Yoga and meditation teach me how to live life. They are my teachers; I am their student. They have taught me certain axioms or “truths” that help me live every day.
Be present to what’s happening in and around you.
Bring compassion to everyone and everything.
Stretch yourself in all kinds of ways.
Breathe!
See problems as opportunities for transformation. Disguised often quite cleverly as aggravating or seemingly insurmountable problems, opportunities present themselves to us to change and learn to be in the world differently, to expand our boundaries of unconditional love and compassion.
Find the positive in the negative; this often requires bringing love and compassion to the “negative.” Recently, intense sciatica that temporarily almost crippled me with pain has become an opportunity to strengthen and activate my lower core and work with my tailbone, hip flexors, and hamstrings both in yoga and in my everyday life. I have found my heart opening more to see and feel other’s dilemmas, needs, and pain–opportunities for growth in compassion.
“Solutions” to problems very often do not meet what your mind originally expected. Solutions come day by day, step by step, each leading to the next. New beginnings again, and again*…
Yoga and/or meditation, practiced regularly with love and welcoming attention, sustain this evolution and the alchemy for transformation.
Love life and be grateful for its blessings!
*Thus, even these axiom or “truths” will evolve and change!
The Every Day Yogi 