Author: pmcrose

Anxiety is like the nervous doomsday weather forecaster who sees a potential storm in even the wispiest of clouds.

Yoga and meditation can help ground us more, steadying us in our ability to meet any challenges as they may come and realizing the folly of such a pessimistic and panicky forecaster.

This way we can deal with and solve real problems when they arise more skillfully with greater confidence with less drama and fantastic, foreboding fanfare.

We live as though we know what is just around the corner.

And when it does not meet our expectations and shocks or surprises us, we act as though life is the problem, and not our expectations.

Yoga and meditation can help us with this by making us more awake to the moment as it is and less entranced with how we want it to be or we think it should be.

There is a light–a happiness, joy, and bliss–that resides within and is not contingent on any circumstances.  It just is.

Meditation and yoga are our expeditions to discover and explore that which lies within each of us, this most valuable treasure life freely offers us.

The light we seek is that which guides us to itself.

 

 

You might ask, “How can you practice yoga and/or meditation every day?”

I might answer, “How can I not?!”

“We breathe and eat because they sustain us too!”

“Who would not be drawn to regularly practice something that makes you feel so much more awake and alive, so much more love and joy, compassion and freedom?”

“Who,” might I ask, “would not?!”

I am sorry I have not come forth sooner.

But I have been having a secret love affair, and it’s time I had the courage to come clean with my wife, family, and friends.

I hope you will pardon me.

I have had, and will continue to have a mad love affair with the kundalini shakti or life force.

We find ourselves crazy in love with one another, and yoga and meditation have continuously fed the fires of our love.

Ours is a relationship overflowing with joy, love, and bliss!

Join me, if you will, on the yoga mat or meditation cushion.

You too can become a mad lover of life!

It’s not about agreement of ideas or even the direction you wish to take your life.

It’s not about monetary support.

It’s not even about shared or agreeing values.  In fact, they may clash severely!…  And often do!

It’s about a deep and abiding respect and love of that which makes you human, of you as an expression, as an embodiment of the sacred life force.

Love’s got everything to do with it!

In meditation, dipping into silence, what do you return with having visited nothing?

And yet you feel a bit more full, more satisfied?

How can “nothing” do this?

I visited “nothing” and got something….

In yoga, we bring together seeming opposites to form a beautiful whole–we ground down and feel solid in one part of the body to rise up and feel light in another; we contact or work a part of the body to provide support for another part to be free and expansive.

Emotions are no different.  We can bring calm and compassion to anger.  To agitated fear, we can bring stillness and ease.  To hard-heartedness, we can bring gentleness.

Nature resounds with its interplays of opposites. The tender rose has thorns.  Water puts out fire.  Waves come in, and recede.  Day is followed by night.

In the interplay of opposites, there is balance and unity–yoga!

Yoga and meditation over time can remove that which limits our joy and deep happiness.  Even our deepest habits of behavior can be annihilated by the forces of yoga like a laser zapping an enormous bolder in our path into oblivion.

They make “impossible” transformations possible!

What if Sisyphus’s boulder atop his shoulders was suddenly removed?

 

“Hey, I hear this yoga stuff is supposed to help you feel younger!…”