Tenderfoot Yogi Podcast And Audio Blog: Perspectives And Insights For Ease In Your Awakening

It is quite amazing to realize how many of the physical tasks that we engage in on a daily basis occur without any conscious thought. We brush our teeth, we put on our clothes, we shower and shave, we brew tea or coffee, we wash dishes, we prepare a simple meal, we exercise, we drive,… Read more The post Focus, Peace and Autopilot appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

In our modern culture, labels tend to serve as our basis for understanding each other at the surface level. One example is that someone can either be generally a ‘giver’ while someone else is generally a ‘receiver’ or a ‘taker’. And as usual, the labels grossly oversimplify, constrict, and conflate the truth. Because we are… Read more The post How to give, How to receive appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

This week, instead of a post, we once again listen in on a portion of a conversation that I had with Alison J. Kay. She is an energy medicine practitioner, a holistic life coach, an India trained Ashtanga Yoga instructor, and a meditation teacher of more than 20 years. In this conversation Alison speaks with… Read more The post Podcast special: We’re not meant to suffer appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

A few years ago when I was first waking up, I said to a friend that I had discovered both my observer and my judge. She quite wisely offered a subtle correction. She agreed that my observer was a new relationship, but that I’ve always known my judge because he is loud and fairly obnoxious.… Read more The post Fire your judge appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

What if anxiety is a good thing? Of course if you have felt anxious before or feel anxious right now, then you are most certainly rolling your eyes at me. No one will pretend that feeling anxious feels good. It’s quite awful actually. It’s so awful, that once we’ve felt it, we will do almost… Read more The post Anxious? Welcome home appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be a decisive person? It’s no fun to waffle between ‘yes’ and ‘no’ and between various options. But there is no value in being decisive for the sake of decisiveness. We want to make decisions that feel just and right and for our highest good. It seems the way to… Read more The post How to hear your intuition appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

Most of us rely on someone for something. It is good to have people in our lives upon whom we can rely – we all need support sometimes. Genuine friendship, good companions, and engaging social interaction are all beautiful and important parts of being human. But at the same time it is easy to rely… Read more The post Build your self-reliance and be free appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

We always have a choice. Our direction in life, that which we achieve, that which we have, who we become and who we are is ultimately determined by the accumulation of our choices. But we can only make one choice at a time, and the motivation behind each choice it appears, is essential. It occurred… Read more The post The right motivation changes everything appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

How far back would you have to go to recall a time when you thought that there was something wrong? If you are like me, and like most of us, then chances are you don’t have to go back very far – a few days, maybe even just a few minutes. Whether it’s trouble in… Read more The post Will you let it be OK? appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

What would it feel like to have a tangible definition of what it means to be awake – to be an awake person or to experience awakening? It’s a concept that we hear thrown around regularly, including here on Tenderfoot Yogi, and it can sound a little funny – to awaken. Also what is this… Read more The post What it means to be awake appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

Some days we just can’t seem to find quiet – when our environment is noisy and so is our mind. When one thought is competing with the next and we can’t seem to turn off the spicket. A few weeks ago I had a particularly noisy morning. It turned out that there were some ideas… Read more The post For when your mind is noisy appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

Have you ever heard someone say, or have you said yourself, “I’m spiritual, but not religious?” It’s an odd description, and one that opens the door to all sorts of unwelcome skepticism, but I think I know why we say it. We say it because it’s how we feel. We have no special tie to… Read more The post Get some genuine spiritual nourishment appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

I have been thinking this week about stories – the stories that we tell ourselves, and have told ourselves, that have created what we see as our truth. Our beliefs about what is true affect our decisions great and small, as well as our perceived options and opportunities. Challenging our stories can throw for a… Read more The post What if the opposite is true? appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

Meditation is so simple, and so easy, that it’s hard. The simple fact is that it is hard to do nothing. But that is not the only thing hard about it. The real question is why anyone would do it. Why should you dedicate yourself to a daily meditation practice? Quite simply, and at the… Read more The post Guilt, Love, and Meditation appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

Am I the only one who has reached critical mass with the endless variations on the ‘keep calm and carry on’ sayings? My daughter just printed a sign for her room that says ‘keep calm and I am awesome’. OK, she is awesome, but is keeping calm as easy as hanging a sign or wearing… Read more The post Keep calm and …what? appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

One of the benefits of cultivating some higher end self awareness is that we start to call ourselves out on the stuff that doesn’t serve us or other people very well. Not that long ago I became aware of aspects of my humor that fell into this category. I actually found it stunning the frequency… Read more The post Your new sense of humor appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

You’re human. There are few words that provoke more fear in us than depression. I am of the opinion that this need not be. It seems that there is a subtle but important difference between feeling depressed, and being depressed. And the problem is that in this day and age it is all too easy… Read more The post You’re allowed to feel depressed appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

There is not a whole lot of freedom to be found in habitual patterns of thought. It makes it much harder to create the space that we need to grow and expand if we operate from the same blueprint from day to day. For the past week or so I’ve been jotting down a few… Read more The post Shake up some space in your mind appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

There are so many good choices that we can make for ourselves, but there is a trap woven into these choices that is helpful to note. We can choose to cook for ourselves, and we can choose fresh and local ingredients to do so. We can choose to stay fit by engaging in regular exercise.… Read more The post Purity is unhealthy appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.

I’m not sure where it came from, this feeling that we have that we need to do everything. The feeling of needing to do everything inevitably leads to feelings of inadequacy because none of us can – do everything. But we think we can, and we think that we need to, and it seems that’s… Read more The post You’ve done enough appeared first on tenderfoot yogi.