Main Entry: dis·ap·point
Pronunciation: "di-s&-'point
Function: verb
transitive senses : to fail to meet the expectation or hope of

Yoga teaches us to practice non-attachemnet to life's outcomes. If we remain unattached, then we will be free from emotional struggle when things aren't working out "our way." This is a great concept and idea to put to practice, yet the reality is we are human and we become emotionally invested and involved in all kinds of situations. I have had a few situations over the past few years where I've trusted things to work out a certain way, and when they look like they aren't going the way I would like, or really aren't working out "my way", I become upset, disappointed, frustrated, down, and often angry. I've often held onto these emotions of disappointment for moments, days, weeks and even months, allowing them to affect every aspect of my life...

One of the most painful expereiences of disappointment I know is the times when I've trusted someone's word, and they do not follow through on their promise. This is heart-wrenching for me. It is my intention to be a person of my word, and though I sometimes fall aside, when I break my word, I've learned the only way to clean it up and to begin to build a new foundation of trust is to acknowledge my broken word creating a new commitment to keeping my word with myself and the person I may have broken it to... (Sometimes breaking our word doesn't always involve another person, but the commitments we make and break to ourself, as well.)

I have spent months of leadership training practicing this very principle of recognizing the power of my word, keeping my word and being in integrity with it. I've learned this is the only way life can work. And that this is the first building block of existence to being in integrity with ourselves and the Unverse/God within us and all around us.

"In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God" (John 1:1).

There are many ways to interpret this passage. It speaks many things to me, yet one thing it most definitely says is that all of life exists upon the word. Our word is the most living, breathing force of our existence and all of creation. When we are aligned with our word, we have the ability to create and manifest through that which we speak, when we are out of integrity with it, all of our life is broken down.

For a long time I had a commitment with myself to keep a journal. Time and time again I would make this commitment and time and time again I would break it. I am sharing with you today, one of the most powerful things I've done recently in my life is begin this blog. It is such an incredible force in my life to have the ability to write through and process my experiences. Just this morning I woke up feeling let down and disappointed by someone I know profesionally. So, I decided I would write an e-mail expressing my disappointment in the situation to this person. Writing in general is so healing. I never sent the e-mail and may or may not, but whether I do or don't, writing down my thoughts has helped me to let go of the anger, frustration and upset and open up again to the joy that's present right now in this moment.

As we awaken to the Spring and to new beginnings, are there commitments you've made to yourself or another that are broken in this moment? What would it be like if we "Spring Cleaned Up" any broken agreements with ourselves and others and got recommitted to keeping our word and being in integrity with it, so we can know the positive power of Good that exists within each and every one of us and what's possible when we align ourselves with this Force of Truthfulness in our life.

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