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Manifest – How We Choose To Participate – Episode 13

February 20, 2017 by Teresa Phelps Martin Leave a Comment

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Well, if you are just leaping in…here's the deal. This month I have unpacked the idea of your inner reality determines your experience of life. Yes, what is going on behind the scenes, you know that world, the private inner world of you, this is what dictates your experience of life. Not what is happening all around you. What you value, what is most important to you is going to inform your choices. Why? All kinds of research in the mental health field tells us that our beliefs inform our thoughts which inform our feelings which informs…our choices and behaviors. Those choices and behaviors, well, that is what makes up your life. What you value the universe reflects back to you. So listen up, if you want to be happy, make a list of what you are doing and a list of what makes you happy, then adjust accordingly. I also suggest listening to the episode and taking time to journal, write it down. Then you are communicating, better yet, demonstrating through your actions your interest in you. Invest a little time. It certainly won't hurt you…and as a valued student said to me…'it just might actually help'.

Want a worksheet? You can find it on the Sacred Essence Facebook Group page!

Filed Under: Life Skills & Stress Management, Podcast Tagged With: accountability, awareness, choices, community, consciousness, delight, experience, happiness, heart of life, joy, life skills, love, manifestation, meditation, mindfulness, personal growth, radiance, reality therapy, self love, unity

Movement – Yoga As The Entry Point – Episode 3

December 12, 2016 by Teresa Phelps Martin Leave a Comment

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Here it is, the movement aspect of this months podcast. Yoga does so much, and it opens us up to a sacred relationship with our inner self providing an opportunity to be in a more optimal connection recognizing that we contain a high version of ourself when we embrace our entire self. But in order to embrace, we have to get to know.

The movement of these podcasts is incredibly accessible. The advance nature is not in the physical form but in the integration of body, mind and spirit. If it was just physical…well, it wouldn't be yoga in my opinion. Again I hope this supports you on your journey!

Filed Under: Life Skills & Stress Management, Podcast Tagged With: connection, grace, health, highest self, movement, relationship, sacred essence, self awareness, truth, unity, wholeness, yoga

Marvel – Yoga as the Entry Point – Episode 2

December 5, 2016 by Teresa Phelps Martin 2 Comments

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A simple offering of how the power of yoga begins to integrate the body and mind to elevate our experience of life. It only makes sense to begin the podcast with a pondering and exploration of how yoga helps us handle the complex nature of being. A simple unpacking of yoga and it's process to understand oneself as a physical manifestation or embodiment of love. Give yourself a moment to consider what you use yoga for and how it is integrating different areas of your life to move toward wholeness and optimal living.

Filed Under: Life Skills & Stress Management, Podcast Tagged With: alignment, lifestyle, love, meditation, movement, sacred essence, self awareness, spirit, transformation, unity, wholeness, yoga

In loving memory

January 24, 2012 by Teresa Phelps Martin 1 Comment

Have you ever had a moment where you’ve been introduced to a new form of love?  An experience you’ve never quite encountered.  It spins you into a realm where all pieces of you are completely illuminated.  You feel wild and free, intoxicated by love’s great potency. Nourished by the great elixir of life. Then, all that is sustaining you, all that keeps you going, disappears completely almost in the blink of an eye. The unbearable loss of love, a loss that lasts an eternity leaving the heart utterly empty. Defeated and feeling ruined entirely.  Devastated to a level that the memories of such splendor begin to fade.  You start to forget such a love ever existed. Yet because you can’t deny or doubt the love existed in the first place the pain becomes even more brutal.  The sweet seed the prior moments were born from have disappeared completely. Then one day after time has helped heal, a loving memory appears. A glimpse of brilliance resurfaces.  A little glimmer, a little spark, a reminder that you were never left in the dark.

There is a fairly popular book out there that contains a verse that reminds us love is the greatest gift of them all.  Love is patient and love is kind. Love never fails and knows no enemy. Love always protects. Love is the answer. Love is the key. Faith, hope & love in unity.

Science speaks of the chemistry of love, what attracts us to love.  Science also tells us that what goes up, must come down.  That for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Change is constant. Particles are in a flow of expansion and contraction and that atoms are a combination of positive and negative. That we are made up of nothing more than star dust.  Each of us are a long line of success that goes beyond chemistry and some things are better left a mystery. In the words of Einstein, ‘the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious’.

It’s the mystery though that can sometimes be painful. We offer great gratitude when everything aligns and unfolds sweetly.  When the path is clear, we don’t ask questions. It’s when our heart’s ache in loss or uncertainty that we ask why. It’s when the mystery seems to create misery. When loosing love we need a map.  A map that guides us and helps us navigate when all else seems to be hidden.

Anusara & Blue Throat Yoga introduced me to a wonderful map of mysticism. It takes the premise that all things are born from a seed of love and we can learn to navigate with Grace. There are many aspects to the map. One part is all that is manifested arises from a cosmic dance of bliss. The dance offers 5 divine acts (pancha krityas). This actions are creation, sustenance, dissolution, concealment, and revelation. In order for something new to be born, something else must fade away or evolve into a new form or offering. Love is born, love is sustained, love fades, love is hidden, love is re-awoken. Grace is the source that offers a revelation.

It’s all rather magical, until we forget.  When we don’t fully know or haven’t really recognized. Yet it’s from the mystery that we gain insight. The hard part is knowing that love, like grace is ever present. Love is the fabric which never fades. Love is all there is, so love all ways.  We learn to love the memory that never fades.

In loving memory of all we’ve lost so mysteriously.

Filed Under: Yoga Musings Tagged With: change, faith, hope, love, unity

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