gratitude is the key
oh i just woke up from a nap. feeling refreshed now! i think this morning 8am skype session with leekeng trained quite a bit of my energy. we discussed for almost 2hr i think.
ok i just had tea. i hope you girls dun mind reading a bit more about yoga this weekend becos i feel like sharing a bit more from the notes from paul dallaghan that margie gave me. paul is yoga teachers' teacher, her teacher as well.
there is one more article paul wrote about gratitude which i find really helpful. here's a practise that we can all do, yogis or not. let me type it out now for you.
''Start each day with this practise. After rising and cleansing take time to sit still for a few minutes. Steady yourself and your breath. Then, as if there is nothing else so importnat in the world than this conversation at this moment, start to offer thanks from your heart. Acknowledge all that you have, feel the genuine appreciation. Offer thanks. A few minutes of this at the start of everyday will profoundly change your life. Then let it continue throughout the day. When you eat, when you arrive at work, when you get home, when something happens. Just notice the inner dialogue. Feel it. Do not broadcast it. It is a private intimate detail. The power lies in the personal nature of it. Though I spend many hours every morning in yoga and meditative practises without this key of gratitude I know for certain my life would not be what it is today.''
- paul dallaghan, director of centered yoga institute and yoga thailand.
we already have so much. we do not have to make ourselves poor, but we do need to give thanks.
alright, i am starting with morning thanks and also before my food. actually i started some time ago but i always forget, too hungry all the time. i am going to try my best. come on, girls, i hope you can join me. start by choosing one activity in your life to offer thanks everyday without fail.
p.s. i have to thank frederick stander, spiritual teacher. thank you, if not for the session, i believe i would still be 'stuck'.
ok i just had tea. i hope you girls dun mind reading a bit more about yoga this weekend becos i feel like sharing a bit more from the notes from paul dallaghan that margie gave me. paul is yoga teachers' teacher, her teacher as well.
there is one more article paul wrote about gratitude which i find really helpful. here's a practise that we can all do, yogis or not. let me type it out now for you.
''Start each day with this practise. After rising and cleansing take time to sit still for a few minutes. Steady yourself and your breath. Then, as if there is nothing else so importnat in the world than this conversation at this moment, start to offer thanks from your heart. Acknowledge all that you have, feel the genuine appreciation. Offer thanks. A few minutes of this at the start of everyday will profoundly change your life. Then let it continue throughout the day. When you eat, when you arrive at work, when you get home, when something happens. Just notice the inner dialogue. Feel it. Do not broadcast it. It is a private intimate detail. The power lies in the personal nature of it. Though I spend many hours every morning in yoga and meditative practises without this key of gratitude I know for certain my life would not be what it is today.''
- paul dallaghan, director of centered yoga institute and yoga thailand.
we already have so much. we do not have to make ourselves poor, but we do need to give thanks.alright, i am starting with morning thanks and also before my food. actually i started some time ago but i always forget, too hungry all the time. i am going to try my best. come on, girls, i hope you can join me. start by choosing one activity in your life to offer thanks everyday without fail.
p.s. i have to thank frederick stander, spiritual teacher. thank you, if not for the session, i believe i would still be 'stuck'.
posted by Suyin @ Kyurii.com at 4:22 PM
3 Comments:
thanks for sharing!
suyin, just wana share. =) From young, i was taught to give my thanks for my food prior to eating as well. I think the thanking part consists of - my thanks to the higher being for granting food, farmer for planting, chefs for cooking, and lastly, myself for still being alive and sitting on that very table-eating. jh
dear sister, yes! thats what i was taught at the monastery too. all the way from farmers (even we can extend the gratitude to sentient beings like earthworms who helped to wiggle in the soil) to chefs to ourselves having this precious opportunity to be alive eating the food.
hope you have a nice easter holiday! i went to the kwan yin temple in lantau island, where there is less tourists high up in the mountains. the vege meals are simple and yummy. next time when you are in hk, i have so many places to bring you to!
love, suyin : )
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