*ganesaishaya

Spring is Here

These are some exciting times here at Endless Boundaries Tattoo!! At the present time we have all kinds of new and fun projects on the go. We are happy to announce that Scott is up and running with his tattooing now and is looking to take on clients, his work is improving by the day. If you have been in to see us in the last few months I’m sure Scott has approached you about doing a tattoo for you as he asks almost every client who comes through the doors if they want in his chair. Aimee was featured in tattoo magazine this month the magazine is called Tattoo Energy in its issue number seven be sure to pick up your copy to check out Aimee in this issue. Glenn is still busy as ever however is always looking to serve his clients more!

T-shirts, T-shirts, T-shirts

We are finally getting in more t-shirts we have two new designs I have included them in this email. They will go on sale March 28th we have changed suppliers and are offering a better quality t-shirt this year for the same price as last year.

In the store we are making some big changes this year as we are selling off all our giftware and replacing our current stock with all tattoo related gifts. This means more tattoo clothing; we will be getting hoodies in this fall. In addition to the tattoo clothing we are also going to be getting in a full line of body jewelry to sell in the store as well. We have all kinds of new and exciting products that we will be getting in so be sure to drop by to see all the new stuff over the summer. This also means that we are having a
HUGE SALE in the store
Almost every thing is 50% off

If you have some birthdays coming up in the family or just want to shop early for next Christmas be sure to drop by as you will not find deals like this anywhere, things are already starting to move now and we just have had the tags marked down for a few days.

Ingersoll Ink
Rogers television will be filming in the store next week and I will be going into the studio to do a talk show with them. Here are the dates if you'd like to tune in to see the show. So if you are Rogers subscriber, tune in the Channel 13 to day time TV on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.

In addition to all this new stuff going on, Endless Boundaries is producing a book about the history of electric tattooing in Canada. Scott and I are leaving for a road trip from here to Vancouver stopping at all the major cities along the way. We will be leaving March 28 and we will return by May 6. We will be interviewing and meeting with Canada's top tattoo artists collecting the history and art of Canadian tattooing as we go along. We hope to have this book out by next spring.

Aside from all this news the most important part of Endless Boundaries is you. Thank you for your continued support we could not do we do here without you. We look forward to serving you to the fullest this summer. Feel free to drop by if you're in our area as we always look forward to seeing our clients.

Ganesa (Ned) Vickie, Glenn, Aimee, Scott.

Be Here Now

There is a great deal of talk and books being wrote about the topic of being in the moment. What does that mean and how can we apply this to our lives? We must treat every moment and situation in our life as if there is no past or future. This can be a slippery slope to climb as we are trained to be good thinkers and to bring our past experience into every moment of our lives. Some refer to our past experiences as wisdom but true wisdom is timeless and far beyond our mind. By predetermining outcomes and holding judgment of how things should be we are not in the moment at all we are trapped in the past or future. Meet the world with fresh and new eyes; what you might find is that things and people are not what you think they are. Being here now allows us to see the bigger picture of life. The world and the people in it are always changing its just that we get stuck in our minds of how things were or how things should be. Notice how our mind has a judgment on everything we see and experience. I will say again that everything in the world is changing, on the surface things look the same. The more we cling to our world to be as we want it or not to change the more pain we experience in our lives driving us away from our peace. Being here now with every moment in life connects us to a more alive and fresh experience with life.

To get into the moment we must let go, we must meet change with open arms. Change is a blessing although it may not feel like it when we are clinging to a desired outcome. I’m not saying that we need to let go of every thing in our lives, letting go and allowing change can be a different way to embrace life. For example, take a stone and clasp your hand around it then turn your palm to the ground. It takes effort to hold the stone and if we let go it will fall to the ground. Openness and letting go is turning your hand over and letting go of the stone. As you can see the stone can rest in the palm of your hand and we don't have to exert as much effort to hold it. This is how to embrace life, with openness and to be effortless. This is just a tiny shift in our awareness but it can completely change the way we experience our lives.

