Author: pmcrose

Balance your continuous applied effort with less attachment to outcome, and bring about greater equanimity, greater evenness of mind.

Our mind can settle into focusing more on the here and now rather than be fixated on the goal and the outcomes. This will calm the vrittis, the near-constant fluctuations of the mind.

Try this in your next yoga session, diligent effort and presence without any goal or expected outcomes in mind for each pose. Quit trying to “achieve” that pose, and see what you discover!

The silence in the gong's ring witnesses the sound...
and the sound witnesses the silence.

So too with us--our inner silence can witness all the fluctuations of our mind and being, 
and we can witness the silence amidst our thoughts.

Yoga and meditation can foster this greater equanimity in the midst of this constant flux.

Yoga and meditation can help us maintain and restore greater equanimity in the midst of life’s challenges, even those that arouse fear, panic, and/or anger.

This greater equanimity can be our base and rock to stand upon.

Greater equanimity can be but a few breaths or a yoga pose away.

Two things really help with forgiveness:

1) Realize everyone really is doing the best they can given all their resources and abilities at that time.

2) Compassion breeds forgiveness, with heartfelt acceptance of limitations and strengths, love of our imperfect and vulnerable humanity.

Our yoga and meditation practices are the mirrors that constantly teach us about our humanity.

Meditation and yoga can help us recover our safe space by toning down our fight-flight response to perceived danger.

More fully awake, clear-headed, and calm—always ready for what may come our way.

Peace be with you!

Yoga and meditation can usher us into a kinder space–one that more gently accepts ours and other’s foibles and shortcomings, one that can maybe smile and possibly even chuckle at our mistakes and those of others.

More accepting, softer, gentle, yet strong with intention to love and smile on us just as we are.

Kindness sees acceptance where others can’t; it sees beauty where others can’t.

Kindness is rose-colored glasses that sees with love, not to deny life’s difficulties but to accept them compassionately.

Whether agitated by fear or worry, excitement or mere busy-ness, yoga and meditation meet you where you are and can help us recalibrate, to equalize and become calmer.

Even a few breaths can ease stress and bring us more in line with our happy space.

Even an OM can take us home!

As we pass through our yoga and meditation practice, we are recalibrated–brought more in tune, less agitated.

This improved inner state naturally draws us to the practices like lovers to one another or parent to child.

Love is the draw!

Let your yoga be a portal to a happier life–

your gateway to greater compassion and kindness,

to greater love, joy, and peace,

and to a healthier and stronger body.

No matter how diffuse our energy is at the start, yoga and meditation help ground and align us.

We grow more steady and peaceful.

It’s as though we enter and pass through a portal where, though nothing in reality has changed, we have changed.

We are feeling and thinking more clearly, and maybe steadier, more joyful, lighter.

In this way, yoga and meditation transform our experience of this world and how we are in the world. Thereby, we help transform this world.