Create space

Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. One conscious breath (two or three would be even better), taken many times a day is an excellent way of bringing space into your life. 

Breathe it all in. Love it all out. 

To make a choice

Don't take yourself to seriously, take it easy, everything will be okey. Don't let choices ahead scare or confuse you, hope for the future, but try to live today. Right here, right now. Hope for the best and what ever you choose will help you in one way or another. Don't over think it. :) 


"Once you choose hope, ANYTHING is possible"
- Christopher Reeve 

Put someone els before you

Love is putting someone els needs before yours, when was the last time you did that. And how did it made you feel? 

Kind? Real? Aware? Friendly? Important? Peaceful? Understanding? Happy? Visible? Loved? 

You'll get back what you'll give, in one way or another. 

"If my heart can do my thinking, and my mind can truly feel, than ill know what's really real" - Marianne Wells 

Open up your heart and explore your mind. 

Keep on walking

It's always a good feeling when you know you are on the right track, live it and love it. But try to never let yourself get stuck, if you end up just standing there you'll get run over. In life I believe it's important to keep on walking on the right track, but of course take as many stop as you need to take a moment to observe what's going on and to ask yourself why you're on the way you are. From there, take what you learned and move on. Don't let anything hold you back. 

    Keep on walking 

                 Learn more 

        Observe 

                       Breathe 

  Have fun on the way

            Accept 

                 Do mistakes, it's ok

   Grow

                     Love

What goes up must come back down

Thank you sunset, for holding me with your warming colors. For showing me how light is one, connected with everything. Thank you for sharing your beauty in the salty mysterious water, the magical sky, the never ending trees, in his, in her and in my soul. You make me feel grounded, and really understand that everything that goes up has to come down.

This is the time of the day, when I get the feeling of being completed, with you, with nature, with space and with myself. You make me realize that the day has come to an end, that a day is over, and that the time has come to someone else to have a new day, with a new beginning. Now, its their turn. Its about give and take, thats life, the ying and yang. That's one of the reasons why sunsets brings me peace, because it feels like I'm giving something. Something untouchable. With something incredible. To the people who wakes up to the same sun that just went down where I am, the sun that keeps on giving and giving and gets nothing back, I'm wishing for you to open up your hands to the sun as if you where its ground, hold it, like its holding you with it's warmth. Give a little back. 

Its a new day, feel gratitude, watch the sun goes up and be grateful for being able to begin a new day. And at every sunset, suddle down, be grateful for the day you had and ask yourself how and what do you feel right now? And as the sun goes down, be grateful for the people that's now waking up. Send some love, we are all under the same sun.

Monday morning

It's MONDAY! 

Felt like I needed some extra healing after a weekend with a couple unexpected news. 

It's a new day, time is now and life might kick you at times, but it will never give you something you can't handle. It will always be okey, if you let it. 

Ill start my day and week with a crazy dance all over the living room, I was even standing on the table. All by myself. I'm I crazy? Yes. Do I love it? Yes. Did it feel great? No, it felt absolutely amazing! Surprise yourself! Shake things of, spread some energy, it's okey to be childish! 

Can jump around and dance to this song for so long! Makes me very happy and giving me the butterflies in my belly. This song means a lot to me, we were listening to and feeling it a lot on my teacher training.

Try it out! Put some colorful, comfortable clothes on, maybe grab some kind of maracas or a person. Dance like nobody is watching and sing out loud! Allow yourself to just have fun with yourself. It's okey!!

My heart is only in your hands tonight (In Swedish)

To one of my dearest friends: 

I mitt hjärta ni är

jag med lycka bär

Vi går hand i hand 

I vårt vänskapsband 

Tittar upp i himmelen ikväll, tänker på dig och din familj. Önskar jag va där hos och höll din hand, önskar vi alla var återförenade, i en varm ompysslande kram. Men vi är inom varandra, i vår hjärtan. Livet är en utmaning, och då och då sparkar livet till en. Men låt det inte sparka dig något annat än framåt. Du är stark, du är en solstråle som kommer lysa igenom detta också. Vi är alltid här som stöd, vi finns alltid här.

All kärlek till dig min vän. 

"Friendship is the union of spirit, a marriage of heart, and the bound thereof virtue."

Don't let things you want make you forget about the beautiful things you've already have.

