I was inspired to write this blog from a talk I listened to today by Deepak
Chopra. He is one of the teachers in my health coach training at Institute for
Integrative Nutrition. I have been
contemplating what the mission of PurBalance Yoga Therapy is and also who it is
that I want to serve. I want to serve
those people who are unhappy with their career but don’t know what else they
can do, or don’t even know where to begin to find out what it is that they would
love. I didn’t listen to my discontent
and it cost me my health and I almost lost my most important life relationship …
my relationship with my husband. I now teach
yoga so that I can help others learn how, through asana, breathing techniques and other
yoga tools, to go into the inner silence and become comfortable with
uncertainty. That inner silence
is the space between our thoughts where we can connect to the
infinite intelligence. When we are
unhappy our soul is speaking to us. It
may be speaking to us through an illness, through a life circumstance or just
pure discontent. If we can go into our yoga
practice to move deeper into our discontent and unhappiness we begin to feel where it is within our body. Once we feel it and name it we can then begin
to ask questions. We don’t need to know
the answers we only need to ask questions and then allow life
to move us into the answers. These are the questions from Deepak Chopra …
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Who am I?
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What do I want?
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What is a peak experience to me?
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What is my life purpose?
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What kind of contribution do I want to make to
the world?
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What does a meaningful relationship look like to
me?
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How do I contribute to the relationships that I
have?
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What are my unique skills and talents and how do
I use them to contribute to society?
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Who are my heroes?
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What is my story?
I hope you will begin to take time each day to slip into the stillness and ask one or two of these questions and see how your life begins to change.
