Try some candle gazing, and bring some light into the new year.
Sit as you would normally for meditation, except with eyes open, and focus on a candle flame in a dark or near dark room.
As you watch the flame, you may feel calmer, your thoughts may settle or get slower, you may feel lighter or uplifted, more balanced, or easeful.
As we do this practice and focus on the flame in the dark, we are tangibly and subtly training our minds to focus on the light in the midst of the darkness.*
May we share this light with one another to brighten each other’s lives and this world and help to make this a happy new year!
*Like the candle flame illumines the dark, so too the Self illumines our being. Our yoga practices yoke us and refresh our presence to the light.
The Every Day Yogi 