Lifestyles: Buti Yoga

My lifestyle is changing. I'm wanting different things now. However I'm honestly fighting off laziness and procrastination. I had a great at-home workout session with my favorite 'Buti Yoga' routine. It's nice to know that I have workouts that I <3 to do. If not who knows if I'd had push through the procrastination. Now if I can clean upy eating if be on another level. I literally feel like in gonna barf from the white bread and cheese I had today.  It's okay I'll get better. Time to start findin healthy foods that I love to eat. Gotta keep it easy and satisfying no matter what. 

This Journey

A few days ago I saw an incredible video of myself from a year ago... I'm astounded at the changes!! I've never felt more empowered by my own self... Mainly because when I set out on this journey I decided to make up my own rules ... No scale... No dieting concerns ... No following anyone else's rules but my own. There's no reason to hold onto my past but to move progressively forward. This has no longer been a journey about weight loss but a journey into spirituality and self-love. 

The first thing I did was look at my relationship with my body and my resistance to be slimmer. In a lot of we I stared at my own truth which was that I did not enjoy society's ploys to make me hate myself for not being a perfect shape.  And I used my weight to demonstrate that resistance. 

1. I found a workout that I enjoyed and that sparked the fire. Which led to me desiring more workouts that I love to do. Spinning / yoga and dancing... And who knows what more I will discover. And I made it apart of my lifestyle. My rule in te beginnig was workout every time you work. Be an opportunist. 

2. I made conscious decisions to love my body where it was in the present moment. Yes you can change the way you think simply by saying the opposite of your negative thoughts. 

3. I rejected anyone else's input. Yeah I listened to them but then I let it go... 

4. I meet myself where I am at... If I am feeling a little weak... I would still workout but I would be forgiving to myself. "Do what you can" is my motto. And more than usual I would push even more than I thought I could cause I'm naturally ambitious even when I think I can't. 

5. I dealt with my emotions in a healthy way... During workouts if I was feeling anger I took it out on that bike or I found peace in the yoga room. 

6. I dealt with my emotions in a spiritual way... Deepening my spirituality and finding the teachers and gurus that spoke to me... They help me to change perspective and to find positions like compassion and gratitude. 

7. I started playing more. I left a deadend life sucking job and found the joy in the risk of the unknown. I started enjoying time trough meditation and relaxing. Naturally I started 'playing' doing te things that I loove to do. I swear this is one of the activities that really oused me forward. 

8. I'm continuing to learn te powers of the human mind as body. Understanding that I manifest my life through my own perspective. I'm choosing to find abundance in areas where I thought I had nothing. 

9. I'm learning not to take anything personally. This frees me from being the victim. It's still a work in progress... But even the compliments even the nice things people say I try no to take personally. I say thank you. But what's most important is the compliment and the perspective I give myself. 

10. I stay open. If I'm open I find new things and new opportunities. I remain available to flex and fold in whichever way I feel I need to go in that moment. 

I would say these are the top ten things that have kept me successful and that will keep me. 

BEAUTY

Since January of 2013, I began a journey that I've never attempted. Little did I know the depth of this journey. It was about freedom!!!!!

Freedom to no longer be restricted by anything imposed outside of me. Starting with my weight loss journey. But it has trickled into everything and every fiber of myself. This journey to self-love seems to be endless and infinite. There are so many places where there can be more LOVE to be found!

Walking outside today I saw the truth. That beautiful people are really and truly beautiful because the vibrate the love of themselves. They embrace everything that is unique about them without having to trump someone else's beauty.

I am all knowing that this is my journey to be bathed in that kind of love. In that kind of beauty. As I continue to embrace all that I am and all that makes me unique, I seem to feel and appear more and more in love and in beauty.

Anything ugly that comes up, i see it for what it is and treat it with LOVE. No day is perfect. I have operated in a certain way for so long so I forgive myself for the baby steps. But each and everytime I embrace ME... I grow closer and closer to being the most beautiful woman to ever walk this earth! In my dream at least