Latest from Susan Young
My life’s journey has been cultivating Mindfulness. That’s why I’m nervously driving up this so sweet laneway to the first Canadian residential Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher Training at the stunning Hockey Valley Ecology Retreat Centre near Orangeville.
As a yogi and spiritual seeker of many years, I felt lifted into the next dimension by reading this fabulous….it’s not a book, more like an event that draws you in deeper and deeper to the core. Author Michael Singer combines ancient and modern spiritual teachings from an amazing array of sources and synthesizes them into a potent promise of enlightenment by inviting us to return to the “seat of consciousness” in each moment.
Last month, I was standing in a store buying almonds. Suddenly, I see the bin of chocolate candies and then I was filling a bag with them and eating them. Who cares, you might say, a few chocolate candies?
But here’s the thing: I was finishing month three of a six month food plan of no sugar, no dairy, no gluten, no caffeine. My naturopath had suggested I clean up my food to help with some mild health issues. I didn’t want to take pharmaceuticals and so am trying other options. Now, there’s no gluten in these little candies, but alarming amounts of everything else.
A Personal Vision Statement provides direction to chart the course of your life as you move toward actualizing your vision of your life. Living into your potential.
Six Steps to Claim your life….Do you long to claim your own unique life and to make the changes you want instead of being tossed about on the waves of change like a bobbing cork?
A few years ago, I had a fast paced and demanding job in Toronto. I began to feel pain in my upper right abdomen that was eventually diagnosed as an ulcer.
When I created my 2017 New Year’s Vision and resolutions, I was carving out the intention to change. But I realized that I don’t always know what I can change and what I can’t. Here’s the truth: I was way too busy last year and want to change that.
Stress: and the courage to be still…..When I was a young mother, years ago, my infant son almost died from spinal meningitis and became profoundly deaf. That acute trauma turned into chronic stress because I was driven by my lions of self-blame and grief…..
Recently, I was facilitating the silent retreat day for our 8-week Mindfulness Program at Janati Yoga School. During the walking meditation, I noticed the hole in the left big toe of my black sock. And in a breath, felt exposed. As though people would notice the raw hole in my soul instead of the hole in my sock.
