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  • "The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."— Pema Chodron
  • "Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed."— Saint Francis de Sales
  • "If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath."— Amit Ray
  • "Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health."— Dalai Lama
  • "A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."— Bertrand Russell
  • "You cannot find peace by avoiding life."— Virginia Woolf
  • "Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."— Buddha
  • "In our uniquely human capacity to connect movement with breath and spiritual meaning, yoga is born."— Gurmekh Kaur Khalsa
  • "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."— Buddha
  • "First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."— Thomas A Kempis
  • "Peace is not an absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."— Ronald Regan
  • "Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."— Ronald Reagan
  • "Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation."— Nia Peeples
  • "The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in."— Geeta Iyengar
  • "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative efforts."— Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • "The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind."— Cyndi Lee
  • "Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "The walls we build around us keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."— Jim Rohn
  • "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."— Albert Einstein
  • "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."— John F. Kennedy
  • "Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."— Swami Sivananda
  • "Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness."— Indra Devi
  • "The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."— Thich Nhat Hahn
  • "The only journey is the one within."— Rainier Maria Rilke
  • "The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."— Paul Valery
  • "Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it."— Chuck Palahniuk
  • "Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured."— B.K.S. Iyengar
  • "Beauty is whatever gives joy."— Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.” — Catherynne M. Valente
  • "Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."— Melody Beattie
  • "Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."— Karl Barth
  • "Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga means union- the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions."
    — B.K.S. Iyengar, Astadala Yogamala
  • "Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."— James Thurber
  • "Yoga is not about self-improvement, it's about self-acceptance."— Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
  • "When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you."— Stephen Richards
  • "While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."— Francis of Assisi
  • "Yoga is the artwork of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul."— Amit Ray
  • "The wisest one-word sentence? Breathe."— Amit Ray
  • "True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
  • "Peace begins with a smile."— Mother Teresa
  • "Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity."— Thich Nhat Hanh
  • "Find a place inside where there is joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."— Joseph Campbell
  • "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit."— Jeremy Taylor
  • "Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset."— Saint Francis de Sales
  • "Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."— Greg Anderson
  • "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."— Denis Waitley
  • "Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."— Albert Einstein
  • "Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide for life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?"— Daniel Goldstein
  • "Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions."— Henepola Gunaratana
  • "Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind."— Buddha
  • "After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessen; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air."— Swami Sivananda Radha
  • "The deeper you get into yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way."— Sting
  • "Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again."— L. Frank Baum
  • "You see, everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life."— Don Miguel Ruiz
  • "Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."— Greg Anderson
  • "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and is not possible to find it elsewhere."— Agnes Repplier
  • "In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility."— Victoria Moran
  • "We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."— Dalai Lama
  • "If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath."— Amit Ray
  • "Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."— Samuel Smiles
  • "The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships."— T.K.V. Desikachar
  • "Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation."— Michael Jackson
  • "I wake up every day and I think. "I'm breathing! It's a good day.""— Eve Ensler
  • "If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment."— Carlos Santana
  • "It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."— Eleanor Roosevelt
  • "A healthy outside starts from the inside."— Robert Urich
  • "When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears."— Anthony Robbins
  • "Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."— Lyndon B. Johnson
  • "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."— Buddha
  • "Yoga is the artwork of awareness on the canvas of body, mind and soul."— Amit Ray
  • "Focusing on the act of breathing clears the mind of all daily distractions and clears our energy enabling us to better connect with the Spirit within."— Author Unknown
  • "Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home."— Matsuo Basho
  • "Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."— Thich Nhat Hanh
  • "In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless."— T. Krishnamacharya
  • "I love yoga because not only is it a workout for your body, but also your breathing, which helps release a lot of stress. It really prepares you for the day."— Tia Mowery
  • "When there are thoughts, it is distraction; when there are no thoughts, it is meditation."— Ramana Maharshi
  • "To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life."— William Londen
  • "Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."— Aesop
  • "Peace begins with a smile."— Mother Teresa
  • "Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts."— Thich Nhat Hahn
  • "If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."— Frank A. Clark
  • "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."— Siddartha Guatama Buddha
  • "Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."— Emily Dickinson
  • "To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."— Buddha
  • "Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again."— Thich Nhat Hahn
  • "Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give- pleasure, possessions, power- but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy."— Dada Vaswani
  • "Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them."— Stephen Richards
  • "You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it."— Albert Einstein
  • "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."— Gautama Buddha
  • "Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that."— Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • "Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?"— Mary Oliver
  • "Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going."— Chantal Sutherland
  • "Meditation is the soul's perspective glass."— Owen Feltham
  • "The aim of yoga is to eliminate the control that material nature exerts over the human spirit, to rediscover through introspective practice what the poet T.S. Eliot called "the still point of the turning world.""— Barbara Stoler Miller
  • "For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth."— Sanskrit Proverb
  • "Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment."— Matthieu Ricard
  • "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."— Helen Keller
  • "First keep peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."— Thomas A Kempis
  • "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."— Dalai Lama
  • "There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group."— Amit Ray
  • "Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along."— Paramahansa Yogananda
  • "We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."— Dalai Lama
  • "Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person."— Seth Godin
  • “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” — Thich Nhat Hahn
  • "Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."— John Milton
  • "To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace."— Peace Pilgrim
  • "Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won't)."— James Baraz
  • "With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment."— Nhat Hanh
  • "Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song."— Konrad von Gesner
  • "Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense."— Marcus Aurelius
  • "Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."— Jawaharlal Nahru
  • "What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."— Victor Frankl
  • "Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."— Buddha
  • "I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart; I am, I am, I am."— Sylvia Plath
  • "Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it."— Chuck Palahniuk
  • "Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right."— Stephen Richards
  • "Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift."— Amit Ray
  • "Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. You'll look and feel way better for it."— Suzanne Somers
  • "Take care of your body, it's the only place you have to live."— Jim Rohn
  • "The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."— Andre Maurois
  • "Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings."— Tao Te Ching
  • "Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health."— Dalai Lama
  • "As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."— Criss Jami
  • "The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together."— Kurdish Saying
  • "Yoga is not about self-improvement, it's about self-acceptance."— Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
  • "The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating."— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
  • "Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man."— James H. West
  • "Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes."— Nhat Hanh
  • "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."— Jimi Hendrix
  • "The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."— Carlos Santana

