Noticing is Living

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: July 28, 2010

So many shoulds, woulds and coulds exist, we often times forget that all we need to water our self is pure awareness. Shoulds are all around us as formulas and logic that must be followed for the best possible outcome. Woulds weigh upon our hearts and souls as disbelief that something can’t be as good as it is. Coulds tell us that we don’t possess the power to choose and create our own reality.

Sometimes we even trick ourselves so well that we assign positive tasks to justify the shoulds, woulds and coulds. “If I think positively, life will get better and then I will be able to do what I want.” So where is the door that the confusion cloud of shoulds, woulds and coulds enter our space? It is in the uncertainty that exists between the if and then. It is in our lack of awareness that a pure presence which is senior to any thought form exists.

Just like real veggies in the supermarket the pure awareness of our soul silently waits for a space for it to feed, but often goes unnoticed because it doesn’t wear any flashy labels*. Our soul asks for nothing in return. It is merely there if we choose to notice it. There is no right or wrong way to cultivate the awareness of your soul, for it exists outside the realm of shoulds, woulds and coulds. I notice that I feel it when I smile, when I breathe and when I relax into trust and gravity. For me, knowing my soul is feeling peaceful and watering my soul by knowing it is living.

*Michael Pollan makes this point about vegetables in his book In Defense of Food.

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Thank You Tao Porchon-Lynch!

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: July 24, 2010

The only air flowing in the NYC summer hot room at Strala Yoga today was the breath of many yogis who were gathered to soak up the nearly 90 year old Tao Porchon-Lynch’s wisdom. Even though I could hardly hear Tao with her soft voice in the large studio, I was struck and inspired by her unwavering willingness to be her self. Against what some would call odds, she did her thing, showing us yoga poses with enthusiasm and detailed knowledge. My favorite part was her closing words “All I want is to live every moment without fear.” It brought tears to my eyes and made me think if she can do it at 90 year’s old, I can certainly do it now.:-)

Read more about Tao on her website and/or watch the video below.

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The Suitcase of Creativity’s Past

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: July 14, 2010

No joke, for the past five years, I’ve held on to a disgusting, old suitcase (a street find) that is filled with much of my student work from Pratt Institute. Until today, it’s musty confines not only housed finished work, but folders and stacks of “the process”(ie sketches, scraps and drafts) as well as unfinished projects which I used to tell myself I should/would/could finish someday. At some point I admitted to myself that I really had no interest in finishing any of these projects, and told myself that I have photographs of my best finished work, but I was still attached to something which prevented me from letting go.

More recently, I came to the realization that the suitcase and it’s contents were actually a physical representation of energy preventing me from moving forward with new creative projects. The connection came from something I practice all the time in my clairvoyant work: the infinite ability to create and destroy. Creating and destroying is a powerful way to let go of attachment, knowing that whatever you want can be created to fill the space. Hence, destruction is just as important as creation.

Alas I was finally Inspired to tackle the old creative baggage by one of Dana Claudat‘s tweets from today:

“That room, that box, that bag, that wallet you avoid? : clear it out, confront the contents, and watch your flow start to grow!#fengshui“

My suitcase and it’s contents are curbed at the door for recycling first thing in the morning. Off to dream about how I want my new creative process to be!

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Competition Part One, the Question: Is it healthy?

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: July 9, 2010

Who are you in competition with? Your job? The people on the yoga mat next to you? Your diet? Yourself? Do you even know whether or not you’re in competition? Perhaps you don’t. We are trained to look at competition as something we just do, so much so that we unconsciously act from it quite often. It is such a part of our society that athletes are paid millions of dollars per year to feed the massive need for competition. Sure, a lot of other things come with competition. Like heartfelt emotion. I was watching the USA play in the World Cup and starting crying anytime someone scored a goal from the sheer vibration of the crowd. Heroes, role models and goals are also often born out of competition. So the question becomes, is competition healthy?

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Working My Way Out of a Tweet Length World

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: July 8, 2010

I tweet a lot. 140 characters to say something profound. Easy. And a great way to avoid a coherent, grounded manifestation. This is what I just realized as I sat down to write a blog entry entitled, “Compassion Over Competition: Practicing Yoga with Love & Light”. I have all the pieces that would be great as tweets, but are much harder to flow into a finished puzzle.

I like to flow. Perhaps so much so that I tend to freak out when things happen that don’t feel like flow. Like yesterday when my connecting train never came so I had to not just walk, but get confused, and walk a avenue block out of my way in the sweltering heat to reach my destination late. Oh my.

