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Same name – different lives …

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Discovered that there’s someone who has virtually the same name as mine – yes, exact same last name and very similar, American vs. Japanese version of the same given/first name and … she gives off a “cool” intellectual image while leading an adventurous life profiled in a major journalistic publication. She could be me – Isn’t that so very strange? You are unique but the name you were given may not be so… which brought me to think of how there are so many people who share the same name – but each unique and different. What’s in a name? My name means … “Blessings from the Oceans & Mountains” – rather Native American-ish, isn’t it?

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)

Blessings from the Oceans & Mountains, for we are grounded and centered with each breath we take. We are blessed for we know how to live at ease, sensitized to the natural rhythm all around us. We are distinct and unique and diverse … but One.

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You are a Soul, Body & Mind:)

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I always felt this to be true !　That yoga practice aides our creative endeavors.
Yes to Savasana, the real kind, as Judith would say when you are in your “kunda” = as in your bowl shaped vessel at the core…
then … Yoga Nidra – both delicious.
Click Here for a very well written report backed up by science what I intuitively knew all along: Yoga turns the switch on (“let there be light”:) and gets the current going, juicing our creativity along with heaps of physical benefits.

And always remember:)

You do not have a soul, you are a soul.

-India Arie
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Diana Nyad

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Heard Diana Nyad’s interview with Michael Krazny on KQED, a public radio station in SF-Bay Area few days ago – it’s live in the morning and replays at 7pm in the evening and now available on podcast. Wow. I mean… Wow. I especially heard the wisdom when she talked about this single mother of 3 who is organizing a food bank for their neighbor – putting yourself out there need not be as dramatic as her’s (the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cage, 110 mi or 180 km, over 50 hours of swimming…), as she talks about being humbled by someone who makes a quiet difference in other people’s lives.

She seems to be saying that, it need not be all about “self” “Self” but caring for others is just as meaningful – as what goes around, comes around – I say like a “boomerang”! Indeed, a personal triumph can take many shapes and forms. My cousin just saw her mother through the ordeal of cancer treatments and hospice care – visiting her nearly everyday, cheering her up everyday, being her health advocate everyday – As a caretaker, she had her own struggles but put her mother’s care to the forefront…I respect her for that and I know there are many out there with similar struggles – it’s just not so easy to die or write your own script for your own end these days – to transform what feels so impoverished, to something that empowers – there’s so much beauty and courage in that. Here it is – prepare to be inspired as she says, it does not have to be her “way”, in each person’s way, we each “find the way”.

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Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it’s up to all of us to find our way back to the light.

– Diana Nyad