It’s funny that sometimes we work so hard and little seems to come of it and then pop. Things arise from nowhere. Things you never though of come and things that you have been pushing up the hill must be laid to rest.

I have found in my life and observing those around me, that there truly are seasons. When we miss the internal changing of the leaves or the guard we miss great chances.

Sometimes we get so fixated on what needs to be done or happen or or or that we loose the opportunity that shows up unexpectedly, spontaneously.

I want to share something with you that I hope you will incorporate into your life to clear the spiderwebs from your brain and allow JOY. Joy is a big word. It means having fun with what is. Finding the fun where it does not seem to reside.

I had a recent experience that really work me up. This last year I have worked harder than I can remember. I have “Lots to show for it ” I’m also tired and ready to play. To find the play of the infinite so I was sent, express mail a great playmate who wants to take me places. To give me space to relax and be so I can get what is truly next, so I can be more joyously effective. This is what I needed what to you need to be in JOY?

Here is somethings I hope will help clear your hear and heart so you can be open to allowing the majic in. To allow what wants to dance with you in the area or areas you have closed shop.

Three Part Forward Bend

The brain fountain of youth

Stand with legs wide open. The stiffer you feel, the wider you should spread the legs.

Bend over and place the fingertips on the floor right under the shoulders. Bend the knees if necessary. When inhaling, lift trunk and head parallel to the floor. Exhale in three-parts, lowering head and trunk towards the floor in three equal parts.

1-2 minutes

Gift

This pumping motion activates the spinal fluid up and down the spine and through the brain. Allows your legs and spine to stretch. The enhanced breath helps release overwhelming feelings.

Blessings

Gurutej

What happens when you hit the wall?

A friend of mine did a facebook post today that said if you fall down 7 times you get up eight times. So true, so easy to say. This last weekend seemed like Chicken Little’s mantra of, the sky is falling the sky is falling was happening. One friend burnt some oil and was carrying it outside when it created a flash fire and burnt her hand and arm badly, another had 8 feet of water in her basement in Los Angeles with her husbands total memorabilia collection housed there by her-fireworks and lots of work, my sweet grandson pulled boiling tea down on my grand-daughter’s stomach causing second degree burns and much consternation on all fronts he had no idea of what happened and she mucho pain, my sister got stage 4 prognosis for her newly discovered cancer, and on and on. I was on a board for a community in distress and loved the fact that through much prayer, meditation and action is starting to move in an open direction. Wahe Guru! Forgot a student’s husband who had a heart attack while riding his bike. Saved but angioplasty not fun and his words to all were, “Deal with your stresses. I have a pretty good diet, exercise and now need to deal with my stress better.”

We all know we have to withstand the test of the times but sometimes they just feel like they are all too much and they are going to take us down. I want you to do something just for you and your future.

Make a list of what you need to get through your biggest tests.
What do you wish you could do?
What have you done in the past that works?
What have you done that has not worked?
What things do you have that require very little time that help?
What thinks need more time 1 hr to 1 week to help?

Here are a few things I want to offer you that I have found helpful and trust me these times are sparing no one.

I keep my yoga mat right by my desk and get up and do hand stands all day long. I drink lots of liquids and not coffee. I drink peppermint water, teas of all kinds, lemon water trying to keep hydrated and have fun with it. Also the alkaline factor is important to me so I eat alkaline foods. Most fruits, most veggies, most nuts, seeds, buckwheat, quinoa, millet, long grain brown rice, amaranth. Try to cook in batches so I don’t just open the fridge and hope that some mysterious guest has come and cooked just what I feel like eating. I also schedule lunch meetings at my house so I can make food that I will have for a day or two. Plus it is a great environment to meet in. It is calm and easy to connect in.

Create environments that make people feel relaxed be it your office or home. Yes if you have lots of children at home just make sure you have one spot that is yours, your sanctuary. It doesn’t have to be a room it can just be a section of a room and then declare it as yours and stick to it. When you are there it is your time out no disturbances. Can be your bathtub, a chair in your yard or balcony, a chair or spot in your bedroom or an entire room.

Here are a couple of other things that may just help you as they do me.
Easy and helps your immune system.

Thymus Thump
Wake up the Great Guardian

Place the right hand next to the sternum just above the breast. With a loose wrist and tight fingers start tapping this spot powerfully. If sore tap a little longer.

2-3 minutes

Gift
Helps maintain a good health; stimulates your thymus gland, which governs cellular immunity. Activates rebalancing pressure point.

Good stretch

Arm Lifts
Reach up for relief from eyes to base of spine

Sitting up straight, lift both arms overhead and interlock thumbs. From there you can do several exercises:
• Twisting the torso, inhale left and exhale right. Repeat motion rhythmically.
• Shoulder shrugs; inhale lifting the shoulders up toward the ears, exhale letting the shoulders down. Repeat shrugs rhythmically.
• Eye exercises; inhale deeply and rotate the eyes in a counter clockwise motion as long as you can hold the breath. Exhale. Next inhale, repeat the exercise switching the directions. Exhale. Then inhale again moving the eyes diagonally, upper left to lower right. Exhale. Inhale and switch. Lastly, move the eyes up and down while holding the breath.

1-2 minutes for twisting and shrugs. 30-45 seconds for eye exercise.

Gift
Stretches and opens the spine. Relieves eye stress and strain. Stimulates lymph glands. Helps clear the mind.

Get up and move we so need to move stress through and out of us.

Three Part Forward Bend
The brain fountain of youth

Stand with legs wide open. The stiffer you feel, the wider you should spread the legs.
Bend over and place the fingertips on the floor right under the shoulders. Bend the knees if necessary. When inhaling, lift trunk and head parallel to the floor. Exhale in three-parts, lowering head and trunk towards the floor in three equal parts.

