Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Change!

Hi everyone :o),

The only constant in life is change.......great quote and rings so true.

I believe that in order to have constancy in life, we need to be not only adaptable but more importantly completely "Unattached" to anything or anyone. The idea of belonging to someone or they belonging to us, let it be parents, children, spouses, romantic partners or friends....is entirely unrealistic and therefore a complete fallacy.  I have been listening to some of Wayne Dyer's audio tapes and he repeatedly reminds us that the only way to live is NOW..this second...that's it...within our own existence. He says that by being attached to others and things, we create a false sense of security,  a dependent sense of security...which, if broken, turns our lives upside down.  He also says that in order to maintain peace in our lives, we need to cut the strings of attachment and just allow our relationships to develop as they are meant to be. What  we need is to acknowledge and accept that not all relationships are made to last a lifetime...and that's ok. We have a tendency to re-open doors that are meant to remain shut.These relationships play their part in teaching us about ourselves and our interpersonal relationships skills.  The key in sustaining any relationship is simply LOVE. To feel it, receive it and give it freely.  We can all agree that it's easy to love those who treat us well and love us back...the challenge is loving the unlovable, the difficult and the resistant ones...

The lesson today is that we need to send love energy to all those in our lives and the world. It boomerangs right  back to us.  Especially those who challenge us should be sent love energy...as well as blessings and forgiveness. And, it is so important to remember that those people may have things in their lives that make it hard for them to express themselves. The truth is, we  cannot give away what we don't have and I feel sorry for people incapable of love...makes me want to take them in my arms and whisper softly....I love you.

Please take a few moment and think of those closest to you as well as those who perhaps trigger feelings of anger, sadness and/or resentment... close your eyes:  picture yourselves embracing them and sending them silent love energy directly into their hearts.  You will see....love conquers all...you may just see a difference in the way they treat others and you in particular.

Be blessed with peace, love and light  Sasha

Thursday, September 23, 2010

My Wish!

Hi everyone,

So, yesterday, early morning, I was at Target and saw an elderly lady struggling to collapse her walker and put it under the market cart.  Of course, I offered to help her and she said "it's alright, I got it".  I was a little puzzled because she was really struggling to close her walker.  So, I just reached over and helped her and put it under her cart.  She looked at me and said " forgive me, but I'm not used to people offering to help me"....."I wish I met someone like you everyday, my life would sure be brighter." 

That adorable elderly lady actually made MY day by giving me such a lovely compliment ;O). Is it me, or is it disturbing that people are in such a rush, that they would walk right past someone in need and not even acknowledge them.....I think it's far time for us to slow our roll....if you rush through life....life will pass you by.

 I cannot say this enough to all my friends and family ENJOY THE MOMENT YOU ARE IN. Our mind is like a monkey, always jumping around from one thought to another...now isn't that the truth.  So as I've mentioned before, I often go to a Tibetan Buddhist center to meditate and the Geshe always reminds us that meditation is the way to calm the mind and just BE.  It's a daunting task for all of us to turn down the volume in our heads but with practice, we can all give our body, mind and a soul the break they deserve.  2 weeks ago, at the last meditation class, we meditated for others.  For our parents, our families, our friends, our communities and the world, even those who challenge us(enemies if you will) The purpose was to spread love, peace and compassion to all....After the session, my friends Jillian, Heike and I went for lunch and felt such fulfillment . Taking the attention off of ourselves and acknowledging others and their needs and struggles really gave us a renewed sense of purpose. 

So, please, next time you see a mother struggling with children, an elderly person crossing the street or a physically challenged person.....offer some help, I promise you, that small act of kindness will benefit you in ways you cannot even image. We are all one love, one global family and ultimately ONE and the same.

On that note, here's a great song  called My Wish by Rascal Flatts I send to all of you :O)                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz32I_GbpeU&feature=related

May you be blessed everyday.

Peace and love Sasha

Friday, September 10, 2010

Self-Love!

I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it — I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes.

Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know — but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me.

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.


I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.”

Denis2005 Virginia Satir quotes (American Psychologist and Educator, 1916-1988)

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Thankful!

Hi everyone!

Just got home from an amazing BBQ at Jillians...good food, great company, tons of  love and dancing....Jillie is a dancing Queen and a sister bohemian free- spirit :O)))).

We both love the new Katie Perry song "Teenage Dream" and strangely enough feel totally connected to the surfing-culture...being one with the ocean ;O)

Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98WtmW-lfeE

Peace, love & Light Sash

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Happy active Saturday!

Good morning everyone,

It's a glorious day in South Florida today. Woke up early today and have managed to clean the bathrooms, vaccum the house and bake some banana-apple-carrot muffins.  I love productive days and its only 9:00am :o) 

Heading to Quiet Waters Park in a bit to go for a run and I'm taking along 2 little buddies ...the cutest little dudes ever.  I'm excited to try my new Ironman Hydration Belt...woohoo! Finally hands free.

