Quote of the Week

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

Looking Anew

September 26, 2008

Hello to Each of You,

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes” Marcel Proust

Can we look again at what is here in our lives? Can we see with new eyes all that we truly have? There is tremendous unrest presently and a feeling of underlying fear of the unknown. But can we look again at what is truly here? Perhaps we can re-examine the idea of enough and play a new tape. “I have enough time, I have enough money, I have an abundance of love”. There is no lack, that is only illusion, yet the more we play that tape in our minds the more we can create what feels like that reality. What are you choosing for your reality?

What if you looked again at love and played the tape I am surrounded by love. Even if it feels like the opposite is true, begin playing this tape and there will be a change. You will begin to feel better, safer, more connected to those around you. You will begin to be more loving and send out that love you seek. The Truth is there is abundance in everything. When we create relationships we often create emotional pain. We begin to fear we are not loved or the love might disappear.

This thought begins to make us contract and we are not fully present in relationship. We don’t trust even those closest to us to love us. We focus on those around us to give us the love we need so we often make ourselves live a certain way to insure we get the love we feel we need. We forget to focus on the first relationship with Self, loving Self and remembering the Truth of our being. We are not these bodies, we are not these thoughts, we are so much more! We are the Light, we come from the Light. How could we be anything less than the Light?

The first relationship begins by going within not seeking outside ourselves. The love is all there. All you ever dreamed of receiving is there within you. Becoming conscious of that love is to go within in the quiet space and reconnect with your Soul-Self. So beautiful, so loving, so perfect, YOU!

Look again with new eyes at you and see all your beauty all your perfection, choose love. I promise there is enough love! Enough of everything all we have to do is begin the practice with our thoughts and it is all there before our eyes!

Come breathe and connect up!!

Sending love and light,

Karen

Ps I will be out of the country until Oct. 5th. Please email in case of important need and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Breath Classes will resume on October 6th at 6:30 pm. I hope to see you here!

Love Is All There Is

September 11, 2008

“Love is the only thing that truly exists, all the rest we make up” Karen Winter

I painted these words and the canvas hangs in my living room where I teach breath class. It is so beautiful to witness people who breathe and after their journey they view this painting as they have before and suddenly they see the words as if they have risen from the depths of the see and they are now revealed! It is us who can now see clearly. The Truth and the words have always been there it is our consciousness which has been altered so we can see clearly all that is really here before us.

Even that which is invisible or intangible is suddenly before us. Magic!
I have had the honor to breathe couples who are choosing to end their present relationship of marriage and witness them both getting to a clearer understanding of the presence of love between them and then the gratitude which floods their being. There is such softness in the room, such Presence and reverence of the gift of relationship and the love that is present. We have greater clarity in our own lives when we breathe. It does not only raise our level of health physically but mentally as well. We are aware on a much deeper level of how others have participated in our lives to teach us more about ourselves. We then can accept the gift and create life on a deeper level.

I recently had an experience with a loving being. She was offering me a gift and in that moment it felt challenging to receive with just a “thank you” I let her know she was pushing all my buttons. What I know is that she was showing up to be my teacher to let me know I had those buttons and then I could decide what to do with them. She was letting me know how well I was doing with the balance of giving and receiving. I know myself better now and I choose to deprogram my receive button. She showed up in that moment as my greatest teacher. I have better awareness. I am in gratitude.

Know that teachers show up in all forms in life, sometimes making us feel fear, anger, resentment, lack, joy, gratitude and all the other possibilities. Whatever that person evokes in you is the gift of more information about yourself. Often we miss the gift and relentless speak of what the other person is doing yet our emotions are our responsibility. Take a sacred moment to breathe deeply, look inside without judgment or blame and see what you can inside yourself. Always remembering you are safe and you are loved. What button is being pushed and how can you reprogram it? what can you let go of to be present and peaceful, healthy and joyful? Its all right here for us. All we have to do is breathe and we will have more answers more peace and more health!

Come breathe and love yourself enough to dive deep inside. The first relationship is with our very own Self!

Sending love and light,

Karen