Week Six: TRIUMPH

Congratulations! 5 more days. I hope you feel fabulous. You gave yourself these 40 days, and hopefully you are realizing that you have in fact chosen to change your life! A regular practice of yoga, meditation, and conscious eating makes you younger, lighter, brighter, natural, whole. You are remembering who you are and where you belong. That is no small gift.

"Our personal victory here in these final five days is about becoming more childlike and letting go of any childish ways that stop us from entering the kingdom of heaven in our own hearts."

"Our willingness to be reinvented is precisely how we let go of our childish ways."

"Your completion of the forty days is not the end of anything. It is only the beginning of a flexible life, where you can find triumph in staying open to growing and transforming."

For these final 5 days, just observe the little successes, triumphs you are experiencing. This may mean going a little deeper in a pose, finding a relationship has gotten easier, realizing how easily you can change habitual thinking and action. Whatever it is, know that these changes, small and large, collect and bring you home. You created this, so you deserve a triumphant HURRAH!

1. Week Six Yoga: Keep up with your glorious practice!

2. Week Six Balancing Diet:

It is time to "gather up all the fruits of your efforts and reap the bounty of all you have learned, revealed and come to appreciate in terms of how you nourish your body."

Week Six Diet To-Do:
Take the time to look back over the past five weeks' worth of eating habits and ask yourself:
From which did I most benefit?
Which habits and practices yielded the greatest results for me?
Which do I want to incorporate into my lifelong eating habits?

Write down your answers to these questions. This will help you remember your responses, and how good you felt when your diet was in balance. It will be easier to get back on track if you notice negative habits creeping back in.

I hope that you have shifted your beliefs about food. You can enjoy any food, without guilt! You have learned how your body feels when you nourish it with all-natural, whole foods. When your overall diet is healthy you can nourish yourself with your old favorites...simply by listening to your intuition, you will know.

Week Six Triumph Meditation
30 minutes morning, 30 minutes evening.
"As you become more skillful in not getting involved with your thoughts, you realize that all of your thoughts have a natural cycled of rising, lingering, and then melting away. You may notice how the thoughts create strong feelings or bodily sensations: appetites, cravings, sexual excitement, physical pain. But as you sit this week, just watch and see how these seemingly powerful sensations rise, swell, and then dissolve and disappear." This, too, shall pass. Realizing this will help to loosen the hold of outside forces.
Watch the ebb and flow of your thoughts this week. Avoid the voice-over you add to them, the meaning you assign them. It is with a sense of triumph that you realize that your thoughts are not you!