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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.

Brad Willis

I was charging forward too hard, into too many war zones, working too long, drinking too heavily, pushing forward, pushing forward.
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Drinking Long War
I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it’s another reminder that it’s not all about me and about my ego. And I actually think it’s courageous to be vulnerable, and it’s not something to be avoided.
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Another Feel Reminder Something
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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Fating Posture Practice Pranayama
My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of all this is, do the work.
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Believe Messages Voice
I had a direct experience of the efficacy of this form of mind-body medicine. This comes from somebody who had been sort of an alpha male, highly cynical war correspondent, who had basically seen it all and heard it all, was cynical and trusted nothing.
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Correspond Cynical Medicine War
I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature.
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Alive Mother Vulnerable
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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Ability Reality Remind Want
This very deep, soothing voice came on, saying: “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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Heart Stress Strong
I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing. I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature.
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Grace Mother Thinking
How can I choose my best course of action while not pretending I don’t have the pain, or running away from the pain, or blaming someone else for the circumstances of my life?
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Circumstances Life Number Pretending
I’m inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.
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Healing Inspired Transformation
Three of the most positive, transformative things that ever happened to me. They helped me become a vastly better person than I ever was, and I am eternally grateful for that.
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Eternally Gratefully Happened
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.
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Death Instinctively Intuitively Life Listen
There’s a much deeper knowing and deeper intelligence in this place. This is where I began the journey of listening to that inner wisdom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
I now realize that a broken back, failed surgery, and Stage IV cancer are three of the greatest things that ever happened to me.
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Broken Cancer Grateful
Well for me, courage means having the courage to walk off the edge of what is known, with complete faith that you’re not going to go crashing to the bottom. Stepping outside of your own self-perceived boundaries and limitations.
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Boundaries Mean Self

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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