One of the advantages of being in the moment is that there are no problems within the moment. There is no such thing as a present moment problem. When we are in the moment we just naturally act and do what’s needed at this time. Just for a moment think of a problem in your life, now fully come back to this moment right now; is it a present moment problem? we are just fine in every moment of our lives its just that we leave this moment to experience our mind and pain. Leaving the moment and engaging in our mind consumes a great amount of our energy that we could better spend in the moment we are in. We leave this moment which is full and complete to be in our minds which tends to play out the worst-case scenario most of the time. Just give it a try be present with the problems that arise in your life and notice how a solution automatically comes to you.

There is no peace in our clinging to the past or future. Real peace is here right now, it’s your birth right so claim it. We all deserve our peace no matter what we have did or been in life, we deserve our peace right now. It’s up to us whether or not we claim it. So don't miss the moment your in.
BE HERE NOW.
Ganesa Ishaya

Loving Yourself

There is a common saying and it goes like this "You have to love yourself before any one else can love you" What does this mean and how do we bring love to ourselves? These are the two questions that come to mind when I hear this saying. Loving our self is not something we are taught for the most part. The world we live in is constantly pulling us in all directions so the first step towards loving our self is to pull back some or all of our attention to ourselves. Notice during your day how every thought that we go out on pulls us away from our self and the moment we are in. When our attention is resting within our self a natural peace opens up. When I say put your attention on your self I don't mean think about your self just move your attention to the most quiet and still part of your self. At first it may not feel like there is no quiet part of our self. This quiet space within will grow more and more as you focus on it. When we enter this quiet space within we become the watcher, just rest and watch. It is natural to have tons of thoughts moving through your mind so if this is your experience that's ok just keep watching and going back to the most still place within your self. When we look at our thoughts as a watcher and we don't move our attention with them we begin to notice that we are not our thoughts and that they just seem to arise on their own accord. This is the most important step towards loving your self.

There are many concepts that we engage in to feel that we are worthy of love however, the truth is that no matter the conditions in our lives we are always worthy of the highest love at all times. We are trained as small children that we must become successful in our lives so a great deal of our focus goes to that. We are pressured to know what occupation we want to pursue at a very young age. Next we feel that we must acquire all kinds of things in life to feel like we are doing well for ourselves like buying a car, a house then filling the house full of stuff. Once we have all these things we will be successful and more worthy of love, this is not true. I'm not saying its wrong to have all that life has to offer the point I'm making here is that we don't need any thing to feel self worth and love. Self worth comes from within. Just rest and be still within yourself. Loving your self does not mean that we all need to go out and buy a big screen TV, rather it means excepting our lives just the way things are.
Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows the idea is not to get stuck at the banks. Let come what comes and go what goes.
(from the book I am That)

Next is that we tend to think that love only comes from family, friends and relationships, this is not entirely true either. What we get from them is a reflection of how much we love our self. If we love our self a bit the world around us reflects back a little bit of love and it works the same way if we love our self to the fullest. We sometimes put a great deal of pressure on our relationships feeling that we need love from external sources. Try loving yourself for a week and watch how the people around you respond to that. What tends to happen is that we begin to draw more happy and loving people into our lives. The letter carrier who has never spoke to you before says hi or a friend that you have not seen in a while just drops by out of the blue to shower you with their love, but don't take my word for it try it and see what happens.

Loving our self can be simple and easy we must stop our violent thinking. Whenever a thought comes up like I need to try harder or that I'm not good enough just rest, let go of any thought that makes you feel less that you really are. We need never compare ourselves to any thing or any one else. We are all on our own journey in life. To compare ourselves to any other person or to what others have that we do not is just a trap, the underlying feeling here is that we would be better if we was or had what others have. There is no self-love or peace within that. Just focus on your life and loving yourself to the fullest.

The last step is to give yourself rest, we are a world full of doers, we are always doing things constantly on the move. Give yourself time to relax. Take vacations and take time away from your work environments, as it is violent not to give ourselves rest. When we work too much we are saying to our self that we are not worthy of a break and this is not very loving towards our self either.

When we love our self fully we begin to have to copasity to love and be loved by the world more. We see our surroundings more clearly and we make better choices for ourselves. Its like seeing our reflection in a pond, the more still and loving towards our self we are the more clear the reflection of our self and the world around us is and the more self defeating thoughts about our self that we entertain the more rippled the reflection gets, we loose all clarity of our self and the world.
Be still and love yourself every day, every moment and watch your life grow.