Where The Lotus Grows

Today the ladies talk about meta meditation, cultivating compassion and Kim introduces Kwan Yin. 

Meta is a Buddhist concept that stands for loving kindness and goes along with the yoga word samsara which is the cycle of ignorance and suffering.

Kwan Yin is probably 2500 years ago and originated before Buddhism but is known as a goddess in China. She is a metaphorical figure that is about mercy and solace, charity and friendship, compassion and empathy these are all characteristics used to describe her and a meta meditation.

Samsara is a thinking error it is informative and forever going around in circles. Have you ever pined for one thing and resented another. Reality collides with our desires and expectations and we run into the same walls time and again. This is where the meta or compassion is found where the flowers of mercy, solace, charity, friendship, compassion and empathy can bloom in our souls. Compassion is like a muscle you train it needs training in order to grow strong.

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Living by our to do lists going from one task to another makes it even difficult to focus on only one type of energy.

This week Kim and Tonya discuss finding balance and connecting to your core energy as it helps you balance the yin and yang of life.

-Are you quick to handle things on your own vs asking for support?

-Are you caring for others and not allowing enough space to allow them to return the favor?

-If you have no boundaries or goal setting strategies you end up working in circles and all efforts are futile. It is important to plug into life’s energy and unplug from everything else.

-Getting in touch with your energy gives you a place to ground and restore your being.

-Self-care gives you balance and the ability to keep going. Each day ask yourself “Have I done one thing for myself today?”

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The ladies look a some of the most common reasons individuals come to yoga for hip and pelvic floor related conditions. Specifically looking at common searches revealing hip pain, bursitis, flexors, flexibility, hip replacement, back pain and arthritis. For the pelvis there is pain the pelvic floor, pain, tilt, inflammatory disease, during after pregnancy pain. Discussions include: 

-Hip is a ball and socket joint. It is the strongest joint in the body and only out mobilized by the shoulder. The hip is made for stability and weight bearing. 

-Male vs. Female pelvis: The sciatic notch is widener in the female pelvis, which is more oval, thinner, shorter and denser. The male pelvis has a long narrow sacrum and is more heart shaped, heavier, taller and thicker. The male coccyx or tailbone is curved in while the female coccyx is almost straight. All the differences of course are to facilitate childbirth.

-Yoga and other movement based therapies are great for understanding your anatomical needs and educating yourself, preventative medicine, self-compassion with injury recover and childbirth and acceptance of changes associated with these.

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Kim and Tonya look at the current stereotypes of their generation vs. the millennial generations, explore entitlement vs. empowerment, changes in schools of thought of how to raise children, trying to be conscious and intentional parent and what it is like to raise children that are generations apart.

-Are you assuming and making generalizations in your leadership style?

-Entitlement is the belief that one is inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.

-Empowerment is the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one’s life and claiming one’s rights.

-Does entitlement trigger you because you feel like it is coming from that person's ego?

-We all stand on someone else’s shoulders throughout life. Here is an example of the difference between empowered and entitled. Empowered people ask “How can I help you?” Entitled people ask “Why do I have to help?” Which do you prefer?

-Are we losing educational foundations because schools are having to become the village?

-Tips on how to develop a growth mindset

-Looking at your grit resilience

-Grit is basically your courage, resolve and character. Leadership can be lonely at times especially when you are taking a team on a new adventure or find yourself in troubled waters because let’s face it your competition can’t always swim too.

-Accountability can fuel empowerment.

-Empowerment comes from autonomy, motivation and mastery.

-Empathy is about having the sense of others emotions doubled with the ability to imagine what the other person may be thinking or feeling.

-Sympathy is feeling compassion, sorrow or pity for hardships that the another person encounters while empathy is putting yourself in their shoes.

-To flex your empathy muscle  considering challenging yourself to undertake a challenging experience which pushes you out of your comfort zone, ask for feedback, examine your biases, cultivate a sense of curiosity, explore your heart instead of your head, get feedback from others, and learn to ask better questions. 

-Older generations need younger generations and vice versa. Millennials need to be mentored by the older leaders to learn about grit, being uncomfortable, autonomy, and seasoned leaders need Millennials  to learn about honoring the balance of global/cultural acumen, interpersonal skills  and leadership impact.

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We would like to live “in the moment” but what is that moment actually?

Kim grew up on a farm and has learned to look to nature for life wisdom. The trees grow ring by ring as time shows itself in circles. We try to control time, and yet it slips through our fingers. Today the ladies ask, how can you be happy in the now?

• The busier we are the faster time seems to disappear, yet we want to hold on to time and savor it.
• There are three ways to experience the now: 1)Open your senses. What do you feel, smell, hear, see and taste? 2)Focus your attention. When you listen to someone, truly listen 3)Try to regard the now as space instead of time the space inside of you in which everything happens. You are the now!
• Is spiritual time our solution to the enigma of time? 
• Life is always in the now.
• When you talk about your life or think about it, where is it exactly? Did you start pursuing your mind looking for archives that you think are your life so you can build a story around them?
• Simply be- stop aiming for enlightenment in he future and feel right now that you are in awareness that perceives things.
• Grant yourself the time to be happy! You have got this!

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