YoGrooves

New Music From My Heart to Yours A new album of music designed to create a safe, nurturing and loving atmosphere in which to sooth, unwind, restore and find peace.

Lick up all the life you can today! It’s delicious 😋

Get some sweetness today! Hug a dog! Maybe a friend, too. 🦋

You know that book "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff?" Yeah, well that's good. But even better... is when you can actually not sweat the crazy hard stuff that of course sometimes happens! It's totally possible. Just breathe, then ask yourself if it ever helped - being stressed or freaking out about something. If you can recall... it didn't actually ever help. 🌟🙏🌟

THE JOY OF SORROW

It's simple.
When you're sad, just feel sad.
Don't try to be happy. Trying is exhausting.
Don't push your sadness away.
Don't numb it.
Don't try to get over it.
Don't try to transform it.
Don't even try to 'heal' it.

You don't even need to accept it.
Realise that it's already accepted.
There is already enough room for sadness in the hugeness of your being.
You are the sky, the sadness is only passing weather.
You are vast; sadness is temporary.
You are eternal; sadness longs for a home.

It's simple.
When you are sad, just feel sad.

Bow to your sadness.
Honour it.
Let it rest, and move.
And you will know its holiness.

Its aliveness. Its joy.

- Jeff Foster

GET OVER IT!

Please, friend, do not try to ‘get over’ anything or anyone. You’ll only be splitting off from a part of yourself that needs kind attention.

Don’t attempt to ‘move on’ today from your grief, your sorrow, your confusion, the empty feeling inside. Feel these friends totally, allow these sacred and misunderstood energies to move through you. They are not ‘negative’, they are not ‘bad’, they are not signs of your failure or weakness or brokenness, they are only parts of consciousness, fragments of the whole, that want to be felt deeply. They have come to cleanse and to enliven, not to punish. Stop pushing them away and feel their raw unbridled power as they surge through today.

Healing is not a destination, it is your willingness to love all of yourself, to take all of life – the joy and the sorrow of it – into your vast heart.

To walk with courage into the fire of the Unknown!

- Jeff Foster

Life is as good as you can believe. Even if you are having a rough day... remember the universe is giving you exactly the challenges that you need for you to thrive and become your best self.

THE LONGING THAT CALLS YOU HOME

You don't need to go 'beyond' suffering.
Suffering has no interest in 'beyond'.

It needs a lot more heart than that.
(Only the mind dreams of a 'beyond').

Suffering longs for your curiosity. Your kind attention.
Your breath. Your tears and your trembling.

It wants a mother, a father.
It is an orphan.

It wants all of you, not half.
It wants you to come closer. It wants you to enter.

And be curious. And step out of conclusions.
And touch a moment. Touch a moment without bias.

Touch into anger. Touch into sorrow.
Touch into terror. Touch into your
unwillingness to touch into
your suffering.

Touch the untouchable parts.
Not all at once. Not all today.
Just a moment at a time.
A moment. And then, survive it.
And breathe. And a moment.
And, survive it. And breathe.

Even the most painful feelings.
The most profound despair.
The sharpest grief.
The deepest feelings of unworthiness.

The parts that cry, "We are bad".

Survivable. Tolerable.
Bearable. For a moment.
And then, maybe acceptable.
And then, maybe embraceable.
And then, maybe, even loveable.

Not parts of you to destroy.
But parts of you to care for.

Parts longing to be included.
Disowned parts, seeking the Light.
Orphans of the Light.
Refugees for the Light.

You don't need to go 'beyond' suffering.
There is no 'beyond' for the heart.

For the heart is pure Presence.
And the way through suffering
is through suffering,
through and only through.

And the 'beyond' is really the immanent in disguise,
and the sacredness is in the ache itself,
and the transcendent is in
the fu***ng mud and the dirt and the blood.

And you are whole even when you do not feel whole.

And your suffering is your nostalgia,
the powerful longing that calls you home.

- Jeff Foster