Quotes From "Journey To Joyful: Transform Your Life With Pranashama Yoga" By Dashama Konah Gordon

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Your life is a precious gift from an imaginative loving Source that endlessly breathes life. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Your soul is a precious gift from an imaginative loving Source that endlessly breathes life. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Take Care of Yourself First- It’s Easier to Serve Others That Way. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Polarity exists so that we may discover the truth beyond this world of duality, which is the ultimate purpose of life. Dashama Konah Gordon
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We are born into this precious human existence to achieve the uni cation of opposites and become enlightened, or liberated, from the illusion of separation. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Breathe Through the Pain, It Always Gets Easier with Time. Dashama Konah Gordon
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See yourself as the perfect creation that you are, but at the same time, recognize with sincere honesty, the areas of your life that are out of balance and get to work to improve and grow. Dashama Konah Gordon
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When you grasp the yogic principles and philosophies, you can apply them to any activity you are doing. Then every thing you do is spiritually enhancing your life. And this leads to the ultimate experience where everything you do is YOGA. It is all Union, unifying you with the Supreme Source. Dashama Konah Gordon
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The path to wholeness starts by loving yourself. It always starts there. If you love yourself, you will do whatever it takes to restore your health and happiness. Dashama Konah Gordon
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The yoga asana practice was developed to get the body in the best physical condition possible, so that the yoga practitioner would be able to sit for many hours comfortably in meditation. In order to reach the higher spiritual vibrations we must be as strong, flexible and open as possible. Dashama Konah Gordon
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If we are not living IN our bodies, honoring them as our TEMPLE, we are closing off the divine channels (nadis) of energy that run through us. Additionally, when we are not in good physical shape, we limit our enjoyment of our life experience. Thus, yoga is spiritual and physical. Dashama Konah Gordon
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In every moment we are faced with choices that will serve our highest intentions, or gratify our unconscious desires. Dashama Konah Gordon
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When you are mindful of Spirit and connecting to the breath with an open heart, that is yoga. Dashama Konah Gordon
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The asana practice is extremely powerful and unique in design. In addition to improved flexibility, circulation, muscular strength and increased energy, and detoxification of the organs, each pose unblocks life force energy (prana) pathways in your body, reprograms your cellular DNA and connects us to our spiritual origin. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Please don’t worry that yoga will contradict your religious belief systems, as Pranashama Yoga embraces all religions and beliefs systems. I believe we are all One and that Love is the highest truth. Love is my Religion. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Please maintain an open mind while exploring the depth and wealth of wisdom that is available through the practice of yoga. You may soon come to see the Union of all religions and philosophies if you maintain an open mind and heart. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Feel whatever arises fully, and then let go of any identification with what you’re feeling. You are at choice. You don’t have to go through another moment of suffering. Break free from the societal constructs that say, 'Life is meant to be a challenge.' This is not true. You have the capacity to become the observer of your emotional reactions and check in with your heart each time, to respond from love and compassion. This is the key to becoming liberated from the bonds of emotional suffering. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Know, in every moment, that you have attracted this situation into your life experience so you can grow and learn the lessons necessary to get to the next level. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Every moment is an opportunity to become more enlightened, more open and expanded. Continually choose that path and you will be free. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Your body is a physical representation of the cumulative effect of all the experiences you’ve had throughout your life. Dashama Konah Gordon
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By justifying our harmful negative habits, we live in delusion. We are lying to ourselves. And worse yet, we waste the precious opportunity of living our truth. Dashama Konah Gordon
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In a world resistant to change, we have to take matters into our own hands. Modern society and culture fails to support our healing by literally encouraging us to sustain our addictions. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Our greatest opportunities are to let go and surrender to that which is greater than our egoistic needs and desires. Dashama Konah Gordon
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As with all things in the physical plane, nothing is permanent, and the only thing we can truly count on is change. Things come and go, people are born and die and move in and out of our lives. The dreams and goals of today will one day either materialize or evolve into something different with time. If we become rigidly attached to any of this, we set ourselves up for the inevitable suffering that will ensue when the thing, person or idea flows out of our lives, or our desire for it shifts. . Dashama Konah Gordon
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It is key to remember we can maintain a genuine enthusiasm and love for what IS, in the PRESENT moment, enjoy it with gratitude for all of the blessings in our lives. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Whether you’re at the peak or the valley of any given wave, remember that this too shall pass. Dashama Konah Gordon
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When we return continually to the present moment and our centered awareness within it, we remember we are eternally connected to the Supreme Source that lives within us. Dashama Konah Gordon
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We will attract potential partners who reflect back to us what we need to heal, balance and strengthen in ourselves- until we become whole. At that point, we can attract our twin flame or soul mate and enjoy a peaceful co- creative partnership that benefits all of mankind. Dashama Konah Gordon
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When we are open, strong and fluid in our body, we are experiencing the best that life has to offer with very little limitation or constraints. Dashama Konah Gordon
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When you release a trauma on one level of your energetic being, you will experience relief on all other levels simultaneously. Dashama Konah Gordon
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When we carry the thoughts of negativity and self-criticism, we inspire just what we don’t want: poor health and an unattractive physical body. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Be Generous with your Kindness, Compassion & Forgiveness. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Be Grateful- Your Life is a Miracle. Dashama Konah Gordon
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The physical concerns and misalignment we experience in the spinal vertebrae of our body are often directly correlated with the spiritual energetic ability to flow freely as well. Dashama Konah Gordon
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Thoughts are one of the most creative powers we have as human beings. If you hold the mantra in your mind that you are continually becoming more healthful and radiant, that is what you will become. Dashama Konah Gordon