Throw out your book of shoulds. It’s not serving you now and it won’t in the future.

…ancient wisdom delivers contemporary guidance. And last Sunday I was so very fortunate to explore this belief with Ronna Detrick in her Sunday Service. You can listen to our conversation by clicking the link below – it’s really juicy! Ronna & Me – Sunday Service This is a Beautiful Beliefs post. If you would like to share your own, simply complete the sentence ‘I believe that….’ on your blog, explore a little about where that belief comes from and how it expresses itself in your life, and then come back here and leave a link in the box below and share it with everybody here.

…I am reborn through savasana. A what pose? You want me to pose like a dead person? Why on earth would I want to do that!? My first thoughts at adopting savasana – or corpse pose, as it’s also known – were not entirely positive. However, this whole yoga thing is still so very new to me, that I knew that I owed it to myself to give up any judgements I may have about the practice, or my capability to achieve half the positions I had committed to attempt. I’ve surprised myself with how quickly I’ve grown into my practice. How, after even only one week, it’s now become…

…gifts are only fully received when they’re shared. I want to share with you a quote from Lewis Hyde’s book The Gift which completely changed my views on gifts and on how I wanted to show up in the world. “I would like to speak of gratitude as a labor undertaken by the soul to effect the transformation after a gift has been received. Between the time a gift comes to us and the time we pass it along, we suffer gratitude. Moreover, with gifts that are agents of change, it is only when the gift has worked in us, only when we have come up to its level, as…

…I am the bow and my children are the arrows.  This belief is derived from one of my favourite parts of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet… Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be…