Coronavirus Update and Accommodations

Coronavirus Update and Accommodations
YOGA CLASSES CANCELED DUE TO ONGOING COVID-19 CONCERNS
As of 3-17-2020: TELEMEDICINE COUNSELING SERVICES AND YOGA THERAPY ONLY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
As we all endeavor to manage the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, I want to share with you some of the special accommodations I am making for both counseling and yoga at HJWC.  These are based on recommendations provided by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and are intended to help limit community spread and protect all of us and our loved ones.
Counseling Services:
Until the COVID-19 outbreak is more contained, we will only be offering Telehealth sessions by phone and/or video conferencing (telehealth appointments).

June 24, 2020

LANSING, Mich. — Today, Governor Whitmer signed House Bills
5412-5416, which increase access to health care for Michiganders through
telemedicine and remote patient monitoring services. The governor also
signed Senate Bill 940 into law.

“I was pleased to sign bills today that will increase access to
healthcare in Michigan by ensuring that telemedicine and remote patient
monitoring services will be covered by insurers and by Medicaid,” said  *Governor
Whitmer *in her signing letter to the Legislature. “These bills codify
significant pieces of Executive Order 2020-86, which broadly expanded
access to telemedicine as part of Michigan’s emergency response to the
COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the virtues of telemedicine are not unique
to this moment, so Michiganders will benefit from reduced costs, increased
accessibility, and lower transmission rates of infectious diseases at the
doctor’s office for years to come.”

*House Bills 5412, 5413, 5414, 5415, and 5416* make up a bill package
designed to facilitate remote provision of healthcare services. The bills
require health insurance companies and group/non-group healthcare services
to cover telemedicine visits without requiring in-person visits. The bill
package was sponsored by Representative Hank Vaupel, R-Howell (HB 5412),
Representative Doug Wozniak, R-Shelby Twp. (HB 5413), Representative Phil
Green, R-Huron Twp. (HB 5414), Representative Frank Liberati, D-Allen Park
(HB 5415), and Representative Mary Whiteford, R-Allegan (HB 5416)

*Senate Bill 940* delays the principal residence exemption application
deadline under certain circumstances related to the COVID state of
emergency. The bill was sponsored by Senator Roger Victory, R-Grand Haven.

 

March 12, 2020

LANSING, Mich. — Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that her administration will expand access to telemedicine for Michiganders by immediately allowing Medicaid beneficiaries to receive services in their home while the state combats the spread of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). In addition, insurance plans like Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Blue Care Network of Michigan, Priority Health, Meridian, CVS Health, McLaren, and Health Alliance Plan also announced that they will cover and encourage the use of virtual care and telemedicine, as well as waive cost-sharing for COVID-19 testing.

If your insurance does not cover telehealth services, I will be happy to make other financial arrangements to accommodate your needs.
Yoga Studio/Office Updates:
YOGA CLASSES CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO COVID-19 CONCERNS
We would also like to remind you that the following CDC-recommended activities are helpful in keeping our space free and clear of unhealthy viruses:
  • Frequently wash your hands with soap and water for 20+ seconds.
  • When you sneeze or cough, cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or sneeze/cough into your elbow or shoulder.
  • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth.
  • Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces.
  • Avoid close contact with others whether they feel sick or not. A six (6) foot buffer space is recommended.
  • Stay home when you are sick.
For more information please see the links below:
The CEO of Center for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations is one of the more succinct and  informative news reports I’ve seen on coronavirus since this whole thing started. Well worth 20 minutes of your time!
As always, your safety and well-being is our top priority. If you’re unsure as to whether or not to come in, please feel free to reach out and we can discuss it together. Email is the best way to reach me sue@drdilsworth.hush.com is a secure HIPPA compliant email you can use.
We value you as a person and looking forward to staying healthy together!
Remember to Breathe!!
Sue Dilsworth
616-307-1617

Call:

(616) 307-1617

Allendale, MI 49401

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