How does Yoga help me to have more self-love? Through self-acceptance.
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In the beginning, there is a craving for magic formulas to remedy your pain. Unable to heal herself, she casts the healer out. It is natural that for a long time the eyes are still turned outwards and any attempt to define yourself starts from a comparison with something external to you. It's tiring to live belittling yourself all the time, isn't it?
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The essence of Yoga is the attentive, observant and receptive look for everything that emerges in sensations, thoughts, emotions and movements, and it is the constant exercise of this gaze that strengthens in itself, before any intimate transformation, a process of rediscovering oneself. What am, am, feel or think all the time and I don't notice? Realizing that there is a vast world of “new” information to be appreciated is a beautifully grandiose thing for a person.
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This attitude of openness to self-observation is, in itself, a way of welcoming and practicing self-acceptance. The honest quest to see what was previously invisible to your conscious eyes is also a permission you give yourself to be yourself. Every meaningful transformation and transmutation of life is preceded by an acceptance of who you are now.
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Your ups and downs, joys and sorrows, qualities and defects, virtues and shadows, truths and omissions, are the scribbles of your story, ink on the sheet forming the paragraphs of your life and each letter or comma make up something of rich meaning for those you is today. Self-acceptance is not about being passive about your issues, but about not reacting in a denial or reactive way with yourself, and then evolving from what is seen.
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Promise if you accept more this week? ☕️ good morning and beautiful week 💫

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➡️ 走 (cede) 在前 (pre) 面。​
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➡️ 發生在歷史記載前 (pre) 的事情​
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🖊 preliminary 初步的、初步 (a.) (n.)​
➡️ 最先 (pre) 、最初步的行動或計畫​
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➡️ 在前 (pre) 期就成熟的 → 早熟的​
E.g. This disease produces premature aging of the brain.​
這種疾病使大腦過早衰老。

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「所有美好的改變，都來自於先有混亂」(All great changes are preceded by chaos.)

其實，所有的成長與改變都需要經歷混亂。你必須要讓「舊的自我」瓦解碎裂，然後攜帶走你想保留的部分，捨棄該放下的部分，再加入新的東西，才能慢慢建立起「新的自我」。
正是因為有混亂，讓本來整齊排序好的東西鬆動了，才能重新製造空間，才能動與改變。

現在的我，每當混亂出現時，則是
多了一點好奇心，想著：不知道這次的混亂，會讓我有什麼改變？會把我帶去哪裡？

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Once the Toronto Raptors started running, the Philadelphia 76ers could not slow them down.

Alvin Williams and a host of reserves led a second-quarter assault and the Raptors rarely relented in a 100-85 over the Philadelphia 76ers, who suffered their fifth straight road loss.

Williams had 14 points and 13 assists and did a credible job on NBA scoring leader Allen Iverson, who managed just 18 points on 7-of-23 shooting before sitting down for good midway through the third quarter.

Williams handed out 11 assists in the first half, when Toronto raced to a 63-39 lead and made the 76ers look like the Eastern Conference's worst team rather than its best. He scored eight points in a 29-3 second-quarter run during which the Raptors repeatedly beat the defensive-minded Sixers downcourt for dunks and layups.

"We've wanted to push the ball more and more by controlling the ball," Raptors coach Lenny Wilkens said. "It allowed us to push the ball upcourt and we hit our shots."

"I haven't been in a game where a team had 35 points on the fast break in the first half, plus they had 22 assists and only one turnover," Sixers coach Larry Brown said. "They manhandled us. We took bad shots and we didn't guard. Everybody on their team made a significant contribution."

Reserves Keon Clark and Chris Childs scored 11 points apiece and also were in the middle of the explosion in the second quarter that gave Toronto a 59-33 lead. The Raptors also got a spark from backup forward Jerome Williams, who scored six points in the period.

"Alvin distributed the ball really well and I thought Chris and Alvin played well together," Wilkens said. "When you run and push the ball, you get into a rhythm. Guys were catching the ball and making shots."

