Meditation, in its quiet voice, with an outstretched hand offers,
“Come with me and get lost.”
As you take its hand, meditation, though usually sparse with words, continues with a loving smile,
“You know, in getting lost with me, you can find out who you really are….”
I like warrior pose,
not worrier!
Warrior is prepared.
Worrier is worn out.
Warrior is calm and steady.
Worrier finds no peace.
From the quiet center, I am free to let go to the changes of life.
Rather than resist change, I am more able to accept and feel it.
Change can be as imperceptible and subtle as a rose opening.
Meditation and yoga can help us feel and adjust to the most subtle of waves as well as those that come crashing in.
My daughter who is 23 recently shared with me that my blog The Every Day Yogi was “woke.”
I hesitated a moment and realized that this at the heart of my every day practice of meditation and yoga and of my intention for the blog.
I practice yoga and meditation each day because it feels good.
Every day as I do yoga and meditate, I feel just a little more alive, more “woke” to the mysterious power of life, a little more awake to love and joy and compassion.
This is a lot of what I mean when I say the practices are transformative.
Writing The Every Day Yogi helps me gradually feel a little more “woke,” and my hope in sharing it is that it somehow does the same for you!
Namaste.
We have to show up for meditation (and yoga).
In this way, we plug in to their power to transform.
We can feel their current in our body.
A sincere smile or a laugh at oneself and one’s “predicaments” and conditions can be like a pin-prick loosening the ego’s death-grip on our oh-so-special suffering.
There is no perfect body, mind, or spirit we are “supposed” to be or to have, and don’t, nor any to “achieve.”
We have, and are, this body, mind, and spirit–this person right here now is who we are, who we “have” in this moment.
Let’s not cane ourselves for not being the “I” I’m supposed to be, or could or should be. Such is a sad, bad, mad life!
Instead let us take and accept ourselves (and each other, for that matter!) into our hearts and both appreciate and work with us as we are now, reaching deeper in our love to see where this journey takes us.
A sweet smile and a laugh are like a yoga pose for the heart–transformative!
We are stewards of the love we share.
We grow our connection to it through our meditation and yoga practices.
In this way, our practices become like a love poem.
If you want to worry…
there’s always something to worry about!
The Every Day Yogi 