James Walsh Yoga

Tuesday, June 15, 2021, A routine keeps you stable when other areas of the world (that are out of your control) seem unstable.  Children crave routines and structure and, if you ask me (and no one on planet Earth has asked me), adults crave routines and structure as well.  I write all of this to hype myself up to get onto my mat and practice, as I don't feel like doing either of those things....that routine, however, brings stability and consistency to one's life and stability and consistency help to bring peace in our heads and our hearts Time to begin....

Friday, June 11, 2021, " Be strong, be kind, and be beautiful ", is, from what I've heard, a Korean proverb (who knows if that's accurate or not), but the phrase resonated with me when I heard it years ago, and it's stuck with me.  As I've written many times before, we're all physically nothing more than intelligent, and evolved, apes living in our evolved ape bodies and thinking with our evolved ape brains.  We're bound into it, and we're constrained by it; and we always will be, until the day we die. Since we are all encased in our evolved ape bodies/minds, we have to live alongside that ugliness, and everything that comes with it. Much of the ugliness, however, lives inside our heads and can become over complicated through confusion, overthinking, and other deficiencies.   Can this evolved ape ever be beautiful?  Beautiful, not in the physical sense, but beautiful in the control that's achieved over the ape-body and the ape-mind.  Yes, that ...

Wednesday, June 9, 2021,  There is no question that we're in charge of 99.99% of what happens to us, but does"luck" and "good fortune" come from our own behavior, or do luck and good fortune occur to everyone, in relatively equal amounts, throughout a person's life? In other words, does a persistent/constant attitude keep you going (through "good-luck" and "bad-luck"), until good fortune comes organically and naturally, or are some people "lucky".   My perspective, that no one on this planet of Earth asked for, is that every living, breathing human will have relatively equal amounts of good opportunity and bad circumstances come their way and the response and reaction to the situation is what matters.  Is one defeated after an unfortunate turn of events or does one immediately begin to consider how to mitigate and minimize the damage? You've heard it many times, in many phrases; " your perspective is your reality"....

Tuesday, June 8, 2021,  Today's title is a classic, and timeless phrase that we've all heard a million times; " you are what you eat". In the physical sense, this phrase is completely true, in that the food you eat will have an effect on your body (for better or for worse).  However, we "eat" with our eyes, brains, hearts, and souls too and, if we "eat" and consume the wrong thing....it will begin to negatively effect us.   Each morning, before I begin my practice, I spend an hour enjoying coffee and contemplation (#strangerthings).  While I was spending my coffee hour this morning scrolling through my phone, I found myself on a once-favorite app of mine which was intended to be a fun place to share memes, funny pictures, and gifs, etc.  This app, unfortunately, has become a sewer of unhappiness and discontent (most acutely in the past few years).   I mention this app, because, while I still occasionally visit it to steal a funny meme or gif, I ma...

Thursday, June 3, 2021,  When I'm feeling down, and blue, I ask myself, " hold up.....check yourself....how much social media have you been consuming?.....have you been consuming images of "influencers" living influential lives, and doing influential things, and sitting around soaking up each others influence?".....#meangirlz The answer, very often, is "yes, I have".  Like everyone else who's reading this, I live in the same swamp of the modern world; that swamp has some dry and pleasant oasis in it, and it has some overcrowded, noisy, pig-pens as well.  While we're in the swamp, we're equipped with your phone; your phone is going to show you people who are better looking than you, having more fun than you, living a life that you could only hope to achieve, while they surf, drink White Claws, and party.  Don't know how you got to be so lame....but ya did *stares in mirror*.  As the title suggests, you may have already made a connection ...