"If we truly want world peace we must begin by embodying that peace ourselves. Peace will come when we have given up hateful thoughts, cruel words, and violent actions in our own daily lives." Cultivate hopeful thoughts, sweet speech, and kind actions. Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a universe of harmony and peace. It is up to you. It always has been!" --Sharon Gannon
September is turning out to be a jam-packed month. We have JivaDiva Alanna coming to FLOW Yoga Center for a workshop this weekend, the Global Mala Project happening, and my new Sunday yoga class debuting. September's Jivamukti focus of the month is also incredibly powerful and perfect fits in with the scheduled events: Prayer for Universal Peace.
Check out my class at Flow Yoga Center: Open Flow Jivamukti @ Sundays, 5-6:15pm. It starts this Sunday, Sept 16th, and we will be exploring the Jivamukti Focus of the month. Hope to see you in class!
"Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others." - Thich Nhat Han
Action:
Commit this month to do one thing daily, however small, that will bring peace to yourself, another person, and Mother nature. This can be through thoughts, words, and/or deeds. For example:
1. Self - before going to bed, I did a mini five minute meditation and visualized myself being enveloped in a warm circle of light
2. Others - while driving to work, I got angry in traffic but instead of cultivating anger, I sent out peaceful thoughts to all those similarly fighting traffic on the roads that morning.
3. Mother Earth - I bought a coffee tumbler at Starbucks and started using it instead of always getting the disposable paper cups for my drinks.
Your turn!
