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I now realize that a broken back, failed surgery, and Stage IV cancer are three of the greatest things that ever happened to me.

Brad Willis

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
We’ve all had those aha moments. In yoga it’s called prajna – a flash of illumination. I heard that voice.
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Heard Illumination Voice
Whether your life is destined to be short or to be long, along the way on that journey, if you access that inner power, not only will you change your life in a positive way, you’ll ultimately help change other peoples lives. You will be carrying something forward.
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Journey Long Positive Way
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
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
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
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’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
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
No matter what you’re facing in your life, what obstacles you might have, and what you feel your limitations might be, there’s something inside you that’s eternal, that is filled with wisdom and potential and possibility.
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Healing Moving Unique
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 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
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 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
I could feel it in every cell of my body, and I immediately realized, there’s something here. I could feel my heart rate slow down. I could feel stress melting out of my body.
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Immediately Melting Something Stress
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

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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