Laura Erdman-Luntz, MA, E-RYT(500) | Yoga | Yoga Teacher Training | Minnesota | Costa Rica | Life Coaching

A Yoga Moment: Meditation Flash Mob

This is simply fabulous!  Yoga is spreading...

 

Meditation Flash Mob: Texas State Capital Building from Greenheart Creative on Vimeo.

monday morning musing: an even easier way to feel good!

M U S E  U P O N  T H I S

Just contract the muscles

 

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In honor of mother's day...

Happy day fellow moms around the world!!

Let this bring a smile to your face...we really are all in the same boat!

Feel Good Moment for Earth Day

Your Story

One of the greatest gifts of learning about manifesting is you finally learn that you are the creator of your story, your life. You get to write it. Much of your life so far (and perhaps all) has been based on the stories others told you and you believed. Some stories were wonderful and therefore you thrive in those areas. Most of the stories were limiting and have only served us by keeping us small in those areas of our life.

I recently learned first hand of the power of our stories. It seems like it is such an insignificant story, but it represents something so much larger for me. I love coffee. I love the smell and the taste. I stopped drinking coffee the day I handed in my research thesis for my masters. (I was up to a pot a day.) I quit mostly because I was cutting out chemicals from my diet and the only way I could make the coffee sweet enough for my taste was with sweet-n-low. Anyway, I have told this story for years — I graduated in 1996 — you do the math. “I just can’t drink coffee without sweet-n-low”. (Feel free to add a whine and self-pity to that sentence — it was always full of it.) Whenever I tell the story, I also add that I miss it. I love the smell and my husband makes delicious coffee every morning so I smell it a lot. Finally, about a month ago, when I was telling this story for the umpteenth time, my husband said, “You have got to stop telling that story. You have changed so much who you are. Why don’t you try coffee today, right now, with your new consciousness.” I did and I loved it!! I put in a single teaspoon of sugar and I thoroughly enjoyed the flavor. I had told that story for years and it had truly affected me and how I was living.

Granted, the story is insignificant perhaps, but I really got in that moment the power of our stories. What do you tell yourself that is negative about your financial situation? Your job? Your marriage? Your weight? Your business? Your home? Your children? If it is negative or something you don’t like, then rewrite your story. We assume today will be just like yesterday. Today can be completely different if you allow it. You can change on a dime, really. Sometimes it takes longer, but it doesn’t have to. It is really as simple as saying, “I am ready for this to be different.” Then you need to decide what you want, or better yet, how you want to feel, and begin to strive for that feeling. Your story is only a story and it can be changed.

A great start to writing your new story comes from a great book I read called, Zero to Zillionaire by Chellie Campbell. She says to write the story of your life so far with only the highlights. Tell about all the wins in your life, all the silver linings. (She also recommends writing your story from the perspective of your losses, but I do not recommend spending any time there — although it is quite illuminating!) Start your day reading of your exploits and see how your day unfolds.

Holiday Feel Good Moment

So funny!  Sadly, I related to much of it!  :-)  Enjoy and have a very happy holiday, one and all!

Lessons From a Child

 

 

This week in my monday morning musing I wrote about sharing kindness.  After writing it last week, I mused about how to share the concept with my children.  The lesson just showed up for me!  I was on date with my son.  We were at the coffee shop enjoying hot apple cider and each other’s company.  A kind older gentleman brought a cookie he had bought for Zacky.  He said Zack had smiled at him so sweetly, he wanted to share something with him.  Zack smiled, accepted the cookie, and thanked the gentleman.

 

The gentleman left and we resumed our game.  Fifteen minutes later, Zack asked, “Why did he do that?”  We talked about how Zack had helped him feel good so he wanted to do the same for Zack.  I also pointed out how good Zack was feeling and that good feeling came from the kindness of the gentleman’s gift.

 

Another fifteen minutes passed and Zack blurted out, “So, who can we give a gift to?”  He looked around the coffee shop and noted that everyone already had something to eat.  So I suggested we buy a muffin as we were leaving and have the clerk give it to the next person who came in who needed a muffin.  He thought that was a good idea.

 

On the way out, we told the clerk we had been victims of a random act of kindness.  She smiled and said, “Ah, so you got the cookie!”  We said we wanted to do something for someone and would she give a muffin to the next person she thought needed one.  She smiled and teared a bit, thanking us. 

 

Zack proudly and excitedly shared his cookie with everyone.  He exuded love all day and changed the energy in our home.  His first words the next morning were,  “Do you think the person received their muffin yet?”

 

The best part of the story was pointed out to me by one of my students after I shared the story with her.  Zack can’t eat wheat.  He was feeling that gratitude for the cookie even though it wasn’t something he could enjoy! My student wrote in her email, “Just think about how many times the rest of us receive a gift and react with ‘It's nice but I prefer green...or, it's the wrong size...or, I already have one...’  And, think about how many kids would have a FIT if they were given something and could not eat/play with/enjoy it themselves.”

 

Interesting...here I was looking for a way to teach my children about kindness and it was me who was taught by them!

feel good moment: truly inspirational

Baby Yoga - or is it?

Such a funny video!!

Feel Good Moment for Earth Day