I had never done any sort of yoga before, and this epiphany was a little more esoteric. I walked into the yoga room and there was a voice from my soul that said out loud, This is it! I just knew. I just knew in that moment - I couldn't even straighten my legs. I couldn't sit cross-legged on the floor. I couldn't put my legs up the wall in the most gentle, restorative yoga pose, and yet, I knew.

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There's a much deeper knowing and deeper intelligence in by Brad Willis

There's a much deeper knowing and deeper intelligence in

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I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not s... by Brad Willis

I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.

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Emotional pain rarely comes up for me now. When it does, for sure, I feel it. But then, fortunately, through my life experience and my practices, I'm able to see it for what it is, and I'm able to use the techniques that yoga and Ayurveda have to offer us.

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Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming from that voice in my heart, which was affirmed by the ancient texts.

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I don't think I can put my finger exactly on when remission occurred, because from that moment on, I left Western medicine and never looked back. I practiced every day for ten to twelve hours a day - spiritual studies, meditation, pranayama, yoga postures, Ayurvedic studies, deep, deep, powerful cleansings and fasting.

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I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively knew, I have to listen.

I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.

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I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in e... by Brad Willis

I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing.

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I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to... by Brad Willis

I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature.

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I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego.

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You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do.

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