Author: pmcrose

Unlike our judging mind, yoga and meditation are mirrors that accept us as we are.

The judging mind has an endless maze of “oughts” and “shoulds” ultimately unsatisfiable by its ferocious appetite for “correctness.”

The mirror of our higher or universal self (the Self), on the other hand, is infinitely inclusive in its great love and respect for all creation–life!

Though usually so superior in its accustomed prideful posture, the judging mind is stunned and in awe, humbled into silence by the immense grandeur of the Self.

So many of us associate yoga with having to go somewhere.

“I have to go to yoga class at…”

“I’m busy later.  I have to got to yoga…”

Yoga really is not a thing we have “to go to.”

The possibility of yoga is always present right here and now in this moment.

In this moment, there is always oneness–yoga.

We just have to tune in to it.

We can, through the practices, do this anywhere.

“Let’s do yoga!”  Now!

So much of aging is collapsing on oneself, compacting–shoulders hunching or rolling forward, a collapsing of the chest, the spine compacting and shortening–a curling inward.

Yoga and meditation expand and uplift our being–opening the shoulders and broadening and opening the chest, elongating the spine–expanding outward.

While yoga and meditation may not be antidotes to aging, they certainly can help counterbalance the “normal” tendencies.

Even in illness, they can make things a lot less rough.

No panacea, no fountain of youth, no miracle cure for the inevitable–but certainly experience-enhancing!

Like having solar installed on you house, we practice yoga and meditation to access the power of the light in our lives.

Just as solar panels need to be in the direction of the sun, yoga and meditation help align us more to the light.

It’s a constant show, a flow–

Always with new things to know.

Don’t get too attached, or do.

Either way, meditation and yoga bring us into the witness and help us adjust to this constant flux.

And now it’s like this…

and now like this… and now…

As you practice yoga and meditation, listen.

Your inner teacher will arise.

Through your practices, you can learn to tune in!

 

 

The most subtle can be most significant.

The subtlest shift can start an earthquake

or…

bring things into near perfect harmony.

What would happen if there was no “supposed to be” you and I were supposed to be?

And what if there were no images none of us were not supposed to be either?

These credos of judgement hurt and at times batter ourselves and others.

 

However, out of great love and respect, we can try to do no harm to ourselves and others,  nor to life!

This seems a worthy and liberating and empowering intention.

Ahimsa!

Sweet silence, a dip into you fulfills me like none other.

In your stillness, there is nothing to do, say, or think.

Sweet silence, I am in awe and speechless in your presence.

Your exquisite beauty is entirely formless and entrancing.

I never really want to leave you, but I must.

Ahhhhh!  Sweet silence!

As the mind slows in meditation and yoga, and our constant chatter starts to dissolve, “our story” becomes fainter and fainter…

to discover the underlying truth we all share, on the one hand,

and are manifestations of, on the other.

In this finite body, though meditation and yoga, we continually explore this “story”-making and its relationship to that which is universal.