Mantra of the week

It's fairly obvious I'm a yogi. A prairie yogi to be exact. Sometimes it's difficult to mesh my hippie self with my professional shopaholic self. It's the truth! ha!

Knowing that, I follow Rachel Brathen, yoga_girl, online. She is such a wonderful spirit and I really admire her values and passion for life. She's my daily inspiration and one of my role models.

Last week she shared this simple saying on Instagram:

Be like the river.
Go with the flow.

Let it lead you to the infinite stillness of the ocean.


These few words have helped me enormously this week and I wanted to share it with you. Do you have someone being difficult around you? Are you nervous about a project? I sure had these two stressors in my life this week and this little saying with a big meaning brought me back to a stillness and a calm.

Whatever is bugging you right now (be it a relationship, school, family) sometimes it's best to let it go. Go with the flow. We have this need to always be right and control our next step. It can become tiresome and stressful. -- Not to say you should be a pushover in anyway shape or for, but if it means losing a battle once in a while to save yourself from a war I say go for it. Life is too short to get caught up in drama, negativity, and worry. Be like the river.

I hope in some way I helped a reader find calm like I did this week with my new mantra. Have a wonderful weekend :)

Dessert for Breakfast

'Life is short, eat dessert first' 

 My new breakfast is too good not to share. It's a recipe I adapted from Kalee Mund's Ayurveda stuffed dates dessert: 

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Ingredients:

1 large container of dates

Filled with: 

-1 container of plain greek yogurt (or strain plain yogurt for same effect)

-Organic maple syrup

-Saffron

-Cinnamon

Prepare the dates by slicing the top of the date and removing the pit.

Make the filling by mixing together the spices in with the yogurt.

Stuff the dates with the filling and leave in refrigerator until ready to serve

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This recipe is awesome, but I like to change it up! What I do is mix my vanilla greek yogurt with cinnamon and maple syrup. So Simple and so easy to mix right before you are out the door! Then I dip my dates into the filling. It's scrumptious. All hail to having dessert first. Why not?

To end off today's short post, here's a quote from the movie Remember Me that fits: 

Ally: I have my dessert first.

Tyler: Is that a political statement? A medical condition, perhaps?

Ally: I just don't see the point in waiting. I mean, what if I die while eating my entree?

Tyler: Is that probable?

Ally: It's possible. What if I choke? What if an asteroid come hurling down onto the restaurant?... I'll tell you what, if you swear on your eternal soul that I'll make it through my entree, then I'll wait. But before you answer, consider that if something does happen, you'll have to live the rest of your life knowing that not only did you lie to me, but you denied of my one last indulgence. Are you prepared to shoulder that kind of responsibility?