Author: pmcrose

What if our heart and mind were one?

What would we experience then?

Yoga and meditation can help to make this real.

Right beneath our very nose (and actually within it!) is the life force, the prana, breathing life into us.

The breath of life actually vibrates with life.

Through yoga and meditation, your are unearthing this “buried” treasure and becoming more aware of its riches!

Yoga and meditation can help us peer over the edge of old habits that may thwart or limit our happiness and joy to see the dawn of new possibilities.

Like a feather falling,
we ride this breath for a lifetime.

Aversion is another form of attachment.
Pushing away and holding on are both results of desire.

The feather does not push away or hold onto the air.
May we be more like the feather!

One view of yoga and meditation is that it is the journey of the prana, the life force, via the vehicle of the breath to know itself and its source.

And the prana taking the form of the inhale and the exhale is itself the vehicle.

From this point of view, yoga and meditation are the journey of life back to know itself and its source–and the resulting joy and bliss in this discovery of its own magnificence.

Oh life that breathes me! 
Let no idea, thought, or emotion become your mantra.
But let your breath. 
 This breath that breathes life into you—
inhale after exhale, 
again and again, 
for a lifetime. 
 
Let your breath become your mantra!

Take the breath as your mantra
whenever you do yoga or meditate.
Focus your mind, all your attention, on it.
It is, after all, the natural mantra!

Through our yoga and meditation practices, we start to have  a conversation and relationship with our breath–

this breath that is so valuable, so precious… that keeps us alive. It comes and it goes–never possessed. . . .

this breath that yoga equates with the prana, the life force itself!

Through yoga and meditation, we can become more intimate with our breath. . .
and become more intimate with life!

Intention is the direction we will shoot the arrow of our being.

We renew our heart’s commitment by coming back to our intention again… and again. . . .

Bring mind to breath

and breath to mind.

This is yoga.

For the span of our lives, the metronome-like rhythm of our breath sweeps inward and outward like ocean waves without any of our effort.

In yoga and meditation, we bring mind to breath and breath to mind.

Each time is a new adventure. . . . different every time.