Author: pmcrose

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 ego struggles with what it does not “like” or want happening, when its version of how things should be are violated by life’s freewheeling antics.

Like an authoritarian teacher with a misbehaving student who simply must learn the rules of acceptable behavior, the ego self-righteously may scold life for violations of its hallowed ways.

Life, inevitably, will win this battle for control because life has a life of its own.

We are but its players prideful at times to a fault in our “rules,” angry at the story for not following our ego’s edicts.

And yet it is possible for us, with patience and insight, to catch it at its game and have compassion for it, and let go with love to life!

This is where meditation and yoga can most certainly help us….

As a goldfish in a bowl of water,

the luminous mind holds our life.

The mind brings judgement; the heart acceptance.

The luminous mind merged with the heart brings light and joy.

The still mind is the luminous mind.

Even uninvited and at times difficult guests deserve a seat of respect at our emotional dinner table.

Yoga and meditation can help us make room for them.

Like a composter to garden and kitchen waste, yoga and meditation can transform our negative or “dark” tendencies into elements vital for our growth.

If I am not in the flow, where the hell else am I?

Let’s save being out of life for when I’m dead.

Some beauty, we know, is only skin-deep.

We meditate and do yoga to discover and explore beauty that is heart-deep.

Daily meditation is a prescription for healthier and happier living beyond most any doctors’.