GRATEFUL FOR PRACTICING YOGA

I am grateful to the Almighty because I practice yoga.

There are many trials in my life that I have to face.  Yoga and my belief in the Almighty has helped me to do this.

Yesterday in my yoga class we talked about feeling balanced in this Fall season of transition.  This has helped me to feel grounded which has enabled me to grow.

It has happened before with him.  It will happen again with those women who are really NOT daughters and are NOT treating me like a mother. 

Yoga has allowed me to learn this, to break away from them and to grow.

I am grateful to the Almighty for sending me to yoga.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR ENERGY

I m grateful to the Almighty for all the energy that He has given to me.

However I am going to begin to make a shift in that energy so that I use it for more positive things instead of negative things.

It does not do me any good to focus on the past, even focusing in a structured way.  That energy could be better spent appreciating all the goodness in my life in the present.

Yesterday I had a wonderful mani/pedi and today I will have my hair with its lavender highlights blown out.  Yesterday was like a summer day and today I will walk in temperature starting at 37 degrees.  Yesterday I took one yoga class and today it will be two.

Things change.  We move forward into the light in a positive way.

Thank you Almighty for the energy to do this.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR MY INTELLIGENCE

I am grateful to the Almighty because He has made me a very intelligent woman.

I am able to look at new problems, figure out strategies and move forward through the bumps of life.  Because He has sent me to yoga, I have learned to let it go............................

Thank you, Almighty.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR A NEW DAY

I am grateful to the Almighty for each and every new day.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR THE BLESSINGS IN MY NEW LIFE

I am grateful to the Almighty for all the wonderful blessings in my new life.  I thank you for them and appreciate each and every one of them.

From walking outside on a cold and crisp morning.............to the yoga that I practice everything that I do in a joy.   Last night I took my Blessings! Brachot! Brachas! at the Institute for Adult Jewish Studies with Rabbis Jay and Jenn and enjoyed it so much.

Today I will walk and practice yoga.  I'm going to see the film, The Martian in the afternoon!! How wonderful is that?

Thank you Almighty for the blessings in my new life.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR A NEW DAY

I am grateful to the Almighty for a new day!!!

I am healthy and happy.

Today I will walk, practice yoga and have lunch at a restaurant that I have not been to before with yogi friends.  Tonight I will attend the Institute for Adult Jewish Studies where my friend Rabbi Jay, my yoga buddy, is teaching my course, Blessings! Brachot! Brachas!

Yesterday Jay and I took a Kundalini Workshop and it was awesome.

I am grateful to the Almighty for a new day filled with health, happiness and adventure.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR A NEW DAY

I am grateful to the Almighty because I am alive, healthy and happy on a beautiful new day.

This morning I will walk.  I will practice yoga and then drink DD coffee while I read the papers and my book.

This afternoon I have a Kundalini Yoga Workshop at my studio.

I will go out to dinner too.

Thank you Almighty for this day.

I am grateful!!!

GRATEFUL FOR A JOYFUL SABBATH

I am grateful to the Almighty for the joy that I feel this Sabbath.

I was at services today thanking the Almighty for my wonderful week.  Everyone loved my new hair including the Rabbi!!!!

I am off to walk.....to read and to enjoy my life.

Thank you Almighty.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR KNOWING WHEN TO BE CALM AND QUIET

I am grateful to the Almighty because I have learned how to be calm and quiet around him and that has really helped me to enjoy my own life.

I had a wonderful week filled with fun things to do.  I walked and practiced yoga. I began my course at The Adult Institute  I had lunch with the yogis and dinner with Boces friends and also Sisterhood friends.  I attended two book discussions, took an Apple lesson an FINALLY have purple highlights in my hair!!!!

Where was he in all of this?  The usual place!!!  Saying "NO" to everything presented. He tries very hard to get me to argue with him by using all of his strategies to make this happen.  I CHANGED AND HE FAILS!!!!!

I am grateful because I know when to be calm and quiet so that I can enjoy my life.

Thank you Almighty for this.

I am grateful.  

GRATEFUL FOR LEARNING TO LET GO

I am so grateful to the Almighty because I have learned to let go of things which do not serve me.

Yesterday I went to dinner with Sisterhood friends before our Sisterhood Book Discussion.  We started to discuss him and would you believe that it was hard for me to sleep last night because of all the memories?   That is the value of letting go of the past.  I am so glad that I have learned to do that although it is a work in progress.

