Author: pmcrose

The inner fire of yoga and meditation can ignite our pains and sorrows, the logs which fuel our inner transformation.

Our yoga practices can help build the heat to help clear the way for more light in our lives.

Follow the rays of your smile back to the heart, like the reverberations of the gong into silence.

With consistent practice, we can harvest a greater steadiness in contentment, no matter what the circumstances.

So sweet!

It’s so easy to get mired in negativity.

Our own negativity is like being caught in quicksand and thrashing about only to sink deeper. We try to “fix” it and only get more entangled and entrenched.

Yoga and meditation are like a rope or a stick that pulls us out of being entrapped in negativity, refreshing our perspective into this present moment of being and breathing.

Being and breathing!

We align with what we are devoted to.

What are you most devoted to?

Our degree of commitment to inner peace determines our emotional vulnerability to the vicissitudes of everyday life.

This steadfastness in equipoise allows us to more objectively and dispassionately assess tumultuous situations. We can come to see and feel the emotional clouds and even storms as just that–that which come and go, that we hold as steady as possible during–and yet that we bend and have some give to, to recover once again anew as they pass.

Gratitude is the attitude of recovery.

Seemingly “bad” things can bring us opportunities we’d never dreamed of.

Opportunity can wear some pretty weird and often disconcerting disguises.

Yoga and meditation can helps us unmask this “difficult” truth again and again.

We can allow ourselves to settle down.

It’s a skill-set.

Breathe. Yoga. Meditate. Breathe….

We can do this regularly. It won’t “fix” our lives, but it sure can help us live them!

The world is topsy-turvy these days–the virus, the fires and smoke here in California, racial tensions, economic instability… we may, at points, find ourselves short of breath, worn…

Our yoga, meditation, and breathing practices can be our refuge–to restore, and replenish… for a time, to detach some from these almost incessant vicissitudes.

Well, maybe not fluctuations be damned!

Through our self-effort to practice and through their grace, we can become slightly more balanced, not so tossed about,

and yes, maybe even a little more at peace and sure-footed in their midst!

It is I who let go of peace, and I long to return to it.

With effort on my part to do the practices, and with their grace, I can return to it.

Yoga and meditation change my inner place of residence.

This longing to reside in peace brings me back to the practices, my path home.