My personal experiment will be to write about my daughter also to start journaling again. I hope to get back in the habit of expressing myself through my writing and to develop a healthy emotional habit. I also hope to get back into a healthy lifestyle with my daily routine and to feel better overall. […]
So journaling every day was hard for me. I did write a few times but not every day. When Brittany died I was told by the attorney’s to keep a daily journal of how I felt, what I was thinking and what I remembered being in the hospital. I hated writing. I was not ready […]
I met Brittany’s father through a friend at work. His name was Gary. When I first saw him I fell completely and totally in love with him. The attraction was very intense and very passionate. We could stay up and talk for hours and hours about everything . I was 21 years old very young […]
I found that by doing this experiment I am still harboring some very hard, deep seeded emotions. Writing this paper on Brittany has made me cry several times. It has brought up memories I had buried and I realized I have guilt for her death even though I know there was nothing I could have […]
In an experiment on the niyama (yogic observance), tapas (austerity), this Axis Yoga Teacher Training student found transformation. This student used the power of Yoga to move from “stressed, anxious and drowsy to refreshed, grounded, and calm.”
One month ago I was living an unsustainable lifestyle. I awoke feeling exhausted, often hitting the snooze button “just one more time” two or three times in a row. Then, finally coming to, I would stumble to the kitchen to make coffee. At the end of the first cup of coffee, I could feel my […]
I began this experiment because I was drawn to the word tapas and the concept that heat could somehow change deeply rooted habits, samskaras. As I puzzled over this complex philosophy in the weeks leading up to the experiment, I found myself unable to understand the correlation between a word meaning heat and the concept […]
When I committed to remove caffeine, alcohol and sugar from my diet, I knew that I would need to fill the emotional and habitual void with a new practice. Thus I began practicing the four purifications, a pranayama breathing practice, followed by a period of meditation every morning. This new ritual quickly became one of […]
Through all of my practice in austerity I still find myself experiencing certain cravings. At first this frustrated me greatly and I forcibly shoved the idea of wanting out of my mind. As these urges continued to rise, however, I started to pause and contemplate the pre-thought generating these impulses of desire. Yesterday as I […]
As I look forward in my yogic path, I can see the need to further purify my body and lifestyle so I can maintain high levels of prana energy. I have experienced such profound variance in my ability to calm my mind with even subtle imbalances like a spicy meal and a late night that […]