#Resolutions to make into habits – what will you do with your #time?

When we celebrate the New Year, we find ourselves caught in time. We look backward to the past year and forward to the upcoming year. We are caught between the going and coming. Some of us have regrets for the past and many of us have hope for the future. In our modern-day world, we get lost in time. That’s because time becomes a commodity that we use, hoard, trade and exploit. We waste time, keep time, give time, find time, lose time, make time and on and on…. But remember time is really the only thing we have. When it is gone our time on earth will end. So, what you do with your time, says so much about you and the life you live. Ask yourself what do I do with my time and what can I do to make good use of it? I would suggest this year that you take time every day to practice these five resolutions and to make them into habits: gratitude, generosity, kindness, joy and peace. If you incorporate each of these into your goals and your everyday life you will find that your time is wisely spent. You will be working your karma in positive ways. This will bring you prosperity. It only takes moments to practice each of these. This would be a good use of your time – and so would practicing our yoga class – so let’s get started. END: Time flies – time really, really flies; and here we are another year about to end and new year to begin. We can’t slow down time, but we can use time to create quality of life, and isn’t that what we all want; a life that is full of gratitude, generosity, kindness, joy and peace. What you do with your time says so much about the life you live. Live it fully and remember, what you do with your time is the only thing you take with you when you depart this world. Make your time count. EGO: flip up your palm and extend out your index finger – The ego feels it never has enough time to express itself. It fears its own demise and looks upon time as the enemy. It frantically runs after work and life experiences always trying to beat time. But time cannot be beaten. We cannot stop it or control it because time does not stand still and our experiences rarely fulfill us. Bring your index finger in and place your thumb on top. When we surrender our ego the demands of life subside and we experience being in the present moment. The soul then realizes that we are here on earth to build virtues and remove vices. That’s why we all make resolution. We want to do better and live a better life. Letting go of the ego allows us to participate in life as a grateful, generous, kind, joyful and peaceful soul. These would be good resolution to make into habits. Happy New Year May you walk the path of life with health, happiness and peace Doctor Lynn For more books, classes course and consultations http://www.doctorlynn.com

Resolution Five -a good habit that will bring you serenity and calmness.

When we do something repeatedly it becomes a habit. If we continue with this habit, it becomes part of our character. So how can we resolve to develop healthy habits to enhance our character? Awareness and practice. Without these nothing can be achieved. The four resolution we worked on over the last few weeks was to develop the habits of gratitude, generosity, kindness and joy. This week we will work on peace. Peace means to be serene and calm. The whole goal of yoga is to be able to restrain and balance the chaos that often goes on inside your head and then create calmness; body, mind and soul; which leads to peace. We live in a material world. Karma yoga does not discourage us from creating wealth and acquiring things. But it does encourage us to stay detached from these things and not to let them own us or bind us. We should be grateful for what comes into our lives, but not obsessed with hanging onto things. Obsession creates greed, chaos, fear and none to these things can create peace. We are here to find joy and to enjoy our lives. If you have beautiful home enjoy it but do not fear letting it go. In this you find peace. So, karma teaches us to find and maintain peace in our heart while keeping our mind working within the material world. The whole goal of yoga is to be able to detach and then see and use the whole world for what it is – opportunities to learn and work through your karma. It is an opportunity to discover gratitude, generosity, kindness, joy and peace. Takes awareness and practice. let’s get started… END: The goal of yoga is to maintain a peaceful mind while living in a very chaotic material world. Karma teaches us that there are four types of people in the word that can disturb our sense of peace. The happy, the unhappy, the virtuous and the wicked. Yoga gives us four keys to use when we encounter each. Friendliness for the happy; enjoy being around them; compassion and generosity for the unhappy; wish them peace; be gladness for the virtuous; admire their gratitude and kindness; and for the wicked do not judge simply observe be indifference and find peace. Do not try to advise them. Wicked people seldom take advice. If you try you will lose your peace; be indifferent. Use these keys friendliness, compassion, admiration and indifference at every encounter in your life and you will discover peace of mind, and that is the goal of yoga. Ego: Flip your palm up and extend out your index finger the symbol of your soul. Your body and your mind must continue to fulfill the job for which they were created. Housed within is the ego and it is the ego that needs you to work your karma. Once you learn how to let the ego remove the citta and disturbances in the mind you will find peace. Pull your index finger in, place your thumb on top and surrender to your soul. Simply learn to be selfless. Give more than you take and be grateful, generous, kind, joyful and indifferent, and you will find peace. These are all good habits to practice! Namaste ~ may you walk the path of life with health, happiness and peace Doctor Lynn For more classes, course, books and consultations http://www.doctorlynn.com

Five Resolutions - Four -a good habit that will bring you great pleasure and happiness.

