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Comment on Letting Go; Making Space by Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:51:52 +0000

Kirstin,
What a beautiful observation of truth. You are exactly right. You will be in disbelief of how much more love is available in your heart that you didn’t even know existed. It is amazing, and it will add so so so much more to your family. Just like making space in your home, making space in your lives and heart, can include prioritizing and getting rid of the clutter that isn’t really important anyway. That is where simplicity meets purity and what we seem to spend a lot of time looking for.
Have a wonderful vacation with your family of 3 and a little more….
Jenny

Comment on Letting Go; Making Space by jessica

jessica — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:58:03 +0000

families just seem to be able to keep growing; never running out of love for it’s new members! Praying as you make space in your heart and your life…it’s amazing!

Comment on Recent Observations by Savannah

Savannah — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:50:56 +0000

KP,

I am so inspired by YOU every time I am around you. When I think of my “ideal client” to work with, you are my template.

hugs,
Sav

Comment on Weekend Reflection by Jenni

Jenni — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:16:08 +0000

Your weekend sounds dreamy and blissful. The description is ready-made for the golden haze of loving nostalgia that Casey will surely have when he grows up and looks back at the family weekends like this that you all shared. Even though it was a weekend packed full of activity, it is the kind of activity that invites the world to drift away and allows your family to feel suspended together in your own time and space bubble. In the city and world, interacting with others…yet somehow set apart in a warm family unit. I don’t know if I’m making sense but the feeling evoked by your weekend description is hard to explain.

Comment on Lego Warfare Breaks All of the Family Rules by RaiulBaztepo

RaiulBaztepo — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:00:57 +0000

Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo

Comment on Tripping Over Goodness by jessica

jessica — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:26:11 +0000

wow, isn’t it amazing the good we see when we just look a little closely!
and gee aren’t grandma’s just amazing…like they can read your mind at times.
Glad your trip has been amazing and that you got to puddle-jump through Indiana, I am sure your family was loving your visit with them.
jessica

Comment on Grace by Joanna

Joanna — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:51:27 +0000

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Comment on Grace by Candace

Candace — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:31:39 +0000

I loved this post and wanted to share this response with you….

I experienced a wonderful class this weekend at the Yoga Journal Conference. In Sarah Powers’ words, “If you don’t expect it, you can simply investigate and enjoy.” Parenting is so much about letting go of what we expect, especially with regard to our children’s behavior.

Judith Lasater offhandedly said that the true test for whether we are living our yoga is how we handle conflict:

Do we demand our own way, or melt away in fear? Next time, she said, stand in tadasan (mountain pose) with your heart open.

So many of our challenges are parents are managing conflict. Conflict between children, conflict within a child, conflict between children and adults. It gets so very much easier if we are not busy demanding our own way (which children usually are) or running away in fear. Demanding and running are both rooted in fear. They overstimulate the central nervous system and create physical, emotional, and spiritual stress.

So if it’s so good for us, why don’t we just stand and open our hearts to conflict? Because it’s *hard*. Because our subconscious mind tells us to “avoid pain!” Our task, then, is to start small. Perhaps we can choose one thing we can solve together, such as letting the child go barefoot if he wants. He’ll either get cold and ask for his shoes, or he won’t. Life will bend his thoughts far better than I ever could, and these small graces build up for us both: I gain confidence in my ability to open my heart, and he gains trust in me (that he is safe and free) and in himself (to make decisions).

When you look at love as the unconditional acceptance of the evolution of others, you become buoyed by its support. Everyone is freer to become closer to the person they truly are, unbound by judgment and fear.

This all begins, as you say, by noticing what is happening, accepting it, then rooting yourself in your truth and opening your heart to what answers may come. In this moment, I experience grace.

Namaste.

Comment on Grace by Savannah

Savannah — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:11:46 +0000

A beautiful, timely piece KP!

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