But what is late and out of the way anyways? One of my favorite sayings is “time is always on time”. Throughout the–what felt like–epic journey of walking out of my way through the heat, I breathed myself into enjoying the new route. I brought the flow back. Just like I’ve done with this blog entry. For now, I’ve scraped the other idea that felt like a struggle, and was inspired by my tweet:

Writing a full blog entry is much harder than a tweet. What do you all think of a tweet length world versus a blog length world. And what about books?

It is hard for me to sit down and read more than a few pages in a book at a time. I can’t imagine writing one! I know it’s all about the inspiration and allowing the flow, so “Compassion Over Competition: Practicing Yoga with Love & Light” is on hold until something shifts. I’m sure it’s something to do with attachment, and the very topic I want to write about. Creativity is funny!

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Neutrality to Resistance: Loving Yourself through Transformation

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: June 22, 2010

Resistance often gets a bad rap and is laden with self-judgment, but what if we were to look at it as a natural part of the growth process? Like a caterpillar’s cocoon. After all, resisting resistance breeds more resistance. What if we welcome resistance with gratitude for providing a safe & cozy zone to release our fears, leading to the trust & knowledge of our ability to fly on our own? I invite you to try it out, and would love to hear about your experiences:-) Comment here, or send me email at Jennah@MyLittleBubble.me

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DO NOT [energetically] PICK UP TAR BALLS. Choose Light & Love for Change.

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: June 7, 2010

Yes, the oil spill is our society’s environmentally unaware lifestyle bubbling to the surface to be acknowledged. It is of upmost importance that we do not get stuck in empathy or attach to fear in this situation. Energetically, it is like picking up sticky tar balls, paralyzing us with fear and making the situation an even bigger mess. When we stop holding trauma in our space, we create room in the world for right action, healing and compassion to occur.

Marianne Williamson notes “You know how that oil is spilling from the bottom floor? — that’s the way LOVE should be spilling from our HEARTS! If the latter WERE happening, the former WOULDN’T be happening. That’s our challenge as a species.”


From NY Times Slideshow

To move my heart in gear, I’ve created a guided visualization to gain neutrality to the crisis. This allows new light to shine with love and compassion while sending a message to the universe that some of us are aware of the bigger picture.

Please join me:

May it be with the blessings of the Supreme Being that whatever happens during this meditation will benefit all of us in our spiritual growth, awareness and understanding. Amen.

Close your eyes, placing your hand on your heart.

Breathe in. Exhale with a sighing ahhh, bringing your awareness from your head to your heart. Repeat a few times.

Imagine a hollow and strong grounding cord made of solid gold or diamond or crystal connected–effortlessly through time and space–from the base of your spine to the center of the earth. Flip a vacuum switch, setting your body & surrounding space to release.

See your body centered in a golden ball of light, raising your vibration to non-attachment and light healing.

Collect your awareness in your 6th chakra by imagining a magnetic white light in the center of your head which beams out in front of you like a spotlight.

In the spotlight create and see a transparent bubble. See a rose between you and the bubble signifying that no energy needs to release through your body.

Give the bubble a grounding cord of its own, connected firmly into the center of the earth.

Inside the bubble begin to see the energy of the oil spill, and watch as any fear, doubt, worry, anxiety begin to drain out the grounding cord.

Flip a switch on the grounding cord of the bubble that sets it to infinite, no time, no space, postulating that it’s strength is more powerful than the mass of the oil.

Above the bubble, create a connection with a waterfall of pure divine white light which streams throughout, replacing what is being released with compassion, wisdom and healing.

Watch, and breathe as stuck energy is released and replenished with a flow of purity.

Next, say hello to the Earth energy in the bubble in front of you. Move beyond any sticky or dark layers, reaching a fresh and vibrant one, knowing that the power and harmony of the Earth is alive, ready and willing. Infuse the bubble with this color, washing it out even more.

Now say hello to all of the compassionate spirits, sea creatures and humans–including you and all those who work for BP– taking action and helping to clean up the spill. See them as filled with light and love. Send them spiritual hellos of compassion and gratitude. Know that they are personally empowered and capable to create change and healing.

Check in with the light connection above, seeing the bubble being continuously filled with new energy. Postulate that this will continue to happen for as long as necessary.

Now see the bubble as a color that holds a healing vibration, and watch as everything inside of it is infused with the color. See the bubble start to grow and fill the room you’re sitting in with that color. See the building you’re in fill with that color. See the city, state, country you’re in fill with that color. See the region where the oil spill is fill with the color. See the world fill with that color, ultimately releasing the healing wish to the universal powers that be.