So my short term goal is to train for a triathlon in Miami this December and a few weeks ago while watching the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii had the brilliant idea of doing an Ironman competion as well.  That would be a long term goal...of course.  I guess you can call me self-motivating but some of the stories of the people who do these competitions are trully inspiring.  Why not me.  I know my body can do it, now the challenge is, is my mind strong enough? So, if any of you out there have done one, either triathlon or Ironman,,,please tell me your story and share your knowledge.  I've reached out to people who have and it is trully a community of people who care to encourage and help each other. In fact, I was able to contact Ryan Sutter (husband of the 1st Bachelorette Trista Sutter, Firefighting Captain in Vail, Ironman, and dad of 2) via Twitter   (@ryansutter) to ask for advice and he was gracious enough to give me his email...go to his website http://www.ryansutter.com/ and wrote me a lenghty e-mail outlining a training regimen...he's super helpful.

Ok peeps, this type of activity is not for everyone but find something that will challenge you and take it on full force. Life isn't life if you don't try new things. Have a wonderful day.

Peace and Love Sasha

Friday, September 3, 2010

Writting book #2 on relationships

Hi again,

So, last year, I was going through some pretty rough times....I returned home to Montreal for my cousin Sonia's medical school graduation. On the way back home, I was inspired to write book # 1 on none other than Happiness!  It got me through some challenging times...i realized then how passionate I was about writting.  So, that one is still being shopped around for the appropriate publisher but in the mean time, I started writting the 2nd one on relationships.

Here's part of the introduction:

I remain puzzled as to the complicated dynamic between men and women and what it is we, as humans, consider to be fulfilling relationships. Bearing in mind we are all uniquely different, what exactly is it that is needed to have long lasting, satisfying unions. I haven’t quite made up my mind whether our ideal or perfect mate exists and it just being a matter of finding them or are there few that are just lucky in love and find that true and real soul mate? Is true love a reality for a select few or is it an oddity for most? Do we have one great love throughout our lives and the others are just passer byes? Is our heart capable of loving more than one person at a time in a romantic way or is the heart specifically designed to tolerate love for only one person at a time? Once we’ve loved someone, do we love them forever? Do they uniquely own a piece of our heart for all of time? Frankly, your guess is a good as mine; I am just intrigued and curious enough to do the research and try to decipher the answers. I do know one thing for certain; we all strive to live a happy life. A happy life means having lots of love in it. Lots of love is achieved by treating others the way in which we expect them to treat us........

So, what do you think? I would love some feedback via e-mail, blog comments or Twitter (@sasha1176)

Thanks you Sasha

Be Free, Live the Moment, Enjoy the Ride!

Hi everyone,

I believe so strongly that we are existing right now to experience a wide range of circumstances, learn lessons along the way and simply enjoy life.  The life we are given is so insanely simple and easy yet we often choose to complicate things.  My mantra is that if it makes you feel good and you're smiling both inside and out, DO IT :O).  You may have noticed that I am a little bit of a bohemian free-spirit and guess what....that really works for me.  I've personally always gotten great satisfaction out of helping others but I realized a few years ago that there is a huge difference between a people-pleaser and an inately giving person.  People-pleaser often do so by compromising their own happiness and well-being whereas inate givers take great pleasure in doing so and it's pretty much embedded in their DNA. In other words, they do things that first please them and consequently, please others. Are you following me?  Honestly though, there must be a balance.  Balance is the key ingredient in living a good life.  If you are a workoholic and do very little to fill your other desires and dreams...that's being out of balance. It's only a matter of time before you start resenting your job, life and often self.  What we all need is to be flexible....which reminds me of a quote I read " By being flexible in life, you can never be bent out of shape by anything" and " By stepping outside of your comfort zone, you significally expand it" Both quotes I found on Twitter (@ralphmarston)

Here's alittle video that will trully give you a boost of energy and send you on the right track to living a balanced and happy life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwN5SfTkM9Y

Enjoy and have a healthy, happy and fun labor day Weekend. Peace and Love Sasha

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Smile!

Check this video out....spoke loudly to me today .

Smile by Unkle Cracker   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaIpdMZN3E0

We should all have people in our lives that make us feel this way....I'm trully blessed to have a couple of those, you know who you are.....

Peace and Love Sasha

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Attachment!

I recently started reading a book entitled "Mindful Loving" by Dr. Henry Grayson Ph.d and was trully enlightened by a quote he used:

Buddah teaches to let go of our suffering, we must 1st let go of all attachments, including our expectations and resentments of others that poison our relationships.

Can you imagine having relationships where you expect nothing in return.....where you give freely and whole heartedly...that's it?????? As Mastin Kipps says via @thedailylove on Twitter: You truly love someone when they don't give you what you expected in return and yet you still care for them. You may also say that true love always strentghens and never weakens, let it be a family member a friend or a romantic partner.  Chances are if you're crying over them, then it is not true love. However,

-Love is infinite and inexhaustable
-Love is the abscence of fear
-Love is the desire to only bring healing to any situation
-Love is kindness
-Love is grattitude
-Love is the desire and willingness to give and to serve
-Love is the basis of happiness

In the great words of the one and only, genius of all time,  Albert Einstein "LOVE IS THE ANSWER"...period, end of story :O))))

I felt inspired to write this blog because I've come to realize that there is no shortage of people in this world who need love, including you and I.  Love is the purpose of our existance, to feel it, give it, share it and receive it. So, from the bottom of my heart, I love you, whoever and wherever you are.

