Deepening the relationship to yourself, being honest and straightforward, and being gentle with yourself will help you become more comfortable in your own skin.
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Deepen your most important relationship in 2012
Gratitude for Labor and love for your Job
Happy Labor Day! I just wanted to remind everyone to take a moment to be grateful this Labor Day for all of the laborers out there making our lives easier. Just think of all the crappy jobs being done by someone that enable us to breeze through life without having to do it all ourselves: the public toilet cleaners, the [...]
Read more . . .Unconditional Confidence
Conventional confidence vs. Unconditional confidence A few weekends ago I had the good fortune of participating in the culminating weekend of the first year of Shambhala Training. Titled “Ridgen: Unconditional Confidence” it has a big name to live up to. And live up to its name it did. Our esteemed teacher, Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown, began the weekend by pointing out [...]
Read more . . .Today is Be Yourself Beautiful’s Birthday!
New Beginnings Actually, today is my birthday. And to celebrate my new beginnings for this next chapter of my life I am designating today the official birthday of BeYourselfBeautiful.com! This website represents for me a lifetime (so far) of accomplishment, of learning, and of the growth and discovery of me as a fully fledged human being; not unlike the [...]
Read more . . .Happy Year of the Female Iron Rabbit!
A lucky year! Today is the first day of the Tibetan New Year. Happy New Year to you! The lunar year 2011 to 2012 is the Year of the Female Iron Rabbit (lcags-mo yos-lo), and is generally considered one of the most fortunate of all possible years. That’s generally good news considering what the last year has [...]
Read more . . .New Year, New Attitude
The New Year’s conflict: motivation v. disappointment Every New Year I experience great conflict within myself: I feel utterly motivated to become the person I want to be and completely dejected about not having become the person I wanted to be last year. I tend to think in black and white, all or nothing, and it sets me up for [...]
Read more . . .Winter Solstice, powerful stillness
A powerful confluence of energies Today we are on the cusp of a vastly important confluence of energies. Tonight the convergence of the winter solstice and a total lunar eclipse of a full moon, an astrological event which has not happened for 372 years, combine with Ursids meteor shower. This atypical darkness on the night of a full moon will [...]
Read more . . .Waiting for it; Becoming friendly with delayed gratification
Instant gratification society Our current culture seems to be based first and foremost on the idea of instant gratification. Lately I’ve been noticing this more and more. The news of our continuing economic struggle shows us the direct results of this pervasive attitude. Burdensome personal debt, health crises, the advent of ADD, and the fact that storage facilities have become [...]
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