If you ever get to greedy, take a moment, maybe a step aside and ask yourself if you really need it. Try to feel how important it is to you, understand how lucky you are to have the things you already have. And than maybe realize that you easy can dance yourself away from it. Everything is always a bit more fun with some dance moves. 

How a yogi study ;)

WHO says that study can't be fun?!

Rethink and redo your study habits, be creative, have fun with it. Don't take yourself to seriously, study with your friends, make study games, try to sum up a song about what you learned or maybe paint a big collage? 

"Learn more, share more" 

My head's underwater

But I'm breathing fine

You're crazy and I'm out of my mind

-John legend 

Pure sunset love with beautiful souls in Costa Rica! 

Sharing is caring

10 of march

Yesterday was the first day I really understood the meaning of "if you wanna go fast, go alone.. If you wanna go fast, go together"

It's amazing how strong energy can become when you have pure souls with big hearts sharing their vibrations. THANK YOU, all love to you.

Lotus

If nature are changeable, so are we. 

My dads b-day (in swedish)

Pappa, min förebild, bästa vän och glädje. Vart jag än i livet är håller du alltid mig kär, du tror på mig som ingen annan även fast vi är långt ifrån varann. Jag tänker på dig ofta, längtar efter att se dig i din norske yllekofta. Att vara din dotter är jag stolt över, du är en trygghet jag behöver.  Är så lyckligt lottad av allt gott du givit mig, att du lärt mig att allt alltid kommer vara okej. Att som barn fått vakna upp av en sådan god person,  med en energi och tacksamhet varenda morgon är värt så mycket mer än en biljon. Du är unik och med din kärlek gör du mig rik. En rikedom av äkta glädje, värme och upptacksamhet. Som varje dag ger mig hopp om frihet. Du finner alltid ro när morgonen gryr, när den för många andra fort flyr. Att ta vara på dagen påminner du mig om, att man inte behöva ha så bråttom. Du och mamma har skapat miraklet familjen Gröndahl, vi fem tillsammans är en dansande spiral. Spelar ingen roll hur många cirklar vi måste gå, för vi finner alltid vad vi vill nå. Trots att vi är på olika ställen så ska du veta att jag är med dig där i cellen. Snart tar du steget ut och en börda börjar gå mot ett slut. Jag älskar dig så mycket, 

Och önskar dig med all kärlek en god födelsedag, som vi snart ska fira med ett fadderundrans drag! 

Grattis min favorit! 

"Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom" - Tao Te Ching 

Grateful

I am so grateful of what life taught me, and brought me. A bit less than 2 years ago I took a little step closer to something called Yoga. Not a religion, it the science of religions, the crystallized truth. I began to practice it before I started work in the mornings in beautiful Antibes on the sun deck at sunrise with my dear friend Paige. It was my favorite part of the day. She was the one who introduced me to yoga, we supported each other, and she was  about to do her teacher training course. Now it's my turn, now I'm about to leave. She was here in Fort Lauderdale the this week, haven't seen her in a years time before the other day. Yesterday she told me that she left something for me in the Bahia Mar hotel reception when she left this morning, something she wanted me to have. 

In the package was her favorite poem "Song of the soul" that she read when she taught her very first yoga class on her training and she's been keeping it with her ever since. And this incredible person gave it to me and hoped it will bring me what it to brought her. 

She also gave me her little happy Buddha, that she kept with her on her training and practice. He is the supreme signal of joy, well being, vision of happiness and is used as an enhancer in attaining all areas of positive aspirations. 

She also wanted me to have her bookmark from Costa Rica that she used under her studies to keep track of where she was. Must say that I am very thankful that YOU of all people was with me of the beginning of my yoga journey. She said the other day, that yoga and I would have found each other even if it wasn't for me going to Antibes, looking for a job, found Paige and so on. Which might be true, but I am very grateful it turned out the way it did, that life gave me that, and that you, my dear, beautiful creature of happiness invited me to join you. You have affect my journey, THANK YOU for sharing your gifts, being who you are, always making me laugh and thank you for your caring for people, you want people to be happy, you do bring them joy, you have such a big heart and a kind soul. 

You are my little happy Buddha, you bring energy, wealth and joyful blessing anywhere you are placed. Grateful life brought me to you when it did. 

