. In pursuit of my ambitions, I beat the crap out of my body with relentless overtraining and tortured my mind and spirit, believing that the only way I could be happy was a long, successful career in the NFL. Rejection. After finishing my college career at the University of … [Read more...] about How one NFL Star Quieted the Voice in His Head and Found the Present Moment
The Power of Enthusiasm
Happiness is a direct experience of enthusiasm. Remember, it is not how or when we accomplish something that matters most, it is the sense of enthusiasm during the process that demonstrates our quality of life. As Bo Bennett puts it, “Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.” What are you enthusiastic about? If you wake up dreading the day, worried about the hours … [Read more...] about The Power of Enthusiasm
5 Lessons We Can Learn From Our Mistakes
“With every mistake; we must surely be learning.” –Beatles This lyric is a reminder that active learning is trial and error. Making mistakes doesn’t mean we are less capable. Naturally life’s efforts also bring failures. On the mat, yoga is a learning laboratory where the goal is the process of trying the pose. We make an attempt and then observe our reactions to the insight gained from the experience. Those who make it look easy have fallen the most. Balance poses are a powerful way of … [Read more...] about 5 Lessons We Can Learn From Our Mistakes
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