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See you on Monday kids 😉😘. Planning t

See you on Monday kids 😉😘.

Planning to take 2 days off from Social media.

Highly recommend to have breaks from SM and you can start with half a day.

#HappyFriday!

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Seeing gold in every moment. In my mindfulness m

Seeing gold in every moment.

In my mindfulness meditation teacher training, I come across a lot the story about the Golden Buddha.

It was discovered in 1950 in Bangkok. The Buddha was covered with clay for centuries. Historians believe that several hundreds years earlier, the temple monks themselves had covered the statue with clay to protect from invaders.

When monks today share this story, they say that in the face of covering the gold. Our suffering comes when we identify with our protective covering and forget the loving awareness that is intrinsic to our being.

Our day-to-day social self or personality are our protective clay coverings.

Those coverings are appearances, manners, defenses, judgments, skills, weaknesses, and so on - are often evaluated in terms of “good self” and “bad self”.

The good self meets the standards we have adopted from our caregivers, peers, and the larger society. Perhaps our good self is polite, hardworking, attractive, and accomplished.

Our bad self is all the ways we fall short - when we call ourselves selfish, impatient, judgmental, or impulsive.

But none of these conditioned ego patterns limit or express our basic goodness.

Basic goodness is the gold of our true nature: the universal qualities of awareness, aliveness, love, creativity, and intelligence that live through all of us.

Our changing moods, behaviors, and personalities are like surface waves.

Basic goodness is the ocean itself.

As you keep meditaing it gets easier to be present and recognize your true gold that is in your basic goodness, that is always there.

Every breath you take and present to it allows you to be Golden Buddha, that you are.

The post inspired and adapted from my teacher: Tara Brach’s book: “The Radical Compassion”.

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Wednesday message 💜🌸💜. Beautiful from J

Wednesday message 💜🌸💜.

Beautiful from Jack Kornfield book: “The wise 💜 “

Join our 90 minute workshop next Thursday to pause

Join our 90 minute workshop next Thursday to pause and plan your month ahead.

You’ll have an opportunity to review how you did in July. You may have had more successes than you think!

This is a great opportunity to step back, reflect on the past month, and plan accordingly.

TO FOCUS or NOT TO FOCUS?
I always choose FOCUS, at least a couple of times per month.

Link in BIO.

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Plan as if you like yourself. In my latest blo

Plan as if you like yourself.

In my latest blog, I took sometime to share how learning surfing taught me to be a kind planner.

Most of time, we are abusive planners.

My 3-step formula for planning as if you like yourself includes:

Know Yourself
Be realistic about yourself
Be kind to yourself

IT is simple not easy. It works. Read the rest of story to apply to your life.

https://bil.nyc/plan-like-you-like-yourself/

Share how you plan.

Reminder to ALL! We have a lot to offer to humanit

Reminder to ALL! We have a lot to offer to humanity. Use your talents to do good in the world.

I got this card for my birthday from a fabulous Becky Alexander and now I put it near my kitchen sink, so I see it every 2-3 hours 🤩👏👏👏👏👏 to remember to connect to my inner goodness and people around me.

And be from that place of love, light and magic.

Wishing you #happymonday and plan like you are a gift to humanity 😘💖

🔥 ANNOUNCEMENT 🔥 ✨ SLOW DOWN RETREA

🔥 ANNOUNCEMENT 🔥

✨ SLOW DOWN RETREAT ✨
November 6th - 13th, 2021

🌊 San Agustinillo, Oaxaca, Mexico 🌊

JOIN US to Experience a week of deep rest that will recharge and rejuvenate your body, mind, heart, and soul.

The Slow Down Retreat is designed to provide space for our participants to connect with all aspects of themselves and return home feeling centered, joyful, and energized, and ready to be the best versions of themselves.

In times of a constant barrage of information, experiences, and conflicting priorities, our nervous system, body, mind, and heart need time to unwind and recharge.

We ache to reconnect with ourselves in a loving and caring way. The retreat intends to help you master the art of rest by restoring energies in the key areas of your life.

Slow Down Retreat is inspired by Marina Romashko’s and Piamundo’s @piamundo shared philosophies; when we immerse ourselves in beauty, it inspires, touches, and transforms all aspects of our being.

Only 8 rooms are available.

Book before August 15th, 2021 to get $150 early bird special.

Link in BIO.

Buddha loved making lists! I would assume

Buddha loved making lists!

I would assume it allowed him to organize his thoughts (his still had thoughts we all do even if you get enlightenment ;).

The list making is a great way to organize ourselves and create more space in our mind and life.

That why planning is essential, you put everything in the lists.

You can see your life from a different perspective.

If Buddha was into organizing his thoughts you may try it too.

Photo credit: Phix Nquyen

Do you know how to rest? Fascinating thing, I le

Do you know how to rest?

Fascinating thing, I learn in my work is most people do not know where to begin when it comes to rest and unwinding.

Constant state of hustle keeps our nervous system wired up and we honestly can not just relax or unwind. It requires more time and attention that we may have courage to recognize.

I will be writing more about rest and unwinding in coming months as it is essential to productivity and life as a whole.

This Sunday, July 18th, if you are around in NYC, join me for Slow Down Retreat.

The workshop is blend of mindfulness, productivity, metaphysical tools I have been practicing in the past 10 years in my coaching practice.

The workshop will allow you to take some time to connect with all aspects of yourself: body, mind, heart and soul in a mindful way.

You will feel, rested, centered, gain some deep insights that you may not hear (due being busy all the time) and have a plan.

Of course, we will have a cake to celebrate.

#happyfriday #slowdown #slowdownretreat

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