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I dragged my friend Carrie to a hot yoga class this morning. It is the practice of power flow yoga in a 90 degree room. It was on my list of things to try and she happened to be the person I suckered to try it with me. All in all, it was a fantastic experience. One that her and I are going to start doing together on a weekly basis. However, during the experience of becoming one with your body and your thoughts, the yogi, or spiritual guide said something today that really struck home with me. She said, let go of what you expect will come. If you hold on too tightly to these expectations, you will not be ready for the actual events that are going to transpire in your life. What a powerful and truthful statement. People are always worrying so much about their future and get so caught up in planning that they get completely side tracked when the unexpected happens in their life. I realized today that I used to be this type of person. I always had a plan for my life. I always had to stay on track and in one moment, a single curveball cost me a lot of time money and energy to pick myself off the broken path and continue on my journey. Perhaps if I had not been so focused I could have seen the foreshadowing of what was to come.

I think that this is why I am content with my life at the moment. I am not worrying about my future, in the sense that I am open to new and exciting experiences. I am open and willing to new ideas and future endeavors. I will continue on my path, on my journey that I have pre planned for myself, but I will remain open to what could come and not have any expectations for a future that I cannot know about until it is the present. Perhaps if this is the zen-ful way that people live their lives, their pasts shall not be so rocky and their present will be meaningful in so many ways.

I know what is best for my own life. A powerful statement said to me by a medium that I wrote about in a previous blog. I will refuse to let the anger and negativity of others bring me down because I do not care what others think of my path because it is my own. Walk your talk. Do not criticize others for how you feel you should be living your own life. F