There’s a 4-letter word we don’t always associate with peace, and love, and joy–with deep inner happiness….
Work!
It take work to “achieve” and advance one’s inner peace and capacity for joy and love.
The discipline of a regular practice of yoga and meditation takes time and energy and effort–work!
But the tangible rewards and palpable benefits–greater peace, love and joy–make this… WORK! beyond your wildest dreams!
Like any good relationship needs tending to be maintained and flourish, one way to tend your peace is through your yoga and meditation practices.
It is your effort plus grace that helps it grow.
Peace is a real blessing.
It can leave you… speechless!
Through yoga and meditation, it is not that we rid ourselves of our unrest and turbulence.
Rather, we can develop and maintain greater evenness and peace even with our “unpeace.”
Peace is as close as the mind settling.
Bring the breath to the mind via yoga and/or meditation,
and you will begin to discover the peace that is always there when you are quiet enough to recognize it.
You can regularly visit this peace via your yoga and meditation practices to develop and maintain a lasting relationship with it.
We all know, through the action of yeast, air lifts a blob of dough into a loaf of bread.
Meditation is an “active agent” like yeast through which the breath, air, uplifts our very being!
In meditation and yoga as the breath and mind slow, we may enter the space between, a place of not doing but of being.
No matter how brief our venture into this space, even in its mere vicinity…
this can make all the difference in the world!
Silence has so much to say!
But given its nature,
it’s unlikely to put it into words.
Go there and explore!
What lies in the space between the thoughts and between the breaths?
An expanse of infinite silence is always there, quietly waiting….
Meditate on this!
The space between our breaths likens to the space between our thoughts.
As the breath slows in yoga and meditation, let your mind rest in these middle spaces–after inhale… and after exhale.
Let yourself be drawn into it….
Mediate on the space between.
In yoga and meditation, your thoughts may slow down, and you may notice a gap between your thoughts.
Especially in meditation, allow your mind to rest in and explore these gaps, and see what you discover.
