Author: pmcrose

These moods, these feelings, this life–clouds.

What would happen if I listened to my pain with a kind heart rather than fighting or ignoring it?

I am not my pain, nor the stress that brings it on.  I am the witness with a kind heart.

I am not my sadness either, but merely its witness as it comes, stays a bit, and then departs like a cloud or weather in the sky.

 

I am lucky.  My body speaks to me.

I’ve done yoga and meditation for over 40 years.  Maybe I am just a slow learner.

But I am only now realizing the immensity of conversations among body, mind, and heart–and their many nuances.

When I meditate and do yoga, I am a student of these conversations.

Dreams are the stuff reality is made of.

 

 

 

I can’t always fix your pain, but I can comfort you possibly nonetheless with the compassion of the heart holding you with its warm smile and embrace.

I can hold you with my kind words, and touch, and good company.

I can acknowledge your pain, and offer compassion to what is unavoidable, and help you sweep away what is not.

This is love in action!

In restorative yoga, I restore connections of the body, mind, and heart–connections long lost somewhere in the business of living.

Reawakening these connections, from a sort of slumber or numbness, there is more of me alive and working as one.

 

Joy is a process, not a destination.

Yes, there moments of joy, but these are fleeting!

Deeper is a sustaining, and sustainable, joy of the heart and soul.

With consistent practice, meditation and yoga can connect us more and more to this deeper joy, and it can increasingly permeate our lives.

Our state shapes our lives and is what we bring to the world.

I meditate daily and do yoga 5 to 6 days a weeks to do my part to maintain and improve or elevate my state.

Grace is ever so patient working in the background quietly, unlike the ego, not seeking attention to itself.

It subtly laces through our lives knitting its support.

Ok, I drank the Kool-Aid!

Yup, otherwise what I am about to say would most certainly seem like pure craziness.

At times in meditation and yoga, waves or pulses of bliss arise.  Like an internal fountain of youth, this bliss bubbles up from within and spreads, scintillating and warm and uplifting.  Such a power!

The sages say this bliss is our birthright, our very nature.  I will leaves this for you to discover….

May it be your good fortune to enjoy!