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Arthur, 47 years old disabled veteran, finds yoga and manages to lose 160lbs in 10 months and to be able to run again. so inspirational
“The idea that we really have no limitations is a hard one for many of us to truly grasp. It may sound like a nice and noble saying, but some part of your brain may strain-subconsciously or consciously- against fully accepting this truth. Why is it easier to believe in limits rather than expansion? There are so many external forces from the media, education (both formal and familial), societal belief systems and so on that reinforce aspects of restriction. But all these limitations are illusions. The actual reality is that you truly are unlimited in your inner power and strength. Yes you! We all are, if we can learn to get mental blocks out of the way and tap into the inner, universal and unlimited source within.Health and beauty are a good starting point for most people to experience this concept. Focusing on these areas of your life can produce tangible improvements in outward appearance, as well as allow for the powerful personal experience of gaining vitality andnatural energy without external stimulants.
Once you realize that you have tremendous control over your health and beauty, largely by the diet you keep and the foods you choose, then you realize that you can extend this power outwards for goals not only pertaining to physical form, but also goals centered around your vocation, career, and relationships.
This video really exemplifies the unlimited inner to exceed limitations. Arthur was a disabled Gulf War veteran who sustained injuries to his back and knees, and was told by his various doctors that he would never be able to walk again on his own.
Arthur believed in this limitation…for a time. He gained over 140 pounds, and had to use canes to hobble about. One day, he had the spark of motivation to try yoga. Though it was not easy for him to shape his body into the asanas (poses), and though he fell many times, he kept picking himself back up to try over and over again.
Over the course of 10 months- less than a year- Arthur lost 140 pounds and was not only able to practice asanas, he was able to actually run. Had he listened to the judgment of his doctors, he would have relegated himself to the “truth” of the limitation that he would never be able to walk again and not even tried. Instead, he pushed past the illusions of limitations to utilize his unlimited inner power.
I invite you to make some time for the important task of thinking of the preconceived limitations you might have placed on your power. Write down the limitations, then think about the root of where they came from. For Arthur, doctors placed limitations on him, which shows that people in positions of “authority” can create these limitations that are not necessarily true.
This all takes reflection, and I find writing very helpful to get these thoughts out of you. Block out at least 45 quiet minutes to yourself.
Time For You To Take Action:
1. Limitations you believe are in your life. Examples include: “I’ll never be able to be X weight/size.” “Getting off medications and becoming healthy is not realistic.” “I’m not smart enough to get X job”. “I’m not qualified to make X amount a year”. “I’m not flexible enough to ever touch my toes.” “I’m not pretty enough to meet the man of my dreams. etc.”
2. Where these limitations came from. This might be more difficult, but really think deeply on each limitation and where it might have been formed, without judgment. You might discover that it resonates with something you’ve heard from another source. If it came from a loved one or family member, most probably they were saying it with good intention, or inadvertently passing on a limitation they too have. Or maybe you might have heard it from your peers or friends or boss mentioning over and over again that something was too “hard” to achieve so that it is “impossible.”
3. Once you have identified the source of these limitations, make peace with them by affirming they are not actual or true, they are just thought forms that someone else created. If you can really pause and see the limitations as being separate from “truth”, this is the first step in moving past them, and unleashing your unlimited power.”
By Kimberly Snyder
check her out, she’s a true beauty inside and outside :)My eyes watered a bit
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So very true
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Have you ever gotten to a point on your life’s path and wonder: How the hell did I end up here? Granted the journey to your present location was fun and exciting most of the time, but did that fun and excitement only hide the fact that every day a piece of you died or the fact that every moral and belief you thought you had was somehow in some way compromised?
This past week marked my 4th year of living and working in Florida. Thats 1,461 days 35,064 hours, 2.1 million minutes or 126.23 million seconds of my life. The time I have spent here has been filled with ups and downs in and outs and turn arounds, but I did not expect never to have a down in my first part of adult hood. However I did not expect to ever get to this point.
The past couple of weeks have been difficult for me. Ever since I returned from LA I have felt my body reject Miami. Everything here seems bland, tasteless, and reeks of unmentionable smells. The last couple of days have been very rough, work has got me going through a strange emotional roller-coaster, the weather has been very bad here (though i like the stormy weather I don’t like flooding of streets.) Now i am not saying that these things cant happen in lets say Chicago or Los Angeles County, but I can gurantee they feel differently.
For the past couple of weeks food does not even have the same taste. Things I use to enjoy like the taste of lemon and rosemary roasted chicken, or red skin and new york style potato salad now are tasteless. I have no idea what the main cause of this change or should i saw the main cause of me waking up to a reality that I had no idea existed. Could this be depression, could I be suffering from an aliment that show now signs, is this the devil oppressing me?
In certain situations I reflect to what my belief says: when you try to enter a town or home where you are not welcomed. God tells us to shake the dust from our feet and he would remember that town on judgement day. But what if we are so pressed on getting our message across or what if we ignore the blunt signs that we dont need to be there? God has a mysterious way of allowing these things to happen to shake us up and set us straight, especially when we are ignoring clear signs that we should not be on this path.
At this present moment I am now looking around and wondering to myself how did I reach today in this emotional, mind numbing state of being? Did I not take time out to do the things I enjoy doing, like shopping, traveling, laughing and talking to my besties? Did I allow my job, the hunger for great success, the love of money or something unbeknownst to me cause me to get to this point?
A few important people in life has told me that the joy in my voice and in my smile has slowly begun to diminish a great deal. Usual I take what people say about me with a grain of salt. But these individuals are clients, business partners, and best friends whose lives are intertwine in mine. I have tried to ignore what they have said and pushed it off as them just catching me in a bad mood, but today I truly can agree to what they are saying.
I have some difficult decisions to make over the course of this month, some I have already made and others that are still being worked out. At the end of it all I want the youthful all the time happy Austen-Ran’Del back at any and all cost.
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