When we do something repeatedly it becomes a habit. If we continue with this habit, it becomes part of our character. So how can we resolve to develop healthy habits to enhance our character? Awareness and practice. Without these nothing can be achieved. The three resolution we worked on over the last few weeks was to develop the habits of gratitude, generosity and kindness. Resolution four to make into a habit is joy. To truly experience joy is to feel pleasure and happiness. Next to health most people would say that happiness and joy are the most important. And yet karma teaches us that the greatest amount of negative karma goes into prohibiting the expression of joy. If joy is so wonderful, why do we try to destroy it? • Comparing and competing • Lack of gratitude for what you have. ... • Letting D-GAP control you. ... • Focusing on the past or the future. ... • Trying to control what you can't. ... • Caught in being a victim - blaming others • Obsessed with your possessions. Chinese proverb – although you may amass a million gold coins; when you depart this earth you cannot take with you even one copper penny. Any one of the four great passions or the trouble some four will prohibit the expression of joy. Joy connects the hidden dimensions that unite the body and the mind. We experience joy both from a biochemical point (dopamine) and from a mental point of happiness and pleasure. When people tune in to the feeling of joy, what often emerges is an awareness that this joy is somehow always with us. Joy is quietly, invisibly ever-present. It is not “out there,” and it is not “in here”; rather, it is simply everywhere and it is a choice we make whether to experience it or not. Let’s see if we can find it today END: Joy is the soul of happiness. Like pleasure, it can express itself through the body, but it is not of the body. Like satisfaction, it can be felt emotionally and appreciated mentally, but it is so much more than just an emotion or a state of mind. It means to stand outside yourself finding happiness and joy in the moment. True joy is limitless and always available to us. It requires awareness and practice and like gratitude, generosity and kindness, finding joy everyday would be a good habit to choose. EGO: Flip your palm up and extend out the index finger. Feel the pull away from your center. When we turn inward and face ourselves, our issues take center stage and the spotlight prevents us from seeing what is going on around us. In other words, the ego has its grip on us. Joy feels somehow beyond space and time. Joy does not come and go; what comes and goes is our awareness of joy. Ironically, we often feel the presence of joy the most when we stop chasing pleasure and we stop trying to satisfy our ego. Pull the finger in and place the thumb on top; true joy means to find happiness and bliss while standing outside of yourself experiencing the pure joy of life. It can be as simple as the joy of feeling the warmth of the sun on your face. Look to find joy in each day. It will remind you of how precious life can be. Joy is necessary for our survival. A world without joy would be a dismal place. Joy is a choice you make, and if you let it, you will find that Joy is bigger than your ego. Namaste~ may you walk the path of life with health, happiness and peace Doctor Lynn For more classes, corpses, books and consultation http://www.doctorlynn.com

