Are you willing to feel Great?

Based on my Sati Leader homework for this month, I challenged myself to repeat the following affirmation first thing every morning. 

“Today I choose to embrace my life, all others and myself exactly as we are. My goal is to feel great today.” 

What I am noticing is that on days when I'm really hard on myself, I am also being hard on others.  Simply put, when I am feeling great and appreciative of my life, I am more accepting of everyone else around me too.  I am realizing that I really do project my inner thoughts and feelings onto the outside world and that is what I experience.  In the intensati warm up we say, "Every day in a very true way, I co-create my reality..."  We begin each class with these words as a reminder that we are responsible for our experience no matter how good or how bad they may be.  Put another way, what we think about and how we feel about ourselves will affect our relationships, our experience, and ultimately the quality of our lives.  And so if I want to have a great day, I begin by setting the intention to feel great.  Sounds simple right?  Well it is.  IF you choose it.

 

Since our Minds are our source of either power or pain, I want to reflect on a particular line in this  month's series where we say, " I have will power now, all negative thoughts can stop right now!"  Practicing Sati, a Buddhist term meaning "mindfulness" or constant presence of mind, means being aware of your thoughts as you are thinking them.  It means being able to choose a different thought when the one you are currently thinking is not bringing you the results you DESIRE.  And this takes DISCIPLINE.  It takes WILL-POWER and SELF-CONTROL to change your perspective.  If you are not achieving what you want to achieve in a particular area of your life, ask yourself what old habit or old thinking may be keeping you stuck.  And are you willing to do or think differently?  Are you willing to change your mind?   A good indication of whether or not your thoughts are working for you and not against you is to pay attention to how you are feeling while you are thinking them.  Are you stressed? Tense? Experiencing pain of some sort?  Or do you feel light, energetic, boundless? 

 

This month I am reading You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay and I highly recommend it for anyone who is willing to have a breakthrough.  If you are tired of not going for something because you are living in fear or failure or rejection, or you are worried it may not work out so you're full of self doubt, surprise yourself and DO IT anyway!!  And then do it again.  It only gets easier each time!  Only you have the power to set yourself free, to reach for your highest potential, and to be

UNSTOPPABLE!

IntenSati with Triccia is on Wednesdays and Thursdays 6-7pm.  Class is $10 or $40/6 and FREE if you bring a friend who has never taken intenSati before.  It is at 520 Ripley Grier Studios on 8th Avenue bet 36th and 37th St.  

 

***For the rest of the summer, we are happily sharing the intenSati practice with You Can Thrive www.youcanthrive.org an NYC non profit integrative wellness group helping breast cancer survivors reduce symptoms and gain survivorship and prevention tools.  This class is free of charge for cancer patients, survivors, their caretakers and YCT volunteers, and is open to the public for a donation of $10 which will go towards this worthy organization.  Classes will be on Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm at the Sandra Cameron Dance Studio Center on 199 Lafayette St bet Kenmare and Broome.  I will be teaching on July 27th, Aug 17th, 24th and 31st. 

Many of you have been coming to class regularly and I see you are getting better and better in every way!  You are expressing more confidence in your moves and your voices are getting louder!  I am loving our time together so thank YOU!!   

 

ARE YOU WILLING TO FEEL GREAT?  IF NOT NOW, WHEN???  Check out www.satilife.com for class schedules and special events in your area.