Grow With The Flow

I received a private message on Facebook from my yoga teacher Thursday afternoon which said I’d have more time to save for Bali because she needed to push the trip out to possibly 2018 due to some unfortunate circumstances. She was sweet enough to give me an idea of alternative locations and times she was considering for future retreats in the meantime and she hoped I wasn’t too disappointed. In all honesty, I wasn’t too disappointed, which was a surprise to me. A happy surprise. I realized the idea of spending my 50th birthday in Bali was amazing but the main attraction was to experience the retreat with my incredible teacher and fellow Bright Studio yogis. I was able to respond to her private message and assure her of what I just wrote. I’m looking forward to discovering where the next retreat will be so I can get on board!

This was after the nacho bar had been put away and I’d made $140 in nacho sales plus received an additional $25 in donations, taking my overall Bali Fundraiser total to $355! All accomplished in less than 3 weeks. I felt like that was an important lesson I stumbled upon as well. How I don’t just “get by with a little help from my friends”, I thrive with a lot of love and support from my friends! As I wrote in a recent blog: http://buildyourownbrave.com/2016/04/26/when-intention-takes-on-a-life-of-its-own/, from the moment I wrote and verbalized my intention to get to Bali next year I’ve encountered unprecedented support, encouragement, and help from everyone! Seriously, it started with my yoga teacher, my co-workers, and my friends. They either had great suggestions about hosting a nacho bar on Cinco De Mayo, they provided support by ordering my crockpot chili with cornbread dinners or buying raffle tickets for the DONATED Padres baseball tickets, they helped by baking yummy zucchini muffins to sell at work or they simply donated money to my cause. I had offers to help from my fellow yogis at Bright Studio too. I was absolutely humbled, amazed and grateful to realize how much I am loved. I was worried about telling people the trip had been postponed but it was suggested by a friend and my kick-ass therapist to use the money towards my yoga teacher training. That starts next month and I have roughly a third of that saved up so far. So that is what I posted/announced on Facebook with a repost of my yoga teacher’s status about scratching the Bali Retreat for 2017.

I’m enjoying the energy I’ve been inhabiting since my Wednesday night conversation with my spiritual advisor. In suggesting the assignment of awareness and presence, I realized how far I had gotten from being aware and present for my life of late. This return to it reminds me that I can take things as they come without getting too caught up in reacting to them. There was an issue or two that arose at work over the nacho bar. I’d allowed for the possibility that some may arise. They did and I handled them. There was also another event at work that I was able to take in realistically for what it was, without allowing my cynicism or snark to get out of control.

It’s definitely helping me grow with the flow of things and isn’t that an important point?