You Can Live Your Dream Life

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post series entitled “Living Your Dream Life”  by yoga teacher and life coach Laura Erdman-Luntz. This is article 1 in a series of 4.

Living Your Dream Life Series by Laura Erdman-Luntz

• Article 1: You Can Live Your Dream Life
  
• Article 2: Manifesting – Personal Strength: It is All in the Feet
• Article 3: Manifesting – Bringing the Dream in
  
• Article 4: (Coming Soon)
  

(Before I continue, if living your dream life feels selfish to you, read this post entitled “I Believe” before continuing.)  Here’s the catch: to live your dream, you need to believe you can have the dream and you must be willing to work for it.  Each of these is tricky because the lure of status quo is very strong, even if we don’t like our status quo.  We have a very strong, unconscious inclination to have our life continue just as it always has.  We even have only a certain amount of joy we are comfortable feeling.  I call it the joy set-point.

Let’s look at the belief part first.  Believing you can have something seems easy enough.  But we are uncomfortable at the unconscious level changing anything, especially what we believe.  If we don’t believe we can have something, it is tricky to convince ourselves we can.  Consciously we may see it, but it is the unconscious that must believe if we are to manifest it.

What about the second part?  We must be willing to work for it.  Here, too, the lure of status quo is drawing us in on both a simplistic and a more complex level.  Simplistically, we don’t want to change our habits, our lives, even our schedule.  If we want to change something, well, something has to change. If you want more in your life, you will need to do more, at least initially.  You may need to work an evening or two and not watch a tv show.  Or you may need to get up early to fit something in.  Or you may need to learn how to be more efficient or to have more energy.  On a more complex level, we may not feel we are up to the challenge.  The “work” involved may include some actions that are outside of our comfort zone.  We may (and probably will) need to take actions that are uncomfortable for us.  (At least initially.  I find that once we get going, it is pretty darn fun!  You can read more about what I wrote about change here.)

Luckily, we have yoga in our life.  Yoga can help us forge through these limitations into a new life, one of vibrancy, one that represents who we really are.  We need three things to help us create our dreams:  personal strength, opening ourselves to possibilities, and then we need to surrender in gratitude to what is.

So, again, here are the three things to help us create our dreams:

1. Personal strength
2. Opening ourselves to possibilities
3. Surrender in gratitude to what is

We can use our mat to help us achieve all three and break through any limitations we have in our belief system or our resistance to changing and doing something more.  I will be writing three more posts on each of these, describing how you can incorporate yoga into each one.  If it sounds intriguing, I encourage you to check out my coaching program called: Ignite Your Life for more information.

Laura Erdman-Luntz, MA, Yoga Teacher & Life Coach

Join Laura Erdman-Luntz, MA, E-RYT(500), Life Coach for a powerful coaching series.  Ignite Your Life will launch you into the life of your dreams, into more joy and vibrancy.  Incorporating a workbook, yoga, visualization, and breathing exercises into the coaching format, this program is a powerful way to change your life even faster!

Editor’s Note: Laura Erdman-Luntz was Share Yoga’s featured yogi in January 2009. To read the article: Inspired Teachings with Featured Yogi: Laura Erdman-Luntz

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