Five Resolutions to Make into good Habits – in this you will prosper

When we do something repeatedly it becomes a habit. If we continue with this habit, it becomes part of our character. So how can we resolve to develop healthy habits to enhance our character? Awareness and practice. Without these nothing can be achieved. The two resolution we worked on the last two weeks was to develop habits of gratitude and generosity. The third resolution to make a habit is kindness. Kindness is inherent in all human beings, and essential for survival. It means to show consideration to others, as opposed to being insensitive, harmful or apathetic. Our most basic motivation is to strive for survival, well-being and happiness. Being treated by others with cruelty, indifference or insensitivity goes directly against this basic wish. So, we want others to treat us with kindness and this is common to all humans. Naturally, kindness is also supported by compassion. If you are inclined to wish another person to be happy, protected and relieved of suffering you are practicing compassion. However, in order to fully practice kindness, you must first learn to be kind to yourself. When we are not emotionally aware, or are unkind towards ourselves, it is very difficult to be kind to others. Kindness is supported by forgiveness, empathy, compassion and discernment. Further, to develop kindness for the greatest number of people, these practices should rest on a foundation of impartiality, where we learn to see our common humanity. In other words, we must realize that what all human beings have in common vastly outweighs our differences, and that all human beings naturally seek survival, well-being and happiness. Kindness, therefore, would be a good resolution to make into a daily habit. END: This week as well as gratitude and generosity practice kindness; first towards yourself and then towards others. Remember that it is basic to the survival of all of life. Kindness creates sharing, caring and protection. ‘The World Happiness Report’, a project undertaken by the United Nations, has shown that even more than economic factors, happiness and life satisfaction is even more important than wealth. Kinder people are happier people and kinder people create happier societies. EGO: Flip your palms up and extend out your index finger – the symbol of your ego. Feel the pull away from your center. The ego seeks its own survival often seeing itself at the center of the universe, alone and caught in its own projection of reality. It seeks kindness for its own survival, but sometime forgets that it is connected to all living things and all living things need kindness to survive. Pull your finger in and place your thumb on top to surrender to your soul. The soul reminds us that we are all interconnected in this vast web of life and if we are to survive, we must remember that what all human beings have in common vastly outweighs our differences. Always seek to do the greatest good for the greatest many. Be kind and resolve to make kindness a daily habit. Namaste~ may you walk the path of life with health, happiness and peace Doctor Lynn For more courses, books and consultations http://www.doctorlynn.com

Five Resolutions to Make into good Habits – in this you will prosper

When we do something repeatedly it becomes a habit. If we continue with this habit, it becomes part of our character. So how can we resolve to develop healthy habits to enhance our character? Awareness and practice. Without these nothing can be achieved. The resolution we worked on last week was to develop a habit of gratitude. Take a moment each day to be grateful for something. Make it your default habit even in tough and stressful times. The second resolution to make into a habit is generosity; it’s a quality that's a lot like unselfishness, or as yoga calls it being selfless. There are seven ways to practice generosity; our thoughts, words, money, time, material things, influence and attention. Karma yoga reminds us to pay careful attention to our thoughts, words and deeds. We create generosity through all three. Remember that greed is one of the four great passions. It must be removed if you are to master your karma. The opposite of greed is generosity. This would be a good habit to develop. Generosity creates good punja and good punja is the good merits we gain from living a soulful life. Karma teaches us to do unselfish work without expecting anything in return. It also means to give more than you take. Acts of generosity, such as giving your time, talent or resources, and expecting nothing in return, have been proven to be good for your health. Generous individuals are personally more fulfilled, happier and more peaceful within themselves, not to mention more productive at home and in the workplace. Takes conscious work to be generous especially in stressful and trying times. That’s karma – it takes work – let’s get started. END: generosity is not so difficult to practice and something we can all do every day no matter what life hands us. Be kind, be sincere and always give more than you take. Here are some free gifts to give every day that will create generosity. To your enemy give forgiveness, to an opponent give tolerance, to a friend give a helping hand, to those you love give an open heart, to a customer give good service, be charitable and give your time, to every child give a good example of what it means to be a good person, and to yourself give respect. Ego: The ego is the part of you that says I want it all. It is the part that inserts itself at the center of existence and in this becomes selfish and greedy. Karma reminds us to conduct ourselves in ways of self-surrender meaning to ask ourselves who is really the author of our lives? The self-centered one, or the one who observes and acts selflessly? Pull your finger in and place your thumb on top. Surrender to your soul and then take actions that allow you to act unselfishly. When you give do not look for something in return. If you give from a selfless place, you will always prosper. When you make others happy you are also happy. Be aware of your thoughts, words and deeds, and then act in ways that create generosity. Soon the habit of being generous will be with you every day. Remember generosity can be as simple as being kind, giving a helping hand, or a smile to cheer someone up. This week make gratitude and generosity a part of your daily habits. Take the time to become aware of our thoughts, words and deeds and then practice giving more than you take, and in this you will develop the habits of generosity and gratitude. Without awareness and practice nothing can be achieved. Namaste~ may you walk the path of life with health, happiness and peace Doctor Lynn For more classes, course and consultations http://www.doctorlynn.com