burner.

Happy Monday! I can't believe next weekend is already Easter - this marks a whole year since I have been completely out of school, internships and started "real life".

I had lunch with a girlfriend this past weekend and we always end up falling into a hardcore motivational chat about life (in a good way). I find it so interesting to hear and see how others view the world around us, and it helps me stay open-minded.

This time, something from our chat really struck me - somehow we got into an analogy about the things we put on the "back burner". 

How many times have we said this? 

I don't have time for it, I got a couple projects on the back burner. 

This got me thinking - how often to we pull things out from the back burner? Should we? 

In so many ways, I feel like I am finally really starting to live my life in the moment, or focusing on the front burner. When you're cooking, that's usually the most important part of to have done right and finish. However, the back burner can contain the flourish and spice for the meal. We still need it, just not at this moment. 

Reality is, we can't complete the meal without the back burner. They need to be taken off of simmer sometime, or else they get burnt (and lost). 

With spring awakening around us, I pledge to take my projects off the back burner and put them to work in front of me. It's time. 

Just a thought. 

names.

I really try to live my life without hate. Hate takes time and energy out of what you really should be doing in the present, and personally, causes me to worry. Most of the time, it's about something stupid that I can fix easily.

However, I really hate Mondays.

There's something so lovely about Sunday that you lose when the alarm goes off in those early hours after the day is done. Monday never works for me, as I feel like I'm jarring or throwing myself into situations too quickly. This is where I get overwhelmed.

Tonight I decided to throw away all my emotions and head to yoga class. As fate would have it, one of my favourite teachers was leading the class. Having been away from my studio for four months, my teacher put her arms around me and said, "It is so wonderful to have you back Portia."

Being a camp counsellor, I hear hundreds of names each summer, but must admit that I have forgotten most of them...and it's only been a few weeks. I had no idea that everyone would still remember my name, my quirks in my practice and favourite posture (dancer, duh) so clearly after not seeing me for months.

To know that a little thing,

like a teacher remembering your name

can turn your mood around.

This changed my Monday.

Now to find this when I'm in the edit suites during school, that's the next challenge.

Here's the chant we do in Anasura yoga and the translation. It's beautiful and reminds me to look back inside and to the simpler things when the going gets rough.

ॐ Om
Namah Shivaya Gurave
Saccidananda Murtaye
Nisprapancaya Shantaya
Niralambaya Tejase
ॐ Om

"I offer myself to the Light, who is the True Teacher within and without,
Who assumes the forms of Reality, Consciousness and Bliss,
Who is never absent and is full of peace,
Independent in its existence, It is the vital essence of illumination"

Namaste.

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