Peace, love and light Sasha

The power of now!

Too often we
underestimate the
power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word,
a listening ear,
an honest compliment,
or the smallest act of caring,
all which have the potential to
turn a life around

Leo Buscaglia

Friday, August 20, 2010

Hunger for life

Life is a series of events that makes up our own personal history. Every one of us has a choice to see life as a wonderfully fulfilling adventure.

We should embrace all events and learn from them.

It is necessary to have challenges and overcome obstacles in order to build up to that person we strive to be.

Believing and expecting good things to happen to us.

Changing our thinking from: why me to why not me.

Extraordinary things happen to ordinary people who believe.

This world has endless possibilities and adventures, always hunger for more knowledge.

Reach out to people from friends and family to the hungry and homeless. It's unbelievable the feeling you get when you've helped someone in need.

Give people a chance and let people have a chance to get to know you.

LOVE...love everything and everyone...the more love you give, the more it will come back to you.

LAUGH, like a child and be silly. Laughter is therapeutic so consciously do things that will induce laughter.

Have FAITH that what you ask in prayer believing, will necessarily come to pass Mark 11:22

HUNGER for life and all that is in it.

Have peace in you hearts and be on your way to becoming the best you.

Peace and Love Sasha

Healthy treats

Hi all,

In an effort to stay healthy and take in as many fruits and veggies as possible, try making  fruit smoothies and juicing your veggies.

Here are some suggestions:


Breakfast Smoothie:

-1 cup almond milk
-1/2 cup  fresh or frozen wild blueberries
-1/2 cup fresh or frozen strawberries
-1/2 banana
-2-3 tablespoons non-fat greek yogourt
-splash of OJ
-1 teaspoon milled flaxseed
-ice if you like

Pick Me Up Juice:

-2 large juicing carrots
-1 bunch green kale
-1 apple
-1/2 beet
- 1 inch piece of ginger.
-2 celeri stalks
-1/2 cucumber.

These are nutritious and healthy ways to ensure a good intake of fruits and veggies. In addition, fall is near so get out and play outside doing your favorite outdoor activities

Setting good intentions

 Good day everyone,

I wanted to encourage all of you to set positive intentions for yourselves every night before bed and every morning upon waking. It's trully amazing how the mere thought of good things happening to you will produce just that. There's something about doing it before bed that penetrates your subconscious mind and sticks. So often, we go to bed worrying about what hasn't yet arrived and often wake up tired and irritated. That's no way to start the day because that is what it will become. What we are feeling about ourselves will attract people in the same mindset as well as circumstances of the same type. So, this tells us to do ourselves a conscious favor and set good intentions. It's not hard. You can train your minds that way.

Growing up, I was often asked"what are you so happy about", and I would reply, for this day, this conversation and my life. People often responded:" you're right, I don't know why it's not natural for me to think this way"? In fact, my girlfriend Agnieska recently said to me, "I just think people are either born happy and optimistic or the ooposite" I must say, I disagreed with her because no matter who you are, you have to work at it.  We all have the CHOICE to be happy, it's our human right. I think that growing up in a family that was always laughing and happy surely helped but as an adult, I choose to see things in a good way. I have had challenges just like everyone but choose to believe that the reward is so much greater. I also strongly feel that people who are genuinely happy are also people who enjoy helping other's. It's natural for them to lend out a helping hand and often times, they volunteer their help in some way.

My wish is that everyone takes a little time today to set uplifting goals for themselves. Weither taking time to read a good positive book, watching a funny movie or calling someone you know would rejoice in hearing your voice.



May you all have a blessed and happy day ....Peace, Love & Light Sasha

La Joie de Vivre- The Joy of Living

What an exciting time this is for our country. This is "our" time in history and let's make it awsome. Let's choose to breath easier, to love more and to consciously live a happier life.

Where to begin? Start with having an "attitude of gratitude". Be thankful for your life and all that is in it. Love whatever situation you are in right now and most importantly, love yourself for working hard and achieving your goals. Sure we all fall of the wagon at some point or another but get up, jump back on and look forward only. It's only human. There is no sense in living in the past, because theres not a thing we can do to change it. There is no sense in livinf for the future because it hasn't yet arrived and truthfully, we often expend so much energy planning while God or the Universe, laugh and shake their heads. Today, ah, today, what a blessing. Let's live it to the fullest. Precisely why you shouldn't be affraid of meeting new people or doing new things, just do it.

We all share one thing in common, we all have a given purpose. But remember, in everything. follow your instincts, they don't lie. Why, because it's God saying :" if it feels good in your stomach, do it, if you feel bad and out of balance, it's not what I want for you." We've all been there where we think something is so right for us, we are convinced, but the truth is, our minds were saying yes while our hearts were saying no. So trust that feeling, it doesn't lie.

And one more thing, remember, don't want what someone else has unless, you are willing to do what they did to get to were they're at(Joyce Meyer)


God Bless and much peace and love Sasha