On day 12 of a 30 day challenge of Bikram yoga, it isn’t so much the 102 F heat, or the rule you can only breath through your nose, or even that you can’t have any water until after the warm up poses are done that is most difficult. It is managing your monkey mind…
I’m lying on my soaking wet towel after 90 grueling minutes of Bikram yoga. Hot yoga it’s called. They’re not kidding. 26 poses in a row in 102-degree heat. The room is small and we are packed in like Macys’ on Boxing Day plus it smells like high school gym class. I’m exhausted by now…
“Please Sir, Can I have some more?” This was notoriously asked by the poor orphan in Dickens “Oliver”. His life was changed forever when he uttered that phrase. This month I’m intending to do the same thing. I’m going to ask for more of what I want. I’m going to call it the Oliver Way,…
When you look at this image do you see a glass half empty or a glass half full? I really have no patience for talk about positive thinking. I know it to be like my frequent visits to my hair dresser to eliminate my graying hair. You can apply whatever topical agent you like, but…
Who is the Writer? In 1986 Byron Katie (or Katie as she is most often called) was 43, living in a half way house, and sleeping on a floor because she didn’t feel worthy of the bed. She was in a half way house for women with eating disorders and had been sent to the…
I start but I can’t finish! I want to practice my singing. I want to make a new audition package for opera work. I want to contact orchestra conductors too and develop my concert career. I even have a conductor to contact and I have his card in my hand. Day after day, I do…
Practicing. I’m practicing right now. So are you. What are you practicing? Singing? Languages? But we aren’t just practicing our skills for our passions. Daily we are also practicing thoughts that create unhappiness for ourselves. No one can hurt us as deeply as we injure ourselves. With the inside job there is not deflection or…
