Love, like the rose to grow and open, cannot be forced.
But conditions for the rose’s health and prosperity can be tended–sufficient watering and fertilizer and treatment to prevent disease and insect infestation…
Similarly, a regular and balanced yoga practice* can help grow your love.
*including imbibing the teachings of yoga (the sutras) and a practice of poses or asanas, breath work/pranayama, and meditation.
Despite our agitation at the onset of yoga and meditation, notice and the and thank even momentary whips of stillness that may arise.
As you pay attention to it and appreciate it, this stillness may expand.
Allow yourself to slip into its quiet embrace.
Enjoy the blessings of your yoga and/or meditation practices.
This makes them self-reinforcing.
“I can’t seem to find time at home for yoga (or meditation!). My life is so busy….”
You don’t need an hour to practice!
Even 5 minutes–a few poses, a few steady breaths…
The journey inward begins one step at a time.
Now hardly stands a chance, competing with the many thoughts and feelings about the past and future flooding our attention.
As we practice yoga and meditation, we become more quiet and present to the sensations of now, freer to begin to explore and experience it.
Like so many of our devices,
if things aren’t working right,
unplug and reset.
Do a little yoga… meditate.
Who am "I"?
"I" is the vibration of universal
consciousness.
And so are you!
Realizing this can change everything.
Through our yoga and meditation practices, we dive deeper and deeper into this question and experience.
To be, or not be
is not the question.
The question is:
what does it mean to be?
Meditate, and explore and experience more deeply what it is to be!
Thank your Beloved…
should you find her on your yoga mat or in meditation,
at dinner with you and a friend,
in a child’s giggle,
in a stranger’s smile, or in your smile to a stranger,
in your sister’s recovery,
in the rain,
in your heart…
Thank her!
Yoga and meditation can take you to the doorway
of your sweet heart.
