Letting Go

03/07/2009 — rosannagordon

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Ahhh to feel truly relaxed, at peace and free. To have this feeling fill you up and flow through you. That is just a wonder.

Letting Go is all about setting yourself free, softening, finding solace, a place of comfort and being released from any discomfort.

It is a brilliant tool to use in bringing more and more happiness to you. As you begin to let go in different areas of your life, you become closer connected with your core, your essence. You relearn how to breathe deeply, see the hearts around you and spend moments of pure happiness with loved ones.

Letting Go is such a valuable skill to nurture. And one to keep close to you on your life’s journey. It is precious. For the process of gradual release allows you to unwind, untie and discard anything in you and your life which is in ravels, knots, piles and perhaps has been for some time, accumulating dust.

As you begin to let go, you can stand back and see before your eyes how the world can change and look so different. This new softer, calmer perspective allows your breath to lengthen, muscles to relax and the stars to brighten above you.

No longer do you need to hold on to any anger bubbling inside you, hate spitting out of you, resentment festering, regret lingering, greed all-consuming, frustration revving. The tightness constricting you can relax, old thoughts can be blown away and peace can set in.

How can you Let Go? When you’re holding on with all your might to a world you know so well and have habituated – How can you refresh the moment, untangling what you no longer need?

How can you find such peace and tranquility, a release from caught-up emotions? How can you see the sunlight again after it’s been hiding for so long behind that cloud?

Not always an easy process. Taking longer for some than others. But totally possible and definitely worth the effort.

For each of us, the ravels, knots and piles vary. The things you want to let go of in your life are different from your partners, friends and family. Letting Go is a personal journey. So you need to think carefully about what it is that you are holding on to that restricts you from being truly free and the best, healthiest version of yourself. What is it that’s wasting your energy, enthusiasm and potential?

Ways of Letting Go: Close any arguments that have been going on for countless time, no matter who’s fault you think it is. Forgive everyone, no matter how much hurt you feel. Lose all blame, taking full responsibility for yourself. Do not victimise yourself, this only wastes time. Know that happiness is an inside job, the answers aren’t ‘out there’. Be grateful for everything you have, little and large. Make friends with your supposed enemies, see them as innocent. Speak with loving words to yourself, harsh words feed the pain. Seek the things that bring you lasting joy, lose the things that weigh you down. Look on the positive side of life, lose negativity. Stop trying to please everyone, it’s not possible or worthwhile. Drop the habits which leave you feeling bad, see them as old.

Forgiveness, Self-Responsibility, Inner Happiness, Gratitude, Friendship, Kindness, Compassion – these are your keys to peace. And unless you unlock the doors, you may never see how different it can be.

Throughout the process of Letting Go stay close to your breath. Breathe in everything that you feel, good or bad. Use your breath to steady yourself, stay in the present moment and slow things down for you to see clearly what’s really happening.

Breathe in. Let Go. Breathe out.

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Freedom through Discipline

13/06/2009 — rosannagordon

A path to freedom is through self-discipline.

Quite often discipline is viewed in a negative light, as something which limits you, is too severe, too controlling or mundane. But this view shadows the importance and true beauty that such an art form has to offer. Through certain discipline we can actually free ourselves and draw a forcefield around us protecting our healthy selves.

Freedom is something that we are all searching for, whether it is on the forefront of our consciousness or a little deeper within. We love what freedom makes possible – the ability to do, act and say what we like, live the life we so desire, express our authentic selves with ease and spread our wings wide! Yet, so many of us are creating distance between ourselves and freedom by not paying enough attention to our everyday choices. By acting on impulsive decisions and for short-term pleasure we make freedom harder to reach. In reality we are yearning for a guiding light to show us the way home to our healthy nature – and we can shine the torch today by choosing discipline.

The wonderful thing is, any day you so choose, you can learn discipline and make your way to freedom! You can help prevent feelings of tiredness, heaviness, unworthiness or even illness. You can attract positivity and create new life-changing habits and rediscover what it feels like to be free! You can relearn the beauty of life! – All it takes is a little discipline and an open heart.

For me, discipline is my ally, accompanying me through life, helping me to remain happy and healthy. I non-restrictively follow certain patterns of behaviour that help me to live and develop myself in the best way I know how. And I can honestly say I love it! Thanks to my self-imposed discipline I feel light, full of energy and peaceful. I am more active, alert, clear-headed and full of life! I have a good vision of where I am headed. I truly enjoy having discipline in my life and all the benefits it provides me with.

My Daily Discipline:

I get up at 6am and practice half an hour of Sun Salutations followed by some gentle stretches and breathing techniques. Providing me with a fit, light, supple, healthy body; a calm and focused mind and bounds of energy for the day!

At 6.30am I brush my teeth and shower, finishing off with cold water to feel fully awake and refreshed! I then make myself comfortable, prop myself upright on my yoga block with a soft blanket around me for a 20 minute meditation. Bringing me more peace and quiet for my day.

Between 7.20am and 8am I enjoy the morning time – being my favourite time of day! I nourish myself with a healthy breakfast of cold cereal and fruit (now that it’s warmer weather) and I relax listening to the sounds of nature in my garden.

