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Letting Go and Just Doing It

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Sometimes we don’t even know we are holding ourselves back.

This morning, while not feeling 100%, I decided to climb onto my yoga mat and have a restorative practice followed by some meditation. Sometimes, before I settle into my dyhana practice I like to play with my sacred geometry cards. I like to hold them to my heart and ask to connect to a card that I need most in that moment. I pulled Guilt.

My first reaction was what?! Guilt? That makes no sense. I was a bit disturbed. But none the less, instead of dhyana, I settled into dharana practice, which is focused concentration. Focused concentration on guilt.

Wow! I get it. Guilt does not serve me, nor any one of us.
So this whole blogging thing I started back in September 2018 and trying to be more active on social media to share my passions has been a learning experience for sure! For the past four months I have been talking about going ‘LIVE’ on social media, but I was nervous and felt not ready. And as more and more time passed, I guess I began to feel a little guilty. Guilty that I haven’t been doing what my heart has been telling me to do, which is share my passions and connect to as many beautiful souls as I possibly can.

On the back of my Sacred Geometry Card by Janosh, it reads: “Guilt: When you are in balance with your true self, you will make intuitive decision. And when you act in your own best interest, other people might feel disappointed if they don’t understand you. This can result in guilty feelings. Feeling guilty prevents you from truly surrendering and choosing your own path. The energy of Guilt helps you acknowledge that feeling guilty serves no purpose. Not for you no anyone else.”

So, I’m proud to tell you that after I finished my session I had an ah ha moment, and I did it. I went live on my ‘Jyll’s Zen Lounge’ Facebook page…. and it wasn’t so bad.

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This also has me thinking of aparigraha, which means, non-grasping and letting go. It’s one of the 5 yamas (moral codes), which is one of the 8 limbs of Patanjali’s Ashtanga Yoga.
I need to let go the fear of putting myself 100% out on social media and being completely in the raw and organic.  How freeing?!

I recently came across this quote that has resonated with me so deeply.

“Aparigraha invites us to let go and to pack lightly for our journey through life all the while caring deeply and enjoying fully.” ~Deborah Adele

What do you need to let go of to travel more lightly and be joyous in life?  I would love to hear your thoughts.

Zenfully Yours,
Jyll

Right Thoughts. Positive Changes.

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I am a firm believer that you must explore within yourself, embrace yourself, get to know yourself, and most of all, LOVE yourself!

I know that our own self at times can be our own worst critic, but you must learn to know and to feel that you are enough and that you are actually quite perfectly imperfect AND you do have the power to change and manifest!  Wow, a powerful statement, but so true.  Let me see if I can break it down some and give an example.

As we travel through this journey of life we yearn to explore, grow and love.  However, sometimes, along the way we can talk ourselves down.  We can feed ourselves such negativity; becoming caught in our thought processes that we are not enough or do not have the power to make the changes we desire.  Comparing ourselves to others, desiring more than we need, feeling lost and in despair… These are all low vibration feelings.  These feelings are definitely ok to have, for we are only human.
But, I’m here to gently remind you that there is no need for that. Negativity will always 20181019_152603_0001.pngfeed negativity and you will become stuck in the ferocious cycle, for you become your thoughts.
Instead, I encourage you to move yourself into higher frequency thought patterns and feelings of contentment, acceptance, accomplishment, joy, etc.  Because positivity will always feed  positivity.
There is an Ayurvedic saying that I learned years ago while studying yoga philosophy that goes something like this:
“If you want to know what your mind was like 10 years ago, take a look at your body now.  If you want to know what your body will look like in 10 years, take a look at your mind now.”

You have to change your mindset to make the changes you desire.

This past year I turned 40 and nine months prior to this birthday, I decided I wanted to be in the best shape of my life!  I knew that what I was currently doing wasn’t going to get me there.  I have never been a morning person (well super early that is) and I am definitely someone who would never even consider working out in the morning.  I much preferred my afternoon workouts.  I would use my lunch hour and burn my calories at the gym lifting weights and getting on the elliptical.  But then one random Monday morning, I decided “I AM A MORNING PERSON!”  I kept telling myself this and within three weeks, I had formed a new habit of getting up early, before work, to get a solid 30+ minute workout in at home, crushing it and setting goals in my workouts.  I was consistent with my thought processes and dedicated to that routine and obtaining results (which I still am) and I would just like to add, I ROCKED by 40th birthday!  I am rocking my 40’s and I am in the best shape of my life and I am now a morning person, waking up at 4:50am to workout!  Crazy right?!  But I now love it.
“You are what you think.

          Think it Today.
                      Become it Tomorrow.
Nothing can help you or hurt you as much as the thoughts you carry in your head.”
~Daniel Levin, Zen Card
It’s so true.  We become our thoughts.  So knowing this, next time you catch yourself in a negative thought pattern, I encourage you to love yourself enough to pause, take a deep, nurturing breath and turn it around to create powerful, positive intentions.
Create your happy, zen tomorrows by thinking positive today!
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
The mind is everything.
What we think we become.”   ~Buddha
What are you Thinking?  What will you become?
Zenfully Yours,
Jyll

The Journey Begins

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Hello beautiful Souls!

Thank you for being here.  

Though I’m not exactly sure where here is, or where it’s going, but I wanted a place to share my zen ways and to maybe assist you in finding a little zen in your life as well.

My background is one of many dimensions that uses my left and right brain.  While I have a Bachelors in Business Administration with a major in accounting which I have been using over 20 years within the business world, I also have my massage and yoga certifications.  Yoga has been an integral part of life for over 20 years, rather it’s exploring my home yoga practice, instructing classes, or incorporating a little yoga philosophy throughout my day, it brings me great joy.  I also have over a decade of experience within the spa industry and I have acquired much knowledge over that time of finding ways to lead a well-balanced, happy life.

I sold my spa after over a year of deep contemplation, and without getting into the nitty-gritty of the reasons, I went back into corporate America.  The single component I miss the most about my spa is knowing that everyone that walked through my doors, I made a positive, healing difference in their world.  I have been missing that satisfaction of knowing I am making someone’s world a little brighter, happier and calmer. Granted, I hope I provide that to my friends and family daily, I miss extending my soul shine further into the world.

So… HERE I AM!  HERE WE ARE! Welcome to Jyll’s Zen Lounge a place where I can joyfully express my love, light and zen ways to all you beautiful souls seeking a little zen in your life!

So please, I encourage you to come along for the ride to see where this journey takes us.

Zenfully Yours,

Jyll

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