Wednesday, November 24, 2010

ILA Memories




My time at the International Leadership Conference in Boston was fantastic! I had a great time and enjoyed representing the University of Phoenix, School of Advanced Studies. My doctoral research was well received and I learned much from the experience.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Deeply Felt

"Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us".

Albert Einstein

Saturday, November 20, 2010

The Influence of Suggestion

All suggestions take effect sooner or later. We develop our good or bad life according to our constant suggestion.

The following are the forms of suggestion:

  1. Physical Suggestion   (experiences of the physical body and its movements)
  2. Suggestions of Senses ( perceptions of hearing, sight, sound, taste, touch)
  3. Verbal Suggestion (vocal repetition of ideas and thoughts)
  4. Mental Suggestion ( suggestion repeated only in the mind)
  5. Environmental Suggestion (influences of the subjective and objective realms)
  6. Autosuggestion (spontaneous self-suggestion that can take any suggestion form)

-Rammurti Mishra, M.D. (Fundamentals of Yoga)


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"The greatest power of nature is the power of suggestion. It is as old as nature and as powerful as nature. We are constantly moving every moment by our suggestion. First we think, then we do. First we plan, then we accomplish that plan".

Rammurti Mishira, M.D.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

The roles we take on can bring out our talents and can nurture our reinvention.

-Warren Bennis

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Comfort within Discomfort

I do not have to be comfortable with the process of  peronal development and that is ok. I am realizing that basing my actions upon how I subjectively feel about them can lead to limitations in my growth. Pleasure and pain though important concepts to consider should not be the sole determining factor regarding my decisions. There has to be a more encompassing intelligence upon which to guide my actions. My exploration into Education and Yoga is helping me to be ok with my path and practice. I am where I need to be. The barrage of constant self-evaluation and calculation of progress can take me away from being “present” if I let it. Presence in practice and action is essential to personal advancement.


When I am not present, I can feel it immediately in my training. My sessions start rough, I am not able to feel as deep or as smooth as I had desired. When these moments occur, an instant litany of judgments soon populates my awareness precluding any chance for me to engage. Even now as I document these experiences, the words seem pre-planned and calculated not really expressing how I feel in the truest sense.

Honesty is the root of embracing life and practice more fully. I am learning that fear prevents people from being honest with themselves about who they are, what they want etc. Perhaps this is caused by a fear of discomfort and pain. If one could tackle discomfort, render it helpless to the point where it no longer held its sway, what great things could be accomplished?


“There is nothing to fear if you refuse to be afraid”.
- Ghandi

Sunday, November 07, 2010

Practice

Thoughts are controlled by practice and detachment. Practice is a continual effort to master thought waves of the mind. Practice becomes firmly rooted when cultivated uninterruptedly over a long time with devotion and skill.

- Patanjali Yoga Sutras (1.1 - 1.4)

Stronger

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.


John F. Kennedy

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