Like any good mother, her desire was to have her child grow bright and bold, and to be full of good humor and wit, and to be generous and courageous and kind.
For, being such, how could anyone not have the most beautiful story?
After all, what is the code and concept of life, of living, of humanity, if it is not to find one's calling and to have that calling be greater than one's self; if it is not to pursue that calling and complete it with joyous self-respect?
You are magnificent! Really. You are! In no way narcissistically is that intended. We marvel at the minds organized to develop Sophia. Just imagine it was you (somewhere out yonder) putting you together! What might you assess about your accomplishment - having for starters designed, assembled and aligned systems necessary for you to be you (your circulatory system, your digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, nervous, muscular, reproductive, respiratory, urinary, and integumentary systems), along with vital organs (brain, heart, liver, lungs), Oooh, and all of whatever else you need to self-learn (yes, every part of you learning as you go, adjusting as you go, able to withstand what you must just to be you), built to experience this dynamic thing you and I call life? Wow! Your functioning body! You, keeping it together! Yes! What is your assessment of this masterpiece? Would you say magnificent?Magnificence learning from magnificence. Mine learning from yours. Yours learning from mine! Multiplied by billions! We are in this together - learning.
Here is something significant we've learned about how to not place our body in self-jeopardy while in cold environments. Sometimes the good life is not so much about do or don't as it is about more or less:
More socks: reduce body heat loss; sustains the immune system
More honey: a true super-food; enhances the immune system
Less supplements: imbalance interferes with natural operations
More healthy sex, healthy touch, social connection: all sorts of good
Less negative (bad) stress: preserves the (good) immune system
More meaningful exercise: keeps your tick-tocking in rhythm
Less alcohol: too much puts your systems in shivering modes
More water: that, we are; use it up and we are no more
More sleep: you are not a monster
More virus protection: keep the bad guys out
Less antibiotics: allow your systems to do what they do well
All of the above: people tested & doctor approved. (Resource: Your Health).
Enjoy actionable discoveries continuously shared - smartly - particularly those that uplift, inspire, promote harmony, expand opportunities, exemplify beauty, and reveal wonder, in other words, those proven to strengthen our emboldened exercise of genuine love through all of love's fertile dimensions, supplying those of us who are blessed and inspired to take action with necessary skillsets to be awesome in our real world. Namaste. Share.
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Your body is your bestie, but not your only best friend. How well do you know them?
"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes." Sally Field. Being worthy is having the humanity, the courage and confidence whenever life puts you in tough situations to know you are long over and done with why me, having understood how ready you are to face tough square-on, and to say to it, "Try me."
Create and optimize transferable value for a life of lasting significance regardless of endeavor.
We define profitable exchange to be 'value for value' offered in the arena where stakeholders are satisfied, causes are advanced toward individual and common good, and lives are experiencing wholeness and enjoying significance.
We are exploring alongside exceptional creators, influencers and producers. As a barometer, during each of these episodes we are applying a relevant value-set of one or other of RyoSports Athletes pivotal cornerstones - fierce, flexible, fun, friendly, free, fashionable - to guage health, wealth and wellbeing, and will encourage you to do likewise.
Hop on for a fun and fruitful ride.
Today's pivot QUESTION: if you perceive body, not only as your physiology, but also as a) your body of relationships, b) your body of work, and c) the embodiment of a durable joy-filled life
- what values do you embrace that would sustain their longevity and assure a profitable legacy?
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Walking Worthy
You may not be walking. You may be driving or flying. Regardless, if your vehicle is not journey-ready you have set yourself up for disaster. Your vehicle needs to be travel-worthy. Isn't it strange, the longest uninteruped physical relationship each of us has and will have is with this very vehicle - our body. Yes. Our body knows us better than we know ourselves. That's what friends are for. Yet, how friendly are we with our body? Have we developed an enduring friendship - a state of mutual trust and support - a healthy rapport as worthy as a durable pact between smart strong allied nations? Might it be that we have taken this our bestest friend for granted for so long we have forgotten or never really learned how to be a truly good friend? Is our best friend, our ally, our strong support, worthy of us? Have we abandoned our bestie to second fiddle, flaunting our flirtations with dismissive disdain? Hoping for the best? Burdening our angels as if slaves? Maybe this is the moment for us to learn to walk worthy of our body's devotion: shoulders square, head high, close, intimate, grateful for the time afforded to each other. Who knows, it might well be for a very long time more to come. Then again! Well, who knows! Every moment is the best moment to show love. Period.
