Author: pmcrose

We all know the feeling of awe and stillness as we watch a sunrise or sunset–the space between night and day and between day and night.

In meditation, we can become equally in awe of the space between our breaths and between our thoughts!

Sometimes with certain life events and circumstances our thoughts and emotions spiral out of control like a careening car that we cannot stop or gain control over.

Trying to control the uncontrollable only adds to the feeling of uncontrolledness.

Being anxious about being anxious only adds to the anxiety.

Through meditation and yoga, we can begin to let go and step more into the witness.  Unlike the runaway car, you know you are safe on your meditation cushion or yoga mat.  You can relax a little.  The car’s momentum can eventually decrease, and the car will slow down and maybe even stop.

 

In meditation, sometimes only tiny bits of silence here and there can be enough like being amazed as I watch tiny yeast bubbles popping.

Analysis is reductionist

of the sensations in our being in the flow

where words only serve to limit

the flutter of the butterfly’s wings.

There’s nothing there to hold onto… so let go.

 

 

A merry heart need not just be a Christmas thing!

Meditation and yoga can open you a little bit to it 365.

In the stillness,

there is peace on earth,

silent night,

and joy to the world!

As long as there’s life in a pattern of behavior, it serves you well.

But when these no longer breathe with life and begin to deaden you, the life force, like a forest fire, will clear your understory of habits and behavior patterns, of samskaras, that no longer serve you and the life force.

Yoga and meditation support and enliven this process of growth and transformation.

 

We can focus on the glass half empty and feel what is missing or lacking and be sad….

Or we can focus on the glass half full and be thankful for what we have… and yet be afraid of somehow losing it or knowing it is fleeting, only temporarily this way.

Or we can focus on the lovely glass with varying degrees of emptiness and fullness that are constantly in flux.

Don’t try so hard this holiday season to have fun.

Let fun, and joy find you…

wherever you may be!

With love and kindness, a benevolent heart can “fix” the unfixable.

Yoga and meditation can help us develop and live from a more compassionate heart.

Compassion is a verb, something we practice, not a noun… not something we hold, have, or obtain.