Living Here & Now
It’s easy to fall into the self defeating pattern of thinking we will be happy when something specific happens in our lives. For some of us the ‘when’ is when we find the perfect job, the perfect partner or move to the perfect place. What if we were able to open ourselves up to the joys of the present instead of waiting for the illusion of the perfect life that waits just around the corner? Perhaps we could start to find happiness in today, just as it is, instead of waiting for tommorow. So stop and smell the proverbial roses. Open up that bottle of wine you have been saving for a special occasion. Dance more. Call your best friend and laugh about something silly. Roll down your windows and turn up the volume on your favorite song. Embrace the present moment here and now. Enjoy the playlist and the quote….see you in class soon!
“We spend our lives in anticipation-in determining to be vastly happy at some point in the future when we have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other. It is our own. Past opportunites are gone. The future is yet to come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if we defer the tasting of them too long we should find that both are soured by age.” -Charles Caleb Colton
Click HERE to enjoy the playlist from last night’s Candlelight Yoga class