Life is about movement. Rhythm. Have you noticed? How moved are you from where you were? What is your understanding of progress? What is your understanding of being better? If, as it so often appears observing life's varied patterns, progress invariably takes the shape of a bell curve - rising to some plateau then trailing down or plummeting into irrelevance or obscurity - what is the meaning of progress to you, of being better, of reaching higher ground, of achieving significance, of being worthy, while you are on the farther edge of your plateau? Life is about movement. Have you noticed?
"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." _ Mohandas Gandhi
Let's imagine it. You are lost or stuck or in need of help - having stumbled, you fell on the Samaritan road - would you want you to happen by or would you cry out for someone else? Okay, so you prayed! And God sent you help! And that helper turned out to be you. What's your reaction?
What kind of friend are you where you live? Which of these friendship characteristics fit you squarely?
beneficial - useful - advantageous - helpful - of use - of service - valuable - productive - worthwhile - rewarding - fruitful - enriching - illuminating - informative - well-spent.
Those who know better are better positioned to be better!
Action Options
Deal directly with issues rendering you unworthy of being the best you.
Listen to your body; respond as a great friend would: act accordingly.
Listen to your mind; respond as a great friend would: act accordingly.
Listen to your spirit; respond as a great friend would: act accordingly.
Listen to your soul; respond as a great friend would: act accordingly.
Remember: It is YOUR LIFE; only you can live it.Live joyfully; that is profitable.
Take Action
"Know what you own. Understand what you claim. Believe you can achieve what you conceive then call it by its name. Mine! The extent to which you have this clarity of mind, this purity of understanding, this strength of belief, you have the fire, the fuel, the impetus, the passion, the determination, the willpower you require to pursue and retrieve your truest desire. But do not claim what does not belong to you. It will not keep you . . . it will suffer you but for only so long."
You are valued. You are important. What you experience is important. Your intention matters. You are a whole being. You are a true wonder. You diminish yourself whenever you pit valued elements of who you are against vital elements of who you are: your intuitive self against your intellectual self, your rational self against your emotional self, your gut against your heart against your head. Don't be put at war against yourself: you are a masterpiece. An intricate being. Human!
Cherish The Moments - It's Profitable!
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Life: it is a dance. It gets better with practice; its music is in your heart and in your soul and in your blood and in your bones. Life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice. You have a partner – your spirit. You can have a party if you like, but choose smartly who you invite, for life – your life – is a dance. It gets better with practice, unless you stop the music or so crowd your dance floor there is no space to move or be moved within it. Explore. Yes, life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice until the dance becomes the dancer and the dancer becomes the dance and life and all of existence becomes a singular flow. Yes, life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice. Dance.
Masterpiece
a work of outstanding artistry, skill, or workmanship.
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To Dream And Do
"Everything was done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player. Everything. Everything. And so when you have that point of view then, litterally, the world becomes your library to help you become better at your craft. Because you know what you want, the world is giving you exactly the information one hundred percent, because you know what you are looking for." Kobe Bryant BBQ: Which reality most limits your dream?
Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
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live laugh love
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let your light shine
Come, let us all be friends for once,
Let us make life easy on us,
Let us be lovers and loved ones,
The earth shall be left to no one.
Across the nation and around the world there is a long rumble.
It is a rumble so loud it strikes ready ears as a distant clap of a fierce thunder. It is a rumble so low, it rides beneath the noise of a thousand human fears; it can no longer be heard. Fear of flight, fear of heights, fear of sand, fear of snow, fear of monsters in the closet, fear of bugs in the pillow, fear of cats, fear of bats, fear of strangers at the door, fear of being lost, fear of being laughed at, fear of being stuck in the toilet bowl, fear of whites, fear of blacks, fear of browns, blues and yellows, fear of nakedness, fear of the unknown, fear of being hurt.
Smile. Live. Love. Laugh. Look. Listen. Learn. Be awesome. You are powerful beyond measure. You are not alone. You can do all things. I am you. You are me. We are one. Keep Sharing.
May our light shine on sprinkled seeds along The Journey.
"Live Your Life - Live it well. You are worth it."
Listen. Learn. Lead.
"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up." MLK. Step out from your known-zone. Step up from the crystal chair. Look. Listen. Learn. STRETCH! (A Place Called Ah.)
Breathe.
We are accompanied.
Balance - Focus - Rhythm
BE EVER REMINDED:the life you are living is YOUR life; ONLY YOU can live it!
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