Loving Life - Creative People

I love what my life and my work has brought me. I have had the great opportunity to meet and work with so many wonderful people. I practice and I teach yoga / meditation and I do therapeutic bodywork (hands-on physical therapy). Click on the title to see my website.

I get great satisfaction by helping my clients resolve pain issues and increase their creative potential through my work. But I also enrich my life just by getting to know these people and in learning about their gifts.

I have also met many amazingly creative people through my meditation and yoga community. These are people that have devoted their lives to their spiritual growth, so they have let go of much of the common tension that gets in the way of the true self and relationships. They have opened up their channels of creativity and communication.

They teach me so much by sharing their lives with me. I see this as a great gift and I would like to share some of their stories with you in upcoming posts.

Thanks,

James

www.somahealing.com

Milo The Medjool King

This is my buddy Milo. He is a laptop High Tech Human and he knows how to have a good time. He's a big fan of Medjool dates (click title for more info). If it involves Medjools, he's happy. He's pretty happy most of the time, but he really gets happy when he sees a bag of dates. 

So, that's the real question. How can we get back to that state of consistent happiness? I think we can learn a lot from children. I learn a lot from Milo.

In Zen Buddhism, there is a concept called Beginner's Mind. In Milo's case, it is literally a beginner's mind. In Buddhism and other spiritual systems, it is the practice of approaching life with openness, curiosity, optimism and a lack of prejudice. 

In a child, it is their natural state. In adults, this same natural state still exists, but it is usually covered up with preconception, expectations, fear, neediness, coping mechanisms and other confusion. 

So the process of achieving Beginner's Mind for an adult, is really just the process of rediscovering the natural state of the true self. It is the process of letting go of fear and trusting life.

See you on the path.

Peace,

James

www.somahealing.com