Of course this is easier said than done, but this philosophy really changed my approach to handling my anxiety. Prior to delving into mindfulness, I would try to fight my thoughts. This would only result in me losing and succumbing to my negative thoughts, which in turn would lead to rumination. Of course, I still feel the symptoms of my mental illness, but I have the tools to cope when the tides rise. Acceptance of the feelings is key- now I watch the blossoms of my disorder bloom without watering them. I see these thoughts and the illnesses as wholly seperate from myself. They’re just appearances in my consciousness, and do not identify me.

I know this entry was pretty rambling in nature, but I just wanted to jot down how mindfulness has changed me in the last ~ 6 months! Hopefully it makes sense to people besides myself😅

What’s it going to f*ck’n take?
From addiction to Ashtanga with the wild woman herself, Santina Giardina-Chard.

If you haven’t listened to the latest episode of Finding Harmony, you are in for a real treat as Santina shares with us with her incredible journey!

Santina experienced extraordinary childhood wounds, had a tumultuous early adulthood, struggling with an addiction to heroine, lawlessness and eating disorders.

Love had a way of finding her though, and a transformation started to happen through the practice of Ashtanga yoga, and digging deep with Gestalt therapy.

Click the link in my bio to listen now 💯
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A later to this posture Ganda Bherundasana written by @santinagiardinachard_ 📝
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“Dear Ganda Bherundasana,

You’re the only one that opens up the pleural cavity in such a way that I cough up some old tar (shit) from the ole “smoking” days.

My dad heard me coughing after this pose and I explained how my lungs were full expanded and the pleural cavity opened and flushed, his response: “It opens ups and flushes your anal cavity not your pleural cavity, with the amount shit you speak.”
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Do what’s in front of you to do. The rest can wait.

Root yourself in reality, in direct experience. Don’t let abstractions or ideology color your view of reality.

I’ve realized after reflection that the times when I’m most miserable is when i feel trapped and slave to anything, even my own personal habits or self limitations that my mind subconsciously acts out all the time and I’ll think to myself that I’m stuck a certain way. My brain never stops churning unless I stop it to meditate. When I break from these patterns and do something different, I feel free and alive, and excited. Like anything could happen

“How can we never return the favor?
No one can see through brotherly ties
Some continue to see us as their adversaries
Why is black not a color of the rainbow?”
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“Solo” accapella for @colorsxstudios ENCORE 💛 Available now on Youtube 💛 “Se battre jusqu'à la muerte, parce qu'on a trop de fierté… ” ✊🏿

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What is it to be fully aware, fully alive? Listen to a great conversation with the retreat team from Taraloka, who are about to lead our next online Home Retreat around the relief and ease of being in the present moment – whatever that present moment looks like.

Listen to the podcast on the Community Toolkit - link in bio - and join us Friday 10th July to Thursday 16th July and find the retreat resources at thebuddhistcentre.com/awake

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Create a life you’ll be proud to have lived.

This Fourth Of July Is A Huge Day In Astrology — Here’s What To Know

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Aléjate de los vampiros energéticos.
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Se llama egoísmo sano.
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No debes sentirte mal por mantenerte al margen de personas y situaciones que roben toda tu energía Positiva.
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#mindfulness (en Alajuelita, San Jose, Costa Rica)
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To relate with others compassionately is a challenge. Really communicating to the heart and being there for someone else - our child, spouse, parent, client, patient, or the homeless woman on the street - means not shutting down on that person, which means, first of all, not shutting down on ourselves. This means allowing ourselves to feel what we feel and not pushing it away. It means accepting every aspect of ourselves, even the parts we don’t like. To do this requires openness, which in Buddhism is sometimes called emptiness - not fixating or holding on to anything. Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we’re not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.

- Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart

O agora importa mais do que qualquer outro momento, pois é o que você está fazendo hoje que está determinando em quem você está se tornando.
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Approaching every situation with the mindset of “how can I come out of this as a winner, how can I turn this situation to my advantage?” is a game-changer. It switches the whole focus from one of negativity & denying your own power (feeling overwhelmed, uncertainty, anxiety, what ifs) to one of positivity & ownership of your own power (this is how to make the best of the situation, this is how I gain x and y). It’s all about mindset.

Small signs of hope in the coming apocalypse:

Lost, half-forgotten

Rediscovered just in time

Playfulness beckons

In times of chaos it’s hard— but extremely important— to remember what you’re grateful for, to find moments of positive reflection wherever possible.