May it be with the blessings of the Supreme Being that whatever happened during this meditation will benefit all of us in our spiritual growth, awareness and understanding. Amen.

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EYES FOR DESIGN: Introduction & BodyTalk Session 1

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: June 7, 2010

So here it is, an intro video for the Eyes for Design project. Watch how language is important in setting a clear & effective intention:-)

I must admit, entering into this agreement took quite a bit of letting go from me. For some reason there was a lot of fear about having BodyTalk sessions “done to me”, however it kept lighting up to explore healing my eyes via BodyTalk, and Laura kept asking me to help her create her brand. Interestingly enough, the first thing that came up in the BodyTalk session was a permission (one of the BodyTalk protocols that your body can call upon during a session). The permission was “I embrace my spiritual journey”. This was important because it helped me let go by reminding me that there is no right or wrong decision–life is a game where we live and learn.

Another key thing that came up during the session was a phobia of being exposed. Funny that my intention behind this project was to blog about it and post videos. So please excuse any nervous camera actions in this video–I was still being affected by my phobia! haha.

Also, during the session I felt it in my heart that I am really going to have to want, believe and let myself have restored eyesight. And from watching myself in the video, looks like I’m going to be applying my own medicine to my design brand. This is all going to help me figure out how to express that design is a healing process!

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Summer Reading List: Studious Self Here I come!

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: June 1, 2010

Just when I claimed I was done reading books, comes a reading list for the yoga training I’m doing in July, and a recommendations from Tori.

Looks like I’m living my own tweets: “Ever say never only to find that is exactly when?”, “Give an ultimatum, and you’ll receive the opposite.”, “Letting yourself have one side of a decision often times opens you up to realize it’s the other side you actually want.”

I’ve always been the student who resists reading as an assignment (or anything that’s not inspired!). This will be interesting to see how directly my decision to be a student matches my inspiration.

So, here’s the books on the list with some commentary:

Light on Yoga (Iyengar)–excited to read more about yoga from an historic yogi!

Still Here (Ram Dass)

In Defense of Food (Michael Pollan)–Started reading it a couple of years ago, and really really understand, so I stopped.

Love Freedom and Aloneness (Osho)–have read Sex Matters by Osho before, which was awesome. This guy is spiritual and blunt and I love it!

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (Deepak Chopra)–never read a book by Deepak, but looking forward to it b/c I know he has good stuff to say.

And Tori’s recommendation:

Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians – always curious about the Pleiadians!

So, I’ll keep ya posted with my process & reviews.

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From the Old Blog Archive

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: May 28, 2010

Archive for June, 2008

Deal with your own shit and everyone will benefit.

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

As social creatures, why is it that we love to be in other people’s business, but when it comes to facing our own, many of us are terrified? We are so scared of being responsible to ourselves that we’ve created all sorts of self avoidance mechanisms that divert our energy into the lives of others. Whether it comes from a place of a good intention or bad intention, the effort is there regardless.

A favorite and often acknowledged tactic unconsciously implies a false superiority by discussing the situations of others. Sometimes amusing, and not always with ill-intentions, this past time leaves us in a cloud of judgments or energy that’s not our own.

A less often realized, but equally present way is to latch our emotions on to a person because they have wronged us. We ignore the fact that its a situation we’re in and dwell on what a particular person did to us. It could be any number of things–a spouse who cheated on us, a parent or a teacher who told us we couldn’t do something, a friend who placed judgment on a situation of ours–in any case, it is certainly their fault. We say things that start with “you did this to me” or “you make me” without realizing that this automatically gives away our personal power. In these times of blame, we forget about ourselves even though it is when self recognition is needed the most. This comes as second nature because we’ve been conditioned that its easier to keep the focus on another person.

Whatever the protection mechanism, we tend to neglect one vital element: that we, as individuals, control how we choose to let the rest of the world in, and that what we choose to acknowledge directly relates to our presence and happiness. Of course we are placed in situations with others that seem negative or uncomfortable, but those are merely a test. An opportunity to step up and to see ourselves–to take a look at and realize how we feel. What feelings arise about the situation at hand? Anger? Sadness? Regret? Jealousy? Annoyance? And once those feelings are acknowledged as our own–rather than resisted as if an outside force–we can choose to release them through expression or mere recognition. After that, what sits behind them?

Its just might be you.

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