In yoga and meditation, there’s an amazing uplifting force that arises.
Aside from all the physical benefits (which could fill volumes of blog posts!), it is this yoga and meditation “high” that permeates both practices.
What is this “high” that helps us feel better (at least most of the time!) after yoga and meditation?
In both practice, we focus our attention on the breath.
In yoga and meditation, this breath is inexorably linked to our prana or life force. It flows through our body sustaining it.
Remember that uplifting feeling as a child, this teeming with life’s energy that filled you every day when you woke up?
This is the prana, the shakti, the chi, the force….
We learn to love this, among other things, about yoga and meditation.
It fills us with positive energy to seize the day like there was no other.
It, like helium to a balloon, lifts us higher while still being firmly rooted to the earth.
Somehow, yoga and meditation, with consistent practice, open our awareness of and channels to this energy–to feel it more deeply and maybe even feed or increase its flow.
Over time, it opens us more and more to this power, the flow of life we are privileged to be, at least for a time, part of.
The Every Day Yogi 