Author: pmcrose

Pain is an impetus for change, and is the sign to change.

It makes us aware of the need to do things differently.

It awakens awareness to open to and be on the lookout for how to change.

Change moves us forward with our life story.

Pain can throw us off our game and out of balance, into a place where what we did before does not work anymore.

Yoga and meditation can help move us progressively into new balance–changed!

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.