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Image“Love, Without Desire To Possess…This Is The Highest Love.” – Love Or Loving-Kindness (Metta), One Of The Four Basic Sublime States In Buddhism
October 8, 2012 in Balance, Gratitude, Heart-Based Healing, Knowledge, Life, Love, Quotes, Self, Soul, Spirituality, Wisdom, Women
Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, Jennifer Miller, Love, Pictures, Wisdom
Reflections On “A Course In Miracles”: Choosing to Live In A Place Of Love And Not Fear
“No matter what is going on in my body, I strive to remain in a quiet place of peace.” Jennifer Miller
By Jennifer Miller
Marianne Williamson’s “A Course in Miracles” teaches that most of us live in a place of love or fear. We have a choice of how we want to be and act in any given situation.I have been reflecting recently that I am at a point in my life where I am aware of how am feeling and, if I am reacting to these feelings, I know it. I am striving to limit these ”reactions”, and remain in the moment, a state of peaceful quietude where nothing can “rock my world”.
And I continue to make progress. There have been many situations in the past year that might have ”taken me out”. I now strive to find that place of acceptance and often, detachment, which allows me to step back and say to myself ”I see what is going on here…game over”.
Every one of us can chose to live in fear or love at that very moment. I recently watched Marianne Williamson speaking to Oprah about how our life’s blueprint is designed to achieve our highest purpose.
Anyone can “download” their life plan but if it is not synchronized with our emotions, we have little chance of fulfilling our highest purpose.
In yoga, we are trained to stay with our breath. Whatever asana or posture we are in, no matter what is going on in my body, I strive to remain in a quiet place of peace. Our body and mind follow our breath. I strive daily to remain conscious of this and come back to this “place of peace” when I feel rattled or off in some way.
Ahhhh… that beautiful connection to our soul is all through the discipline of BREATH…
Namaste, Jennifer Miller
Posted in Asanas, Balance, Book Reviews, Breathing, Detachment, Knowledge, Life, Love, Meditation, Mindfulness, Reflections, Self, Soul, Spirituality, Wisdom, Women, Yoga
Tagged Books, Breathing, Fear, Inner Peace, Jennifer Miller, Love, Marianne Williamson, Peace, Quiet, Reviews
“In The End These Things Matter Most: How Well Did You Love?…How Deeply Did You Let Go?” Siddhartha Gautama
Posted in Attachment, Detachment, Freedom, Knowledge, Life, Love, Quotes, Soul, Spirituality, Wisdom, Women
Tagged Buddha, Letting Go, Life, Love, Pictures, Quotes, Siddhartha Gautama, Women
“When We Feel Love And Kindness Towards Others…” – Dalai Lama XIV
Photograph of Whooper Swans from the National Geographic (February, 2011)
Posted in Gratitude, Knowledge, Life, Love, Quotes, Self, Spirituality, Wisdom
Tagged Dalai Lama, Happiness, Inner Peace, Kindness, Love, Pictures, Quotes
Quotes For Mothers: “Making The Decision To Have A Child – It’s Momentous…”
“Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.”
Elizabeth Stone
“Meditation And Hope At The Substance Abuse Recovery House”
Unconditional love, if only for a few moments, will make a difference.
Arriving Wednesday at the substance abuse recovery home, I was aware of just how much more comfortable and open I felt teaching yoga here. I knew that many of the young women truly looked forward to our time together. They knew that we would share some laughs and possibly discover some new aspect of addiction recovery together. I was hopeful that each of them could experience a moment of self-realization and acceptance. I prayed for a touching moment for each of us to remember.
As we begin the yoga practice, I sense the increased level of trust in the room; my previous sessions clearly represented an initiation process as this is not an easy group to be accepted into. But many remain shut down emotionally.
For the most part they like me; the few that had brought the energy in the room down are not there. Funny how life works. The women have all embraced meditation as they seem to enjoy this time of letting go. I pass out lavender-scented washcloths as part of aroma therapy and they place it over their eyes.
One of the girls, who has a 4-week old newborn, wants to do the meditation but her baby starts to cry. I offer to hold this precious child and a beautiful calm settles over the room. Starting with a “guided meditation”, I gaze upon this bundle of life and so many feelings go through my mind.
Was the mother using while pregnant? Did this baby have to go through withdrawals?
It has been rough journey for this young mother and baby. I gently rock the newborn with a gentle, loving motion. I feel gratitude that there there are clean, safe places for these women with children in recovery.
There is hope, and I feel it in my soul.
During this precious hour I feel connected to these brave souls, knowing that we are all one connected to a higher purpose.
Unconditional love, if only for a few moments, will make a difference.
I feel my myself going into another realm, joining these women on a higher plane where peace, harmony and serenity take exist. The responsibilities of their world are momentarily at bay.
Holding this young life and knowing he is our future.
Holding hope that these woman continue on this stable course to recovery.
As the class ends and I prepare to leave, one of the girls asks me if it would be ok if she brought her daughter, who is four, to the class next week. I answer “YES” with a big smile, knowing that another young life could be touched by yoga. Another young yogini.
” May we all be open and accepting of all. We may look and feel different from one another, but in the end we are all “ONE”.
Namaste, Jennifer Miller
Posted in Hope, Life, Love, Recovery, Wisdom, Women, Yoga
Tagged Children, Hope, Jennifer Miller, Love, Recovery, Recovery House, Substance Abuse, Women
Quote For The Day: “Let Us Always Meet…”
” Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love”
Mother Teresa
Posted in Life, Love, Quotes, Thoughts for the day, Wisdom, Women
Tagged Love, Mother Teresa, Quotes, Smile
Thoughts On A Necklace With A Small Key…
My dear friend gave me a necklace with a small key. It was very symbolic for several reasons. I am reminded of the story of Bluebeard, the folk tale about following our intuition as women and falling for men who want to possess , control and keep us from being the strong courageous woman that we are. In the story, a woman marries a man who on the outside looks wonderful but on the inside has demons. She lives in a huge castle and seems to be living in a fairytale. Her husband has to leave one day and gives her a key chain with many keys and informs her that she can go into every room except one. She invites her sisters over and, of course, curiosity gets the best of them. They go into the forbidden room and find skulls by the dozens, representing his ex-wives. She quickly locks the door but the key is pouring blood and is dripping all over her. When the maiden’s husband returns, the sisters go off to find the brothers knowing what is in store for their sister. The need to call on the masculine, the brothers, represents the male psyche. As women, it is so important to balance the energy of the Male/Female, the Yin/Yang….JenniferI am blessed for this key… it is the key to my truth and heart.
