Cleanse, Play, Sweat

It is amazing to me how different I am from the person I was a decade ago, and yet how much closer I am to who I actually (am) or was as a child.

CLEANSE: Today is my 7th day on Stanley Burroughs Master Cleanser (http://www.mastercleanser.com)./ Over the past 5 years I have done this cleanse for a varied number of days, sometimes feeling successful and other times not. I entered into this cleanse with a whole different mindset than the other times I've done it. I am doing it for me this time, with my eyes wide open. It's not about "white knuckling" it to get it done and see how long I can go. This time it has been about using it as an opportunity to understand myself on a deeper level and clean out my body and mind of the junk that has accumulated in both. So far, I can honestly say that I have a new understanding of my relationship with food and what it means to me...

PLAY: Friday night I went down to 7th Street Cafe to watch a fellow yoga teacher and actor perform in Phaedre (a Greek Tragedy) put on by the Nearly Naked Theater. It was an amazing play and such an intimate setting (only about 50 people were able to be seated there). This was a "talk back" experience where the public is asked to join the director, writer and actors in the cafe after the play to discuss it. I didn't stay for the talk but it felt good to be a part of the experience...

On Saturday I went to the Dodge Theater in Phoenix to listen to Eckhart Tolle speak on The Power of Presence: Going Beyond Ego. It was also an amazing experience. Reading Tolle's first book "The Power of Now" changed my thinking about my thoughts and the ego. It was a very pivotal book for me. Right when I walked into the theater I could feel the energy vibration of the room rise a few levels, it was definitely palpable...

SWEAT: This morning I attended my second Native American Sweat Lodge. This is something that I have been wanting to do for a while now and finally got the opportunity to be a part of. It was an "east sweat" which is about developing your passion, vision and opening to enlightenment...

If you would have told me, a decade ago, that I would be doing these things over a weekend instead of partying and bathing myself in the self-centered and materialistic past-times; I doubt I would have cared to do any of it. Today I am so grateful for the shift in consciousness and the opportunity to get back to who I really am.