So much love

Namaste

           THANK YOU 

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Believe

Believe that every tree, spirit and creature has as much right to live as you do. Believe that you were born with love, to help others and looks upon creation with eyes of love. Believe that you are here for a good reason, that your life is linked with others and that you can bring more happiness into life. Be proud and believe in yourself, put others before your own more often and become a source of joy to all you meet. 

My best friend, love and soulmate is flying to Australia today, we are gonna be away from each other for a whole month! :O We have never been apart for that long, we are not really that kind of texting, sms and so on couple. Haha! Anyway, if we are able to live upon each other 24/7 I'm sure we will be able to spend some time apart. It will be a challenge BUT also bring a bit of a change in my everyday life, and change is always good! 

"Life don't get better by chance it get better by change". 

Flow

A dry riverbed winds its way through a deep valley. Without water, the river has little effect upon the gravel bed or the rocks and boulders in its path. When the river flows with water, then and only then does it have power to change and to carry things from one place to another. The river can now move rocks, wear away at boulders, and even change its course, cutting into and altering the surrounding banks. In the same way, asanas do not transform the body until we can effectively move force through them. When we align ourselves in a asana we find a harmonious realationship between the parts of the body so that force can be conducted into, through and beyond the body into space. It will open spaces between joints, elongates muscles, and clear a pathway for energy to flow freely. 

We need to flow with our breath, not only on your mat, practice it all the time, in your everyday life. Take yoga with you everywhere you go, follow your breath. When you feel confused or hurried, take a minute to still still and be with your breath. As you breathe, count down from ten to one on each exhalation. Imagine yourself returning back to your center as you do so. 

Breathe it all in, love it all out. 

Namaste 
G

So it's booked!! I'm going to COSTA RICA!! To finally do my 

200hrs yoga teacher training! Can't wait!! So thankful and have butterflies in my belly!! :D 

NAMASTE 

Our image of the world

"When one speaks of awakening, it means dehypnotization, coming to our sensors, but of course to do that you have to go out of your mind. " - Alan Watts 

Word.

Seen anything from other perspective today? If not here is a little fact for you, just something to nibble on, just a little reminder on how little we know about our powerful brain.

"The human brain is made up of 100 billion neurons and nearly 100 trillion synapses. There is more than 300 times more connections in the brain than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy." 

- I fucking love science 

Pretty crazy! 

Practice practice practice and all will come

My Jason and I at Hot fusion flow.
Yogayogayoga every day! :)

Mind thinks 
Heart knows 

Feel your way through life, listen to your heart, trust your instincts, understand your own strength, dream, dare, keep your faith, follow your vision with your heart. See the things that others can't, have open arms, smile and believe. 

This song a sunny Sunday morning,  Disclosure. Turn up the volume and dance like crazy flying birds. Love it!

"Either you decide to stand in the shallow end of the pool... Or 

you can go out in the ocean. "

- Christopher  Reeve 

Sometimes life will test you and you will feel a bit lost, broken or sad. But always remember this; when you walk up a mountain, your legs gets stronger. 

SMILE DUDE, life is better that way.

Balance Yin and Yang

Yin and yang, light and dark, hot and cold, fast and slow, high and low, fire and water, soft and hard, sun and moon, life and death and so on..

Somewhere in this big soup of everything we have to find a balance. We have to find love.
And don't get me wrong here. When I'm talking about love I usually focus on the bright side of it, because it is so much more fun. BUT there is no love where there's no truth or knowledge. The worlds truth today has a lot of darkness as well. To find and fight for love we can not ignore everything that's wrong in this world. We have to acknowledge the dark side too, that a lot of people look away from. It's like a blind spot that we all need to work on. I'm not the biggest fan, for example  watching the news.. It's extremely negative and boring.. But I shouldn't look away from it and pretend that it doesn't happen, even if a lot of what shows on the news only are from one perspective, the raw information is still factual. Be critical, because everything in the media, your teachers, your parents, your friends, the newspaper and society dictates is not always right. Stop being lazy and dont accept it to control you. When we were kids we had great imaginations, where did it go? How can we let for example the government take it away for us? It's time to wake up! We all have been asleep for to long. The more we are objective with ourselves and work with raising our awareness, the more we see things as they are. The higher the degree of love we can access.
Take a step outside the box, I know it's hard, because you are probably thinking to yourself "why? I'm comfortable here, I'm happy here, I get money, why would I do something else, it might be scary, I don't want to make a mistake, You Greta, you are weird man.. Greta, stop it you are crazy"

My boyfriend and I was talking about this the other day;
Imagine for a second someone raised in a cupboard, being kept in the dark and having every aspect of their lives dictated by their guardian, they had no idea of what was outside it, so in their ignorance they would be happy and comfortable in there. Because that's all of what they know of and all that they have. Are you getting what I'm saying here? "People accept the realities of which they are given" Take a step.

