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Wellness in the 21st Century

Everywhere you look people are rushing. One might wonder, "Why we should live with such hurry and waste of life"(Thoreau).  "But I'm not wasting my life", you say. "I am working hard" you argue.  Ah but "we are determined to be starved before we are hungry". We are willing to sacrifice all we've got for what we call "success" . Yet this success is the success of business men and celebrity: a success that fails to account for our very humanity, and in doing so fails to support our very nature. In fact, "men [will] say that a stich in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stiches today to save nine tomorrow", forgetting that tomorrow will need saving as well.  In some circles, this can be illustrated with the concept of energy points or "spoons". Every day, every person has a certain amount of energy, or "spoons", and the energy we borrow from tomorrow, affects the energy of that day. Yet we wa...
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Welcome Ramble :D

  Somehow at 17 or 18, in the middle of Humanities, I knew exactly who I  was, and when asked that exact question, I asserted with the only logical  answer that existed in my mind: I am forever changing. Even in that exact  moment, trying to piece my life together after some major transgressions,  and of course, I had transformed before that, when I went from a child to a  “troubled”, but self-aware, adolescent. Since then, transformation has been  the main theme of my existence, constantly challenging me to accept change  and transition into the next chapter.  In fact, that's why I travel with Shiva on my arm: to honor the destruction that must, at times, come before an awakening and rebirth. This is one of the many things my 20+ year yoga practice has taught me throughout the  years. In fact, that's why I travel with Shiva on my arm: to honor the destruction that must, at times, come before an awakening and rebirth. This is one of thma...
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