Drop the Anger...Smile at the Sunset....

Our music,  movies, entertainment has made being angry fashionable. We walk around with this look on our face that literally says we're angry. Some of this anger is consumer-induced, while some comes from unresolved issues in our life. That is, we take on the anger of another person through the lyrics in music, and began to vibrate with their anger. But there are many of us who harbor  an accumulation of unspoken expectation that have result into chronic or long-standing anger. 

Angry people are highly sensitive, resistant to change and immature.  Quick to defend and overall unhappy. What comes out of them is insecurity, instability and fear. Often, they are self-destructive and unhealthy for others. They are stuck in a period of disappointment, rather than happiness.

Being angry is unhealthy and dangerous. It's an addiction and just as harmful as smoking cigarettes. Because its cool to be angry, we just don't talk about it. But anger is killing us. It affects our breathing, which reduces the efficiency of our lungs and oxygen intake. We literally poison ourselves when we are angry. When that happens, we lose our appetites, digestions increase, blood pressure, faster heartbeat, insomnia and our internal organs, tissues and glands become imbalance. We become ill and     dis-ease.

Resolve to let go of your anger. Turn off the angry music. Refrain from the angry movies. Re-set your face for happiness, for love, for peace. Breath into your organs and as you do...smile. Experience Ase.

Dr. Alston

What is Your Destiny?

Consider: Some people acquire degrees to feel secure in life; while others learn a trade. But security does not come from degrees or even a trade. Being a lawyer does not make you more secure than a plumber. Security and stability comes from being whole and following your path.

We are conditioned to believe that everyone needs a degree to be successful. And so enmasse, we become lawyers, doctors, professors to feel this sense of success. Success is defined by money and our acquisitions.

However, we forget our destiny or what we are supposed to be doing. As long as we forget our destiny, our purpose, we will never feel whole or fulfilled. As well, money can not substitute for destiny.

Think about this if a swan, which embodies space and purity decided to be a eagle, which embodies power and aloness, it would no longer fulfil its' purpose.

Perhaps what we seeking requires a degree. Than go for it. But what if, you decided to create whatever you're seeking through your own will and power. Thats Ase. 

Refrain from looking back, putting yourself in constant reverse, regretting what you have or have not done. Refrain from fear or obsessing over what you should be doing.

See yourself as a work of art. If you've made a wrong turn, incorrect decision, it might be just what you need to reflect on your life, revamp your plans to complete your work of art.

Mistakes can lead to creation, best ideas, discoveries... Think about this: Our mistakes and errors may turn out to be what we need to reach our destiny, unfold our beauty.

Live your destiny which is your highest potential.

Experience Ase. Dr. Alston

Wishing You A Peaceful, Healthy and Prosperous New Years.

Thank you for your support.  Experience Ase.

Ase Yoga

Unveiling Your Beauty...

When you think of beauty, what do you think of? A person on television, close friend, family member or just anyone other than yourself. It's a tragedy, when we live a life, not realizing our beauty or worth.

Living with wrong knowledge about who you are leads to accepting less than. Gradually, we began to accept and settle in life. For instance, people that come into our lives that might not be good for us, we accept. We marry because we don't think anyone else will ask us. We stay at job because we fear no one else will hire us. We rely on what others think of us rather than who we really are. If someone compliments you, you wonder who they're talking about. Even if you don't think you're ugly, you don't feel your beauty.

Unveiling our beauty is not about the physical. In fact,  beautiful on the outside is superficial. Nor is ugliness about the physical. Beauty and ugliness is how we feel inside. For many reason, mostly the messages we receive, many of us do not have positive feeling inside about ourselves. We tear ourselves apart.

How ridiculous is it to wish that you were taller? Or to be healthy and moan about your receding hairline. So what you're not as tall  as you want, your skin may be dark or light, your body too heavy or skinny--- if you don't understand true beauty than we will always be searching.

All the Kardashian shoes, false pedicures, manicures, make-up, spandex, eyelashes, Ralph Lauren and other designer decor will not change how we feel. When one thing changes, we will feel a need to change something else. Simply, beauty is not for sell.

So much emphasis is placed on that physical beauty that is determined by others, that we forget universal or natural beauty. Physical beauty is subjective or in the eyes of the beholder. In contrast, natural beauty exist. It can't be given nor taken away. 

You are naturally beautiful. like the stars, the sun, the moon, trees, air, wind. But unlike nature, your are reluctant to unveiling your beauty. By unveiling your beauty you begin to breathe, to dance, to sing, to flower, to live your life.  Beauty is fulfilling your purpose in life. It could be as a writer, potter, gardener, teacher, construction worker.

However you choose to express it----authentic beauty is within and yearns to be expressed.

The most important beauty make-over that you can give yourself is to begin to meditate, to soften your face and let go of your tension. Misery is what makes us ugly. Observe how you feel, what you do to yourself---and might  find out that you're feeding your misery not your beauty. 

Feed you beauty. Be creative. Sing. Write poetry. Dance. Laugh. Never let anyone or any situation hide your beauty. Unveil your beauty. Be yourself. Meditate. Experience Ase.

Wishing you peace, power and love,

Dr. Alston 

Do you know how beautiful You are?

I think not, my dear. 

For as you talk of God, 
I see great parades with wildly colorful bands 
Streaming from your mind and heart, 
Carrying wonderful and secret messages 
To every corner of this world.   

I see saints bowing in the mountains 
Hundreds of miles away 
To the wonder of sounds 
That break into light 
From your most common words. 

Speak to me of your mother, 
Your cousins and your friends. 

Tell me of squirrels and birds you know. 
Awaken your legion of nightingales- 
Let them soar wild and free in the sky 

And begin to sing to God 
Let's all begin to sing to God!   

Do you know how beautiful you are? 

I think not, my dear. 

Yet Hafiz 
Could set you upon a Stage 
And worship you forever!"      Hafiz