If we really want the shifting concensiness we need to start with ourself, look yourself in the mirror, work with yourself to see yourself as you truly are and than work with what's around you and see that what it's truly are. Without ignoring the things that don't always look to pretty.. 

It's a big, big soup we got here. With tiny tiny people with big big egos.. BUT I believe we have a BIGGER heart. Please don't be afraid to show it. The time is now. 

An ideal is merely an escape, an avoidance of what is, a contridiction of what is. An ideal prevent direct action upon what it. To have peace we will have to love,we will have to begin not to live n ideal life but to see things as they are and act upon them, transform them". - J.Krishnamrti 

Weirdness

Don't be fooled by the weirdness, let it in, with open arms. Use it, use it for something good, make a change. Your own beautiful weirdness, get out there and share it! Don't let the unknown or the stereotyped society push you away. Be aware of it, but don't let it take control over you.

Dare to be you! 

On the other side of the clouds

Even before you are enlightened - before you have freed yourself from your mind - you may get a few or many glimpses of true joy, true love, or of a deep inner peace, still but vibrantly alive. These are aspects of our true nature, which is usually obscured by the mind. Even within a "normal" addictive relationship, there can be moments when presence of something genuine, something incorruptible, can be felt. But they will only be glimpses, soon to covered up again through mind interference. It may then seem that you had something very precious and lost it, you know that feeling? Or your mind may convince your that it was all an illusion anyway. The truth is that it wasn't an illusion, and you cannot lose it. That very precious is a part of your natural state, which can be obscured but can NEVER be destroyed by the mind. Be proud of that beautiful part of you, hang on to that precious thing, called love.  

Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn't disappeared. It's still there on the other side of the clouds. 

Ugly truth

When your past call to make you feel bad

Do not answer

It has nothing new to say! 

Let it go. 

Rising above thought

The mind is a instrument, a tool. Don't be a fool and let it control you. 

It's not that much that we are using our mind wrongly, we usually don't use it at all. It uses us. 

Tell em!

"I wanna be happy" 

You go boy! You'll tell them!! 

Logan Laplante is a 13 year-old boy who was taken out of the education system to be home schooled instead. Not only was he home schooled, but Logan had the ability to tailor his education to his interests and also his style of learning, something traditional education does not offer. As Logan has mentioned, when he grows up he wants to be happy and healthy. At a TEDx talk in 2013, he discussed how hacking his education is helping him achieve that goal. 

We are here to explore

We are here to love

We are here create

We are here to learn

We are here to awaken! 

Something my clever, beautiful boy friend wrote to me when I was feeling a bit lost. :)

When you believe in things that others do not, it makes you different. 

It makes you behave different, think different, gives you different values and a different perspective on life.

To be different is to stray from the road, the group, the mainstream, its to play in the grass, to walk, skip, jump and follow the rhythm of your own beat. Its to be free of the road, to go left, to go right, fast or slow. Its to grow.

Now the people from the road, the group, the normal, they will mock you, taunt you and talk about you and call you crazy, its their programming, its what keeps THEM in tact, they fear their peers thoughts, what they think and say, thats why they follow the road, marching to someone else's beat, pace and direction. Lead by an invisible leader, its conformity, obedience and slavery. A line of sheep being herded.

The best thing is from your crazy view point, you can see the whole road, where it leads and its leaders, you no longer are blinded from your limited perspective. You've seen more from opening your mind and perspectives, you have become free, broken the bonds of mental slavery and can start learning what it means to be awake/ALIVE.

Namaste.

Dream without fear and love without limits 

A little bit of my 2013

A beautiful year, that gave me a little bit of everything. Im very happy about this year, I feel that I have found a lot of things in life that I didn't know about before 2013. Thanks thanks thanks, but now time to move forward!

Im very excited about 2014, have a strange but interesting feeling about it. Im gonna live it as I have never lived before, explore more and love even more. But that will happen on the way, the way of enjoying now, this present moment.

Happy Happy 2014 friends!
LOL
Lots of love :)
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Rainbows

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.