"Everyone had energy tonight," Clark added. "It wasn't just myself or Jerome coming off the bench. ... Tonight was the smoothest offense we had all year. Nobody was forcing or rushing anything. We still need to be consistent."

Vince Carter scored 26 points for the Raptors, who never trailed and defeated the Sixers for the third consecutive time, becoming the only team thus far to take the season series from Philadelphia.

"They hit shots and we just did a bad job," Iverson said. "They outhustled us, and we rarely get outhustled."

The Raptors (41-33) won for the fifth time in six games and moved one game ahead of Orlando for sixth place in the East.

The Sixers (51-23) have lost seven of their last 10 games and fell one game behind San Antonio for the league's best record. The magic number for clinching their first Atlantic Division title since 1990 remained three.

Iverson's layup gave Philadelphia a 30-30 tie with 9:46 left in the second quarter before Toronto's onslaught began with consecutive fast-break dunks by Carter and Antonio Davis.

A jumper by Childs made it 40-30 with 7:46 remaining before a free throw by Philadelphia's Tyrone Hill only briefly slowed the deluge.

For the next five minutes, Williams thwarted Iverson at one end and scored or set up teammates at the other. Dunks by Clark and Jerome Williams preceded a 3-pointer by Childs that capped the explosion at 59-33 with 2:33 to go. Philadelphia called three timeouts during the burst.

"I thought we played good team defense, especially on Iverson," Alvin Williams said. "The guys were making shots and as a point guard, it made my job easier. They asked me to stick him (Iverson) and I did my best to make his shots difficult."

Any chance the Sixers had of getting back into the game ended when the Raptors scored the first 11 points of the third quarter, opening their largest lead at 74-39 on a tip-in by former Sixer Eric Montross with 8:39 left. Brown emptied his bench shortly thereafter.

Montross was a surprise starter for Charles Oakley, who was suspended one game by the NBA for hitting Sixers forward Tyrone Hill with a thrown basketball during Tuesday's shootaround. Montross had season highs of six points and 11 rebounds.

At the memorable 1986 NBA All-Star weekend in Dallas, 5-6 Spud Webb improbably won the slam dunk contest in front of his hometown crowd over favored Atlanta teammate Dominique Wilkins. The third annual old-timer legends game then preceded the first three-point "long distance shootout" competition.

And fittingly to cap off a fine All-Star Saturday before the mid-season classic contest on Sunday, Celtic long-distance marksman Larry Bird won the inaugural three-point shootout in spectacular fashion.

After being chosen for the event, Bird practiced shooting from the five three-point spots for weeks leading up to the contest, egged on by sharpshooting teammates Danny Ainge and Scott Wedman.

Neither of them were invited to be part of the eight-man field, although both could make an argument they were better long-range shooters than some who were in the competition.

Snubbed, both Ainge and Wedman needled Larry that they should have been included instead of him. Yet Bird would lead the NBA in three-pointers made (82) and attempted (194) that championship season, making 42.3 percent of his triple tries.

Dale Ellis of Dallas, Eric "Sleepy' Floyd of Golden State, Craig Hodges of Milwaukee, LA Clipper and former Laker guard Norm Nixon, Chicago's Kyle Macy (a fellow Hoosier), 6-5 Knick Trent Tucker and Bullet Leon Wood joined Bird. Five of the contestants were relatively small guards, while the 6-7 Ellis was a swingman. Bird was clearly the tallest of the group.

Bird immediately tried to establish himself as the frontrunner when he entered the locker room before the shootout.

"Which one of you guys is going to finish second?" he asked. Only Nixon of the seven other competitors had been an All-Star, so much of the field may have been a bit in awe of the setting and the three-time MVP. And Nixon, an excellent mid-range shooter, was actually a puzzling choice for inclusion.

In his entire career, Norm made just 100 treys as he shot 29.4 percent beyond the arc. The 1985-86 season with the Clippers was his best from long distance, but he still shot just 34.7 percent and made a mere 42 trifectas.