I am getting my hair colored/blown to this afternoon.  I am putting in lavender hi-lites.  Needless to say I am very excited.  I am also having dinner with BOCES friends.

Thank you Almighty for helping me to let go.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR PEACE

I am grateful to the Almighty for the peace that I now have in my life.

I have strategies in place so that no one can every change that.

I am grateful to the Almighty for this.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR MY NEW LIFE

I am grateful to the Almighty for my new life.

It is not a life that I planned.  However, I have let go of false illusions and drams and I am beginning to embrace my new life.

Thank you Almighty.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR A NEW DAY

I am grateful to the Almighty for this beautiful new day.

I will be in the present ALL DAY appreciating each moment.

I'm getting ready to walk, practice yoga and have lunch with some yogis.

Tonight I start my Jewish Adult Education class. I'm not sure which one yet!!!!

Thank you, Almighty for a new day.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR BEING PRESENT

I am grateful to the Almighty because I woke up a bit upset today thinking about the past and I made my intention to stay in the present.

I received an e-mail from the older one telling me that she was upstate with him.........probably hiking.  I had spent the day observing the Sabbath.  From that my mind took over and I thought about the past.  This is not good.  I decided that my intention would be to be in the present and I was glad that He sent me to yoga to learn that.

It's Sunday.  It's cold.  I'm going to walk, do yoga and see a film tonight and have dinner out.  I will focus on that.

Thank yo Almighty.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR THE PEACE WITHIN ME

I am grateful to the Almighty for the peace within me.  This has come because the Almighty made sure that I learned about yoga.

Peace begins with me.  I will not be a coward today.  I will let go of that which doesn't serve me by being silent so that someones hurtful words float above me like a cloud.  I will let the words go.

I am grateful to the Almighty because I learned this.  It's never too late to learn.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR THE NEW ME

I am grateful to the Almighty because He has created the new me.

I have been working this past week on really applying the principles of yoga to my life.  It is really working.  I am trying very hard to live in the present moment and appreciate it.  A a result I seem to be calmer, quieter and happier.

I did so many nice things yesterday.  I did them quietly and appreciated them all.  Yoga, walking, errands, reading, mani/pedi, finding and ordering shoes, synagogue for my father's yizkor, Candidates Night at PJC..................

I let go of that which didn't serve me too. There were conversations with him that I didn't want to have.  There were e-mails from them that I didn't want to read.

Today I will walk, practice yoga, and complete errands.

Tonight is the Sabbath, a time of peace.

I am grateful to the Almighty for that.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR LETTING GO...........LIKE CLOUDS

I am grateful to the Almighty because today I will let go of negative thoughts as if they were clouds.

I tried this technique yesterday.  It was something that I learned at yoga and it worked!!!!!

Today will be another fun-filled day as all retirement days are.  I will walk, practice yoga, do some errands and them I'm getting a mani/pedi.

Tonight I will be at PJC saying Yizkor for my Father.

Thank you, Almighty for helping me to let go what doesn't serve me.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR YOGA

I am grateful to the Almighty because I attended an amazing yoga class yesterday.

I learned to choose ONE WORD as my intention and to use it all day long.  Yesterday my intention was to be CALM and at times when I was going to become angry at him (who else?) and answer him back, I reminded myself to be calm.

Today my words are APPRECIATE THE PRESENT.......................

Yesterday was a wonderful day.  I attended my yoga class, my book club and I found a dress for an affair I need to attend.

Today I'm going to walk, do yoga, do errands, eat out and see Tab Hunter!!!!

Thank you, Almighty for another amazing day.

I am grateful!!!!

GRATEFUL FOR FEELING CALM AND PEACEFUL

I am grateful to the Almighty because I woke this morning feeling calm and very peaceful.

I know that it was because He sent me to yoga.

I'm going to walk this morning and then practice yoga.  I will do some errands later. In the evening I have a book club to attend.

I am grateful to the Almighty for the way that I feel.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR YOGA

I am grateful to the Almighty because He sent my friend Hollie who talked me in to go to yoga classes.  What a blessing!!!!!

Sunday we drove out east to winterize the condo.  However, on the way there, we spoke of using it in the Fall and we planned activities through the end of October.  As soon as he got there, he proceeded to winterize the condo including disconnecting the cable boxes and calling cable to get $100 back because it was only the middle of the month.

