Over time, yoga and meditation make more room for the light of joy, love, bliss, and stillness.
They shine their light on that which impedes their effulgence clearing our vision and, at the same time, giving us a greater heartfelt appreciation of that which clouds them.
We sometimes hang onto our emotional pains as though they were our North Star of identity. In this way, we let them shape our lives.
Feeling emotional pain is a much better way to go.
When you really get tired of being pushed around by them, you can become willing to feel them, and move on.
Feelings never killed anyone!
It’s never more than you can stomach, or at least not usually…. We are amazingly resilient creatures.
Our great love and stillness and joy–these are our true North Stars–true to our hearts and our being.
Just over a year ago today, struck with a sudden and severe bout of sciatica, I was barely able to walk even a step or stand without experiencing excruciating pain like I, fortunately, had never felt before.
Six weeks later I could walk slowly without a cane, and 3 months later I began a course of action to heal.
Today, one year past, it is my great good fortune that I am substitute teaching a yoga class!
I rejoice at the body’s ability, this time, to heal and at the many forms healing took– physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
I am so thankful to yoga and meditation for their essential role and to the many people instrumental to my healing.
Yay!
We decide and choose to go to our yoga mat and/or meditation cushion for a session.
This is the place or point from which we embark–a destination in itself to come to.
However, once there, we begin our journey of transformation that these practices are, at their heart, all about.
Awe is the sound
of one hand clapping.
Lost in the concentric folds of the rose,
I find myself.
A deep happiness accepts all of life.
A pianist cannot create beautiful music without both the high and low notes.
Pain can be a doorway showing an area of the body to pay attention to to strengthen and/or loosen, to let go of old ways that hamper progress.
Yoga combined with meditation can help walk us through the doorway to what lays beyond….
The waves in the ocean make it no less the ocean.
Sound waves, vibrations, no less make stillness stillness.
The quiet space is always there.
We just need to make the effort to drop into it via our yoga or meditation.
This gets easier and easier with practice. It becomes a route our mind, body, and heart know well.
These regular visits to this quiet space transform our every day life in positive ways.
The Every Day Yogi 