Shrunken head!

With the lately positivity push, I’ve been receiving an extra influx uplifting emails and notes from friends, many of these messages containing praise directed at me.  I fully recognize that sharing an attitude of gratitude and admiration of others is a way to push positive.  Not only does it make one feel good to share [...]

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Practice Positivity!

It probably isn’t productive to start a post about positivity on a negative tone…but this is disheartening:

If you are reading this blog, you are probably ‘net savvy enough to be familiar with the social networking site, Facebook.  Kind of like a “Twitter” message, Facebook users are able to set their “status” on their profile, displaying [...]

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No, I don’t have children, and thanks for not asking.

Sometimes the devil makes his attacks so stupidly obvious that I almost stop and laugh.  Now, I’ve been around this block a little bit to see that somebody is really working to get to me.  And yah, it worked at first.  I’ll admit it; the first composition of this post was a complete “Woe is me.”  But [...]

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Removing Rumination: the forgiveness factor

My previous post about rumination offered a few “scratch the surface” solutions to immediate and maybe longer term rumination eradication.  One healing factor I failed to mention (because it needed a more in depth look) was forgiveness.  It is often said and written that forgiveness brings the most healing to the forgiver.  See this article [...]

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Ruminating on rumination

I like cows.  I’ve written about them here, here, and here.  One of my favorite gift books, The Tao of Cow, teaches sweet and small life lessons from a cow’s point of view.  One large lesson that the cow might teach though stems from their digestive process, and connects to our mental health:  rumination.
Rumination, which [...]

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Coincidence? I think not.

Yesterday I had a day off from teaching my regular power vinyasa class.  Nathan and I had planned to go see Michael Pollan speak at Winona State University, but by the time tickets were released to the public, they were all but gone, going to the students and faculty of the university.  We were super [...]

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Jesus is WAY bigger than yoga.

Occasionally I hear concerns from Christians about the religious roots of yoga.  I’ve even been told that yoga is a tool of the devil, and a pathway to paganism.  It’s no secret that yoga has ties to and origins from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.  The word itself, yoga, is a Sanskrit word—Sanskrit being the one [...]

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Guest Post- In Defense of Burger King by Nathan Polencheck

Flame broiled beef patties.  Crispy bacon.  Crunchy pickles, ketchup, mustard, and American cheese.  Stack it all on a sesame seed bun and you have the makings of a classic Burger King bacon double cheeseburger.  I say ‘the makings’ because something is still missing.  Burger King’s nutritional data sheet for the bacon double cheeseburger will show [...]

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Christian, you are saved! Brag it up.

A few weeks ago, I attended the funeral of a long-time family friend who passed after a fast and fierce battle with pancreatic cancer.  The sadness I feel from this passing is directed toward the family and friends that will miss her so, but I don’t feel sorrow in her passing otherwise, because she was [...]

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Mindful Decisions

Once in awhile I’ll run into an past yoga student who used to come to class but drifted away.  Although I’m free of any judgment of these people, I often get apologized to for their lack of attendance due to scheduling or other issues.  I find it strange and my usual response is, “No, I am [...]

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