I leave for school at 8am. I work full-time as a Teaching Assistant in a Primary School.

Lunch is at noon and is a salad sandwich with an apple, banana or yogurt and water. I like to eat light and healthily so not to feel sluggish in my afternoon activities.

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I get home at 3.45pm and unwind usually sitting on my bed with a glass of water or milk. I take 15 minutes of ‘free time’, checking emails, chatting to friends and family, checking post or just relaxing. This time allows me to check in with myself and how I’m feeling.

My yoga self practice is at 4pm. I practice my own routines for an hour, often finishing with a meditation. Leaving me feeling re-energised, awake, peaceful and ready for the early evening!

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I eat dinner at 6pm, or as near to, depending on the layout of my day. I like to have an early dinner to nourish myself well after yoga and leave room for digestion before bed. I usually have a grain with vegetables, and perhaps a little dairy or fish.

Around 7 or 8pm I walk my dog or cycle outdoors enjoying the fresh air and sounds around me. This also helps my dinner to digest well.

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The evening is my preferred time to read inspiring books, listen to music, create cards and presents, lie on my bed and chill out.

Between 9pm and 9.30pm I wash and prepare myself for bed. I think through my day, sometimes writing things down in my diary. I assess what things worked well and what changes I can create. I set goals and intentions for the next day, week, and months to come.

Lights out and sleeping time is 10pm. I like to get my full 8 hours sleep to feel well rested the next day, on top form and to make it as productive as I can!

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My routine is simplistic but very effective for me. I make sure that I am not too rigid or serious with it, and allow for additions or alterations and the needs of my friends and family. Sunday is my day away from a schedule, although I naturally want to do a lot of these things! I also make holiday time with friends and family. For me, the key things are being happy and healthy. I eat well, exercise, live positively and most importantly remember to smell the roses.

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You can establish discipline any time you like. Start slowly, little by little by daily integrating more behaviour into your days. Try things out, drop things that don’t work for you and let freedom shine brightly.

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Like a Child

04/05/2009 — rosannagordon

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We are children. All of us. Only we do not always feel so.

Sometimes in life we drift further and further away from our innocence, our joyfulness. We become influenced by our teachings, surroundings, friends and families, societies’ standards and we start to lose our way, our path and our true happiness.

Perhaps we are lost, forgetful, fearful or clouded in our lives. We may give over to adulthood and grown-up years and think that the two cannot go hand in hand, that we cannot grow up and remain young at the same time. But we are as young as we choose! As happy as we wish to be! I challenge age as being a deciding factor of what we can and cannot be, do, say and live for. At any moment we can choose to see ourselves as children and recognise who we truly are.

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Like a Child we can exude happiness and smile wholeheartedly from ear to ear.
Like a Child we are free to use our incredible imaginations and creative tools.
Like a Child we can run, skip and play with delight.
Like a Child we can draw and paint all the beauty that we see.
Like a Child we can sing at the top of our voices and dance the night away.
Like a Child we can practice handstands over and over until the sun sets.
Like a Child we can fall over and then pick ourselves straight back up.
Like a Child we can light up every corner and room with our presence.
Like a Child we can cry tears and then laugh the very next moment.
Like a Child we can have hearts of gold.
Like a Child we can speak wonderful words of kindness with enthusiasm.
Like a Child we can stay up all night chatting with the people we love.
Like a Child we can swim, splash and float on water.
Like a Child we can be nurtured, cared for, loved and nourished.
Like a Child we can heal our wounds so quickly.
Like a Child we can make our dreams come true.
Like a Child we can be present in everything we do.
Like a Child we can be glowingly healthy.
Like a Child.

By loving, caring for and embracing ourselves as children we can truly awaken to our great potential thereby creating wonder all around us. We see how a child enters a space and by simply being present and alive positively changes it’s appearance, feel and nature.

With a soft and gentle approach we can help bring health into our world.

Ask yourself these questions – how would you nurture, care for and love a child? What environment would you create? Gestures would you make? Words would you say? Nourishment would you provide?

Do you give these things to yourself?

We all know so well, almost instinctively, how to look after a child, yet often we neglect ourselves. Our standards seem to fall when it comes to the way we care for ourselves. It’s as though we are not as in need or worthy of health and so we deprive ourselves. We may give away what we really need.

See the child that you are, that is yearning for your touch, your care and set high standards for the way you treat yourself. What words you say, actions you make, things you put in your bodies. You are as worthy as everyone else in the playground of life. However much time you have seen pass by, your heart is still the same, your being, your essence. You owe your inner child, yourself, your dreams to come true.

Aging can be a wondrous thing if we make this choice.

Let us not forget how special we are, how to treat, speak and inspire ourselves. Let’s be done with using age, adulthood and maturity as our excuses for not living our dreams and playing for the love of it. And let us bask in it’s glory instead.

Let us all tap into our hearts and connect with our inner child. Smile and love this child.

We decide what growing older means for us, how we want to be in the moments, days and years to come. Nothing says that we have to stop playing outside, running and skipping excitedly and freely. Nor do we have to let go of our wishes and our ambitions.

Take yourself gently by the hand, just as you would a child, and give yourself a warm and loving hug. Stay here with this feeling. Like a Child you are precious. Like a Child.

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