Bird correctly figured Hodges, who would later win the shootout from 1990-92, was his stiffest competition. Wood complained that the red, white and blue ABA "money balls" (a nod to the defunct league's role in popularizing the shot) worth two points were slick and hard to grip.

Actually the American Basketball League, a short-lived pro loop in 1962-63 featuring a Cleveland team owned by George Steinbrenner, pioneered the three-point shot. The ABA picked up the gimmick shot when that league opened play in 1967, and added the popular red, white and blue ball under commissioner George Mikan.

Always looking for an edge, Bird played into Wood's paranoia by grabbing an ABA ball and handling it before agreeing with Wood that it was indeed hard to handle and shoot.

As Larry expected, Hodges came out of the gate firing and scored a whopping 25 out of a possible 30 points. His incredible first round showing is still a single-round record for the event 28 years later. The mark of 25 was tied by contest winner Jason Kapono in 2007 and 2008, but has never been exceeded.

Tucker scored 19 points, Ellis 17 and Bird 16 as he squeaked into the second round. Only the top four scores made it to the semifinals, eliminating Floyd, Macy and Wood (who all tied with 13 apiece) and the jump-shooting Nixon (nine).

Bird started to heat up in the semis by scoring 18 points. "Look at how effortlessly he gets the shots up," noted WTBS commentator Rick Barry. A superstar bomber in both the NBA and ABA, Rick had retired in 1980 and probably wished he could have competed in the event.

At 6-9, Bird had an advantage over the shorter field. He barely got off the ground as he launched his perfectly-arched trifectas and thus burned less energy. In addition, his quick release, fast recovery time and quick hands helped him get off all 25 shots in a minute every time, usually with seconds to spare.

If Allen Iverson could have it all to do over again, he would have done everything the same.

All of it.

Except one thing.

He would have listened to Larry Brown.

Iverson and Brown had an often contentious relationship during their seven years together with the 76ers.

Brown was old-school and buttoned-down. Iverson was hip-hop and defiant.

They accomplished some great things together. But not at first.

On the day Iverson was selected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the 11-time all-star expressed profound regret at the way he defied Brown, who preceded him in the Hall of Fame by 10 years.

“I don’t regret nothing,” Iverson said at a downtown Houston hotel after getting the Hall of Fame news. “Like nothing in my life. I love being who I am. I love the person that I am. I feel comfortable in my skin.

“But if I could have a wish as an athlete? I wish I would have bought in to what [Brown] was trying to give me all along (instead of) just being defiant. Being a certified ass---- for nothing. When all he wanted was the best for me.

“And I didn’t take constructive criticism the way I should have. You know what I mean?

“To me, in my eyes, he’s the best coach ever. To me. You know what I mean? And I didn’t take what God was giving me the right way. God sent him to me, and I was defiant at that time.”

Iverson played for Johnny Davis as a rookie in 1996-97 and then for Brown for the next six years.

He was an all-star all six years, led the 76ers to the NBA finals in 2001, was MVP in 2001, was All-Star game MVP in 2001 (“Where’s my coach?”) and led the NBA in scoring three of his six years under Brown.

“Once I bought in and caught up to what I was supposed to know, that’s when I became the MVP,” Iverson said. “That’s when it went from just a talented player to the best player on Earth.”

Brown went on to coach the Pistons, Knicks and Bobcats before moving back to the college ranks in 2012 and coaching Southern Methodist, where he remains.

Iverson’s Georgetown coach, John Thompson, was there Monday but Brown wasn’t at Iverson’s press conference, and Iverson hadn’t spoken to him yet.

But he promised he would soon.

“We going to talk,” he said. “Trust me. But I’m going to tell you exactly why I haven’t spoken to him yet. I know I have to speak to him today because it’s official. So I have to speak to him. But the emotional part of me, you know what I mean? Is why I haven’t spoken to him yet.

“Because I know that there won’t be no conversation, there will just be crying. I know it. As soon as I hear his voice. I already know it.”