Today he tried extremely hard to upset me about what he did.  He brought up health issues to scare me.  He told me that we could still go out east without television. He dared to tell me that he never watches television when we both know that the set is on day and night even to the point that I can't read in the kitchen when he makes salad because the television is on.  Nothing could upset me.  I made dinner and then went to a new yoga class.

I am grateful to the Almighty for this class because I feel so calm and at ease.

Thank you, almighty for yoga.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR FLIP THE SWITCH

I am grateful to the Almighty because I attended a yoga class where the instructor spoke of flipping the switch.

It really works!!!!!!  I listen to what is being said to me and if it doesn't work, I let it go and flip the switch.

Thank you Almighty.

I am grateful for this.

FLIP THE SWITCH

I am grateful to the Almighty because I have been practicing flipping the switch and it is working.

I also went to yoga today and learned that I am enough.  Nothing should change me.

Thank you Almighty.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR CONTINUING TO FLIP THE SWITCH

I am grateful to the Almighty because I continue to practice flipping the switch in order to let go of that which doesn't serve me.

Thank you Almighty.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR LETTING GO

I am grateful to the Almighty because I understand how to let go of that which doesn't serve me.

I practiced yoga today and the instructor spoke of FLIPPING A SWITCH so that you begin the process of change.  It's not enough to tell yourself that it will happen, one must begin the process now.

That is what I will do.

Thank you Almighty for allowing me to hear this.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR A NEW UNDERSTANDING

I am grateful to the Almighty for a new and deep understanding of life.

I NEED TO ACCEPT THAT WHICH I CANNOT CHANGE!! EVERYTHING IS NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY.  AS LONG AS I DID MY BEST, THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS!!!

Thank you Almighty for this.

I am grateful!!!!

GRATEFUL FOR MY NEW LIFE

I am grateful to the Almighty for my new life that is filled with so many new adventures.

Thank you, Almighty.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR MY LIFE

I am grateful to the Almighty for my new life.

It is a life filled with wonderful and amazing things to do.  Today I will be at services celebrating Simchat Torah.   I will come home to walk, to read, and to enjoy my wonderful new life.

I am grateful Almighty to you.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR ANOTHER DAY

I am grateful to the Almighty for another day.

I am healthy and happy.

Thank you Almighty.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR THE JOY IN MY LIFE

I am grateful to the Almighty for all the joy that He has given me in my new retired life.

The "Triad" still acts the same way.  Yesterday the older one tried to upset me by claiming that her DNA results showed that I was the mother of another child.  Did she has a half-sister? Was my brother married before?  Did she have another cousin?  Today I discovered that she did not go hiking on Shabbos with her Muslim friends and so had nothing to do but bother me!  Did I react?  Absolutely not!!!!!

I continued to walk, read and enjoy the day!!!!

Today I did more of the same.  I went to my Sunday yoga class and then walked in the mall for 2 hours.  That was not a total loss as I needed another Michael Kors bag which I purchased.

I came home to read and relax.

Tonight is the last of the festivals, Simhat Torah.  Tomorrow and Tuesday I will be at services.

I enjoy each of these holidays.  I did not take days while I worked and I'm loving it now.

Thank you Almighty for the joy in my life.

I am grateful. 

GRATEFUL FOR CHANGE

I am grateful to the Almighty for the changes that He has helped me to create in my life. I am grateful that He has helped me not to be afraid of change.

Change has made me a new person.  It has allowed me to enjoy my new life.  I have tried to let go of that which didn't serve me.  I didn't feel guilty or afraid.

I am grateful to the Almighty for this and I hope that I will continue to grow and that He will protect me.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR NEW ADVENTURES

I am grateful to the Almighty for each new adventure in my life.

Yesterday I went to Weight Watchers and discovered that I had lost .8.  This allowed me with a clear conscience to have Japanese food with him for dinner and dessert where I knew that I would gain weight.  We also saw the film, A Walk in the Woods in the afternoon.  I smile when I say that because I'm retired and can do that!!!!!!

Today I will walk, probably between the drops and practice yoga.

Tonight is the Sabbath.

I am grateful to the Almighty for my new adventures.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR BEING GROUNDED

I am grateful to the Almighty because He has allowed me to be grounded in reality.

I approach people with perception and understanding.  I speak a lot less now as I enjoy listen carefully to what is said to me.

I am grateful to the Almighty for this new strength.

Thank you.