1-2 minutes

Gift
This pumping motion activates the spinal fluid up and down the spine and through the brain. Allows your legs and spine to stretch. The enhanced breath helps release overwhelming feelings.

So please add these to your list of things you can do to help re- lease your stressors.

Blessings,
Gurutej

What happening now?

I went to a red carpet event last Friday nite that was a book launch. There was also a mini movie made about the author. I know only in LA. This man has been very inspirational in forming a very large spiritual community. This community who teach conscious classes to adults and children and do good work in the community. The odd thing was this movie was only about him and how truly cool he was. It made he students or congregation look very dumb. It missed the point of this amazing community. The whole focus was HIM. I couldn’t wait to leave. He may be great but his creation could tell that story so much better.

This is what life is about now Community. How we can create ones that mission statement and mission in action is to give people tools to uplift themselves, body, mind and spirit. People still want to look up to an inspiring leader but truth be told it is the legacy that is left that counts.

These times are not about “the one” they are about the WE. The Us what we can do together. That is the movie I want to see the book I want to read. There are such programs being formed all around. It is inspiring to see that this is true. It is the time to uplift and create a weave that will hold all. That these new times are calling for a new way of living and acting and it is not about you or me. It is about us.

I just got off a call with Quattro University where I am honored to be part of the staff. It is becoming a community of those who feed others and are in turn are feed what they need. We all have needs and we all have gifts. Some of us know what our blank pages are and some don’t. Some are ready to ask for help and some not yet. Lets face it we all have blank pages what are yours?

This University is based on the four quadrants of your life that need to be feed. Wealth, try being without it and it’s not so fun Wellness, without this one you start loosing all the others, Leadership, the capacity to stand up and take charge of your gifts and share them effectively with others and Legacy, what we will leave behind, how conscious we are of being stewards in the now. This is something to be part of.

I have been part of many groundbreaking organizations and will be part of many more. I treasure all I have learned by living what I have been taught. Now I only want effective. What is effective for more and more people is to learn how to become their own Guru’s? Truly their own Gurus and then have the capacity to share what they know with others. This takes discipline, this takes commitment, and this takes having an experience of what can be and being willing to dance with that possibility each day till it becomes you.

Are you ready for this new wave? Are you ready for the Yes We Can? Are you ready to be the change? The time is calling you and you and you and me. My answer is yes. I am here for you. What do you want to share that the world needs today?

What can we do to help each other?

I realized today in wondering what I would blog about I came upon this realization. When we know something we often assume that everyone knows that thing or lifestyle, or subject. Not true. So this is really an encouragement to share you gifts. I often take all I know for granite. I figure everyone knows about lifestyle, truly healthy eating, breathing, chanting, meditating, building community, yoga, relationships, etc. so I want to help you look at what you know and honor it by seeing how you can bring it into the light of day.

Define them:
What are you gifts?
Who needs what you have?
Why do they need it?
How can you get it out there effectively?
Who do you know that will support you? Become an affiliate, fan, influencer

Where to start? Because this is a circular space I don’t think it really matters. Just start. Really if you just start you may take what seem like some wrong turns but you will learn something from each turn and everyone you meet. Hopefully you will share your gifts with them. This will make you invaluable, learn from President Obama. It’s what he did in his first term in the senate. He didn’t try and impress anyone about how smart he is he served others. Web 2.0 really is about serving and supporting others with your gifts. They in turn may or may not support you. BUT you gifts will get out there and those who need and want them will start coming to you to share, to learn, of offer links.

6 months ago: I had heard the term Web 2.0 but now I am a part of this community. I could tell you horror stories about starting. I never felt dumber in my life and I can tell you I am not a geek now. I do however not have a problem navigating facebook and twitter. I even have apps to make it easier
by the grace of one great teacher Nikki Leigh who made me know I could do it. It’s just like the little train that could. One thing each day then two then remember why you want to learn this. If we can’t share our gifts how can we help to change this country around? Remember it is not just resting on President Obama’s shoulders it rests on ours.

So Connect: Let me know what you plan to do. How can I help you? How can you help others? Really this is the conversation. I help you and you help me and we help each other along. It may not be reciprocal but if you share others will come to your party.

Party Time:
What are you bringing to the party? Parties are for gifts. Write out your gifts and add to the list each day and then take one step each day to get them out where they can see the light of day and light others life up. Connection is the new currency, as a friend of mine would say.

Blessings

Stress isn’t sexy. Do you want connection?

These times are making us fearful or very hopeful. How hopeful? That is it truly a time calling on us to give our gifts. It is a time calling on us to find our center of calm in the storm of bad news. It is the Chicken Little syndrome. The sky is falling the sky is falling. It was it was hail.

The only way we will get back on our feet is to use our internal muscles and find the soul support that we can link to others. We will NOT get through this alone. We will excel and change unworkable systems together.

Someone told me that the big three automakers descended on Congress
to beg for funds. They all flew in their private planes to get there. If they were really ready to create change they would have taken commercial flights and said planes be gone. They want to keep the old ways going and we are going to fund that? God I hope not but we shall see how much we are truly willing to change.

Are you willing to give up your unsustainable ways? What are you going to put in their place? What do you want to do differently now? What are you passionate about? How are you wiling to look at live differently? Are you ready for new solutions so seep in or blast through you? Then we are ready to create a new way of life that allows us to act as if we are THAT connected. That everything we do matters.

What are you going to do? Connect with me and others on these things that really matter because it is how we will create the future. Hope or hopeless it is ours to decide.