Recently I’ve witnessed a lot of big changes around me. Some friends lost their houses, some their jobs, and some are moving across country. In my own life, I left my comfortable consulting career in February of this year to focus on building Cycle Harmony and pursuing my Master’s Degree in Chinese Medicine.

Do you sometimes feel tightness in your body, and in your mind? When your world seems to tighten up and close in around you? This morning I started to have this familiar feeling…

I love great quotes, especially the short ones. In one or two lines, they can unleash your courage, open your heart, teach you simple yet profound wisdoms, and open up a whole new world of possibilities…

Day 27, 5% Waning Crescent

Mood: Relieved

My boyfriend has a habit of taking a 20-minute walk every day after lunch. It’s one of his daily health rituals. I, on the other hand, hardly take a break after lunch. Most of the time I go right back to work.

Last week I left a consulting job that I’d been holding onto for a couple of years. Even though I’d been preparing myself for this day to come, it still felt a little scary nevertheless.

Mood: Accepting – Just doing what’s in front of me

This morning when I went to school, I sensed a good amount of stress – my own and stress from those around me. During a break, a classmate asked me how I was doing. “One day at a time,” I replied.

Mood: Accepting – Letting It Be

With my period 8 days away I began to feel premenstrual tensions today, and things seemed to get a little stagnated around me. My breaths were shallower, my moods lower, and my body a little fatigued.

Mood: Optimistic

In her New York Times best-selling book “The Happiness Project,” Gretchen Rubin listed her 12 personal commandments for happiness. One of the commandments is, “Act the way I want to feel.”

Mood: Joy

I don’t know about you, but I haven’t had a real day off for quite some time. Since I went back to school, my weekends had become the opportune time for me to catch up with study and unfinished work from the week.

Mood: Inspired

I didn’t have a great start this morning. It all happened in the kitchen. I decided to make myself a lunch box, which involved some fermented soybeans my Mom sent me all the way from China.

Day 15, 91% Waning Gibbous

Mood: Feeling Optimistic

Today I came across a quote that touched me sweetly. It said, "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about dancing in the rain."

Mood: Feeling Content and Satisfied

Today I had two quizzes and was in class all day. I enjoyed learning but it took a lot of mind power to stay focus for such a long period of time. At the end of the day, I felt a little fatigued.

Day 12, 100% Full Moon

Mood: Releasing, Letting Go…

It’s full moon again. I can feel its intensity. Some full moons make you want to dance and celebrate. Some can drive you to the edges at times. Yet still others can bring up old wounds, waiting to be released and let go…

Day 9, 88% Waxing Gibbous

Mood: Feeling Inspired!

Do you procrastinate? Put things off, again and again? You know you need to get to them – and soon. Yet you just can’t seem to find the time. Believe me, it’s not difficult to find reasons or excuses. There are plenty.

Day 8, 81% Waxing Gibbous

Mood: Simply Joyful

Sometimes you try so hard to make things happen, yet you feel like you’re swimming upstream and the flow is going against you in every way. But when you finally surrender and get out of the way, things begin to come together beautifully and effortlessly.

Mood: Feeling Content

It’s amazing how much calmer I feel since I started an “email fast.” I admit that over the years I’ve developed an addiction to emails and FaceBook. Every time my iPhone vibrates with an incoming message, I can hardly resist the compulsion to check it and see what’s up in the world.

Mood: Acceptance

My Jingtastic reserve is still running a little low today. When I don’t feel like smiling, it’s usually the time I need to smile the most. Here’s a smile, to myself! A smile is contagious. You never know what magic it may bring…

Mood: Feeling Content

Over the past couple of days I experienced pain, fatigue and depressed moods. It was one of those dark, cold, and painful menstruations.

Mood: Inspired!

When I was a young girl, my dream was to become a writer. The great literature of the world had touched me so deeply that my young heart longed to be a part of that world.

Reflection: “Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.” ~ Havelock Ellis

Mood: Acceptance – This Too Shall Pass

The first day of menstruation was a tough one. Physically I didn’t feel well – vertigo, headache, and cramps. I was doing all I could to take good care of my body.