The good news: You have this moment again and again to practice. You need not worry if you missed or “blew” the last moment…. There’s the next… and the next for a lifetime to practice.
The bad news: You have a finite time to practice in this life now.
Get practicing!
The steadiness of regular practice can carry us across rougher as well as calmer waters.
Steadiness of effort (and breath!) in a “difficult” or uncomfortable pose can strengthen our inner muscle to remain more steady in difficult moments.
And for this we can be most grateful… again and again!…
Yoga and meditation awaken the policeman of positivity in us.
They help direct the traffic of our energy flow in a more positive direction.
Make some yogic practice part of your daily routine.
Exercise your commitment to positivity!
It takes a lot of practice, over and over again, bringing our presence–our attention–to the present… to be present to now.
The mind wanders off, and we bring it back over and over again.
This is our practice–whether in a yoga pose, during breath work or pranayama, or in meditation.
This is the “exercise” of yoga!
Yoga poses, asana practice, can be a fundamental and even vital component of a yoga practice.
And yet experiencing yoga, or union/unity consciousness/samadhi, has nothing to do with “achieving” any particular pose.
There are many roads to Rome, many yoga practices in addition to the popular asana practice than can lead to yoga or samadhi.
Exercise your freedom and explore some of these–pranayama (breath work), study of the teachings (The Yoga Sutras) such as the Yamas and Niyamas, meditation…
Who knows what road(s) may take you to Rome!?
In the midst of life’s pain and suffering, yoga offers a road to bliss, and joy, and contentment. (Pretty attractive, right!?)
Its greatest “reward” is more inner peace and love.
This is much more than the faddish exercise regime it has become.
And yet this road of yoga I speak about is an exercise of effort, will, and perseverance like none other.
Our yoga and meditation practices help sweep our heart and mind cleaner, clearer.
Like a spring cleaning, the practices can truly refresh, renew, and replenish us.
You can stop holding your breath!
Your breath is holding you…
for life!
The smallest and most subtle change can be radically transforming.
So much of life is like a shaken snow globe.
The particles hardly get a chance to settle before the next thing comes along and gives the globe another shake.
Meditation and yoga give the globe a chances to settle, a break from the usual swarm of activity…
a chance to be refreshed, rejuvenated, even maybe reoriented, more ready for what lies ahead.
Just think how a regular practice might affect you and those around you?!
