Yoga With Maureen

No matter how fast I’m driving, or where I’m at, or how non-thirsty I am… I always stop at Lemonade stands put together by little kids.

I just love how excited they get to have a customer!!!

Today it was kool-aid… I asked if it was good & they offered me a free sample

I said, no, that’s ok… I’m sure it’s delicious…

It was only a quarter, but I always try to have enough so that each would get the price it would have cost… so my kool-aid cost me $1… the smiles were big, the drink was delicious even though I think there wasn’t any sugar in it.

I need not say any more

Recently I’ve been starting to let things go, mentally… again.  It always seems to be a continuous journey and I always welcome it.  It feels like my mind is becoming uncluttered.

I notice to that things start to release in my body as well… it doesn’t seem to be as tense.  I’ve had this knot in my back that I’ve had for litarally over a year.  It seems as though it has branched out and started to consume the back side of my rib cage – so whenever I would do very deep twists, it would be breath-taking on the tense side… and I don’t mean breath-taking in a good way…

So I’ve stared to make some changes in my life and the tension in my back has started to release… it’s not as consuming as it once was… I still feel the knot, but my breath isn’t taken away when I get into some deep twists…

I think it’s my body letting me know I’m in the right direction…

life is good.

Ahhhh…. home again, home again jigidy jig…

After returning from another music festival & not having easy access to showers but very easy access to wet wipes… I am so appreciative of water!!!

You never really realize what you have until you don’t have it!

It’s nice to be back into the groove of things… sort of, things will be turned upside down again in August, but will settle back down in September.

Things feel so scattered for me right now… leaving for a month… how do you pack for that??  I want to tread lightly, but I also need clothing for varying temperatures and precip. and of course the yoga mat… hmmmm… I’ll deal with all of that when I get to that bridge.

Thinking like that helps me to refocus.  Everything can always feel so out of control, but if you deal with what’s at hand, then that’s all you can do… well, that’s all I can do & I try to remember that when my heart starts to race, my palms get sweaty, my head is about to explode and then I remember… breath… ahhhh… it’s all good.

With that, it is also a reminder why I mediate… so the ego doesn’t control the mind…. so the mind that controls the body is scattered causing more stress and anxiety… so the mind follows the breath… and I just am… it’s like levitating

Peace

Maureen