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GUEST OPINION : WISDOM WORKOUT
A Sense of Mastery
By SUSAN MCNeAl VelASQUeZ
Meeting our safety and security needs often takes much of our personal focus . As we progress , the next natural step is to explore how to bring wholeheartedness into our daily lives .
Wholehearted living requires us to deepen our emotional sincerity by surrendering our protective pretenses . When we seek to live fully connected to our emotions and mental abilities , we adopt authenticity as a top value .
Imagine traveling along a winding road with signage that names it your Unique Life Path . You are simul-
taneously riding two horses , like a circus performer who has mastered the art of standing up with one foot planted on each horse ’ s back . The horse on the right is called Looking Good , and the one on the left is named Feeling Good .
Looking Good and Feeling Good want to learn to synchronize their pacing so that you , the rider , get two main benefits . When partnered successfully , you reap the rewards of position power in the world from Looking Good and personal power / inner solidity from Feeling Good .
The problem is that Looking Good tends towards domination and over-control . Looking Good seeks protection by trying to be right , better than and a winner at all times .
Looking Good is always striving for perfection and is relentless in the pursuit of more , bigger and better results .
Feeling Good gets fatigued with Looking Good ’ s inability to be satisfied . The push for perfection is anxiety-producing and all-consuming . Sometimes Feeling Good intentionally slows down in silent protest . As a result , your ride becomes precariously uncomfortable .
Feeling Good has dreams of
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Laguna Beach Yoga Instructor Remembers Vietnam
Renée Chenette ( second from left ) with fellow Pan Am flight attendants about to board a 747 . Photo courtesy of Renée Chenette . legend ,” she recalls .
While she still teaches private classes in Laguna , yoga was not always at the center of Chenette ’ s universe .
At just 24 years old , Chenette became a Pan Am flight attendant from 20 kilometers outside of Paris the first time she landed at Tan Son Nhut Airbase in Saigon in 1972 .
The then Los Angeles-based Chenette flew for Pan Am for 17 years , between 1970 and 1987 . The flights she took in and out of Vietnam during the war remain definitive in her mind .
She is the first to admit , however , that she didn ’ t give it much thought at the time .
“ I had just arrived from France , and , at 24 , I was too young to really know what was going on ,” she said .
As such , Chenette treated those on board the flights no different than she would any passenger .
Yet the reality was that “ Pax ,” as passengers have always been referred to by personnel in the aviation business , was far from the usual .
“ They were all exhausted and many had injuries ,” Chenette remembered . “ I just wish I would have been more aware . Today , I would have a million
By Marc Phillip Yablonka
In 2003 , yoga teacher Renée Chenette arrived in Laguna Beach straight from the Berkshire Mountains in Western Massachusetts , where she trained with Kripalu Yoga . She was immediately hired by the then local YogaWorks studio .
Chenette taught Hatha Yoga for the YogaWorks for 17 years . Sadly , however , in 2020 , YogaWorks closed all five of their Orange County studios due to Covid-19 .
“ I was one of the three oldest teachers questions .”
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