Stop running

I felt there was some way I was supposed to be that I wasn’t being (and could never really be for that matter).

The running stops when you accept yourself (and others) as you are, not as you want yourself to be or think you should be.

Our groovy bobbleheads!

If your’e old enough, you may remember those crazily popular Beatles’ toy statues with the bobbly heads.  Their heads rocked back and forth and around on a spring.  (They later made them for sports stars too!)

Such is our lives around our energetic center.  Our movement around and through it defines it as a non static force and entity.

Yoga and meditation make us more aware of and at home with our dance with this center which draws us inward.

The kaleidoscope of my being

It takes so little to change how we feel.

Sometimes the slightest twist of the kaleidoscope of our being can markedly shift our state of being.

Rather than ooo-ing and ahhh-ing and becoming attached to any particular design, I feel yoga and meditation help me fall in love with all the designs–the changing of the colorful patterns and the energy of this transformation.

I love the kaleidoscope itself, and wonder of its origin and its creator!

Don’t surround yourself with yourself*

Yoga and meditation can open us to respecting and even loving people that are very different from ourselves.

Continued practice can loosen our false identity with our political views, with our careers, with our skin color, with our money and possessions, with…

“Who am I?” becomes a much more dynamic and open question.

We may even come to realize we are much much more than the limits of this mere skin and ego.

This rich world is not a place to merely find our cave to huddle with the like-minded who look and act like us.

 

* This title is in the lyrics of a wonderful song by Yes, “I’ve Seen All Good People.”  You might enjoy a listen!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are variations on a theme!

Our yoga and meditation practices help us feel the consciousness that pervades all forms of life.

We people are all unique expressions of this same life consciousness.

Feeling this, a great love and deep respect for all forms of life naturally arises.

Our differences are one-of-a-kind expressions of a theme.

Our practices can help us feel, appreciate, and celebrate these nuances in every unique expression of life!